Christopher Pike

...and Leonard Nimoy's logical Spock, which aired from 1966 to 1969. As added incentive, he also studied the 1966 Star Trek pilot featuring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike. But that was more for his edification than for shaping his...

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...it USS Yorktown after a World War II aircraft carrier. The starship was commanded by Captain Robert April, then Christopher Pike, before Roddenberry settled on James Tiberius Kirk. By the way, William Shatner was the third choice for...

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...was most un-Spock like, showing a lot more emotion than your average Vulcan. In the pilot, the Enterprise was commanded by Capt. Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter). Because of all the spinoffs that resulted from it, Roddenberry's Star Trek is...

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...and becomes captain of the Enterprise. Jeffrey Hunter portrayed Captain Christopher Pike , commanding officer of the USS Enterprise, in the rejected Star Trek television pilot, "The Cage ". In developing the second pilot, "Where No Man...

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...Hunter (he died in 1969 of a stroke at age 42). Had NBC accepted Gene Roddenberry's first Star Trek pilot "The Cage," Pike would have been the iconic captain of the Enterprise instead of Kirk. But of course, Hunter was replaced by William...

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...played a much larger one. In the original Trek pilot, shot in 1964, Roddenberry was Number One, the Enterprise's No. 1-ranking officer after its then-captain, Christopher Pike (played by Jeffrey Hunter). Number One was smart, competent,...

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There will also apparently be a satisfying continuity with the original series as Kirk's mentor will be Captain Christopher Pike, a character in the original pilot as well as a two part episode in the first season based on the pilot.

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...to explore the stars in a similar manner to the pioneers of the old West in America. Produced by Paramount for the NBC Network, Roddenberry's original 1964 pilot for Star Trek, called "The Cage " and starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain...

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