It feels like Star Trek: Discovery just finished it’s first year in the far future, but three months after the series wrapped, we’ve got our first look at Season 4 of the in-production series, expected to arrive on Paramount+ before the end of this calendar year.

Debuting during today’s First Contact Day events, our glimpse at Discovery’s fourth season comes in a first trailer for the next year of episodes, which have been in production in Toronto since last November.

Season Four of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery facing a threat unlike any they’ve ever encountered. With Federation and non-Federation worlds alike feeling the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all.

After solving the mystery of The Burn and setting off with Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) firmly in command of the refit USS Discovery, the crew now finds themselves working on behalf of the 32nd century’s half-human, half-Cardassian Federation President (Chelah Horsdal, we think) to stop another galactic disaster before it destroys what The Burn left behind.

With side trips to Ni’Var — the new name for planet Vulcan, as revealed in Season 3 — Captain Burnham and the Discovery crew must work to find, understand, and stop a five light-year wide gravitational anomaly spreading havoc throughout the galaxy.

The ship seems to encounter the anomaly directly from some scenes featured in today’s Season 4 trailer, as we see bridge crew flying out of their seats and into zero-gravity-like freefall, as well as a trashed Discovery cargo bay… where the floor and ceiling have switched places.

Along with the aboard-ship crisis, we also get a visit to Kaminar, the Kelpien homeworld, where Saru (Doug Jones) traveled at the end of last season, promising to introduce Su’Kal (Bill Irwin) to Kelpien society after decades of isolation.

We knew Saru’s leave of absence would take him home, but from the trailer’s final moment — a pair of Kelpien and human hands, each wearing Starfleet uniforms — our pal Saru will likely be back into Starfleet service before too much time passes.

And speaking of Starfleet uniforms, the fleet seems to have gotten yet another wardrobe update for Season 4, after the Discovery crew first adopted the mostly-grey 3189-era uniform styles in the Season 3 finale. Now brightly dyed command red, operations gold, and sciences blue — with the medical team back in white — the Next Generation-onward color schemes have retaken the bridge for Star Trek: Discovery‘s new era.

(In the First Contact Day panel, Discovery costume designer Gersha Phillips noted that the original grey Starfleet uniforms were too similar the coloring of the Discovery sets, one factor behind the color change for Season 4.)

The full Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 cast returns for Season 4: Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker), Blu del Barrio (Adira) and Ian Alexander (Gray) — along with returning recurring guests Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance) and David Cronenberg (Kovich).