Following the very well-received first season, filming is already complete on a second run of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ahead of an airing sometime next year.
Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike, Ethan Peck’s Spock and Rebecca Romijn’s Number One, along with all the other cast, are all back in the new run which is promising to be bigger and better.
Mount, promoting Joseph Sorrentino’s 1960s-set psychological thriller feature “MK Ultra” recently, spoke with Colldier and discussed how it raises the stakes compared to the first season:
“It’s like Christopher Guest in Spinal Tap, discovering that these knobs all go up to 11. Akiva [Goldsman] and Henry [Alonso Myers], our two showrunners, are so courageous.
I really am not a conservative storyteller, at all. I am all for saying, ‘F— tradition, let’s do it our own way’. But I’ve even found myself going, ‘Really? Can we really do this?’
Their mantra is that Star Trek can be a lot of things. Star Trek isn’t Star Trek because there’s no such thing. Star Trek can be a lot of things because Star Trek, as the best TV does, operates as a metaphorical platform, and when you jump into that wholly, you can really find a lot more elbow room than you think, including playing with not just story, but genre.
If you thought we took some big swings in Season 1, and we did in a lot of different ways, we’re going for the rafters in Season 2.”
The first season saw the live-action parts of the franchise return to episodic storytelling, allowing the ten-episode first season to offer various different stories.
All that’s really known about the new season is it will see the return of Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk, Carol Kane will be joining the cast in a recurring role, whilst characters from the animated series “Star Trek: Lower Decks” will crossover.
