A Wish List for Strange New Worlds Season 3

Captain Batel Survives The Gorn

Captain Batel looks like a goner in Strange New Worlds season 3. After all, no one has survived an infection of Gorn eggs, as evidenced by the death of Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) in Strange New Worlds season 1. But Batel dying would be the predictable move, and it seems wasteful to keep Marie alive into Strange New Worlds season 3 only to kill her in the premiere episode. Further, Batel's survival was placed in Nurse Christine Chapel's (Jess Bush) hands, and Chapel has to pull Marie through somehow. While Batel isn't around when Pike is horribly disfigured in Star Trek: The Original Series, after building up Batel and Pike's relationship, it would be a disappointment to kill off Marie when Strange New Worlds season 3 premieres.

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Batel was Captain of the USS Cayuga, which was destroyed by the Gorn when they attacked Parnassus Beta.

Batel Parnassus Beta

The Gorn Are Finally Defeated

The Gorn have menaced Captain Pike and the Starship Enterprise since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1, but season 3 should hopefully mark the Gorn's defeat... for now. Strange New Worlds has done a deft job rebooting the Gorn into savage killers, and they have been a fearsome adversary like no other in Star Trek. However, the Gorn threat should conclude in Strange New Worlds season 3 before their menace is played out. Hopefully, a new enemy will emerge in Strange New Worlds season 3, and the Gorn can take a rest before they return in Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Scotty Joins Enterprise Engineering - But Pelia Doesn't Die

Lt. Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn) was a pleasant surprise in Strange New Worlds season 2's finale. The younger Scotty's reintroduction is yet another link to the future USS Enterprise led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek: The Original Series, and hopefully, Scotty will stick around to join the Engineering squad of Captain Pike's Enterprise. However, it is too soon to replace Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) as Chief Engineer, and Pelia, a long-lived Lanthanite, is one of the most fascinating new characters Star Trek has introduced in recent years. Strange New Worlds shouldn't kill off Pelia for Scotty. Rather, Scotty can sit under Pelia's learning tree for a while before he inevitably rises to Chief Engineer years from now.

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Carol Marcus Appears In Strange New Worlds Season 3

Lt. James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) confessing to Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) about his pregnant girlfriend, Carol, is a tacit promise that the future Dr. Carol Marcus could appear in Strange New Worlds season 3. Carol is the future mother of Kirk's son, David (Merritt Butrick), and the creator of the Genesis Device in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. But in Strange New Worlds, Carol would be an intriguing foil for the budding romance between James and La'an. Strange New Worlds has a ton of storytelling potential to show what, exactly, led to Kirk promising to stay away as Carol raises David on her own.

James T. Kirk and La'an Noonien-Singh in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2.

Nurse Chapel Starts Her Relationship With Dr. Roger Kirby

Nurse Christine Chapel was en route to her fellowship in archeological medicine with Dr. Roger Korby when the Gorn attacked, but once the reptilian threat is over, Chapel should commence her studies with the mysterious Dr. Korby. Christine is destined to become Korby's fiancée according to Star Trek: The Original Series canon, and it's a story Strange New Worlds season 3 is uniquely poised to explore. However, Korby is also a great way to add a new wrinkle to the relationship between Chapel and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), as well as further the complications between Spock and his Vulcan fiancée, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu).

Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel and Michael Strong as Roger Korby

Sybok & Captain Angel Return To Strange New Worlds

Spock's Vulcan half-brother Sybok, the future villain of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, was shockingly reintroduced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1, episode 7, 'The Serene Squall,' and it was an equal surprise when Strange New Worlds season 2 came and went without any mention of Sybok or his space pirate wife, Captain Angel (Jesse James Keitel). Angel still has to make good on her promise to break Sybok out of the Vulcan rehabilitation center run by T'Pring, and Strange New Worlds season 3 would ideally bring Sybok formally back to reiterate the threat he and Angel pose to the Starship Enterprise as well as possibly plant the seeds of Sybok's mad quest to find the God of Sha Ka Ree (George Murdock).

Sybok Strange New Worlds

More Information About Star Trek's Changed Timeline

Strange New Worlds season 3 will hopefully clarify the changes to Star Trek's Prime Timeline the prequel has made. Captain Pike's history lesson to Kiley 279 about Earth's World War III was Strange New Worlds' first instance of timeline changes, and certain events have moved to happen later than established by Star Trek: The Original Series. Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 3, 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' confirmed the new timeline was caused by Romulan time travelers' interference, resulting in Khan Noonien-Singh (Desmond Sivan) being born in the 21st century instead of decades earlier. What further changes to the timeline could be revealed by Strange New Worlds season 3?

Pike and Boimler at the time portal in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Starfleet Learns The Truth About Dr. M'Benga Killing Ambassador Dak'Rah

'Under the Cloak of War', the darkest episode of Strange New Worlds season 2, ended with the unthinkable: Dr. Joseph M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) murdered Klingon Ambassador Dak'Rah (Robert Wisdom) in cold blood, an act Nurse Christine Chapel witnessed and helped M'Benga cover up. Although Captain Pike believed his officers were telling the truth, this is a secret too big to not be dealt with in Strange New Worlds season 3. If Starfleet finds out and prosecutes M'Benga and Chapel, it could jeopardize the entire Starship Enterprise under Pike's command, but it could also result in another spectacular Star Trek courtroom episode like Strange New Worlds season 2's 'Ad Astra Per Aspera.' This could also plant the seed for why Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) replaces M'Benga as the Enterprise's Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. M'Benga looks concerned about the arrival of a Klingon Ambassador in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy and Mr. Sulu Appear In Strange New Worlds Season 3

The last two remaining main characters from Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 waiting to be introduced in Strange New Worlds are Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy and Hikaru Sulu (George Takei). Will Bones, Sulu, or both appear in Strange New Worlds season 3? Scotty's arrival in Strange New Worlds means that Kirk, Spock, Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Nurse Chapel, as well as Dr. M'Benga, have all come aboard Captain Pike's Starship Enterprise. Meanwhile, Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) may still be too young to appear in Strange New Worlds, but stranger things have happened in the prequel series already.

Doctor McCoy in Star Trek: TOS and Lt. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

More Strange New Worlds Gimmick Episodes In Season 3

Strange New Worlds season 2 took some big swings like the crossover and the musical that paid off in becoming instant modern Star Trek classics, and Strange New Worlds season 3 should be emboldened to keep trying new and crazy things. Strange New Worlds has proven it has a cast that can handle anything and a writer's room adept at spinning gold with the show's beloved characters. It boggles the mind what further gimmick episodes Strange New Worlds season 3 can try, but even if the show abandons gimmicks in the third season, maintaining Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' incredibly high standards would be a guaranteed success.

Strange New Worlds Musical Bridge