Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finale Season Was 'A Negotiation', With a Movie Option Also Discussed, Star Says

Various options for the aboriginal of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds person been discussed, including the anticipation of a two-hour movie.

That's according to Number One histrion Rebecca Romijn, who revealed that the show's last tally had been thing of a "negotiation" with Paramount, and that different thought had been to to wrapper up the amusement by making a streaming movie instead.

Previous seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds person clocked successful astatine 10 episodes, thing that does not look to person been an enactment for the series' last run. Instead, its showrunners were initially told the fashionable bid would beryllium fixed a two-hour movie to wrapper up its plotlines — earlier they insisted they needed much time.

"And six [episodes] — I don't cognize if I should accidental this, but six was a negotiation," Romijn said astatine the STLV: Trek to Vegas Convention, successful comments archetypal reported by TrekMovie. "Normally it was 10 episodes, but they offered america a two-hour movie and [co-showrunners] Akiva [Goldsman] and Henry [Alonso Myers] said we can't wrapper up these storylines successful conscionable 2 hours. And truthful they got [six episodes]."

Despite Paramount's determination to extremity Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sooner than galore fans would person liked, the determination was astatine slightest made successful clip for the show's writers to trade a last tally of episodes successful the cognition the bid was ending — thing which wasn't the lawsuit connected Strange New Worlds' genitor amusement Star Trek: Discovery.

Production has present finished connected Strange New Worlds' 4th season, which volition aerial successful 2026, with its 5th and last six-episode tally expected to movie adjacent year.

"I deliberation we consciousness precise fortunate to get a play five," Romijn continued. "Not each shows do. And we get to wrapper up each of our storylines. I deliberation astir of america cognize wherever we're going and what happens to us. Not each shows get to person that. Some are amazed by the quality that they don’t get a adjacent season, and truthful everything ends abruptly. I deliberation we consciousness grateful."

By the clip the Enterprise warps disconnected into abstraction astatine the extremity of Strange New Worlds, the bid is expected to drawback up chronologically with Star Trek: The Original Series. That said, determination are hopes among fans that immoderate of the show's characters could inactive continue, successful a caller bid showing aboriginal exploits of the crew.

While determination hasn't been a afloat Star Trek movie released successful theaters for implicit a decade, Paramount precocious turned its plans for a Section 31 spin-off TV bid into a streaming movie — albeit to antagonistic results. Last week, the film's prima Michelle Yeoh spoke retired for the archetypal clip astir Section 31's universally antagonistic reception, and admitted “there were immoderate things that we could person done better.”

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