Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

James T. Kirk isn’t Captain Kirk yet on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds … but that changed in a hurry this week.

In Thursday’s episode, Kirk was “so deeply bored” doing uneventful scans as first officer of the Farragut , but he was thrust into the captain’s chair when a seismic shock wave struck the ship and incapacitated his captain. Kirk teamed up with the Enterprise crew to face a massive scavenger ship capable of swallowing Starfleet vessels whole, and at first, Kirk’s brash decision-making almost led to disaster. But he regrouped, thanks to a pep talk from Spock, and they managed to destroy the enemy ship — and hint at a future together as one of the most dynamic duos in TV history. Related

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