Did Captain Pike come before Kirk?

Did Captain Pike come before Kirk?

Best known as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, following the ship's original captain Robert April and just prior to James Kirk. Pike counted the top-secret first contact with the natives of Talos IV amid his long Starfleet career.

Did Spock serve under Captain Pike?

Spock was the first Vulcan to enlist in the Federation Starfleet, serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike as a lieutenant, and later for James T. Kirk. ... In later years, Spock's work became more diplomatic than scientific, initially remaining a part of Starfleet.

Did Kirk come after Pike?

Pike first appeared as the main character of the original unaired pilot episode for Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Cage", portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter. When this pilot was rejected, Hunter withdrew from the series, and the character of Pike was replaced with Kirk.

Why did Star Trek not continue with Captain Pike?

Jeffrey Hunter wasn't available to do the second pilot (he was pursuing his film career, and some claim his then-wife convinced him science fiction was beneath him; they divorced a couple of years later), so the role was recast with William Shatner and along the way renamed (Christopher Pike became James Kirk).

Why is Captain Kirk not in the pilot?

This original Star Trek pilot was rejected by NBC for being "too cerebral", "too intellectual", "too slow", and with "not enough action", so they commissioned a new pilot, which later became Where No Man Has Gone Before, starring a completely different captain: one Captain James T. Kirk played by William Shatner.

Is Captain Pike an imposter?

Of course, Mount's Pike was stepping into a power vacuum on the USS Discovery left after season one's commanding officer Gabriel Lorca (played by Jason Isaacs) was revealed to be an imposter from the Mirror Universe.

Will there be a Star Trek with Captain Pike?

Captain Pike, Spock and Number One are boldly going forth in their own Star Trek spin-off, with Strange New Worlds finally going before the cameras as of March, 2021.

Is Scotty from Star Trek alive?

James Doohan, who faked a Scottish burr to create one of television's most endearing characters -- Scotty, the chief engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the original "Star Trek" -- died yesterday at his home in Redmond, Wash. He was 85.

Why is Captain Pike in a wheelchair?

Most of what fans knew about the legendary Captain Pike is tied to the events of "The Cage" and The Original Series' season 1 two-parter, "The Menagerie", which revealed Pike's grim fate: an accident exposed the captain to delta rays and left him confined to a wheelchair, unable to move or speak.

Who was Captain Pike when Kirk took over the Enterprise?

• Commander Kirk asks for his friend Gary Mitchell to serve with him, but Mitchell is already assigned to the Enterprise under Captain Pike. 2265 - Pike is promoted to Fleet Captain, Kirk takes over the Enterprise and begins a mission to the edge of the galaxy. He is reunited with his old friend Gary Mitchell.

Why did Kirk replace Pike in Star Trek?

• There are both real world and in story reasons for why Captain Kirk replaced Pike. Within the fiction, Pike was simply promoted, which made perfect sense for a man who has been routinely hailed as one of Starfleet's finest officers.

Who did Kirk inherit from Pike's crew?

• DC Fontana's novel Vulcan's Glory put Scotty on Pike's crew (and building a still in engineering) as a junior engineer. Scylla likes this. I just assume that the only staffing change was Kirk himself, and most of the crew in WNMHGB were the same crew at the tail end of Pike's captaincy.

Who is going to play Captain Pike on Discovery?

• And speaking of Discovery, Pike's name appears on a computer screen list of most decorated captains in a brief Easter egg in the episode "Choose Your Pain." And now Anson Mount will be the next actor to take over the role of Captain Pike.