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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now Best Netflix Movies Best movies on Disney Plus Movie Release Dates Best Netflix Shows Recommended reading Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans get the best and worst news as it's renewed for season 5 and simultaneously canceled Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners reveal plans for a cancelled crossover with the '70s animated series Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer introduces a new slew of adventures as Spock and the crew leap into the unknown – and teases Kirk’s promotion to Captain Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 review: "The show's most assured run of episodes to date" Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ throwback cameo finally confirms a decades-old Star Trek fan theory, and I can’t quite believe it William Shatner's Captain Kirk returns from the dead just in time to watch Starfleet burn in Star Trek: The Last Starship Sci-Fi Shows Netflix is losing a Star Trek show, but it "has little to do with lack of viewership or anything nefarious" – and the showrunners are hopeful it will find a second life elsewhere Entertainment Sci-Fi Shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will eventually get to "Kirk's first day on the job" as Enterprise Captain before the spin-off wraps up: "That is our hope, and that is our plan" Bradley Russell 26 July 2025 The plan for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' final season involves reaching the events of the Original Series When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Paramount) The overarching plan for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fifth (and final) season was revealed during the Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con. "We started having this idea of those great lost eras that exist in all of our head, canon and ancillary canon, but had never really gotten much of a chance to be on the screen," co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman said of Strange New Worlds' initial grand plans in Hall H. "So what we've tried to do is try to reach back to Pike's Enterprise and instill in it the kind of storytelling values we have today and bring us right up to Kirk's first day on the job. And that is our hope, and that is our plan. And we plan to get you there." While Strange New Worlds has largely charted the story of Anson Mount's Captain Pike, Paul Wesley's Kirk (not yet a captain) has become a more significant figure in the past few seasons. With two more seasons on the way (including some hare-brained entries, such as a puppetry episode), it appears the Star Trek spin-off will boldly bump up close to the events of the Original Series. You may like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans get the best and worst news as it's renewed for season 5 and simultaneously canceled Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners reveal plans for a cancelled crossover with the '70s animated series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer introduces a new slew of adventures as Spock and the crew leap into the unknown – and teases Kirk’s promotion to Captain Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is currently airing on Paramount Plus. A fourth season is on the way in 2026 and a fifth and final season has also been greenlit. Previously, Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman revealed plans for a crossover with the 1970s animated series were scuppered. "We really wanted to do a TAS [The Animated Series, made by Filmation in the '70s] episode, and for a bunch of reasons we couldn't quite get there," Goldsman revealed in SFX magazine. "We haven't done a straight animated episode and I don't think we will. Whether it would break the show or not I don't know. Probably not. It's hard to know what would break it." Keep up with the latest updates from Hall H with our SDCC 2025 live blog. Then there's a look ahead to what's coming up tonight with the SDCC 2025 schedule. For more, check out the best sci-fi movies ever made, plus a longer look at all the new TV shows coming your way very soon. See more TV Shows News Bradley Russell Social Links Navigation I'm the Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, focusing on news, features, and interviews with some of the biggest names in film and TV. 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