Anson Mount recalls recordingStar Trek: Strange New Worlds' opening monologue while William Shatner was actually in space. As the Captain of the Starship Enterprise inStrange New Worlds, Mount is the latest to voice overStar Trek’s classic opening speech,“Space… the final frontier…“over the show’s opening credits. As fate would have it,Mount recorded the monologue on June 07, 2025, the day William Shatner went into orbit aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin NS-18 space flight.
Speaking toMoovy TValongside hisStar Trek: Strange New Worlds' castmate, Rebecca Romijn, Anson Mount told the story of recordingStar Trek’s iconic opening monologue and how he took the time to recognizethe serendipity of doing so while William Shatner was in space. Read Mount’s quote and watchMoovy TV’s interview video hosted by Johan Albrechtsen below:
Anson Mount: It’s actually a good story because it wasn’t a recording booth. We were still under lockdown, so what they did is they sent me this box of recording equipment that I could use at home. And so, I was in my basement, the technical team operating this box was in New York, and the post production team was in Los Angeles. And we were really spending a lot of time on that monologue trying to get it exactly right because you’ve got one shot at it.
So we were working on it, working on it, working on it, and piecing this sentence to that sentence, and there were these little pauses that were happening as they were building it. And I said, ‘Guys, can we just take a moment to realize here that we’re gonna remember this moment for the rest of our professional lives. That we got to record this monologue.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah, that’s really cool!’
And then I realized, and I said, ‘Of course, y’all realize that William Shatner is in orbit right now.’ And he was. This was while he was in orbit with Jeff Bezos, we were recording that monologue. I mean, you couldn’t make that up. It was also a great realization because it took the pressure off… It just told me, ‘Don’t try to outdo Shatner.’
Rebecca Romijn: Right. You just got outdone by Shatner yet again! (laughs)
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Who Else Recorded Star Trek’s Classic “Space… The Final Frontier” Monologue?
Anson Mount is the latest of a star-studded lineup
RecitingStar Trek’s iconic “Space… the final frontier…” monologue is an honor usually reserved for theCaptain of the Enterpriseand leading man of eachStar Trekseries set aboard the Starship Enterprise. Of course,William Shatner’s Captain James T. Kirk made the"Space.,. the final frontier…“speech famousonStar Trek: The Original Series, but it was Spock (Leonard Nimoy) who got to voice over the monologue at the end ofStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.Nimoy’s Spock got to say the speech again at the end ofStar Trek(2009).
Captain Kirk gave a variation of his monologue, changing"Where no man has gone before"to “Where no one has gone before"at the end ofStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard delivered an updated version of"Space… the final frontier"in 178 episodes ofStar Trek: The Next Generation. Scott Bakula’s Captain Jonathan Archer only got to say,“To boldly go where no man has gone before"at the end ofStar Trek: Enterprise’s finale. The entire cast ofStar Trek Beyonddelivered the speech before the end credits, and now Captain Pike gets the honor onStar Trek: Strange New Worlds.The next Captain of the Enterprise fans want to hear deliver the iconic monologue: Jeri Ryan’s Captain Seven of Nine.
