Strange New Worlds Leaves 8 Huge Questions Unanswered For Season 2
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Finale — «A Quality of Mercy»
The season 1 finale ofStar Trek: Strange New Worlds answered the pivotal question of whether Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) can (or should) change his tragic future, but the shocking season-ender also left a lot of other big questions to be answered in Strange New Worlds season 2. By focusing Strange New Worlds season 1 finale on Pike resolving the central issue of his fate that haunted him all season, Strange New Worlds episode 9, «All Those Who Wander,» essentially served as a pre-finale that leaves many questions hanging that episode 10 didn't address.
In Strange New Worlds' season 1 finale, «A Quality of Mercy,» a version of Pike from a dark alternate future mired in an endless war with the Romulans sends Captain Pike on a time travel mission where he lives through the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode, «Balance of Terror.» Pike teams up with Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) of the USS Farragut to take on the Romulans' cloaked Bird-of-Prey and their deadly plasma energy weapon. But instead of hunting and destroying the Romulans as Kirk did in TOS, Pike took the noble approach and opened peace talks with the aliens. This tragically backfired as the Romulans took Pike's overture as weakness, and the Romulan Praetor (Carolyn Scott) declared war on the United Federation of Planets.
Related: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Ending Explained (In Detail)
As Future Pike related to Captain Pike, the devastating Romulan War lasts for a generation with no end in sight. Worse, because Pike changed his future so that he was never disfigured by delta rays and remained Captain of the Enterprise, his tragic fate
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