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Season 4 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One explore new worlds around the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Leah Marilla Thomas

New York Magazine/Vulture

Jul 24, 2026

4/5

The first three seasons delivered character-driven stories with kaleidoscopic circumstances that felt like the best of "Trek." Season 4 continues to balance the silly and the serious to great effect.

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Ben Travers

IndieWire

Jul 24, 2026

Never without spirit and repeatedly inspired, the new episodes continue to push the boundaries of what audiences expect from a “Star Trek” series, while honoring the franchise’s past through its reimagined characters and world-of-the-week framework.

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Clint Worthington

RogerEbert.com

Jul 22, 2026

Season 4 continues mightily, in a crop of episodes as exhilarating as they are frustrating.

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Alex Maidy

JoBlo's Movie Network

Aug 14, 2026

9/10

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming to an end after one final, shortened season, but first, audiences get to enjoy one of the best penultimate runs of all time.

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Monita Roy Mohan

Stereo Geeks (Podcast)

Jul 25, 2026

This season is a fantastic encapsulation of the franchise. It’s a fun, innovative exploration of the human condition. It takes its name very seriously — you don’t know what strange is till you watch this season, apparently.

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Samantha Nelson

Polygon

Jul 24, 2026

Season 4 of Strange New Worlds embodies the best and the worst parts of the series. It can be funny, scary, and moving as it explores topics that have long been core to Star Trek like identity, duty, and ethics.

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Joshua A

@RT33820395 4 hrs ago

I made an account just to review how disappointed I am with this season. It is awful and full of gimmick episodes. And to find that it has a 90% rating by critics is baffling. They have obviously been paid to give positive reviews, this website used to have a decent reputation of genuine opinions. But this is just laughable. Series starts with a massive paradox just to drop dinosaurs onto the screen, followed by muppets and screenplays. The narrative and plots of half of the episodes are just awful. Poor performance by the writers and producers, and it makes me feel sorry for the cast who have done so much work for the previous 3 seasons, for it to be made into a mockery.

Belinda B

@Belinda389 5 hrs ago

S3 and S4 have been.... way worse than S1 or S2. I can't put my finger on why though. Some episodes hit, some miss.

R T

@RT86634539 11 hrs ago

Worst ever, please don't spoil the legacy of Star Trek. Not worth wasting your time. Feels more like Soap Opera used Star Trek setup.

Mr. V

@me123227 1 day ago

This is literally the worst thing I have ever seen. It is about as anti-Star Trek as any show could be. Roddenberry would be super disappointed in this. The story lines are incredibly immature and inane. The Acting is not very good. They do ridiculous things like becoming muppets and entering into a soap opera. I have a general rule, if the "professional" reviewers like a show, you can almost certainly be assured that it sucks beyond belief, because they are a bunch of ninnies and wokies. This sucks. I would give this a negative 5 star rating if that was possible. Go Woke, Go Broke.

Christopher R

@RT24705586 1 day ago

If I could give Season Four 0 stars, I would. With the exception of maybe 2 episodes this season, it is utterly ridiculous. Puppets, soap operas, etc. I don’t know what they are thinking. This mega Star Trek fan is done.

Frank B

@RT47113662 1 day ago

It is a mystery to me how one can make a series so ridiculous. I hope someone reads the reviews and starts making ordinary sci-fi series again. Not recomended.

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Captain Christopher Pike

Rebecca Romijn

Number One

Ethan Peck

Science Officer Spock

Jess Bush

Nurse Christine Chapel

Christina Chong

La'an Noonien-Singh

Celia Rose Gooding

Nyota Uhura

Episode 1

Aired Jul 23, 2026

Valles Marineris

Pike leads the crew into a stellar storm, sending the Enterprise back 65 million years.

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Episode 2

Aired Jul 30, 2026

The Griffin Incident

La'An, Spock, and Kirk get trapped on a mysterious, long-lost Federation ship.

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Episode 3

Aired Aug 6, 2026

Human Best Friend

The Enterprise crew visits a shore-leave planet that guarantees fun in an inebriating atmosphere.

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Episode 4

Aired Aug 7, 2026

A Case of Chiaoscuro

Una is mistaken for a virtuous kingpin against a Klingon occupation.

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Episode 5

Aired Aug 20, 2026

Level Five Transporter Accident

A transporter accident turns everyone except Spock into puppets. The crew attempts to use their new attributes to save the ship from invading pirates.

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Episode 6

Aired Aug 27, 2026

Off-Hour

Unfolding in real time, the Enterprise falls into a slipstream that pushes them to a catastrophic warp threshold.

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Episode 7

Aired Sep 3, 2026

Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass

When a familiar space trickster traps the Enterprise crew in a classic soap opera, Pike finally mourns the loss of a life not lived.

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Episode 8

Aired Sep 10, 2026

Orders of Magnitude

Enterprise is commandeered by Admiral Simon Reeger to track down and destroy an invisible alien ship.

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Episode 9

Airs Sep 17

Once La'an a Time

Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One explore new worlds around the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Episode 10

Airs Sep 24

Tomorrow's Enterprise

Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One explore new worlds around the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Director: Meera Menon
Executive Producer: Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth
Network: Paramount+
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date: Jul 23, 2026

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