Star Trek: Discovery has cast its new Spock and it’s a very different version of the character

It looks like Star Trek Discovery has found its Spock…

Legendary actor Gregory Peck’s grandson, Ethan Peck has landed the role in the series as a new, younger take on the character.

The Ten Things I Hate About You actor landed the role after impressing showrunner Alex Kurtzman who had this to say:

“Through 52 years of television and film, a parallel universe and a mirror universe, Mr. Spock remains the only member of the original bridge crew to span every era of Star Trek. The great Leonard Nimoy, then the brilliant Zachary Quinto, brought incomparable humanity to a character forever torn between logic and emotion. We searched for months for an actor who would, like them, bring his own interpretation to the role. An actor who would, like them, effortlessly embody Spock’s greatest qualities, beyond obvious logic: empathy, intuition, compassion, confusion, and yearning.

“Ethan Peck walked into the room inhabiting all of these qualities, aware of his daunting responsibility to Leonard, Zack, and the fans, and ready to confront the challenge in the service of protecting and expanding on Spock’s legacy. In that spirit, we’re thrilled to welcome him to the family.”

 

However, Kurtzman was keen to post out that this isn’t the Spock we’ve seen before in any of the other Trek series or movies: “This is not entirely the Spock who has been formed enough to be the Spock that we know from TOS. There’s a lot of story about who Spock was before he becomes the Spock that is the yin-yang to Kirk. What I’m so excited about is that we have an opportunity to present a version of Spock that’s both totally consistent with the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. And it’s all gonna tie to how we sink up with canon.”

Discovery focuses on Spocks half-sister Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa Martin-Green so it will be interesting to see how she and this new Spock incarnation get along.

Discovery’s executive producer Heather Kadin had this to say: “I think that like any brother or sister, there’s love. There’s deep wells of stuff. That’s what’s so great about exploring that relationship, is there’s a lot of tricky stuff that we get to dig into.”

We’ve had Spock back on the big screen recently played by Zachary Quinto in the JJ Abrams movies but it will be exciting to have a version of Spock back on the small screen.

Wonder if we’ll see a young Kirk… hmmmmmmm…

Source: TVGuide