{"id":96449,"date":"2025-07-27T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96449\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:18:08","slug":"strange-new-worlds-teases-all-puppet-episode-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96449\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange New Worlds Teases All-Puppet Episode at Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tStar Trek<\/a>: Strange New Worlds boldly went exactly where fans wanted them to go with its San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> panel, delivering a fun presentation that also gave the 6,500-strong crowd in the cavernous Hall H one thing that geeks most: seeing something before anyone else.<\/p>\n

\n\tFandom has always been an important aspect of Trek \u2014 the original show famously became a cultural force long after it went off the air after being canceled \u2014 and the showrunners made a point to give a nod to the fans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe think of you all the time when we are in the writers room and we always talk about what would the fans want and love,\u201d said exec producer Akiva Goldsman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ensuing banter with the cast led to a Trekkie\u2019s delight, a screening of the fourth episode of Strange New Worlds current third season, which doesn\u2019t hit Paramount+ until next week. And it was one that was tailor-made for fans.<\/p>\n

\n\tTitled \u201cA Spaced Adventure Hour,\u201d the episode was a period murder mystery. But that belied all the callbacks that made what was shown resonate. The setting is 1969 Hollywood with the suspects all being actors and makers of a sci-fi series, one that just got canceled, and one that bears a massive resemblance to the original Trek. Strange New Worlds actor Paul Wesley even plays a Captain Kirk-type of character in a funny recreation of the show within the show, and a star with a massive but fragile ego off-screen<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso resonating to the Hall H crowd was a speech by Celia Rose Gooding who, in the murder mystery, plays a Hollywood agent who has a monologue about how important of an impact a sci-fi show could have on the world and on making someone watching it feel seen and included.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been acting for 25 years and that was the most fun I\u2019ve ever had shooting anything,\u201d Wesley said on stage after the episode screened. \u201cI\u2019m trying to do everytihng I can to pay respect and homage to what William Shatner created.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wonder if he\u2019ll see it,\u201d asked Jess Bush, who plays Nurse Chapel, standing on stage with Wesley.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope so,\u201d the actor said, quipping, \u201cI\u2019ll DM it to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLead Anson Mount, who plays Captain Pike on the series, wasn\u2019t on stage as it was revealed his wife had recently given birth to a baby daughter, Violet. However, in a very short video, Mount made an appearance\u2026 sitting in the Enterprise\u2019s captain\u2019s chair in puppet form. Thus it was teased that in the fourth season, there will be an all-puppet episode, continuing the show\u2019s playing around with form, genres and conventions.<\/p>\n

\n\tJim Henson\u2019s Creature Shop will be supplying the puppet work for the episode which is being directed by Jordan Canning (Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock). Watch the teaser below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panel also featured the release of a trailer for the audio series Star Trek: Kahn and the first teaser trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Based on the reactions of Hall H, the latter showed that the producers will have to work on building enthusiasm for what essentially introduces a crop of new and young characters into the Trek universe. Starfleet Academy<\/a> is due to premiere in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds boldly went exactly where fans wanted them to go with its San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15661,58721,171,42669,42670,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-96449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-comic-con-2025","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-star-trek","12":"tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}