What is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds about?
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Pike, Spock, and Number One explore new worlds with earnest, wholesome, and uplifting galactic adventures.
Epic and nostalgic, with wholesome humor. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Paramount+.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds parents guide
It stays inside its TV-14, with some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byJenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman
StarringAnson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia
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