StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds star Anson Mount comments on whether he will continue as captain of the Enterprise after Paul Wesley's James T. Kirk arrives on the show in season 2.
Anson Mount comments on whether he’ll return as Captain Christopher Pike for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2. All true Trek fans of course know that Pike was the captain of the Enterprise before the arrival of William Shatner’s James T. Kirk. And when Trek launches its latest Paramount+ series, the new show will explore this pre-Kirk era of the Enterprise, with Mount occupying the captain’s chair.
Mount’s version of Pike of course made his actual Star Trek universe debut in Star Trek: Discovery season 2, along with his once-and-future Enterprise crewmate Spock . While Discovery continues its ongoing Paramount+ mission, Pike and Spock will now spin off into their own adventures on Strange New Worlds, which promises to be an old-school episodic take on Star Trek.
We wanted to do a true prequel — PREQUEL — to the original series, and that is couched in the Pike years. But, as you know, in the world of TV scripting, one season does not necessarily correspond to one year. As we get into the show, there’s really... I’m not sure we’ve really demarcated how far time is progressing between seasons. So, I don’t know. We’ll see where it ends up. But, yeah, no, that would be a very different show.
Star Trek lore of course dictates that Pike commands the Enterprise for several years before handing over the reins to Kirk and later being promoted to fleet captain. But as Mount himself said in his new comments, he isn’t sure how much time actually passes during the course of Strange New Worlds season 1, let alone between season 1 and season 2. So it’s clearly still up-in-the-air whether Strange New Worlds will at some point leap ahead to Kirk’s time commanding the Enterprise.
Obviously a big part of the excitement of Strange New Worlds is in the fact that it intends to depict a period in Star Trek history that hasn’t been shown much in prior small screen properties. This being the case, it would arguably prove a disappointment if the show changed course in mid-stream and became a Kirk show instead of a Pike show. But it seems the door is in fact being left open for Kirk to take over, if producers ultimately decide it would be better for the show to switch gears.
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