Sure, they dressed like they'd just stepped out of a PG-friendly fetish club, but their utilitarian cubic ships, all-for-one hive mind, and awesome arsenal ensured that — within the space of a single episode ("Q Who") — they'd catapulted themselves into the A-list of Trek's rogues' gallery.

The Gorn may be off the board — for now, at least, as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds executive producer Henry Alonso Myers is quick to note, “The Gorn aren’t out of the way, you’re going to see them again” — but there’s already a new Big Bad.

That the focus should fall on him right away suggests he’s about to take center stage for an episode, which isn’t always such a good thing for supporting Star Trek characters. “Today started out like any day here,