SPOILER ALERT:The story contains plot particulars concerning the present Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access.
EXCLUSIVE: CBS All Access has large plans to increase the Trekverse, however Star Trek: Discovery is slimming down.
One of the most important forged additions for the present second season of Discovery was Anson Mount, who got here on board as Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise. He was joined by Rebecca Romijn, who was tapped to play one other basic Star Trek character, Number One, a member of Pike’s crew.
Both are set to go away on the finish of the season, we now have realized.
According to sources near the sequence, each Hell On Wheels alum Mount and Romijn had strictly one-year offers; the duo had been contracted just for Season 2 arcs as a part of a plan to sync up Discovery with the unique Star Trek lore by the tip of the brand new sequence’ second season heading into Season 3.
As followers and viewers of the unique sequence and subsequent big-screen efforts know, Mount’s Captain Pike was a captain of the USS Enterprise earlier than James T. Kirk. Both Pike and Number One appeared in Gene Roddenberry’s authentic Star Trek sequence however fleetingly. Pike returned, with Bruce Greenwood portraying the character, within the 2009 and 2013 films co-written by Alex Kurtzman.
Meanwhile, with manufacturing on Season 2 of Discovery now wrapped in Toronto, Mount was concerned in an on-set bodily altercation in August final yr with a director whereas filming an episode.
The incident reportedly stemmed from a dialogue of a scene, and Mount gesticulating and pointing, which was the motion of the scene in query. In performing out that scene earlier than the cameras have been turned on, the actor’s palms made bodily contact with the director.
Quickly after the incident occurred, it was reported by the manufacturing to CBS HR, which reviewed the matter. The division spoke to all events concerned, together with Mount and the director, to find out what occurred. Based on these discussions and the inquiry, the incident didn’t lead to any disciplinary motion towards the actor.
Even earlier than HR bought concerned, Mount apologized to the director and work on the episode continued. The incident is claimed to have zero to do with Mount leaving Discovery; one supply near the manufacturing advised Deadline that “we would love to find a way to work with Anson again.”
No phrase but on whether or not that may occur and the way it may work as Discovery strikes extra into the normal Trek timelines.
In January, Discovery co-creator, govt producer and showrunner Kurtzman talked with Deadline about Pike’s “mythological place in canon” regardless of being seen solely as soon as within the authentic sequence — within the two-episode story referred to as The Menagerie that aired in November 1966.
“This season we get inside his character in a way that we we didn’t get to do in the films,” he stated. “And the fact that we will synchronize with canon by the end of this season, that means we may see shades of where we all know Pike will end up.”
This is a reference to Pike’s grim destiny — within the 1960s sequence, the character is portrayed as paralyzed, disfigured and mute. (In the Kelvin timeline, proven within the J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek movies, Pike dies by the hands of the superhuman referred to as Khan.)
Geoff Boucher contributed to this report.
