Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a different type of Starship Enterprise Captain who avoided one of Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) biggest regrets in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Pike commands the USS Enterprise over a century before Picard becomes Captain of the United Federation of Planets' flagship. Both Captains are Starfleet legends but their personal styles, both on the bridge and in how they interact with their crew, differ greatly
Jean-Luc Picard was Captain of the Enterprise for nearly 20 years, as chronicled by seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four TNG movies. Star Trek: Picard picks up Jean-Luc's story decades after Star Trek: Nemesis and the now-retired Admiral is long past his glory days on the bridge of the Enterprise. In contrast, Pike took 56 years to finally headline his own Star Trek series, but his new voyages in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds have won acclaim from critics and audiences for restoring the optimistic and episodic new frontier adventures of classic Star Trek. Yet Picard and Pike couldn't be more opposite in one important way.
