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Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode Titles Include an Intriguing Next Generation Reference
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Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode Titles Include an Intriguing Next Generation Reference
Whose Enterprise is it anyway?
By Matthew Byrd
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Published on July 17, 2026
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The episode titles for the fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds were just released, and wouldn’t you know that they include an incredibly tantalizing Next Generation Easter egg.
For reference, here are the 10 upcoming episode titles in order of release:
1: “Valles Marineris”2: “The Griffin Incident”3: “Human Best Friend”4: “A Case of Chiaroscuro”5: “Level-Five Transporter Accident”6: “Off-Hour”7: “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”8: “Orders of Magnitude”9: “Once La’An a Time”10: “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”
While there are a few notable names on that list (Could “Level-Five Transporter Accident” be the puppet episode? What’s up with “Once La’An a Time?”) the early standout is undoubtedly “Tomorrow’s Enterprise.” On the surface, it is at least a callback to the beloved Season 3 episode of The Next Generation (“Yesterday’s Enterprise“), which showed an alternate timeline and a different version of the Enterprise. Naturally, the similar episode titles have sparked speculation that the Strange New Worlds‘ Season 4 finale could pull off a similar feat of timeline jumping.
However, just to throw a reasonable dash of cold water on some of the more optimistic speculation, it’s likely that the episode title is just a cute reference. For that matter, it’s also possible that the wording refers to some kind of event that brings us closer to the events of Star Trek: TOS. We know the series is gradually heading in that direction, and a giant leap forward would certainly make for an appropriate finale that sets up the show’s fifth and final season.
Still, one shouldn’t lose hope for another wild timeline manipulation adventure that sees the Strange New Worlds crew just get weird with it ahead of the end of all things (relatively speaking). It is, after all, what they often do best.[end-mark]
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