‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Episode 7 Release Date, Time, Where to Watch and What to Expect

Star Trek fans preparing for the next chapter of the Enterprise crew’s journey have a new episode to look forward to this week. Season 4 of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ continues its weekly rollout on Paramount+, and episode 7 brings a distinctly different flavor to a season that has already jumped between genres and tones.

The upcoming installment, titled “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,” follows a run of episodes that has ranged from a puppet-filled comedy to a tense wormhole thriller. It is written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff.

‘Star Trek Strange: New Worlds’ Episode 7 Release Date

Episode 7, “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,” is scheduled to air on September 3, 2026. The episode has a runtime of 45 minutes. This places it in the back half of the season, which began its run in late July.

Season 4 premiered on Paramount+ on July 23, with new episodes launching weekly on Thursdays through the season finale on September 24. That comes to a total of 10 episodes for the season. The full episode lineup includes “Valles Marineris,” “The Griffin Incident,” “Human Best Friend,” “A Case of Chiaroscuro,” “Level-Five Transporter Accident,” “Off-Hour,” “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,” “Orders of Magnitude,” “Once La’An a Time,” and “Tomorrow’s Enterprise.”

‘Star Trek Strange: New Worlds’ Release Time

New episodes of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ are usually available on Thursdays at 12:00 a.m. PT, which is 3:00 a.m. ET. This has remained the pattern throughout the current season.

That same release window applied when episode 3, “Human Best Friend,” arrived on August 6, dropping at 12:00 a.m. PT and 3:00 a.m. ET. Viewers on the East Coast should expect the episode to be live well before sunrise, while those on the West Coast can catch it right at midnight.

Episodes this season have generally run between 40 and 62 minutes, depending on the story being told. That variation reflects the show’s continued approach of giving each installment its own distinct genre and structure rather than sticking to a fixed runtime.

Where to Watch ‘Star Trek Strange: New Worlds’

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ streams exclusively on Paramount+. Subscriptions start at 8.99 dollars a month, with both the Essential and Premium tiers granting access to new episodes.

Since Paramount+ releases new episodes simultaneously worldwide, international viewers can watch at the equivalent local time later the same day. Outside the United States, availability can vary by region, and in markets where Paramount+ does not operate directly, the service’s content is sometimes distributed through local partners instead.

Alongside the new season, the first three seasons of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ remain available to stream in full on Paramount+, giving newer viewers a chance to catch up on Pike, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew before diving into the current run.

Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass Preview

The official synopsis for episode 7 describes a space trickster trapping the Enterprise crew in a soap opera while Pike mourns a lost life. The episode centers on a temporal anomaly that pulls the crew into a soap opera reality while Pike confronts a life he lost.

The episode’s title draws from the opening line of the American soap opera ‘Days of Our Lives,’ which famously begins with the phrase about sands passing through an hourglass to mark the passage of time. That reference lines up with the genre swing the synopsis suggests, continuing the show’s pattern of building individual episodes around a specific tone or format.

The emotional weight tied to Pike’s arc follows directly from the season 3 finale, in which Captain Marie Batel sacrificed herself to keep a dangerous extradimensional species imprisoned. Before her sacrifice, Batel showed Pike a glimpse of the life they could have shared had he not been fated to die from delta ray radiation in the future. That unresolved loss appears to be resurfacing in “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,” giving the lighter soap opera premise a more somber undercurrent for Pike specifically.

Season 4 as a whole was filmed at CBS Stages Canada in Mississauga, Ontario, between March and August 2025, with additional outdoor sequences shot in New Mexico to capture the alien landscapes the crew encounters. The season is 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 serving as showrunners.

Given how personal this chapter looks for Pike, and how far the show is willing to bend genre to tell it, it will be worth hearing what longtime viewers make of the Enterprise crew getting pulled into a soap opera just as their captain is forced to face what he lost.