Captain Christopher Pike

Captain Christopher Pike

In the official Star Trek prime timeline, Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) preceded James T. Kirk (William Shatner) as captain of the starship USS Enterprise. Appearing in the first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, 'The Cage', filmed in 1964, Pike was born in Mojave, California, yet little is known about his life prior to Starfle... Show more »
In the official Star Trek prime timeline, Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) preceded James T. Kirk (William Shatner) as captain of the starship USS Enterprise. Appearing in the first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, 'The Cage', filmed in 1964, Pike was born in Mojave, California, yet little is known about his life prior to Starfleet except that he grew up in Mojave and once owned a horse named Tango. From the mid 2250's until the mid 2260's when he turned over command of the Enterprise to Kirk for a promotion at Starfleet, Pike commanded the starship on two consecutive five year missions. Among the crew under Pike's command was a young half-Vulcan officer named Spock (Leonard Nimoy). During the 11 years he faithfully and loyally served under Pike, Spock was Pike's science officer but not first officer, unlike his later tour on the Enterprise under Kirk's command where he juggled both responsibilities. Pike's first officer during his years as Enterprise captain was a Terran woman known simply as 'Number One' (Majel Barrett).Though 'The Cage' did not sell Star Trek as a TV series, it was, however, instead used as the backstory of the original series' only two-part episode, 'The Menagerie', set in the year 2267, thirteen years after the events seen in 'The Cage'. In 'The Menagerie', the USS Enterprise, now under the command of James Kirk, is diverted to Starbase 11 after Spock reports of receiving a message from his former commander, Christopher Pike, now holding the rank of fleet captain, requesting urgently that the Enterprise divert there. Kirk, Spock, & Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy (DeForest Kelley) beam down and meets with Commodore Jose Mendez (Malachi Throne), the commander of the starbase, who informs them that it is impossible that Pike could have had a message sent leading Mendez to believe that Kirk and his officers are completely unaware of what recently happened to the former Enterprise captain.Mendez has the regrettable task of escorting Kirk, McCoy, & Spock upstairs to the medical wing where Pike is currently staying and shows the three Enterprise officers a sight that was both shocking and sad: Christopher Pike (played in this two-part episode by Sean Kenney due to his resemblance to Jeffrey Hunter, who was unavailable to reprise the role from 'The Cage'), clad in a black turtle-neck shirt and confined inside a black breast-high wheelchair unable to speak (Pike could only flash a light on his wheelchair to communicate: once for 'yes'; twice for 'no') or move (in his present condition the only movement Pike could do is lean his head forward and back up, and blink his eyes) after being horribly injured in an accident involving exposure to Delta Rays while saving the lives of Starfleet cadets aboard an old Class J cadet ship. His hair and skin chalk-white and wrinkled, respectively, Pike's once youthfully handsome face was now disfigured by a large thick burn scar running from the top right temple of his head down to his right cheek and mouth.After a brief attempt to question him, the officers prepare to leave Pike's room when Spock steps forward and asks his former commander if he could remain for a moment. Pike flashes once for 'yes'. After Kirk, Mendez and McCoy leave, Spock then informs Pike that he has everything well planned. Constantly flashing two lights for 'no', Pike apparently is aware of why Spock came to see him. Spock then tells Pike that he never disobeyed an order from him before but that this time was different and that Spock is also aware that what he is about to undertake is treacherous and that it also involves committing mutiny, and tells Pike that he has no choice but to carry out his plan concerning his former commander's future: a plan that involves a mysterious and now-forbidden planet they both visited once thirteen years earlier, and Spock is even willing to risk his career in Starfleet, a court-martial, and a possible death sentence to accomplish it.Back in his office, Commodore Mendez shows Kirk the record tapes, which show no transmissions of any kind to the Enterprise from Pike, emphasizing that, in his present condition, Pike could neither have asked for or sent the message himself, which strangely seems to have only been heard by Spock, who now begins the first phase of his plan by contacting the Enterprise and, using audio tapes he made of both a Starbase 11 technician and Kirk, deceives the bridge crew of receiving new orders to be fed directly into the Enterprise computer as well as believing that Kirk will be staying behind and that he has turned over command to Spock.Later discussing the matter of the voyage to Starbase 11, and of Spock's claim of receiving a message from Pike with McCoy, Kirk now begins to wonder, taking Pike's physical and vocal limitations due to his injuries into account, if the Enterprise's diversion to Starbase 11 was a deception, but it is unclear at the moment what the reason truly is though Kirk believes that Pike somehow is the key to it. McCoy is recalled back to the Enterprise but Kirk remains at the starbase. Later, Mendez shows Kirk a locked red covered classified command report book with the words in capital letters TALOS IV: FOR EYES OF STARFLEET COMMAND ONLY TOP SECRET. Mendez certifies that he's somewhat 'ordering' Kirk to read it.Asked by Mendez what he knows about this planet, Kirk says he knows only what other starship captains know: General Order 7: 'No vessel, under any circumstances...emergency or otherwise....is to visit Talos IV'. Mendez adds that to violate this order carries the only death penalty on the books in Starfleet law and that fleet command only knows the real reason why and that not even the file explains it. After Mendez unlocks the file Kirk opens it and begins reading. Mendez explains that the file also lists the only starship in Starfleet to visit the planet: The USS Enterprise, then commanded by Captain Christopher Pike, with Spock serving as science officer. At that moment, one of Mendez's assistants, Miss Piper (Julie Parrish), watching Pike in his room on a monitor in Mendez's office, turns away briefly but when she turns back she screams that Pike is gone. Mendez then receives a message that the Enterprise is worping out of orbit and refuses to acknowledge any signals the base sends.With the Enterprise's diversion to Starbase 11 by a 'message' Spock allegedly received from a now-crippled former commanding officer unable to move or speak, reading the classified command report on a mysterious planet Spock and Pike visited a decade earlier now declared off limits by Starfleet Command, Pike missing from his room, and now, with the Enterprise leaving orbit without his authorization, Kirk finally puts the pieces together and comes up with one conclusion as to the real reason for the diversion to the starbase: Spock is planning to transport Christopher Pike to the forbidden planet Talos IV.In addition to kidnapping Pike, Spock now commits mutiny by hijacking the Enterprise while Kirk was still on Starbase 11 and has the ship's computer running all functions, including navigation, locking it on a course for Talos IV. Spock then learns that a Federation shuttlecraft, piloted by Kirk and Commodore Mendez, is pursuing the Enterprise. Despite this, Spock orders no contact whatsoever with the shuttlecraft. Later, however, before summoning security to the bridge upon learning that the shuttlecraft has past the safe return point back to the starbase, Spock orders the computer to stop the Enterprise's engines making the ship come to a complete stop in space.Spock orders a tractor beam to lock onto the shuttle and then voluntarily surrenders himself for arrest to Dr. McCoy, the only senior officer on the bridge at the time, telling the shocked doctor and the bridge crew that he never officially received orders to assume command. McCoy, still in shock, suggests confinement to quarters, which Spock agrees to. McCoy then orders the security guards to confine Spock. As Spock is confined to quarters, and the shuttlecraft stored on the Enterprise hanger deck, Kirk has Chief Engineer Scott (James Doohan) beam both himself and Commodore Mendez onto the transporter platform where Kirk then learns from one of the bridge officers Spock placed in temporary command that Spock is in his quarters under arrest and that he has the computer running the Enterprise and receives word from Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) that the ship's engines are starting up again. Kirk orders the computer to release the ship to manual control but the computer tells Kirk that it is unable to do so and that any attempt to manually override the computer will result in loss of life support and that the computer cannot be fully disengaged until the Enterprise reaches Talos IV.At a preliminary hearing with Mendez and Kirk, Spock requests immediate court-martial, which Kirk immediately denies. When asked by Spock on what grounds, Kirk states that a mutiny requires a trial board of no less than three officers of command rank and that only Kirk himself, and Commodore Mendez, are the only two officers of command rank presently on the Enterprise. Spock corrects Kirk stating that, in addition to himself and the Commodore, Christopher Pike is also of command rank. Kirk again denies Spock's request, stating that Pike is an invalid. Spock points out to Kirk that, despite his injuries, Pike is still an active Starfleet officer. Mendez confirms this to Kirk saying that Starfleet didn't have the heart to retire Pike and that whatever Spock is up to he planned it well.Later at Spock's court-martial aboard the Enterprise, footage from 'The Cage' was shown in the hope to better explain to both Kirk and Commodore Mendez the real reason why Spock wanted to bring Pike to Talos IV (Footage from 'The Cage' is shown at this point on to reflect flashback): Thirteen years earlier, in 2254, the USS Enterprise, under Christopher Pike's command, was on routine patrol when they answered a distress call from another earth ship, S.S. Columbia, that disappeared in the Talos region 18 years earlier (2236). Locating the wreckage of the Columbia on the fourth planet a landing party, led by Pike and including Spock, beamed down to investigate and found the survivors of the Columbia, which included among them a beautiful young woman named Vina (Susan Oliver).Vina, who is attracted to Pike, manages to get him away from his men and leads him up one of the canyon hills. Pike then tells her he doesn't understand the reason why she brought him up there. Vina tells him that he will and that he is 'a perfect choice', then vanishes. Suddenly the survivors and the encampment also vanish, and the Enterprise landing party soon discover that it is in actuality a trap set by the planet's large-headed underground alien inhabitants who have the power to read minds and create illusions for a person to live, see, and feel. As a result Pike is captured, with Vina's help, by two of the aliens, and is taken underground.While in captivity in a zoo-like cage with a large impenetrable glass window, Pike is subjected to a series of illusions set up by the aliens, known as the Talosians, with Vina appearing in each in different forms: first, as a maiden recreating Pike's recent battle on Planet Rigel VII; second, as a 'wife' on a picnic in Pike's hometown of Mojave; and finally, as a Green Orion slave girl, all in the hopes for the Talosians to accomplish the real reason they captured Pike: to have him mate with Vina to help them re-populate their dying planet. But Pike wasn't interested and he eventually figures out that any strong emotions like hate and anger can keep the Talosians from reading and controlling his mind and uses this to his advantage.Pike and Vina were later joined in his cage by Number One, and Pike's other female crew member, Yeoman Colt (Laurel Goodwin), both of whom were the only ones beamed down from a landing party formed aboard the Enterprise in a second attempt to rescue Pike (The first earlier attempt, which consisted of using the ship's power to blast the canyon where Pike was taken down below failed due to the Talosians' illusions). Since he constantly resisted Vina, the Talosians now wanted Pike to choose one of his female officers instead to fulfill Vina's role for them but, again, Pike refused to co-operate.Later, as Pike, Number One, Colt, & Vina were sleeping, a small panel at the bottom of Pike's cage slowly started to slide open. Pike, who was actually nodding off, heard the noise and saw the panel opening. Waiting for the right moment, Pike quickly grabbed the Talosian, the only one to wear a medallion around his neck who turned out to be the leader Pike had been conversing more with while in captivity, referred to by the others as 'Magistrate', in the act of attempting to steal both Number One's and Yeoman Colt's laser guns that Pike dropped on the floor earlier, which, along with their communicators, had been neutralized by the Talosians.Pulled inside the cage by Pike, the Magistrate, with Pike's hands now wrapped tight around his throat, suddenly morphs into a monster. Pike yells to the Magistrate to stop the illusion or he'll twist his head off. The Magistrate returns to his normal form as Pike threatens again saying that if the alien tries one more illusion or anything else Pike will break his neck. The Magistrate, in turn, issues a threat of his own to Pike: release him or the Talosians will destroy the Enterprise. Vina tells Pike that the Magistrate is not bluffing and that with their power of illusions the Talosians can make his crew push any buttons or any wrong controls to destroy the Enterprise.Releasing the Magistrate and handing him over to Number One, Pike picks up one of the laser guns off the floor, and aims it at the glass window of his cage to blast a hole in it, but nothing happened. Now pointing the gun at the Magistrate's head, Pike tells the alien that he believes the gun just blasted a hole in the window and that they are being prevented from seeing it, and Pike threatens to test his theory out on the Magistrate's large head. Just then a large hole appears in the window. Once free, Pike, holding the Magistrate at gunpoint, and the three women all head for the surface of the planet.On the surface, Pike tells the Magistrate that he wants contact with the Enterprise after the Magistrate tells him that the escape from his cage accomplished nothing and that, with the female of Pike's choice, they will lead carefully guided lives. Pike's response is threatening to kill the Magistrate. However, Pike makes a deal with the Magistrate: give him proof that the Enterprise is all right, allow Number One and Colt to return to the ship, and he'll stay with Vina.At that moment Number One puts her laser gun on overload and tells the shocked Magistrate that it is wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves. Just then two other Talosians, the same two who had captured Pike, appear on the surface. Pike orders Number One to abort the overload on her laser gun. One of the two, using mental telepathy to the Magistrate, is asking about how the human's methods of storing records is crude and has consumed time for the Talosians and asks the Magistrate how he plans to more or less deal with it.The Magistrate finally realizes that, because of Pike's hatred for his captivity, and Number One putting her laser gun on overload to destroy themselves rather than be slaves, humans were deemed too violent and dangerous for their purpose and permits them to return to the Enterprise. Vina, however, refuses to leave with them. Yeoman Colt and Number One returned to the ship first but Pike remained behind. The Magistrate then showed Pike Vina slowly changing before his horrified eyes into an old, physically disfigured woman with a hunchback hump on her shoulder and a scar down the center of her face, the result of her surviving the crash of the Columbia on Talos IV eighteen years earlier and was earlier revealed by Number One that Vina was a member of the Columbia crew.The Magistrate told Pike that this was Vina's true appearance and that it was also neccessary to show him that her reason for remaining was an honest one. Pike then asked the Magistrate to give Vina back her illusion of beauty. The Magistrate kindly agreed. Shortly after, Pike finally returns to the Enterprise and, when asked by Colt and Number One about Vina, and why she didn't return with him, Pike simply told them that he agreed with Vina's 'reasons' for remaining behind and left it at that. Back on the bridge, Pike orders the helm to take the ship out of orbit as the Enterprise leaves Talos IV (End of footage from 'The Cage').Both Pike and Spock later made out an official report to Starfleet Command of Pike's experience on Talos IV and deemed the planet too dangerous and off limits to future Federation starships to visit due to the Talosians' powers. As a result of this report, Starfleet imposed General Order 7: No vessel under ANY circumstances...emergency or other wise...is to visit Talos IV . Disobeying this order carried a serious death penalty, which Spock himself possibly faced, in addition to the mutiny and kidnapping charges, if the Enterprise reached Talos IV.At the end of the court-martial Commodore Mendez suddenly vanishes in front of a shocked Kirk. At that moment the Magistrate, appearing on the viewing screen, reveals to Kirk that Mendez was never aboard the Enterprise and that his presence both there and on the shuttlecraft with Kirk was an illusion and, with the Magistrate's help, Spock's court-martial was merely a ruse to stall for time to prevent Kirk from regaining manual control of the Enterprise and invited Pike to return freely to Talos IV to spend the rest of his life with them (and with Vina).After, Lt. Uhura relayed a message to Kirk from the real Commodore Mendez at Starbase 11 informing him and Spock he, too, had also seen the images from Talos IV and decided to clear Spock and suspend General Order 7 for this occasion and for Kirk to proceed at his own discretion in regards to Pike. Vina's own experience proved to be the real reason Spock wanted to bring Pike to Talos IV: he knew that the Talosians had the power to make Pike youthful and agile again instead of being trapped in, to use Mendez's earlier words, a useless vegetating body .In Star Trek: The Original Series' second season episode 'Mirror, Mirror', Kirk, Lt. Uhura, Dr. McCoy, and Mr. Scott, beaming back to the Enterprise during an ion storm, are instead transported aboard a savage alternate universe version of their starship, known in this universe as the ISS (Imperial Space Ship) Enterprise, each wearing the uniforms of their savage counterparts, who themselves were beaming up at the exact same time and were transported aboard the USS Enterprise, and are later shown in the brig wearing the USS Enterprise uniforms of their prime universe counterparts. On the ISS Enterprise, the USS Enterprise landing party work discreetly on a way to get back home to their prime universe Enterprise (which they later did with the help of Mr. Spock's bearded mirror counterpart). In this episode Kirk and McCoy learn, via the ISS Enterprise's computer in Kirk's quarters, that Kirk's mirror counterpart assumed command by assassinating a mirror version of Christopher Pike. This episode also marked the second and final time Pike's name would be mentioned in this series.Although Star Trek: The Animated Series, not considered an official part of the original universes' continuity, established that the first commander of the Enterprise before Pike was Capt Robert April (at 75, Federation ambassador-at-large after a near-retirement as commodore), April was never mentioned in any of the five live-action Trek series or eleven films. Nonetheless, Gene Roddenberry stated that the first captain was, indeed, Robert April.Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in the first several seasons of that series, seemed to have similar traits in common with Christopher Pike: both took their responsibilities very seriously; both very rarely, if ever, cracked a joke and smiled; both were somewhat sullen and moody; both also shared a life long love of horses, and both referred to their respective first officers as 'Number One'.In the 2009 movie Star Trek, set in an alternative [Orci, Kurtzman, JJ Abrams] timeline, which was created when Spock Prime and Nero went back in time and changed everything and everyone, Christopher Pike [reprised by Bruce Greenwood] meets Kirk as a young man and convinced him to join Starfleet. Pike initially made Spock acting Captain and Kirk acting First Officer, but eventually turned over command to Kirk.In the 2013 sequel film Star Trek Into Darkness, Pike, now an Admiral, is killed after a renegade Starfleet operative named John Harrison, later revealed to be an alternate universe version of Khan Noonien Singh, piloting a jumpship, attacks a Starfleet meeting, which was discussing the bombing of a Section 31 installation in London. Kirk disables the jumpship, but Khan uses a portable transporter to escape to Kronos, the Klingon homeworld. Show less «

Captain Christopher Pike movies list

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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...