Captain Pike riding a horse. Why is he riding a horse? In the just-released Season 4 trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) is back in the saddle, quite literally. We saw Pike on horseback in the debut episode of SNW back in 2022, and the idea of a space cowboy tackling the frontier was part of the initial marketing of that show, too.
But, other than the fact that Pike canonically owned horses in The Original Series (shout-out to Tango and Mary Lou!), depicting Starfleet characters on horseback is one of the oldest traditions in the Star Trek playbook; so old, in fact, it predates the debut of Trek itself. At a panel at CCXP Mexico on April 25, Strange New Worlds Season 4 confirmed its fast-approaching July release date and showed Pike and the crew riding into action with more than a little old-school flair.
