Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Kirk Will Be Different From Past Versions
Captain Kirk of the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Paramount+ television series will be different from past versions. The latest series from Alex Kurtzman's rebranding of the Star Trek universe will serve as a prequel toStar Trek: The Original Series, the science-fiction show which captured audiences from 1966 to 1969. Strange New Worlds will star Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, the captain of the USS Enterprise, a character that first appeared in the pilot episode of The Original Series before Captain Kirk took over command of the ship for the remainder of the show.
Strange New Worlds is set to take place in the original Prime timeline, the chronology set forth by Star Trek: The Original Series and continued with The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, and now Picard. In March, it was announced that Paul Wesley will take on the role of James T. Kirk in Strange New Worlds season 2, the same role that William Shatner commanded in The Original Series and continued portraying until the character's death in the film Star Trek: Generations. The only other actor to portray Kirk has been Chris Pine in the film Star Trek reboot film series. However, this version of Kirk, as well as many of the other prominent Star Trek characters, differed greatly from their original counterparts due a change in the timeline that resulted in the death of Kirk's father on the USS Kelvin.
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TVLine caught up with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers, who revealed that the series' version of Kirk will be different from previous iterations. Since the new series will take place years
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