Slight setup spoilers for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 follow below:

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming back already! After closing Season 6 last month! In the Season 6 finale, just as our time-traveling superheroes celebrated their victory over alien invaders in 1925 Texas, their time-travel ship, the Waverider, was blown up by another Waverider that just came and left! This is where we see them at the beginning of Season 7, and there’s going to be no easy way for them to get out of this one.

In anticipation of the season premiere on October 13, we were fortunate enough to speak with Legends co-showrunner Keto Shimizu on the challenges the Legends will face without being able to time-travel, her own inspirations going into show running and creating, and what she’d like to see the show tackle next, even when it looks like it’s tackled it all.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns Wednesday, October 13, airing and streaming on The CW.