Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2: Paul Wesley & Ethan Peck Interview

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2

If you loved seeing that “alternate version” of Captain James Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, you're going to be just as excited as Paul Wesley was to return to the set, but this time in an all-new way for Season 2. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub ahead of the season premiere, we spoke with Wesley and Ethan Peck, who plays a younger Spock on Captain Christopher Pike’s (Anson Mount) USS Enterprise, about what they’re most looking forward to fans seeing and all the cool stuff they got to do.

Strange New Worlds takes Trek fans back nearly a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series, in episodic adventures that are a callback to what fans first fell in love with. Taking place in the not-so-distant past, the series still allows for many familiar faces, including Peck’s Spock, who’s attempting to navigate the line between his half-Vulcan logistics and half-human emotions, and even Captain Kirk. The series, which will explore even more new worlds, aliens, and some crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks this season, also stars Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Babs Olusanmokun.

While talking with Collider, Wesley teases that in Season 2, he was able to “bring out some of the Kirk qualities that we all know,” and that he’ll get to pay homage to his favorite episode from the original series. Peck shares what aspect of his character was “incredibly challenging” for him this season, and how even after that tricky episode, “Spock Amok” in Season 1, the writers still managed to throw him “a lot of screwballs.” For their favorite episodes and more, check out the full interview in the video or transcript below.

This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

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