That the focus should fall on him right away suggests he’s about to take center stage for an episode, which isn’t always such a good thing for supporting Star Trek characters. “Today started out like any day here,

In comparing the two Big Bads, he adds, “The Gorn are very flesh and blood. They’re the brick-and-mortar version of a villain. The Vezda are very, very cthulhu, they’re very the world behind the world. They’re very much a personification of a kind of almost non-anthropomorphic darkness, and that’s another kind of evil.”