Star Trek: Discovery's Spock Will Be Very Different From the Version You Know

Alas, Spock is definitely headed to Star Trek: Discovery in Season 2 but he won't be the cool-headed Vulcan you know from the original Star Trek series. After dropping the big news that the OG character was headed to Discovery at Comic-Con, new showrunner Alex Kurtzman shared even more details about Spock's much-anticipated appearance, and it looks like there's some major family drama ahead.

"This is not entirely the Spock who has been formed enough to be the Spock that we know from TOS. There's a lot of story about who Spock was before he becomes the Spock that is the yin-yang to Kirk," Kurtzman told TV Guide. "What I'm so excited about is that we have an opportunity to present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. And it's all gonna tie to how we sync up with canon."

Spock's appearance on Discovery will be tied to his relationship with his adoptive sister Burnham, who he has never mentioned before in Star Trek canon. Kurtzman previously told us that Season 2 will explain exactly why Spock never brought up Burnham during his time on the USS Enterprise with Kirk and the rest of the gang. And according to Sonequa Martin-Green, it looks like we'll see firsthand some of the reasons why.

"We're certainly gonna see Spock and we're gonna be exploring those family dynamics," she said. "We're gonna see a lot between them." Added executive producer Heather Kadin, "I think that like any brother or sister, there's love. There's deep wells of stuff. That's what's so great about exploring that relationship, is there's a lot of tricky stuff that we get to dig into." No word yet on who will play the famous Vulcan but we can't wait to see him in action!

Season 2 also finds Anson Mount headed the series as Captain Pike, the man who helmed the USS Enterprise before Kirk. A teaser for the upcoming season reveals that he'll take over the USS Discovery to face a mysterious new threat that could be tied to Spock. The impending danger will send them all over the galaxy where they'll meet interesting new faces including Tig Notaro's Denise Reno, Chief Engineer of the Federation ship Hiawatha. Plus, Rebecca Romijn is set to play the Enterprise's Number One, a role originally played by Majel Barrett Roddenberry in the TOS pilot.

Star Trek: Discovery will return for Season 2 in 2019 on CBS All Access.

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