Star Trek: Discovery

'Star Trek: Discovery': How Tig Notaro Best Embodied Starfleet's Values in Season 2

“Star Trek” has a history of bringing in unexpected stars, all drawn to the franchise by their passion for the source material. And with the latest iteration, “Star Trek: Discovery,” that tradition has continued in a number of respects, but none more interesting than the casting of Tig Notaro as engineer Jett Reno, introduced in the first episode of Season 2 and who proved to be a delightful presence over the course of the following episodes. Notaro is best known as a stand-up comic whose riffs on her cancer battle and pop cultur... more

Star Trek: Discovery: Anson Mount to Exit as Captain Pike at End of Season 2

Star Trek: Discovery will have to find someone new to occupy the captain’s chair next season: Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike on the CBS All Access drama, will exit the show at season’s end, according to our sister site Deadline. Also, Rebecca Romijn, who plays Pike’s shipmate Number One, will leave the series as well. Mount and Romijn both joined the Discovery cast at the beginning of Season 2, as the Pike-led Enterprise joined forces ... more

Star Trek: Discovery Stars Break Down a 'More Outrageous' Spock's Debut, His 'Complicated' Bond With Burnham

Spock finally made his Star Trek: Discovery debut this week… but he’s quite a bit different from the coldly logical Vulcan we’re used to, isn’t he? When Burnham tracked down her long-lost brother in Thursday’s episode, he was, well, freaking out — muttering logical doctrines to himself in a remote cave, and obsessed with the Red Angel. She brought him back for medical attention, and Section 31’s Captain Leland wanted to give him a neural scan, but Georgiou warned Burnham that the “scan&rdquo... more