Overview

• Showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers revealed that Rhys Darby’s mysterious bartender in “Wedding Bell Blues” is Trelane and the biological offspring of Q.
• John de Lancie makes a voice cameo as the elder Q in the episode’s climax to underscore the newly formalized family tie.
• Strange New Worlds becomes the first live-action Star Trek series to canonize the Q/Trelane relationship on screen.
• The confirmation draws directly on decades of fan speculation and the 1994 novel Q-Squared, which first proposed Trelane’s Q heritage.
• Season 3 also reintroduces Dr. Roger Korby as Nurse Chapel’s fiancé, linking back to his original appearance in The Original Series.