The return of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is still far away, but Paramount+ threw a bone to fans at Saturday’s New York Comic Con panel with a new clip from the Season 3 premiere.
Picking up immediately where Season 2’s “Hegemony” season finale left off, the clip sees Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and the Enterprise crew struggle to battle the aggressive Gorn fleet — and attempt to rescue their missing crewmates, captured in that 2023 episode.
The streamer also released a few publicity photos from the tense scene on the Enterprise bridge:
During the brief panel at New York Comic Con — which featured appearances by showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, alongside series stars Ethan Peck (Spock) and Carol Kane (Pelia) — it was also announced that actor Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows) will be guest-starring in Strange New Worlds Season 3 as a previously-established Trek character.
The identity of Darby’s character was not revealed, but speculation is already in overdrive as fans have theorized he might be Strange New Worlds’ take on Matt Decker, Trelane, Sybok (established in Season 1), or other possibilities.
We’ll find out when Strange New Worlds returns next year.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is in post-production now, expected to return to Paramount+ in 2025.