Ethan and Rebecca and I were all like, “It would be a shame to waste all that money." Eventually, we did some shorts. It was interesting that they were clearly making a tremendous expenditure for the Enterprise bridge set. They hired Jason Isaacs, which I would have as well, but then they thought, “Well, maybe Anson will fit in this one, for Pike.” And that worked.īut they didn’t tell me those conversations were happening. He shows up and he’s like, "Wait, what? What's Discovery?” He told, “Well, okay, but you really should do a Pike show.” Then the ideas were rolling around for Season Two, and I had been in discussion with him about Season One for Captain Lorca.
But what was it like for you? When did you realize that your extended guest role on Discovery would become something more?Īccording to Akiva, when he joined Discovery and when they were preparing Season One, he'd only been told, “It's a Star Trek prequel.” He assumed that it was going to be the Pike show. Right now, it seems like a forgone conclusion that Strange New Worlds would happen. Just before the airing of the finale, Esquire caught up with Mount to discuss the long and winding road of this reluctant space hero and what’s next for Season Two. It’s a lot of Trekkie continuity to juggle in your mind, but even if this season of Strange New Worlds is your first Star Trek ever, you won’t be confused at all. In the Strange New Worlds Season One finale, Pike flirts with changing his own future history, only to be visited by his finger-wagging alternate future self, who drops him into a “what if?” where Pike remains the captain of the Enterprise and James T. Throughout Strange New Worlds Season One, that concept is revisited, letting viewers who are hazy on Discovery off the hook with another take on this emotional rollercoaster. Then, in 2019, Star Trek: Discovery Season Two beamed in Mount, who at this point in the chronology is living between the events of “The Cage” and “The Menagerie.” Discovery recontextualized Pike’s tragic fate with sci-fi prescience, giving him terrible knowledge of what’s to come. Abrams 2009 Star Trek reboot, Bruce Greenwood embodied an alternate older version of Pike. First played by Jeffrey Hunter in the 1964 unused Star Trek pilot, “The Cage,” Pike was then reimagined as a tragic figure in the 1966 episode “The Menagerie,” played wordlessly by Sean Kenney. In the Star Trek pantheon, the character of Captain Pike holds the unique distinction of being frequently reintroduced. We write toward Anson now.”įamily dinner in Captain Pike’s quarters.
This same thing is happening pretty quickly with Anson. In the same way, in a deeper and longer sense, there’s this interchangeability between Patrick Stewart and Jean-Luc Picard. “So we instantly knew what to do with his quarters. “Anson started talking to us about how he creates consensus in his life over cooking,” co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman tells Esquire. But these Starfleet family dinners were not invented by the writers of Strange New Worlds instead, it came from Mount himself. Throughout Season One of Strange New Worlds, Pike’s leadership style manifests in family-style meals for the crew, usually cooked up by the captain in his quarters.
We really tickle the shit out of each other.” “There’s a lot of trust and camaraderie,” Mount says. And if you think this Enterprise crew seems like a close-knit family, you’re right. During our Zoom chat, Mount makes it clear that the success of Strange New Worlds(the most critically acclaimed Star Trek in years) is all thanks to the collaborative nature of the cast and crew. Just like Pike wouldn’t take credit for the heroism of Spock ( Ethan Peck) or the sacrifices of Number One (Rebecca Romijn), Mount isn’t comfortable receiving all the accolades. This small exchange about Captain Pike’s hair is a microcosm of Mount’s genuine humility and charm.
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