Strange New Worlds Season 4 premiere hints at possible key character death

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The Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, titled "Valles Marineris," sends the Enterprise 65 million years into the past and strands part of the crew among dinosaurs. Christina Chong's La'an Noonien-Singh punches a velociraptor barehanded and later visits sickbay, noticing she feels no pain. La'an tells medical staff her augmented DNA stems from being descended from Khan Noonien-Singh, which the episode signals as a recent change. The show also makes La'an's casual fling with Spock explicit, and the article notes La'an does not appear in Star Trek: The Original Series. SlashFilm frames the sickbay moment and the Khan connection as narrative beats that could plausibly set up La'an's removal or death before the timeline of The Original Series. Viewers and commentators are using those concrete plot points to speculate that the premiere foreshadows a major character loss tied to La'an's physiological shift.

Coach Gowron

@coachgowron.com

// In celebration of the new season of Strange New Worlds, enjoy this updated version of our retro TV intro, complete with real model effects and other goodies.

454h ago

Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻

@punkonbuslives.bsky.social

I truly did enjoy "Valles Marineris," but this was really the most important shot from the episode: another Vulcan baddie drinking water, room temperature.🤣🖖🏿 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

Vulcan Starfleet Academy Cadet A'Sha sits at the Enterprise bar and is holding a glass of room temperature water in her right hand. Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

2610h ago

D'Deridex Dame (Nahi)2

you say I'm thirsty lmao

Juicy Cake of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ1

She's an asshole, but not a baddie. I suspect she'll soften by the end of the season, or at the very least someone will give her a dressing down for being rude to a superior officer.

Haaukke1

@punkonbuslives.bsky.social "I want a drink as dark and bitter as my soul." - "A luke warm mug of milk, coming up."

Laren 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈1

Oh joy, another predictably rude Vulcan in strange new worlds who’s mean to everyone and then a human attributes it to her simply being Vulcan… my favvoorriiittteeeee… /s

John Orquiola

@backofthehead.bsky.social

The history of Star Trek, 🌎 🔴 🦖 will never be the same thanks to #StarTrek: #StrangeNewWorlds season 4's premiere. 🖖

1911h ago

TrekCulture

@trekculture.bsky.social

🚨SPOILERS🚨 WTH Just Happened?! Seán, Ellie & Tom are back with their first initial reaction video for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4.1 - Valles Marineris - full video OUT NOW! Watch here: youtu.be/X1E77FB44nE?... #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #StrangeNewWorlds #Spoilers

212h ago

ChrisTrekkin 💜🖖3

The way the show's acting with these references like there's gonna be a crossover, even though we know there won't be, is going to get more irritating, if they keep on doing more 😄

Sheila Friend1

I thought the reference to the TARDIS was funny. There has been a crossover of the fandoms in comics, so I don't see a problem of mentions in the shows. 😀 #DoctorWho #StarTrek

Thad 🔜 STLV

@tyranicus.net

SNW season openers ranked: 1. Valles Marineris 2. Strange New Worlds 3. The Broken Circle 4. Hegemony, Part 2

2014h ago

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TrekFan4387 (Bill)5

SNW Season Openers Ranked: 1. Valles Marineris 2. Strange New Worlds 3. Hegemony, Part II 4. The Broken Circle

Captain Revo3

SNW season openers ranked: 1) Valles Marineris 2) Hegemony, Part 2 3) Strange New Worlds 4) The Broken Circle

Darren Mooney

@darrenmooney.bsky.social

Returning for its fourth season this week, I wrote about the Nietzschean bleakness of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for @secondwindgroup.com. READ: www.patreon.com/SecondWindGr...

The fourth and penultimate season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds launched this week with “Valles Marineris”, what is essentially a classic Star Trek time travel episode.

After six weeks of dangerous missions, non-stop adventures across the quadrant, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) leads his crew to chart an interstellar storm, a phenomenon that his Chief Engineer Pelia (Carol Kane) describes as “space-time gone wild.” When the Enterprise picks up a distress signal from inside the storm, Pike mounts a daring rescue mission that ends up throwing the ship through not just space – but time itself.

Unable to get their bearings from the stars, the Enterprise beams an away team down to a local planet in the hopes of harvesting supplies, precious urinium that is necessary to power the ship’s warp drive. However, while the ground team are working on solving this problem, the Enterprise encounters a pre-warp space ship belonging to an alien species. Battle Commander Cassel (Saffron Burrows) lays claim to the Federation ship as “salvage” as part of her species’ generational war.

Cassel explains that her people have been locked in an extended conflict with a monstrous insectoid species known as the Dol’drm, “a terrible and destructive enemy” who reside on the fifth planet of the system and seek to expand and consume everything in their path. “They are insects,” Cassel warns Pike. “They do not speak or reason as we do. They simply feed and move forward.” It seems that the only possible way to ensure peace is through genocide of these monsters.

Naturally, “Valles Marineris” is building a very heavily-telegraphed twist. The Enterprise has been thrown backwards in time, and has found itself in the Solar System. The planet that the away team is visiting is Earth, populated by the dinosaurs. Cassel and her people are Martians, from millions of years before the red planet became uninhabitable.

164h ago

Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

Yeah the more I think about last night's Strange New Worlds, the less I like it. I'm tired of them only having two modes, whacky and grim, and that episode took the worst impulses of both and tried to smoosh them together.

134h ago

Open Pike Night

@openpike.bsky.social

You've seen the first episode of #StrangeNewWorlds S4, now hear from the people who wrote it! Alan B. McElroy has wanted to tell this story since junior high, and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers was happy to oblige. (Also available in your podcast app later today) youtu.be/lZNEb6Q6XHw

85h ago

Robohomo-Kaiju

@shadowkaiju.bsky.social

I have a canon question about today’s Strange New Worlds. Also Spoilers! . . . . . . Where were the “smart dinosaurs” that left Earth and met Voyager in the Delta Quadrant?

1014h ago

TrekMovie.com

@trekmovie.bsky.social

Podcast: All Access Jumps Back Aboard The Enterprise For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Premiere Listen at TrekMovie or wherever you get your podcasts. https://bit.ly/aapod261

85h ago

Bleeding Cool

@bleedingcool.com

BLEEDING COOL REVIEW: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 is some of the best "Star Trek" we've had in quite some time. We're talking dinosaurs, ghost ships, puppets, and more - and it all works amazingly well. / #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek #SNW

55h ago

Chris Farnell

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social

Why Star Trek should really leave Khan alone until it gets the hang of what eugenics actually is: www.denofgeek.com/tv/how-moder...

46h ago

Zack Handlen

@zhandlen.bsky.social

dear god the finale of last season of Strange New Worlds was stupid. i think i'd blocked it out for a while, but it was just so lazy and bland and "generic fantasy bullshit."

61h ago