Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Would’ve Ended The Show, Says Showrunner

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's executive producer and co-showrunner confirms that season 3's finale, "New Life and New Civilizations," could have been the end of the series.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

just ended its divisive third season on Paramount+, with all episodes of season 4 already filmed, and the fifth and final season currently in production.

TrekMovie interviewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers about season 3's finale.

Noting that they didn't end Strange New Worlds season 3's finale with a cliffhanger like season 2, Myers confirmed that "New Life and New Civilizations" could have doubled as the series finale. Read Henry's quote below:

No cliffhanger this time. When you wrote it, did you think this might have been a series finale?

Henry Alonso Myers: Yeah.

Akiva Goldsman also confirmed that when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

returns for its final two seasons, the show is "done" with the Gorn, who have been villains since season 1, and the Vezda, the menaces introduced in season 3. Read Akiva's quote below:

So you are not done with the Vezda…

Goldsman: [laughs] We’re done with the Vezda, like we are with the Gorn…

Why Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Almost Ended With Season 3

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was delayed for two years. 2023's combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes delayed filming of season 3 for 7 months. Meanwhile, Paramount Global was in the midst of being acquired by Skydance Media, which was completed in August 2025.

Paramount's sale to Skydance and continuing changes in the industry's streaming business model led to Paramount+ ending Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

producers braced themselves to be next, and season 3's finale was looked at as possibly being the end.

However, Paramount+ renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for season 4 in April 2024, during filming of season 3. This was looked at as the end of the show, with Paramount+ offering

Strange New Worlds a two-hour movie to wrap up the series.

Instead, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Meyers negotiated a 6-episode fifth and final season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

to fulfill their promise to the audience to end the USS Enterprise's "five-year mission" and link up the ending to the start of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Our Take On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Almost Ending The Show

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's finale wrapped up many of the season's major storylines, established the friendship between Lt. Commander James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), and set up a new five-year mission for the Starship Enterprise.

With the emotional catharsis of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) saying goodbye to his love, Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano), it's easy to see how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

season 3's finale could be looked at as the end of the series.

Thankfully, there are still 16 episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to come. Although a segment of Star Trek fans took issue with season 3's genre-focused direction, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers told

ScreenRant that they think season 4 is their strongest season.

EXCLUSIVE: Randi Rahm Reveals the Inspiration Behind Peg’s Finale Dress and If Taylor Frankie Paul Will Be Wearing Her Gowns

Gorgeous gowns!

Bachelor Nation fans saw Peg Munson and Mel Owens find love on the Season 2 finale of “The Golden Bachelor."

Peg looked stunning in her orange and turquoise strapless gown as Mel declared his love with a commitment ring in Antigua.

We got a chance to sit down with haute couture designer Randi Rahm for an exclusive interview with BachelorNation.com, where she revealed the inspiration behind Peg’s finale dress.

She also teased whether we can expect to see more of her stunning gowns during Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette.”

Check out our full interview with Randi below!

Bachelor Nation: Hi Randi, it’s so good to see you again! Thank you for taking the time to chat with us. We loved Peg’s finale dress and the beautiful pops of color. Can you tell us the inspiration behind the design of the dress?

Randi Rahm: Hi, it’s so good to see you! Absolutely. I wanted to make an architectural kind of feel with a little feminine pop! So I think the color made it sort of feminine, not as rigid as something that’s very architectural. I think the color softened the lines so it made it more fun to wear.

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BN: We love it, and it looked so stunning on her. How did you incorporate Peg’s personality into the dress?

RR: With the help of Carey Fetman, who’s the stylist. He’ll talk to me about who she is and I’ll show him a lot of dresses, and I can’t guarantee she picks any of them. But by the description of her personality and the beautiful lady that she is, I just thought that would be a standout, strong and pretty dress. Just like she is! She’s strong and pretty. I like the ladies to have that little pizzazz. Elegance along with the pizzazz. And this is a dress that stands out on its own just by its shape and the color combinations. I think Carey is brilliant at his job and between the collaboration there and the description of that beautiful woman, it’s a win-win situation. And then she has to like it! There are other dresses she could’ve picked from, it’s not just my dresses. So I was very pleased when she picked that one. I thought it was perfect.

BN: It really was. Do you know if it was love at first sight, or were there other dresses from your collection that she was also considering?

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RR:

From what I understand, she just gravitated to that piece. Which is interesting because at the live show, she’s also in a Randi Rahm! And it’s funny, it’s in the same family of color but completely different. Completely the other side of that. And it’s a joyous dress. It was a happy dress. Sexy but elegant, because she’s a very elegant lady. I was happy she did choose that dress because it was so different. Shape-wise, feeling-wise. One was very linear and this was soft and sexy. I thought it was a good choice. And I was surprised that she picked me again. I’m just so honored! That’s so validating for me as an artist. I find it so flattering when there’s more than one dress that they pick of mine because there’s hundreds of designers. There’s a thousand dresses, so I’m still shocked when they do. I love it that they do! And I have a very big range of what I design, so I like when some of the Bachelorettes will pick one of my very sleek dresses like Peg did for the finale. There’s no beads; everyone knows me for the beaded dresses. My clients know me for both, and I like that the past couple of seasons people are also picking my sleeker dresses or the ones that don’t have all the embellishments. But for them to pick mine, I find that very flattering.

BN: Absolutely, and they really are all different; no two looks have been alike! Speaking of Bachelorettes, can we get a tease if we can expect to see Taylor Frankie Paul wearing any of your gowns?

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