The Season 4 finale of *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* uses a white hole to connect Lt. Uhura with her future self, setting up the series’ fifth and final season and its links to *The Original Series*. The two Uhuras must work together across time to save Scotty, resolve a paradox and prevent further damage to the timeline.

In the future, Jim Kirk is captain, Spock is his first officer and Pike is an admiral, while Uhura and Scotty are romantically involved. Scotty’s death triggers the time anomaly, which eventually reveals that the mysterious signals are messages from an alien entity preparing to give birth through the white hole and black hole; Gooding also discussed the challenge of portraying both versions of Uhura and adopting Nichelle Nichols’ classic hairstyle.