10 Crazy Ideas For Seasons 4 & 5 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

When a show has already enjoyed a musical, a crossover with a cartoon, and a faux documentary-style set of episodes, one knows that the show can go in any direction. What's next for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds? We know already that there will be Muppets, courtesy of the Jim Henson Studio. Will Kermit don the gold shirt of command?

Strange New Worlds has sixteen more episodes to deliver, as of the writing of this article. With thirty behind us, not to mention those Short Treks featuring Pike, Una, and Spock, we have already seen a wide array of niche and themed episodes. Put simply, this show has never been afraid to take risks.

While not every swing has been a hit (looking at you Four And A Half Vulcans), this iteration of the final frontier has easily delivered some of the most enjoyable, heaviest, and even funniest moments in recent history. Though not technically a spin-off from Discovery, it still had a chance to ease into the audience's mind through that show's second season. Spock with a beard? Sold.

Facial hair and felt officers aside, what's left for this show to explore? What, in fact, is there to expand on, including ideas that have yet to be developed, characters that have yet to return, and grouchy Texan doctors, who are only doctors and not *insert literally any other role here*.

If the Wall Of Heroes is anything to go by, there may also be some unpleasant surprises ahead.

When Jolene Blalock returned to Star Trek in Fissure Quest, the air was punched many times over by those of us here at TrekCulture. This was a long, long-awaited reprisal, filled with decades of half-truths and suggested stories, none of which were pleasant to learn. Put simply, when These Are The Voyages rolled those closing credits, it seemed as though T'Pol was finished for good. 

Combine this with the ill-advised killing of Trip, and Star Trek: Enterprise called time on two of its most popular characters. Cut to recent times and Blalock's return in Lower Decks, as well as Connor Trinneer's return in Holograms All The Way Down, may suggest the arrival of something even bigger.

The expanded media has long suggested that Trip didn't actually die in that episode, while T'Pol could easily still have a seat at the Vulcan High Command table. She was only 66 in Enterprise, barely out of diapers in Vulcan years. Jonathan Archer's personal file, thanks to that scene in In A Mirror, Darkly, states that he, at least, attended the launch of the Enterprise.

We now know that the close of Strange New Worlds' fifth season will see James T. Kirk in command of the fleet's most famous ship. Would that not be the perfect opportunity, while looking forward, to also look back? What better time to bridge the gap between eras than by having Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, and Connor Trinneer reprise their roles one more time, in flashback, watching the Enterprise embark on that maiden voyage, under the command of Robert April?

A perfect union of times and themes, one that could see this chapter of Star Trek off into the sunset.