‘Star Trek’ Offers Look at ‘Discovery’ Final Season, ‘Strange New Worlds’ Musical Episode, ‘Lower Decks’
The “Star Trek” Universe unveiled several first looks of its Paramount+ TV series at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 22, 2023
They included extended clip from the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” a trailer and premiere date for the fourth season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” and a trailer for the upcoming musical episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” currently streaming its second season.
The panel ended with a screening of the “Strange New Worlds” episode featuring the stars of the animated “Lower Decks” — which will be available on Paramount+ early, starting at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET on Saturday.
The voice cast includes Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman. Mike McMahon is showrunner and executive producer; Kurtzman, Roddenberry, Roth, Baiers and Katie Krentz are executive producers.
Along with the “Strange New Worlds”/“Lower Decks” crossover episode, Paramount+ also confirmed that the ninth episode of “Strange New Worlds” this season will be a musical, with 10 original songs by Kay Hanley (“Letters to Cleo”) and Tom Polce (“Letters to Cleo,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”). That episode, titled, “Subspace Rhapsody,” will debut on Paramount+ on Aug. 3, followed by the season finale on Aug. 10.
The cast includes Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, with recurring guest stars Paul Wesley (as James T. Kirk) and Carol Kane. Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are co-showrunners and executive producers, and Kurtzman, Kadin, Baiers, Roddenberry, Roth, Siracusa, Weber and Jenny Lumet are executive producers.