Paramount+’s “Star Trek” prequel has revealed who will play the iconic characters, with Thomas Jane playing ship doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy and newcomer Kai Murakami playing helmsman Hikai Sulu. They’ll make their debut in the final episode of the fifth and final season of “Strange New Worlds,” which has just wrapped production.
But don’t mourn the passing of the show just yet. Only the first three seasons have aired so far. And season four will air in 2026, probably during summer. So we might not see that final 5th season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” until 2027.
Bones and Sulu were integral members of the Enterprise crew on the original “Star Trek” TV series, with DeForest Kelley playing Bones and George Takei playing Sulu. Kelley and Takei reprised their roles in a number of “Trek” big-screen movies as well. In the rebooted “Star Trek” movie franchise from J.J. Abrams that first hit theaters in 2009, Karl Urban played Bones, and John Cho played Sulu.
