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“He's younger, he's in a completely different series of circumstances,” says the showrunner. Since the season is set seven years earlier than “Balance of Terror,” this will be a different, more green Jim Kirk. That said, once Season 2 comes around, we won’t even be dealing with Captain Kirk.
And he really tried to build it around who the character was in that moment.” “What I really love about his performance is there's a kind of public persona that people imagine Kirk being that really isn't totally present except in big, big, broad moments from the Original Series. “ is a little more of a shrewd, serious Kirk,” he says.
The episode is also an alt-future reimagining of the TOS episode “Balance of Terror,” and Alonso Myers explains that Wesley based his performance partly on the version of Kirk who was depicted in that original episode back in 1966. But when he showed up in "A Quality of Mercy," it was as a somewhat different version of Kirk in so far as that story thread depicts a slightly altered timeline onboard the USS Enterprise, one where Pike is still captain and Kirk is the skipper of a different starship.
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We’d known he had been cast as the character as Paramount Plus had previously confirmed he would be in Season 2. In the season finale, Paul Wesley debuted as the latest actor to play James T. “As a character, he's choosing to make a sacrifice because of who he is.” “I think he wouldn't have it any other way,” he says. And if it has no consequences, the emotions don't matter.” And hence, ultimately it was important for Pike to live with and feel the consequences of the choice that he makes in regards to the accident happening as he has foreseen. “Then the show has no value, no meaning, nothing, no consequences.
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And obviously, we all love Pike and we all want to see him survive and we all want to see him live through every challenge that he's going to live through.”Īlonso Myers says that having worked in genre TV for years, he’s learned that when a writer makes up a rule, it “almost has to be more hard and fast than a real rule.” That’s because if the show doesn’t live by those rules, it devalues the reality of the show’s world. What makes something feel real is that you reckon with the consequences of it, not just the things you want.
“My own philosophy as a writer, and I dare say I think Akiva agrees with me on this, is that if you say something's going to happen and then you don't make it happen, it's cheap. “Well, we talk about everything,” says Alonso Myers. The showrunner promises that Season 2 embarks on a completely different arc for Pike, and while he’s not ready to reveal what that is quite yet, he says the writers did at least discuss the possibility of altering Pike’s predetermined trajectory in Season 1 – a trajectory that has been locked since the Original Series two-parter, “The Menagerie.” Which doesn't mean that we won't potentially wrestle with him in the future.” So the goal was to see him reckon with it in a big way and then come to a conclusion and a decision about the kind of person he is. “Because you can't keep going back to that well. “We don't want it to loom quite as large as it did this season,” says Alonso Myers. In the season finale, "A Quality of Mercy," this plot seemingly came to a head as Pike encountered a future version of himself who had changed the timeline to avoid the accident… but caused a dark future for the galaxy as a result.Īlonso Myers says that Pike has “more or less” accepted his fate after that encounter, but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to continue to deal with it in Season 2. At the same time, he also knew that he would save the lives of a bunch of cadets during that accident, and so he was presented with the question of whether or not he could alter his fate without dooming those young men and women. Throughout Season 1, Anson Mount’s Pike struggled with the foreknowledge (gained during his stint on Star Trek: Discovery) that he has less than 10 years before he will be tragically injured in an accident that will leave him trapped in a life-sustaining machine, unable to speak or even move really.
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