After two months of speculation, the news is in today that actor Anson Mount has been cast as the USS Enterprise‘s captain Christopher Pike ahead of Star Trek: Discovery Season 2.
Revealed by CBS today, the actor becomes the forth to portray Captain Kirk’s predecessor, following Jeffrey Hunter in “The Cage,” Sean Kenney in “The Menagerie,” and most recently, Bruce Greenwood in two of the Kelvin Timeline features.
Mount has been most recently seen as the silent Inhuman king Black Bolt on ABC’s critically-panned Inhumans miniseries, and was the lead on AMC’s Hell on Wheels, where he co-starred with Deep Space Nine alum Colm Meaney.
We don’t yet know the extend of Captain Pike’s role in Discovery Season 2, but we’ll bring you all the latest on Mount’s participation as we learn more about next year’s storyline.
Cat’s out of the bag. Yep, I have officially joined STARFLEET, a dream I’ve had since around the age of 8 when I first discovered TOS syndicated on my local access channel in middle TN. And couldn’t be more excited to be playing PIKE! @startrekcbs pic.twitter.com/UWojAvI6bc
— Anson Mount (@ansonmount) April 9, 2018
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