‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Episode 6 Release Date and Time Details

Fans of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ are eagerly anticipating another genre twist as the acclaimed Paramount+ series delves deeper into its fourth season. The show has demonstrated over three seasons that episodic storytelling can still flourish on modern television, and season four continues this tradition by giving nearly every episode its own unique genre and tone.

The upcoming sixth episode maintains that experimental approach, promising a departure from the noir mystery and identity drama that characterized the earlier chapters of the season. Here’s everything you need to know about the release date, timing, and what viewers can expect.

The sixth episode of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season four is officially titled Off Hour and is set to release on August 27, 2026. This follows a series of episodes that began on July 30 with The Griffin Incident, continued on August 6 with Human Best Friend, moved into August 13 with A Case of Chiaroscuro, and arrived at August 20 with Level Five Transporter Accident.

New episodes typically become available at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time, which translates to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time on release Thursdays. The individual episode runtimes for the season have generally ranged between 40 and 62 minutes. The series remains exclusive to Paramount Plus, with subscription plans starting at $8.99 per month.

Season four was produced by CBS Studios alongside Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, H M R X Productions, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers returning as showrunners. This season has already delivered a black-and-white noir episode with ‘A Case of Chiaroscuro,’ which featured Commander Una Chin-Riley going undercover across a tense demarcation line.

That episode saw the Enterprise crew dispatched to retrieve a drifting Federation probe named Angelo 1 after it drifted into Klingon territory, with Una leading a shuttle mission on her first assignment as commander. Critics have noted that the show’s ongoing willingness to reinvent its visual style each week, even utilizing stark light and shadow contrasts reminiscent of classic film noir, has become one of its defining strengths this season.

Filming for the entire season took place at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, between March and August of 2025. The production team has continued the series’ episodic approach by assigning each hour a different genre and tone, including a puppet-centered episode created with assistance from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. This commitment to tonal variety is precisely why ‘Off Hour’ has fans speculating about what unconventional format the show might explore next.

The season’s official trailer, released in June, teased dinosaurs, cowboys, space storms, dream sequences, fire-breathing dragons, and haunted spaceships, indicating that the latter half of the season still has plenty of surprises in store. Given this pattern, ‘Off Hour’ is expected to embrace whatever singular concept its title suggests, continuing the show’s trend of subverting expectations from episode to episode.

The overarching synopsis for the season describes the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, led by Captain Christopher Pike, embarking on a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. They battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces, and confront terrifying aliens. This framing suggests that ‘Off Hour’ will likely balance character intimacy with the high-concept storytelling that has defined the show.

Recent episodes have focused heavily on ensemble development, particularly for Una, whose arc in ‘A Case of Chiaroscuro’ marked her most significant spotlight since the season two episode Ad Astra Per Aspera, providing her with real character development after being sidelined for parts of the show. Whether this momentum carries directly into episode six or shifts focus to another crew member remains to be seen.

With a fifth and final season already ordered as of June 2025, the remaining episodes of season four carry additional weight as the series builds toward its eventual conclusion. The season is set to conclude on September 24 with the finale titled Tomorrow’s Enterprise, meaning ‘Off Hour’ sits roughly at the season’s midpoint as the story pivots toward its final stretch.

Following ‘Off Hour,’ the season will continue with ‘Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass’ on September 3, ‘Orders Of Magnitude’ on September 10, and ‘Once La’An A Time’ on September 17, before concluding with ‘Tomorrow’s Enterprise’ on September 24. Each of these titles hints at yet another tonal shift, maintaining the season’s established rhythm of never settling into one storytelling mode for too long.

For a franchise celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, this willingness to experiment has kept both longtime Trekkies and newer viewers engaged week after week. As ‘Off Hour’ approaches, the mystery surrounding its premise only heightens the anticipation for the Enterprise crew’s next chapter.

What kind of genre shift do you think ‘Off Hour’ will attempt, and which member of the Enterprise crew deserves the spotlight next?