{"id":48131,"date":"2018-04-09T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48131"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:41:25","slug":"anson-mount-joins-star-trek-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/04\/anson-mount-joins-star-trek-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Anson Mount Joins Star Trek: Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anson Mount<\/strong> has been cast in<em> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> as Captain Christopher Pike.<\/p>\n<p>In the original series, Pike was portrayed by <strong>Jeffrey Hunter<\/strong> and<strong> Sean Kenney<\/strong>. In the <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>&#8216; rebooted<em> Star Trek<\/em>,<strong> Bruce Greenwood<\/strong> took on the role.<\/p>\n<p>Mount was recently seen in <em>ABC<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Inhumans<\/em>, and some of his other work includes <em>AMC<\/em>&#8216;s<em> Hell on Wheels, Non-Stop<\/em>, and<em> NBC<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Conviction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cat&#8217;s out of the bag,&#8221; said Mount via his <em>Twitter<\/em> account. &#8220;Yep, I have officially joined Starfleet, a dream I&#8217;ve had since around the age of eight when I first discovered TOS syndicated on my local access channel in middle TN. And couldn&#8217;t be more excited to be playing Pike!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anson Mount has been cast in Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Christopher Pike. In the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,8677],"tags":[9506,2567],"class_list":["post-48131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-discovery","tag-mount","tag-pike"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AnsonMountPike040918.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-discovery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Discovery","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48133,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131\/revisions\/48133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}