Critics can argue all they want, but “A Space Adventure Hour” featured that unforgettable kiss.
Director Jonathan Frakes’ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 episode “A Space Adventure Hour” took a lot of heat from critics and fans. However, the murder mystery/comical holodeck-centric installment also featured Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck) and La’an Noonien Singh’s (Christina Chong) unforgettable first kiss. And in an interview recently posted online, SNW’s co-showrunner and executive producer Henry Alonso Myers discussed the origin of the characters’ romance.
“La’an had gone through some really intense emotional things in the previous season,” Myers said (per Awards Radar). “One of the things that we try really hard to do for actors is to just give them a different thing to try. Part of it is what we decide together and in the room and part of it is through discussions with our actors themselves. When we talked to her, she had been really interested in doing dance, clearly was very interested in some kind of a romance."
Myers continued by saying:
“And we were looking for surprise and we were looking to try to play something with her because she’s always been such a […] She’s been a character who’s struggling with the Gorn, her history with the Gorn. Why don’t you just flip the switch with her and try something completely different, totally different performance, totally different character requirements? And she is essentially like the character... almost is like a cop on the ship. So, part of us were looking for ways to play that out in an amusing way that was different for her, that allowed different things.”
After the heartbreaking breakup between Spock and Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), Star Trek fans were treated to a new romance in season 3 as everyone’s favorite Vulcan and La’an began tenderly dancing their way into the hearts of those who follow Strange New Worlds. I enjoyed their relationship for a number of reasons.
Peck and Chong share an undeniable and, at times, steamy on-screen chemistry, particularly when Spock alluringly runs his hands the length of La'an's arms at the end of “A Space Adventure Hour,” and then he finally kisses her. Also, knowing the history of Star Trek, I can’t help but be intrigued by any of the franchise’s legacy characters dating a descendant of Khan Noonien Singh.
How do you feel about La’an and Spock’s romance and “A Space Adventure Hour” for that matter? Share your thoughts and comments with us on the Redshirts Always Die Facebook and X pages. And Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 debuts Thursday, July 23, on Paramount+.
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