Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 3, Episode 6 – “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail”Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 made facets of Star Trek: Picard season 2’s twenty first century timeline much more complicated. Directed by Valerie Weiss and written by Invoice Wolkoff and David Reed, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” is a milestone occasion in Star Trek canon, depicting James T. Kirk’s (Paul Wesley) first mission as a starship captain.
Performing Captain Kirk led the broken USS Farragut on a determined mission towards a mysterious and overpowering cadre of Scavengers, who had captured the Starship Enterprise. Kirk’s daring risk-taking efficiently broken the Scavengers’ ship, and the Farragut’s assault killed over 7,000 of the closely armored marauders.
Nonetheless, Captain Kirk was crestfallen to be taught that his adversaries had been human beings. The Scavengers had been descended from a gaggle of twenty first century scientists who left Earth for the celebs. Together with questions on how people might change into a scourge that terrorized the distant components of the galaxy, the Scavengers’ backstory additionally butts heads with the occasions of Star Trek: Picard season 2.
Unusual New Worlds’ Villain Twist Creates Questions About Star Trek: Picard Season 2’s Ending
Most of Star Trek: Picard season 2 occurred in 2024 Los Angeles and centered on Dr. Renée Picard (Penelope Mitchell). The ancestor of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) was a twenty first century NASA astronaut, and Renée was a temporal point of interest. Q (John de Lancie) erasing Renée Picard from historical past would doom the world to the fascist rule of the Confederation of Earth.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds established that the Scavengers’ ancestors left Earth within the twenty first century earlier than First Contact with the Vulcans on April 5, 2063. The intrepid scientists deserted their homeworld as a result of they felt the local weather disaster was too far gone. Nonetheless, Renée Picard truly fastened Earth’s local weather by bringing again a microorganism from Saturn’s moon Europa, in response to Star Trek: Picard.
There’s additionally the query of World Battle III, which occurred within the twenty first century and lasted for a technology. Earth was nonetheless recovering from World Battle III in 2063, in response to Star Trek: First Contact. This provides a roughly 40-year time interval to when the Scavengers’ ancestors fled Earth, nevertheless it needed to have occurred earlier than Renée Picard’s microorganism fastened Earth’s local weather.
When Renée Picard and Ricardo Ramirez, the son of Dr. Teresa Ramirez (Sol Rodriguez), who Captain Cristoba Rios (Santiago Cabrera) stayed within the twenty first century to be with, fastened the local weather disaster wasn’t clear in Star Trek: Picard season 2’s ending. Ricardo was only a boy in 2024, so he will need to have been an grownup, which suggests it must be no less than someday within the 2040s or after when Earth’s local weather is cleaned up.
Unusual New Worlds Simply Made Star Trek’s twenty first Century Extra Sophisticated
The occasions of Star Trek‘s twenty first century timeline had been made extra complicated by Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds even earlier than the Scavengers had been launched in season 3. Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ collection premiere included the revelation that World Battle III occurred within the twenty first century, and has been conflated with the Eugenics Wars, when Earth fought genetically engineered tyrants.
The Eugenics Wars initially occurred within the Nineties in response to Star Trek: The Unique Sequence.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 3, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” hinted that Romulan brokers preventing within the Temporal Wars had been chargeable for retcons in Earth’s timeline. One Romulan, Sera (Adeleide Kane), deliberate to assassinate a younger Khan Noonien-Singh (Desmond Sivan), who was now a toddler in twenty first century Toronto, as a substitute of ruling and fleeing Earth within the Nineties.
Star Trek: Picard season 2 even ended with Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) opening a folder labeled “Mission Khan,” hinting at his function within the twenty first century creation of Khan Noonien-Singh. As muddled as Star Trek‘s twenty first century timeline is now with its latest retcons, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3’s Scavengers difficult it additional.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
9/10
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Might 5, 2022
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Paramount+
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
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Onitra Johnson
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Star Trek: Picard
6/10
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2020 – 2023
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CBS All Entry, Paramount+
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Michael Chabon
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Jonathan Frakes, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Akiva Goldsman, Joe Menendez, Lea Thompson, Michael Weaver, Terry Matalas, Deborah Kampmeier, Dan Liu
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Matt Okumura, Kiley Rossetter, Christopher B. Derrick
