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Star Trek: Discovery
Future's Past
BOLDLY GOING TO A
SECOND SEASON
by Edward Gross

WHETHER YOU'VE FALLEN IN LOVE
with the newest incarnation of the
venerable Star Trek franchise or not,
it is an unquestionable success in one
regard: It put CBS' new streaming
platform, CBS All Access, on the map.
Although the strategy to make the new
series available exclusively through
the network's app was the subject of
much derision from fans initially, from
a business perspective, using the crown
jewel of the CBS television library to
launch its new online venture was a
Dyson sphere-sized success.
As filming begins on season two with
the surprise appearance of Captain
Christopher Pike's U.S.S. Enterprise in the
first season finale fresh in viewers' minds,
the show's producers have cast the role
of Pike with actor Anson Mount, late of
the ill-fated Marvel's Inhumans, who we
presume will actually utter dialogue in
his role as Pike as opposed to his silent
Inhumans role. Mount definitely looks
the part, and the word from Discovery's
showrunners is that season two will
explore more connections between
Discovery and the original Star Trek,
with at least one planet and plotline
explored in both the original Trek and in
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the movies slated for a visit, as well as some
explorations of religious themes.
For Jason Isaacs, (whose charismatic
character, Captain Gabriel Lorca, was
revealed to be an escapee from the dark,
nihilistic Mirror Universe and then executed,
eliminating him from the series), Discovery's
stylistic difference in approach was the
allure. Certainly no stranger to on-screen
villainy (perhaps you remember him as
Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films?), for
Isaacs, the twists and turns of the character
were fun to play.
■ CONFERENCE
CALL: Saru and
Burnham (left)
talk strategy with
Captain Lorca
(right).

"If I thought in any way I was being asked
to retread the paths that were taken so
brilliantly by all the people who'd done it
before, I just would have said no," he offers
with a shrug. "There wouldn't have been
a challenge otherwise. I had no interest
in being compared to the people or the
iconic performances I kind of worshipped
when I was a kid. I'm not a fan of reboots
or retreads or remakes, and only when they
persuaded me that this was an entirely new
story - and really born off of our times and
for our times - was I interested in doing it."



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