Ethan Peck Interview: Star Trek Strange New Worlds

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As Lt. Spock inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ethan Peck convincingly steps into the iconic role (and ears) originated by the legendary Leonard Nimoy. Peck debuted as Spock in Star Trek: Discovery season 2, which set the stage for the Vulcan spinning off into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a prequel that charts the voyages of the Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount).

Screen Rant interviewed Ethan Peck about Spock's real name, his relationship with his Vulcan betrothed, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu), and Paul Wesley joining the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 as Spock's future best friend and Captain, James T. Kirk.

Related: Strange New Worlds Can Finally Show How Kirk Met Spock In Star Trek Canon

Screen Rant: A couple of weeks ago, a poster came out with Spock's real name and Paramount redacted it. Do you know what Spock's real name is?

Ethan Peck: I never got to see it, to be honest with you. Unfortunately, I can't really comment on it. I'd heard about it, and that's about it.

So it doesn't really factor into Strange New Worlds as far as you can tell us?

Ethan Peck: No.

Strange New Worlds does go into Spock's relationship with T'Pring, which is pretty exciting. What can we look forward to finding out about their relationship thatThe Original Series didn't tell us?

Ethan Peck: I think that Strange New Worlds offers an opportunity for all of us involved to see more deeply into these characters' lives. Spock included and, obviously for me, most interestingly. What's he like behind closed doors? What's he like in the bedroom? These are things that I think we get to speculate on.

You're playing the younger version of Leonard Nimoy's Spock. Can you talk about how you prepared