Overview
- Paramount+ released the full Season 4 trailer on Tuesday and confirmed a global 10-episode premiere on July 23 with new episodes released weekly through late September.
- The preview teases broad genre swings — including Western-style horseback scenes, dinosaurs and a fire-breathing dragon — alongside traditional space action and character-driven moments.
- Paul Wesley returns as a guest-star James T. Kirk and the trailer foregrounds a deepening Kirk–Spock relationship, but Wesley and outlets say no formal offer for a Kirk-led spin-off has been made.
- This 10-episode run is the series’ penultimate season and will bridge to a previously announced shortened sixth and final season of six episodes that will conclude the show.
- Co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers and producers CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment steer a deliberate endgame that both honors The Original Series timeline and positions the franchise for possible future projects.