Unusual New Worlds’ Will get Muppet Fever In Season 4

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has finished numerous odd issues in the middle of its five-season mission. We’ve had musicals, fantasy episodes, full-on horror adventures, and even a homicide thriller is on the horizon. Now, the present is boldly getting in one other kooky path: a puppet episode.

Introduced at present throughout Trek‘s blockbuster Corridor H panel at San Diego Comedian-Con, Jordan Canning (who directed season 2’s “Charades”, however maybe extra crucially right here, additionally directed seven episodes of the Fraggle Rock revival, Again to the Rock) will direct an episode within the upcoming fourth season of Unusual New Worlds that can see the crew of the united statesS. Enterprise changed into puppets. Anson Mount’s Captain Pike beamed into the conference to let followers know… effectively, type of:

Nothing else was revealed concerning the episode, aside from the very fact Paramount shall be working with the advantageous purveyors of puppet know-how on the Jim Henson Creature Store to carry Pike and the remainder of the crew to material life for the episode. Unusual New Worlds‘ penultimate, fourth season is presently anticipated to hit Paramount+ someday subsequent yr.

That wasn’t the one Unusual New Worlds information out of the conference, nevertheless: with the present’s third season currently airing, followers in attendance had been handled to an early screening of subsequent week’s episode, “A Area Journey Hour”. Set to hit Paramount+ subsequent Thursday, July 31, the Jonathan-Frakes-directed episode—which sees safety chief La’an check out an early prototype holodeck system with a program that, in true Trek style, begins getting harmful—will additionally stream without spending a dime between July 31 and August 6 on Pluto TV, Paramount+ (in addition to its channels obtainable by way of Amazon, Apple, and Roku), and the Paramount+ YouTube channel.

Keep tuned to io9 for extra Trek information proper out of Corridor H at SDCC 2025!

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