Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season is currently beaming onto TV screens worldwide. The new series sees the USS Enterprise once more embarking on thrilling adventures across the galaxy, this time taking on Klingons (with a more classic design to their Star Trek: Discovery predecessors), a court martial for Number One (Rebecca Romijn), the return of James T. Kirk (as played by Paul Wesley), and the hotly-anticipated crossover with animated series Lower Decks. There's a lot packed into the run - a result that Captain Pike star Anson Mount says, in an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+ alongside his co-star Romijn, is indicative of the show's broader creative horizons.
"We've started to take bigger swings this season, I think we've earned the trust of the network now," he nods when asked if the show feels bigger this year. "[Showrunners] Akiva Goldman and Henry Alonso Myers, their mantra continues to be, 'Star Trek can be a lot of things.' So, we're not just playing with the stories that we tell, but the ways in which we get there. We've had a lot of conversations about genre and what we can get away with, which is tremendously fun and mischievous."
