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Chess Game at the Port Galley This ones for you, flippy! @flippyspoon
Read more about my art and process on my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/bardicious
Find the timelapse here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD3fgwZ4l_SIzV1aQXBYG8Q
Captain Christopher Pike
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This is a drawing I've done of Captain Christopher Pike of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, played by Anson Mount. Strange New Worlds is a prequel of The Original Series that starred Captain Kirk, both of whom captained the USS Enterprise.
Strange New Worlds is a really interesting take on Star Trek, bringing back the episodic episodes that lately have been sidelined for series long arcs as well as some humour. One thing of interest is Pike's large quiff, which seems to have a life of its own and is almost a co-star!
The original series had a pilot episode, The Cage, that had the USS Enterprise captained by Captain Pike, played by Jeffrey Hunter, but that pilot failed to impress the producers and it was ditched. They decided to go with it again, but this time with William Shatner as Captain Kirk, keeping only Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the original pilot's crew.
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS - APRIL 25, 2026 - SEASON 4 PHOTOS
Other Lower Deckers Crossing Over with Strange New Worlds
T'Lyn being emotionally compromised while meeting Spock
Pelia checking out Rutherford's Vulcan implant
M'Benga being confused by a very excited Orion
Peter Lorre would have rocked this role in Strange New Worlds
Once again, we'd need a parallel universe, because Patton Oswald already rocked this rigidly controlled, pint-sized Vulcan who exuded an astonishing sexual chemistry.
"It has been far too long."
"Far, far, far too long."
Yet the whole time, I kept thinking it was such a Peter Lorre role. He'd have conveyed so much with the merest quirk of an eyebrow.
They even obscurely mentioned horror movies, and Peter Lorre is always typecast as a horror icon, sooo I'm taking that as a subtle nod to him 😋. Excuse my filming off the TV:
Twelve Thousand People Watched William Shatner in Red Tights
Two weeks ago, I posted a short clip on TikTok: William Shatner as Captain Kirk, wearing the now-infamous red tights 🔴 from the Charlie X episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. You know the scene—the one where Kirk is giving Charlie a few self-defense moves 🥋.
He’s barefoot 🦶. He’s bare-chested 💪. Just Shatner, in all his 1966 glory ✨, wearing red tights and tossing a teenage demigod to the mat.
I expected a few chuckles 😅. Maybe a couple hundred views from fellow TOS fans 👽.
What I got? 12,000 hits 📈.
Let me repeat that: Twelve. Thousand. Views. 😳
Shatner is now 94 🎂. And apparently, there are 12,000 people out there who still want to see him in tights. And no shirt 🔥.
I love classic Trek 🖖 and have endless appreciation for Shatner's charisma ✨, his command presence 🧑✈️, his commitment to everything from diplomacy to dropkicks 🥋, and his bare chest 💥. But I didn’t realize there was still an audience—an enthusiastic audience—for that particular costume choice 👀.
Is it nostalgia? 🪐 Is it camp? 🎭 Is it thirst? 💦
I don’t have the answers. I only have the metrics—and the realization that TikTok is, truly, a new world 🚀.
TL;DR: I posted a TikTok of bare-chested, red tights Captain Kirk (William Shatner) 💪🟥 from Charlie X. He’s 94 now 🎂—and 12,000 people watched 👀. Apparently, Shatner’s sex appeal is timeless ✨🔥.
The premiere of the fourth season of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds arrives next month and Paramount+ has a #CaptainPicardDay surprise with the release of the official trailer. There is also a new poster.
We have a new poster too.
Star Trek Strange News Worlds trailer:
"This summer."