The weeks are counting down till Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3 arrives within the 2025 TV schedule, however Paramount+ has some massive information forward of the premiere. The streamer has renewed Unusual New Worlds for a fifth and ultimate season whereas the fourth remains to be in manufacturing and solely trailer footage has launched from the third thus far. Whereas followers can not less than have a good time figuring out that there are nonetheless three full seasons left earlier than the top, one massive change does imply that Season 5 will likely be shorter than all of the others that got here earlier than.
Followers with a Paramount+ subscription can already plan forward for extra Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds via the fifth and ultimate season, however Season 5 will solely run for six episodes. Not solely did the primary two seasons earn orders for ten episodes every, however the upcoming third can even run for ten episodes. Talking with Collider again in summer season 2024, showrunner Akiva Goldsman confirmed that the writers already knew “what the ten episodes are going to be about,” confirming one other ten for Season 4.
Manufacturing is ready to start on Unusual New Worlds Season 5 later in 2025, though Paramount+ would not present any extra specifics. Ending on 46 episodes will place Unusual New Worlds properly behind Star Trek: Discovery‘s ultimate tally of 65, however each live-action installments within the franchise could have run for a complete of 5 seasons. In a joint assertion relating to the massive information, government producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman stated:
From the very starting, STRANGE NEW WORLDS got down to honor what STAR TREK has at all times stood for — boundless curiosity, hope and the idea that a greater future is feasible. We’re deeply grateful to Paramount+ for the possibility to finish our five-season mission, simply as we envisioned it, alongside our extraordinary solid and crew. And to the passionate followers who’ve boldly joined us on this journey — THANK YOU. With three extra spectacular seasons forward so that you can see and revel in, this journey is way from over.
May there be a continuation of the Unusual New Worlds journey even after this specific present ends? Nicely, the franchise reportedly has finished fairly properly for Paramount+, and maybe there’ll nonetheless be spinoff-worthy gaps within the Trek timeline to discover between the occasions of Unusual New Worlds and starting of the unique collection as soon as the ultimate credit roll.
For now, although, viewers can belief that there is nonetheless greater than half of the present to go earlier than the top, and the early affirmation that Season 5 would be the final hopefully means the producers could have the chance to craft a great finale without having to return for last-minute reshoots like Discovery did.
Happily, Unusual New Worlds returns within the close to future with Season 3 premiering on Thursday, July 17 on Paramount+. The third season will embrace Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun and Martin Quinn as collection regulars, together with visitor star Carol Kane and particular visitor star Paul Wesley.
With time left earlier than the Season 3 premiere, viewers with a Paramount+ subscription can at all times revisit the primary two full seasons streaming to refresh any reminiscences. In any case, the Season 2 finale aired again in 2023, and Season 3 premieres on July 17, 2025. With Season 4 in manufacturing and Season 5 manufacturing beginning later this yr, I am not less than assured that viewers will not be hanging too painfully lengthy between the remaining seasons.