It’s official: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for season 4 this July, and all signs point to an outing that will probably be a bit less…well, strange than last time around. The premiere date was announced as part of Paramount+’s presentation at this year’s CCXP Mexico, which also featured a first look at the teaser trailer for the new episodes. The clip features over a minute of footage from Strange New Worlds’ penultimate outing, and if it’s anything to go by, this is a Star Trek that’s going back to basics.This news will likely come as a relief to those fans who weren’t all that enthusiastic about some of the series’ more out-there season 3 episodes, which saw the Enterprise crew turn into Vulcans, solve a 1920s-set Holodeck mystery, make a (very bad) documentary, and battle a uniquely ancient and dangerous evil at various points. (And that’s before we even get to the extended focus on Spock’s dating life.) cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Thankfully, this teaser has a much more traditional Trek feel: There’s a voice-over about the power of exploration, some shots of several interesting-looking alien plants, and a reminder that space is both beautiful and terrifying in its awesomeness. Of course, not everything about it is old-school — there’s a shot of a literal dinosaur at one point — but it certainly seems to be aiming for a more “seek out new life and new civilizations” vibe.To be fair, that’s pretty much something that showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have been promising almost since season 3 concluded. The two are well aware of how divisive some elements of the previous season were among many of the franchise’s most vocal fans, and seem motivated to rein things in a bit as they pivot the series toward its endgame. In that vein, this teaser also features plenty of moments that nod toward where this particular adventure is ultimately heading. There are probably as many shots of Paul Wesley’s James Kirk in this teaser as there are of Anson Mount’s Captain Pike, and most of the characters who will go on to appear on Star Trek: The Original Series pop up at various points. If this is a show in the beginning stages of a major transition to the world of the one that comes after it, well. Those choices make a certain amount of sense. That said, it’s also clear that even if it does manage to tone things down a bit, Strange New Worlds will still march to the beat of its own drummer in its fourth season. Besides whatever’s going on with the aforementioned dinosaur, we already know that this run of episodes will feature the Enterprise crew getting turned into puppets, after all. That’s certainly not what anyone would call traditional.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will premiere July 23 on Paramount+.The post Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Boldly Goes Back… to The Tone of The Original Series appeared first on Den of Geek.