When talking to Deadline on 16 August 2020 Co-executive Producer Alex Kurtzman elaborated, " I think Strange New Worlds, under the guidance of Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, it's going to be a return in a way to TOS. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece." I imagine it to be closer to The Original Series than even DS9. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you've seen in either Discovery or Picard. Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. Kirk regards the starship and its Captain when he joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2.The official announcement stated that "the series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock, and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the USS Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy." Įxecutive Producer and Co-creator Akiva Goldsman told Variety, " We're going to try to harken back to some classical 'Trek' values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic. But Sam Kirk certainly seems prone to calamity, and it'll be interesting if the terrible things that happen to his big brother aboard the Enterprise will affect how James T. Presumably, Sam will recover from his incident on the comet and continue to serve out his tenure aboard the Enterprise. Pike will be paralyzed in 2266 while Sam will be dead sometime in 2267. Both Star Trek legacy characters are destined to die (which is how Pike refers to his fate of being deformed by delta rays and condemned to a wheelchair) within roughly a year from each other. The most interesting aspect of Sam Kirk being on Strange New Worlds' Enterprise is his parallel to Captain Pike. Sam Kirk's main accomplishment in Strange New Worlds is being immediately knocked unconscious on their first away mission. Sam was quickly taken out of commission and became a liability, although this enabled Cadet Uhura to rise to the occasion and solve some of the mysteries of the comet. Kirk is supposed to be "the best of the best" - hence being assigned to the Enterprise, the flagship of Starfleet - but Sam was completely ineffectual when he and the landing party beamed onto the comet. ![]() Excepting his surname, the most notable thing about Sam is his mustache, which Pike, his old friend, has quipped about twice already. Sam's presence in Strange New Worlds seems to be one big cosmic joke. This had to be intentional on behalf of Strange New Worlds' producers, who are well aware that Sam Kirk is canonically doomed. Amusingly, the sight of Sam taken out of commission and lying unconscious on the ground harkens to Jim Kirk finding his corpse in Star Trek: The Original Series, which will happen about 8 years later in the Star Trek timeline. La'an Noonien Singh (Christina Chong), Spock, and Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Sam spends the rest of the episode knocked out and he isn't seen again after the landing party beams back aboard the Enterprise. Sam is almost immediately injured and knocked unconscious by an energy discharge from the comet, which is actually an ancient arbiter of life being guarded by "space monks" called the Shepherds. In Strange New Worlds, Sam joins a landing party on a mysterious rogue comet that's on a trajectory to collide with the planet Persephone III. Related: Strange New Worlds Finally Reveals The Enterprise Captain Before Pike Played by William Shatner wearing a mustache, Sam Kirk was killed by flying alien parasites in the TOS episode, "Operation - Annihilate!" Captain Kirk found his big brother's corpse in a memorable scene, which Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 2 homaged. Of course, Sam Kirk is a Star Trek legacy character, although, in his only canonical appearance in Star Trek: The Original Series, Sam was already dead. ![]() Spock (Ethan Peck) Kirk's boss in another fascinating twist. Sam (full name George Samuel Kirk) comes aboard the USS Enterprise as a xenobiologist assigned to Life Sciences, which makes Lt. Kirk after Paul Wesley's season 2 casting was announced prior. Sam Kirk being part of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was a big surprise, especially since his reveal toyed with the audience expecting to see James T.
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