Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series 1 finale spoilers follow.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduced The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley in the first season finale – and he is set to feature a lot more heavily in season 2.
Obviously, Wesley's debut episode had a lot of important season finale stuff going on, so we didn't get to spend too much with his younger version of classic Star Trek character James T Kirk. However, it's been confirmed that upcoming episodes will have more room for the actor to breathe and show us different facets to Kirk's personality.
Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con, where Digital Spy was present, Wesley teased Kirk's role in season 2 of Strange New Worlds, stating: "We only saw Kirk really for a handful of scenes in the finale.
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"That specific episode was fairly intense, and if you watch the original 'Balance of Terror', Kirk is quite intense in that episode.
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"I'm looking forward to viewers seeing a different side of Kirk – and certainly not an alternate timeline Kirk, but a lieutenant. So he's a much younger Kirk. He certainly hasn't developed into the Captain Kirk that we know.
"There's more levity, it's an exciting season, so I'm really looking forward to people seeing that."
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Another thing that we'll see in Strange New Worlds season 2 is a crossover with animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, something that showrunner Henry Alonso Myers explained came around in an amusingly roundabout way.
He said: "One of our writers David Reid also works on The Boys, and he was just like: 'Hey, wouldn't it be funny if we do a crossover?' and we were like: 'Yeah, that'd be great!'
"The crazy thing is that we had this whole discussion about it and then I get a call from Alex [Kurtzman], completely separate, wasn't about the show, and he said: 'I think you guys should think about doing a crossover with Lower Decks...'
"And I was like, 'I've got some good news for you!'"
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams on Paramount+.
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