Star Trek: Strange New Worlds exec producer wants longer seasons

Star Trek fans have long been wanting longer seasons of all the series, especially Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

It seems like just when we get started watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it’s over, and after waiting so long for its premiere, that can be disappointing. The ten or twelve episode series that most streaming channels have opted for don’t make many fans happy, especially with previous Star Trek series running for twenty or more episodes a season.

Not surprisingly, we’re not the only ones wishing for longer seasons. Chris Fisher, the executive producer of Strange New Worlds, wants twenty episode seasons for the series as well. Fisher, along with co-executive producer Ryan T. Husk, appeared on The 7th Rule podcast, (via Screenrant) which is hosted by Cirroc Lofton, to discuss Strange New Worlds and its season finale. And he told Lofton that if Paramount+ was smart, they’d say “let’s go make twenty a year.”

According to Chris Fisher, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could be in for the long haul.

Fisher pointed out that because of Covid and now the strike, it’s taken four years to make twenty episodes of the series. But fans are hanging in, and Fisher believes the series could run at least ten years as “everyone who works on it loves making it.” Later on in his comment, he called the show “gold.”

If Strange New Worlds were to go beyond seven seasons, it would be the first Star Trek series to do so, but like Fisher, most fans consider this show gold. Does every episode rate five stars? No, but neither has any other Star Trek show. In every series there are bound to be a few clunkers. But overall, Strange New Worlds has hit the mark. And though we might have to wait quite a while before we see a third season, season two has proven that it’s worth the wait.