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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Sam Kirk Creates A Kelvin Timeline Parallel
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds draws an unexpected parallel between Samuel Kirk and his counterpart in the Kelvin timeline. It's Kirk, but not as we know it in Star Trek. While audiences were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk, Strange New Worlds sneaked Dean Jeannotte's Samuel Kirk into its series premiere. Older brother to James, Sam Kirk made but a single canon appearance in Star Trek: The Original Series… and was already dead. Played by a very still William Shatner wearing a fake mistake, Sam Kirk is largely an enigma within Star Trek lore, but serving as a lieutenant and life sciences officer aboard Captain Pike's Enterprise is peeling back those layers.