The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally started this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Part II,” picked up right where the last season left off. But along the way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the show’s longest-running threat—off the board.

Strange New Worlds Season 3 has resolved its big, bad 2023 cliffhanger. In the first episode of the new season, "Hegemony Part II," Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise hatch a plan to make the killer lizard aliens,

Strange New Worlds" showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are mindful of "Star Trek" canon. They have to be, since this is a prequel series that must lead into "Star Trek: The Original Series.