Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday's episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." One of TV's most iconic friendships is beginning to bloom on "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." (Spock thought this Kirk was just a hallucination, but it turned out it was the real Kirk all along.) "I think they're buds," Paul Wesley, who plays Kirk, tells TVLine in the video above. But Ethan Peck, who plays Spock, adds that the Vulcan might not be on the same page yet: "I think that Kirk knows before Spock that they're buds.