The Star Trek universe is gaining a brand new show called 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' which will focus on the decade before the infamous Captain Kirk takes command.
This image released by CBS All Access shows, from left, Ethan Peck as Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Anson Mount as Captain Pike of the the CBS All Access series"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." In the beginning, in the "Star Trek" universe, there was only Captain Kirk. At least to the general public.
But Kirk had actually been preceded as captain of the Enterprise by Christopher Pike -- a stoic, vague figure played by Jeffrey Hunter in a rejected 1964 "Trek" pilot who made only a fleeting appearance in the original series -- mainly so the pilot footage could be recycled. The character reappeared in two recent movie reboots, portrayed ably by Bruce Greenwood, but was never a foundational fixture of "Star Trek" lore.
It's not accidental that Pike is the son of a father who taught science AND comparative religion -- an embodiment of the empiricism-faith equation that "Star Trek" and its captains have always espoused. In many ways, in fact -- even more so than Chris Pine in the movie reboots -- Pike functions as James T. Kirk 2.0.
Of the many "Star Trek" sequels and movies that have emerged over the decades, this will be the first live-action one to take place aboard the starship that started it all -- Kirk's original Enterprise. And smack in the middle, in a chair familiar to generations of fans, will sit Christopher Pike, charged with embodying everything in a half-century of "Trek" that made captains effective and memorable.
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