After a bumpy end to a very uneven third season, it seems like Strange New Worlds is beginning to realize that its next mission is a course correction.

At New York Comic Con today, Paramount revealed our first proper look at the penultimate season of the Star Trek prequel show, after teasing some puppetry-based shenanigans at SDCC over the summer. The extended sequence strikes a much more serious tone in stark contrast, as the U.S.S. Enterprise ‘s attempts to respond to a Starfleet mayday broadcast lead to the ship being trapped in a strange phenomenon that robs the ship of all but a smidgen of its power.

Even putting aside Captain Pike literally telling Number One (and the audience) that they wanted more strange new worlds, the choice of a more traditionally toned clip as

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