CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery has just concluded its first season, and what a wild ride it was. From Klingon sleeper cells, to an extended romp in the deadly Mirror Universe, and even the franchise’s first swear words, Discovery boldly went where no Trek had gone before. Yet at its core was still clearly the Trek we all know and love.

With all the twists, turns, reveals and cliffhangers that defined the first season, it was expected that Discovery would end on yet another. Luckily, we were not disappointed as the show treated us to the best one yet:

Season 1 ended with our intrepid heroes aboard the USS Discovery answering a distress call from… the USS Enterprise.

Not just any Enterprise, mind you. The Enterprise. Yeah, the classic one from the original 60’s series.

Since Discovery takes place roughly a decade before the events of the original series, according to the official canon timeline, the Enterprise is under the command of Christopher Pike and not James T. Kirk. Although Kirk is not the captain yet, there will be another familiar face we’ll most certainly see in season 2: Spock.

Spock isn’t the First Officer yet, but he is still the science officer aboard the Enterprise. It’s too much of a tease to have the original Enterprise in the final shot of the season and not have Spock for season 2. Which brings me to my next point.

CBS should strongly consider bringing back Zachary Quinto to reprise his role as Spock for the next season of Discovery. It simply makes too much sense. Quinto is the only other actor besides the great Leonard Nimoy to portray everyone’s favorite Vulcan. The writers and showrunners of Discovery have made it clear that they do not wish to re-cast the character. That means one of two things. Either they are not planning on using Spock or they truly do intend to bring back Quinto.

Considering that Spock’s father Sarek and foster-sister Michael Burnham are on board Discovery, and that they shared a look right as they identified the Enterprise, the first option does not seem likely in the slightest.

Quinto did such an amazing job as a younger version of Spock in the JJ Abrams reboot movies that seeing him back in pointy-ears would be incredible. Since Vulcans age differently than humans, having him look the exact same ten years earlier than how he looks in the reboot movies (the time of the original series) would not be that difficult to explain.

This would also bring further legitimacy to the Kelvin timeline of the reboot films. Since Discovery is in the timeline of the original series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, having Quinto play the younger version of Spock in both timelines would confirm that he does in fact grow up to become the older, Nimoy version of the character. The one we see in the 2009 reboot that helps change the timeline.

Regardless of who they cast as Spock, I am beyond excited for the next season of Discovery. This incarnation of the Star Trek franchise is off to the fastest and strongest start of any of the other shows. Although, I will certainly admit that my fingers on both hands are crossed in hopes of CBS bringing Zachary Quinto back.