Strange New Worlds has spent pieces of its third season building up a mystery, a mystery that may lead us to one of the biggest unanswered questions in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ fifth episode of the third season,

Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 5 introduced a chilling new villain that exceeds the threat posed by the Gorn.

In comparing the two Big Bads, he adds, “The Gorn are very flesh and blood. They’re the brick-and-mortar version of a villain. The Vezda are very, very cthulhu, they’re very the world behind the world. They’re very much a personification of a kind of almost non-anthropomorphic darkness, and that’s another kind of evil.”