Strange New Worlds Season 3, Says Ethan Peck

Lieutenant Spock isn’t done exploring “human romance” in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, says Ethan Peck. The highly anticipated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 premieres July 17 on Paramount+ after a two-year wait. One of the central storylines of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 was Spock exploring his human emotions by having a torrid-but-brief love affair with Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush).

Strange New Pod caught up with Ethan Peck on the red carpet before Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. When asked what’s new for Spock in Strange New Worlds season 3, Peck carefully offered that the upcoming episodes will continue to explore Spock’s humanity using “several different devices, one of which is human romance.” Read Peck’s quote and watch the video below:

As we bring this Spock closer to the Spock portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in The Original Series, we’re continuing to explore his humanity, and we do it with several different devices. One of which is human romance. So that’s about as far as I can go with that.

What Spock Continuing To Explore Romance With Humans Means For Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

Does Spock Marry Nurse Chapel?

Lieutenant Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is more emotionally open than he will be in the future, as portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek: The Original Series. In Strange New Worlds, Spock is more willing to fall in love, and he had his heart broken when Nurse Chapel chose her career over him during Star Trek‘s first-ever musical episode. Yet Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s trailer shows Spock in bed with Chapel, who sports an engagement ring. Is Strange New Worlds season 3 reworking canon so that Spock marries Christine?

Anger is another human emotion Spock is delving into in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. There’s a shot of the Vulcan slugging Dr. Roger Korby (Cillian O’Sullivan), who is canonically Nurse Chapel’s future fiancé. Ultimately, Spock wading into the tumult of his humanity will motivate him to choose strict adherence to Vulcan logic, but that’s years after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. For now, it seems Spock’s love triangle with Chapel and Korby will be central to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

Our Take On Spock Continuing Human Romance In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

Spock Is A Romantic Hero In Strange New Worlds

One of the biggest changes Star Trek: Strange New Worlds made to Spock is turning him into a romantic hero. Strange New Worlds began with Spock engaged to T’Pring (Gia Sandhu), and they were in a long-distance relationship for the first season-and-a-half of Strange New Worlds. Focus then shifted to Spock and Nurse Chapel so that the prequel series could explore what was only spoken of and became Christine’s unrequited love in Star Trek: The Original Series.

Spock and Chapel’s love story turns into a triangle with the addition of Dr. Roger Korby in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, which is new romantic ground for the prequel to cover. In the meantime, dancing seems to be another “device” Strange New Worlds season 3 will use to uncover new facets of Spock, as Strange New Worlds season 3’s trailer shows Spock dancing with Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong). Star Trek: Strange New Worlds knows Spock’s endgame is turning Ethan Peck’s version into Leonard Nimoy’s, but they’re nowhere near done delving into Spock’s love stories in outer space.

Source: Strange New Pod

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Release Date

May 5, 2022

Network

Paramount+

Showrunner

Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman

Directors

Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman

Writers

Onitra Johnson