There are fans who hate everything new Trek has done, but that’s not nuanced enough. Then there’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a show that kicked things off with a great first season. Now, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is in trouble.

Strange New Worlds paired Spock with La'an Noonien-Singh, and even Ethan Peck and Christina Chong were surprised by this new romance.

Three seasons in, Spock ( Ethan Peck) is indisputably the romantic lead of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. So far he's been embroiled in two overlapping love triangles, a conflicted Vulcan betrothal, and, as of this week, a kiss with the Enterprise's security chief, La'an Noonien-Singh ( Christina Chong ).