In a video sneak peek of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finale provided by TV Insider, chief engineer Pelia (Carol Kane) mentions spending time with a certain time-travelling Doctor.

Pelia is a long-lived Lanthanite who has had many adventures over the centuries. During a “captain’s table” get-together on the Starship Enterprise she lets slip that she spent time with a Doctor who amusingly sounds like the time-travelling protagonist from Doctor Who.

In the video, we also learn that the crew remains in the habit of tricking newbies to the captain’s table into wearing formal attire and the Enterprise is going to transport Marie (Melanie Scrofano) to her new position on Earth as it returns for a shipwide diagnostic.

This is the second time in the current season of the programme that a Doctor Who connection is teased. In a brief moment in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode, The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail, the Doctor’s TARDIS is seemingly trapped with the USS Enterprise inside a star-eating monstrosity.

A Star Trek crossover tease was mentioned in the Doctor Who Season One episode Space Babies.

In a nod to Intergalactic Friendship Day, there appears to be good-natured practice of subtle winks aimed at keen-eyed (and eared) fans of both iconic franchises.