Unusual New Worlds’ Is not Carried out With the Gorn But

The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds lastly began this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Half II,” picked up proper the place the last season left off. However alongside the best way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the present’s longest-running risk—off the board.

Within the episode itself, the Enterprise crew cease Captain Batel from Gorn an infection, forestall their invasion of the Federation, and rescue their crew members captured by the Gorn on the finish of final season. You’d suppose, after they had been all despatched again into hibernation, they’d served their objective, however that’s not the case. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman plainly informed TrekMovie, “You will note extra of the Gorn” earlier than Unusual New Worlds ends its five-season run.

“They’re not gone, however they’re not the first adversary for season three,” Goldsman continued. When requested about linking the present up with the unique Star Trek canon, he defined the writers weren’t making an attempt to attach the “Hegemony” duology with “Area,” the Authentic Collection episode the place the Gorn first debuted. Or fairly, that wasn’t the plan “but,” as he famous, including the group tries to attach the 2 exhibits “every time doable.”

If and when Unusual New Worlds will get round to bringing again the Gorn, Goldsman mentioned they wish to do it in a method that “may make ‘Area’ really feel model new by the point we get there.” The seeds, after all, are already being planted: attentive viewers in all probability famous the planet Cestus confirmed up on the map in Pike’s workplace as a part of an overview in regards to the Gorn hegemony. To that, co-showrunner Henry Alonso Meyers merely mentioned the manufacturing crew “don’t do accidents.”

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