‘Star Trek Discovery’: Two Major Characters Leave At End of 2nd Season

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”18429″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Sometimes the Federation giveth, sometimes it taketh it away. In the case of CBS All-Access Star Trek: Discovery, they’ve decided to take it away. At least as far as two of the new 2nd Season additions to the cast are concerned. Anson Mount, who came on board as Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise and Rebecca Romijn, who was tapped to play another classic Star Trek character, Number One, will not be coming back next season.

The reason given for this was that both actors were just under one season contracts and were brought onboard so that Discovery could sync up some of their storylines with classic Star Trek canon by the end of the 2nd Season.

Fans of the original Star Trek know that both Captain Pike and Number One, who were portrayed by Jeffery Hunter and Majel Barrett, only appeared in the original pilot for the show which was rejected.  Roddenberry then recycled that pilot into the only two part episode for the original series, The Menagerie. If Discovery were to follow original history, we would know how it turns out for Pike. Paralyzed and disfigured by an accident, at the end of the Menagerie, he was taken back to Talos IV by Mr.Spock so he could live out his life in the illusionary world the Talosians would provide for him. As for Number One? No one knows, except she was demoted and reincarnated as Nurse Chapel, as the voice of the ship’s computer and as Mrs. Gene Roddenberry.

For fans of Discovery, are you sad to see Pike and Number One leave the show? How do you like the story arc the show is embarked on? Share your Star Trek feelings with us at GVNation. ??

Source: Deadline [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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