News Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Showrunners Say Seasons 4 and 5 Will Have Fewer One-Off Concept Episodes Thankfully, we’ll still get a puppet episode. By Matthew Byrd | Published on October 21, 2025 Photo: Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Paramount+ In an interview with Screen Rant, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman said that the series’ final two seasons will focus a bit more on wrapping up the show and less on the kind of one-off concept episodes that have gradually become a bigger part of the story. “We’re making season 5 now, we’re trending towards that, which is probably the center line of Star Trek, right?” Goldsman said. “We’re trending now, and beginning with season 4 and through season 5, to a much more singular sci-fi, action-adventure, emotional storytelling. And you know, the outliers are getting less and less, as we kind of focus on saying goodbye to each other and the fans.” As we have previously discussed, Strange New Worlds’ third season offered significantly more one-off concept episodes to… mixed results. While some (many, one could argue) of those episodes were quite good in their own right, they began to eat into the show’s meager ten-episode seasons. Character arcs and longer plotlines were often shelved during those episodes, which contributed to the previous season’s generally disjointed nature. Yet, you shouldn’t expect Strange New Worlds‘ final seasons to completely abandon such episodes or the creative spirit behind them. We already know that we’re due for a “puppet” episode of the series, and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers explains that the crew want to keep the spirit of those one-off adventures alive throughout the series. “The thing I will say about season 4 is, it’s in line with what we have done with the previous seasons, in the sense that we look at this like, ‘this could be our last season.’ So we treat it that way,” said Myers. “What’s something that we want to try to do, that [we] have never done before? What is something we want to try to do a version of, that [past shows] have done before, but never in this way. So that’s what we do in season 4.” The comment about treating the upcoming season like the show’s last season is particularly interesting given that it seemed like there really wasn’t a guarantee that the show would get its final (abbreviated) fifth season. Yet, as Myers says, the showrunners have spiritually been treating the series like it could go away at any moment. That would help explain the “go for broke” nature of the show getting so many ideas out there in such a short period of time. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 is expected to premiere sometime in 2026. [end-mark] The post <i>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds</i> Showrunners Say Seasons 4 and 5 Will Have Fewer One-Off Concept Episodes appeared first on Reactor.