Could Star Trek: Strange New Worlds be heading toward a streaming movie?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a successful Trek show. That's an indisputable fact if we're going by the streaming numbers. The series is now heading into its fourth season while fans wait for the release of its third. In the meantime, speculation is already starting as to if Strange New Worlds could get a movie like Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation did. Not surprisingly, this isn't something completely out of the realm of possibility.

Ethan Peck, who portrays Spock on Strange New Worlds, and Celia Rose Gooding, who plays Uhura, appeared together at a panel for Terrificon [via Screenrant], and a fan wanted to know if a movie was a possibility. Peck said he thought there had been discussions about it, but nothing was set in stone. If discussions are already starting before the premiere of the series' third season, that's a good sign.

But when would such a movie air? Between seasons of the series? Or after the series comes to a conclusion, which producers hope won't be for a long time? So far, no other Star Trek series has filmed a movie during its current production. It was only after the conclusion of The Original Series and The Next Generation that films were produced.

Section 31 began production before Star Trek: Discovery ended, but its focus wasn't on the main characters who were currently filming and is a spin-off rather than a direct film representing all of Discovery. But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of ways for a movie to be inserted between seasons of Strange New Worlds. Gooding and Peck have some ideas of the type of movie they'd love to see, including a crossover with the Kelvin Timeline.

"Celia Rose Gooding: We’d have a lot of fun. I think there’s a world in which – I don’t know, I’ve had like fever dreams of us in the Kelvin universe finding a way to cross over.

Ethan Peck: That’d be awesome.

Celia Rose Gooding: (laughs) It’d be very weird to see them talking to Uhura, and then us being like, ‘Hmm, different. Very different.’

Ethan Peck: Well, Quinto’s Spock got to meet Leonard’s Spock, so…

Celia Rose Gooding: I’d love to meet another Uhura.

Ethan Peck: That’d be awesome.

Celia Rose Gooding: That’d be super cool.

Ethan Peck: Yeah, so maybe.

Celia Rose Gooding: Maybe!

Ethan Peck: Also, I think it’d be cool if we did like a Christmas movie.

Celia Rose Gooding: I would love that! I would love that! That’d be so fun."

And in case we think a crossover between Strange New Worlds and a Chris Pine-led Star Trek movie would be weird, let's not forget that Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated series, had a crossover with Strange New Worlds. So nothing is off the table when it comes to this series!