\u00ab\u00a0Star Trek: Discovery\u00a0\u00bb has found its Spock, casting Ethan Peck in the iconic role. The character will debut during the second season.<\/b>
\n\u201cStar Trek: Discovery\u201d has found its Spock, casting Ethan Peck in the iconic role.
The character will make his debut during the second season of the CBS All Access series, which will air in early 2019.
\u201cThrough 52 years of television and film, a parallel universe and a mirror universe, Mr. Spock remains the only member of the original bridge crew to span every era of Star Trek,\u201d said executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who will take over as showrunner for the second season.
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The character was most famously played by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d TV series and in the first slate of movies. Zachary Quinto took on the role \u2014 with cameos by Nimoy as an older version of Spock \u2014 in the reboot of franchise: \u201cStar Trek,\u201d \u201cStar Trek Into Darkness\u201d and \u201cStar Trek Beyond.\u201d
\u201cWe searched for months for an actor who would, like them, bring his own interpretation to the role,\u201d Kurtzman continued. \u201cAn actor who would, like them, effortlessly embody Spock\u2019s greatest qualities, beyond obvious logic: empathy, intuition, compassion, confusion, and yearning. Ethan Peck walked into the room inhabiting all of these qualities, aware of his daunting responsibility to Leonard, Zack, and the fans, and ready to confront the challenge in the service of protecting and expanding on Spock\u2019s legacy. In that spirit, we\u2019re thrilled to welcome him to the family.\u201d
Season 2 of \u201cDiscovery\u201d will be delving into a lot of \u201cStar Trek\u201d lore. Not only with Mr. Spock make an appearance, but Anson Mount will come aboard as Captain Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk\u2019s predecessor as captain of the U. S. Enterprise. Sonequa Martin-Green\u2019s lead character, Michael Burnham, is the adopted sister of Spock; James Frain portrayed Spock\u2019s father, Sarek, during the first season of \u201cStar Trek: Discovery.\u201d
Peck has previously made appearances on CBS\u2019 \u201cMadam Secretary\u201d and The CW\u2019s \u201cGossip Girl.\u201d He is also the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Gregory Peck.
\u201cThanks to the Nimoy family for your open arms, warm welcome, smiling curiosity and support, for making me feel worthy, as I embrace and take into my heart the iconic half alien we know as Mr. Spock,\u201d Peck wrote on his Twitter account. \u201cIt is an incomparable honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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