In comparing the two Big Bads, he adds, “The Gorn are very flesh and blood. They’re the brick-and-mortar version of a villain. The Vezda are very, very cthulhu, they’re very the world behind the world. They’re very much a personification of a kind of almost non-anthropomorphic darkness, and that’s another kind of evil.”

A promising scientific dig becomes a nightmare in an episode of Strange New Worlds that sees the crew confront an ancient evil.

Sure, they dressed like they'd just stepped out of a PG-friendly fetish club, but their utilitarian cubic ships, all-for-one hive mind, and awesome arsenal ensured that — within the space of a single episode ("Q Who") — they'd catapulted themselves into the A-list of Trek's rogues' gallery.