Strange New World

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosChad Stahleski’s Black Samurai adaptation finds a new writer. Anson Mount is ready for Strange New Worlds season 2. Plus, what’s coming on Stargirl and American Horror Story: NYC. To me, my spoilers!Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1Mariela Garriga has joined the cast of the next Mission: Impossible movie according to director Christopher McQuarrie on Twitter. The Not PollyDeadline reports Jade Pettyjohn is attached to star in The Not Polly, the latest horror film from Johannes Roberts…

Image: Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds brought a first-look clip for season two and some exciting casting news to its segment of Star Trek Day. Carol Kane (whose dozens of credits include The Princess Bride, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Scrooged, and Broadway’s Wicked) is coming aboard the USS Enterprise.A Star Trek press release described the role as “recurring;” the character, Pelia, is described as “highly educated and intelligent, this engineer suffers no fools. Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks…

Yeah Pike, I’d look worried too.Image: ParamountStar Trek’s been making some pretty bold moves in its current ascendant era of shows, but it’s just announced it’s pulling one of its boldest, most bonkers moves so far: Lower Decks is teaming up with Strange New Worlds.Just announced at San Diego Comic-Con, in Strange New Worlds’ second season—which already has enough on its Trek plate to deal with thanks to the return of Captain Kirk! Again!—will feature a Jonathan Frakes-directed crossover between Trek’s newest show and…

Screenshot: ParamountWe’re all big fans of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds here at io9, whether we’re obsessed die-hards or just dipping our toes back into the venerable franchise. And we were all delighted to learn, one way or another, that last week’s SNW finale was a retelling of the Original Series’ “Balance of Terror,” arguably the greatest episode of any Star Trek series ever, just with Pike (Anson Mount) sitting in the Enterprise’s captain’s chair instead of Kirk. Now someone has set the two episodes side-by-side in…

Screenshot: ParamountLast week’s episode of Strange New Worlds gave us a kind of horror that Star Trek has never really seen before, largely thanks to its transformation of the Gorn into something akin to an Alien Xenomorph. Petrifying as they were though, it turns out they actually had a physical presence on set to help really scare the bejesus out of the Enterprise crew.StarTrek.com has dropped a new behind the scenes video covering the creation of the creepy-ass antagonists of “All Those Who Wander,” four little Gorn…

Captain Pike doesn’t know how bad his day’s about to get.Image: ParamountStrange New Worlds has prided itself in its first season on a somewhat sense of ephemerality—that even at its direst of stakes, our enterprising heroes would come out the other side and move on to the next big adventure. This week’s penultimate episode of the season proved just how scary and incredible the series can be when it confronts arguably its truest idea of horror: lasting consequence.“All Those Who Wander” starts out both innocently enough…

This are no holodeck shenanigans, we promise.Image: ParamountAlthough it has largely treated its characters with great care in its debut season, Star Trek: Strange New World’s general sense of episodic breeziness has also given those characters a light touch—moments of highlights, but nothing too deep with our crewmates. This week’s episode changes that, wrapping up one of its most sincere stories yet in the show’s most zany caper.Strange New Worlds, for the most part, is a remarkably consistent TV show. This is good,…

Not gonna lie, I had this face for most of the episode too.Image: ParamountSo far, Strange New Worlds has found strength in simplicity: week in, week out, a new adventure, a new bit of fun, and it’s done and dealt with before moving onto the next. Even the higher-stakes moments have always ended with a clarity that our Starfleet heroes overcame hardship, did the right thing, and saved the day. This week’s episode offers something to challenge that, but it doesn’t always quite work. “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach,”…