On Tuesday, Paramount+ announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has officially found its James T. Kirk in Vampire Diaries and Tell Me a Story star Paul Wesley with the actor joining the series in its already-greenlit second season to take on the role originated by William Shatner in Star Trek: The Original Series and also played by Chris Pine in the currently-running series of live-action Star Trek films. News of the casting was met by a great deal of fan excitement and now Wesley himself is speaking out, sharing his admiration for Star Trek as well as sharing a story about a recent encounter with Shatner that he feels was more than coincidence.
I am deeply humbled and still a little startled to have been given the honor of playing the inimitable James T Kirk. Ever since I was a kid, I have been awed by the imaginative world Gene Roddenberry created. Recently, I boarded a flight to LA to discover that the man in the pic.twitter.com/U8GVD4ZemP
