Star Trek: Strange New Worlds crossover with Lower Decks coming in season 2

Trekkies, take heart: Star Trek is returning with the best series yet. Paramount Plus shared some intriguing news Saturday regarding the second season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at the streamer’s San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H. Worlds will collide in an upcoming crossover event between Strange New Worlds Lower Decks,With crew members from U.S.S. Enterprise and U.S.S. Cerritos first meeting.

Anson Mount plays the role of Captain Christopher Pike Strange New WorldsThe announcement was made on the stage by. Lower DecksTawny Neusome stars and Jack Quaid (also The Boys) “crashed” the SNW panel. That is why SNW Is live-action. LD is an animated series, you may be wondering how exactly such a crossover will work, and we don’t know yet! However, ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler will be among the Enterprise crew. This episode will be directed and edited by Star Trek: The Next Generation Picard Jonathan Frakes is actor and director.

Authored by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman SNWSpins starting in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. Strange New Worlds Follow Captain Pike, his crew and the Enterprise during the years that James Kirk took over. Ethan Peck is joined by Jess Bush and Melissa Navia.

Season 1 Strange New WorldsThe end was a bit rocky. Chief Engineer Hemmer (Bruce Horak), who died in order to save his crew, left behind Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding). La’an (Christina Chong) left the Enterprise to search for the family of someone she rescued. Perhaps most pressingly, Una “Number One” Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) was arrested for being a person with genetically modified DNA, a fact she’s been hiding for years to stay in Starfleet.

All of these threads will be woven into the new series. But Myers says the show won’t stray too far from the episodic formula that gave it such a good throwback Trek vibe.

“The show is still very much an adventure of the week,” Myers told Inverse about season 2 plans. “We do different genres, we try to go for broke with regard to those genres, and none of that has changed. I would say it’s the same character storytelling that we do. But, I will say Season 2 is on a grander scale.”

That will include introducing a new chief engineer to replace Hemmer — not Scotty, don’t ask again — who Myers said is “a very different person, a completely different type of engineer.”

There’s no word on when Strange New Worlds Season 2 premieres, however Lower Decks On Aug. 25, the show will return for its third season.

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