Only last week we were talking about how season two of Star Trek: Discovery would harken back to the feel of the original Star Trek series with the introduction of The USS Enterprise and its first captain Christopher Pike.
Pike was played in the original pilot, The Cage, way back in 1966, by Jeffrey Hunter, then again in ’66’s episode The Menagerie by actor Sean Kenney. He was then played in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek reboot in 2009 and 2013 by Bruce Greenwood who many fans hoped might pop up in Discovery too.
However, we now have our new Captain Pike in the shape of Hell On Wheels and The Inhumans’ Anson Mount.
The official Discovery Twitter announced Mount’s casting today and it was later confirmed by Mount himself (both below).
While most people know James T Kirk as the Captain of the Enterprise, he had two precursors: “Pike is the second captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and the first to be shown in Star Trek canon. The animated Star Trek series reveals that Captain Robert April predated Pike, and printed Star Trek fiction and reference books also identify April as Pike’s predecessor. Pike took command of the USS Enterprise in the year 2252, at the age of 38, taking over command from Robert April, who commanded the Enterprise for nine years.”
(Source: Wikipedia)
Now, who will be playing Spock? Keep it here for the news as we get it and let us know is you think Mount is the man for the gig.
Captain on deck! @ansonmount is joining season 2 of #StarTrekDiscovery as Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise. pic.twitter.com/BDtdrCt70J
— Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) April 9, 2018
And I couldn’t be more honored to take the helm. Thank you to the network, producers, fellow cast and fans for entrusting me with such a historically important of this amazing universe and family. https://t.co/W277CNNeV7
— Anson Mount (@ansonmount) April 9, 2018
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