JULY 26, 2022 - Along with the many panels you might expect to find Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actor Anson Mount attending at San Diego Comic-Con, the captain of the Enterprise joined game publisher Scopely’s Star Trek: Fleet Command panel, promoting the new updates based on the series. Mount shared his thoughts on the season one finale, as well as Captain Pike’s future. Coverage of the panel was brought to us by trekmovie.com.

The report points out that while this year’s SDCC is not Mount’s first appearance at the event, it is the first time the actor has been on hand to celebrate Strange New Worlds and the Star Trek franchise as a whole. With the great honor of being the captain of the Enterprise, Mount reflected on the comic-con experience, saying, “It’s just amazing to be able to do a job where every day you say to yourself, ‘I can’t believe I get to do this.’ And getting to meet this amazing family that is the Star Trek fanbase is the highlight of it.”

Looking back on the character, Mount said he thinks the “decision in the second season of Discovery to make Pike aware of his future was a very smart one.” While it presents Pike with a life or death decision (a la Janeway and the Caretaker Array, and countless others, I’m sure), it does make the choice his own, providing a certain acceptance of what is to come.

That ending, if it really is one, doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon. Without spoiling the season one finale for those who haven’t seen it, we can say that Mount’s version of Pike is pushing full steam ahead. “One thing I was thinking about making that finale is how many stories with people who have been given a terminal diagnosis who will tell you, ‘I have never been more alive.’ Because suddenly, all the crap you thought that mattered doesn’t,” Mount said. “And I thought it put him [Captain Pike] in that space.”

Scopely’s David Eckelberry joined the panel and relayed how the “real world” of the Star Trek universe will be continually intersecting with the gaming world of Star Trek: Fleet Command.

“For the episodic storytelling the show is doing,” Eckelberry said, “we can go and tell the sequel.” This new approach will blend the fictional universe on the big and small screen with the fictional universe of the gaming realm. Eckelberry added, “We don’t have to separate them anymore. So one episode airs on Paramount+ and then you go and try it in the game.”

As far as Anson Mount is concerned, the self-professed gamer said he thinks it’s “pretty cool” that he gets to play himself on screen.

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