Strange new worlds for season 3 mocks classic TNG to re -invent Gorn

This article contains Spoilers For “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 3, Episode 9.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” suggested that the leading character in the exhibition be worse, Enterprise Pilot Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), Get more focus in season 3. The penultimate season episode, “Terrarium”, is undisputedly an episode focused on Ortigas, although it comes out of its element.

In “terrarium”, Ortegas experiment with a shuttle is pulled through a worm hole; It was shattered with the arid lunar lands of a planet on the other side of the worm. While the Foundation tries to locate its location, Ortegas must survive … but not alone, because there is another pilot that cuts the ways on this planet. Gorne’s pilot specifically, but is amazingly ready to cooperate with her new neighbor. No one is surprised by more than Ortigas itself.

Even this point, I have portrayed “Gorn new worlds” as border monsters – Persian predator without mercy or sympathy. This series has revealed that Gorn reproduces by laying eggs inside other organisms, Xenomorph, and They are working on their seven seams by melting and feeding their prisoners. But “Star Trek” has always been a series about filling the differences, and it is not possible to judge the individual’s understanding only through the group or the species they belong to.

Besides La’an (Christina Chong), which was kidnapped by Gorn as a child, Ortegas may be the person who hates Gorn more. she He was They were arrested in “hegemony” and half of her hand was melted in one of their nutritional rooms. Thus, it makes sense to be the person who learns this lesson He can Communication with.

This episode refers to the original GORN episode, “Arena”, where Captain Kerk (William Shatner) and Gorne Captain (played by Bill BlackBurn and Bobby Clarak, which was expressed by Ted Cassidy) in one fighting in a press world. It was a conspiracy by the metron, and the advanced foreigners who wanted to study humanity and Jurn. “Terrarium” reveals near the end that the Ortegas and Jorn meeting, too, was a previous metron experience to monitor whether the two races could interact in peace.

However, another episode calls “Tearrium” comparisons to “Darmok”, which is one of the most beloved rings in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.