Anson Mount Interview: Star Trek Strange New Worlds
As Captain Christopher Pike on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Anson Mount takes over as the Captain of the Starship Enterprise in the years before Captain Kirk. Mount proved so popular guest-starring as Pike in Star Trek: Discovery season 2 that the audience clamored for him to get a spinoff set aboard the Enterprise with Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn). Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is also a sequel to the originalStar Trek pilot episode, «The Cage,» which means it has taken 56 years for Gene Roddenberry's first vision of Star Trek to become a TV series.
Screen Rant interviewed Anson Mount about why now is the right time for the highly-anticipated Strange New Worlds, which restores the optimism of classic Star Trek, Captain Pike's tragic future, and how his relationship with Ethan Peck mirrors Pike's relationship with Spock in the series.
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Screen Rant: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is 56 years in the making.
Anson Mount: Yeah, in many ways. We often joke it's the longest pilot-to-series pickup break in history. There's an extra added sense of joy of being able to share it with the world because of that.
Screen Rant: Why do you think now is the right time for classic Trek's New Frontier kind of optimism?
Anson Mount: Maybe it's a misplaced sense of nostalgia or me getting older, but I only think that in my lifetime there hasn't been more need for something optimistic and forward-looking, and has a built-in intrinsic faith in human exploration and human good. It's such an important time that we have something like that on our TVs every week.
We don't back away from [the need for optimism]. We tackle that head-on in the first
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