The latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds planted the seeds for what’ll eventually become classic Star Trek by giving James Kirk (Paul Wesley) time in the captain’s chair. Along the way, it also decided to have a little crossover with Doctor Who .

In this week’s “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” Kirk and the Farragut crew have to rescue the Enterprise from the tendrils of a power-draining scavenger ship. Throughout the episode, the camera cuts to the wrapped up Enterprise, and each establishing shot features a tiiiiiiny glimpse at the Doctor’s TARDIS on tendrils covering the ship’s left engine.

During the premiere of Ncuti Gatwa’s inaugural Who season , the Fifteenth Doctor’s companion Ruby compares his transporter technology to Star Trek , which he

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