What is the essence of Star Trek? The easy answer is optimism and hope coming at you at warp speed in a starship filled with diversity and tolerance. And, while it’s true that Star Trek is known for those things, the real heart of all Trek is its characters, and in the large pantheon of the Final Frontier, the most enduring characters contain multitudes. In fact, Trek’s most defining friendship means different things to different people, and in Strange New Worlds Season 4, that duo — Kirk and Spock — are getting very close to what one could call the origin of the most important bromance in all of science fiction.
While the 2009 J.J. Abrams film Star Trek recontextualized the Kirk-Spock dynamic in a different timeline, Strange New Worlds is attempting to bring its versions of Kirk and Spock as close as possible to the start of The Original Series. Strange New Worlds Season 4 is coming very, very soon, and in a newly released full trailer, the Kirk-Spock friendship is shining brighter than a supernova.
