Strange New Worlds has spent pieces of its third season building up a mystery, a mystery that may lead us to one of the biggest unanswered questions in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ fifth episode of the third season,

The Original Series is famous for killing off red shirts, but Strange New Worlds has tweaked that trope in its prequel era.

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.