The Starship Enterprise is filled with love stories in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but all of them must end before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series. The highly anticipated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 premieres July 17 on Paramount+. Strange New Worlds season 3 resumes the genre-bending intergalactic adventures - and many romances - of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' co-showrunners, Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, have referred to their series as "love stories in outer space." While Strange New Worlds returns to the episodic format of Star Trek: The Original Series, the prequel's character arcs are serialized. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' characters evolve as the show progresses, growing, learning, sometimes dying in the case of Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak), and yes, falling in love.
While Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been liberally pairing up its attractive cast in various couples (and triangles), these love stories can't last into Star Trek: The Original Series. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his USS Enterprise crew do not have permanent romantic relationships, especially the Star Trek characters TOS shares with Strange New Worlds. As entertaining as Star Trek; Strange New Worlds' romances are, they all, sadly, have a shelf life.
Emotionally distant from her childhood trauma of surviving a Gorn abduction, Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) fell in love with an alternate reality Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 3, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." Kirk died in La'an's arms after being shot by a Romulan time agent named Sera (Adelaide Kane). La'an quickly learned she is similarly attracted to Lieutenant James T. Kirk, her Jim's Prime Timeline doppelgänger.
Lieutenants Kirk and Noonien-Singh confessed their mutual attraction in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 9, "Subspace Rhapsody." However, Kirk shot down pursuing a romance with La'an because he has a girlfriend, Carol Marcus, who is pregnant. Even if Star Trek: Strange New Worlds seasons 3 and 4 bring Kirk and La'an's love story into full bloom, there is no future for them. La'an is never mentioned in Star Trek: The Original Series since she was created for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Perhaps Mr. Spock's (Leonard Nimoy) most famous episode of Star Trek: The Original Series is season 2's "Amok Time," which introduced his estranged fiancée, T'Pring (Arlene Martel). Utilizing the Vulcan ritual of kal-if-fee, T'Pring manipulates a 'divorce' from Spock so she can marry a different Vulcan. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1 springs back nearly a decade to show Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) and T'Pring (Gia Sandhu) in happier times, but this also didn't last.
However, Captain Pike is destined to be horribly disfigured by delta rays in a tragic accident in Star Trek: The Original Series. Pike will spend the remainder of his life on Talos IV in an illusion with Vina (Susan Oliver, Melissa George). Meanwhile, Captain Batel is on death's door after being infected by Gorn eggs in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale. Whether or not Marie dies in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, there is, sadly, no future for Captains Pike and Batel.
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