Overview

• Season 3’s episode introducing the Vezda Lifeforms marks the first appearance of a wholly original non-corporeal species in Strange New Worlds.
• These entities demonstrate memory-access abilities and a manipulative nature, hinting at parallels to earlier Trek spirit-based threats without relying on familiar antagonists.
• Showrunner Akiva Goldsman has affirmed the Vezda will return in the back half of the season but must be written out before the timeline of The Original Series.
• The Vezda arc integrates legacy elements such as Roger Korby’s molecular memory research to root the storyline in established franchise lore.
• Critics observe that the darker, cosmic-horror tone of the Vezda encounters represents a deliberate shift from the series’ typically optimistic, episodic exploration formula.