Be careful, captain! This article contains spoilers For "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3, Episode 1, "Hegemony, Part II".

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 2 ends with massive ClifangerAnd "Hegemony, Part II" has the task of solving things as well as it can. Gorn is such a powerful threat that Captain Pique (Anson Mount) and his team can only achieve a technical knockout - and even then, they need to use the literal power of theists to manipulate Gorn's hibernation cycle. As Pique said properly, this only creates an even bigger problem for someone later.

The heart of "hegemony, part II" is not a danger of a major attack on Gornt against the federation, though. After all, the show site in the franchise frame confirms that this threat will be destroyed. Instead, the most influential moments of the episode reflect the effect of Gorn on certain characters, and the series uses a surprising amount of goose to illustrate the danger.

Indeed, Christine Chapel (Esses Bush) and Spack (Ethan Peck) are trying to treat Captain Batel's infection (Melanie Sekrophano) Gorner egg is accompanied by a heinously visually visually. The fate of the abductors of Gorn Erica Ortegas (Melissa Naba), Sam Kirk (Dan Annennet), Dr. M'benga (Babes Olusanmokun) and Laan Nonien Singh (Christina Jong) is no less visceral. Apart from the discovery that the pieces that they (and other captives) are trapped in the form of a massive feeding system, it has already partially digested pieces and pieces of them - including a few Ortega fingers. With the slime, dude and dark injuries, "hegemony, part II" is an eye opener that makes the viewer wonder only how much Great season "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3 It intends to accept such visuals.

In principle, Star Trek treats its stories arcs like puzzle boxes that can be resolved by intellect and diplomacy instead of smearing. That's not to say that "Star Trek" shows are not packed with action, of course you are absolutely. However, the action in different shows and films is generally a relative family-friendly "space confrontation and fistufs" variety, and the primary emphasis is always to find a peaceful solution.

This is said, the franchise is not afraid to caution and accept visual discomfort when the situation calls it. Part of what makes "Star Trek II: Cannes' anger" so efficient, after all, is the way it continues to establish Khan (Ricardo Montalban) unprecedented malicious with moments like bloody remnants of regulations I, Peter Preston (Ike Esenman), and partially.

TV emissions are not free from such moments. Scenes with torture of "Star Trek: The original series" Season 3 Episode "" Empat "banned it in the UK for 30 years. However, perhaps the most notorious example - which even "hegemony, part II" cannot touch - is "Star Trek: Next Generation" Season 1, Episode 25. Conspiracy, the episode (who also couldn't pass the British censorship) revolves around the parasites taken by people's bodies after crawling in their mouths. Almost every special effect in this episode is frightening, but nothing is compared to the grand finale where Jeanan-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and William Reeker (Athonian Freyks) literally explode the host of the mother parasite, Dexter Remester (Robert). The order and its unpleasant consequences would not be in a horror movie.

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