WARNING: This article contains mild spoilers For the episode "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" "Hegemony, Part II".

At the beginning of the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3, the company found itself in desperate scratches with Gornn, a kind of malicious reptiles. The entanglement began in "Hegemony, Part I" at the end of the previous season of the show, and the crew of the company is either captured, or faces a certain accident in the hands of the Maraming -Brods. Captain Pique (Anson Mount) must imagine a way to pilot the security company, but not before saving his abducted crew members. However, he is worried because his girlfriend, Captain Batel (Melanie Sekrophano), is infected with Gornn's embryos. Gorn reproduces the same way as the xenomorphs in "foreign" - that is, they insert their eggs into the bodies of living hosts.

Gorn, of course, They were first seen on Star Trek in the original series of episode "Arena". The soldier Gorn in that episode was played by several performers of the trick and expressed by Ted Cassidi. Many non-treatments remember Gorn for how silly looked. It was a slow movement, and the lizard's mask was almost completely undiscovered. At a practical level, Gorn did not return much to the "Star Trek" just because the mask looked like something from the Halloween store.

The Arena said Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was the first Starflit officer to meet Gorno Face-to-face. "Strange New Worlds", however, has slightly fouled that continuity, as there are now several stories with Gorn, and takes place in the five -year period before the original Star Trek. Oops. Some may take care of this continuity gaffe, but others are ready to allow the facts to spoil slightly.

"Hegemony, Part II", at least, tried to explain why Gorn was not active in Star Trek until the events of the Arena. In fact, they put them all to sleep.

In "Hegemony", a Gorno Remote Federation attack on a distant planet, working under the auspices belonging to them and they have the right to exterminate all interlocutors. This was also the story of "Arena". Given the explosive frakes in which Gornne gets into the company of "weird new worlds", it may be thought that their anger will be inflamed, and they will continue to attack and attack until they can take more space for the federation. But "hegemony, part II" gives a very simple explanation for their absence in the future episodes of Star Trek: they hibernate.

During the culmination of "hegemony, part II", Pique and the crew realize that Gornn's activities moved to cycles over the years the federation knew about them. Pique reveals that this is because of the complex and prolonged cycle of hibernation through which Gorn passes. They also reveal that the hibernation cycle is related to the movement of Gorne Sun, giving Pique's plan to attack: if he can somehow manipulate Gorner Homorm's sunlight, he can force them into hibernation. He is a successful, fan.

The hibernation solution not only rounds up part of the story of "hegemony, part II", but goes a long way to explain why Gornn had not seen again until Captain Kirk's days later. It can also offer a reason in the universe why Gornn did not see much of Star Trek after the "arena". They never appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation or other 90s shows, because, well, they hibernated. Gornn would not appear again to Trek until the 2005 episode from Star Trek: Enterprise.

It is possible that the writers of "Strange New Worlds" may refer deliberately to another story "Star Trek" inability, another episode "Part II" that opened a new season-in which the villains-Di-Jur were defeated by forced hibernation. In the "Next Generation" episode the best of both worlds, Part II ", Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) was abducted by Borg and turned into one of them. His body was implanted with machines and pipes, and his mind was absorbed into the collective consciousness of Borg. And to get insight into how they can defeat the Marame Borg.

Borg charges the road to the country and kills more than 11,000 people before the company to help. Data (Brent Spinner), working with D -Krusher (Gates McFaden) and Troy Advisor (Marina Syrth), manage to find a solution. The data reveals that Borg, because they are cyborgs, have a "restart" mode deep in their computer brains. If it activates it, he will be able to close all while updating his software. In fact, he puts them sleeping. Since Borg was forced to "sleep" against their will, however, they cannot find the problem they closed to detect. Instead, they are self -destructed, and Picard is saved.

The creators of "hegemony" may have had that plot to stay in the back of their minds when they made their episode. It is possible that they pay tribute to "the best of both worlds, part II" in "Hegemony, Part II". Or that could be a coincidence. But I assure you that old school trips will recognize the parallels. Hack, we have already done that on /movie.