Strange New Worlds Makes Kirk's Best Enterprise Trick The PIKE Maneuver
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 4 — «Memento Mori»
The slingshot effect used several times by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was retconned as invented by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 4. Commanding the USS Enterprise on a new five-year mission of galactic exploration, Pike and his crew are attacked by the Gorn. Desperate to survive, Pike orders Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) to pilot the Enterprise close to a black hole, where the Gorn ships hesitate to follow. But escaping both the black hole and the Gorn required Pike to ingeniously mastermind a move that would become synonymous with Captain Kirk and time travel.
Also known as the lightspeed breakaway factor, Kirk's slingshot effect was the method the Starship Enterprise used for time travel. By accelerating to warp 10 and using the gravity of a star to accelerate to an even faster speed, the Enterprise could break the time barrier. This, of course, requires precise mathematical calculations by a higher intelligence like Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) so that the Enterprise could arrive at a specified point in time. The Enterprise used the slingshot effect to time travel twice in Star Trek: The Original Series, in the episodes «Tomorrow is Yesterday» and «Assignment: Earth,» (which was retconned by Star Trek: Picard season 2) with both missions bringing Kirk and his crew to the late 1960s and back again to the 23rd century. Kirk used the slingshot effect one more time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to retrieve two humpback whales from 1986, which were transported on a stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey.
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