Strange New Worlds Showrunner Previews Spock Body Swap Episode
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers previewed an upcoming body-swap episode, discussing how the story affects the crew. The series follows Captain Christopher Pike's tenure at the helm of the Enterprise, with Anson Mount portraying the esteemed Starfleet captain. Strange New Worlds began airing on the Paramount+ streaming service on May 5, 2022.
Stepping back in time to events just before Kirk (originally portrayed by William Shatner) stepped into the command chair of the USS Enterprise, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sees Mount's Christopher Pike take part in his own missions into the unknown before the accident that left him in the scarred state seen in the original 1966 series. Set onboard the beloved starship, many familiar faces will feature as part of the cast, such as Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Number One (Rebecca Romjin), with the series having an episodic structure akin to the classic series' storytelling. With early reactions praising the series' classic tone, one of the series showrunners has teased what is in store in later episodes of Strange New Worlds season 1, including a comedic TOS-inspired story.
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When discussing the Strange New Worlds season 1 with IGN, Myers previewed an episode titled "Spock Amok" that would see some of the crew of the Enterprise swap bodies with one another, highlighting that "the experience of doing it with Ethan Peck's Spock, and Gia Sandhu's T'Pring are what makes it unique and interesting." The showrunner promised that the concept wouldn't be limited to Spock and T'Pring, as he stated "the various subplots going on in the episode all tie into each other thematically,"
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