Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds has accomplished a number of odd issues in the midst of its five-season mission. We’ve had musicals, fantasy episodes, full-on horror adventures, and even a homicide thriller is on the horizon. Now, the present is boldly getting in one other kooky route: a puppet episode.
Introduced immediately throughout Trek‘s blockbuster Corridor H panel at San Diego Comedian-Con, Jordan Canning (who directed season 2’s “Charades”, however maybe extra crucially right here, additionally directed seven episodes of the Fraggle Rock revival, Again to the Rock) will direct an episode within the upcoming fourth season of Unusual New Worlds that can see the crew of the usS. Enterprise was puppets. Anson Mount’s Captain Pike beamed into the conference to let followers know… nicely, form of:
Nothing else was revealed concerning the episode, aside from the actual fact Paramount can be working with the nice purveyors of puppet expertise on the Jim Henson Creature Store to carry Pike and the remainder of the crew to material life for the episode. Unusual New Worlds‘ penultimate, fourth season is at present anticipated to hit Paramount+ someday subsequent 12 months.
That wasn’t the one Unusual New Worlds information out of the conference, nonetheless: with the present’s third season at present airing, followers in attendance have been handled to an early screening of subsequent week’s episode, “A Area Journey Hour”. Set to hit Paramount+ subsequent Thursday, July 31, the Jonathan-Frakes-directed episode—which sees safety chief La’an check out an early prototype holodeck system with a program that, in true Trek model, begins getting harmful—will additionally stream at no cost between July 31 and August 6 on Pluto TV, Paramount+ (in addition to its channels accessible by means of Amazon, Apple, and Roku), and the Paramount+ YouTube channel.
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