With great anticipation Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is expected in 2025, Captain Christopher Pike the actor Anson Mount's breakout role in the series would provide the best self-contained watch yet. Mount has a variety of work, from small roles to Domestic Sex to Law and Order. He didn't become Captain Pike until he joined Star Trek: Discovery cast of season 2 in 2019. Before taking on the stars, however, Mount played his role as a team player in a very different environment.
In 2011, AMC released a Western called Hell on Wheelsand Anson Mount landed a starring role as battle-worn soldier Cullen Bohannon. Set in the late 19th century and following the story of a city on the move following the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, Hell on Wheels could not be removed from Star Trek timeline. Hell on Wheels' 5 seasons provide an amazing opportunity for Star Trek fans got their fix of Anson Mount and Captain Pike before Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 will premiere next year.
Hell On Wheels Is The Perfect Binge Before Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
All five seasons will be available on Hulu on September 15, 2024
Period dramas like Hell on Wheels provide the perfect escape from everyday life, unlike the sci-fi utopia depicted in it Star Trek TV shows and movies. However, Hell on Wheels it is based primarily on historywhich would give regular sci-fi fans a new and different genre to discover. In 1865, Mount's Cullen Bohannon sets out to avenge his wife and founds a town called “Hell on Wheels.” This city is accompanied by the continuous construction of the railway, providing another similarity with Star Trek – the ability for the story to change and change with the progress of the main character.
Hell on Wheels and incorporates romantic paintings and Western gun-toting action into its narrative. Mount shows his acting chops in different waysskillfully portraying and balancing Cullen's joy, sorrow, and dry humor. In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Anson Mount as Captain Pike continues to show his acting skills, Pike's knowledge of his future haunts him in every way. Both roles give audiences a real taste of Mount's acting range: while Cullen is haunted by his past, Pike is preoccupied with his future.
Anson Mount's Hell On Wheels Character Shares Similarities With Captain Pike
Cullen Bohannon portrays several aspects of Christopher Pike's character
Fans of “Starfleet's Boy Scout” Captain Pike may notice a few similarities between Pike's character and Mount's in the AMC Western drama. Hell on Wheels' Cullen Bohannon is haunted by his future and his wife's death in the Civil War, while Captain Pike is haunted by visions of his own tragic future. Both characters are brave and stubborn with a strong sense of what they want. Pike is a known lover of all things Western; his love for horses goes way back Star Trek: The Original Seriesand he still has a real chair in his office.
With drama, romance, exploration, and a total of 57 episodes – 55 of which feature Anson Mount – Hell on Wheels it is the perfect combination of extreme fitness. Although Captain Pike arguably rises above Cullen Bohannon where morality is concerned, both characters are an interesting part of Anson Mount's work. The hit shows also gave Mount two very different ways to play. Hell on Wheels comes to Hulu on September 15, 2024, and could give fans of Mount's portrayal of Captain Christopher Pike something different to watch before the 2025 premiere. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.
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