Anson Mount: A Pike Show Would Require Creative Conversations
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At least he's open to the idea.
Not only him, but Alex Kurtzman too...
I think this deservedly must become a hashtag...
#makeithappenkurtzman
Bruce Greenwood should play Pike’s father.
Potato, potahto.
So, he just wants the conversation done in a creative manner?
"Anson, hi. I'd like to talk to you about your own Star Trek spinoff."
"This conversation isn't at all creative."
Y’all know you’d be asking for more money, too, if you were him. Don’t pretend.
Nah. I live according to Gene's Vision where money is not a driving force in my life.
was Georgiou on the bridge when the Discovery went to the future?
I have a question. What would a Pike aboard the Enterprise do though we haven't already seen before in Trek? We have seen shows about the Enterprise exploring space, including the TOS one with Spock. I think if you do this you got to have more of angle than just that.
If you do this I think you would need to go with the idea that Discovery was never in the Prime universe so you can open things up and try new things. Maybe give him a different fate and he becomes head of Starfleet Academy and you use Pike as a means of finally doing that show.
Jason
If you do this I think you would need to go with the idea that Discovery was never in the Prime universe so you can open things up and try new things. Maybe give him a different fate and he becomes head of Starfleet Academy and you use Pike as a means of finally doing that show.
Jason
As long as the writing is quality enough, a show about a starship exploring space can yield virtually infinite varied and interesting stories. Especially in the TOS era, where forces bordering on magic (Trelane, Guardian of Forever, etc) seem to exist and planets can have any kind of society the writers want.
A lot of fan reaction to Discovery displays an appetite for a TOS/TNG type of show, I think. There's room for it alongside Discovery's serialisation and Picard's... whatever Picard's doing, and Pike and the Enterprise seem like a logical fit for such a show.
A lot of fan reaction to Discovery displays an appetite for a TOS/TNG type of show, I think. There's room for it alongside Discovery's serialisation and Picard's... whatever Picard's doing, and Pike and the Enterprise seem like a logical fit for such a show.
I'm well aware of all of the demands of acting in a role like that, and everything else that goes with it, but it would still be so damn much fun that I wouldn't care at all about the money involved.
No it doesn't. This is what Star Trek is at its core, this is what it should be. The idea that there needs to be something 'more', that it needs some ludicrous universe shattering event or a giant epic megaplot is poison. Discovery was at its best when it was basically following the traditional mystery of the week Trek formula. Just do that, do not introduce new setting shattering events or technologies and it will fit nicely in the continuity at any time point. It is really not that hard.
Just finished watching this last night, so exciting. I think the casts for both Discovery and Enterprise are fantastic so more from Captain Pike and team would be fun, I thought No.1 was great and Spock has been really good. What a season, they’ve really done well, I’ve loved watching these adventures.
Dear god, this is promising. This is so promising. I'm seriously fanboying to the very idea of this. It'd be the Star Trek prequel we've probably all wanted since way back when Enterprise was announced. Heck, BermanTrek spent a decade trying to recapture just fragments of the unique feel of TOS, when that 2 minutes after Spock arrived back on the bridge just felt like we were right back there again. Is it possible to get a better distillation of Star Trek at it's brass tacks than to literally go back to Gene Roddenberry's original characters, the ones he concieved before Kirk/Spock/McCoy/Scotty/Uhura/Chekov/Sulu were even a thing? I think not. This could be the ultimate Star Trek show. It needs to happen. Come on CBS, make it happen.
I am actually more excited about this than I am about the Picard show. Legit. 
"Anson, if you do NOT agree to lead a Pike spinoff series, please reply in no fewer than 10 words without using the letter E."
I suspect there's nothing set in stone, but part of the pitch for the expensive sets for the finale could tie in to the S31 show. Since it's established that the S31 show will deal with how S31 became the later iteration of that org, it's inevitable that Georgiou returns from the future. Having the Enterprise occasionally tie in might be the best of both worlds.
I kind of agree. Bless his genetics but he appeared much older - not that there's anything wrong with that.
Poor Anson if he's expecting something creative out of these writers.
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