Anson Mount Joins STAR TREK: DISCOVERY

Anson Mount has joined the season 2 cast of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.

Mount, whose television credits include HELL ON WHEELS and this season’s INHUMANS, will play Captain Christopher Pike. In the TREK franchise, Captain Pike led the U.S.S. Enterprise prior to Captain James T. Kirk.

In the original television series, Pike was briefly played by Jeffrey Hunter and Sean Kenney; Bruce Greenwood portrayed the character in two of the J.J. Abrams TREK films. (Kirk was played by William Shatner in the original series, and Chris Pine in the Abrams movies.)

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