# Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone — retained record

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Paramount+ unveiled a new teaser for the upcoming fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at CCXP in Mexico City over the weekend.
(Some spoilers for prior seasons below.)
The third season of Strange New Worlds was admittedly a bit uneven, with serious plot lines mixed in with some downright silly ones that divided fans. Arguably the most significant moment was bidding farewell to Melanie Scrofano’s Marie Batel, Pike’s (Anson Mount) love interest. Her parting gift to Pike: an illusory alternate life where she and Pike got to grow old together. So expect Pike to be dealing with her loss in the upcoming season, among other challenges.
A four-and-a-half minute clip from the S4 was unveiled last October at New York Comic-Con. It was an extended sequence in which Pike and his crew responded to a distress signal from another ship, only to encounter a massive space storm that knocked out almost all their systems. They decided to take a shuttle to a nearby planet to gather some much-needed iridium to power their warp drive. We also know there will be a puppet episode, and if the new teaser is any indication, there will be a Wild West-like setting and even dinosaurs, because why not? On the whole however, the new teaser seems to confirm a return to a more serious Trekkie tone.

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