At some point, the adventures of Captain Pike on the USS Enterprise morphed into the adventures of Captain Kirk. Because both pilots of Star Trek: The Original Series begin with the mission of the Enterprise already in progress, a true origin story of the classic Trek era remains oddly elusive. But through the mega-popular prequel series Strange New Worlds, Trekkies have been given the next-best thing; the machinations of Pike and company on the Enterprise in the years leading up to TOS.
But ever since Anson Mount’s Pike, Ethan Peck’s Spock, and Rebecca Romijn’s Number One appeared in Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 — which led to Strange New Worlds — fans have all wondered the same thing: Could all of this just morph into a new version of The Original Series? Comments from the showrunners combined with a very recent filming update suggest we could start to see a lot more TOS canon sooner than anybody thought.
