Farragut, seven years into Pike's future, as the Enterprise captain gets a peek at what's to come from his own future self, should he choose the wrong path going forward. When Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) meets him in the Season 1 finale, Kirk is Captain of the U.S.S. Kirk's surprise appearance also came with a surprising new status quo for the character. (I mean, c’mon, Shatner always had a bit of Pillsbury Dough Boy going on, whoever plays Kirk should have a little meat going on.)įor the season finale, we’re told that the difference in Kirk was a “choice” because this is an alternative timeline where Kirk is captain of the Farragut. So why put a skinny, brooding, quiet, brunette Kirk in the season finale of Strange New Worlds? In later Star Trek films, Kirk has full-blown racial hatred for the Klingons he has to come to terms with. He isn’t even that thoughtful after he ages. Kirk is supposed to be brash, cocky, and a bit of an asshole. That same geeky guy playing the frowning Kirk with the furrowed brow was the hottie you see below: I looked up the actor, Paul Wesley, and when he was younger he was on Vampire Diaries. Some of this could be the fault of the make-up artist. His eyes are too close together and snuggled up to his eyebrows, his philtrum (that line under the nose) is way too prominent, and his frame is too slender. (Seriously, could they have just at least put in some highlights? Kirk had blonde hair when he was younger.)Īll I could see when I watched new Kirk was a young Jim Carrey, mixed with Bruce Campbell.
NuKirk doesn’t look like Kirk, act like Kirk, fill out his yellow shirt like Kirk, or even have Kirk’s hair. In the season finale, they introduce their version of Captain Kirk, who is so unlike William Shatner that the casting director might have just shot a tranquilizer dart into a crowd of men and picked one at random, and it might have been a better take.
For the most part, I’ve really enjoyed Star Trek Strange New Worlds, but they’ve had a few misfires.