With the highly-anticipated premiere ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsright around the corner, Paramount+ has released some absolutely stunning new images of Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Number One/Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), and Spock (Ethan Peck), as well as the rest of the crew of Pike’s Enterprise. The series serves as the second earliest installment in the Star Trek franchise, picking up with Pike and his crew following the events of the Season 2 finale ofStar Trek: Discovery— prior to the events ofStar Trek: The Original Series.
Along with Pike, Una, and Spock, whom we were all re-introduced to onDiscovery, the Enterprise crew consists of Cadet Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) Doctor M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), and Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) — all of whom initially appeared inStar Trek: The Original Series, portrayed by different actors. Strange New Worlds is also introducing a few new characters with La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) — a descendent of the infamousTrekvillain Khan Noonien-Singh — and Helmsman Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia).
The new images feature each member of the crew in various locations on the Enterprise, each of them decked out in their Starfleet uniforms. Ina recent interview with Collider, Romijnspoke about the new series saying that each episode ofStrange New Worldsis a little different. The series is the first of the currently-airing live-actionStar Trekshows to return to an episodic format —Star Trek: Lower Decksis also episodic rather than serialized.
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Romijn told Collider:
“We’ve now made 16 episodes, and we love them all. They’re all a little bit different. Like the original series, we’re standalone episodes, we’re not really serialized. But the funny bits are going to be funny. The horrific bits are going to be horrific. The sexy parts are going to be sexy, like the original series.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worldsblends the old and the new seamlessly and these new images put both the legacy characters and the new crew members in the spotlight.The trailer for the seriespromises incredible adventures to never before seen planets and incredible adventures with the best of Starfleet. As the world ofStar Trekcontinues to grow, may we never run out of places to boldly go.
Star Trek: Strange New Worldspremieres on Paramount+ on May 5. Check out the rest of the new images down below.
