'HIT IT.' Star Trek Strange New Worlds picked up as series with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck as Captain Pike, Number One and Spock.

by Thinus Ferreira

Yet another new Star Trek series has been ordered to a first season pick-up, this time Star Trek: Strange New Worlds with Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as science officer all reprising their season 2 Star Trek: Discovery roles for the new spin-off.

ViacomCBS' video streaming service CBS All Access that will be rebranded within months, has ordered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to series, set a decade before Captain Kirk commanded the USS Enterprise.

No starting date nor episode count has been announced for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

"Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck's portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season," says Julie McNamara, executive vice president and head of programming at CBS All Access, in a statement announcing the new series.

"This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek."

Anson Mount in a video message says "We're going to get to work on a classic Star Trek show that deals with optimism and the future".



Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be produced by CBS Television Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment and is the third live-action Star Trek series following Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix that will have a third season later this year and the recent Star Trek: Picard.on Amazon Prime Video that has been renewed for a second season.

An animation series, Lower Decks is being produced for Nickelodeon.

The series premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was written by Akiva Goldsman with the story by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. All 3 of them will serve as executive producers, alongside Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.

"This is a dream come true, literally," says Akiva Goldsman. "I have imagined myself on the bridge of the Enterprise since the early 1970s."

Alex Kurtzman says "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. These iconic characters have a deep history in Star Trek canon, yet so much of their stories have yet to be told."

"With Akiva and Henry at the helm, the Enterprise, its crew and its fans are in for an extraordinary journey to new frontiers in the Star Trek universe."

THE NEEDS OF THE MANY. Ethan Peck cast as Spock in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery available on Netflix South Africa.

Star Trek: Discovery from CBS Television Studios and available on CBS All Access in the United States and Netflix South Africa in South Africa has cast Ethan Peck to portray the role of the iconic pointy-eared Vulcan, Spock, in the second season of the science fiction drama series.

Ethan Peck, grandson of Hollywood actor, Gregory Peck, will portray the half-human, half-Vulcan science officer of the USS Enterprise made famous by Leonard Nimoy in the original TV series and will still be working under Captain Christopher Pike (portrayed by the recently-cast Anson Mount) in the short time period before Captain James T. Kirk took over command.

"Through 52 years of television and film, a parallel universe and a mirror universe, Mr. Spock remains the only member of the original bridge crew to span every era of Star Trek.," says Alex Kurtzman, Star Trek: Discovery showrunner in a statement.

" The great Leonard Nimoy, then the brilliant Zachary Quinto, brought incomparable humanity to a character forever torn between logic and emotion."

"We searched for months for an actor who would, like them, bring his own interpretation to the role. An actor who would, like them, effortlessly embody Spock's greatest qualities, beyond obvious logic: empathy, intuition, compassion, confusion and yearning."

"Ethan Peck walked into the room inhabiting all of these qualities, aware of his daunting responsibility to Leonard, Zack and the fans, and ready to confront the challenge in the service of protecting and expanding on Spock’s legacy. In that spirit, we're thrilled to welcome him to the family."

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery will unspool with weekly episodes on Netflix South Africa from sometime early-2019, with no specific release date announced yet.