By Joshua Tyler
| Revealed 9 seconds in the past
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds has spent items of its third season build up a thriller, a thriller which will lead us to one of many largest unanswered questions in Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology. That query is: Who have been the aliens in “Conspiracy?”
It’s Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds’ fifth episode of the third season, titled “By means of the Lens of Time,” that started hinting at a return to the story of “Conspiracy.” The episode entails an archeological dig the place a crewman turns into managed by an evil, parasitic creature with a penchant for galactic domination. The creature Captain Pike and his crew find yourself battling appears so much like those from “Conspiracy.”
Conspiracy” was the twenty fifth episode of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology’s first season, airing Could 9, 1988. In it, Captain Picard is warned by an previous good friend a couple of covert takeover inside Starfleet. The Enterprise investigates and uncovers parasitic aliens controlling high-ranking officers.
The climax includes a graphic scene through which an alien-controlled admiral is killed, revealing a big creature inside his chest. It’s one of the violent moments in Star Trek historical past. The parasites are destroyed, however a sign is distributed into deep area, hinting at their return.
Besides they by no means do return, and Star Trek by no means mentions these aliens once more. They don’t also have a title.
In the actual world of manufacturing selections, they’d deliberate for “Conspiracy” to change into a show-spanning subplot. Nevertheless, that was scrapped, and so they turned it into the Borg as a substitute.
However now they could possibly be again on the earth of Trek. Possibly we must always begin calling them the Vezda, as a result of that’s the title the Enterprise crew has connected to the parasitic aliens encountered within the fifth episode of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. We solely get a glimpse of them, however not solely do they behave just like the “Conspiracy” aliens, they give the impression of being so much like them.
In Unusual New Worlds, we be taught there’s some type of dimensional effectively the place many of those beings are being held. In the event that they escaped, they’d attempt to take over the Galaxy as a result of they’re pure, malevolent evil. Once more, this sounds so much just like the “Conspiracy” aliens.
The planet the effectively is on is a lifeless world known as Vadia IX, a spot we realized in a earlier episode stands out as the authentic house world of the Q. Yet another Subsequent Technology connection to throw into the combination.
There are two huge variations between these aliens and those in “Conspiracy.” The primary is that we by no means noticed the small nub that protrudes from the neck of somebody being managed, which confirmed up in The Subsequent Technology. The second is that there was no point out of the Subsequent Gen aliens leaving their victims mind lifeless, although that’s what occurs in Unusual New Worlds.
However the best way through which this Unusual New Worlds parasite took over its host was uncommon; it was escaping from its jail, it wasn’t in its sufferer very lengthy, and no one actually examined the host physique to search for that signal within the episode. There wasn’t precisely time for it to settle into its host.
Possibly these Vezda aren’t the identical creature, but when they’re, Unusual New Worlds could also be pulling at a thread left hanging by Star Trek since The Subsequent Technology’s very first season. With 5 episodes left in season 3 and one of many creatures nonetheless sitting within the Enterprise’s transporter sample buffer, there’s a great likelihood we’ll know extra quickly.
