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,

Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 5 is one of the show's most ambitious hours yet, drawing from a pair of cinematic sci-fi horror touchstones.

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.