Confirming long-gestating rumors about a wild and crazy episode, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is setting course for the musical event of the season — and that’s not all in today’s next Star Trek news drop out of San Diego Comic Con!
The Strange New Worlds cast has been hinting that the year’s penultimate episode was going to be a big one; Number One actor Rebecca Romijn even said that work for the show required everyone to work extra weekends during filming.
The cast isn’t at SDCC today while they’re out on the picket lines striking for fair wages, but their hard work will arrive for all to see in “Subspace Rhapsody,” airing August 3 on Paramount+.
The huge musical — a first for the Star Trek franchise after nearly 900 weekly installments — will feature ten new original songs with music and lyrics by Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo) and Tom Polce (Letters to Cleo, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). With musical experts like Celia Rose Gooding, Christina Chong, and more part of this already-talented cast, the performances are likely to be something fans will be discussing for quite a long time.
There will also be a special variant of the Strange New Worlds main title theme as part of the episode — and guess what? You can pre-save the “Subspace Rhapsody” soundtrack already, where the songs will be available on Apple Music, Spotify, and other digital streamers once the show airs on August 3.
And if that wasn’t enough, the long-awaited Star Trek: Strange New Worlds / Star Trek: Lower Decks crossover episode is hitting Paramount+ almost an entire week early!
Lower Decks ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) make their way to the USS Enterprise in the highly-anticipated tale, “Those Old Scientists” — named for the title Commander Ransom (Jerry O’Connell) gave to the Original Series era in that animated series.
Paramount+ is dropping “Those Old Scientists” tonight at 7PM ET (4PM PT) for all to see, and by doing so they’ve pulled up the release schedule on the following three episodes of the year.
Following today’s surprise release, Strange New Worlds continues Thursday, July 27 with “Under the Cloak of War,” followed by “Subspace Rhapsody” on August 3, and ending with the Season 2 finale “Hegemony” on August 10.
We’ll have our review for “Those Old Scientists” online later tonight, to check back later after you’ve watched the early airing!