This isn’t over! Captain Pike’s final words in “A Quality of Mercy” — the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — have created a shocking cliffhanger. And because of this, it would seem that the next season of the series will have to change its format, at least slightly to resolve this surprising pivot. Here’s exactly what the ending of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds means, and why showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers say the show might not change as much as you’d think.
