Star Trek: Strange New Worlds just began dropping episodes from its third season last week. But at the Star Trek Universe panel at Comic-Con, they announced that season four has already wrapped shooting. And fans got one tiny (and fuzzy) hint for at least one plotline next year. Paramount+ revealed that in season four, one episode will feature the Enterprise crew as puppets. And not just any old puppets, but puppets created by the iconic Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The episode is directed by Jordan Canning, who directed Henson’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. You can check out the announcement by “Puppet Pike” down below:
The Star Trek Universe panel featured Strange New Worlds‘ executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman, who discussed the lives of the Enterprise crew and all their newest romances on board. Cast members Rebecca Romijn (Una Chin-Riley), Ethan Peck (Spock), Jess Bush (Chapel), Christina Chong (La’an), and Paul Wesley (Kirk) also joined them on stage. Trek fans attending the panel got to watch an entire episode, “A Space Adventure Hour,” a holodeck tale that pays tribute to the entire franchise. Paramount even released an exclusive poster for the episode.
Between this puppet-themed episode, and last year’s musical, it is very clear that the writers on Strange New Worlds are big fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, which also famously had musical and puppet episodes. However, those are examples of some of the best genre shows in history. So we could see why the writers would find inspiration there. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will sadly come to an end with a truncated fifth season, announced earlier this year. But we still have dozens of episodes to get there before then. As the Star Trek: The Motion Picture tagline once stated, “The human adventure is just beginning.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season is currently streaming on Paramount+.
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