The appearance of recent fan fiction is credited to the Star Trek: The Authentic Sequence fandom. Devoted followers within the ’60s wrote fan zines with authentic tales starring the crew of the Enterprise. Now, virtually six many years later, Unusual New Worlds, a prequel to the unique present, resides as much as the flagship’s reminiscence in additional methods than one.
Whereas J.J. Abrams‘ trilogy of Trek movies (and the Zachary Quinto/Chris Pine vocabulary battle movies) reminded followers that Star Trek may be horny, Unusual New Worlds is upping the ante. The spinoff sequence facilities on the pre-Captain Kirk period of the starship Enterprise, with Captain Pike (Anson Mount) making an attempt to outrun a devastating future and a younger science officer Spock (Ethan Peck) nonetheless studying to quell the half-Vulcan, half-human storm within him.