In the episode “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” through the objective of time, “Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) and his new boyfriend Roger Korby (Cillian O’Sullivan) discovered an incredibly old temple hidden under the rocks of a distant world. Temple technology is still active after countless non -palliated centuries, and it requires a drop of blood to enter. Everything is frightening and mysterious. Inside, the company’s crew finds a series of brilliant orbs that contain … something. They also note that they can pass through unusual stone passages and enter different plans of existence. The six crew members are all in the same room, but they cannot see themselves because they are out of phase. It is like a haunted house or an abandoned asylum.
When the new nurse of the Ensign Gamble ship (Chris Myers) takes one of the mysterious orbs, he explodes in his hand. The flying glass and the Eldritch energies bolts immediately destroy its eyeballs (!). Fortunately, it’s “Star Trek”, so medical tools exist to make him grow new ones.
However, there is a problem. The eyeball does not seem to work. There is something else in the body of Ensign Gamble. He begins to see in people’s heads and fishing their most unhappy memories. He laughs at people for their faults. Something clearly possessed him. The crew will eventually discover that the Orb contained an evil and non -bodily entity of unknown origin. The crew arrives at the conclusion, by interpreting the ancient extraterrestrial glyphs, that these entities were deliberately imprisoned in the temple below.
Even Pelia (Carol Kane), who has many millennia, admits that looking at these demonic foreigners gives him Heebie-Jeebies. They are frightening and evoke the most frightening parts of films like “Event Horizon” and “Prometheus”.
The extraterrestrials are also, perhaps, the first completely original villain in the Annals of “Strange New Worlds”. It is very exciting for us trekkies.
Star Trek has a new demonic villain: the vezda
Although “Star Trek” generally does not deal with moral absolute, there are many characters and / or species that fans always consider “bad guys”. The villain Cardassian Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo), for example, is motivated by military ambition and a feeling of superiority, while having a sequence of sufficient cruelty. He is a complete and interesting character, but he is also mean by most of the measures. Ditto, the Borg, a kind of non -thought cyborg that capture all the ships they meet and strip it for parts. Borg assimilate people in their collective and continue to grow. They would eventually receive a queen and a voice, expressing their philosophy insensitive to perfection, and are also considered to be “bad guys”.
“Strange New Worlds”, of course, had a lot of monstrous bad guys. The show has already presented several stories with the Gorn, a kind of lizard which reproduces like the xenomorphs in “Alien” (in that they implanted the bodies of other beings with their eggs). The “Strange New Worlds” version of The Gorn is a dramatic reimagination of masked monsters at the slow lizard seen in the original “Star Trek”. “Strange New Worlds” also presented several episodes in which Klingons are bad guys, generally in a war context. There was also recently an episode in which a Klingon was aimed at fading in hand -to -hand combat in the middle of a zombie epidemic.
But the new non -corporal entities in “through the objective of time?” Those who can have a person after destroying their eyeballs? EEK. This is a scary new wrinkle for “Strange New Worlds”. These entities – called Vezda life forms on a computer instructor – are a new threat.
Pah Wraiths, but better
The tendency of vezda life forms to read the spirits and make fun of others for their past mistakes recalls the demons seen in the terrifying science fiction horror film by Paul Ws Anderson “Event Horizon”, a 1997 film on a vessel that accidentally passes through hell. They are more or less demons, made all the more terrifying by their seniority impossible. Some of the characters of “new worlds”. Perhaps they are so old, these beings are the initiators of the concept of evil. “Star Trek” is always preferable when it comes to giant, long and cosmic mysteries of this kind.
Of course, VEZDA’s life forms are not the first time that “Star Trek” has been dealing with demonic entities that can take possession of people. Fans of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” will remember (generally with dismay) the Pah-Wraiths, a non-bodily entity which was locked in a rivalry with the just as non-corporal prophets who lived inside a stable worm hole. The Bajorans called the Wraiths as “false prophets”, and ghostly demons had a way of slipping into our universe and to occupy the spirit of the bodily beings they have encountered. The Wraiths appeared for the first time in the episode “The Assignation” (October 28, 1996), but would play a big role in the subsequent seasons of the show.
The pah-wraiths are, I should accelerate to add, largely hated by the trekks that bristle the “magical” nature of their existence. Maleficent demons who have people move away very far from a lot of more traditionally scientific thinking of “Star Trek”. They feel a comic in the wrong direction.
VEZDA’s forms of life, however, feel a little more practical (finally, as practical as non -bodily perverse entities can). They seem to have unknown passions, objectives and missions. And, the most frightening, they survived the events of “through the objective of time”. We have just been presented, but we may see more in the future.
