Anson Mount has joined Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 in the role of Capt. Christopher Pike. Mount will be the fourth actor to portray Pike, who preceded James T. Kirk as the captain of the Enterprise. Jeffrey Hunter played the role in the original, unused Star Trek: The Original Series pilot, with footage from that episode later being repurposed in the two-part episode The Menagerie.
Also in The Menagerie, Sean Kenney played an older–and the most iconic–version of Pike, confined to a brainwave-operated wheelchair and unable to communicate save for a blinking light. Finally, Bruce Greenwood played the character in the 2009 Star Trek reboot film and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Mount is best known for his starring role in the AMC period drama Hell on Wheels. He currently stars in the ABC Marvel series Inhumans, which is not expected to return for a second season, and previously starred in the NBC legal drama Conviction.
