[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 5 “Through the Lens of Time.”]
The Gorn could also be off the board — for now, no less than, as Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds government producer Henry Alonso Myers is fast to notice, “The Gorn aren’t out of the best way, you’re going to see them once more” — however there’s already a brand new Huge Dangerous.
Within the newest episode, a touchdown celebration of Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an (Christina Chong), Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Beto (Mynor Luken), and Ensign Gamble be a part of Korby (Cillian O’Sullivan) on a planet solely to finish up in what they, solely later, notice is a layered dimensional jail — and one of many prisoners injures and infects Gamble (destroying his eyes). Held inside is an evil, often known as the Vezda, and it does ultimately go away Gamble’s physique (he’s already useless) after Pelia (Carol Kane) shoots it. Scotty (Martin Quinn) then encloses it in a capsule and beams it away to nowhere.
However on the finish of the episode, whereas M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) mourns the loss of life of Gamble, since that they had grown shut whereas the latter labored for the previous throughout Chapel’s fellowship — “There’s extra to that story,” guarantees government producer Akiva Goldsman — the textual content on the display screen in regards to the Vezda briefly modified to a unique language. The chief producers affirm to TV Insider that the Vezda is the brand new Huge Dangerous.
“We now have to undergo the identical factor that we do with each Star Trek villain, which is we’ve got to evolve them over time and be taught extra about them. So we wished to as soon as once more discover one thing that appeared evil. We like evil in our present as a result of we consider that evil exists,” Goldsman explains. “We would have liked to seek out one thing that we may make each terrifying, but in addition one thing that wouldn’t all of the sudden vanish out of the blue once we obtained to TOS. In order that’s type of this sport that we’re all the time enjoying. So actually on this season, the Vezda shall return.”
In evaluating the 2 Huge Bads, he provides, “The Gorn are very flesh and blood. They’re the brick-and-mortar model of a villain. The Vezda are very, very cthulhu, they’re very the world behind the world. They’re very a lot a personification of a form of nearly non-anthropomorphic darkness, and that’s one other form of evil.”
The Gorn have actually left their lasting results on the crew, nonetheless. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is coping with his girlfriend, Batel (Melanie Scrofano), nonetheless recovering from being contaminated and the following remedy (which concerned the Gorn), and we see a brand new aspect of that on this episode when she faces off with the contaminated Gamble. Each Goldsman and Myers say that you have to be very fearful about her.
Myers then recollects what occurred with Hemmer (Bruce Horak) in Season 1 when he died on account of an encounter with the Gorn. “It’s a tragedy, and it’s an extremely emotional expertise for them to undergo. And it was all constructing as much as this second the place we noticed Batel on the very finish of final season contaminated by the Gorn and the way is she going to get out of it? They couldn’t assist Hemmer,” he says. “And so a part of the aim was she survives at an incredible price, and the associated fee is what we wished to discover as a result of it impacts each the ship and it impacts, extra importantly I feel, their relationship as a result of it’s actually about how is the connection between her and Pike advised in story.”
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