Strange New Worlds Hints Pike Can Break Canon & Avoid His TOS Fate
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 2 — «Children of the Comet»
Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) has a tragic destiny butStar Trek: Strange New Worlds hints that Pike can change his fate — and if he does, would that break Star Trek canon? It was a reluctant Pike who agreed to resume his duty as Captain of the Enterprise and lead a new five-year mission of galactic exploration. Haunting Pike is the vision he received in Star Trek: Discovery season 2 of his future where he becomes horribly disfigured while performing a heroic rescue. Strange New Worlds posits the intriguing possibility that Pike's foreknowledge of his tragic fate could allow him to make a different choice so that he saves himself.
Star Trek: The Original Series' «The Menagerie» two-parter establishes that in 2266, Fleet Captain Pike (Sean Kenney) is critically injured while saving Starfleet cadets from a radiation leak on an old J-class freighter. Pike is bombarded with delta rays that leave him paralyzed and forced to exist in a mechanized chair that only allows him to blink a light once to say "yes" and twice to say "no." Although Pike's mental capacities remain intact, his body is desroyed and Chris is tragically rendered an invalid. To save his former Captain, Spock committed mutiny and stole the USS Enterprise to bring Pike to the forbidden planet of Talos IV, where its psychic inhabitants could restore Chris to a world of illusions. Pike ultimately spends the rest of his life on Talos IV, concluding his story.
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However, Strange New Worlds considers how Pike knowing his destiny could actually allow him to alter it. Although Pike has accepted his fate that he
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