Last year, Captain Pike didn’t have a personality. Before Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, Christopher Pike was less of a character and more of an answer to a trivia question. But now, thanks in part to the new episode “Through the Valley of the Shadows,” Pike has become a completely rounded person. Not only does Pike’s decision in this episode make him one the bravest Star Trek captains ever, we now know he actually faced —and passed — one test that James T. Kirk famously screwed up.
Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, season 2, episode 12, “Through the Valley of the Shadows,”
Anson Mount’s grounding performance amidst the insane plot twists of season 2 of Discovery has resulted in a far more relatable and personable Captain Pike than any other previous depiction of him in onscreen Trek. In “The Cage,” Jeffrey Hunter’s Pike comes across as a moody misanthrope, a guy you root for because the situation he’s in is so nuts. On the other end of the spectrum is Bruce Greenwood’s Captain Pike from the first two J.J. Abrams reboot Trek movies; a version of the character who was super-likable, but also totally flat. Greenwood’s Pike is basically your cool uncle who gave you a great job and also sometimes drove you home from bars. Sean Keeney’s tragically disabled Pike in “The Menagerie,” is worth mentioning, of course, but it’s not like the actor was given a ton to play with, and we never got a sense for who Pike was in that performance.
But, Anson Mount’s Pike in the latest episode of Discovery changes everything. Turns out that Pike now knows about his eventual tragic future in “The Menagerie” and we as Trek fans know that he chooses to go through with it anyway. Keep in mind, that this is the same character who — in “The Cage,” actually tells the ship’s doctor he’s thinking about giving up being a starship captain and has kind of, sort of, toyed around with the idea of being a space pimp in the Orion sector. You cannot imagine Discovery‘s Pike hoarding this kind of self-centered desire. Which, brings us to the question, what has changed in Pike since the events of “The Cage”?
Possibly two things. First: it’s clear that the impact of the Klingon war weighs heavy on Pike. He feels vocally guilty about the Enterprise not being involved in the war. Before the season started, Mount reinforced this idea and told me that Pike’s foolhardiness in this season is “an insecurity issue, that is stemming from the fact that he and his crew and the Enterprise were held out of the Klingon War.” So, a lot of Pike’s approach to his missions and his captaincy post-“Cage” is connected to his guilt about that.
The second factor is Vina and the events of “The Cage” specifically. In the earlier Discovery episode “If Memory Serves,” it’s made pretty clear that Pike still feels hugely conflicted about leaving Vina behind on Talos IV. Though Pike was cynical about how life was fleeting and temporary at the start of the “The Cage,” his feelings for Vina and his experience with the Talosians made him look outward again, renewing his focus on how his actions affect those around him. Pike sees the Klingon war and Vina’s presence on Talos IV as personal failures; not only that, but Pike sees both of these personal failures specifically as derelictions of duty. To his mind, he abandoned Vina. He abandoned the Federation.
These experiences clearly set Pike straight and made him double-down on being the best of Starfleet that he could be, and everything we see in Discovery seems to prove this. Which brings us to “Through the Valley of the Shadows,” Captain Pike’s encounter with the time crystal, and the sudden reveal of a future where he faces his own personal Kobayashi Maru.
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, we learned that all Starfleet cadets have to take a test called “The No-Win Scenario.” In all versions of this test, they are sent to rescue a ship called the Kobayashi Maru, but they literally can’t. The whole thing is a trap, and everyone is going to die. You can’t beat the test. It’s just there to remind these Starfleet cadets that failure is going to happen and that it’s possible that your duty to Starfleet and the Federation’s ideals is going to mean accepting death.
When Pike glimpses his terrible future in “Through the Valley of the Shadow,” the Klingon Time Keeper, Tenavik, gives him the opportunity to walk away from this destiny, a way to cheat a no-win scenario. Instead, Pike closes his eyes and intones:
You’re a Starfleet captain. You believe in service, sacrifice, compassion… in love.
And so, Pike presents us with the only true solution we’ve seen to the Kobayashi Maru. He accepts the fact that in order to win, he’s going to have to lose.
In The Wrath of Khan, we learn that James T. Kirk “doesn’t believe in the no-win scenario.” Granted, Kirk cops to this at the end of the movie, after Spock’s death, he tells his son David that he never really had to face it before, but rather “tricked it” or “cheated.” Still, because Spock comes back to life in the next movie, it feels like Kirk didn’t really learn the lesson at all. Now, I’m not saying Kirk isn’t awesome, because he totally is. It’s just that when it comes to facing an impossible decision, Kirk’s always going to find a way to weasel out of it.
But, with Pike, it’s the opposite. He knows he has to decide right there, alone with a Klingon he only just met, who he’s going to be. On top of that, he can’t tell anyone what he knows, because it will totally endanger the timeline, which means it’s a private decision. Pike accepts his own horrific fate, alone, in the dark, and keeps it to himself. He then goes back to the USS Discovery and sits down and acts like a boss again.
We’ve seen Picard, Sisko, and Janeway encounter the hard stops of duty before. But, because Pike’s future is so sad, and he knows it, his bravery really makes Kirk kind of seem flippant in retrospect. True, the films The Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness both do a fairly good job of chipping away at Kirk’s ego and self-centered belief that nothing will go wrong for him. But, there’s something more deeply resonant about Pike’s sacrifice in Discovery. Longtime fans of Star Trek know how this ends. This, new, fully realized version of Captain Pike doesn’t have unlimited adventures like so many other Star Trek characters. Which, in some ways is what makes Pike’s sacrifice in Discovery so profound. For once in the Star Trek franchise, you really believe at least one thing is written in stone.
If there was ever an argument for why a complicated prequel can be great, Star Trek: Discovery just made it. If the ending of Pike’s story hadn’t already been told in “The Menagerie,” then his idealism may not have found expression in Discovery. We may have already known what happened to Pike in the Trek canon, but thanks to this season of Discovery, and this episode, in particular, we finally get why he mattered.
Ryan Britt is the author of Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and an editor at Fatherly. He is a longtime contributor to Tor.com.
The Kirk from TWOK is not the Kirk from the TV show. In the TV show, Kirk was willing to die several times. He expected to die several times. Sometimes he survived because he saved himself, but sometimes he only survived because he was saved by others. If you only know TWOK, you don’t know Kirk (and every time I see this misconception, it makes me dislike TWOK a little more).
Kirk actually passed that test any number of times, most notably in “The City on the Edge of Forever” when he stopped McCoy from saving Edith Keeler. As Jana said above (and I said in my rewatch of the movie in 2017), it’s one of the many serious flaws in The Wrath of Khan.
But yes, Pike definitely has his Captain Moment here. And part of the point of “The Cage” was to get Pike past the moody grumpypants he was at the top of the episode and want to be the captain again, since this was written to be the first of an ongoing series.
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
I was thinking about Pike’s sacrifice the other day and it occurred to me that being the hero he is, he can’t possibly wish his future different because he saved the lives of a number of young cadets who might well die if he’s not there and doesn’t suffer his own injuries while rescuing them.
Yes, Pike can’t do anything now because of the time line. But that day he flips the switch or whatever he does to get maimed, he just might not do it.
That is not a logically coherent statement. It should be: “He accepts the fact that in order to win, he’s going to have to sacrifice.”
As above posters have pointed out, Kirk has accepted defeat before. I can’t think of an example of his making a sacrifice of this magnitude.
Something important is being overlooked about Kirk. How did he die in Star Trek Canon? In the movie Star Trek VII: “Generations” Picard encounters Kirk in an eternal paradise. Kirk freely chooses to return to this universe of pain, sacrifice and duty. His dying words to Picard, “did we make a difference?”. After Picard thanks a mortally wounded Kirk, Kirk replies, “it was the least I could do for the Captain of the Enterprise.” Kirk’s last words before, “oh my” hit like a polaron beam. “It was the least I could do.” Those words tie Pike, Kirk and Picard together forever as each served that same purpose and each was always willing to make any sacrifice for love, compassion and a positive future for all life.
What you’re all forgetting here is that taking that time crystal seals his fate. Up until that point Pike is immortal….
It is hard not to be inspired by the heroes and heroines of myth. In ST TOS “The Alternative Factor”, the character, Lazarus is compelled to make an even bigger sacrifice. Lazarus’ sacrifice is so immense that the ending dialogue on the bridge is: Kirk: “and what of Lazarus? Spock: “Yes indeed, and what of Lazarus?” I agree with the 1st comment by JanaJansen. If you haven’t seen all of Kirk, it’s easy to mistake him. I am so happy that the writers of ST Discovery are very well aware of this and the character of Captain Pike could never have been any less noble
It’s a shame he’s not been given time to develop, he’s a good captain and good actor would like to have seen him in a movie he could have become one of the greats
@9. Lawrence: He’s had enough time for viewers and fans to appreciate the performance, as evident from the praise Mount has received. And there’s still a chance they will do a spinoff with the Enterprise and her crew pre-Kirk. Maybe we’ll get a true exploratory show not so tied to all the convoluted continuity and familiar players. Perhaps something modelled on Peter David’s New Frontier series, set in a sector previously unknown to Trek fans.
Only thing that bothers me is that Pike seems to have been shunted a bit into the background by the other characters/performers. There’s been outright insubordination past few episodes. Even Spock disobeys a direct order. And Michael has been outright aggressive stating her point of view, instead of just offering it as a lower ranking officer would. This last episode, it’s almost like she decides to blow up the ship.
Maybe it’s unintentional, but they are undermining him somewhat. Perhaps preparing the ground for the next captain to arrive.
I was truly impressed by the episode in question and have said elsewhere that this season is (for now) making Pike my favorite of the Star Trek captains. That said, diminishing Kirk in terms of the “no-win scenario” doesn’t really hold up.
Kirk made impossible choices all throughout the Original Series. Hell, in the very first adventure featuring Captain Kirk, he faces a no-win scenario: to save his ship and crew, he has to kill his best friend. Later, he has to let the woman he loves die to save a future hundreds of years off. Those are just a couple examples.
That whole “don’t believe in the no-win scenario” thing in TWOK is bravado, pure and simple. Kirk says it to inspire confidence in the people he’s with on Regula. Later on, he admits as much to David, stating that he’s never had a no-win scenario “not like this.” Not like having his best friend of more than a decade die in front of him after a fight that- had he been ready for it – might never have happened the way it did.
I also take issue with the fact that the article never addressed the fact that Kirk had the opportunity to essentially be immortal and live out his dreams forever and gave it up to die saving people he’d never met.
People misconstrue the “I don’t believe in a no win scenario”.
It’s not a cop out it’s a philosophy that says if you go into a situation believing you will lose you will. The disbelief is tenacity in saying that in any situation there is a way to win to achieve the goal, and I have to look at it from every angle to find it. That’s what Kirk means by not accepting the no win scenario.
That said sacrifice is the corner Stone of being a star fleet captain . It’s the pinicale of leadership. Pike displayed that by accepting his fate . Kirk has displayed sacrifice in countless occasions the same as Pike, but more over he has looked for ways to avoid sacrifice needlessly.
I think that has to be clear when trying to apply the no win scenario.
Until 4/4/2019, I was a Kirk fan through and through. I smiled when my friends argued Picard was the best Captain, because I knew for 50+ years it was Kirk. That has changed. Pike is the best, and my favorite Capt. They both have their strengths. If I’m following someone into battle and I want to live, I’d want Kirk. If I’m looking for honor and duty above all, it’s Pike. I feel there is more to learn about this Pike and really hope we get a Pike/ Spock/#1 series. Anson Mount has insured it’s a story we need to know.
“Quite possibly his idealism would not have found expression…” Please tell me that’s a ST:TUC reference you threw in there. Also, this season, and this episode in particular, has elevated Pike to the status of one of my favourite captains. There’s part of me who wants to show this clip in my class. If my cadets then asked if I’d do the same for them… I truly hope I could make that kind of sacrifice.
“His idealism may not have found expression” Azedbur Chancellor Gorkon’s daughter from Star Trek 6 (The Undiscovered Country).
Well written, sir. I especially like your shout out to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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I still think discovery is not in the prime or mirror universe but in another universe say omega, this would explain a lot of the tech that is used in the show
I don’t usually plug here, but it is relevant: my upcoming Star Trek Discovery novel, THE ENTERPRISE WAR (http://blog.farawaypress.com/2019/01/my-latest-novel-star-trek-discovery.html) serves in part to bridge the Hunter version of Pike with Mount’s version, covering a year and a half of the intervening time between “The Cage” and Season Two’s start.
Pike’s character evolution was something that Kirsten Beyer of the Discovery team and I worked hard to get right for the book. A lot changes besides the design of the ship (which the book addresses as well).
I do feel cheated that we only get one season of Anson Mount as Christopher Pike. I would have hoped for at least three. Anson has been brilliant.
@20. JJM: Seems to fit what I was asking for earlier. Pike’s Enterprise away from the overfamiliar usual suspects. I’ll check it out.
”My God, Bones, what have I done?”
“You did what you have to do, what you always do, turn death into a fighting chance to live.”
– Star Trek III The Search for Spock
That is the true answer to the Kobayashi Maru.
@11/twels: “That whole “don’t believe in the no-win scenario” thing in TWOK is bravado, pure and simple. Kirk says it to inspire confidence in the people he’s with on Regula.”
That’s a good reading of Kirk’s line. I don’t think it’s the one Meyer intended; I think both his films were attempts at Kirk-learns-a-lesson stories in the tradition of “Arena” and “Errand of Mercy”. But I like it.
Anyway, it’s nice that Pike has become such a great character in Discovery. I found him rather unlikeable in “The Cage”, which made it hard to understand Spock’s loyalty to him in “The Menagerie”.
You seem to have forgotten that Jeff Hunter’s Pike is reacting to events that happened before The Cage – that’s why he’s talking of ‘being a space pimp in the Orion sector’. He’s not being self-centred. He’s hurting, and he’s practically burnt out. Similarly, you’re pretty much misreading Kirk too. He’s lost his brother and his son. Edith. Carol, though, yes, she’s not dead, just gone from him. Spock, albeit temporarily. He’s put himself in death’s way countless times. That’s his ongoing Kobyashi Maru. And all while, as he tells Bones and Spock, he knows he’ll die alone. In their encounter with Sybok, he says he needs his pain – he takes it and uses it to keep going, to save as many people as he can from their pain. How is this any less ‘heroic’ than Pike in Discovery? Don’t get me wrong, I like Pike (in fact I think only giving him one season is a HUGE mistake!). But like so many others, you’re letting Kirk distract you with his smiley, womanising ways. He makes the big sacrifices – he just doesn’t see why he should stand there and tamely let it happen, when he can fight it to the bitter end. That’s why so many of us would follow him in a heartbeat. He won’t let us die, even if he has to die himself to avoid it.
Kirk doesn’t believe in the “no win scenario”. Does that mean he wouldn’t have made the same choice as Pike? The hell, no. Put him in that cave and show him the worst of his future, and he’d have taken that crystal. He might not believe in getting himself and his crew killed for nothing, but that doesn’t mean he won’t sacrifice them for a reason. Taking that crystal achieves something, makes that future worth it. Kirk proved time and again he was willing to sacrifice himself for a lot less. He actually did sacrifice himself in the end. That’s a test he definitely passed.
As Malcolm says above, I am also kind of hoping Discovery is an alternate universe, between the spore drive and the time travel there are plenty of opportunity for this to be explained. I also feel the shows approach to the tech and design side of it, as well as some characterisations and events that Discovery should not be a prime universe series. If anything Discovery proves that a complicated prequel doesn’t work 40 years later if you are working towards a specific point where things have to meet up.
Which makes it all much more of a shame that Pike’s character is so well developed here. Because it anchors Discovery very stongly in the Prime Universe and would almost be shame if his characterisation suddenly become alternate right then prime.
Pike is great. Lorca was great. Why can’t we have them be brilliant, and also – aware that this type of story has been done and that it doesn’t need to be told again and again?
Lorca was more original because his storyline dealt with toxic masculinity.
I want to see more of Burnham, Saru, & Tilly no longer being mentored – but having to face the challenges of of command & captaincy and having real agency.
A lot of the desire for Lorca and Pike to return is down to discomfort with seeing diverse people having real agency.
Someone on this thread even resorts to calling Burnham ‘loud’ which is just sadly stereotypical. She is doing her job and has the knowledge to do so, otherwise what would be the point of her being on the bridge.
Time to let goes of the white man hero, it’s been done to death.
@28/Roisin: I’m of two minds about this.
On the one hand, I don’t agree that this type of story “doesn’t need to be told again and again”. Not everybody watches the old stories, and in the last few decades, there have been too many stories about white male protagonists who were violent antiheroes, overgrown children, or at best reluctant heroes. Even Star Trek succumbed to this trend in its next-to-last incarnation.
On the other hand, I very much want to see “diverse people having real agency” myself. I’m still pissed that we didn’t get to see the adventures of the USS Shenzhou with its Chinese name, its female Asian captain who radiated the same mix of warmth and authority I love so much in Kirk, its female black first officer with the dual cultural heritage and the special knowledge about alien cultures, and its timid alien science officer. What adventures they could have had!
I would have loved to see the voyages of the Starship Shenzhou too. But I don’t see how Roisin has failed to understand this series is all about Michael even if she isn’t Captain. Everybody else’s story is very secondary.
There’s a line in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that comes to mind: “It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.”
Pike (and mount in portraying him) is facing this choice: being told what his future is, he accepts it for the greater good. One of the things that Discovery (in particular this season) does is keep true to the sense that Roddenberry gave the characters of nobily serving and sacrificing. On previous shows- TOS and TNG especially- there was a sense of invulnerability of the characters in that what happened one episode really didn’t impact them. DS9 did have impacts, but Voyager which of all the shows should have had the crew pressing against the nobility and sacrifice and duty that binds a crew didn’t really have them either. What we’re seeing on Discovery is a show where what happens has impacts and changes characters, and as such we as viewers are more invested because we don’t see our heroes as impermeable and invincible. We know (and now Pike knows) what his fate is and we can appreciate it that he faces it with his head high.
I agree with roxana: the central protagonist of the show, indeed the focal point around which all other things revolve, is Burnham. She’s the smartest Starfleet officer anyone has ever served with, pretty much according to all of them. Pike, for all his warmth and likability, has certainly been no big hero up to now. So just because this one episode gives him his moment while tying plot lines together from the original series to this one, suddenly Disco is about a white man hero? That conclusion says a lot more about the viewer than the show, in my opinion.
Okay if Pike doesn’t take the time crystal everyone including Pike will probably DIE because Control is bent on destroying all life. So Pike’s only option is to take the time crystal where he sees that he is alive …..
Since it hasn’t been brought up yet, I want to talk about my two favorite episodes of DS9 which both revolve around a certain kind of sacrifice that only truly Good Men of Honor can make. The first is Jake Sisko from the incredible episode The Visitor in which he is separated from his father by a freak worm hole accident and initially thinks he is dead but soon realizes that his father is actually stuck in a Subspace Dimension and is anchored to Reality by his connection to Jake. When Jake realizes this, he spends his entire life trying to find a way to save his father despite the fact that periodically Benjamin Sisko returns and tells him not to worry about him and to live his own life. Only when Jake is an old man does he realize that if he dies while his father is back in reality, then everything will reset back to the point of the original accident and they’ll have a second chance. There is no question that the last scene of this episode is the most powerful of the entire series, and the last shot of Ben cradling his son makes me cry every time.
Then you have In the Pale Moonlight, a jaw-dropping episode it which Sisko has to weigh his ideals as a Starfleet officer against the lives of trillions and pulls off his own version of the Kobayashi Maru.
Deanna Troi faced her version of the Kobayashi Maru. She was on the holodeck to take a test to improve her rank. There was a moment she had to command a lower-ranked officer/ensign to do a repair that would kill him. She failed the simulation, but eventually passed when she took the advice from Commander Riker: for the good of the ship,and ordered the repair to be done When I think of Captain Kirk and his refusal to accept a no-win situation, I think it was done to encourage his crew to think more about inventive ways to ”snatch victory from the jaws of defeat’, or in Spock’s words ”the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”.
@34 I’ve got to take issue with the suggestion that Sisko’s actions in the Pale Moonlight episode are analogous to the Kobayashi Maru. The Kobayashi Maru test was a simulation, and Kirk knew it. He rigged it so he could win. Sisko, in comparison, is in real life, and it is not a no-win scenario. Any combination of things could occur in the future whereby the Dominion War could be won without bringing the Romulans based on a lie- a despicable deception, that. when discovered, almost backfires spectacularly when Vreenak eaves for home to expose the deception. “Fortunately”, I suppose, Garak thought of everything and has Vreenak’s ship destroyed as a precaution. That’s not a Kobayashi Maru scenario. Vreenak and those who were murdered on his ship were guilty of nothing, nor were the countless Romulans who were ultimately brought into the war based on a lie.
God, you people are so determined to put this man on a pedestal.
@37. Well, until they recast a young Kirk…
There lies a toppled God;
his fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal;
a narrow and a tall one.
– Tleilaxu saying
@38. Next season, I’m betting. If not Kirk then McCoy. They’re running low on super iconic TOS material to play with.
Hey, time is fluid. If not there would be no conflict. So, who knows, maybe something will change and Pike will be saved… Corny but it could happen…
What I don’t understand… it seems there is a lot of body reconstruction going around. How come they couldn’t help the future Pike?
@41. Jorge: That’s the problem with making this a sequel, where the jigsaw piece that is Pike’s fate must fit what was already established 50 years ago. It’s ironic that in the same episode Michael and Spock decide that the future is not set yet.
I’d have no problem if they decided his fate wasn’t set in stone. Why would a Baby Klingon monk know such things anyway? And why should Pike take it at face value? Take one step back and it doesn’t make any sense except the meta requirements that it happen. Now that he knows that there’s a fault with the equipment, wouldn’t the best course be to order an inspection before setting out on the training cruise?
@32/fullyfunctional: “That conclusion says a lot more about the viewer than the show, in my opinion.”
But did Roisin criticise the show, or the fact that so many commenters want more Pike?
@42/Jorge: “What I don’t understand… it seems there is a lot of body reconstruction going around. How come they couldn’t help the future Pike?”
His future state will be caused by (fictional) delta rays. Perhaps these change the body in such a manner that the usual body reconstruction techniques don’t work. I find that easier to believe than space fungi. I also like the idea that he has some amount of brain damage, e.g. that his inability to communicate is due to aphasia. The brain is such an elusive organ, I can easily imagine that 23rd century technology still can’t repair it.
@43/Sunspear: “Now that he knows that there’s a fault with the equipment, wouldn’t the best course be to order an inspection before setting out on the training cruise?”
Yes, absolutely.
@44 Jana. “But did Roisin criticise the show, or the fact that so many commenters want more Pike?”
I re-read, and you may be right. I just thought it was unfortunate that someone would react that way to an episode like that, with such a powerful moment for a character who has who has been given few so far in the series.
Hey, you guys forgot Bruce Greenwood, who played Capt. Pike with quiet strength and dignity in the first JJ Abrams Star Trek film, long before Discovery Season 2. I thought Greenwood, short as his role was, captured a Pike that I could look up to and admire.
That being said, I love Anson Mount as PIKE. I’m a staunch advocate of a Discovery spin off series featuring Anson Mount as Captain Pike on the Enterprise with Ethan Peck’s Spock and Rebecca Romaine’s Number One.
Gerry: Um, did you read the article you’re commenting on? Ryan mentioned Greenwood right there in it……
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
Thanks for an excellent article. Sometimes Discovery is so extreme, I wonder if they’re not going to the edge and over for the pure entertainment value of it (without a connected, logical basis the the “canon”) but this kind of analysis reassures me (who is not thinking too deeply about it otherwise), that Discovery is indeed solid storytelling and deservedly part of the Star Trek universe.
Aside from that concern, I’ve been enjoying the series immensely regardless, and I have really enjoyed the introduction of this pantheon of new characters. I think that they have truly breathed new life into an old series against the odds. My outlook was much more cynical before I began watching it all. The cinematic production values haven’t hurt, either.
One aspect that hasn’t been considered is the fact that Pike now knows he is invincible up until the accident with the cadets… (Assuming no changes to the timeline, ahem.)
@48. john: “Discovery is indeed solid storytelling…”
That remains to be seen. Last season ended with genocide on the table. This season can still crash and burn in bonkers “We’re EXTreeem!”fashion. Hoping that it doesn’t, of course.
One of the best characters this season on star trek discovery is captain pike . He is by far the best captain of any of the franchise; better than Picard, janeway, and all the rest. I’m blown away on how this character is portrayed. He does not micromanage but has high expectations and believes in his crew. I know how the story is suppose to end for Pike but it better not happen during Discovery’s run. He is one of the main reasons I tune in each and every week.