The revelation of the big villain of Strange New Worlds Season 3 was “ borrowed ” from Fan Canon [Exclusive]

This article contains spoilers For “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, episode 2, “wedding bell blues”.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, episode 2 (“Wedding Bell Blues”) brings back “The original character” Trelane Trelane (“Our Flag means Death” Star Rhys Darby) of “Tos” season 1 episode “The Squire of Gothos”. Originally played by William Campbell, Trelane presents himself as a dashing man who wears a tailgate from the Regency era and claims to be a general. In reality, he is a mischievous child of an extraterrestrial species that weighs reality, and exercises powers that resemble those of time and residents manipulating the energy of continuum Q – like the famous “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Wild Card, Q (John de Lancie).

In “Wedding Bell Blues”, Trelane presents the same powerful but immature features. He won the Spock Lovelorn (Ethan Peck, who said / film How his version differs from Leonard Nimoy) as a team genius, reducing the recently finished romance of the scientific officer with Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) in an imminent marriage and is in history as a advanced marriage planner. This time, however, we obtain a confirmation on the Trelane-Q connection whose fans have been wondering for some time now: at the end of the episode, the father of Trelane comes in the form of a light orb … expressed by none other than Lancie.

A disposable joke in the “Strange New Worlds” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Crossover Episode “these old scientists” (season 2, episode 7) already played with the connection of Trelane with the continuum Q. Now, the program confirms its status of Q without any doubt. In an exclusive interview with Jacob Hall of / film, the showrunners of “Strange New Worlds” Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers describe the process that led to this decision.

Before “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” confirms the Q / Trelaine relationship, the idea of Trelane being an Q made its way to “Star Trek” Fiction in the bestseller of the New York Times 1994 “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q-Squared” by Peter David. David’s book depicts Trelane as an uncontrollable young member of the Q continuum, with the more retained q acting as a supervisor who tries to prevent Trelane from inadvertently destroying the universe with his Medding chronology.

While “Q-Squared” and the Fandom have adopted the idea for decades, “Strange New Worlds” is the first show to confirm the Q of Trelane connection in a live setting. When / film asked Akiva Goldsman if the idea of Trelaine’s story “Strange New Worlds” was to take what people have thought for centuries and the canonize it fully, the co-showrunner quickly confirmed this:

Well, that’s literally exactly how we approve it, what people have thought, it seems to be a good idea, take the good idea of everyone and institutionalize it, right? So fundamentally, so many people have set it up. And like all the creatures of the intellect, we could say, “well, Roddenberry probably had these ideas for a character, and when he has made another series, which can see the way you can see the creative glasses that are glasses. They. Let us strengthen your notion. It is now canon.”

In addition to cleaning the barrel, Trelane’s inclusion on “Strange New Worlds” works because the character simply corresponds to the tone of the series. The taking of Darby and easily frustrated by Darby on the character is a perfect mixture of childish threat and joyful lightness, and both his devotion to his self-imposed mission to drag Spock through marriage and his petulance towards obstacles like the romantic rival in Inadvert for Vulcans). In fact, Henry Alonso Myers said he was actually surprised by the pleasure of writing Trelane:

“Most of the time, his dialogue is extremely fun. It is a funny way of, I was going to say that if you want to consider him as a bad guy, he is the best type of bad writing because he is super fun and you bring him a lot of areas that they can test and try things. And that makes us … and as a character, that makes a lot of characters on our show to think about his life.”

It remains to be seen if Trelane’s return remains only one-off for “Strange New Worlds”. However, given the way in which his antics are suitable for the show and how much Myers liked to write it, there is a chance that fans will not have to wait more than five decades for the next appearance on the screen of Young Q Continuum.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” broadcasts on Paramount +. New episodes of season 3 on Thursday.