The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally started this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Part II,” picked up right where the last season left off. But along the way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the show’s longest-running threat—off the board.

Strange New Worlds has made great use of these classic alien villains so far, but they should probably quit while they're ahead.

Strange New Worlds welcomed Season 3 of the show with open arms. We were all excited to see the conclusion of last season's cliffhanger when the landing party of the U.S.S. Enterprise was taken by the Gorn.