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This text accommodates spoilers for “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds.”
“Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are aware of “Star Trek” canon. They need to be, since this can be a prequel collection that should lead into “Star Trek: The Authentic Sequence.” On the similar time, Goldsman has admitted that “Unusual New Worlds” typically seems at canon as extra of a free guideline. The writers aren’t out to vary an excessive amount of, however “finally, story wins.”
The free canon is most obvious in how “Unusual New Worlds” has been dealing with the aliens often called the Gorn. Launched in traditional “Star Trek” episode “Area,” the Gorn are an aggressive reptilian race that destroys a Federation outpost. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is pressured right into a one-on-one trial by fight with the Gorn ship’s captain (Invoice Blackburn & Bobby Clark, voice by Ted Cassidy).
In “Area,” the Enterprise crew had been unfamiliar with the Gorn; the episode’s occasions had been inferred to be first contact. However “Unusual New Worlds” retcons this. On this present, the Gorn are largely isolationist however they are feared raiders, and Starfleet has typically run afoul of them. Admittedly, “Unusual New Worlds” has been protecting precise contact between Starfleet and the Gorn to a minimal. Of their first look this collection, “Memento Mori,” the Gorn themselves weren’t seen, solely their ships.
The Gorn are additionally reimagined as way more monstrous. They reproduce like Xenomorphs from “Alien,” i.e. implanting larvae into dwelling beings, which then erupt from and kill their reside incubators from the within out. This technically permits the arc of “Area,” during which Starfleet acknowledges the Gorn as not monsters however one other tradition to know, to nonetheless play out, but it surely is shaky.
The “Unusual New Worlds” season 2 finale, “Hegemony,” ended with a number of major characters — La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Dr. Joseph M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), and Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte) — being kidnapped by the Gorn. The present might have been holding again on the Gorn to date, however the season 3 premiere, “Hegemony, Half II,” was unavoidably going to have to point out the within of a Gorn ship … and that look inside reveals one thing much more disgusting than copy by chestburster.
