Pike’s role as handsome good ol’ boy is obvious, and played so, but this show is leaning harder than ever into “hot Spock.” It’s basically canonical - “Cage”-era Spock showed emotion freely. Both Pike and Spock are introduced with strange new women in their beds, with departures made on behalf of duty (Pike’s avoiding his Spock is not). The first episode, directed by Akiva Goldsman, feels as heavy-handed as one might expect. (See how that works?) The answers he gets are clearly designed to both (a) insist these stories have a point even if we know the ending, and perhaps more so and (b) make us wonder if, in fact, Strange New Worlds will flip the script at some point. And this leads him to repeatedly question, out loud, what the point is of an adventure where everyone knows the ending. Captain Christopher Pike has already seen a vision of his own future as a radiation-burned quadriplegic. But the show has a built-in conceit that allows it to comment on criticisms of prequels without outright doing so.
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