Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Anson Mount has detailed the differences between Captain Christopher Pike and Admiral James T Kirk.
Stopping by Comic-Con in San Diego this week, Mount spoke to Digital Spy and other media about the attributes both characters bring to this legendary universe.
"There's a few things I can say I know, but one of those things, it's a broad way of putting it, but if Kirk represented machismo and Picard intellect, Pike is heart.
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"The idea to make Pike aware of his future was smart – to take a tragic ending and make it a choice. The fallout put more pins into realising I have choice.
"In season 1 when old Pike says to new Pike you have a choice, he realises. Having got past that now, the fully fledged self-accepting Pike has really just started," he explained. "I hope we get to deliver the third act Pike and overlap with The Original Series."
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Earlier this month, Strange New Worlds boss Akiva Goldsman spoke about the various throwbacks present in the season 1 finale.
"There's this dark moment in the history of Star Trek that leads to the creation of the Federation. So what are the echoes of the darkness or at least of the, again, the fear or the trauma or the loss or the recovery or the resurrection that have also inhabited the lives of those who were born generations after?
"With Una's reveal that she is an Illyrian earlier in the season, and genetically modified, we want to touch on it in a real way next season," he said. "To actually bring to the foreground at least in a way that's fulsome, some exploration of marginalisation. So this was our opportunity to begin that."
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams on Paramount+, with new episodes premiering on Thursdays in the US and on Wednesdays in the UK.
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