***Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ***season 4’s trailer is packed with Easter eggs and hints about the next voyages of the Starship Enterprise led by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount). At CCXP Mexico, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Paul Wesley unveiled Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s teaser at Paramount+‘s Thunder Stage presentation.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is the prequel’s penultimate season, and it’s the last to consist of 10 episodes. The already wrapped *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 5 is a shortened 6-episode final season that’s expected to close out executive producer Alex Kurtzman’s era of Star Trek on Paramount+ in 2027.
*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4 is the only new Star Trek content on Paramount+ in the rest of 2026 to celebrate Star Trek’s 60th anniversary year. There’s also more pressure than usual on *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4 to please fans, given the relatively lukewarm reception to season 3, and the controversy that surrounded Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Here are 18 teases and Easter eggs in* Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* season 4’s new trailer:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s teaser trailer plays it safe and is careful not to rock the boat. Given the volatile state of fandom, it’s noticeable that this footage highlights traditional Star Trek-y things like space exploration, new planets, new aliens, and the popular cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
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There’s no hint of the puppet episode announced at Comic-Con 2025, nor does the teaser highlight any genre-bending ‘big swings’ that we know are part of season 4, which follows the creative lead of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Even the music is a more traditional orchestral theme instead of a pop song, like in Strange New Worlds’ previous trailers.
Our first glimpse of Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s trailer shows the Vulcan Science Officer has a slightly different Beatle-brow hairstyle. Spock’s new ‘do looks a lot more like how Leonard Nimoy wore his hair as Mr. Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series.
Notably absent in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s trailer is any glimpse of Spock’s romance with Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong). Although that pairing is expected to continue this season, there’s no hint of romance at all after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 leaned into the show’s ‘love stories in space.’
*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4 is back to living up to the show’s title, after most of season 3’s episodes were bottled up aboard the Starship Enterprise. One intriguing world Captain Pike’s crew visits appears to be prehistoric and filled with dinosaurs. Or perhaps the Enterprise time-travels and goes to Earth millions of years in the past, when dinosaurs ruled the world.
A strange new world explodes in* Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4, which is observed by an unidentified starship. Planets blowing up became a more common sight in Star Trek after J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot annihilated Vulcan, and Star Trek on Paramount+‘s vastly improved special effects allowed for such visuals to be more easily and convincingly rendered.
Lt. Commander James T. Kirk’s (Paul Wesley) bromance with Spock formally kicked off in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 3, episode 6, and the duo grew even closer after sharing a Vulcan mind-meld in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s finale. Kirk looks like he’s grown more clingy towards his future Vulcan best friend in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4.
Another astounding visual in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is an unidentified Starfleet Officer breaching a black hole’s event horizon. Earlier in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4’s trailer, the USS Enterprise encounters a black hole. Yet there seems to be more to this space phenomenon than it appears.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will have plenty of action, as it seems that Captain Pike and Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) get into a phaser fight with unknown enemies. Pike and Number One also haven’t teamed up on an away mission in quite some time, so the Starship Enterprise’s command duo is back in the saddle.
*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4 looks like it contains at least one horror-themed hour (not counting the puppet episode - kidding!). The Starship Enterprise crew is seen entering a spooky crashed starship, and what looks like an undead human hand pats La’an on the shoulder. Good thing the Chief of Security doesn’t scare easily.
A host of aliens — including an Andorian that suspiciously resembles late Lieutenant Hemmer (Bruce Horak) — are seen crowding La’an in the Starship Enterprise’s Engineering bay. Engineering hasn’t been visited as often after the Science Lab was created in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 3, so it’s great to see it again.
Curiously, the Enterprise’s Chief Engineer, Commander Pelia (Carol Kane), isn’t spotlighted in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4’s trailer the way Scotty (Martin Quinn) is.
Adding credence to a horror episode in *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds *season 4 is the sight of Lt. Commander James T. Kirk screaming as doors seal him away. What happens to Kirk here and why is anyone’s guess, but Paul Wesley is back as a special guest star in at least one episode of season 4.