In the same tradition that produced a fairy tale story in Season 1, the Lower Decks crossover and musical in Season 2, and the recently-announced puppet episode for Season 4, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 delivered an episode with an especially kooky premise this week on the 2025 TV schedule.

Shatner has a well-deserved reputation as a ham (not that he's a bad actor, to be clear), both for being a prima donna and his often exaggerated, easily imitable performance as Kirk. "Family Guy" episode "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" did a cutaway gag of Shatner (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) acting in "Fiddler on the Roof" and giving Tevye the same mannerisms as Kirk.

Strange New Worlds' star Paul Wesley discusses his tribute to William Shatner's Captain Kirk from the 1960s in Season 3, Episode 4: "A Space Adventure Hour."

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. This week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduced us to the cast of a fictional 1960s sci-fi TV show… and the star of that show sounded very familiar.

Wesley did have fun with Season 3’s murder mystery episode, “A Space Adventure Hour,” playing, in the holodeck simulation, the actor who stars as the captain on The Last Frontier, a take on the original Star Trek.

Strange New Worlds' filmmaking team for Season 3, Episode 4 discuss paying homage to William Shatner and Gene Roddenberry.

Last week's episode, 'A Space Adventure Hour,' transported the crew into a 1960s murder mystery behind the scenes of a familiar-looking sci-fi TV show.

Strange New Worlds star Paul Wesley explains why he was "jealous" he didn't get to be a part of Season 4's most hotly-anticipated episode.