The Strange New Blog

Dec. 3, 2025

Voyager Homecoming Issues 2-3 Raise the Stakes for Janeway and Her Crew

Alright, so I’m now two more issues deep into Susan and Tilly Bridges’ Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming, and wow, did the stakes decide to go from zero to warp 9.975 real quick. Within just a few pages, Species 8472 blows Voyager’s d…

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Oct. 11, 2025

Enroll Now: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Trailer and Premiere Date at NYCC

Paramount+ just dropped some Academy knowledge at New York Comic Con The second official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has arrived! The all-new series will premiere January 15 with two episodes, followed by weekly drops every Thursday th…

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Oct. 11, 2025

NYCC Beams Up the First Look at Strange New Worlds Season 4

The crew of the Enterprise is back, and they’re headed straight into danger! Paramount+ just dropped the first clip from Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds during the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con, and fans absolutely …

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Sept. 8, 2025

Strange New Worlds Season Three Closes with "New Life and New Civilizations”

Happy Star Trek  Day, Everyone. It's finale week! It’s here. After what can only be described as a divisive (this Trekkie loved it) third season, Strange New Worlds is ready to close things out with its finale, “New Life and New Ci…

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Sept. 4, 2025

"Terrarium" Proves That Strange New Worlds Knows What It’s Doing, Eventually

On the face of it, "Terrarium" doesn’t do anything with the classic "Enemy Mine" format that "The Enemy," ‘Daybreak’ (or "Enemy Mine," for that matter) didn’t already do with the premise. I mean, it’s a good premise: t…

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Sept. 1, 2025

Finally Home? 'Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming' Says "Hold my Coffee"

If you’ve listened to the podcast all the way through for the past five years, then you’ll know that I have an internal struggle between which Trek  is my favorite: DS9  or Voyager. Damn, do I love both, but I have been known…

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Sept. 1, 2025

Star Trek Strange New Worlds 309: A First Look at the Penultimate Episode, “Terrarium”

We’ve made it to the penultimate episode of Strange New Worlds season three, and things are heating up fast. This week’s episode, “Terrarium,” is written by Alan B. McElroy and directed by Andrew Coutts. Here is the official…

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Aug. 26, 2025

“The Seeds of Salvation” #1 Takes Strange New Worlds to Exciting New Depths

Listen, it’s me. There was going to be a pun in there somewhere It also dawns on me that "The Seeds of Salvation" is dropping the same day as a brand-new episode of Alien: Earth. That means fans of Trek, Alien, and sci-fi in general are going…

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Aug. 25, 2025

A First Look at Strange New Worlds 308, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans”

This week, Strange New Worlds  continues its third season with episode 308, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans.” Are these the Vulcans we're looking for? Written by Dana Horgan & Henry Alonso Myers and directed by Jordan Canning, the epi…

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Aug. 21, 2025

“What is Starfleet?” Asks a Lot, Delivers a Little

"What is Starfleet?" was supposed to deliver a grand format remix: a re-interpretation of Starfleet through the lens of a documentary filmmaker, able to ask and answer questions that could never be answered during a normal episode. Considering the …

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Aug. 18, 2025

Previewing Strange New Worlds 307: "What Is Starfleet?"

We’re back with a brand-new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  this week. Episode 307 is titled “What Is Starfleet?” and from the looks of things, it’s going to give us plenty to talk about. The title alone sugge…

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Aug. 17, 2025

"Lower Decks" Makes History at the Hugo Awards and Warp Your Own Way Warps Into the Spotlight

The crew of Strange New Pod could not be more thrilled today. Star Trek: Lower Decks  has officially made history, taking home not one but two Hugo Awards this year. An unprecedented win for both the show and the franchise. Our friends at Trek…

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Aug. 14, 2025

“The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail” Makes a Bold Leap Towards a Formula We Already Know and Love

“The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail” is a backdoor pilot. It is clearly  a backdoor pilot. How else do you describe an episode where James Kirk commands a ship with Uhura, Spock, Scotty, and Chapel aboard? Is that a bad thing? Not in its…

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Aug. 12, 2025

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 306 Preview: "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"

This Thursday, Strange New Worlds  drops episode 306, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” And we’ve got 12 brand-new images to get you hyped for what’s looking like another wild ride in the final stretch of the season. Writt…

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Aug. 10, 2025

'Through The Lens of Time' Offers a Window Into a More Interesting TV Show

"Through the Lens of Time" is, perhaps, symptomatic of how there is something endemic affecting Strange New Worlds episodes. There is everything here that should make a good episode: strong character work, a mystery, proper TOS-style science ficti…

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Aug. 4, 2025

Preview Nine New Stills from Strange New Worlds “Through the Lens of Time”

Strange New Worlds  continues its third season this week with Episode 305: "Through the Lens of Time." Written by Onitra Johnson and Davy Perez, and directed by Andi Armaganian, season three officially hits the midpoint, and the newest batch o…

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July 31, 2025

“A Space Adventure Hour” Offers Excitement, Mystery, and a Muddled Message

I will probably annoy a lot of people by saying I didn’t like this episode as much as I perhaps should have. Listen - for the sake of the record, I did enjoy the conceit of the murder mystery. I did enjoy watching our cast play pastiches of th…

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July 30, 2025

Strange New Spectacle: A Vulcan Wedding, Zombies, and 60's Camp at Warp 10

You know how they say “expect the unexpected” at San Diego Comic-Con? This year, Strange New Worlds said, “Hold my poisoned martini glass.” Welcome to Strange New Spectacle, a fully live, fully bonkers, totally fabulous imm…

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July 30, 2025

Khan Returns: Star Trek’s New Scripted Podcast Launches This September

KHAAAAAAN! A New Era for Star Trek’s Most Iconic Villain Begins This September Girafe and I are still recovering from a crazy week at San Diego Comic Con, but as the lights dimmed and the Star Trek theme played,   one unex…

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July 28, 2025

Preview: Murder, Mystery, and the Enterprise in SNW "A Space Adventure Hour"

After back-to-back genre swings with "The Elysian Kingdom" and the musical episode "Subspace Rhapsody," and now those puppets coming in season four, Strange New Worlds  isn’t slowing down. Episode 304, titled “A Space Adventure Hou…

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July 27, 2025

IDW Sets Phasers to STUN at SDCC With The Next Frontier of Star Trek Comics

The final day of San Diego Comic-Con brought with it one last burst of warp speed energy thanks to the IDW Publishing Star Trek: The Next Frontier panel And if you thought Sunday would be quiet...nah. It was wall-to-wall Trek from Red Shirts to The…

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July 26, 2025

The Puppets Have Beamed Aboard: Strange New Worlds Unveils Puppet Episode at Comic-Con!

It’s not every day that Hall H explodes into cheers over a puppet But leave it to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to boldly go where no Trek has gone before… straight into Muppet territory. During the Star Trek Universe panel at San Die…

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July 26, 2025

Class Is In Session: Starfleet Academy Wows Hall H with First Trailer, New Details, and That Starship Reveal

Star Trek  fans packed into Hall H today got their first glimpse at the next generation of bold explorers when Paramount+ dropped the Starfleet Academy teaser trailer. And yes, we were there. Myself and Girafe were in the room as the lights di…

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July 25, 2025

First Look at Starfleet Academy: Klingons, Cadets, and the Return of The Doctor

First Look at Starfleet Academy – 12 New Images Tease the Future of Trek Paramount just dropped a surprise ahead of tomorrow’s Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con: a first-look photo set from Starfleet Academy Season 1, and …

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