Directed by Valerie Weiss, with a script by David Reed and Bill Wolkoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6, "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail," shifts the focus to James T. Kirk for an episode,

Strange New Worlds are somewhat standalone. But, because the show technically is a prequel to the classic 1960s show, there are also moments where the series gives us origin stories of various aliens,

An attack by a monstrous spaceship puts Kirk in the captain's chair in an Strange New Worlds that sees the Farragut and the Enterprise fighting for survival.