In the same tradition that produced a fairy tale story in Season 1, the Lower Decks crossover and musical in Season 2, and the recently-announced puppet episode for Season 4, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 delivered an episode with an especially kooky premise this week on the 2025 TV schedule.

Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 4 – “A Space Adventure Hour”Paul Wesley divulges the secrets of his hilarious William Shatner impression in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 4. Strange New Worlds‘ comedic holodeck episode,

Shatner has a well-deserved reputation as a ham (not that he's a bad actor, to be clear), both for being a prima donna and his often exaggerated, easily imitable performance as Kirk. "Family Guy" episode "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" did a cutaway gag of Shatner (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) acting in "Fiddler on the Roof" and giving Tevye the same mannerisms as Kirk.

As viewers will find out in the episode, murder befalls the set of "A Space Adventure Hour," and Christina Chong's La'an has to solve the crime so that the program can end and she can leave the holodeck. At this time in the 2260s, holodecks can only make people look like the profiles that have been uploaded into it - namely, the Enterprise crew.

Strange New Worlds' filmmaking team for Season 3, Episode 4 discuss paying homage to William Shatner and Gene Roddenberry.

Last week's episode, 'A Space Adventure Hour,' transported the crew into a 1960s murder mystery behind the scenes of a familiar-looking sci-fi TV show.

Strange New Worlds' executive producers are planning how the prequel segues into TOS, and who will and won't be on the Enterprise.

Strange New World' cast members Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Paul Wesley, Christina Chong and Jess Bush join Executive Producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers join the Comic-Con Variety Studio Presented by Google TV.

Strange New Worlds star Paul Wesley explains why he was "jealous" he didn't get to be a part of Season 4's most hotly-anticipated episode.