Star Trek Is Officially Rewriting ‘Strange New Worlds’ Winning Formula for Season 5 [Exclusive]

(L-R): Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk, Ethan Peck as Spock, Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, and Brian Markinson as Dr.Boyce in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, episode 10, season 4, streaming on Paramount+, 2026. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs/Paramount+ By Samantha Coley Published Sep 24, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT Sam is a News Editor for Collider and a known lover of all things sci-fi and horror. She spends her days editing news stories, coodrinating exclusives, and working closely with writers to deliver their best work. When she's not editing the daily news, she can be found hanging out with her wife (they're probably rewatching Ghosts for the millionth time), tweeting about romance, and cooking something delicious while belting to Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter 's latest hits at the top of her lungs. Sign in to your Collider account Add Us Summary Generate a summary of this story Like Like follow Follow followed Followed Listen Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Editor's Note: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Just like that, the penultimate season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has come to a close with an epic, time-bending finale that saw Lt. Uhura ( Celia Gooding ) teaming up with a future version of herself in a bid to save Scotty ( Martin Quinn ) from an untimely death. In "Tomorrow's Enterprise," we get a glimpse of the earliest days of James T. Kirk's ( Paul Wesley ) time as the Captain of the USS Enterprise ​​​​​​, teeing up the endgame of Strange New Worlds, which is expected to bring the timeline full circle to The Original Series . With gorgeous costumes and a wild plot twist, this episode takes audiences on a wild ride that reaffirms the show's throughline of found family fighting for a hope-filled future.

Ahead of the finale, I sat down with Strange New Worlds showrunners Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman to discuss the episode, while also looking forward to the future of Star Trek . We also discussed what audiences can expect from the show's fifth and final season, which is expected to air sometime in 2027, following the second and final season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy . Big changes are coming for Strange New Worlds as Myers and Goldsman confirmed they'll be abandoning the show's genre-hopping premise — to an extent — as they use every minute of their final six episodes to give this crew of the USS Enterprise a fitting send-off. Myers and Goldsman also briefly teased further exploration of the relationship between Kirk and La'an ( Christina Chong ), what to expect from the new Bones ( Thomas Jane ) and Sulu ( Kai Murakami ) , and how they'll bring the series to a satisfying end . You can read our full conversation in the transcript below.

COLLIDER: Much of this episode is anchored in Uhura and Scotty's relationship, which is, I think, mentioned offhandedly in the movies, but I'm curious, what made you want to explore that dynamic for this finale?

HENRY ALONSO MYERS: Well, part of that was that there's a lot of stuff that they kind of got into later, I think, in the films that imply that there's a whole world of emotion that is not really explored throughout the series. It's one of the fun things that we've gotten to do on this show was give those characters some things to play that they didn't get to do in the original show, but that hav…