The third and final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch is set to premiere on Disney+ in February, and we now have a trailer that teases what’s in store for the surviving Bad Batch crew as well as Omega. But wait, there’s more—the end of the trailer also reveals that the surviving members of Clone Force 99 will face off against a well-known former Sith apprentice.
That’s right: None other than Asajj Ventress shows up at the end of the trailer.
“We love Asajj Ventress. She’s a character that we’ve been wanting to tell more stories about,” Brad Rau, supervising director and executive producer on the series, told StarWars.com.
Rau added, “We don’t want to spoil anything, but want fans to know that any new storytelling with Ventress will align with the events of Star Wars: Dark Disciple.”
With this comment, Rau confirmed that all we know about Ventress from previous stories remains canon in Bad Batch, including the events in the Star Wars novel Dark Disciple, where Ventress… appears to have had some definitive things happen to her.
The trailer also gives us a glimpse of the new character Phee, voiced by Wanda Sykes, and tees up how Omega is now a captive of the Empire, along with Crosshair. The remaining Batchers, still reeling over the death of Tech in the second season, are now set to rescue her, even as the Empire looks to hunt them down.
The first three episodes of the final season of The Bad Batch premiere on Disney+ on February 21, 2024. Subsequent episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays, with the fifteenth and final episode, “The Cavalry Has Arrived,” releasing on May 1, 2024.
Here is the release schedule, along with the titles of the episodes, if you’re interested:
February 21: Episode 1 (“Confined”), 2 (“Paths Unknown”), 3 (“Shadows of Tantiss”)
February 28: Episode 4 (“A Different Approach”)
March 6: Episode 5 (“The Return”)
March 13: Episode 6 (“Infiltration”), 7 (“Extraction”)
March 20: Episode 8 (“Bad Territory”)
March 27: Episode 9 (“The Harbinger”)
April 3: Episode 10 (“Identity Crisis”), 11 (“Point of No Return”)
April 10: Episode 12 (“Juggernaut”)
April 17: Episode 13 (“Into the Breach”)
April 24: Episode 14 (“Flash Strike”)
May 1: Episode 15 (“The Cavalry Has Arrived”)
