Rather than sticking to traditional sci-fi, the best modern Star Trekseries has since established itself as one that doesn’t limit its creativity and instead explores a range of completely unexpected genres. Set in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series, the sci-fi experiment follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of Enterprise in the 23rd century. It premiered on Paramount+ on May 5, 2022, with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and soon became the most-watched original Star Trek series on the streamer over its first 90 days.
From creators Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet, Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis almost at its end after nearly five years of providing viewers with the ultimate franchise entertainment. The adventure drama is expected to conclude with Season 5, which has a shorter six-episode order with no exact premiere date — though it is expected to drop sometime in 2027. In the meantime, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns with Season 4 this summer and will comprise ten episodes like its predecessors.
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Collider Exclusive · Star Wars Quiz Which Force User Are You? Light Side · Dark Side · Or Somewhere Between
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The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. The Force has always known. Now you will too.
🔵Jedi Master
🟡Padawan
🔴Sith Lord
⚫Inquisitor
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⚪Grey Jedi
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What is the Force to you? Your relationship with the Force defines everything else.
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When you feel strong emotions — anger, grief, love — what do you do? The Jedi suppress. The Sith feed. Others choose differently.
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The Jedi Council gives you an order you disagree with. You: How you handle authority reveals your alignment.
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You are offered forbidden knowledge that could give you enormous power. The cost is crossing a moral line. You: The dark side’s pull is never more than a choice away.
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Your approach to training and learning is: A student’s habits become a master’s character.
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In a duel, your lightsaber fighting style reflects: Combat is the purest expression of a Force user’s philosophy.
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A defeated enemy lies at your feet, powerless. You: Mercy — or its absence — is the truest test of alignment.
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The Jedi Code forbids attachment. Your honest view on love and bonds: The source of the greatest falls in the galaxy.
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Why do you use the Force at all? What’s the point? Purpose is the difference between a knight and a weapon.
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At the final moment — light side or dark side pulling at you — what wins? In the end, every Force user faces this moment. What does yours look like?
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Your Alignment Has Been Determined Your Place in the Force
The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.
🔵 Jedi Master
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🟡 Padawan
🔴 Sith Lord
⚫ Inquisitor
⚪ Grey Jedi
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Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.
You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.
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You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.
You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.
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You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.
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When Does ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Premiere?
The new season arrives in only four weeks, on July 23, 2026, globally on Paramount+, marking another highlight of the Star Trek franchise’s 60th anniversary year. New episodes will air every Thursday through the season finale on September 24, 2026. In anticipation, the service released an official trailer a few days ago, depicting an explosive chapter to come, which you can watch in the player above.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 will see the return of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s full crew, including Anson Mountas the confident Captain Christopher Pike; Rebecca Romijnas Pike’s second-in-command, Number One; and Ethan Peckas the legendary half-Vulcan, half-human Spock. Jess Bush, Christina Chong, and Celia Rose Gooding will also return, while recurring guest stars include Carol Kane as the eccentric Commander Pelia, who was first seen in the Season 2 premiere, “The Broken Circle,” and Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk, who first appeared in the Season 1 finale, “A Quality of Mercy.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 arrives next month. Stay tuned at Collider for more!
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Release Date
2022 – 2027-00-00
Network
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Paramount+
Showrunner
Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
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Directors
Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
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