Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season two went bigger than the first season, including a musical episode.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman have already said that the third season is going to be even bigger. Goldsman told Variety that the big swings they took in the second season are going to continue into the season three.
One of the “bigger” deals was that season two ended on a cliffhanger, which is a reach for any show, but when the series doesn’t know when it will return, that can be iffy. A cliffhanger doesn’t have as much punch if the series is off the air for a while, which might be the case with the SAG-AFTRA strikes. But the showrunners still have big plans for the series, and in Trekmovie’s latest All Access Star Trek Podcast, producing director Chris Fisher admitted that those words scare him.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a terrifying show to make
Those words come straight from Fisher who knows that his boss is an Oscar-winning writer. That said, he also clarified that’s the best thing about the job.
"Every one of the words up there scares the shit out of me. The show is terrifying to make and to know that my boss is an Oscar-winning writer and my first job directing was directing his script. I’m terrified. But that’s the best thing about the job. If it wasn’t exciting like that, if you weren’t challenged like that, it wouldn’t be what it is. But, yeah, they’re big swings. They’re definitely big swings."
One does have to wonder, though, just how much bigger the series will get. Could we potentially be looking into a season that covers one big foe over an entire season much like Star Trek: Enterprise did with the Xindi? That would, of course, be much different in Strange New Worlds, considering how they’ve already set up the Gorn as violent predators that aren’t easily overtaken.
Whatever the big swings are, we won’t see them until after the SAG-AFTRA strike. Strange New Worlds is ready to commence filming once that happens so it’s still possible we could see the return of the series in 2024.