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Strange New Worlds’ latest episode, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” features a scene in which the TARDIS from Doctor Who is visible floating around in space behind the Enterprise. The context for the TARDIS’s presence is that the Enterprise has been swallowed by a salvage ship that sucks in other starships and rips them apart for fuel.

Like James Bond and Han Solo, James Tiberius Kirk has always had main character energy. Nobody would have called it that back in the 1960s, of course, but the man who shares a name with a Roman emperor (those guys weren't shrinking violets either) tends to be the biggest presence on any starship bridge.