James T. Kirk performer Paul Wesley
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Kirk also appears in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is set six years before the events of the original series. He first appears in the final episode of Season 1, portrayed by Paul Wesley, and is set to appear as a recurring guest in Season 2. In this series, the Enterprise has another captain, Christopher Pike, who first appeared in "The Cage". Other fellow crew characters from the original series, such as Uhura, Spock and Nurse Chapel are main characters in Strange New Worlds.