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‘Star Trek’ Pike and Spock Series Set at CBS All Access

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn will reprise their 'Discovery' roles for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' on CBS All Access.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

The streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for Star Trek: Discovery spinoff Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The drama will see Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn reprise their respective Discovery roles as Capt. Christopher Pike, Spock and Number One as the series explores the years the former manned the helm of the Enterprise. The show follows the trio in the decade before Capt. Kirk boarded the Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Pike was the best thing about Discovery, so this is something people were almost demanding. Anson Mount is the best Pike, especially after JJ Abrams just turned him into the expendable Obi-Wan mentor in the Abramsverse movies.

 

[obin_gam]

Discovery? Shit.
Picard? Shit
SNW? ... good perhapsmaybe?

 

[GreyHorace]

Well... I know what a certain group youtubers will think of this.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Are the people behind Picard involved in this as well?

 

[ManaByte]

 

[GreyHorace]

Are the people behind Picard involved in this as well?

Alex Kurtzman will oversee the drama, as he does with all things Star Trek for CBS All Access.

"When we said we heard the fans' outpouring of love for Pike, Number One and Spock when they boarded Star Trek: Discovery last season, we meant it,” said franchise captain Kurtzman.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Mood Goals.

lol thats a good GIF

 

[Ememee]

Well... I know what a certain group youtubers will think of this.

Somewhere Rich Evans is staring out into the distance in agony at having to review this.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Pike was amazing in Discovery so I hoped for this..

 

[GreyHorace]

Somewhere Rich Evans is staring out into the distance in agony at having to review this.

 

[Tranquil]

Watched the first season of Discovery didn't like it, nothing about it felt like star trek.

Watched the first episode of Picard, seemed cheaply made and I was bored, never watched the rest.

No interest in watching this unless I hear overwhelming good reviews but if Alex Kurtman is involved, I have my doubts.

 

[shoplifter]

RIP Star Trek

 

[zeorhymer]

Pike and Spock are going to be yelled at like little bitches or they're going to simp all over the women they meet.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Yeah, Kurtzman is shit.
But everything I have seen so far of the old enterprise crew in dscS2 was done well, so I have high hopes for this.

Anson Mount was amazing, so was Rebecca Romjin, and I hope Hipster Spock is not as shitty as he was in Discovery.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

I’d let Rebecca Romijn discover me...

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Is there no nostalgia-grave they won't plunder? How bout making a new Star Trek? When you have to keep revisiting the old stuff instead of exploring new stuff in a show about optimistically exploring and discovering new stuff, your IP is on the decline.

 

[Kenpachii]

Nice they now grinding star trek to dust.

How did the orville fair did it got cancelled>?

What they should do is make like a evil version of star trek with being the complete opposite of what it is now.

 

[Forsythia]

Let's hope it's more like old Trek. DSC and Picard both failed at that aspect. No more end of the universe crap please.

 

[Revolutionary]

I've heard nothing but bad things about Discovery Season 2 so this doesn't sound like something I'd watch.

 

[-Arcadia-]

This is like Star Wars in that it keeps getting worse, yet we keep getting more of it. Lol.

At least some people talked about Pike being cool, so there’s a spark of hope. I have not been, and will not be interested though, until one of these shows manages a single season without preaching, with quality, and the right tone.

...I don’t think that’s going to happen, and with so many shows, I’m concerned the ground is getting salted worse than ever before for a proper revival.

 

[nush]

Let's hope it's more like old Trek. DSC and Picard both failed at that aspect. No more end of the universe crap please.

You're going to get more shit Star Trek made for people that don't like Star Trek.

 

[shoplifter]

I probably wouldn't be so irrationally upset about this if it were pre-Pike April in command. At least that's a character that has only been seen in the cartoon and there's a decent amount of territory they could cover without conflicting with canon for characters like Spock.

 

[johntown]

As long as it is not like Discovery I'm in.

 

[Shizumapower]

Are the people behind Picard involved in this as well?

alI want to know.

 

[Shizumapower]

More Aliens like this please

 

[Yoshi]

How bout making a new Star Trek?

They tried that with Discovery. It was shit.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

At least Deep Space 9 is available on Netflix. Now that's a real show.

 

[Stouffers]

So that makes 5 Trek series running at the same time?

 

[Screamer-RSA]

Kurtzman, the definition of failing upwards.

 

[Furlong]

Nice they now grinding star trek to dust.

How did the orville fair did it got cancelled>?

What they should do is make like a evil version of star trek with being the complete opposite of what it is now.

They already did, it was called Blake's 7.

 

[Ironbunny]

Kurtzman, the definition of failing upwards.

What Voyager would have been with Kurtzman

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Well, at least we'll get a whole new wave of watching people die inside while they suffer through more rape of their childhoods.

Woo-hoo!

 

[teezzy]

So that makes 5 Trek series running at the same time?

It's fucking gross dude, and I enjoy Trek.

 

[Echelon]

I mean, Anson Mount is the absolute best thing to come out of STDisease, but these talentless nihilists couldn't deliver a series based on the greatest captain in the franchise with the man himself. I'm out of hope to hold on to.

 

[Stouffers]

It's fucking gross dude, and I enjoy Trek.

Picard was passable, Discovery is a bit too try hard, Lower Decks so far is awesome. Spock/Pike might be fun. I have zero hope/hype for the Secretion 31 show.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Never watched Discovery, but I liked Picard. What's wrong with it?

 

[Stouffers]

Never watched Discovery, but I liked Picard. What's wrong with it?

Nothing major. I didn’t have an issue with Picards characterization. I didn’t care for Rafs or the doctors actresses, but it might’ve been the writing. Looking forward to S2.

 

[Shouta]

Never watched Discovery, but I liked Picard. What's wrong with it?

It's basically the TNG movies but even more action schlock. The series throws a lot of TNG nostalgia at us but it never coalesces into anything that resembles the TV Trek that folks really wanted. It's just a generic space adventure with some TNG paint on it. It's unfortunate because it has some ideas that could be explored but none of it is given the time or development in the show. Those are the key aspect of sci-fi and particularly Trek so the show failing to present us a question, show sides, and let us think about it ourselves is a huge disappointment.

I did enjoy some of the nostalgia and bits and pieces of it myself but it definitely lacked the Trek soul.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

* Picard is a bumbling old idiot most of the time and

Spoiler

ends up being dead but then getting replicated as an Android. Fuck them.

* only wymenz strong
* whole Borg cube subplot is completely redundant and is only there for "LOOK, WE HAVE BORG!!" effect.
* massive violence that really shouldn't be in a Star Trek show.
* the first three to four episodes are slow as molasses.
* Riker being commander of the fleet for the lulz and effect
* With Starfleet simply leaving the android planet at the end after that stand off, the Romulans could have just jumped back and killed that tiny android village with one photon torpedo easily.
* Generally the old TNG characters act and behave very different from their series equivalents.

And and and.
This series is just incredibly stupid.

 

[Kimahri]

I really enjoyed the Discovery cast, all except that horrible Michael Burnam character. When the main character is the worst character, you've got problems.

Not having her in it alone, will make this better. Plus, Pike was great in Discovery.

 

[Kadve]

Had zero interest in Discovery as it felt nothing like star trek.

Watched the first few episodes of Picard. But stopped not long after the

Spoiler

Icheb

incident. (Seriously CBS....). As by that point it had already nuked the fridge for me. And the entire thing felt WAY to cynical and angsty to be even remotely enjoyable. You just ended up hating every character.

Hopefully this will be better. At least Pike could potentially be interesting, and i hope that also means we get more of Pilot esque younger and "snarky" Spock like he was portrayed back then.