You Either Believe in Yourself or You Don’t: Star Trek Discovery, James T. Kirk, and the Power of Traditional Memory

The latest EW promotion for Star Trek Discovery included lots of focus on Anson Mount’s Captain Pike. Great, awesome, he’s a new major cast member — makes sense. As we’ve come to expect from this show, the problem is everything after that.

There is, of course, the headline: “STD team reveals how Spock, Captain Pike are different than ever before.” Groan.