Strange New Worlds S1 free on ITVX in UK as Season 4 teaser debuts

The first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be available to stream for free in the United Kingdom on ITVX beginning Sunday, October 19, with the opening two episodes also scheduled to air on ITV1 that evening at 10:20 p.m. and 11:20 p.m. The move brings the Paramount+ series to a wider audience as the show prepares to return with a new season.

At New York Comic Con on October 11, the series released a nearly five-minute clip previewing Season 4, which producers said has finished filming. The teaser shows Captain Christopher Pike, played by Anson Mount, leading the U.S.S. Enterprise toward a spectacular but treacherous cosmic storm. As the ship approaches what appears to be a distress signal inside the storm, the vessel becomes trapped, losing warp, communications and transporter systems while life support remains online. In the clip Pike tells helmsman Erica Ortegas, Keep us at arm's length, Erica, as the bridge crew wrestles with rapidly changing conditions and the expanding storm.

The sequence suggests a central plotline for the new season: the Enterprise must locate iridium on a nearby M-class planet to restart the warp drive, and the crew will confront external...