Exclusive: Wesley has played James T. Kirk as a recurring guest star on the show. Now, he gets a chance to really chew the scenery.

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds creative team revealed at San Diego Comic Con that they plan to wrap things up with season 5 — but that doesn’t mean they want to stop telling Star Trek stories. In fact, they “100 percent” have a dream plan to work on a spinoff series that centers on the first year as captain for Paul Wesley’s James T. Kirk.

The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally started this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Part II,” picked up right where the last season left off. But along the way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the show’s longest-running threat—off the board.