Strange New Worlds season 3 explains why a Star Trek villain has disappeared for years

Warning: This article contains Sweet spoilers For the episode “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Hegemony, Part II. ”

At the start of season 3 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, the company found itself in a desperate scratch with the Gorn, a kind of malicious reptiles. The tangle began in “Hegemony, leaves I” at the end of the previous season of the show, and the crew of the Enterprise was captured, faced certain misfortunes in the hands of MARN ships. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) must design a way to control the company safe, but not before saving its kidnapped crew members. However, he is worried because his girlfriend, Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano), is infected with gull embryos. The Gorn is reproduced in the same way as the xenomorphs in “Alien”-that is to say that they implant their eggs inside the bodies of living hosts.

The Gorn, of course, was seen for the first time on “Star Trek” in the original episode of the series “Arena”. The soldier of Gorn in this episode was played by several stuntmen and expressed by Ted Cassidy. Many non-trekies remember the gull because of its silly appearance. It was slow slow and the lizard mask was almost completely unarmed. On the practical level, the Gron has not returned much to “Star Trek”, just because the mask looked like something from a Halloween store.

It was said in “Arena” that Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was the first starfleet officer to meet a face to face. “Strange New Worlds”, however, dirty this continuity, because it has now presented several stories with the Gorn, and it takes place in the five -year period before the original “Star Trek”. Oops. Some may worry about this blunder of continuity, but others are ready to leave the facts stifled a little.

“Hegemony, Part II”, “at the very least, tried to explain why the Gorn was not active antagonists on” Star Trek “until the events of” Arena “. Indeed, they fell asleep.

In “Hegemony”, the Gorn attacks an outpost of a distant federation on a distant planet, operating under the auspices it belongs to them and they have the right to exterminate any intrigue. It was also the story of “Arena”. Given the explosive crashes in which the Gorn enters the company on “Strange New Worlds”, one might think that their anger would be ignited, and they would continue to attack and attack until they can take more federation space. But “Hegemony, Part II” provides a very simple explanation for their absence in future episodes of “Star Trek”: they hibernate.

During the culmination of “hegemony, part II”, the pike and the crew realize that Gorn’s activities have evolved over the years over the years. The Federation knew them. Pike notes that it is because of an elaborate and prolonged hibernation cycle that the Gorn is going through. They also discover that the hibernation cycle has something to do with the movement of the Gorn Sun, which gives Pike a plan of attack: if he can somehow manipulate the sun’s light in the native world of Gorn, he can force them to hibernation. He succeeds, Natch.

The hibernation solution wraps not only part of the history of “hegemony, leaves II”, but greatly contributes to explaining why the Gorn was not revised before the time of Captain Kirk several years later. He can also offer a reason in the universe of the reason why the Gorn has not been much seen on “Star Trek” after “Arena”. They never presented themselves on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” or in other shows in the 90s because, well, they hibernated. The Gorn would no longer appear on Trek before an episode of 2005 of “Star Trek: Enterprise”.

It is possible that the writers of “Strange New Worlds” make a deliberate reference to another “Star Trek” story – indeed, another episode “Part II” which opened a new season – in which the Végé -du -Jour have been defeated by being forced from hibernation. In the episode of the “next generation” “the best of the two worlds, Part II, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) had been kidnapped by the Borg and transformed into one of them. His body was established with machines and tubes, and his mind was absorbed by the collective conscience of Borg. to cure it, but also to have an overview of how they could overcome the Marauder Borg.

The Borg was making its way to the earth and kills more than 11,000 people before the company can help. The data (Brent Spiner), working with Dr Crusher (Gates McFadden) and the Troi advisor (Marina Sirtis), manage to find a solution. The data discover that the Borg because they are cyborgs, have a mode “restart” in the depths of their computer’s brain. If he activates it, he will be able to close them all while they update their software. Indeed, he makes them sleep. Because the Borg were forced to “sleep” against their will, however, they cannot find the problem that they have been closed to detect. They are self -destructing instead and Picard is rescued.

The manufacturers of “hegemony” may have had this intrigue that persists in the back of their mind when they made their episode. It is possible that they pay tribute to “Best of the two worlds, Part II” in “Hegemony, Part II”. Or it could simply be a coincidence. But I assure you that the old -fashioned trekks will recognize the parallels. Heck, we have already done so in the cinema.