# Star Trek Strange New Worlds season three {summer 2025}

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> [@Horatius](#):
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> There are a few aliens in science fiction who only develop sentience after puberty. The whole “Leave the kids alone to fend for themselves until their brains start working” notion isn’t new to SNW.

I knew I had mentioned intelligent species with r-strategy reproduction here before, it turns out that was about the Gorn, too:

> [@Star Trek Strange New Worlds trailer and now begins Streaming 2022/05/09](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-trailer-and-now-begins-streaming-2022-05-09/960804/347):
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> Behavior patterns for the young can be different from those for adults. This type of thing isn’t unprecedented in real [r-strategy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory) (or semi-r-strategy) species. Sharks, for example, eat each other in the womb, but that isn’t normal for the adults. In fiction, similar behavior is used by the [Prador](https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Prador) in Neal Asher’s Polity books, the [Martians](https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/stranger-strange-land/analysis/martians) in Stranger in a Strange Land, and [Harry’s species](https://residentalien.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Vanderspeigle%27s_species) in Resident Alien, for example.

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