Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode 2 deploys Spock's meditation technique against a psychotropic entity — and neuroscience confirms it works. Cognitive defusion, a core process in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,

Leonard Nimoy's Spock in particular was changed quite drastically in pre-production. While he's known to Trekkies as a human-Vulcan hybrid, that wasn't the original idea that Gene Roddenberry had for the Enterprise's First Officer.