Witness the first meeting between James T. Kirk and Uhura on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

It wouldn’t be the first time James T. Kirk and Nyota Uhura flirted with one another in a bar. Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) is zipping right along at warp speed on Paramount+, and Paul Wesley is once again returning to the iconic role made popular by William Shatner. The upcoming episode titled Lost in Translation will mark the third time Wesley has portrayed the character on the streaming series.

Check out the first meeting between Kirk and Uhura on Strange New Worlds below:

During Kirk and Uhura’s (Celia Rose Gooding) scene, she mistakes their banter for flirting, which it may well be. It is James T. Kirk after all. A fun Easter Egg from the new clip is the revelation that Kirk and Spock (Ethan Peck) play chess during the episode Lost in Translation. Trekkies remember the very first scene the captain of the Enterprise and his first officer (Leonard Nimoy) shared together on Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS).

In the revamped pilot titled Where No Man Has Gone Before, fans are reintroduced to Spock as he and his new captain (Shatner) play chess for the first in TOS. During the three seasons of the show, Mr. Spock never beat Kirk at chess. And in the TOS episode titled Court Martial, Kirk even makes a joke about it when he’s threatened with the grave prospect of losing his command: “It’s not all bad, Mr. Spock. Who knows, you may be able to beat your next captain at chess.”

Related: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Cast and Character Guide

Kirk and Uhura’s Historic Relationship

Paul Wesley first appeared on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in the Season 1 finale titled A Quality of Mercy. During the story, which is based on TOS episode titled Balance of Terror, Wesley played a futuristic version of Captain Kirk in command of his own vessel. Wesley then returned in Season 2 as an alternate timeline Kirk assisting La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) in the episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

Whether Wesley will play the SNW‘s regular timeline version of James T. Kirk in Lost in Translation remains to be seen since the plot alludes to the fact that Uhura is the only Enterprise crew member hearing a strange noise. And the sound causes her to hallucinate. So, is Kirk only a figment of her imagination? It seems unlikely since they haven’t officially met yet.

Prior to their first meeting during SNW’s Lost in Translation, actor Chris Pine’s version of James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) also initially meets Uhura (Zoe Saldaña) in a bar. But Kirk and Uhura’s most memorable on-screen moment came in Season 3 of TOS. In the episode titled Plato’s Stepchildren, William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols’ original iterations of the characters share the first on-screen interracial kiss in history.

Stream new episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds every Thursday on Paramount+.