Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Ethan Peck Teases Spock’s Trials

Ethan Peck’s Mr. Spock has already been by way of lots in fashionable Star Trek. Even pushing the appreciable stress of being handed the legacy of one of many franchise’s most iconic characters, Peck’s Spock got here to us in Star Trek: Discovery season two confronted along with his personal wild traumas. Things could be daring and brilliant aboard the Enterprise in Strange New Worlds, however Spock nonetheless has some inside demons to course of.

“I think we find him at the beginning of Strange New Worlds in a very delicate and fragile place,” Peck just lately instructed io9 over video chat. “He’s just had this extremely traumatic encounter with the Red Angel, he’s just lost his sister to time, he can’t really talk about it to anybody. He’s trying to figure out himself, and I think that’s a very tenuous period in one’s life. And so I think that will yield a lot of experimentation, exploration, self-seeking and hopefully amusing moments.”

It might need been a number of years for us since Spock was freshly trimmed and shaven out of his Panic! At the Discovery part after we left him on the finish of Discovery season two, however coming into Strange New Worlds these traumas are nonetheless recent on Spock’s logical and emotional thoughts. His sister is gone endlessly and he can’t speak to anybody however a selected few about it, and all the problems he confronted with the Red Angel might need been processed throughout Discovery, however they nonetheless linger. And in response to Peck, these aren’t the one issues on Spock’s mind that we’ll see bothering him in Strange New Worlds.

“I had personally pitched to the creative forces involved a desire to explore the extremes of him. He’s eternally in conflict with his human and Vulcan halves, and that’s what I believe makes him such a compelling character over time. So, maybe in a moment he decides to solve a problem in a very human way—a very emotional way,” Peck teased. “Which will eventually become more balanced with his Vulcan, hyper-rational side.”

“I wanted to explore his anger. He comes from this world where he’s really been rejected. He’s not fully Vulcan, but he’s not from Earth. He’s not human. Imagine how that might make someone feel? To not really belong anywhere… that’s a really beautiful and rich part of his journey I wanted to explore, and I think we do.”

Spock’s push and pull between emotion and logic is one thing that outlined his journey all through the unique Star Trek—however one other factor Peck teased that Strange New Worlds will sort out is his relationship with the Vulcan homeworld… and one particular person on it particularly: T’Pring, Spock’s fiancé from “Amok Time.” Eagle-eyed followers watching Strange New Worlds’ trailers could have observed glimpses of T’Pring, performed by Gia Sandhu, and Spock collectively. “It was really exciting—and also quite scary, because there’s no road map for that, as much as maybe some other aspects of the character,” Peck mentioned of attending to discover Spock’s relationship with Vulcan and T’Pring. “We approach that with a lot of careful consideration, a lot of discussion, a lot of experimentation in the moment. What is ‘too’ human? What is ‘too’ Vulcan? What is something unlike what we’ve ever seen? What is too far from what’s familiar? These are things we considered and discussed between myself and Gia Sandhu, who plays T’Pring so wonderfully—and Akiva Goldsman, who was the director of that episode [with her] and one of our showrunners. It was done with great care.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins streaming on Paramount+ May 5.

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