We’re still months away from of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 2025 return — but to whet your appetite for the show’s upcoming third season, Paramount+ today released an extended clip from the next year of Enterprise adventures.
The new clip was unveiled during today’s Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic Con, where franchise boss Alex Kurtzman was joined by showrunners Akiva Goldsman and and Henry Alonso Myers, plus actors Ethan Peck (Spock) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One).
In the Season 3 clip, an undercover mission requires Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), La’an (Christina Chong), Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) to biologically transform into Vulcans so that they — and Spock (Peck) — can infiltrate and repair some kind of malfunctioning planetary base.
Using the Kerkhovian serum developed to restore Spock’s Vulcan biology in last season’s “Charades,” Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Pelia (Carol Kane) watch in surprise as their crewmates are transformed into Vulcans — easily complete their mission, to the shock of Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Ortegas (Melissa Navia) — and return to the ship… only to find that their humanity can’t be easily restored.
In addition to the Season 3 clip, the studio also announced that Irish actor Cillian O’Sullivan has been cast as Dr. Roger Korby — mentioned last season, and the eventual fiancée to one Nurse Chapel, as established in the Original Series episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”
While the character’s dismal fate is revealed in that classic episode, Strange New Worlds will explore the beginning of the Chapel/Korby relationship as she spends time studying archeological medicine under his tutelage.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is in post-production now, expected to return to Paramount+ in 2025.
Stick around for all the rest of today’s Star Trek Universe news as the big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic Con continues!