Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's premiere, "Hegemony, Part II," picks up directly from Strange New Worlds season 2's ending cliffhanger. It's clear Captain Pike and the Starship Enterprise will find a way to defeat the Gorn and rescue their kidnapped crew members, but the thrill will be watching how our Starfleet heroes triumph over the killer alien reptiles. Once the Gorn are in the Enterprise's rearview mirror, however, Strange New Worlds season 3 is poised to take Star Trek in new directions it hasn't gone before.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds boasts serialized character arcs along with Star Trek: The Original Series' episodic format. Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise's crew grow and evolve, and they already have by leaps and bounds in Strange New Worlds' first two seasons. Strange New Worlds season 3 promises mystery, adventure, and romance for the Starship Enterprise's heroes. By the time Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is over, the show and characters look to be changed in these significant ways.
5Captain Batel Surviving Means The Gorn Can Be Beaten
Batel Survives Her Gorn Infection
Paramount+'s official logline for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 says, "New life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit and resolve." This hints that Strange New Worlds is moving past the Gorn as the show's main antagonists and introducing a new enemy in season 3.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's trailer makes it clear Captain Batel survives the Gorn. Marie is romantically reunited with Captain Pike, and they even go on a landing party mission at some point in Strange New Worlds season 3. Batel looks good as new, and that means a significant shift in Starfleet's conflict with the Gorn, who were poised to invade the United Federation of Planets' space. Pike and the Enterprise will find a way to beat the Gorn, perhaps ending their immediate threat until they return in Star Trek: The Original Series.
4La’an Smiles & Dances In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
Looks Like La'an Changed Her Paradigm
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's trailer teases that La'an and Lieutenant James T. Kirk's attraction will continue, but La'an literally finds a new dance partner in Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck). La'an and the Vulcan Science Officer will cut a rug in Strange New Worlds season 3, perhaps because someone is getting married in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 2, "Wedding Bell Blues." La'an's newfound lightness also finds her cosplaying in Strange New Worlds season 3's Hollywood murder mystery holodeck episode directed by Jonathan Frakes.
3Dr. Roger Korby Meets Spock Years Before Star Trek: The Original Series
Spock Doesn't Seem To Handle Meeting Korby Well
Lieutenant Spock meeting Dr. Roger Korby - and the Vulcan Science Officer punching Chapel's new love interest - is a retcon that the two met prior to Star Trek: The Original Series. It remains to be seen in Strange New Worlds season 3 whether Spock and Korby will be rivals all the way through, as there is also a shot in season 3's trailer of Spock, Korby, Chapel, La'an, Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Beto Ortegas (Mynor Luken), working together on a landing party mission.
2Uhura Finally Has A Star Trek Romance
With Ortegas' Baby Brother?!
Uhura has waited nearly 60 years for a romantic storyline of her own.
Uhura has waited nearly 60 years for a romantic storyline of her own. Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) famously kissed Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek: The Original Series, but Nyota never got much in the way of character development or backstory, much less a love interest. Lieutenant Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn) joining Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gave hope that audiences could see the origin of Scotty (James Doohan) and Uhura's flirtation in the Star Trek movies. That could still happen, but Uhura looks like she'll date Beto Ortegas first.
