The most important Star Trek show of the year is officially 3 weeks away

Here’s everything you need to remember about what’s happening on the Enterprise Star Trek is in a tough spot. The 59-year-old sci-fi franchise launched a series of streaming shows over the past decade in an attempt to build Paramount Plus into a true Netflix competitor. Now, that effort is winding down as Trekkies prepare for the Original Series' 60th birthday this September. But before then, the last show standing from Star Trek's streaming era will take one more big swing this summer. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered in 2022 as a spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery focused on the adventures of the USS Enterprise before Captain James T. Kirk took the helm in the original ‘60s Star Trek. Now that story is nearing its end. Strange New Worlds will conclude with an abridged fifth season focused on Kirk (Paul Wesley) taking over from Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), but before that, season 4 will be devoted entirely to the character-driven, genre-hopping episodes the series does best. Strange New Worlds season 4 won’t have an overarching villain, and showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are making the most of the end of their run with some wild episodes including