When Anson Mount took on the role of Captain Christopher Pike at the start of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, the challenge he was facing was clear. The actor wasn’t just joining the established ensemble of CBS All Access’ flagship series, but he was also tasked with breathing new life into a character that had been created a half-century earlier and who is near and dear to many fans’ hearts, no matter how fleetingly he had appeared (Pike was famously only in the pre-Shatner Trek pilot and then a two-part episode in the show’s first season).
But Mount’s turn as the temporary captain of the USS Discovery helped to bring the show to new heights, so much so that these days the common refrain among Trekkies is “When are we getting a Captain Pike show?” On the occasion of Disco’s Season 2 Blu-ray release this week, as well as the Short Trek episode “Ask Not,” which stars Mount as Pike and just dropped, I spoke to the actor about his past, and potential future, in the role of the iconic captain.
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But Mount’s turn as the temporary captain of the USS Discovery helped to bring the show to new heights, so much so that these days the common refrain among Trekkies is “When are we getting a Captain Pike show?” On the occasion of Disco’s Season 2 Blu-ray release this week, as well as the Short Trek episode “Ask Not,” which stars Mount as Pike and just dropped, I spoke to the actor about his past, and potential future, in the role of the iconic captain.
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