Unusual New Worlds’ Exec Producer Confirms I...

It’s quite common for TV forged and crew to do spoiler-y interviews that run after a sure episode airs to deal with standout moments. Andor did it after Bix’s big shocker; The Last of Us did it after Joel’s massive shocker; the Severance gang did it just about weekly all through season two’s many massive shockers. However what’s not preferrred is when a showrunner kind has to make clear one thing from an episode that… wasn’t made clear by mentioned episode. That occurred this week on Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds.

The second entry within the present’s two-episode season three premiere, “Wedding ceremony Bell Blues,” featured a guest-starring flip by Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Demise). He performed a mysterious bartender who’s in a position to bend actuality to discover Spock and Nurse Chapel’s ill-fated romance. However there was one thing about him. One thing… acquainted. As io9’s James Whitbrook wrote in his recap:

“Darby’s character has reality-warping powers like unique Trek‘s godlike being Trelane from ‘Squire of Gothos,’ and definitely attire the half (with the sideburns to match), however the climax of ‘Wedding ceremony Bell Blues’ as a substitute leans extra to recommend that Darby is taking part in a Q, proper all the way down to a voice cameo by John de Lancie himself as a shapeless mother or father entity who exhibits as much as cease the bartender taking part in with mortals so everybody can get on with precise actuality.”

All of it ties right into a longstanding fan idea that Trelane is a Q—one thing that’s been explored in Star Trek novels like Q-Squared, and definitely prompt by, however left oddly unresolved in Unusual New Worlds itself itself. Nonetheless, in an interview with TV Insider, Unusual New Worlds government producers Akiva Goldsman has executed what the episode didn’t: confirmed that not solely is Darby taking part in Trelane, Trelane is in truth the son of de Lancie’s Q.

“That is affirmation of that very good piece of head canon that we now have absorbed into canon gratefully,” Goldsman defined, calling Trelane “an amazing character from The Unique Sequence and likewise we did really feel that was form of unresolved, dangling, and it appeared intuitively fairly good to attach the 2. From the surface, one might say, ‘Look, you may have a personality created by Roddenberry in a single, you’ve acquired a personality created by Roddenberry in one other, he’s revisiting a sort of thought, refining it, so why not join them up when you may have the chance to take action?’ Since somebody had cleverly executed it with out us, we simply thought, ‘Properly, allow us to bless that concept as a result of it was a superb one.’”

The followers have certainly guided the storytelling right here. It’s simply too unhealthy that a few of these followers, even ones conscious of the idea, won’t have fairly adopted that by means of line of “he’s Trelane, and by the best way, Trelane is Q’s son.”

As for Darby, he stored issues obscure (once more) about whether or not we’d see his tackle the mischief-making character once more. Speaking to TV Insider in the identical interview piece, he mentioned, “Will [Trelane] return? I do not know. Will he have actually realized to not play with these folks once more? I don’t know. It’s an excessive amount of enjoyable.”

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds is streaming on Paramount+.

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