Strange New Worlds Showrunner confirms if the Vezda will come back [Exclusive]

This article contains spoilers For “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, episode 4, “Through the Lens of Time”.

The latest episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, called “through the Lens of Time”, sees the discovery of an incredibly old temple located under a mountain. Although its age is breathtaking, the technology integrated into the temple still works. In order to access its nostril, the nurse chapel (Jess Bush) must insert its hand into a blood exploration device. Ancient temples, ineffable technologies and blood offers all give “through the objective of time” a Lovecraftian feeling.

Inside, the crew finds a series of small shiny glass orbs that contain something that they cannot identify. One of the orbs eventually opened, sending scratches of glass – and any mysterious energy – flying in the eye globes of Ensign Gamble (Chris Myers). The eyeballs of the Gamble brand are destroyed, but something more horrible happens to him once he is back in the business: he begins to read people’s thoughts and cackle their unhappy memories. Ensign Gamble is possessed by a kind of demonic force. It is possessed by an entity called Vezda Lifeform.

The Vezda are the first kind of “bad guy” which is unique to “new strange worlds”, and they are rather frightening. They are like the Pah-Wraiths of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, but not as silly. “Thanks to the objective of time” is their introduction … and, as / film has recently learned, it will not be their final appearance.

/ The clean Jacob Hall of the film recently sat with the showrunners of “Strange New Worlds”, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, to talk about the third season of the series, and what we could expect from everything that comes in the near future. Goldsman has confirmed that the VEZDA will indeed return very soon.

Goldsman stressed that “Strange New Worlds” cannot do too much dramatic stretch in the series, because he will eventually have to synchronize with the events of the original “Star Trek”. “Strange New Worlds” takes place on the USS Enterprise a few years before the original series of Gene Roddeberry, and concerns the fate of familiar inherited characters like Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Scotty (Martin Quinn) and even the young James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley). None of these characters can be killed or the company can be destroyed. VEZDA can be a threat, but not an existential threat that they would still be part of the conversation in about five years.

That said, Goldsman says that, yes, the Vezda will provide a new unique threat to the crew, and that their introduction was only that: an introduction. In his words:

“There is a future for the Vezda, certainly, this season. […] I am not sure that we are trying to establish great bad guys for Canon, in itself, because part of our work consists in working towards Tos. It would therefore be a little difficult to create a big villain who was there, that you suddenly ceased to hear about a few years (in terms of continuity in history). But the Vezda were, as you intuited it, an attempt to do something quite frightening. There is a kind of Cthulhu thing that happens here. And what lives in the world – behind the world – has attributed to us. “”

Cthulhu, of course, is one of the destructive and ineffable elder gods of the destructive theogony of HP Lovecraft.

Goldsman then added, however, “they will not be there forever, but they are now.” Thus, to judge by his comment, it seems that the VEZDA will indeed return in the rear half of the third season of “Strange New Worlds” (at the very least), but that they will be contained, defeated or removed from the “Star Trek” universe in one way or another. This means that Trekkies are delighted with an intelligent solution and, hopefully, unexpected.

/ Film also asked how the calculation of Myers and Goldsman allowed itself to be when creating the Vezda. Were they supposed to be a new recurring villain, perhaps designed – from a creative point of view – compared to large “Star Trek” monsters such as the Borg, the Salt Vampire or the 8472 species? Myers replied by saying that, yes, he and Goldsman were aware of the previous wicked hiking, but simply sought to share them. They needed to have a unique modus operandi where Myers knew, viewers would simply compare them to something before:

“We spend a little time talking: what is a surprise? We spend a little time talking: what is this villain shows us on the world that is different from other villains that we have seen before? Because if each villain is available for the same thing, it becomes a little boring. The most difficult thing – which is difficult.

He also admitted that a large discord on the Vezda was how cool they could be. “What can we see them doing,” he asked, “it would be very different?” He said that modern trekks are a sophisticated lot, and he, as well as other writers “strange new worlds”, need to keep them on their guard. He continued:

“I imagine when they found the Gronn, it was probably the most astonishing and the most different thing they might think of. So, our thing is because we are doing” Star Trek “for the current era, I think we have an audience that is a little more difficult to impress. So, how to impress them?”

The effort is certainly appreciated.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3 is currently broadcast on Paramount +.