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The Vulcan neck pinch, colloquially referred to as a Vulcan nerve pinch, was a martial technique developed by Vulcans. It involved applying pressure near the base of the neck, at the shoulder, and nearly instantly rendered the target unconscious, often so fast that the target was unable to cry out, though not always. Being able to perform the nerve pinch was seen as a mark of true Vulcanhood by some. (; )
In at least some cases, the results resembled an extreme trauma to the trapezius nerve bundle, as if the neuro-fibers had been ruptured. ()
The technique did not appear to cause permanent injury.
Relative effectiveness
The pinch was effective on most humanoid species, and even some animals. The only Human to have ever been insensitive to it was Gary Seven. () When used on Human Augments such as , it caused pain, but was not enough to subdue them. () It was proven to be ineffective on robotic androids when Spock took the time to softly try it on Alice, who simply asked him calmly if that gesture had any significance. Vians were also unaffected by the nerve pinch. ()
Use by Vulcans
In 1986, when the senior staff of the former went back in time to acquire a pair of humpback whales, Captain Spock used the nerve pinch on an obnoxious punk playing his music loudly on a boom box while riding a bus, prompting an enthusiastic response from the other passengers. ()
In August of 2152, T'Pol was forced to nerve pinch Dr. Phlox, a Denobulan under the effect of dangerous mind-affecting radiation from a trinary star system. She was unsure at the time if it would work on his species, but it was effective and he thanked her after the crisis, as he was about to perform a cerebral micro-section to determine the cause of a minor headache. ()
Spock once performed the Vulcan nerve pinch on a horse, while his alias "Selek" subdued a Le-matya in the same manner, prompting a young Spock to ask if he thought he'd ever do it as well as Selek did, which the older Vulcan affirmed. Tuvok once pinched a member of Species 8472 that had disguised itself as a Human. (; ; )
Spock once used a two-handed variety of the technique to subdue two opponents: an Andorian and a Tellarite. ()
In 2370, Sakonna used the Vulcan nerve pinch on a Starfleet security guard who was guarding Gul Dukat on Deep Space 9. ()
In the alternate reality, when mutinied against acting captain aboard the , Spock used the nerve pinch to subdue him. ()
Use by non-Vulcans
On some occasions, non-Vulcans have been instructed in the technique. Spock attempted in vain to teach James T. Kirk. On the planet Omega IV, while fighting Cloud William and in his cell, Kirk expressed his appreciation for Spock's neutralization of Sirah using the pinch. ()
Overall, the nerve pinch seemed to be extremely difficult to learn for non-Vulcans, although the android Lieutenant Commander Data was able to master it, as was Captain Jean-Luc Picard, years after the latter's mind meld with Sarek. (; )
Having studied for many years on , Michael Burnham was able to perform the nerve pinch, using it to render Captain Philippa Georgiou unconscious in the course of her attempted mutiny in 2256. ()
Captain Jonathan Archer was also able to perform the nerve pinch while carrying the katra of Surak. ()
Dr. Leonard McCoy, however, was unsuccessful in performing the technique on a security officer while carrying Spock's katra. ()
Constable Odo used the nerve pinch to incapacitate Asoth (though not render him unconscious) to stop him from force-feeding Quark some bad Kohlanese stew, and was observed dispatching a Starfleet security guard using the technique in 2372. ()
The former Borg drone Seven of Nine also displayed the ability to perform it, as shown during a fight with Lieutenant Commander Tuvok in 2374. ()
Less official uses
In 2237, after "Selek" taught young Spock how to execute the pinch, the boy planned to demonstrate his newfound prowess to his schoolmates, who had previously taunted him for not being able to master the maneuver yet. He described his plans to Sarek as having "business to conduct" with them. ()
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Suus Mahna
Tal-shaya
Vulcan death grip
Vulcan neuro-pressure
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Background information
The nerve pinch was devised for the episode , in which it is performed on a duplicate of Kirk. (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 34) In the final draft and revised final draft of the episode's teleplay, the moment of the nerve pinch's first on-screen appearance was described by saying that Spock "kayoed" Kirk's double, and a later line of ultimately unused dialogue had McCoy refer to the double as having received a "rap on the head."
The Vulcan nerve pinch was thought up by Leonard Nimoy, who felt that Spock was too dignified to render someone unconscious by striking them over the head. () When Nimoy was pitching the idea for the neck pinch, the episode's director, Leo Penn, asked about it and Nimoy said that Spock was a graduate of the "Vulcan Institute of Technology." (He had probably conflated this with the Vulcan Science Academy, which Spock was not known to have attended.) There, as Nimoy explained to Penn, Spock had taken a number of courses on Human anatomy. Nimoy also told Penn that Vulcans emitted a kind of energy (he never specified what kind of energy it was, but presumably he meant bio-electrostatic energy, which was probably also used in mind melds) from their fingertips, which, when applied to certain points on a Human's neck, renders the Human unconscious. Though Penn apparently had no idea what Nimoy was talking about, when Nimoy explained it to William Shatner, the latter understood the concept immediately. Thereafter, Nimoy credited Shatner's reaction for having sold the idea of the neck pinch. (25 Year Mission Tour video)
The Vulcan nerve pinch became known as the "Famous Spock Neck Pinch" (or "FSNP") to the TOS production staff. () This term (and abbreviation) was used to refer to the technique in the scripts for the series. (Star Trek Concordance, Citadel ed., p. 166) In the final draft script of "The Naked Time", the nerve pinch was referred to as "the famed Spock hand-pinch." In the final draft script of , it was identified as Spock's "famous squeeze at juncture of neck and shoulder." In the final draft script of , it was referred to as "the famous 'Spock pinch'."
Robert Hewitt Wolfe commented that Odo's use of the Vulcan nerve pinch in "Paradise Lost" was scripted by the writers to avoid having to spend money on Changeling morphing special effects in a scene where Benjamin Sisko is freed from detention. Rene Auberjonois commented that he did not know where Odo had learned the Vulcan nerve pinch, but that "Odo is a man of many talents." ()
Apocrypha
In the ization of , author Vonda N. McIntyre had Admiral James T. Kirk performing a Vulcan nerve pinch to stop one of the 20th century Earth doctors, who tries to prevent Dr. Leonard McCoy from doing a high-tech, non-invasive repair of Pavel Chekov's middle meningeal artery in a hospital scene in that movie. In the novelization, after Kirk successfully uses the nerve pinch, he says, "That never worked before, and will probably never work again."
In the Star Trek RPG, published by Last Unicorn Games, the nerve pinch is part of the martial art Taroon-Ifla, the only known martial art which consists of a single advanced technique. Presumably, Taroon-Ifla includes nearly endless variations and applications of the nerve pinch (the Taroon), making it effective on an assortment of lifeforms and includes less aggressive functions, such as healing techniques similar to acupressure.
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Antimatter
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Antimatter was a generalized term used to describe a state of matter which was different in some significant way from another state of matter. The term applied to any of the following, individually or in combinations:
A subatomic particle of matter with the opposite charge of another particle that has a charge (e.g., an electron);
A subatomic particle of matter that is a variant of, but with very different properties of, another particle (e.g., a ); and/or
Matter which is physically identical at a macro level to, but exists in a parallel universe from, other matter.
Matter/antimatter reaction
See: matter-antimatter reaction
Uses
Antimatter has been used for a variety of purposes. Depending on the type of antimatter in use it can interact with, modify, or destroy normal matter. As a result it has been used for everything from a component of weapons of mass destruction, to a fuel source, to scanning technology, to medical uses.
Aboard the , in the Engineering Systems Database, there were folders titled Antimatter Safety Procedures, Antimatter Generation Replicator Programs, and Antimatter Storage and Loading Protocol. Each of these folders contained technical manuals relevant to the topic. (, okudagram)
In 2366 the non-corporeal s drained antimatter from the antimatter containment pods of the to use it as energy to create their replica of Marla Aster. This was stopped by increasing the shield harmonics to match the antimatter containment effectively severing the Koinonian beam. ()
Antimatter could be transported using a portable magnetic vacuum field chamber, including through the transporter. ()
Antimatter and time
23rd century Federation starships discovered that there was a relationship between some types of antimatter – most notably that used on board – and time. What was observed was that certain controlled implosions of antimatter could result in time disruptions, including travel forward and backward in time. This was experienced in 2266 by the . ()
In 2364, Data had to realign one of Dr. Manheim's systems on Vandor IV with antimatter in order to stop a series of time distortions known as the Manheim Effect. ()
Background information
This article does not attempt to explain antimatter solely in the way we understand it in the 21st century. For instance, in the real world antimatter can also be any of:
a subatomic particle of matter with the opposite linear and angular momentum (which include energy and spin) of another particle that has a linear and angular momentum (e.g., a photon);
a subatomic particle of matter with the opposite magnetic moment of a particle that has a magnetic moment (e.g., a neutron);
a subatomic particle of matter with the opposite baryon number of a particle.
So each of the types of antimatter in the body of the article either is known of today and is consistent with Star Trek, or has been seen in Star Trek and is unknown to or different from 21st century science. For example, today we would say that because it just has mass and directional velocity that the anti-particle of a photon is itself, yet in the is able to produce anti-photons from the deflector dish; clearly a different thing in the episode than a regular photon. Also, the anti-particle of an electron is called a positron these days; by the 24th century it seems to mean something else, hence the alternative term "antielectron".
References
Matter/antimatter engines, containment fields, and the like are in far too many episodes to enumerate. Pertinent references for this article, however, are:
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antimatter containment
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antimatter pod
antimatter radiation
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antimatter tank
antimatter waste
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Beta Thoridar was a star system in the Beta Quadrant.
In 2256, the system's location was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the . It was located within the territory of the Klingon Empire. ()
A year later, the system's location was labeled on the star chart showing the trajectory of Lieutenant Spock's shuttle. ()
In 2258, the system's location was labeled on a star chart seen on the main viewscreen of the . ()
In 2259, the location of this system was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. This system's symbol was a red Klingon Empire logo, indicating its affiliation with the empire. ()
In late 2367, at the start of the Klingon Civil War, the House of Duras gathered a large fleet near this system while preparing to launch an offensive against Gowron's forces. ()
In 2399, the system's location in neutral space was labeled on a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. ()
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The Mempa system was a Klingon system located in the Mempa sector, in the Beta Quadrant. ()
While tracking the whereabouts of the Klingon vessel that kidnapped , Rhys charted three possible courses, all passing near the Mempa system, as well as the nearby Morska system and Rura Penthe. ()
In 2256, this star's location was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the . The star was located in the territory of the Klingon Empire. ()
A year later, its location was labeled on the star chart showing the trajectory of Lieutenant Spock's shuttle. ()
In 2259, the location of this system was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. This system's symbol was a red Klingon Empire logo, indicating its affiliation with the empire. ()
The system was the location of several key battles during the Klingon Civil War of 2367-2368. Forces loyal to Gowron suffered a major defeat against the House of Duras in the Mempa system during the conflict. The battle ended decisively in the Duras' favor, and Gowron's forces were sent into full retreat. Sela assured B'Etor that Gowron's forces would not be a threat in the region for some time. ()
However, Martok's bold leadership on that day kept the battle from turning into a complete rout. Miles O'Brien, posing as a Klingon named Pahash, claimed to the Changeling to have fought at Mempa. Ironically, in a way he had "fought" with Martok, since he had served on the , which was nearby during the Klingon Civil War, supported Gowron, and ultimately aided in exposing the Duras family. Martok, who was not entirely convinced, recalling Mempa, stating that "many noble deeds were done on that dark day." ()
In 2399, the system's location was labeled on a star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. ()
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According to the scripts for "Redemption" and "Redemption II", the pronunciation for Mempa was "MEM-pah".
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 61-62) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Stellar Cartography", pp. 27, 30; "Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), this was a binary system with a G-class star and M-class star. According to a map of the Klingon Empire – prepared by the Scribe K'Tark for the Klingon High Council in the Year of Kahless 893 (2266) – Mempa was identified as a Klingon star.
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According to the Forged in Fire, the Mempa system was home to the humanoid race which had been conquered by the Klingons. They were known to be experts in genetic engineering.
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The IKS Hegh'ta was a Klingon Bird-of-Prey that was in service with the Klingon Defense Force in the mid-24th century. In 2367, the Hegh'ta was under the command of Captain Kurn.
In that year, the Hegh'ta fought for the forces loyal to Gowron during the Klingon Civil War in late 2367, successfully assisting in repelling an attack on Gowron's flagship, the .
By early 2368, Worf had been assigned to the Hegh'ta as tactical officer. During an engagement with two other enemy Birds-of-Prey, Kurn was able to elude and destroy both vessels by flying close to the surface of a star, then jumping to warp, triggering a solar flare which consumed both pursuing ships, ()
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Translated from the Klingon language, the ship's name means "everlasting death". There is also a location with the same name. The pronunciation for the name, according to the script for both episodes, was "heg-TA".
The scenes aboard the Hegh'ta bridge were filmed on Paramount Stage 5 on Thursday . The set was reused and previously used to portray Chang's Bird-of-Prey in .
The RPG sourcebook gives its registry as IKC-55342.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 65) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), there was a system named Hegh'ta, which might be the possible origin for the name of this starship, in the Beta Quadrant. The system's primary was a G-class star.
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Fleet Admiral Shanthi was a senior officer at Starfleet Command in the 2360s and 2370s, posted at Starbase 234.
During the Klingon Civil War in early 2368, Fleet Admiral Shanthi met with Captain Jean-Luc Picard to discuss his plan to blockade the Klingon-Romulan border using a task force to establish a tachyon detection grid. Following approval from the Federation Council, Shanthi authorized Picard's plan, which would lead to the downfall of the House of Duras. ()
In 2370, Shanthi was posted at Starbase 247. She was contacted by Captain Picard after the incident involving the and an illegal Federation phasing cloaking device. She assured Picard that the leading figure in the incident, Admiral Erik Pressman and several other officers at Starfleet Intelligence would face a full inquiry and probably a general court martial. ()
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Shanthi was played by actress Fran Bennett.
The script for "Redemption II" identifies her as being the head of Starfleet, and Picard's captain's log entry at the beginning of the episode refers to her as fleet admiral, despite an apparent costume error in which Shanthi wears the rank pips of a vice admiral. Shanthi is again referred to as fleet admiral by Picard in "The Pegasus".
According to the call sheet for Monday , Bennett was up to reprise her role as Shanthi for the fifth season episode but was replaced by Karen Hensel as Admiral Brackett.
The first draft script of Unification I calls her "Shanti".
Apocrypha
She also appears in the Pocket DS9 Hollow Men, chairing the first Allied talks with the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians.
The novel gives her the first name Taela and reveals that she retired from Starfleet sometime before 2380.
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USS Wyoming
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The USS Wyoming (NCC-43730) was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Tuvok was assigned to the Wyoming when he returned to Starfleet in 2349. ()
The Wyoming later fought in the Dominion War. In 2374, the starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command. The name of the reporting ship and its registry number and the casualties were named on the "Personnel Status Update" chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom. (, okudagram)
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USS Victory
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The USS Victory (NCC-9754) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Captain Zimbata was the commanding officer. The ship was named for the famed . ()
Geordi La Forge and Susanna Leijten were assigned to this ship in the early 2360s. In 2362, it investigated the disappearance of the Federation colony on Tarchannen III. ()
The Victory rendezvoused with the , at spatial coordinates 3629 by 584, in 2365. ()
In 2367, the Victory was on a stellar nuclei population survey. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" in the bridge. ( okudagram)
In 2369, the Victory was on a stellar nuclei population survey. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D observation lounge. ( okudagram)
The Victory later fought in the Dominion War. In 2374, the starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command. The name of the reporting ship and its registry and the casualties were named on the "Personnel Status Update" chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom. (, okudagram)
During her career, Petra Aberdeen served on the Victory. ()
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The registry was derived from the chart in "Brothers" and from the sensor log in "Identity Crisis".
The USS Victory was additionally mentioned in a deleted scene from . ( special features)
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According to the video game Starship Creator, the USS Victory also participated in the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367. She was able to escape total destruction but suffered heavy damage. The first officer was killed.
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The USS Strata was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This geo-terraforming vessel was under the command of Captain Jason Stone. Dr. Martin Rackham was the starship's chief medical officer.
The Strata was the first assignment of the then Ensign Chu'lak in 2355. This ship was named in his personnel file. ()
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The Saladin-class destroyer was a type of starship operated by Starfleet for the during the 23rd century.
The Saladin consisted of a saucer section and only a single nacelle. Each ship was similar in exterior design to that of a vessel of the 2260s. (; )
Ships of the class
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Background information
The Saladin-class starship was a design originally created by Franz Joseph in his Star Fleet Technical Manual, which lists the USS Saladin as the prototype of the class. The production staff of and used some of the ships in the Technical Manual as background display images looped on monitor screens on the bridge.
According to the Star Fleet Technical Manual, the only difference between the scout vessel and her sister class, the Saladin-class destroyer, were her armaments and personnel. Where the Saladin-class housed three phaser banks and two photon torpedo launchers, the Hermes scout only housed one bank of two phasers, and the Saladin-class had a slightly bigger crew.
Intended to be merely background decoration, freeze frames and close examination have shown that the images used were taken from the Joseph book with little or no modification. This was confirmed later by Rick Sternbach on a few occasions on 's forums.
Apocrypha
In the novel The Final Nexus, the USS Cochise (NCC-530) was a Saladin-class destroyer.
In the novel Dreadnought!, the USS Pompeii (NCC-424) was a Saladin-class destroyer.
The Saladin-class is also present in the Star Fleet Universe series of games. It served Starfleet for decades until supplanted by the Ortega-class war destroyer in the General War. The old destroyer shipyards were turned over to the construction of the Kearsarge-class light cruiser.
A nearly identical design is seen in Star Trek: Legacy, named the . The Apollo-class lacks the deflector/sensor dish found on the Saladin, as well as the "flush vent" details on the dorsal connection.
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The USS Republic (NCC-1371) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2254, James T. Kirk served as an ensign aboard the Republic, along with Benjamin Finney, a friend of Kirk's. During a duty shift, Finney accidentally left a circuit open to the atomic matter piles which could have resulted in the destruction of the ship; Kirk logged the incident, and Finney was denied promotion. ()
In 2259, When Captain Christopher Pike looked over Kirk's personnel file, he noticed that the Republic was listed as one of Kirk's assignments. ()
In 2293, the Republic was assigned a Neutral Zone patrol mission. The ship was named on a Starship Mission Assignments chart on the bridge. ()
By the early 24th century, the Republic was assigned as a training ship for Starfleet Academy cadets. Although it continued to serve the fleet through as late as 2374, it had not left the Sol system since the 2320s. ()
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In , Kirk says that Captain Garrovick was his commanding officer from the day he left the Starfleet Academy until his death in 2257 while on the , suggesting that Garrovick may have captained the Republic. However, multiple mentions in other episodes date Kirk's Academy years from 2252 to 2257. This suggests that Kirk was assigned to Republic as an ensign while he was still in the Academy. This is also consistent with him saying he was a "young lieutenant" when he visited Neural in 2255. () Garrovick, therefore, may not have been Republics captain.
Although many reference sources included Republic as a heavy cruiser, its status in canon is, to date, uncertain. Kirk himself stated in the episode the ship's nomenclature as "United Starship Republic, number 1371". Theories about Republic began early on, with reference works published in the 1960s. Actually, these theories were backed up by production sources such as producers D.C. Fontana and Robert Justman, who composed a fourteen ship list at the start of its second season, belonging to the Constitution-class, then still referred to as by them and including Republic. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 165) When he embarked on his influential "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article and became aware of the original reference, TOS fan Greg Jein, like many other contemporary fans, proceeded from the assumption that Republic was no longer in service as a "front line" ship, as its registry number was not included on a starship status chart in Commodore 's office at Starbase 11 in "Court Martial". However, Jein has included the ship in an effort he made to marry Constitution-class vessels to established registry numberss, citing Republic as an older "Mark VI" sub-class variant. Yet, as the ship was never shown on screen (nor did the remastered version of the series allow for retconning the ship into any of the episodes, as was the case with ), either as the ship proper or in any graphical representation, its configuration was never established in canon.
Republics registry number is, as above indicated, derived from "Court Martial" itself, where Kirk explicitly states the number in dialogue. Senior Scenic Artist Michael Okuda – who is, like Greg Jein, a TOS fan – was also aware of the original reference and used the correct registry in his below-mentioned "Operation Retrieve" mission charts, and thereby overturning Jein's assumption. Through reference books he subsequently wrote and following the original intent of the TOS producers, Okuda has propagated the notion that Republic belonged to the Constitution-class. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 158; vol. 2, p. 217) This notion has been adhered to in every (in-universe) reference work since, encompassing the Star Trek Fact Files and the more recent Haynes Enterprise Manual.
Ronald D. Moore, also an avid TOS fan and the writer of "Valiant", stated that the mention of Republic in that episode was probably to the same ship that Kirk served on. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 217) It was debatable whether a ship that old would still be useful as a training ship over 125 years later, except possibly as a study of antiquities. However, several 21st century nautical services from a wide variety of seafaring nations observe the practice of continuing to use sailing ships as training vessels (the , for example, has used the for cadet training since the 1940s). In , Geordi La Forge mentioned that many systems are essentially unchanged since Montgomery Scott's time; if this was so, a ship as old as USS Republic, especially if regularly refitted and upgraded, would be just as useful as a brand new ship in that regard.
According to a ship listing included in the plans, and not seen in the extended cut of the sixth movie, Republic was commanded by , and this ship was located in Sector 22956. The ship's captain was named after Production Designer Herman Zimmerman.
Apocrypha
An early from Marvel's series depicted this as a vessel, based on the illustration of that class by Rick Sternbach in the Spaceflight Chronology reference book (and described in John M. Ford's The Final Reflection). This would make sense for the registry number and the general era the ship existed during; however, it bears no regard for the creator and producer intentions, nor was it confirmed by any filmed Star Trek, since these licensed books and materials are non-canon.
"Who's Who in Star Trek 1" gave its registry as NCC-1373.
At the beginning of the video game , the Enterprise engaged the Constitution-class starship Republic in a mock battle. In the game, the commander of Republic, Captain , sends the player his congratulations if Republic was defeated in the exercise. If the player lost the mock battle, he sent the message "Better luck next time…" Later in the game, Enterprise found Republic adrift, wrecked by a duplicate version of Enterprise, her crew slaughtered and the ship in a decaying orbit.
In the Star Fleet Battles game series, the USS Republic was near a convoy on the first day of the Romulan entry in the General War and successfully fought off five Romulan ships with the help of a police ship and the convoy itself. The story and game scenario were entitled "And To The Republic" and the scenario was also rewritten for the Federation Commander game system.
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The USS Rhode Island (NCC-72701) was a 25th century refit Federation starship operated by Starfleet in an alternate timeline.
Whereas the original Nova-class from the 2370s was limited to a maximum warp factor of warp 8 and was considered a planetary research vessel, the Rhode Island was designed for long term deep space assignments.
The Rhode Island was commanded by Captain Harry Kim, and assigned to a four-year exploration mission. In 2404, the Rhode Island defended Admiral Janeway's shuttlecraft when it came under attack by two Negh'Var warships. ()
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Appendices
Background information
The Rhode Island was created by Robert Bonchune of Foundation Imaging from the existing modification of the . His modifications included a different bridge dome and the filling in of the gap in front of the primary hull's deflector dish. The engine nacelles and escape pods were also altered.
Foundation Imaging assigned the registry legible on the hull. () The master systems display, not legible on screen but auctioned and sold for £2,000 GBP in , featured the registry "NVC-1029."
The Rhode Island was named after the state of Rhode Island, as according to Larry Nemecek, the name was chosen as a joke; even though Harry Kim finally gets to command his own starship, it's still only named after the smallest state in the United States.
Apocrypha
In Star Trek Online, the Rhode Island is the lead vessel of a variant on the Nova-class, dubbed (the Science Vessel Refit in game mechanics). In the 2014 Delta Rising expansion, Harry Kim, now a captain, commands the vessel in the year 2410.
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The IKS Bortas was a Klingon attack cruiser that was in service with the Klingon Defense Force in the mid-24th century.
In 2366, the was contacted by the Bortas when Captain Picard requested reinforcements prior to entering the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate a potential Romulan military base on Nelvana III. This show of force prevented a confrontation with Tomalak. ()
The Bortas was later Gowron's flagship around and during the Klingon Civil War in 2367-68. It came to accompany the Enterprise as it arrived to Qo'noS for Gowron's ascension. Later, while Worf was on board, the ship took heavy damage during a surprise attack by ships loyal to the House of Duras at the beginning of the war, but drove off the attackers with assistance from the . After Worf resigned from Starfleet to fight alongside Gowron, he was initially assigned as tactical officer aboard the Bortas. ()
In late 2369, Gowron traveled aboard the Bortas to rendezvous with the Enterprise-D when the latter ship was transporting the supposed reincarnation of Kahless the Unforgettable to Qo'noS. ()
Personnel
IKS Bortas personnel
Background information
In the Klingon language, bortaS means "revenge." According to the script for "Redemption", the pronunciation for this word was "bor-TAS". An early draft of the script for "The Defector" mentioned the name Patakt, which later changed to Bortas by the time of the final airing of the episode.
The Vor'cha-class ship that transported K'mpec in may also have been the Bortas.
The RPG sourcebook gives its registry as IKC-11546.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 64) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), there was a star system named Bortas, which might be the possible origin for the name of this starship, in the Beta Quadrant. The system's primary was a G-class star. It was the site of a historic battle.
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The Tyra system was a star system held by the Dominion during the Dominion War.
During the first few months of the war, the Federation and Klingon forces were suffering staggering defeats consistently. With the Dominion pushing deeper into Federation territory, the Seventh Fleet was dispatched to the Tyra system in an attempt to prevent the Dominion from moving further into their space.
Comprised of 112 vessels, the Federation was confident the fleet would be successful at Tyra. However, the fleet was defeated and suffered incredible losses; 98 ships were destroyed or damaged beyond repair, only fourteen ships made it back to Federation territory. The battle badly damaged the allies' morale. ()
Kagan, a hologram in a Section 31 holoprogram, claimed to have been with the Seventh Fleet at Tyra, where he said he had lost a lot of friends. Julian Bashir also knew several people who were killed in the Tyra system. ()
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The Battle of Betazed was a surprise Dominion offensive against the Federation member world of Betazed during the Dominion War in 2374. It was an unmitigated disaster for the Federation and its allies, plunging the war into its darkest hour.
The battle
The Dominion assembled their forces in the Kalandra sector, which Starfleet Intelligence had believed was too far from their supply lines to present a major threat. The attack caught the Tenth Fleet, assigned to protect Betazed and its outlying colonies, out of position on a training exercise. The Dominion met little resistance from Betazed's obsolete planetary defense system, and was able to conquer the planet in a mere ten hours.
Beyond the immediate loss of a major Federation member planet, the battle had dire strategic implications for the Federation. With Betazed under its control, the Dominion was now in a position to strike at the heart of Federation territory, including such core worlds as Andor, Tellar, Alpha Centauri, and . ()
Aftermath
A few weeks later, the Dominion had solidified its hold on the Kalandra Sector and were trying to establish a supply line running through Betazoid space into the Argolis Cluster, which would allow them to launch an attack on . Starfleet planned to have the Seventh Fleet intercept them near the Tibor Nebula. ()
Later in 2374, the Second Fleet launched at least three attacks against the Dominion occupation forces, but were unable to make progress due to the Dominion continually reinforcing and fortifying their positions on the planet. ()
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Apocrypha
In Tales of the Dominion War, the short story "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned" tells of what Lwaxana Troi was doing up to the battle and invasion, including mentioning the unfortunate yet heroic death of Mister Homn.
The story is continued in The Battle of Betazed, a novel that tells of the fight to recapture Betazed from the Dominion in detail. Elias Vaughn, Deep Space 9's new first officer in the relaunch novels, is instrumental in helping the crew retake the planet.
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Galor-class cruisers were the primary class of warship used by the Cardassian military during the latter half of the 24th century.
History
Commonly referred to as "warships" or "war vessels", this class was also designated by the Cardassians and the Maquis as "cruisers". (; ; )
During the late 2360s, these warships had at least three sub-classes, with the Galor-class, Type-3 considered to be "top of the line." ()
During the Dominion War, these vessels were classified by Starfleet as "destroyers" and by the Dominion as "assault vessels". ()
In early 2374, the Cardassians were constructing a number of these vessels at their Monac shipyard. ()
Technical data
Physical arrangement
The overall appearance of Galor-class was roughly anhk-shaped, with a half moon structure that sat atop the primary hull, which made up the ship's port and starboard s, and further contained the warp nacelles. An additional structure sat atop the forward most section of the ship, where the bridge sat.
The primary hull was also the main component used in the design of the counterparts, which bore an additional superstructure above the Galor-class spaceframe. ()
Tactical systems
The arsenals of Galor-class warships varied, though typically they were armed with numerous phaser arrays.
Following the Cardassian evacuation of Terok Nor, it was said that the defensive capabilities of the newly renamed Deep Space 9 "could not defend itself against one Cardassian warship." ()
Although the Galor-class vessels were considerably inferior to the Federation's starships, they proved to be very effective against starships, as well as Klingon Birds-of-Prey. (; )
In 2369, Captain Edward Jellico ordered a fleet of Galor-class starships to leave the McAllister C-5 Nebula one-by-one, ejecting their primary phaser coils. ()
In 2370, Cardassian colonists living in the Demilitarized Zone modified Cardassian shuttles, which they equipped with Galor-class phaser banks to protect their colonial interests. ()
While recalling Maquis tactics against the Cardassians, where it was explained how they used to lure them into the Badlands, B'Elanna Torres noted that once inside, "those Galor-class cruisers had nowhere to run." () This was notably the case with the Vetar, which upon observing its pursuit of the Val Jean into the Badlands, that "Gul Evek must feel daring today." ()
The Galor-class was also utilized in the mirror universe by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance where they were described by Intendant as being "quick and powerful". These vessels, however, were not without their weaknesses, specifically, their targeting systems could be easily fooled. ()
Additional systems
In 2367, the Cardassian warships lacked the ability to read Federation starships transponder codes, an ability the latter possessed. The Cardassians were granted this ability when Captain Picard gave Gul Macet the Federation's codes to track the . ()
Federation starships also had superior terminal interface systems. ()
As well, their transporting system operated with active feed pattern buffers. ()
Their aft shield generators were located in the ship's "tail", near where the "prong" was attached. ()
Interior design
Main bridge
Ships of the class
Named
Aldara
Kraxon
Prakesh
Reklar
Trager
Vetar
Unnamed
Unnamed Galor-class starships
Benil's warship
Dolak's warship
Jasad's warship
Nador's starship
Ocett's war vessel
Toran's warship
Appendices
Appearances
(mirror universe)
(mirror universe)
(LCARS display)
(hologram)
Background information
The Galor-class warship first appeared in "The Wounded", and was first identified by name in "Ensign Ro".
For information on the studio model, please see Galor-class model.
Brandon MacDougall posted the real-world length of the LightWave model he built for the sixth and seventh seasons of DS9: "I loaded the 3D model up and she's around 368m [1207 feet]. I would've checked with Rick [Sternbach] at one time regarding the size when laying it out." A camera test model from an auction contains a handwritten note: "Cardassian 1200 ft [366 meters]". Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes noted that the "Galor is about 1,200 ft.
When asked whether he had a definitive size, Rick Sternbach replied:
Definitive? Not really, but I can try to make a guess. I pegged it at ~371m in the DS9TM, and just now measuring a reduced xerox of my starboard elevation ortho (and assuming a humanoid-comfortable deck height of ~3.8m), I get 379.6m, not far off from what I thought for the book. Will there ever be an authoritative figure? Probably not, but the number I get could be considered "original intent," ...
A couple of sources imply that the Galor was intended to be approximately ¾ as long as the Enterprise-D. An article in the magazine Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models #16 states that the Galor miniature was in scale with the four-foot miniature of the Enterprise-D. Ed Miarecki also recalled such a consensus between him and Rick Sternbach. If so, the overall length can be estimated at (~37 inches / ~49.25 inches) * 2,108 feet = ~1,580 feet (~480 meters). Larry Nemecek likewise wrote that "Rick S[ternbach]'s original length was 1,587 ft, or @ ¾ the length of the Galaxy-class."
Technical Manual
The following specifications, which describes this vessel as a Galor-class attack cruiser, comes exclusively from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual:
Production Base: Cardassia Prime Orbital Three Assembly Facility
Type: Medium Cruiser
Accommodation: 300 plus flight crew and troops
Power Plant: One and possibly two M/A warp systems; three or more impulse systems
Dimensions: Length, 371.88 meters; beam, 192.33 meters; height, 59 meters
Mass: 1,678,000 metric tons (est.)
Performance: Warp 9.6 (observed)
Armament: Eight or more spiral-wave disruptors; one large aft disruptor wave cannon; possibly other weapons
Apocrypha
According to the RPG sourcebook, the Galor-class was named after a mythical Cardassian warrior.
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Ja'rod was a male Klingon and citizen of the Klingon Empire in the 24th century. He was the father of Duras, Lursa, and B'Etor, and the leader of the House of Duras. He was also an old and bitter enemy of Mogh and the House of Mogh.
In 2346, he moved to the colony on Khitomer. He had decided to collaborate with the Romulan Star Empire. He transmitted the colony's defense codes to the Romulans, who used the codes to lower the colony's deflector shield and attack. In the ensuing massacre, over 4,000 Klingons were killed, including Ja'rod and Mogh.
Ja'rod's responsibility was unknown to the Klingons for the next twenty years until a Romulan record of the attack on the outpost was discovered in 2366. However, by this time Ja'rod's son Duras had become politically powerful on the Klingon High Council, and the High Council chose to officially blame Mogh for the disaster instead, in order to keep the Empire from breaking into civil war. ()
On the family crest of the House of Duras, Ja'rod was represented by a symbol. ()
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Eugene "Gene" Lee Coon , commonly known as "Gene L. Coon", sometimes credited under the pseudonym "Lee Cronin", was a writer and producer for . He produced the first season of the series from to and the second season from to , earning him a 1967 Emmy Award nomination.
Coon was hired as line producer in , when associate producer / story editor John D.F. Black left, and Gene Roddenberry felt he needed someone to handle everyday production business and do re-writes of the scripts, or else he and Robert Justman would soon be unable to cope up with the demanding work. He was Roddenberry's fourth choice for the job, as Fred Freiberger, Samuel A. Peeples, and James Goldstone all declined the offer. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, p. 245)
Upon being hired by Roddenberry, an enthusiastic Coon had nothing but praise for the strictly to scientific believability adhering creator of the series,
"Gene created a totally new universe. He invented a starship, which works, by the way, and is a logical progression from what we know today. He created customs, morals, modes of speaking, a complete technology. We have a very rigid technology on the show. We know how fast we can go. We know what we use for fuel. We know what our weapons will do. And Gene invented all these things. He did a monumental job of creation. He created an entire galaxy, and an entire rule book for operating within that galaxy, with very specific laws governing behavior, manners, customs, as well as science and technology. Now, that's a hell of a job. He didn't create a show. He created a universe, and it works, and it works well. This was a massive, titanic job of creation. One of the most impressive feats of its kind that I've ever seen. You can submit our ship or our technology or anything you want to NASA and they will say, "Well, it's pretty far out, but I don't see why it shouldn't work." Nobody can tell us that it's scientifically impossible or that it won't work." (The Making of Star Trek, p. 74)
The lavish praise for Roddenberry notwithstanding, Coon himself contributed substantially to the "totally new universe", as much of the framework of the Star Trek universe, was established under Coon's tenure on the series; the Klingons were introduced (), the galactic governing body United Federation of Planets was named (), Starfleet Command was firmly established as the 's operating authority (), and the Prime Directive was first articulated (), as well as introducing Zefram Cochrane (), Khan Noonien Singh, and the Augments (). James T. Kirk actor, William Shatner, has flat-out attributed the creation of all of these to Coon in his book Star Trek Memories (1995, p. 219).
Besides writing and producing the series, Coon often did uncredited rewrites on the scripts, just like he did in The Wild Wild West. (The Star Trek Compendium) He was also known for his ability to write scripts in a very short time. For example, Coon wrote over the course of four days. (The World of Star Trek)
Coon left the series mid-season 2, partly because of being tired and worn-out by the constantly exhausting work, and partly because of his dispute with Roddenberry, who disliked the more light-hearted, comedic approach taken by the show under Coon's guidance (especially the three straight-out comedy episodes, , , and ). Despite leaving the series as producer and head writer, Coon continued writing for Star Trek, using his pseudonym "Lee Cronin". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) For all Coon's positive contributions, one of his later episodes, , ironically turned out to be one of the least, if not the least, appreciated Original Series episodes.
Coon was invited, by D.C. Fontana, to write for but declined her offer, being uninterested in it. As such, he was one of only a few people who turned down the invite. () Nevertheless, in his stead he suggested his friend and last student/protegé, Russell Bates, which turned out to be an inspired suggestion, as his episode won the sole Emmy Award either Original Crew television series had won. In a short 2008 vidcast interview, given for Larry Nemecek's TrekLand blog, Bates related that his Emmy-winning episode had been a subtle homage to what Bates believed to be his mentor's Original Series episode . Bates was only partially wrong in his beliefs, as that episode, while not conceived by Coon, was heavily revised by him for it to become the episode as ultimately featured.
Gene Coon died in 1973, before witnessing for himself the spectacular resurgence in syndication of the series he so much helped to take shape. Had he lived, Coon might have come to regret the glowing praise he had for Roddenberry back in 1968, as Roddenberry himself had never been able to bring himself to return the compliment, and worse. As it turned out, Coon himself had not been able to counteract Roddenberry's "revisionist" (typified as such by former colleague David Gerrold in the 2014 documentary William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) absconding of his contributions during the latter's vigorous Star Trek convention and lecture campaigning during the entire 1970s and early 1980s, more or less claiming Coon's contributions to Star Trek as his own, after Roddenberry had belatedly realized that his contributions were among the most popular for Star Trek, and which had made the second season so beloved in the first place. By consistently keeping Coon's name under wraps all this time, Roddenberry nearly succeeded in relegating Coon to oblivion, were it not for others, who had worked closely with Coon at the time, like Shatner, Herb Solow, and Justman, who were of a different mind, refusing to let Roddenberry get away with it, in such writings as Star Trek Memories (dedicating an entire chapter to him, significantly entitled, "The Unsung Hero"), and Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. In the latter book (1997, p. 430), Solow has summarized this state of affairs as follows, "My displeasure grew over the years as he reinvented the origins of Star Trek, further enlarging the Star Trek legend and the Gene Roddenberry myth. While there is no denying that Gene created the root, the core from which the series grew, there were other important contributors to its growth: Gene Coon, Bob Justman, Matt Jefferies, and me [also including Leonard Nimoy's portrayal of Spock, the "brightest of all stars in the Star Trek universe", according to Solow]. Unfortunately, the credit for our contributions was washed away in the wake of Gene's disinclination to honor them, and by doing so, he assumed their authorship."
Though both books were published after Roddenberry's death, Shatner actually took it up a notch while the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" was still alive. Even though he had not nearly as large a bone to pick with Roddenberry as, for example, his co-star Leonard Nimoy had, Shatner apparently felt damned if he would let Roddenberry get away with the perceived injustice. On shortly before celebrating the 100th episode of , the Producers Building at the former Desilu studio lot was renamed "Gene Roddenberry Building", and Shatner was one of the speakers at the dedication ceremony. During his speech, Shatner purposely dropped Coon's name a few times, in an effort to embarrass Roddenberry. Very shortly after Roddenberry's death five months later, Shatner, not in the slightest rueful, explained himself, "In my opinion, Gene Coon had more to do with the infusion of life into Star Trek than any other single person. Gene Roddenberry's instincts for creating the original package are unparalleled. He put it together, hired the people and the concept was his and set in motion by him, but after 13 shows other people took over. Gene Coon spent a year and set the tenor of the show and there were several other producers who were writer/producers who defined its character. Gene [Roddenberry] was more in the background as other people actively took over." (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 39) Shatner in particular, has not let the issue slide, nor did he mellow over time, when he, as late as 2008, wrote in even harsher tone in his Up Till Now autobiography, "After the first thirteen episodes writer/producer Gene Coon was brought in and Roddenberry became the executive producer, meaning he was more of a supervisor than working on the show day -to-day. After that his primary job seemed to be exploiting Star Trek in every possible way."
Others have come to agree (in principle) with Shatner and company, as Coon has been endowed with meaningful monikers like "The Other Gene" (; ), "The Half of Star Trek's Genes" (By Fontana ), and specifically, "The Forgotten Gene", popularized by Mark A. Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett, who had the sobriquet prominently featured in the credit roll of their popular 1998 Star Trek inspired comedy/parody, (which featured Shatner), all of them ensuring that Coon's Star Trek legacy is currently not "forgotten".
Career outside Star Trek
The eldest son of US Army Sgt. Merle Jack "Pug" Coon and decorator Erma Gay Noakes, Eugene Lee Coon was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, on January 7, 1924. At four years of age, he showed talent, singing on the radio at WOAW AM in Omaha. He knew twenty-four songs, including one in French and one in German. As his boyhood went on, he was a member of the Gage County 4-H Club and the Boy Scouts of America. He later attended Omaha Technical High School and participated in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), also playing in the school band. During this time, he was also a teenage newscaster for KWBE AM in Beatrice. He later moved, with his parents and younger brothers, Merle Jack Coon, Jr. and Bloise Newell Coon, to Glendale, California. Another brother died at ten years old when they still lived in Beatrice. His father found employment there working with poultry, and Coon transferred to Glendale High School.
During World War II, Coon served stateside in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946. Thereafter, he remained in the Marines as a reservist while studying radio communications at Glendale Junior College, where he performed in a production of The Night of January 16th. Coon attended and, in 1948, graduated from, the Frederich H. Speare Professional School of Radio Broadcasting in Hollywood, California. Coon's former protégé Russell Bates has, in 2008, filled in some additional details on Coon's earlier life, which had hitherto been unknown. He possibly met Gene Roddenberry as he worked on several television productions such as in the late 1950s and early 1960s, among others Have Gun – Will Travel and The Lieutenant. Following additional studies at the University of Iowa, he returned to active duty during the Korean War in 1950. He received additional training as a war reporter as well as running a pharmacy and building houses. He wrote about many of his experiences in the novels Meanwhile Back At The Front and The Short End of the Stick.
Upon his demobilization in 1952, Coon found work first as a radio newscaster before turning to freelance writing under the mentorship of Los Angeles Times reporter Gene Sherman. He also covered atomic bomb tests in Las Vegas, including Operation Big Shot. From 1954 to 1959, he operated a pharmacy at the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and North Ardmore Avenue; during this period, Sherman covered his pharmacy exploits in Page 2 Cityside column for the newspaper. Sherman also allowed Coon to have a guest spot promoting Meanwhile Back at the Front in the column he (Sherman) wrote for The Farmer's Market, using the pen name "Dick Kidson."
Beginning in 1956, Coon was primarily involved in scripting teleplays for popular western and action television shows, including Dragnet (1951), Wagon Train (1957), Maverick (1957), and Bonanza (1959). At Universal in the early 1960s, he turned McHale's Navy (1962) from a one-hour drama into a successful thirty-minute sitcom. Together with the writer Les Colodny, Coon floated the idea for The Munsters (1964), as a satirical spin-off from The Donna Reed Show (1958), to MCA chairman Lew Wasserman. The result of this last, whose format was worked out by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward and whose characters and situations were developed by Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, was yet another hit show. MCA, then the parent company of Universal Studios, produced the show through its Revue TV and Kayro-Vue Productions banners.
In 1957 he wrote two films for Universal Pictures, The Girl in the Kremlin and Man in the Shadow. Both films featured William Schallert in the cast, while the latter co-starred Orson Welles and also featured Paul Fix. He also wrote the script for the 1964 film (featuring Seymour Cassel) – best known for being Ronald Reagan's final acting role before entering politics. Coon began to write for television in the late 1950s. Among his many contributions, he wrote two episodes of Zorro, both of them featuring Ken Lynch, an episode of My Favorite Martian (starring Ray Walston), and an episode of Have Gun – Will Travel, on which Gene Roddenberry served as one of the leading writers. He also wrote an episode of Bonanza which featured Leonard Nimoy and another episode which featured Michael Forest and Anthony Caruso.
Following his tenure on Star Trek, Coon produced the series It Takes a Thief, which co-starred Malachi Throne. Novice writer Glenn A. Larson served on the series, and Coon took him on as an apprentice, helping him develop the story line of Adama's Ark, which evolved into the classic Battlestar Galactica science fiction series a decade later. Larson, whose creation evolved into a full-fledged franchise of its own over time, was grateful for "Coon's perception of science fiction". He also wrote an episode of The Sixth Sense featuring William Shatner, and two episodes of the Harve Bennett-produced The Mod Squad, starring Tige Andrews and Clarence Williams III, and directed by Lawrence Dobkin. With Gene Roddenberry, Coon wrote The Questor Tapes, an unsold 1974 pilot which was directed by Richard Colla and featured Majel Barrett and Walter Koenig; Robert Foxworth played the title character. Data, the android from The Next Generation, was based on Questor. Though the series was not picked up, it did earn him, posthumously, and Roddenberry a 1975 Hugo Award nomination in the category Best Dramatic Presentation. Coon died before the project was completed, and D.C. Fontana's novelization of the pilot is dedicated to his memory.
Coon divorced his first wife, Joy, in 1968, and married his radio school sweetheart, model-actress Jacqueline Mitchell. Joy died one year later of cancer, and refused to allow her ex-husband to visit her in the hospital. Coon was shattered by the event. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 347-349, 428) Coon, a chain smoker of cigarillos, died of lung cancer in 1973, only a week after being diagnosed. He visited Robert Justman's office one day, wearing a portable oxygen tank and mask, gasping and coughing. Justman urged him to go in for medical tests, despite the fact that Coon said his breathing difficulties stemmed from the "Goddamned LA smog." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 428-429)
A young writer named Justin Murphy wrote and self-published the book Gene L. Coon: The Unsung Hero of Star Trek, taking his cue from Shatner's similarly titled autobiography chapter. Chronicling his early upbringing in Beatrice, Nebraska and adolescence in Glendale, California. Along with his early careers as a pharmacist and freelance reporter before his eventual screenwriting career and stint on Star Trek. It is available on Amazon Kindle. The audio version is available through Amazon.com, Audible.com, and iTunes, narrated by Star Trek actor and lifelong fan Jack Nolan. On the weekend of, March 2-4, 2018, there was an event honoring Gene L. Coon in his hometown of Beatrice, Nebraska.
Star Trek credits
Writing / co-writing credits
TOS, as Gene L. Coon:
(teleplay)
(teleplay with Robert Hamner)
(teleplay with Carey Wilber)
(with Gene Roddenberry)
(teleplay with David P. Harmon)
TOS, as Lee Cronin:
(story)
(story)
Producing credits
( – ) – Producer (uncredited for and )
Emmy Award nomination
As Producer, Coon received the following Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Dramatic Series:
for , shared with Gene Roddenberry
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The Aldara was a Cardassian cruiser that was in service with the Cardassian military in the mid-24th century. In the late 2360s, the Aldara was under the command of Gul Danar.
In 2369, the Aldara pursued a Bajoran scout ship carrying Bajoran terrorist Tahna Los into the Bajoran system after he stole an antimatter converter from a Cardassian outpost. Commander Benjamin Sisko later contacted the Aldara to seek Gul Danar's help in stopping Tahna destroying the Bajoran wormhole, although the Aldara was too distant to assist. ()
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The Kraxon was a Cardassian cruiser that was in service with the Cardassian military in the late 24th century. In 2371, the Kraxon was under the command of Gul Ranor.
In that year, the Kraxon was one of the ships assigned to follow the when it was hijacked by the Maquis.
Gul Dukat later ordered the Kraxon to extend its shields around the Defiant during a face-off with two warships, later found to be sent by the Obsidian Order. The Kraxon then received the Defiant's sensor logs of the Orias system, which Dukat wanted, and took Thomas Riker into Cardassian custody. ()
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The Rabol was a Cardassian transport that was in service during the late 24th century.
In 2372, it transported Gul Dukat to Deep Space 9. Upon its arrival, it requested to beam Dukat directly to Ops. ()
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The Reklar was a Cardassian cruiser that was in service with the Cardassian military in the mid-24th century.
In 2369, while under the command of Gul Lemec, the Reklar was assigned to conduct peace talks with Captain Edward Jellico aboard the .
Simultaneously, it was assigned as the flagship of an invasion fleet intended to attack the Federation planet Minos Korva. However, this invasion was stopped before it ever started; when the Reklar met the Enterprise so Lemec could reveal the capture of Jean-Luc Picard, Jellico had Geordi La Forge secretly scan the ship, and these scans revealed minor hull damage consistent with exposure to the nearby McAllister C-5 Nebula. Correctly guessing that a Cardassian fleet was hiding there, the Enterprise used a shuttlecraft to mine the nebula, and after being shown that Jellico wasn't bluffing, the Reklar and the rest of the fleet returned to Cardassian territory, though only after ejecting their phaser coils. ()
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The Trager was a Cardassian cruiser that was in service with the Cardassian military in the mid-24th century. Trager was under the command of Gul Macet.
In 2367, the Trager attacked the in retaliation for the 's unauthorized attacks on Cardassian starships and an installation. The Trager proved no match for the starship. ()
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List of Trager personnel
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The Vetar was a Cardassian cruiser that was in service with the Cardassian military in the late 24th century. It was commanded by Gul Evek, with Glinn Telak as executive officer. ()
In 2370, the Vetar was assigned to perform a preliminary survey of Dorvan V before the colony was to be handed over to the Cardassian Union. () Later that year, the Vetar came under attack by a fleet of small but heavily-armed Maquis attack fighters; the ship sustained heavy damage before the attackers were driven off by the arrival of the . ()
In 2371, the Vetar was pursuing a Maquis raider commanded by Chakotay; when Chakotay chose to escape into the Badlands, Evek continued in full pursuit. The Vetar took heavy damage to its port blade when it was struck by a inside the Badlands; it was forced to break off pursuit. ()
Like the Val Jean, however, the Vetar was pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker's array during that engagement. Arriving days before the arrival of the , it was one of fifty-two starships recorded by Neelix as arriving in that quadrant. After the crew's DNA was examined by the , the vessel was returned to the Alpha Quadrant, before eventually being found destroyed in the Badlands by the Maquis.
In 2376, Seven of Nine was able to confirm its presence through analyzing the ship's hull geometry and warp signature. She, however, falsely believed "that for some unknown reason the Caretaker had sent this ship back to the Alpha Quadrant, and that Commander Chakotay attacked the vessel before it could reach its destination. He downloaded its computer core and discovered the presence of the Caretaker's array. He realized that the array could be used by the Maquis as a weapon, to launch surprise attacks against Cardassian and Starfleet vessels." ()
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List of Vetar personnel
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The Keldon-class cruiser was a class of Cardassian warship utilized by the Cardassian military during the 2370s.
History
A number of warships of this type were secretly constructed by the Obsidian Order in the Orias system in 2371. Built jointly with the Romulan Tal Shiar, these Keldon-class warships were fitted with cloaking devices, enhanced top speeds and weaponry.
During an encounter with the Maquis-controlled , one of these vessels was heavily damaged by phaser cannon fire and six quantum torpedoes. However, due to the fact the Defiant was heavily outnumbered, the attack ended abruptly. ()
These same Obsidian Order Keldons were used in the abortive attack on the later that year. Due to the Dominion's phased polaron beams mounted on their ships as well as their overwhelming numbers, the Obsidian Order's Keldons were destroyed with relative ease, along with the Romulan ships. ()
Technical data
The Keldon hull was similar to the spaceframe, with additions to the aft end and main body.
Thomas Riker believed that three of them together could be easily defeated by a single warship. ()
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Named
Koranak
Unnamed
Unnamed Keldon-class starships
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Appearances
Background information
The Keldon-class studio model was a modification, made by Tony Meininger, of the Rick Sternbach-designed Galor-class warship, originally built by Ed Miarecki. These modifications included the addition of fins located on the aft end of the hull, and a large attachment located on the upper-middle section of the hull. The purpose of these alterations are unclear.
For further information on the model, see Keldon-class model.
The outline of the Keldon-class was displayed on a monitor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Rising Malevolence" in 2008.
The ship was also shown on a screen in Doctor Octopus's underwater lab in the "Ultimate Spider-Man" episode "Me Time" in 2012.
Technical Manual
The following specifications, which describes this vessel as a Galor-class warship (variant), comes exclusively from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual:
Production Base: Cardassia Prime Orbital Three Assembly Facility.
Type: Heavy Cruiser.
Accommodation: 500 plus flight crew and troops.
Power Plant: One and possibly two M/A warp system; two or more impulse systems.
Dimensions: Length, 371.88 meters; beam, 192.23 meters; height: 70.13 meters.
Mass: 2,230,000 metric tonnes (est.).
Performance: Warp 9.6 (observed)
Armament: Eight or more spiral-wave disruptors; one large aft disruptor wave cannon; possibly other weapons.
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A collection of stories, fables, folk songs, philosophical meditations and outright lies based on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
Legends of the Ferengi is a Pocket DS9 novel, written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe and told in the first person through Quark. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .
Summary
From the book jacket
"Once you have their money, never give it back." – #1
"Anything worth doing is worth doing for money." – #13
For centuries these and the other famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high cost in lives and latinum.
Now at last these inspiring tales of avaricious Ferengi wresting monetary gain from the jaws of poverty are available to the profit-hungry across the galaxy!
Background information
Ira Steven Behr commented, "Little things that are mentioned in the book are bound to pop up on the show. In fact, one already has, the Marauder Mo, Quark’s boyhood toy came directly out of the book. As far as there being another book, it’s a lot of work and I really do prefer to concentrate on DS9." The references in the book that would later be mentioned in the television series include Eelwasser and Slug-o-Cola (which were later used in ), the Lytasians (who were mentioned in the episode ) and Shmun and T'lana, who were mentioned in .
Armin Shimerman narrated the audio adaptation of this book in-character as Quark. The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
The Slug-o-Cola and Eelwasser () advertising jingles can be heard in the audio book. They are also included in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library.
Mary F. Taylor wrote, "This book is not a novel, but is, as described on the cover, 'a collection of stories, fables, folk songs, philosophical meditations based on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. It is so funny... like Q-in-Law [it] is a book that is dangerous to read while riding public transportation unless one does not mind being stared at while shrieking with laughter amidst hordes of tired and silent commuters." (Adventures in Time and Space, p 483)
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Bajoran; Daystrom Institute; Eelwasser; Ferengi; Ferengi Attainment Ceremony; Ferengi Commerce Authority; Ferengi Rules of Acquisition; Ferenginar; Gratitude Festival; Lytasian; Marauder Mo; Slug-o-Cola; Smeet; Tholian; Tholian silk
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The Romulan Star Empire (or simply the Romulan Empire) was a major interstellar state encompassing the Romulan people and their subject worlds and species. The Empire was known for its xenophobic character and policies of extreme secrecy, subterfuge, and territorial expansionism. By the late 23rd century, the Empire counted among the great powers in its region of the Milky Way Galaxy until the destruction of Romulus and its replacement by the Romulan Free State.
History
Main article: Romulan history
The Romulans originated from dissident Vulcans who rejected Surak's philosophy of peace, during the Time of Awakening and emigrated from around the 4th century. They settled on the planets Romulus and Remus, subjugating the native Remans in the process. (; ) The development of warp drive enabled the Romulans to expand their state into a Star Empire. ()
In 2152, the Romulans came into contact with the Human starship . () Relations between the Empire and United Earth deteriorated as the Enterprise crew thwarted a Romulan plot to subvert the Vulcan High Command. () Recognizing the growing threat posed by Earth, the Romulans attempted to incite war in the region by attacking civilian shipping using disguised drones. The effort, however, backfired, as their involvement was exposed by Enterprise and spurred the formation of an alliance between the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites, the nucleus of what would become the United Federation of Planets. ()
Open war erupted between Earth and the Romulans in 2156, ending four years later with a humiliating Romulan defeat at the Battle of Cheron. An ensuing peace treaty established the Romulan Neutral Zone, after which the Romulans had no substantial contact with Humans for a century. In 2266, the Romulans tested Federation resolve by sending a Bird-of-Prey to attack Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone. The defeat of the Bird-of-Prey by the averted war. (; ) During this period, the Romulans experienced a short-lived break in their enmity with the Klingons, resulting in a technological exchange between the two. ()
The Romulans viewed the 2293 Khitomer Accords between the Federation and the Klingon Empire unfavorably, as it shifted the balance of power against them. () Escalating hostilities between the Star Empire and the Federation culminated in the Tomed Incident of 2311 and the Treaty of Algeron. The Romulans again ceased meaningful contact with the Federation, though they continued to war intermittently with the Klingons. In 2364, the Empire began to engage once more with the Federation, following a series of mysterious attacks on their Neutral Zone outposts. () The Star Empire also launched at least one attempt to infiltrate the Federation, creating a clone of Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the who came to be known as Shinzon. This plot was abandoned after a shift in power in the government, leading to Shinzon being condemned to the dilithium mines of Remus. ()
For the latter part of the 2360s, the Romulan Star Empire was locked in a cold war with the Federation, launching repeated probes of Federation space and subversive actions. Most significantly, they attempted to break the Federation-Klingon alliance, resulting in the Klingon Civil War, and to exploit the Vulcan reunification movement to invade Vulcan. Both plans were unsuccessful. () At some point after resuming contact with the Federation and learning of the existence of Soong-type androids such as Data and Lore, a Romulan Zhat Vash agent began infiltrating Starfleet under the alias Oh. ()
The Star Empire's position shifted when violent contact with the Dominion in 2370 presented a common threat to all Alpha Quadrant powers. The Romulans collaborated with Starfleet in a limited fashion to counter the Dominion threat by allowing the installation of a cloaking device aboard the . () By late 2373, however, they opted to sign a nonaggression pact with the Dominion. ()
In mid-2374, the Romulan Star Empire was brought into the Dominion War on the Allied side through an act of subterfuge by Starfleet Captain Benjamin Sisko and former Obsidian Order agent Elim Garak. () Romulan participation marked a turning point in the war and was critical to the defeat of the Dominion, the following year. ()
During the war, Shinzon was among those conscripted from the mines of Remus to serve as shocktroops. He distinguished himself in battle, and became a respected leader among the Remans; he and his followers began amassing greater power within the Empire. In 2379, Shinzon seized control of the government, assassinating the Senate and declaring himself Praetor. He subsequently attempted to launch a genocidal attack on Earth, only to be stopped by the , the Romulan warbird Valdore, and one other Valdore-type warbird. It was hoped, by members of both sides, that a lasting peace between the Romulans and the Federation would follow. ()
In 2387, the Star Empire suffered a terrible blow when the supernova of the Romulan sun destroyed Romulus. () By 2399, it had been supplanted or at least partially replaced by the Romulan Free State. At least one of its key agencies, the Tal Shiar remained in existence, transferring its loyalties to the Free State. ()
Territory
Government
The ruling body of the Romulan Star Empire was the Romulan Senate, with each senator representing a province. The Senate was led by the Praetor, followed by the Proconsul and then the Vice-proconsul. The Praetor also presided over the Continuing Committee, a powerful body that held authority over Senate members. Changes of government and attendant shifts in policy were not uncommon in the Empire. (; ; ) In 2373, Q stated that, at one point, he could have produced offspring with the Romulan empress if he wished to do so. ()
The Romulan Senate dispatched ambassadors from time to time, for example Caithlin Dar to Nimbus III and Nanclus to the United Federation of Planets. (; )
Foreign relations
In external application, Romulan political agendas appeared largely unified over the centuries. Their goals focused on maintaining Imperial security through vigilance, and negating the perceived advantages of their rivals. Both goals were accompanied by a near-paranoid reticence to reveal information, even facts as basic as their racial identity, that might illuminate other Romulan ambitions or motivations. Short of war, the means to those ends have generally varied between favored methods:
Surreptitious political disruption of rivals – as in the secret relationship with V'Las of the Vulcan High Command in the 2150s, participation in the Khitomer conspiracy of 2293, secret alliances both with the Klingons, such as in the House of Duras from the 2340s, or against the Klingons, or the aborted attempt to replace key Starfleet officers with clones in the late 24th century. (; ; ; )
Limited, surprise or covert military action – as in the use of telepresence-operated drone ships to spark the "Babel Crisis" among neighboring powers in 2154, a single Bird-of-Prey used to attack the Federation border and gauge its weaknesses in the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266, or the attack on the Klingon outpost at Narendra III in 2344. (; ; )
The Empire did resort to open warfare when it was deemed necessary, but in typical fashion, their reasons for war were less than candidly expressed, as in the Earth-Romulan War and the enigmatic Tomed Incident of 2311. Unlike the Klingon objectives of the of 2267, Romulans do not appear to have gone to war with neighboring powers under a flag of "expansion", and no competition existed for the development of class M worlds along the Romulan Neutral Zone. Romulans expressed little resentment for the negotiated Zone they zealously guarded, and following their conflicts, the Empire withdrew behind the safety of the buffer for many decades of self-imposed isolation from Federation affairs. (; )
Subsequent to Shinzon's coup, some Romulan officers suggested that an era of warmer relations may be beginning with the Federation after Starfleet and Romulan military personnel cooperated to defeat Shinzon's forces before he could destroy Earth itself. () However, during the years leading up to the destruction of Romulus, there was profound skepticism in the Romulan government about the idea of accepting Federation assistance in evacuating the Homeworlds. Picard himself, having been promoted to admiral and assigned to coordinate the Federation rescue fleet, had to testify to the reconstituted Senate in the Hall of State to persuade them to accept Federation assistance – creating a bitter sense of betrayal when the Federation withdrew its offer of help subsequent to the Attack on Mars. ()
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Remans
Military
Main article: Romulan military
See also: Romulan Guard, Romulan uniform, Romulan ranks, Romulan starships
The Romulan military was a powerful and technologically advanced force encompassing both spacefaring and ground forces. () Despite being defeated by Earth in the Earth-Romulan War of the 2150s, the Romulan Star Empire continued to be a powerful presence, not afraid to tempt Starfleet by entering the Neutral Zone. Romulan forces were a deciding factor in the Dominion War, whose entry in 2374 turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. (; )
Romulan military operations were supported by the War Plans Council, a high-level government agency. ()
Besides regular forces, the Romulan Tal Shiar and Zhat Vash also had its own fleet of starships, and were a ruthless and powerful organization within the Empire and beyond. (; ; )
Science and technology
Main article: Romulan technology
Appendices
Background information
The double-headed bird of prey emblem of the Romulan Star Empire was first introduced in . The symbol was designed by Monte Thrasher. () A Romulan emblem was seen in , though it was never used again.
Paul Schneider, writer of , based many of the elements of the Romulan Star Empire such as Praetor, Proconsul, and the Romulan Senate on the Roman Empire. See Romulan - Background information for more information.
Location
In dialogue, the Romulan Star Empire has been exclusively referred to as an Alpha Quadrant power. It has also been stated that the space of the Romulan Empire was surrounded by the territories of the Cardassians, Klingons and the Federation.
The first time this fact began to be established occurred in , in the episode , where the Romulan Star Empire was identified as one of the great powers of the Alpha Quadrant. For the Dominion, there were four great powers in this quadrant: the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Cardassians. With the Battle of the Omarion Nebula, two of these threats had been reduced in effectiveness – the Romulans and the Cardassians. By , the Cardassians were in an alliance with the Dominion and three powers, small and great, had signed non-aggression pacts with the Dominion. These powers were the Miradorns, the Tholians, and the Romulans. In the opinion of Odo, the Dominion was "making impressive inroads into the Alpha Quadrant."
In , it was revealed that the Dominion forces were crossing the Cardassian-Romulan border and were launching attacks against Federation ships from there. When Benjamin Sisko was attempting to persuade Senator Vreenak to consider having the Romulans join the offensive against the Dominion, Sisko said, "I'd pick the side most likely to leave us in peace when the dust settles. Maybe you're right. Maybe the Dominion will win in the end. Then the Founders will control what we now call Cardassia, the Klingon Empire and the Federation. So, instead of facing three separate opponents with three separate agendas, you'll find yourselves facing the same opponent on every side. There's a word for that. Surrounded."
The association of Romulus with the Alpha Quadrant was carried over to . In , Captain Kathryn Janeway reminisced about what it would be like to live in James T. Kirk's era, with "the Alpha Quadrant still largely unexplored," and "Romulans hiding behind every nebula." In , a section of the Romulan border was identified to be located near the edges of the Alpha Quadrant. In , when it seemed that the would find a way back home, Tom Paris stated that he looked forward to encountering Cardassians, Ferengi, and Romulans again in the Alpha Quadrant. In , Chakotay identified the Romulan disruptor as an Alpha Quadrant weapon. In , in a simulation, several Alpha Quadrant species were fighting over mining rights to a planetoid, and Q Junior had to find a way to settle the dispute. The species listed were the Nausicaans, the Bolians, the Cardassians, the Romulans, the Ferengi, and the Bajorans.
In virtually all reference works, however, the Romulan Star Empire has been depicted to be located in the Beta Quadrant, with a border only with the Federation and the Klingon Empire. These books include such works as the , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 2), Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Journal (p. 9), Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (p. 20), Star Trek: Voyager Technical Manual (p. 27) and Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 45, 55, 56, et al.). Even reference works that date back to a time before the Alpha and Beta Quadrant distinction was invented show the Romulans in the area that was later classified as the Beta Quadrant. These include such works as the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual (T0:02:07:00) and Star Trek Maps (Chart A). Only one of these graphics was reused on-screen, as a display graphic on a PADD in . The information on the PADD, though, was completely illegible on screen.
Apocrypha
In many novels of the TOS-era, such as in Diane Duane's Rihannsu series, the Romulans are synonymously called "Rihannsu." Their home star is Eisn, known to Humans as 128 Trianguli.
In the video game Star Trek: Encounters, the Romulans mostly play the villain role in the levels based on . However, in the game's last level, a temporal anomaly near Earth causes the USS Defiant to briefly appear in an alternate timeline where the Romulan Empire has conquered the Federation.
In Star Trek Online, the Empire is in a state of inner turmoil after the destruction of their homeworld due to a supernova. They are now led by Empress Sela and blame the Federation for the destruction of their home planet, an event that led to a renewal of hostilities between the Romulan Empire and the Federation. Members of the Reman resistance and the Vulcan reunification movement have also established a Romulan Republic on "New Romulus" as a democratic state, allied with the Federation and the Klingon Empire in opposition to Sela's dictatorial regime. The new Romulan Republic play a major role in STOs first expansion, Legacy of Romulus.
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Deep Space 4 was a Federation deep space station that was in service with Starfleet in the 24th century. This station was located in the Beta Quadrant.
In his search for the ancient humanoids' DNA puzzle, Professor wanted to get to this starbase on a Vulcan transport, and there gain passage to Caere on an Al-Leyan transport. ()
The computer records from Deep Space 4 contained information on the Hansen family. Captain Janeway on the , while searching for information on Seven of Nine, could only find the information she needed from Starfleet's database from Deep Space 4. ()
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Background information
In "The Chase", the location of Deep Space 4 was pointed out by Richard Galen from a star chart of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Apocrypha
Deep Space 4 was also mentioned in the novels A Singular Destiny and Watching the Clock.
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Deep Space 5 was a Federation deep space station that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century. DS5 was located near the planet Ivor Prime.
In an alternate quantum reality visited by Worf in 2370, Deep Space 5 was responsible for new starship developments and the object of covert surveillance by the Cardassians, along with Starbase 47, the Iadara colony, and the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. ()
In 2373, Deep Space 5 reported the complete destruction of the colony on Ivor Prime. It was subsequently determined that the Borg were responsible, and were mounting a new attempt at an invasion of the Federation. ()
Appendices
Background information
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 66) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Deep Space 5 was located in the Beta Quadrant.
Apocrypha
In the Balance of Power, Geordi La Forge mentions that Deep Space 5 was smaller than other deep space stations and smaller than the Enterprise
Deep Space 5 was also mentioned in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Core Game Book as well as in the New Frontier novel House of Cards. In the latter, the station was located near , a region of space that included the planets and and the former . The station was under the command of Admiral Edward Jellico. The refitted launched from Deep Space 5 on its mission to render humanitarian aid to Sector 221-G.
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Deep Space 3 was a Federation deep space station that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century. In 2370, the commanding officer of this station was Vice Admiral Marcus Holt.
In that year, the station hosted the annual palio, wherein the Ferengi were accused of trying to bribe the Breen pilot into throwing the race.
Nine days before Holt contacted Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the , commanded by Captain Silva La Forge, departed Deep Space 3 on a routine courier mission. For five days, the station was in contact with the starship. After the ship vanished without a trace, Holt recruited the and the for the task of finding the lost Hera. For seventy-two hours, the ships retraced the course of the Hera, without success. Holt planned on having the ships continue the search for another seventy-two hours; however, he did not think the additional time given to the ships would make a difference. ()
On one occasion, the Zebulon Sisters performed the Chu Chu dance at Deep Space 3, an event Beckett Mariner attended. She spoke of it in mid-2380, when she said she was just then coming down from the high. ()
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Background information
According to Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets I") and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Deep Space 3 was located in the Alpha Quadrant.
Deep Space 3 was mentioned in Max Grodénchik's "Rom's Song", as the station that "Rom" thought Odo ought to transfer to.
Apocrypha
The station appears in War Dragons and was also referenced in the A Singular Destiny as well as in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Core Game Book.
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One hundred fifty men, women, and children, led by Elias Sandoval, depart Earth for Omicron Ceti III to establish the future Omicron colony. It is the last time they will encounter anyone outside their own group until the 's 2267 arrival. ()
Ben Childress, Herm Gossett, and Benton partner up to establish a mining company on Rigel XII. ()
An infant Lactran, later encountered by the landing party in 2269, is born on Lactra VII. ()
Matthew Decker is promoted to commodore. He remains in command of the . ( commemorative plaque )
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A peace offering to the Teenaxi Delegation from the Fibonan Republic with Captain acting on their behalf goes awry forcing Kirk to abort the negotiation. ()
The makes a reprovisioning stop at Yorktown Station. ()
The Enterprise is destroyed by Krall and his swarm ships during an alleged rescue mission over Altamid. ()
Construction for the is underway at Starbase Yorktown. ()
Starbase Yorktown
Krall launches an assault on Starbase Yorktown, but is ultimately defeated by the remaining Enterprise crew in the repaired Franklin. ()
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January 2 (stardate 2263.02): Ambassador Spock dies on New Vulcan. ()
is lead to the long-lost and intact on Altamid by Jaylah. ()
goes through a cache of items belonging to the late Ambassador Spock and discovers a photo of him with the senior crew of the circa 2287 in his timeline. ()
celebrates his 30th birthday at a surprise party at Yorktown, during which he honors the Enterprise and those who did not survive recent events. ()
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According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 53), the planet Ardana is admitted to the United Federation of Planets.
According to the specifications seen in , The had an endurance performance of 18 years which would end sometime in this year.
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crash-lands on 892-IV after having sustained heavy meteor damage. The ship's crew is captured by the inhabitants. ()
R.M. Merik becomes the Lord of the Games on 892-IV. ()
Areel Shaw and James T. Kirk meet each other for the last time before Kirk's trial on Starbase 11 in 2267. ()
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Stardate 2262.18: logs a entry in his captain's log. ()
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Following extensive repairs, the embarks on the first five-year mission of uncharted deep space exploration. ()
officially joins the Enterprise crew. ()
May 12 (stardate 2260.133): The Enterprises first day in deep space. ()
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Nearly a year after stardate 2259.55: A fully recovered gives a stirring speech about the principles of the Federation at a ceremony to honor those lost nearly a year prior. ()
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According to the for , a comradeship between James T. Kirk and Morrow dates back to approximately this year.
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Una Chin-Riley is given command of the USS Archer. ()
The Archer is tasked with making first contact with the Kiley. ()
Stardate 1739.12
Christine Chapel is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a nurse. ()
Doctor Joseph M'Benga is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief medical officer. ()
Erica Ortegas is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a helmsman. ()
La'an Noonien-Singh is assigned to the USS Enterprise as acting first officer and later chief of security. ()
Cadet Nyota Uhura is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a communications officer. ()
The Enterprise makes official first contact with the Kiley. ()
Stardate 2259.42.
The Enterprise departs Starbase 1. ()
George Samuel Kirk is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a sciences division member. ()
Hemmer is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief engineer. ()
Stardate 2912.4. The Enterprise makes first contact with the s. ()
Stardate 1224.3. The Enterprise travels to Hetemit IX to investigate a former Illyrian colony. During the mission, Captain Christopher Pike and Lt. Commander Spock are trapped on the planet while the landing party are exposed to a light-addicting virus. ()
Stardate 3177.3-3177.9. The first known contact between vessels representing the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Hegemony occurs after Enterprise encounters several Gorn ships after they attack the Finibus III colony. Actual contact between crews is not made. ()
Stardate 2510.6.
Lieutenant Hemmer commits suicide on Valeo Beta V to prevent Gorn eggs from hatching. ()
Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh takes a leave of absence from Starfleet to help Oriana find her family. ()
Stardate 1457.9. Commander Una Chin-Riley is taken into custody for violation the Starfleet code of Conduct. ()
After Crash landing on Valeo Beta V, the crew is killed by Gorn hatchlings. The Peregrine is later salvaged by the Enterprise. ()
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The planet Cerberus is stricken by crop failure during Joanna McCoy's schooling there. Carter Winston uses his personal fortune to save the colony. ()
Spock and T'Pring get engaged. ()
General Order 1 is renamed the "Prime Directive". ()
A new variant of Starfleet uniform is introduced. ()
A new variant of the Starfleet communicator is introduced. ()
A new variant of the Type 2 phaser is introduced. ()
A new variant of the Starfleet tricorder is introduced. ()
The Stamets-type shuttlecraft is introduced. ()
The R'ongovian Protectorate joins the United Federation of Planets. ()
A new First Servant is selected on Majalis. ()
Rukiya is cured of her illness and is transformed into a state of pure energy. ()
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January: The crew of the become involved in the Mudd Incident, leading them to confiscate a K'normian trading ship. ()
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James T. Kirk violates the Prime Directive while saving 's life on Nibiru, and is demoted back to Starfleet Academy. Spock is transferred to the under Captain Abbott. convinces to allow Kirk to continue as his first officer. ()
comes aboard the Enterprise. and Keenser resign, infuriated that they are not allowed to inspect Marcus' torpedoes. Kirk appoints to replace him as chief engineer. ()
The USS Enterprises warp core breaks down just after the ship has passed the Neutral Zone. Kirk leads an away team with Spock and to find and arrest Harrison. They are intercepted by Klingons patrolling the region, who respond to negotiations by trying to murder Uhura. Harrison intervenes, killing the Klingons, and allows himself to be taken captive by Kirk. ()
On a nearby planetoid, following Harrison's suggestion, McCoy and Marcus disarm one of the long-range torpedoes, and discover a cryotube, containing a fully-preserved Human, is inside. Harrison reveals he is Khan Noonien Singh, and explains he tried to smuggle his crew from the in the torpedoes but was forced to flee when he was discovered. ()
Meanwhile, in the Sol system, Scott, having been relayed coordinates by Kirk, discovers the secret base where the has been under construction. He boards the ship before it is launched to intercept the Enterprise. As the Vengeance, captained by Admiral Marcus, crosses the Neutral Zone, Marcus demands Khan be handed over immediately. The Enterprise instead escapes at warp. ()
The Vengeance pursues the Enterprise and attacks. Both ships drop out of warp near Luna. Marcus beams up his daughter and orders the Enterprises destruction, but Scott deactivates the Vengeances weapons. Kirk and Khan get on board the Vengeance with thruster suits, where they are received by Scott. Spock contacts the older Spock on New Vulcan, and after listening to his recollection of his confrontations with Khan Noonien Singh, orders McCoy to remove the cryotubes from the torpedoes. On the Vengeances bridge, Khan overpowers Scott and Kirk and kills Admiral Marcus. Khan, now in control of the Vengeance, requests his crew in exchange for Kirk, Scott, and Carol. Spock obliges, and Khan beams back the three Enterprise crew members, and begins firing. The torpedoes beamed to the Vengeance detonate, crippling the ship. ()
Both damaged ships begin falling to Earth. Kirk enters the radiation-flooded warp core, and is able to repair it, narrowly saving the Enterprise, but at the cost of his life. Khan deliberately pilots the Vengeance towards San Francisco, crashing it in the city center. Khan survives, and flees through San Francisco. However, he is apprehended by Spock and Uhura. Due to Khan's regenerative blood cells, a blood transfusion is conducted from Khan to Kirk. ()
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February 24 (stardate 2259.55): John Harrison coerces Thomas Harewood a member of Section 31 into bombing their facility under the Kelvin Memorial Archive, in London. ()
This is the year was expected to graduate from Starfleet Academy after entering in 2255, assuming he took four years to do so and not three as he declared he would, and ultimately did. ()
As of this year, the Ketha Province has been uninhabited for decades. ()
At Starfleet Headquarters, Marcus convenes a summit to commence a manhunt for Harrison. Harrison attacks the summit, murdering Pike. Harrison escapes by transwarp beaming to the uninhabited Ketha Province of Qo'noS. Kirk receives permission to hunt down Harrison and to reinstate Spock as his first officer. Admiral Marcus orders Kirk to use seventy-two experimental long-range photon torpedoes to execute Harrison from orbit. ()
Two weeks later, Kirk is fully revived. Khan is placed back in his old cryotube once more. ()
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According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 53), the planet Ardana becomes warp-capable.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 33), upon becoming warp-capable, the planet Deneb V is admitted to the Federation in this year.
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The travels to 3189 via a wormhole. ()
In the official records of Starfleet, the USS Discovery is listed as destroyed. The records do not mention the spore drive, Red Angel, or Control. ()
Stardate 1050.8: Christopher Pike returns to the Enterprise to resume command. ()
Stardate 1201.7: The newly-repaired departs from spacedock on a mission to Edrin II. ()
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Katie Wesley is born to Bob Wesley. ()
Citing Starfleet Regulation 157, section 3, Lt. Spock recommends to Starfleet that , its personnel, and its spore drive should not be discussed under penalty of treason. ()
is offered command of Section 31. ()
Doctor Joseph M'Benga's daughter Rukiya is diagnosed with cygnokemia. ()
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The and seven other Federation starships, including the , launch from under the command of Captain Christopher Pike in response to a distress call from Vulcan. The Enterprise hasn't even been christened yet but is used due to the emergency. ()
En route, cadet James Kirk, who has stowed away with the help of Medical Officer Leonard "Bones" McCoy, overhears the mission briefing and deduces that the circumstances around Vulcan are similar to those surrounding his birth, when the USS Kelvin was destroyed by an unidentified, technologically-advanced ship. He reports these conclusions to Pike, who thusly prepares the Enterprise for action. ()
The Enterprise arrives only to find a debris field of the fleet, and the Narada hovering over Vulcan with a drilling platform in the lower atmosphere attempting to mine to the core. Nero orders the destruction of the Enterprise, only to realize what vessel he is firing on. ()
Nero is first seen by the Federation and tells the native that he wants him to see something as well as order Captain Pike to come aboard the Narada, just like he requested Richard Robau to twenty-five years earlier. ()
Pike agrees and is accompanied by Kirk, helmsman , and chief engineer Olson. Pike appoints Spock acting captain and Kirk his first officer. ()
Kirk, Olson and Sulu space-dive onto the platform. Olson, who had the charges, is killed in the descent; however, Kirk and Sulu succeed at disabling the drill. Unfortunately, the drill's work has already been completed, and Nero orders the red matter deployed. Kirk and Sulu beam back to the ship by the efforts of Ensign Pavel Chekov. ()
Spock determines that the red matter will cause a black hole to develop inside Vulcan. While the planet evacuates, he beams down to reach several Vulcan dignitaries who reside in areas that are unreachable by transporter. He succeeds at saving some of them, including his father Sarek, but his mother Amanda Grayson is killed. ()
Vulcan itself is destroyed. Spock privately estimates no more than 10,000 survivors, making him a member of an endangered species. ()
Spock, emotionally unbalanced by these traumas, orders a course for the Laurentian system to rendezvous with the rest of Starfleet in an effort to balance the odds for the next confrontation against Nero. Kirk objects and is marooned on Delta Vega. He gets chased by vicious animals and finds his rescuer is Spock himself, but 129 years older. Spock explains the situation to Kirk via a mind meld and they head for the Starfleet outpost fourteen kilometers away. ()
Spock and Kirk meet and Keenser at the Delta Vega outpost, and using his transwarp beaming equation, Spock transports Kirk and Scott to the Enterprise. After a fight which proves Spock to be emotionally compromised, Kirk assumes command and the pursuit of Nero. Meanwhile, Nero and the Narada head for Earth intent on destroying the planet. Chekov devises a plan to hide the Enterprise near Saturn to avoid the Naradas detection and rescue Captain Pike. ()
Kirk and Spock board the Narada to confront Nero and stop him. Spock steals the Jellyfish and Kirk fights with several guards, Ayel and eventually Nero. The Jellyfish destroys the drilling platform and escapes the area, to draw the battle away from Earth and sets a collision course for the Narada. He and Kirk along with Pike are transported away at the last second by the Enterprise, but the Jellyfish crashes into the Narada thereby igniting the red matter and causing a massive black hole, which consumes the Narada, and very nearly the Enterprise as well. This beam-out marks the first time Scott ever beams three people from two targets onto one pad. ()
Under the command of James T. Kirk, the Enterprise begins its mission with the crew who helped him stop Nero, including , , , , , and . ()
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The Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the future of the prime reality, destroys 47 Klingon warbirds near the Klingon prison planet. Later, it arrives at a location where the carrying Spock emerges from a black hole, created in the future to stop a star that had gone supernova and threatened the galaxy. Nero, captain of the Narada, captures the Jellyfish and maroons Spock on so he can observe the destruction of . ()
takes the Kobayashi Maru test for the third time, but this time he manages to secretly install a subroutine which changes the conditions of the test, thereby allowing Kirk to save the Kobayashi Maru and beat the test, becoming the only cadet to ever beat the no-win scenario. ()
On stardate 2258.42 (February 11), the planet Vulcan is destroyed along with, approximately, six billion Vulcans on-planet by Nero using red matter. The Vulcan species is rendered critically endangered with only an estimated ten thousand surviving. Captain is taken hostage by aboard the Narada by Nero.()
Christopher Pike is promoted to admiral. James T. Kirk becomes captain of the USS Enterprise as Christopher Pike's relief. Ambassador Spock leads survivors of Vulcan in forming a New Vulcan colony with advice to his younger self to continue in Starfleet. ()
Admiral discovers the and recovers , forcibly recruiting him into Starfleet under the name of John Harrison. ()
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According to a ruse by Doctor Leonard McCoy against the Kelvans, Spock first suffers from Rigelian Kassaba fever around this year. ()
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According to , there was an age requirement of sixteen years for cadets. Assuming that Gary Mitchell was born in 2242, this year would be the earliest that he could have entered the Academy.
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The returns from the mirror universe nine months after they left the prime universe. ()
Commander Saru leads the Discovery on a mission that results in the end of the , with many of the crew members being awarded for their actions, including Saru receiving the Starfleet Medal of Honor. ()
The Discovery crew, still led by Saru, make their way to to pick up the ship's new commanding officer, but stop along the way to respond to a distress call from Captain Christopher Pike aboard the . ()
Christopher Pike assumes command of the Discovery. ()
The Discovery makes first contact with the New Eden colony on the planet Terralysium. ()
Two hundred crewmembers of the Farragut are killed at Tycho IV by a dikironium cloud creature. One of the casualties is the ship's commanding officer, Captain Garrovick. The Farragut first officer commends Lieutenant Kirk for his actions at Tycho IV. ()
Following a number of multiple catastrophic systems failures, The Enterprise is towed to spacedock for repairs. ()
Lieutenant commander Una Chin-Riley begins an investigation into the allegations against Spock. ()
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The Shakespearian troupe Karidian Company of Players, sponsored by the Galactic Cultural Exchange Project, begins its tour of official installations. ()
Spock takes a leave of absence from Starfleet and commits himself to the psychiatric ward on Starbase 5. During his time there, he supposedly murders two nurses and steals a shuttlecraft to follow the path of the red bursts. ()
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and Keenser are stationed at the Federation outpost at in the Vulcan system six months before their encounter with and Spock on stardate 2258.42. Scott believed the assignment was a punishment for losing Admiral 's prized pet beagle in a transwarp beaming experiment. ()
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The USS Shenzhou visits the Crepusculan homeworld and saves them from a drought. ()
The Shenzhou is called to a binary star system to investigate damage done to an interstellar relay by T'Kuvma's faction. First Officer Michael Burnham attempts a mutiny against Captain Philippa Georgiou in the hopes of defusing the crisis. ()
The Battle of the Binary Stars occurs between Starfleet and Klingon forces; Captain Georgiou and T'Kuvma are killed. The begins. ()
Michael Burnham is found guilty of mutiny, stripped of her rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment. ()
The Torchbearer Voq attempts to continue T'Kuvma's ideology, but is largely sidelined by the Klingon Empire.
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The USS Buran is ambushed and all hands except for Captain Gabriel Lorca are lost. Unknown to anyone at the time, Lorca has been replaced by his mirror universe counterpart. ()
After being diverted from transfer to the Tellun penal colony, Michael Burnham and three other prisoners stay aboard the USS Discovery until their shuttle is fixed. While on board, Burnham learns about what the ship and her captain, Gabriel Lorca, are doing in their fight against the Klingons. Burnham is sent on an away mission with Sylvia Tilly and Paul Stamets to investigate the USS Glenn. ()
Captain Lorca has the Glenn scuttled, but recovers the tardigrade "Ripper" still on board and uses it to dramatically improve the Discoverys spore drive. ()
Michael Burnham joins the crew of the Discovery. ()
With the aid of the spore drive, Captain Lorca leads the Discovery to victory, destroying multiple Klingon ships during their attack on Corvan II. ()
Voq is overthrown by of the House of Kor, who assumes leadership of T'Kuvma's Klingons. Voq is abandoned aboard the wreck of the USS Shenzhou but is rescued by L'Rell. ()
Captain Lorca is captured by Klingons while returning from a conference. During his captivity, he encounters Starfleet Lieutenant and Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Lorca and Tyler escape, leading Mudd behind for helping the Klingons and are beamed aboard the Discovery after it arrives to find Lorca. ()
After finding that using the spore drive causes "Ripper" extreme pain, Michael Burnham releases the tardigrade from the Discovery. Its role is taken by Lieutenant Stamets. ()
Ambassador Sarek departs on a diplomatic mission, a meeting with a supposed dissenting Klingon faction. however his ship is bombed by a Logic extremist, stranding him inside a nebula until he can be retrieved in an unauthorized rescue mission by Michael Burnham. Katrina Cornwell goes in Sarek's place to meet with the Klingons, but is captured by them when the overture turns out to be a trap. ()
Harry Mudd uses a time crystal to trap Discovery inside a time loop in a attempt to figure out the starship's secret and sell the ship to the Klingons. Paul Stamets is able to exist outside of the loop and figures out his plan. In the end, Mudd is handed over to his fiance Stella and her father. ()
A failed test of the USS Glenns experimental spore drive using a captured causes the crew to be mutilated. A group of Klingons try to take advantage of the disabled ship but are all killed by the tardigrade on board. ()
The USS Gagarin is ambushed simultaneously while patrolling its sector along with the two other Starfleet vessels in the area; the and . The Hoover and Muroc are destroyed, closely followed by the Gagarin after its warp drive is disabled. The USS Discovery responds to the Gagarins distress call but is unable to stop the Klingons destroying the vessel with all hands. ()
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Leonard McCoy ends his relationship with (the future) Nancy Crater. ()
The Klingon reactionary leader T'Kuvma begins assembling like-minded Klingons into a nationalist, anti-Federation movement. ()
Starfleet begins conceptualizing the spore drive, installing it on two prototype vessels, the USS Glenn and the USS Discovery. ()
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James T. Kirk leaves Starfleet Academy. He is assigned to the phaser station aboard the . ()
On his first planetary survey mission, Lieutenant Kirk visits the planet Neural, where he meets . ()
Other events
The Sheliak attempt to communicate with the Federation, something they will not do again until 2366. ()
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The undergoes construction at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa. ()
Other events
Several Starfleet Academy cadets, including and , spend some time in Riverside. ()
gets in a bar fight with Hendorff and three other cadets at the Shipyard Bar in Riverside. The fight is broken off by Captain , who later talks to Kirk about joining Starfleet by reciting the incident resulting in the destruction of the and his , daring him to do better. The next day, Kirk boards the military shuttle Bardeen, enlisting in Starfleet. ()
gets divorced from his wife and enlists in Starfleet, boarding the same transport as Kirk, resulting in a friendship between the two. ()
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The Terran Empire's new flagship, the , is launched from the Imperial Shipyard at Epsilon Indi IV. ()
and begin their attempted coup d'état against Emperor . ()
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Spock is assigned to the as science officer. (, )
Spock is promoted to Lieutenant. ()
The Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike, visits Rigel VII. While commanding the landing party, Pike enters an abandoned fortress and fights a Kalar warrior. The landing party's ambush leads to seven injuries and three deaths, including Pike's yeoman. ()
The Enterprise, en route to Vega colony to hospitalize the Rigel VII victims, is diverted by an eighteen-year old distress call from the , crashed on Talos IV. ()
Ensign James T. Kirk is assigned with Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Finney to the . ()
While aboard the training vessel Republic during a change of watches, Ensign Kirk relieves Commander Finney and notes that a circuit, which should have been closed, to the atomic matter piles is opened. After closing the circuit, Kirk logs the incident. ()
Commander Finney is reprimanded for the incident aboard the Republic. ()
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Leonard McCoy becomes romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater. ()
Commander Hansen Al-Salah begins requesting new supplies for the Earth Outpost Stations along the Neutral zone. ()
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begins programming the . ()
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The Terran Empire rebellion establishes a base on Harlak. ()
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A hypergiant observed one hundred years previously is expected to go supernova. ()
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Charles Evans is born. ()
Tina Lawton is born. ()
Joanna McCoy, daughter of Leonard McCoy, is born. ()
Michael Burnham graduates from the Vulcan Science Academy and begins her seven-year service aboard the under Captain Philippa Georgiou. ()
Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po builds a universal translator. ()
Sylvia Tilly, at the age of sixteen, went through a "rebellious phase" in her life, and she was involved with hacking. ()
As a lieutenant, Christopher Pike travels to Majalan system and meets Alora when he rescues her from a shuttle accident. ()
Alternate reality
declines his admission to the Vulcan Science Academy due to the council minister referring to as a "disadvantage" and enlists in Starfleet. ()
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Starfleet loses contact with the probe Friendship 1, launched in 2067. ()
Rukiya is born. ()
Andrea Lopez is born in Starbase 2. ()
June 28: Maat Al-Salah is born on Outpost 4. ()
November 5: Yuuto Hoshide is born in Misawa, Aomori, Japan. ()
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According to Star Trek Maps, the planet Mantilles became the 25th Federation member in this year.
Crisis on Vulcan takes place during this year.
According to the database from the video game , the was built in this year.
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Sylvia Tilly graduates from Musk Junior High School. ()
Lenore Karidian is born. ()
The first of many thousands of lives lost in the Eminiar-Vendikar War in a star system of NGC 321 is recorded by the United Federation of Planets. After suffering for nearly two decades this mounting loss of life, the Federation would seek permission from the planet Eminiar VII for the construction of a treaty port in their star system in 2267. ()
As he claims, this is the last time before 2267, that Montgomery Scott sees a PXK pergium reactor. ()
Oriana is born. ()
January 10: Dusty Swender is born in Syracuse, New York, North America. ()
February 6: T'quiel Dawn is born in North Continent, Cerberus Colony. ()
December 8: Muliq Al Alcazar is born in the Tendara Colony. ()
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Doctor Tristan Adams begins to revolutionize and Humanize prisons and the treatment of prisoners by developing new methods to treat the criminally insane. Meanwhile, the Federation begins to convert a number of their penal colonies over to asylums to treat inmates, rather than to "cage" them up. ()
An exotic fungus destroys most of the planet Tarsus IV's food supply. ()
James T. Kirk – at the age of thirteen – is one of nine surviving eyewitnesses to a massacre of some four thousand colonists on Tarsus IV by Governor Kodos. After supply ships arrive, Earth Forces find a burned body that is assumed to be Kodos, the case is closed. Still alive, Kodos secretly assumes the identity of actor Anton Karidian. ()
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Unused material for Hoshi Sato's bio seen in stated that she and her family were among the victims at Tarsus IV.
It is possible that the events on Tarsus IV started on stardate 2794.7. In the episode, the computer states, "Working. Kodos the Executioner, summary. Governor of Tarsus Four, twenty Earth years ago. Invoked martial law. Slaughtered fifty percent of population Earth colony, that planet. Burned body found when Earth forces arrived. No positive identification. Case closed. Detailed information follows. On stardate 2794.7…"
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One of the Human males examined by Dr. McCoy in the Omicron colony was born in this year. ()
Straal and Paul Stamets begin working together. ()
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Doctor Elizabeth Dehner's medical records viewed in 2265 give Dehner's age as 21, suggesting she was born in 2244. However, it is unclear whether those records were up-to-date or whether they were from her last medical examination. In any event, she was born in the city of Delman. ()
The places the event of crashing his stepfather's Corvette in this year.
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Richard Daystrom invents the duotronic computer and is subsequently awarded the Nobel and Zee-Magnees Prizes for his achievements. ()
Arlene Galway is born. ()
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Vader, a resident of the Caldos colony, dies on the 23rd of September. ()
Background information
A medical record seen in lists Gary Mitchell as 23 years old. If this was his age at the time of the episode, set in 2265, that would mean he was born in 2242. It is unknown, however, if that record was from Mitchell's last psychological examination (which could have been several years prior) or if was more recent. The record also lists him as being born in the city of Eldman on stardate 1087.7.
An of would have established that Janice Rand was twenty-four years old at that time, and thus would have been born in this year.
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Montgomery Scott joins Starfleet and begins his engineering career. Over the next fifty-two years, he serves on a combined total of eleven freighters, cruisers, and starships. ()
Another starship disappears near the Taurean system. ()
is born to Andrei Chekov, four years earlier than in the prime timeline. ()
Background information
Chekov's age from alters his age from , which has him born in 2245.
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Elaine Johnson is born. ()
Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po is born. ()
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According to the for , Clark Terrell, the future captain of the , was born in or around this year.
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Brack purchases the planet Holberg 917G. ()
The makes first contact with the Ba'ul after a communication is received from the planet. The Ba'ul High Council is found to be hostile, and the message received from a member of a pre-warp subject species, the Kelpiens. The Kelpien is extracted by Lieutenant Philippa Georgiou and given refugee status by the Federation. (; )
Background information
According to the , Nyota Uhura was born in the United States of Africa in this year.
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Robert Johnson is born. ()
Background information
According to the final draft script of , dated , John Farrell was referred to as being twenty-eight years old, indicating that he was born this year.
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After playing a practical joke on someone, Spock is branded as a "practical joker" in his hometown of ShiKahr on . ()
The pet sehlat I-Chaya given to Spock by his father, Sarek, is killed when he defended the young boy from a le-matya. ()
Spock is tested mentally and physically by the kahs-wan ritual on his home planet of Vulcan. ()
T'Pring is betrothed to Spock through a mind meld. ()
The on a return flight via a time warp to the year 2267, passes through this year briefly as the vessel breaks momentum. ()
The Ba'ul of planet Kaminar become warp capable. ()
Section 31 discovers that the Klingons are researching time travel, leading to the development of the Daedalus Project. ()
In an alternate timeline, Spock is killed by a le-matya. Following his death, his mother Amanda separates from her husband Sarek. Later that year, she is killed in an accident at Lunaport. Subsequent to the death of his wife and son, Sarek represents the Vulcan government as ambassador to seventeen worlds for the next thirty years. ()
In yet another timeline, Spock lives as well as his pet sehlat I-Chaya. ()
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Episode
Notes
This year roughly corresponds with 8877 in the Vulcan calendar.
In "Tomorrow is Yesterday", Spock reported the breaking momentum at fifty years, forty, and then thirty, before being told by Captain James T. Kirk to cease his reports.
According to the , Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco in this year.
Apocrypha
According to Simon and Schuster's Star Trek: Starship Creator interactive software, Christine Chapel is born this year.
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The expedition from the American Continent Institute crash lands on the planet Talos IV. Theodore Haskins and his entire party are killed, save one survivor named Vina. Before landing, the ship emits a radio-interference distress call that will be intercepted by the in 2254. ()
Alpha Lupi goes supernova. ()
A Klingon terror raid on Doctari Alpha results in the presumed death of Mike and Gabrielle Burnham, and the loss of the experimental Red Angel suit they were working on. Their daughter survives, and Vulcan Ambassador Sarek becomes her legal guardian. ()
Sometime later, the Vulcan Learning Center is bombed by Vulcan extremists, resulting in Michael Burnham's being physically dead for three minutes. Sarek used the healing powers of his katra to bring her back to life. As a result, the two of them remained telepathically connected for the rest of their lives, with the ability to reach out to the other in moments of distress. ()
Following this incident, Burnham decides to run away from Sarek's home. Using the Red Angel suit, her mother appears to Spock from the future, and helps him locate his adopted sister, who is eventually rescued from the clutches of a predatory animal by Sarek at Vulcan's Forge. ()
Amanda Grayson and Michael Burnham go to the seventh moon of Eridani D to take part in a book exchange for Michael's tenth birthday. ()
April 30 – May Ahearn is born. ()
Notes
Some time after Columbia crashes, the time barrier is broken, revolutionizing space travel. Communications also improve in intervening years since the interference wave and lightspeed-only communications seem to be considered obsolete in 2254 when this ship's signal is received. This fact seems inconsistent with , which featured faster-than-light communication a hundred years earlier in the 2150s.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 53), Valakis is admitted to the Federation.
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Episodes
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On the young Spock makes a practical joke. () In another incident, the young Spock comes home anguished, after being told by other Vulcan children that he was not really Vulcan. ()
Note
In the final revised draft script for , Gary Mitchell was about thirty, placing his birth in this year.
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The AP 350 is developed by a Zigwel Orgon. ()
Notes
According to the script for , J.M. Colt was described as "about twenty", indicating this year as the approximate date as her birth.
According to the Picard family album from , on April 10th 2234 at 1800 hours, the Gallic-Klingon Debating Society organizes a wine tasting of spring bottling from the Picard vineyards of La Barre, France (European Union, Earth, Sol). This event was organized by at the Onizuka Wing of Starfleet Academy. Plomeek soup was also to be served.
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Finnegan is born. ()
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January 6 (Stardate 2230.06) – Spock is born on in the city of ShiKahr to Sarek and his Human wife, Amanda. (; ; ; )
T'Pring is born on Vulcan. ()
Notes
According to the Star Trek Compendium (1st ed., p. 127), an early draft of the script for suggested that the Vulcan Sarek and the Human Amanda Grayson had been married for "thirty-eight (Vulcan?) years"; in Earth years, this would suggest 2230.
A deleted scene from also depicted a piece following the birth of Spock, taking place this year.
According to StarTrek.com, 2230 is approximately 8867 on the Vulcan calendar.
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attempts to solve an Altonian brain teaser for the first time. ()
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Ash Tyler is born. ()
December 8: La'an Noonien-Singh is born on Alpha I. ()
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Background information
According to Gene Roddenberry in The Making of Star Trek, James T. Kirk was born on March 22 of this year. However, canonically speaking, Kirk's year of birth was revealed to be 2233 in .
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Lela Dax dies at the age of 114 and the Dax symbiont is joined with Tobin. ()
Michael Burnham is born on Earth. ()
Background information
According to the final draft script of "", dated , Montgomery Scott was referred to as being forty years old, indicating that he was born this year. His canon year of birth was later established in as 2222.
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According to production notes written in the era of the original series, starships of the Enterprise-type were first commissioned forty years before the second pilot episode. (The Making of Star Trek)
According to the ship's dedication plaque, the is commissioned at San Francisco. ()
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Philippa Georgiou graduates from Starfleet Academy. ()
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According to the , Sybok is born.
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Relations between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire degenerate, giving rise to some seventy years of unremitting hostility as the two powers become embroiled in a tense cold war. ()
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According to the script notes for the episode , Sam Kirk was "older by ten years than the Captain", implying this as his birth year.
This year, seen in a timeline on a computer screen, was apparently derived by subtracting seventy years from 2293, the year is set in. That movie contained a line of dialogue where the Federation and the Empire were said to have seen almost (rather than exactly as the timeline would suggest) seventy years of "unremitting hostility", the same phrase used in the timeline.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 33), after becoming warp-capable, Delta IV is admitted to the Federation.
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Philippa Georgiou begins attending Starfleet Academy on Earth. ()
Notes
According to the script for , Christopher Pike was described as "about thirty-four", indicating this year as the approximate date as his birth. This was changed in in , when Pike claimed to have met Georgiou while attending the academy (which aligns with the app, stating he was born in 2205).
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Richard Daystrom is born. ()
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According to a line cut from the final draft script of , Harcourt Fenton Mudd was born on Antares Pi IV in this year.
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According to a given by John Gill, the Zeon colony on Ekos was established shortly after this year. A half a century later, this colony is wiped out virtually overnight by a genocide purge ordered by Gill who was then under the influence of his deputy Melakon. ()
Notes
According to the and the , 2218 was the year in which the Federation made "first contact with the Klingon Empire. The incident is a disaster, leading to nearly a century of hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation." The date is apparently supported by a line of dialogue written for Doctor McCoy in the first draft of the script for episode – when Kang was still written as Kor. According to McCoy's line, which did not explicitly state "first contact", he stated: "Fifty years-- Eyeball to eyeball with the Klingon Empire." The lines were rearranged and rewritten with the equivalent line changed to state: "The Klingons claim to have honored the truce..." A similar statement, noted in the entry at 2223, was given by Spock in , however, both instances were later disproved in the premiere .
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makes first contact with Eminiar VII. Contact is lost with the Valiant when they become a casualty in the interplanetary war between Eminiar VII and Vendikar. (; )
Notes
The on a return flight via a time warp to the year 2267 begins to arrest its momentum with the use of "engineering brakes". Spock reported the breaking momentum at fifty years, forty, and then thirty, before being told by Captain James T. Kirk to cease his reports. ()
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Harry Kim's Sports Program Theta-2 was a holoprogram that included players from this year's championship gold medal volleyball team. ()
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The star systems in the Selcundi Drema sector are mapped for the first time by Federation unmanned probes. Drema V explodes in this year. ()
The Nexus is estimated to have crossed through the galaxy this year. ()
Notes
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, Starfleet began developing photon torpedoes during this year.
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A starship disappears near the Taurean region. ()
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’s sleeper ship returns to Earth from its mission to Beta Capricus and its puzzled crew is revived from stasis, asking why they had never left orbit. ()
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Harry Kim's "uncle" pilots a sleeper ship on a deep-space exploration trip to Beta Capricus. The rest of the crew go into stasis, while Jack spends the six months piloting the ship himself. Upon arrival, the "star" is found not to exist and to be only an electromagnetic echo of a distant galaxy. Jack chooses not to wake the rest of the crew before returning, after a further six-month journey, back to Earth. ()
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Transporter psychosis is first diagnosed on Delinia II. ()
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One of the Human males examined by Dr. McCoy in the Omicron colony was born in this year. ()
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According to the app, Christopher Pike was born in this year.
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George is born to Tiberius Kirk. (; )
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Notes
According to the original pitch for Star Trek, Phillip Boyce was "the 51-year old ship's doctor;" based on the date of 2254 for , it would suggest that he was born this year. His biography appearing in The Making of Star Trek would later indicate simply that he was "well into his fifties," while the script simply stated that "Boyce is pushing middle age."
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Philippa Georgiou is born on Earth. ()
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The United Rigel Colonies is admitted to the United Federation of Planets. United Rigel Colonies is an interplanetary organization located in the Rigel (Beta Rigel) star system. The members of this organization are Rigel II, IV, V, VI, and X. (Star Trek: Star Charts, page 52)
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According to the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 71), about this year, the Yaderans become warp-capable.
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The Valdore-type was a Romulan warbird design active in the 24th century.
History
In the year 2379, two Valdore-type starships assisted the in attacking the rogue Reman warbird Scimitar in the Bassen Rift.
Among the ships of this type was the Valdore, under the command of Commander Donatra. Both ships were critically damaged during the battle. ()
Technical data
Physical arrangement
Similar in design to the warbird, the Valdore-type was a large, fixed-wing vessel. Ships of the class had a color scheme of dark-green or brown.
With a wingspan roughly 900 meters wide, the vessel featured a large section extending forward to create a down-sloped head shape. Warp nacelles were connected at the end of each wing with impulse engines mounted aft. The hull was marked by distinctive "feather" shaped plating. ()
Tactical systems
Ships of the Valdore-type featured several forward-mounted disruptor banks, located on each wing and some on the forward section of the ship. It had at least one forward torpedo launcher, able to fire four torpedoes for each recharge. ()
Bridge
The command center of the Valdore-type consisted of a roughly circular room, distinguished by several console positions. The room had a dark metallic-brown color scheme, with green graphics on the computer monitors.
With computers lining the rear bulkheads, a center seat or command chair and free-standing console were flanked by two additional stations. The Valdore-type also had a viewscreen, which was oval-shaped. ()
Ships commissioned
Named
Unnamed
Unnamed Valdore-type warbirds
Appendices
Appearances
Background information
Designation
In the screenplay of (both the first draft and the shooting script), the vessels of this type were referred to merely as "Romulan Warbirds", with no indication as to whether they were intended to be of the or a new type. Although the film's producers could have feasibly reused the D'deridex-class from in Nemesis, they were insistent about instead wanting a brand new style of Romulan warbird in the movie. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 14) In his blog, Concept Artist John Eaves has stated, "It was always called the Valdore-class in what we were doing! and this was the signature Valdore! [....] As far as I know, it had no other class name."
Exterior
The job of designing this type of vessel, as a new version of the Romulan warbird, was assigned to John Eaves. He decided to base the Valdore on a couple of vessels that had been created years previously, such as the Klingon Bird-of-Prey from , of which he was a long-time fan. "I thought, 'Well, I'll take that and rearrange it a little bit," Eaves recalled. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 14) He actually proceeded from the then-behind-the-scenes assumption (based on an early draft of the script) that the Bird-of-Prey was a Romulan ship stolen by the Klingons. Eaves based his design of the Valdore on a supposition that the Bird-of-Prey had been a typical configuration of Romulan vessel and that the Klingons had either bought or stolen the Bird-of-Prey or its technology. "From there the Romulan Warbird Valdore could easily fit into the design realm of what was seen before, only heavily modified," he reasoned.
Another starting point that John Eaves took inspiration from, while producing concept artwork of the Valdore, was the D'deridex-class, which had been designed for TNG by illustrator Andrew Probert. "I ran to Andy's ship for an architectural lineage to use as the cornerstone for the renderings," Eaves stated. He was inspired by one aspect of that design in particular. "I took the cowling from the front of the TNG Warbird [...] and incorporated it with my new kind of stylized Bird-of-Prey," he reflected. "So, it was kind of a progression of the Bird-of-Prey and Andy's Warbird." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 15)
While John Eaves was busy illustrating concept sketches of the new Romulan warbird, his boss, Production Designer Herman Zimmerman, also commissioned Illustrator David Negron, Jr. to devise some concept designs for the same vessel. He worked independently of Eaves, at the other side of the Paramount lot, and it was hoped that this arrangement would result in a variety of different looks for the ship, from which the final design would be selected. "David came up with a very aggressive 'T-tailed' design that incorporated some of the lines from Andy Probert's TNG Warbird," said Eaves. "He compacted the design, and I really liked the interpretation he came up with." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 15; )
John Eaves included wings in his versions of the craft, making the new warbird seem raptor-like. In his initial sketches of the Valdore, however, he experimented with different wing positions. For example, his second concept pass featured upswept wings. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 15; ) Regarding that rendition, Eaves remarked, "It almost had a Batman feel to it; that's why I ditched it!" Eaves ultimately filled a single page with three or four ideas of how he imagined the new warbird might look. The page was then taken to an art meeting, at which Herman Zimmerman and the producers chose one of the designs. "Herman Zimmerman came back with a circle around one of the drawings that said they wanted to see more on that one," Eaves continued. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, pp. 15-16)
As requested, John Eaves created a few more detailed sketches based on the chosen design, including some in which the exterior panels featured a feather pattern. He based these on books about birds such as hawks and condors. "It was really fun," he enthused. Eaves noticed, however, that the feather patterns looked too similar to that on the panels of the Klingon Bird-of-Prey's hull. "So I took all mine off and redid them so they would be different," Eaves noted. Once he had devised a feather pattern for the warbird that he felt was unique enough, Eaves focused on the underbelly details and the warp nacelles. At first, he placed a pair of secondary warp nacelles on the underside of the ship. This was to further the vessel's original backstory that they were an unusual type of nacelle, to be used only while the ship was cloaked, so as to mask the craft's warp trail. Eaves felt these nacelles spoiled the sweeping lines of the vessel, so he ended up moving them to the ends of the outer wings. "I [...] started working in a subtle arched bi-wing," he explained. "The extra wing added a good break-up to the forward view and helped tie in with the design flow that Andy had come up with for TNG." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, pp. 16-17)
After final approval of the design, the Valdore was built as a CGI model at Digital Domain by Andy Wilkoff. Eaves was delighted to collaborate with Wilkoff and encouraged him to add his own creative input to the design. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, pp. 16-17) "He did a lot of really beautiful work, too, adding personality to the ships that wasn't there in the drawings," Eaves commented. (Cinefex, No. 93, page 101) In fact, he cited the Valdore as "one of my all time favorite" ships, adding, "and the modeling work was beyond incredible." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 31, p. 17)
Interior
The bridge of the Valdore was a redress of the bridge of the Enterprise-E. Only a few pieces were retained from that configuration of the set. Those which were kept were repainted, recarpeted, and rendered unrecognizable. Because the same platform was used for both versions of the set, though, the Romulan version still had the same shape as the Enterprises bridge. The Valdores command chair was represented with a Klingon bridge chair that had been used since . The viewscreen of the Valdore was a reuse of the Son'a version from . ("Build and Rebuild", Star Trek Nemesis (Special Edition) DVD) Chairs from the were incorporated into the set, as was a Cardassian computer console (at the center of the room) and two computers recycled from the Klingon Bird-of-Prey dating back to .
Apocrypha
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game refers to the Valdore-type as the "Norexan-class".
The Star Trek: Titan novels from Pocket Books classify the Valdore-type as the "Mogai-class", after a man-sized predatory bird native to Romulus. Star Trek Online does so as well, though it also features an upgraded version which is referred to as the "Valdore-class".
According to the Titan series, the Valdore-type ships are smaller than the D'deridex-class vessels but are newer and more heavily armed, with more advanced weaponry. This may explain the significant difference in the appearance of this vessel's weaponry compared to that of the D'deridex-class, which is portrayed as firing bright neon green torpedoes and disruptors. Also according to the Titan series, the Valdore-type significantly outnumbers the D'deridex-class in terms of numbers within the fleet.
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Rogue Planet (episode)
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Archer has visions of a mysterious humanoid woman on a rogue planet where it is eternally nighttime.
Summary
Teaser
Captain Jonathan Archer is uncomfortable posing for pictures for Starfleet Headquarters, when the discovers a rogue planet that has broken out of its orbit. They decide to lay in a course to take a closer look.
Act One
Scanning the planet, T'Pol discovers that this planet supports a diverse animal population despite being a rogue, because of hot gases venting from its interior, forming oases where most lifeforms are concentrated. Even though there is no evidence of humanoid life, they are nonetheless able to pick up a power signature from the equator indicating a starship landed on the surface. When attempts to hail go unanswered, they decide to send a landing party consisting of Archer, T'Pol, Malcolm Reed, and Hoshi Sato.
Making their way through the thick, dense, and dark jungle, Archer points out that this place reminds him of the rain forest in New Zealand where he earned his Wilderness merit badge as an Eagle Scout. Reed mentions that he was also an Eagle Scout, with twenty-eight badges, two more than Archer earned. As they put on their night vision sensors and penetrate deeper into the jungle, they locate evidence of alien passage and a campsite, which appears to be deserted. As they split up to investigate, T'Pol and Reed are attacked and struck down by a group of aliens. However, when the aliens realize that the two are not a threat, they release them and bring them back to the campsite, where Archer has already met their leader, Damrus.
The Eska, as their species is called, explain that there are dangerous animals in the forest and that they have never seen humanoids on the rogue planet before. They explain that even though this planet, which they call Dakala, is no one's territory, it is special for them. It turns out that their people have come to this planet for nine generations to kill the indigenous species in a ritual hunt. They use sensing cloaks, which prevents the wildlife from spotting them. Hunting wild animals is part of their tradition. Noticing T'Pol's apparent disgust with the hunting practices of the Eska, Archer diplomatically comments that even though hunting living things went out of style on Earth over a hundred years ago, they nonetheless appreciate the hospitality of the Eska.
Reed points out that the gear they carry seems quite elaborate for taking down a few game animals. But one of the Eska warns to not underestimate the game on this planet. Curious about their endeavor, Reed is begrudgingly allowed to join them on their hunt to observe the powerful alien camouflage and sensing technology at work.
"Captain's starlog, supplemental. Trip and Malcolm are bringing Hoshi back to Enterprise and putting together some camping gear to bring back to the surface."
Down on the planet, Reed and Tucker decide to turn in earlier to be ready for the hunt, while Archer decides to sit up for a while to enjoy the natural beauty of the alien oasis, sleeping by the campfire. A few hours later, he awakes to a woman's voice calling his name from the foliage outside the camp. He cannot make out where it is coming from, but he is drawn to it, and goes to investigate. He wanders through the night jungle with a flashlight, looking for the voice that was calling him, wondering whether he just imagined it. At first he cannot find anything, but suddenly he sees a woman from afar, standing in the woods, surrounded by some kind of a ethereal light. He is barely able to make out her shape when she vanishes again.
Act Two
Confused, Archer tells the rest of the hunting party what happened, explaining that the woman he saw was young, had long blonde hair, and was wearing some kind of a nightgown. She knew his name and who he was and, what's more, he thinks that he actually knows her and has seen her before, but he cannot recall specifically. The Eska point out that on this planet it's always night and that one is surrounded by things one cannot see; he wouldn't be the first person who looked into the jungle and thought they saw something that wasn't there. Archer insists that she was real, but Damrus mocks him, asking him what the chances are that he'd encounter a half-naked woman who he knows dozens of light years from his homeworld. He jokes that if he is lucky, maybe she'll visit him in his dreams. Even the Enterprise crew thinks that what he saw was nothing but a figment of his imagination.
The next "day", while Reed gets ready to join the hunt, Archer, T'Pol, and Tucker gear up to explore some of the nearby steam vents and mineral springs. The hunters ask Archer if he slept well, joking again about the beautiful woman (Archer never actually said she was beautiful; the hunters merely assumed) he claims to have seen yesterday.
Archer's team is exploring one of the steam vents Damrus talked about, but Archer is still distracted thinking about the woman he saw last night. Tucker notices Archer's disquiet and asks him about the woman again. Archer insists that he wasn't hallucinating, yet he is also doubting himself for having walked into an alien jungle, chasing a woman who couldn't possibly have been there. He is frustrated that he cannot explain what happened to him when he heard her voice. While continuing with their exploration of the steam vents, Archer spots the mysterious woman again, following her deep into the jungle. This time she talks to him, telling him that she needs him to understand, for he is different. He says that he knows her and wonders how that is possible. The woman replies that if he didn't know her, he wouldn't have come. Archer asks why she needs him but she appears frightened, shaking and before she can explain, she is scared away by T'Pol and Tucker, who have come to look for Archer. She mumbles something about being harmed and disappears again. This time, however, Archer does not tell them what he saw.
During the hunt, Damrus and one of his men, Burzaan, split up to pursue what they call a "Wraith", while Reed and one of the other hunters take another path into the jungle. However, during the hunt, Burzaan is badly injured, requiring medical assistance.
Act Three
Archer offers to take Burzaan to the ship so he can be treated by Doctor Phlox. Somewhat reluctantly, Damrus agrees, suggesting that they all leave because it is just too dangerous. However, Archer is not ready to leave yet and decides to stay on the planet with Tucker and T'Pol. While Burzaan is being treated on the ship by Phlox, Archer tells T'Pol about his second encounter with the woman and how she asked for his help. T'Pol is still not convinced that there is a woman, yet offers to accompany him to find her. She further suggests it would not be safe for Archer to wander around alone, especially in view of the fact that an experienced hunter had just been seriously injured. But Archer insists on going alone, believing the mystery woman would not reveal herself if someone else was around.
Back on the ship, after having treated Burzaan, Dr. Phlox explains that the ular residues he found in Burzaan's wound are in a state of chromosomal flux and thus mutating – almost as if they are trying to change into something else but can't quite figure out what.
Hoping to see the mysterious woman again, Archer starts wandering off into the jungle by himself. She finally appears and Archer learns that she is a telepathic shapeshifter, and that she and her kind are in fact the "animals" being hunted by the Eska for sport. When Archer asks why he feels that he knows her, the woman replies that he in fact does know her and that her kind chose to contact him because he is different.
Act Four
Archer returns to the camp where everyone is toasting to the hunt tomorrow. While they are sitting around the campfire, Archer asks why the Eska come to this planet to hunt if they also hunt on their own planet. He points out that it seems like an awfully long trip to make just to hunt typical game. Damrus explains that the prey here is different because it is something that gets inside their minds and senses their thoughts. He explains that the Wraiths are shapeshifters who can look like anything – even people one knows. T'Pol points out that they sound like intelligent, sentient beings, but Damrus denies that, claiming that their shapeshifting is not a sign of intelligence or sentience but a mere instinctual response. Archer wonders how they catch them, and Damrus explains that when the beings are afraid, they emit a chemical signature which their modified sensors can detect, especially the younger creatures.
Outraged, Archer (now on board the Enterprise) informs the crew that the Wraiths have requested his help to survive. Reed points out that the Eska are well armed and know the terrain well. T'Pol states that she finds this as distasteful as Archer, but that she is not sure how to stop them. Moreover, she believes that they have no right to stop them from doing what they have been doing for generations anyway. Archer, however, refuses to accept this, believing that hunting wild boar is one thing, but killing a sentient being is quite another. T'Pol goes on to point out yet another, more pressing dilemma: even if they manage to stop them this time, the Eska species will simply return later and continue to hunt as they have been doing for generations. However, Dr. Phlox believes he can find a way to mask the chemical signature that the Wraiths emit when frightened, protecting them from the hunters' scans. They might not be able to stop the Eska from hunting there, but they can level the playing field at least.
When discussing the matter with Tucker, Archer tells him about a Yeats poem called "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" that his mother used to read to him, about a man who catches a fish that turns into a beautiful woman with "apple blossoms in her hair". She calls his name and then vanishes and the man spends the rest of his life searching for her; for this "glimmering girl" was his vision of perfection that he could never quite find. Archer realizes the woman he saw down on the planet is her: the way he always pictured the woman in Yeats' poem when it was read to him as a child. She isn't someone that he ever knew, she is someone he imagined as a child; the elusive woman from the poem. Tucker wonders why the shapeshifter slipped into his mind and picked an image he had almost forgotten, pointing out that maybe that poem is on his mind more than he realizes.
On the planet, the hunters are chasing a Wraith who takes the form of a tree when it is cornered. The hunters catch up but are unable to detect it with their equipment. Hoping to evoke fear in the Wraith, resulting in its giving itself away, the hunters begin randomly firing their weapons. Then suddenly the Wraith attacks one of the hunters but only knocks him down. When they think that their equipment must be malfunctioning because they were unable to detect a frightened Wraith so close, they return to camp, where Archer and Tucker, noticing their rattled state, approach them to offer assistance. Damrus finds it strange that they never failed in a hunt before Enterprise arrived, to which Archer smugly admits to being "bad luck" – but doesn't explain the issue further.
Archer has a final encounter with the thankful Wraith woman, who was given the masking agent. He says that he knows who she is and thanks her for reminding him. She tells him to never stop seeking what seems unattainable, and to never forget her, that woman in the poem. Then she takes on her true, somewhat snake-like form, and vanishes into the darkness of the rogue planet.
Memorable quotes
"Captain Archer in command."
"Give it a rest, Trip."
- Tucker, while trying to take a picture of Archer for a portrait to be hung at Starfleet Command
"Maybe they wanna be left alone. A single ship on a dark planet. Maybe they're on their honeymoon."
- Tucker, on a ship located on the surface of Dakala refusing to answer hails
"I used to say I could land a shuttlepod with my eyes closed."
"Well, the proof's in the pudding, captain."
- Archer, while trying to find a break in the canopy to land in the dark with Reeds response
"Why don't you let me play captain for a while, Malcolm."
- Archer, on Reed's readiness to lead the landing party
"How many merit badges?"
"Twenty-eight. You?"
"Twenty-six."
"Oh. That's not bad, sir."
- Archer and Reed, after they discover they were both Eagle Scouts
"We spot any more creatures like that and we'll earn our exobiology badges."
"Actually… I already have that one."
- Archer and Reed
"I promise I won't kill anything, sir."
- Reed, to Archer prior to joining the Eska on a hunt
"I wonder if you would be so determined to find this apparition if it were a scantily-clad man."
- T'Pol, on Archer's behavior
"What are the chances you'd encounter a half-naked woman, who you think you know, dozens of light years from your home world?"
- Damrus, to Archer
"She may just be something I envisioned a long time ago but I'll be damned if I'm gonna let anyone shoot her."
- Archer
"Strange… but we never failed in the hunt before you arrived."
"I guess we must be bad luck."
- Damrus and Archer, after then failed hunt of a "masked" Wraith
"Never stop seeking what seems unobtainable. Goodbye, Jonathan. Don't forget me."
"I won't."
- Wraith bids Archer farewell and transforms back into its true appearance (last lines)
Background information
Story and script
Though he went uncredited for his work on this episode, it was Enterprise Story Editor André Bormanis who provided the genesis for this installment. He did so by pitching a story regarding a sunless, orphaned planet which is nevertheless "Class M" due to having extreme geo-thermal vents. Added to this concept was the notion of doing some kind of a "safari show" and the idea of the Yeats poem Archer quotes, having him somehow emotionally touched by some form of alien creature. The use of the poem was suggested by Executive Producer Rick Berman, after which the episode continued to develop into its final form. The plot, especially the inclusion of alien hunters, allowed writer Chris Black an opportunity to focus on the enigmatic character of Reed. ()
This episode was not meant to be an anti-hunting story, as Chris Black pointed out, his father having hunted for years and the issue not being one that the younger Black felt particularly strongly about. He recalled, "We didn't want it to be a preachy episode […] It's only when it's revealed that they're hunting intelligent species that it becomes an issue." Black also planned for Reed's assurance to Archer that he would not kill anything to be a genuinely intended guarantee. ()
The first draft of this episode's script was submitted on . Thereafter, blue and pink change pages were issued on 10 December and 13 December respectively. The final draft of the script was issued on 14 December 2001.
Cast and characters
Much like his character in this installment, Reed actor Dominic Keating appreciated the presence of the group of male visitors to the series. During the making of this episode, Keating reported, "We have three guest stars on this week who are playing hunters, and they are hysterical! So sometimes it's really work, but in amongst that we're just laughing like hyenas." ()
Dominic Keating put a spin on Reed's promise that he wouldn't kill anything. "Dominic actually delivered that line a little more slyly than I intended; you're not entirely sure he means it!" exclaimed Chris Black. "Which was something that Dominic did […] It wasn't really in the script, but his take on the character was 'Well, he might like to take a shot – you never know." ()
Conor O'Farrell previously played Jeff in the episode and later played D'Jamat in the Enterprise third season episode . Eric Pierpoint also guest-starred in DS9, as Captain in , and appeared as Section 31 agent in fourth season installments , , , and .
Keith Szarabajka previously played Teero Anaydis in the episode .
Stephanie Niznik previously played Lt. Perim, the Trill helmsman of the , in .
Production
Dominic Keating found the set for this episode's planetary environment to be unpleasant. During the installment's production, Keating reported, "We're standing in a smoky dusty set on Stage 9 at the moment. It's dark, it's dank, we're in some forest – this planet has no light and we're in some dark, dingy, blue-lit infested forest. You turn the torch on, and all you can see are particles in the air, and we're breathing it in 15 hours a day." ()
The bottles of liquid the Eska possess appear to be re-used from Deep Space Nine, where they were used for bottles of bloodwine.
The sounds made by the Dakalan changelings are the same sounds made by a dying Founder in Deep Space Nine.
Continuity
This is the only time the crew of Enterprise use their green-glowing night vision gear.
In Act One, Archer is mistaken in his captain’s starlog when he says Tucker and Reed are bringing Sato back to Enterprise, because Tucker was not a member of the first landing party to Dakala. Only Reed ferries Sato back to Enterprise, but then Tucker returns with him to the surface.
Reception
Chris Black thought that Dominic Keating's delivery of Reed's promise not to kill anything improved that line. "I told him later I thought [it] was wonderful," noted Black. ()
On the first broadcast of this installment, the episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 3.3 and was watched by a total of 4.69 million viewers.
's "Ultimate Guide" rated this episode 2 out of 5 arrowhead insignias. ()
The unofficial reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 366) comments about this outing, "Probably the weakest episode of the season, it's not bad so much as anti-climactic." The book goes on to suggest that the episode should not even have been commissioned because it seems too much like an installment of , opining, "This has 'unused Chakotay story' written all over it."
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.9,
As part of the ENT Season 1 DVD collection
As part of the ENT Season 1 Blu-ray collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Stephanie Niznik as Wraith
Conor O'Farrell as Burzaan
Eric Pierpoint as Shiraht
Keith Szarabajka as Damrus
Uncredited Co-Stars
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Amy Kate Connolly as science division crewman
Hilde Garcia as Rossi (deleted scene)
Lindly Gardner as operations division crewman
John Jurgens as a command division crewman
Mark Watson as operations division crewman
References
Amazon; apple blossom; artist; bioscience; blood; blood type; blonde; bore worm; Boy Scout; ; bunk; camera; campsite; captain's chair; ; chin; chromosome; chromosomal flux; Dakala; Dakalan bug; Deneva Prime; drayjin; dream; drink dispenser; dozen; Eagle Scout; Earth; English language; entomologist; Eska; exobiology; file photo; fire wolf; game animal; generation; geothermal energy; geothermal shaft; ghost; "glow in the dark"; grotto; honeymoon; hunting; hunting party; infrared; indigenous species; Ipswich; Jupiter Station; kilometer; light year; logic; man; masking agent; merit badge; meter; migration; mineral spring; mutation; mutative ability; nest; New Zealand; nightgown; Oakland; Oakland portrait artist; oases; painting; photography; pig; poetry; poker; portrait; primate; psychotropic compound; pudding; rain forest; recruit; reptile; right; rogue planet; Safari; science officer; sensing cloaks; sensor ghost; sentient species; shapeshifter; situation room; ; stanchion; status display; Starfleet Command; steam vent; telepathy; tent; thermal vent; toast; tradition; trespassing; volcanic vent; Vulcan High Command; wild boar; wildlife; ; wolf; wraith; Yellowstone National Park
Unreferenced materials
pheromone; steak
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Acquisition (episode)
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A group of interstellar thieves stun the Enterprise crew and begin looting the ship. Trip Tucker is the only one left to stop them, but can he do that in his underwear?
Summary
Teaser
An unidentified alien vessel is closing on , which is drifting in space. The crew of the approaching vessel, speak in an alien language, although they seem to be discussing the Starfleet craft. The captain smiles and orders the ship to dock with it, targeting the starboard docking port.
Act One
The aliens board the ship, each wearing a gas mask, and begin exploring the ship. Oddly, they find the Enterprise crew unconscious, but apparently having been in the midst of going about their normal routines. While they are not too particularly impressed with the Humans' ears, one of them seems rather fascinated by T'Pol's. They disable a device in engineering, apparently the source of whatever knocked out the crew as they safely remove their gas masks shortly afterward. They proceed to a turbolift, heading for the bridge, where they find Captain Archer and other bridge officers unconscious. One of them calls their ship on his communicator, reporting to someone he refers to as Ulis.
Meanwhile, is in the decontamination chamber, lying on the floor and wearing bright blue Starfleet-issue underwear. He gets up and calls Dr. Phlox on the com: he's been in there for at least an hour, but it was only supposed to be twenty minutes. But Phlox, like the rest of the crew, is lying unconscious at his post in sickbay. Hearing no response, Tucker breaks out of decon by shorting out the door panel, and discovers unconscious crewmen throughout the corridors and turbolifts.
Meanwhile, the aliens get to work ransacking Enterprise, starting with wheeling trolleys on board via the airlocks. Tucker arrives in sickbay and discovers Phlox unconscious. Hearing them coming, he hides via a ladder exit to an access tunnel, and quickly takes a glance to see them taking much of the sickbay equipment. He exits in a corridor, discreetly seeing two others taking a spatial torpedo.
Act Two
The aliens continue taking items ranging from bridge chairs to clothes, food, and even the Enterprises dedication plaque. Soon, not content with taking only inanimate objects, the aliens drag all of the ship's females to the launch bay. They also remove Captain Archer from his chair and take him to the launch bay, which is seen by Tucker via a security monitor in engineering. They handcuff the captain to a handhold in the bay, and wake him up; as soon as their universal translator manages to decipher English, they demand that he tell them where the ship's vault is. Archer is at first confused by their request, and tells them that there is no vault on the ship – that as a ship of exploration, not of commerce, they would have no need for one. But the aliens can't believe that there would be no valuables of any kind stockpiled aboard, and are convinced that he's lying. They discuss among themselves how to proceed, revealing the name of one of them to be Krem, a cousin of Ulis'. While they are talking, Archer spots Tucker up on the second level of the launch bay, unbeknownst to the aliens.
Krem mentions taking the females to a slave market on Stameris, which prods Archer to do something to prevent this. He decides to play along with the aliens' idea that there must be a vault on-board, saying it is full of gold. The aliens ask if he means gold-pressed latinum, but he hasn't heard of that, and says "gold bars". They are still interested, so he offers to show them where to find it if he can keep half of the gold. The aliens are not satisfied with that; Archer makes a final offer of 35% for himself, with the rest going to the aliens, but they decide to proceed without his assistance and find the vault themselves. Ulis orders Krem to begin loading the booty onto their ship, eliciting protests from Krem, at which Ulis suggests he make Archer do it.
While loading the booty onto the aliens' ship at gunpoint, Archer engages Krem in conversation, learning a bit about the aliens' philosophy of "a man is only worth the sum of his possessions", embodied in the Rules of Acquisition. Archer also learns that Krem is rather at the mercy of his cousin in all his business dealings – as the Rules put it, "Never allow family to stand in the way of profit." Krem seems to accept this as the way things are supposed to be, believing that his cousin is going to help him acquire a ship of his own one day. Spotting Tucker around a corner, Archer asks Krem to get him a glass of water and some food from the mess hall. Krem handcuffs him to a nearby hand grip and goes off to get the food. Tucker fills Archer in on the situation, and that the aliens have looted the ship so thoroughly that there aren't any phase-pistols left for him to get his hands on – not even a hypospray with which to wake the rest of the crew. Archer tells Tucker to get the hypospray the aliens used to wake him up, which they left in launch bay 2. Just then, Krem returns, prompting Tucker to leave so he isn't spotted.
Tucker finds the hypospray and injects T'Pol with it. He then tries repeatedly to inject Hoshi Sato, but nothing happens. T'Pol immediately wakes up, at first startled by Tucker's mode of dress, then she deduces that the crew was knocked out by gas emitted by an artifact they had retrieved from the surface of a moon when T'Pol examined it; it must have been placed there intentionally by the aliens. Tucker had been isolated from the effects of the gas due to his being sealed off from the rest of the ship in decon. Just then, the door to the launch bay opens, admitting Krem and Archer. T'Pol pretends to still be unconscious, while Tucker hides. Krem is fascinated by T'Pol, asking Archer questions about her. Despite Archer's attempts to convince Krem that she's not very interesting, Krem isn't dissuaded, though he is torn away from admiring T'Pol when Archer needs his help to move a heavy cabinet from the launch bay. After Archer and Krem leave, T'Pol expresses her irritation at Krem's attention, and discusses with Tucker how to proceed. As Sato still hasn't woken up, Tucker realizes that the hypospray is empty; he, T'Pol, and the captain will have to take back the ship with no help from the rest of the crew.
Act Three
Tucker heads to a crewman's quarters and puts on a slightly too-small sciences division uniform before proceeding any further while T'Pol observes the aliens in sickbay via a security monitor. There, Ulis and Grish are convinced that the imaging chamber must be the vault, though Muk is more skeptical. Confounded by an apparent lack of locking gear, they eventually manage to activate its opening mechanism, triggering the built-in gurney to slide out and nearly slam straight into the aliens, sending them scrambling. To Ulis and Grish's shock, there is no loot inside, though Muk seems more impressed with an unidentified medical gadget, which he insists on keeping for himself, despite their earlier agreement to split the profits of this endeavor between them. Ulis eventually agrees, but only after saying that he'll deduct the gadget from Muk's share of the gold.
Meanwhile, Tucker attaches a security lock to the door of the bio-matter resequencer, which also serves to cover the label on the door. T'Pol proceeds to an area just outside the bridge, where she monitors the aliens conversing in the situation room. Muk has collected various gadgets from around the ship (including a number of scanners) to add to the booty, while Grish finds the captain's quarters on a map of the ship and suggests to Ulis that the vault might be there. But while they are discussing how to get there, T'Pol sends an ear-splitting squeal out of the com system at the aliens, who, with their sensitive hearing, are quite keenly affected by this. They pull out their weapons and search for the source of the sound; meanwhile, T'Pol sneaks out onto the bridge and takes the scanners Muk had collected. By the time Muk shoots the science console and stops the noise, T'Pol is gone. Muk then notices that his scanners are gone, for which he blames Ulis. He demands that Ulis open his bag so he can prove his innocence, but Ulis refuses, claiming that he wouldn't be interested in some "worthless" scanners. T'Pol, however, remotely triggers one of the scanners to make a beeping noise – revealing that they are in Ulis' bag. Muk is outraged, and Ulis claims ignorance, when Muk notices that there were only two of them in Ulis' bag, whereas he had three of them. He immediately turns to Grish, who runs away with Muk in hot pursuit. Meanwhile, T'Pol monitors the unfolding events from her post outside the bridge, holding the third scanner in her hand.
In engineering, Krem is directing Archer to remove parts from the warp core. Archer attempts to convince him that the only way he can ensure he gets a fair share of the vault's contents is to see the vault for himself. He offers Krem a deal: Krem helps him put the rest of the aliens in the brig, and Archer gives him half of the money. Though clearly tempted by the offer, Krem refuses and tells Archer to get back to work.
Grish and Muk, meanwhile, are attempting to interrogate Porthos as to the location of the vault. Porthos, not understanding a word they're saying, happily wags his tail and woofs. They realize that he's a lower lifeform, speculating that he might be the captain's next meal, but Grish isn't so sure, noting Porthos's large ears. Muk takes Porthos to the launch bay and puts him in a cargo container, but spots Tucker hiding elsewhere in the bay. He chases him out into the corridors to the mess hall, alerting the others via communicator that one of the crew members is awake. In the mess hall, Tucker tries to blend in with the rest of the sleeping crewmen there, but is spotted by Muk, who attacks him. Tucker gets Muk's weapon and makes a run for it, only to be stopped by Ulis with an energy whip.
Act Four
In the launch bay, Krem and Archer are still at it, loading items into the aliens' ship. Archer is still trying to work on Krem, trying to convince him that he's being treated unfairly by his partners. The other aliens enter with Tucker, after which they start discussing the possibility of other crew members being awake, and consider taking what they have and leaving to avoid tangling with them. They almost come to blows, Muk and Ulis even pulling weapons on each other. Muk, while still quite angered at Ulis, calms down and gets to work with Grish to haul the females to the ship. Tucker, however, tells them to wait – he'll show them to the vault, provided they leave the females. Archer, realizing that Tucker has a plan, plays along, ordering him not to reveal the location of the vault no matter what. Tucker pretends that Sato is his wife, and that he doesn't want the aliens to take her – thus, becoming increasingly angered when Archer threatens to throw him in the brig for insubordination, he launches himself at Archer and begins wrestling with him until the aliens pull them apart. Ulis accepts Tucker's offer, and the aliens, knowing that they all need to see the vault for themselves to avoid being cheated by the others, all follow Tucker, with the exception of Krem who is told to stay behind and finish loading the ship. Krem, inspired by Archer's words, stands up to Ulis, insisting that he's tired of doing the menial work and wants a chance to prove he has the "lobes for business". Eventually he backs down, however, and he gets to work with Archer. Archer fakes a flare-up of an old water polo injury, leading Krem to handcuff him to a hand grip and continue loading the ship himself.
While Tucker leads Ulis, Muk, and Grish to the bottom deck of the ship, Krem encounters T'Pol aboard his ship. She claims that she's a prisoner aboard the Human ship, and begs Krem to take her with him. Krem is mesmerized by her and asks her to perform oo-mox on him. She begins to perform it on him per his instructions, at which Krem melts in ecstasy, allowing her to knock him out with a Vulcan nerve pinch. She takes the keys to Archer's handcuffs, as well as a phase-pistol from a case, and leaves.
Via an extremely circuitous route, Tucker leads the aliens to the bio-matter resequencing section, finally announcing to them that they've reached the vault and releasing the lock. Tucker offers to go in first and scout out any booby traps, which makes the aliens suspicious; they all enter simultaneously, each one wanting to get to the gold first. Upon finding the bio-matter resequencing center empty of gold, they realize it is a trap, but it is too late – T'Pol springs out from behind the door and stuns them with a phase-pistol.
After T'Pol releases Archer with the key, the crew supervise the aliens as they unload their booty back to its rightful places; now the tables are turned, with the aliens under armed guard by the Humans. Archer frees Porthos from the box in which Muk put him, and once all is back where it belongs, the aliens are all manacled on board their ship except for Krem, who is informed by Archer that he's going to contact the Vulcans and Starfleet to warn them about the aliens, and that if they come within a light year of an Earth or Vulcan ship they won't know what hit them. Krem readily promises that they won't ever see them again. Archer suggests to the others that they might try showing Krem a little more respect if they'd like to be released, eliciting scowls and insults. After Archer and T'Pol leave, Krem, clearly enjoying the situation, sits in the captain's chair, smiling as the others offer him bribes for their release. Krem takes the controls of the ship, disengages it from Enterprise, and flies off into parts unknown.
Memorable quotes
"Who the hell are you?"
"Who we are is unimportant."
- Archer and Ulis
"This is a vessel of exploration, not a cargo ship. We don't do any commerce."
- Archer, to the aliens.
"Why am I always stuck doing the menial labor?"
"Make him do it!"
- Krem, to Ulis who then suggests Archer load the stolen goods to their vessel
"If you're gonna make a habit out of this, you might wanna get a bigger ship."
- Archer, on the amount of stolen items from Enterprise in Ulis' starship
"What do you need all this for, anyway? You seem to already have plenty of technology."
"One can never have too much! The Rules of Acquisition say 'Expand or Die.' "
"Rules of Acquisition?"
"That's rule number forty-five. I've memorized all one-hundred and seventy-three, including the most important one: 'A man is only worth the sum of his possessions.' "
"Back on my home world that kind of thinking almost destroyed our civilization."
"You should've managed your businesses better."
- Archer and Krem
"Come on! We have a lot more moving to do."
"We?"
- Krem and Archer
"Never allow family to stand in the way of profit."
"Another one of your rules?"
"Number six."
- Krem and Archer
"Just because a guy's in his underwear you think the worst."
- Trip, to T'Pol, when he sees she's startled by his lack of clothing
"This female… is different from the others. What species is she?"
"She's a Vulcan."
"Vulcan."
"They're really not all that interesting once you get to know them."
"I'd like to get to know this one. Maybe I won't sell her… not right away."
"Trust me. She's got no sense of humor. She's always complaining."
- Krem and Archer
"There are times I wish Vulcans hadn't learned to repress their violent tendencies."
- T'Pol
"Rule of Acquisition number twenty-three: "Nothing is more important than your health… except for your money.""
- Ulis, to Muk and Grish
"Do I look like a Menk to you?"
- Muk, to Ulis
"Are you calling me a thief?"
"Everybody knows you'd steal the wax out of your own mother's ears."
- Ulis and Muk
"I'm surprised your friend didn't get electrocuted. You can't just yank out an antimatter injector like it was a light bulb!"
- Archer, to Krem
"Where is the vault? Do you understand me?"
- Grish, interrogating Porthos
"I can't lock onto its language."
"It's a lower lifeform, you fool! Probably the captain's next meal."
"Don't be so sure. Look at the size of its ears!"
- Grish and Muk, sizing up Porthos in the captain's quarters
"Sorry fellas… bank must be closed today!"
- Tucker, to the newly-incapacitated scavengers
"What's your wife worth? Five bars of gold, maybe six? Let them take (her), and I'll give you ten."
"What!?"
"All right, fifteen!"
- Archer and Tucker, attempting to deceive the aliens
"Do you have the key?"
(T'Pol shows Archer the key, but hesitates to use it)
"Not that interesting. No sense of humor. Always complaining?"
"I'll make it up to you."
"How?"
"Five bars of gold? (He pauses.) Open these things, Sub-commander. That's an order!"
- Archer and T'Pol
"Isn't there a more direct route?"
"That's the beauty of this thing. It's impossible to find unless you know exactly where you're going."
"How much further?"
"Keep your shirt on, it's close."
- Grish, Tucker, and Ulis on their way to the "vault"
Background information
Story, script and cast
The final draft script of this installment was issued on .
This episode features actors who have guest-starred on every previous Star Trek series (in addition to several starring and recurring roles):
Clint Howard previously played Balok in the episode and Grady in the episode .
Ethan Phillips (Ulis) previously starred as Neelix in , in which he also appeared as the Ferengi Grand Proxy (actually Neelix in disguise) in the episode . He also played Dr. Farek in the episode and the holographic maitre d' in .
Jeffrey Combs had previously played several other roles, most notably Brunt, Weyoun, and Shran. Combs guest-starred on Star Trek: Voyager as Penk in the episode . This was his only appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise not playing Shran.
Continuity
This episode goes out of its way to not reveal the name of the race to which the marauders belonged, since official contact wouldn't occur until well over two centuries later in 's , though the closed captions on streaming platforms do caption their dialog as "Ferengi language". The Borg were similarly not named in dialog in the episode .
Muk references the episode when he asks, "Do I look like a Menk to you?" In "Dear Doctor", the Valakian astronaut informs Archer that his people had made contact with the Ferengi, a species unknown to either Humans or Vulcans, and who had refused to help the Valakians and Menk cure the genetic plague devastating their planet.
The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition which are referenced herein consist of numbers six, twenty-three, and forty-five. We learn there are only 173 Rules of Acquisition at this point in history, as opposed to 285 by the 24th century. By that reckoning, 112 rules will have been added by the time of TNG and DS9.
This episode states that the sixth Rule of Acquisition is "Never let family get in the way of profit." By the 24th century, it will have changed (slightly) to "Never let family get in the way of opportunity," as is revealed in .
The energy whip is seen here for the first time since its introduction in .
T'Pol's masquerade as a "Vulcan love slave" might be the genesis of the Ferengi fascination with the idea, and the resultant holosuite program. DS9 relaunch's novel This Gray Spirit claims that Krem, who received oo-mox from T'Pol, is one possible author of the original Vulcan Love Slave novel.
We learn that there are fourteen weapons lockers on Enterprise.
The Ferengi PADD used in DS9 appears here, with added LEDs, as a Ferengi scanner.
Being without his own uniform, Tucker borrows a junior science officer's uniform and wears it throughout the episode. Tucker is the only crew member to wear all three division color versions of the Starfleet uniform in the series as he later wears the gold, command division uniform in the episode .
Reception
This episode was criticized by some fans for allegedly abusing established continuity. In an interview, series writer Mike Sussman responded to these criticisms, remarking, "Meeting the Ferengi was probably one of the more controversial choices this season, but I think we structured the show in a way that preserves Picard's first contact with them. Besides, every fan knows Earth's real first contact with the Ferengi was in Roswell in 1947 [in the episode ]." ()
Brannon Braga admitted "There's no excuse for the Ferengi, no excuse. That was an act of desperation. I hated it." ("To Boldly Go: Launching Enterprise, Part III: First Flight", ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special features)
On the first broadcast of this installment, the episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 3.4 and was watched by a total of 5.45 million viewers.
's "Ultimate Guide" rated this episode 4 out of 5 arrowhead insignias. ()
The unofficial reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 366) comments about this installment, "An episode that starts with the Ferengi being rather sinister, like they were originally designed to be – but which soon reverts to a fun story about outwitting them. Leaving aside the objection that the Ferengi really shouldn't be around this early in Star Trek history, it's a fun episode that gives Scott Bakula the chance to be funny for once."
The Ferengi vessel later reappeared in , as a Dekendi ship that carried one of Phlox's wives, Feezal, to Enterprise.
Several costumes, props, and items from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the Starfleet document box carried by Muk and a script for this episode.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.10,
As part of the ENT Season 1 DVD collection
As part of the ENT Season 1 Blu-ray collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Jeffrey Combs as Krem
Clint Howard as Muk
Matt Malloy as Grish
Ethan Phillips as Ulis
Uncredited Co-Stars
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Cecilia Conn as command division crewman
Amy Kate Connolly as science division crewman
Mark Correy as Alex
Stacy Fouche as operations division crewman
Hilde Garcia as Rossi
Peter Godoy
Glen Hambly as operations division ensign
Bryan Heiberg as operations division crewman
Aldric Horton as operations division crewman
Cheri Isabella as operations division crewman
John Jurgens as command division crewman
Martin Ko as command division ensign
Bobby Pappas as operations division crewman
Monica Parrett as command division crewman
Prada as Porthos
Thelma Tyrell as operations division crewman
Cynthia Uhrich as operations division crewman
Gary Weeks as operations division crewman
Todd Wieland as operations division crewman
References
anesthesia; antimatter injector; armory; ; beetle snuff; bio-matter resequencer; Bolian; booby trap; businessman; Chef; cook; cousin; crowbar; DaiMon; dedication plaque; dog; double cross; earwax; Earth Starfleet; energy whip; Ferengi; Ferengi gas canister; Ferengi language; Rules of Acquisition; filtration mask; Gavarian ship; gold; hand scanner; handcuffs; injector assembly; insubordination; latinum; latinum pen; lemon meringue pie; light bulb; lock pick; lower lifeform; lunar survey; Malurzian Zoo; micro-charge; Muk's Bolian acquaintance; NX class; oo-mox; phase-pistol; pecan pie; pointy-ears; ; scanner; sense of humor; serving case; slave market; spatial torpedo; Stameris; trinket; Ulis' starship; underwear; vault; vessel of exploration; Vulcans; Vulcan High Command; Vulcan nerve pinch; warp core; water; water polo
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The crew finds a derelict spaceship from which they can salvage some supplies… only they find that the ship is not quite as deserted as they were led to believe.
Summary
Teaser
Captain Archer is talking with an alien trader named D'Marr about the possibility of buying spare engineering parts and materials over a meal. Saying he specializes in exotic goods, however, D'Marr still helps by giving them coordinates where could find all that she needs. Oddly hesitating, he explains there is a ship that crashed on a nearby planet. The only problem is that it is supposedly haunted.
Act One
Enterprise enters orbit of said planet, where the crew finds the ship as predicted and, further, no power signatures or life signs. Unfortunately, the only way to get more information is to send an away team. There's some hesitation, but Archer states they'll leave if there's any opposition. Archer, Travis Mayweather, T'Pol and arrive on the planet. The possible haunting causes Mayweather to wonder why the hatch was closed, if D'Marr was in a hurry. T'Pol also thinks she hears something, but it could probably just be rodents. Tucker confirms the presence of dilithium, but, just then, T'Pol thinks she sees someone through a reflection. Then, Tucker also sees a shadow move. Blasting through a hatch, the two find an area apparently hidden by a dampening field with lush vegetation. Exploring further, they find the "ghosts" – or rather a real live crew and colony.
Joined by Archer and Mayweather, these colonists, Kantares, explain they were on their way home when they were attacked by unknown aliens and forced to crash land on that planet. They had been surviving since but were not able to get the ship flying again. They also say that no distress calls were sent to avoid giving away their position (the dampening field serving the same purpose). This happened about three years prior. Archer offers help, and Tucker thinks he can repair the ship. There's skepticism, but the colonists thank Archer.
Tucker begins to work on repairing the ship systems and fraternizes with Liana, the daughter of the ship's chief engineer, Ezral. She's shy, but interested in hanging around him. Soon, her mother arrives and insists Liana leave for other duties.
Act Two
T'Pol joins Tucker in his repairs, and warns and reminds him of his fraternization with aliens, in particular, his experience with the Xyrillian. Soon, Liana comes back with food for Tucker and he graciously eats it. They talk for a while but are interrupted by Kuulan with another problem: their computer core. Tucker agrees to have a look, but he'll have to get some gear from Enterprise. After he and T'Pol set off, Liana pleads with her father to visit Enterprise. Ezral thinks she's seen enough Humans, but eventually relents.
Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, things do not go so smoothly. Malcolm Reed and Mayweather relate to the captain a number of inconsistencies in the story they have been told: the ship's oasis is not big enough to sustain the whole colony, and they don't seem to have suffered any attack. Archer can somewhat explain away some of what they're saying, but he notes they have one of their data modules, so he has them take a look at it.
Tucker shows Liana around the engineering room and tells her about the crew. She's fascinated and they get along well together. She avoids questions about Kantare, saying it's "boring" and, instead, asks about the planets he has visited. Archer calls Tucker to his ready room, so he has someone else finish her tour. In the ready room, Archer and Reed, who has had time to examine the data module, explain the real reason they crashed. It was some malfunction which de-pressurized the ship. Further, the ship has been down on the planet for some twenty-two years previously instead of three years. They also left escape pods, one of which is still in orbit. They leave to examine it, seeing that the body in it is actually that of Shilat, who appears to be alive and living on the planet.
Act Three
On the planet, T'Pol, working on the computer, apparently also discovers something. Before she can report her discovery, however, she is captured by the colonists while investigating in a different corner of the ship. Meanwhile, Tucker, now having to have a serious talk with Liana, finds her in the mess hall. Confronting her with the evidence, she initially feigns ignorance, but soon can't keep that up. However, she doesn't provide any more information and demands to be taken back to the planet.
Archer and Reed return to the planet with Liana to get some explanations, but the colonists begin to be aggressive, forcing Tucker to perform repairs and the rest of the team to go back to Enterprise. Archer does so, and starts to assemble a rescue team. Liana objects to the situation, and goes to talk to Tucker while he's working and explains what's happening. Liana shares the secret of the colony with Tucker; everyone in the colony except Liana and her father are holograms. Soon, things get ugly as the rescue team arrives. Reed is shot from behind, and, when a phase-pistol beam passes right through a colonist, the significance of the ghost story D'Marr told earlier becomes apparent. In the computer room, Tucker pleads with Liana to stop them, and so she reluctantly starts pulling out circuits. The attackers disappear, except for Ezral.
Act Four
With no more lies needing to be told, Ezral then explains the real circumstances of the crash. They were caught in an ion storm, and the ship being too severely damaged, they had to crash land on the nearby planet. The only problem was that Ezral left his station during the landing to prevent his daughter's death, causing the death of the rest of the crew by his negligence. After he realized they were stranded on a deserted planet, he re-created all the crew as holograms so that Liana would not have to grow up completely isolated.
Tucker agrees to assist in repairing the holographic system, but still says that Liana deserves more than to live her life alone with her father on that forgotten planet. Ezral says that he is happy there, but, he is finally convinced by Archer that what is best for him may not be the best for his daughter. In the end, Ezral decides to accept Archer's help, getting the required components from Enterprise to fix his ship.
Later, the crew is back and Tucker brings some supplies and kisses Liana good-bye.
Extended scenes
For this episode, there are two extended scenes that can be found on the ENT Season 1 DVD. A note preceding each scene states, "The color portion of the following was lifted from the show – the black & white portion was retained in the final version."
Oasis deleted scene 8
As in the aired version of the episode, Tucker and T'Pol explore the crashed ship, using flashlights to see in the darkness of the alien environment. When T'Pol becomes certain that she has just heard something, Tucker suspects she is imagining things due to her fear of the situation but the Vulcan insists that nothing frightens her. In the extended version of the scene, T'Pol continues the discussion by claiming that "fear is a primitive emotion". Certain that something must evoke that particular response in her, Tucker wonders whether T'Pol is scared by heights or spiders, to which she finally reveals that, when previously recalled from Enterprise by the High Command, she discovered the crew was preparing a "going-away" party and found the idea "somewhat frightening".
Oasis deleted scene 21
The aired section of this scene includes Tucker and T'Pol finding the "crew" of the crashed ship, several of whom are armed with hand weapons aimed at the Enterprise officers. The extended portion then progresses with T'Pol asking the people she sees before her whether the ship is theirs, to which they do not respond. She consequently takes out her communicator, provoking a curious look from Ezral, and activates the device, asking the alien group whether they can understand her. When they still do not react, Tucker nevertheless announces his suspicions that the group is surprised to see the visitors and probably think they are scavengers. After Tucker admits that their suspicions are correct but that he and T'Pol thought the ship had been abandoned except for ghosts, the armed members of the group lower their weapons.
Memorable quotes
"I thought Cajun food was hot!"
- Tucker, after trying Hajjlaran spice
"No power signatures. It appears to be deserted."
"But are your sensors calibrated for ghosts?"
- T'Pol and Tucker
"Vulcans don't imagine things."
- T'Pol
"What, don't you get frightened every once in a while?"
"No."
"Not by anything?"
"No."
"Too bad. Nothing like a good scare."
- Tucker and T'Pol, while on the Kantare ship
"Why do I feel like it's feeding time at the zoo?"
- Tucker, to Liana while she watches him eat
"I've made all the friends I need."
- Ezral, to Tucker
"Maybe you can tell me how I'm being guarded by a dead man."
- Tucker, to Liana
"What if she gets hurt? What do you do then? Program a… holographic doctor?"
- Tucker, to Ezral
Background information
Story and Script
The final draft script of this episode was issued on .
Cast
Rene Auberjonois (Ezral) is better known as Constable Odo in and Colonel West in . Rudolph Willrich also guest-starred in DS9 as the Bolian Starfleet Academy Commandant in .
Continuity
The premise of this episode is very similar to . Rene Auberjonois saw the similarities (Odo and Jadzia Dax had played the roles played by the Enterprise crew in this episode) and told Scott Bakula that DS9 had done a similar episode. Auberjonois commented, "That was not really a putdown, but when you've done that many years of writing stories, there will be recurring themes."
The episode DIS: "Su'Kal" is also similar in that Su'Kal's mother created holographic characters for him to grow up with while the KSF Khi'eth was stranded in the Verubin Nebula.
Ezral and Liana are also very similar to the characters of Prospero and Miranda from William Shakespeare's The Tempest and the characters of Dr. Edward Morbius and Altaira Morbius in the 1956 film , which was largely based on The Tempest (Forbidden Planet, in turn, was also a source of inspiration for ). They also share similarities with Flint and Rayna Kapec from .
When questioning Ezral about what he would do if Liana was ever to get hurt, Tucker sardonically suggested that he might program a holographic doctor to treat her. This is an allusion to the concept of the Emergency Medical Hologram, and specifically The Doctor of .
Archer asks Travis Mayweather if this is turning into one of his famous ghost stories. Mayweather previously told ghost stories in .
While talking with , T'Pol references his escapade with the female Xyrillian engineer seen in .
Brannon Braga referred to this installment of Enterprise, in , as a "terrible episode." ("To Boldly Go: Launching Enterprise, Part III: First Flight", ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special features)
On the first broadcast of this installment, the episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 3.3 and was watched by a total of 5.64 million viewers.
's "Ultimate Guide" rated this episode 3 out of 5 arrowhead insignia. ()
The unofficial reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 367) comments about this episode, "An old-fashioned story, one that could have (and, to some extent, already had) appeared in any previous incarnation of Star Trek. Rene Auberjonois is good, but his presence only emphasizes that this is nothing new."
A script from this episode was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.10,
As part of the ENT Season 1 DVD collection
As part of the ENT Season 1 Blu-ray collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Tom Bergeron as D'Marr
Annie Wersching as Liana
Claudette Sutherland as
Rudolph Willrich as
And
Special Guest Star
Rene Auberjonois as Ezral
Uncredited Co-Stars
Adam Anello as operations division crewman
Jef Ayres as Haynem
Deborah Bean as Kantare
Sally Berman as Kantare
Brennan Beyt as Kantare
J.J. Boone as Kantare
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Esther Cameron as Kantare
Lloyd Cameron as Kantare
Mark Correy as Alex
Dawn Drake as operations division crewman
Evan English as Tanner
Joshua Feinman as Kantare
Stacy Fouche as operations division crewman
Hilde Garcia as Rossi
Glen Hambly as operations division ensign
Charlie Hirsch as Kantare
Dearing Hockman as Kantare
John Joire as operations division crewman
John Jurgens as command division crewman
Cameron Loong as Kantare
Donald Sage Mackay as
Marty Murray as security crewman
Percy Simpson as Kantare
Mike Stanosek as Kantare
Scott Topper as Kantare
Donnell Turner as Kantare
Thelma Tyrell as operations division crewman
Michelle Van Den Broeck as sciences division crewman
Mark Watson as operations division crewman
Stand-ins
David Anderson – stand-in for Anthony Montgomery
Gina Chai – stand-in for Linda Park, Annie Wersching, and Claudette Sutherland
Marijane Cole – stand-in for Annie Wersching
Evan English – stand-in for Dominic Keating, Tom Bergeron, and Donald Sage Mackay
Simone Montanti – stand-in for Jolene Blalock, Donald Sage Mackay, and Claudette Sutherland
Louis Ortiz – stand-in for Rene Auberjonois
J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for John Billingsley and Marty Murray
Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula
Pablo Soriano – stand-in for Rudolph Willrich
Mark Watson – stand-in for Connor Trinneer and Marty Murray
Unknown performers as
Hand double for Jolene Blalock
Hand double for Dominic Keating
Hand double for Connor Trinneer
References
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Sto-vo-kor (also written Sto'Vo'Kor, or Suto'vo'qor in the Klingon language) was, in Klingon mythology, the afterlife for the honored dead, where all true warriors went after they died to fight an eternal battle against great enemies. The halls of Sto-vo-kor were said to be guarded by Kahless the Unforgettable. The dishonored dead, by contrast, were ferried on the Barge of the Dead to Gre'thor.
According to the ancient tradition of ak'voh, whenever a warrior died in battle, others stayed with the body to keep away predators, allowing the spirit to leave the body and go to Sto-Vo-Kor. ()
Klingons could enter Sto-vo-kor by dying in battle or while performing a heroic deed. In addition, they could enter Sto-Vo-kor by allowing themselves to be killed by another Klingon. ()
Alternatively, in the event of a warrior dying as the result of a surprise attack or some other demise that lacks true honor, the relatives of the deceased could also perform such a deed in the name of the fallen to ensure their arrival in the halls, showing that the deceased has lived a life capable of inspiring others to great feats of courage. ()
In 2151, after being told by Captain Jonathan Archer that a group of Xyrillians had been hiding in his ship's plasma wake and disrupting a number of systems, Captain Vorok declared that he was "more than willing to hasten their journey to Sto-vo-kor." ()
On Gaia in 2373, Brota believed that he would not take his place among the honored dead in Sto-vo-kor once the had departed, and the timeline he had been born into was erased. He considered it would have been a death 'unworthy' of entry into the afterlife. ()
In 2375, Worf destroyed the Monac shipyard in the name of Jadzia Dax in order to gain her entry into Sto-vo-kor. ()
Later that year, Kor wished Worf well and that they would see each other again in Sto-vo-kor after Kor believed he would die fighting the Dominion aboard the . He also told Worf (after knocking him unconscious) that he would find Jadzia there and remind her of Worf's love. ()
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The D7 class cruiser or D-7 battle cruiser was a 23rd century warship originally designed and used by the Klingon Imperial Fleet, before being used by the Romulan military during the late 2260s.
History
The D7 was introduced in 2257 by Chancellor L'Rell as she presented the ships's schematics to the Klingon High Council. She hoped that the design would enter mass production and be a symbol of Klingon unity embraced by all Houses. ()
One of the first D7-class vessels ferried Chancellor L'Rell to meet with the at Boreth. Several of these ships later fought the Section 31 armada in support of Discovery and . ()
The D7 class served as the backbone of the fleet from the late 2250s through the 2270s, where they posed a serious threat to the security of the Federation and Starfleet. (, et al. ) Among the mission profiles designated for this class was that of scout ship. ()
The Romulan Star Empire began using the same design by 2268. ()
Interest in these vessels by the Federation continued to appear well into the 2370s, as data on this class was commonly found within numerous Starfleet files. (; )
At least one D7 remained operational until 2377, when it was used by a Klingon religious sect that left the Klingon Empire in the mid-23rd century on a multi-generational quest to the Delta Quadrant. This vessel was destroyed when the ship's commander, Kohlar, initiated a self-destruct. ()
By the 2270s, the had largely replaced the D7. ()
By 2377, the D7 had been retired "for decades." ()
Technical data
Physical arrangement
The D7 class was almost predatory in its appearance, with a spread-wing primary hull, long neck and head-like command pod. The early Romulan variants had a large bird-of-prey design painted on the hull, identical to what was found on the Bird-of-Prey. () Other Romulan D7s had red and yellow feather-like detailing painted on the upper wing and nacelle pylon. ()
The bulk of the ships overall mass was incorporated in the aft section of the ship. The bridge was located on the bulbous head, which was separated from the aft section by a relatively thin neck that flared out into the wings. Jutting from below these wings were a pair of outboard warp nacelles. The ship's impulse engines were located on the caudal section of the ship. ().
This design had evolved from a classic design lineage dating back well into the 22nd century with the early battle cruisers. () In terms of dimensions, it was comparable in size to the Federation's starship. ()
Tactical systems
During the mid-23rd century, the D7 class posed a significant threat to the Federation with the classes impressive armament consisting of two nacelle-mounted disruptor cannons, a forward-mounted phaser emitter, and a forward launcher capable of firing photon torpedoes, magnetic pulses and disruptor blasts. (; ; )
In 2269, the Klingons developed a prototype weapon, described as a projected stasis field, which was first encountered on the by the Federation. The field could be projected in up to three different directions at one time. The weapon, which was extremely powerful, was capable of completely paralyzing an enemy vessel, including all its vital systems. It was however equally crippling to the firing ship itself. Ultimately, it was determined by the Federation that this was so impractical in standard combat, that it posed no real threat. ()
While the D7 cruiser was often viewed as a threat to a Constitution-class starship, under certain circumstances, it was possible for a Constitution to destroy a single D7 with a barrage of phaser fire. Following such an instance at the outbreak of the in 2267, the USS Enterprise encountered a fleet of eight D7s, which was considered by Captain James T. Kirk to have superior odds. Despite these odds, Hikaru Sulu was confident the Enterprise could have defeated them. ()
By the late 24th century, these vessels were considered rather antiquated, and were identified as being inferior in firepower to a Federation starship. ()
Cloaking device
Like its predecessor, the Romulan Bird-of-Prey, the Romulan D7 was equipped with cloaking technology.
Klingon ships were outfitted with cloaking devices as late as 2269. One of the first Klingon vessels to acquire the new technology was the . The cloaking device on this class could be penetrated by a metaphasic sweep. (; ; )
Propulsion systems
Some Klingon ships in the 23rd century were equipped with an S-2 graf unit, which was roughly equivalent to the warp drives in the Federation's Constitution-class starships. The warp drive of the D7 enabled it to catch up with a ship traveling at warp 9. (; )
In addition, the D7 impulse drive consisted of four-port engines, presumably giving the ship enhanced maneuverability at sublight speeds. ()
Shields
D7s were equipped with standard shields, with their number three and number four shields being specifically located amidships. ()
Other systems
Romulan D7s were outfitted with food synthesizers. ()
Interior design
Crew complement
The average crew complement of a Klingon D7 was comparable to a Constitution class, and consisted of around 430. ()
Main bridge
Referred to by the Romulans as "Control Central", the bridge was the nerve center of the D7 class. ()
Conference room
The conference room was used as a meeting place for the ship's senior staff for mission briefings. It contained a triangular table embossed with the emblem of the Klingon Empire, with each side of the table having its own set of chairs. Surrounding the table are various computer consoles. ()
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Name origins
The term "D-7" remained the speculated designation for the Klingon battle cruiser for many years, at the time simply referred to as the "Klingon Battle Cruiser" in production sources, with origins rooting to an incident Gene Roddenberry recalls in The Making of Star Trek, which is linked to how he likened the cast's relationship to that of a family:
I went to the stage one day, and they were all ready and waiting for me, because they knew I was really exhausted from some long rewrite sessions. As soon as I walked up to the set, Bill and Leonard blew a scene, but they blew it on purpose and began arguing very violently. Bill was shouting at the top of his voice, "Leonard! What do you mean saying this is a D-7 Klingon ship! It's a D-6!" Leonard shouted back, "No, you idiot, the D-6 has four doors over here and the D-7 only has two!" Bill immediately shouted back, "No, no, no – it's the other way around. You've got it all wrong."
While all of this is going on, I'm standing there, beginning to get frustrated, watching the minutes tick by and mentally counting the money we're losing in expensive crew time, because the cameras aren't rolling. And as the argument continued, I'm thinking to myself, "What are they talking about? They've gone too far!" Then I remembered thinking that I should remember which is the D-6 or the D-7. Finally I couldn't stand it any more, and so I walked in between them and said, "Come on, fellows, it really doesn't matter. Let's get on with the scene." Then the whole crew broke up laughing. This was their way of saying to me, "Hey, time is not that serious. Relax a little."
The designation was not actually referenced on screen until Star Treks 30th anniversary, in the DS9 Season 5 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", where Kira Nerys identified this type as a "D-7 battle cruiser", a term that also appeared on an okudagram on a number of occasions. In the VOY Season 7 episode "Prophecy", Tuvok identified this type as a "D-7 class cruiser".
The designation of D6 saw wide use in the Star Fleet Battles gaming universe and its derivatives but has not yet manifested on screen. In the gaming universe, the D6 is almost cosmetically indistinguishable from the D7 except for the addition of two more disruptor emitters and having more powerful engines. Considered dated after the introduction of D7 class, some D6s were sold to the Romulans, explaining why Romulans used Klingon vessels. D6s in the Klingon empire were relegated to light cruiser class or other variants.
Studio models
See D7-class model
Inconsistencies
In writing the DS9 Season 7 episode, "Once More Unto the Breach", Ronald D. Moore stated that he intentionally included a nod to The Animated Series by means of a reference to the TAS Season 1 episode "The Time Trap". In this reference, the elderly Kor recalled the time when he commanded the Klothos during the Battle of Caleb IV, a vessel he described as being "one of the old D-5 cruisers." While the reference the cloaking device-equipped Klothos matched the Klothos that appeared in "The Time Trap", the design itself had actually appeared as a slight variant of the D7 class, rather than the D5 class design that was later introduced in the ENT Season 2 episode .
The designation of the Klingon battle cruiser that appear in the episode "Prophecy" was misidentified in the script during the ship's appearance. Writer Mike Sussman later explained the mistake in a response to an article. He assumed that the physical model built by Jein from "Trials and Tribble-ations" could be reused in the episode. However all the effects were apparently to be computer generated. To his knowledge, a CGI version of Jein's D7 did not exist at the time and it would have cost a fair amount of money to design one. Had Sussman been aware of this, he would have simply changed the script.
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Fleet Captain Christopher Pike was a 23rd century male Human Federation Starfleet officer who was perhaps best known for serving as the commander of the . During his service, Pike was considered to be one of the most highly decorated starship captains in Starfleet history. (; ; )
Early life
Pike was born in the city of Mojave on Earth in the early 2200s. ()
Pike had a pony named Sir-Neighs-a-Lot who broke his leg in a rain storm. Pike’s parents had the pony put down, which caused Pike to cry for a week. ()
Later on in life, Pike had two horses – Tango and Mary Lou – which he rode through parkland that surrounded the city. ()
Pike's father was a science teacher, and when he wasn't teaching science, he taught comparative religion. Because of that, it led to a very confusing household for Pike, causing Pike and his father to not agree on much. () At one point during his childhood, Pike heard a fable that described Hell-Fire, something that he carried with him into his adulthood. ()
One of Pike's favorite foods was his mother's chicken tuna sandwiches. ()
Starfleet career
At some point during his life, Alexander Marcus talked Pike into joining Starfleet. ()
Starfleet Academy
Sometime before 2224, Pike attended Starfleet Academy where he received top marks in all his classes, with the exception of an "F" in .
He was part of the graduating class of 3201.14. He also met Philippa Georgiou, who during their time at the Academy, was able to drink Pike and their fellow cadets under the table. ()
Early postings and assignments
Upon graduating from Starfleet Academy, Pike was commissioned as an officer in Starfleet where his first assignment was being a test pilot. ()
As an ensign, Pike served as a security officer. During an encounter with a Nausicaan, Pike drew his phaser and ran after the pants-less Nausicaan. After tripping during the pursuit, he discovered that he had been entangled in the Nausicaan's pants. Following the encounter, Pike's lieutenant pulled him aside and told Pike that maybe a career path in security wasn't for him. ()
Pike served on three Federation starships, the , the , and the .
First officer of the USS Enterprise
During the 2240s, he was assigned to the as Captain Robert April's first officer. ()
In 2249, Lieutenant Pike participated in a rescue mission in the Majalan system of the Majalan Alora from a damaged shuttle. Pike was nearly killed by a pulsar during the mission. He wasn't wearing an uniform of the command division during this time. ()
Commanding the USS Enterprise
In 2250, Pike was given command of the Enterprise. ()
By 2254, his first officer Una Chin-Riley said that Pike was "the most heavily decorated fighting captain in Starfleet". ()
Losing Lynne Lucero
Sometime during his tenure as captain of the Enterprise, Pike oversaw the transfer of Lynne Lucero from the Enterprise to the as Lucero was taking command of the Cabot. He noted in his captain's log that the Cabot were lucky to have her. ()
Testing Thira Sidhu
Pike also participated in a simulation, designed by Chin-Riley, to test Cadet Thira Sidhu's suitability to serve on the Enterprise during her evaluation; he was brought handcuffed and masked to Inventory Two on Starbase 28 as a mutineer. Pike told her that the station was under attack by Tholians and ordered her to release him; Cadet Sidhu stood her ground, going so far as to threaten to shoot the captain. This prompted Pike to reveal the situation to be simulated to test her resolve in a difficult situation. Pike then escorted Sidhu aboard the Enterprise and revealed her new assignment: engineering aboard the Enterprise. ()
Meeting the Talosians
Four years after assuming command of the Enterprise, Pike led a landing party to Rigel VII. On this mission, the group was attacked by the Kalar, and Pike himself was trapped by one of the warriors in an abandoned fortress. Three crewmen, including Pike's own yeoman, were killed, while an additional seven, including Spock, were injured, some severely. The loss weighed heavily on Pike; with all the strain and overwork that followed, he began to question his own continuance as starship commander. The Enterprise then set out for Vega colony to hospitalize the sick and injured. ()
En route to the Vega colony, the Enterprise intercepted an old-style radio-interference distress call carrying the call letters of the , a survey expedition from the American Continent Institute which had been lost in the Talos star group in 2236. At Pike's reluctant command, the Enterprise diverted and traced the signal to a crash site on Talos IV. After an initial encounter with supposed survivors, including an out-of-place young beauty named Vina, it was revealed that the native Talosians had used telepathy to create the illusion of an encampment; all the survivors except Vina were dead.
Pike was overpowered and kidnapped, and placed in a Talosian menagerie. There, the Talosians attempted to manipulate him into mating with Vina, to create a population of illusion-controlled Human servants. Due to the Talosians' telepathy, Pike was forced to relive old memories and placed in illusory scenarios of lives he could have, if he abandoned his career as a starship captain. The scenarios included reliving the fight on Rigel VII, a picnic in parkland near Mojave with his two horses, and an illusory day in the life of an Orion slave-trader dealing in green animal women. Pike refused to mate with Vina, so the Talosians began to take steps to convince him to breed with other females of his crew; to this end, Yeoman J.M. Colt and Chin-Riley, were captured.
Inside his cell, Pike managed to capture and hold captive The Keeper. Pike then threatened to break the Talosian's neck if he resisted, and all the illusions ceased from that point forward. Escaping with the others to the outside of the Talosian complex, Pike had Chin-Riley set a laser to overload, in an effort to make a statement to the Talosians about holding Humans captive. Indeed, the Talosians believed this violent reaction made Humans unsuitable for breeding. Vina's true appearance was then revealed, and Pike convinced the Talosians to restore her illusion of health and beauty while letting him and his crew members go free. Although the experience with the illusory worlds restored Pike's confidence in his command, it was recommended that all contact with the Talosians' powers be restricted. General Order 7 was enacted, threatening the death penalty should anyone travel there, for fear of the Federation falling to illusory indulgence. ()
Sitting out the Klingon War
At the outbreak of the in 2256, the Enterprise was engaged in a five-year mission and was ordered to remain on mission by Starfleet, held out of combat in reserve as a last resort. Missing the war took a toll on Pike and the rest of his crew. ()
Investigating the red bursts
As the war wound down in 2257, Spock took an unspecified leave of absence from Starfleet and voluntarily admitted himself to receive psychiatric care aboard Starbase 5, a fact that Spock requested Pike keep from his father, Sarek, and his foster sister, Michael Burnham. ()
Following end of the Klingon War in 2257 and the detection of seven red bursts across the galaxy, Starfleet ordered Pike to investigate the location of the only burst which could be traced. When the Enterprise suffered a catastrophic systems failure en route, Pike issued a priority one distress call that was picked up by the . ()
Commanding the USS Discovery
Rescuing the Hiawatha crew
With the Enterprise unable to continue its mission, Pike was ordered to assume command of the Discovery from acting captain Saru under Starfleet Regulation 19, Section C. ()
During the encounter with the interstellar asteroid at the location of a red burst, Pike led a landing party to the . His landing pod was hit by debris, forcing him to eject using a malfunctioning exo-suit, after which he was rescued by Michael Burnham. When Burnham became trapped aboard the Hiawatha, Pike returned to the stricken starship to get her back to Discovery.
Shortly thereafter, Starfleet temporarily assigned Pike as captain of Discovery due to the Enterprise being damaged far worse than originally thought and tasked the vessel with determining the source of the signals and their intent. ()
New Eden
A short time later, another burst led Pike and the Discovery to an inhabited planet deep in the Beta Quadrant. A distress call and subsequent scans of the planet revealed it was inhabited by Humans. Not wanting to violate General Order One, Pike led an away team with Burnham and Lieutenant junior grade Owosekun to the surface to investigate. On the surface, they discovered a unique syncretic blend of many Earth religions. While investigating, they were confronted by a local named Jacob, prompting Pike to claim that they were visitors from the Northern Territory. While attending a local religious ceremony that night, they discovered the planet was populated by people saved from World War III nuclear exchange by an "angel".
While doing further investigations on the surface, the away team was incapacitated by Jacob, who accurately believed them to be peoples from the "old Earth". They were able to escape, however, and returned to the Discovery. Pike returned to the surface, however, where he revealed the truth to Jacob, but told him he could not interfere in their society. As the two parted ways, Jacob gave him a World War III camera helmet in exchange for a power cell. In the camera footage, Pike spotted an angel-like figure, which Burnham admitted she had seen earlier. ()
Going after Spock
Shortly afterwards, Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, rendezvoused with Discovery. At her request, he contacted Starbase 5's commanding officer, Diego Vela, who claimed Spock had killed several personnel and fled the station. Pike, Grayson, and Burnham all rejected this possibility. ()
As part of his continuing investigation into the allegations against Spock, Pike met with Chin-Riley aboard the Discovery, discussing the repairs to the Enterprise. During this conversation, Chin-Riley revealed that Starfleet Command place a Level One classification of Spock's case, a very unusual decision to make regarding a line officer. They both agreed that the facts didn't add up before they parted ways. ()
Shortly after he began his search for Spock, Pike came into contact with Leland and Section 31. Leland made his presence known while assisting Discovery in its mission to rescue Ensign Tilly from the mycelial plane. ()
After Michael Burnham and Spock escaped with assistance from , Pike came into conflict with Section 31 while heading towards Talos IV to rendezvous with Burnham, who had discovered Spock. He learned of this fact when a projection of Vina once more appeared to him, who revealed the location of the two to him. When Pike and Section 31 operatives attempted to retrieve the two from the surface with a transporter, Vina appeared to Pike one final time, and convinced him to break off the attempt, which was a ruse to trick Section 31 into thinking they captured Spock and Burnham. Reuniting with Spock and Burnham, he ignored Leland's request for him to report for disciplinary action. ()
Conflict with Control
The situation came to a head when Pike and Discovery, now wanted for treason by Starfleet, arrived at Section 31 Headquarters. While attempting to reset Control, Discovery was attacked by the station's defenses in an attack that was ostensibly ordered by Starfleet. Upon beaming over to the station, the landing party discovered that Admiral Patar and all the personnel aboard the station had been killed two weeks prior when Control went rogue. ()
During a mission to the Klingon monastery world of Boreth to recover a time crystal, he experienced a vision of an unavoidable future if he continued with his quest. His vision showed him aboard a Class J starship on a training cruise when a baffle plate ruptured, leaking delta radiation into engineering, causing severe burns and damage to his body. The vision then transported him to an empty corridor where he came face-to-face with himself in the life-support chair he would inhabit following the accident.
Following this vision, he recoiled screaming in terror, and was given the option to give up and leave empty-handed, but carried on and retrieved the crystal. ()
After the mission to Boreth, he returned to the Discovery, only to detect thirty Control-commandeered Section 31 vessels on an intercept course. He subsequently ordered a distress call sent to the Enterprise and to prepare to destroy the Discovery to prevent Control from taking possession of the time crystal. ()
Return to Enterprise
In 2258, after a few months of serving as captain of the Discovery, Pike returned to his position as captain of the Enterprise to face a Control-possessed Leland and his Section 31 fleet. () After Burnham and the Discovery traveled through the wormhole to the 32nd century, in order to preserve the truth and ensure the sacrifices made had not been for nothing, Pike and his senior staff reported to Starfleet Command that the Discovery was lost with all hands.
A hundred and twenty seven days after the battle, the Enterprise departed to investigate a new moon in orbit of Edrin II. ()
2259
Following the mission to Edrin II, Pike and the Enterprise returned to Earth for downtime in 2259. During his downtime, Pike would spend his time in Bear Creek, Montana, where he pursued a relationship with Captain Batel. Affected by his vision of the future, Pike ignored several attempts at contact from Robert April, now an Admiral. April eventually visited Pike at Bear Creek, where he informed that Una had been taken captive during a first contact mission to Kiley 279.
Pike agreed to re-assume command of the Enterprise to rescue Una. Following the mission to Kiley and Una's rescue, Pike agreed to keep the captain's chair, leading the Enterprise on new missions of exploration. ()
Although he resumed his duties, Pike remained haunted by visions of his eventual fate shown as to him by the Boreth time crystal. ()
When an alien consciousness from the Jonisian Nebula brought the fairy tale The Kingdom of Elysian to life on the Enterprise, Pike was used for the character of Sir Amand Rauth. Pike didn't remember the events after the ship was returned to normal. ()
During a mission to Outpost 4 along the Romulan Neutral Zone, Pike met Maat Al-Salah whom he recognized as one of the cadets who would die during the training accident that would ultimately cripple Pike. Pike considered writing a letter to Maat convincing him not to join Starfleet in order to avoid his own fate, but he was visited by a version of himself from the future who was now a rear admiral. The future Pike warned his 2259 counterpart that changing the future would have dire consequences for the galaxy and used a time crystal to send Pike to 2266 where he commanded the Enterprise during the Neutral Zone Incursion. Pike's involvement in this alternate timeline led to endless war with the Romulans. Returning to his own time, Pike deleted the letter and accepted his own fate. He also took an interest in James T. Kirk who was the captain of the in the alternate timeline and whom Pike sensed was meant to be captain of the Enterprise during the incursion in the correct timeline. ()
Shortly after Pike's return, Una was arrested for lying about being an Illyrian, something that Pike was aware of and didn't officially report. Pike vowed to try to save Una from her fate of being imprisoned for hiding the true about being from a genetically augmented species when joining Starfleet. ()
Passing the torch
Pike commanded the Enterprise for several more years before command of the Enterprise was passed to James T. Kirk. Pike and Kirk met only once, when Pike was promoted to fleet captain. Prior to joining Kirk on the Enterprise, Spock had served with Pike for a total of eleven years, four months, and five days. ()
Tragic fate
In 2266, Pike was on an inspection tour of a cadet vessel, an old class J starship, when one of the baffle plates ruptured, causing a radiation leak, just as he had seen in the time crystal vision on Boreth nine years earlier. Pike went in and managed to bring out all the cadets who were still alive, but found himself caught in the automatic lockdown as delta radiation reached critical levels. (; )
Prior to his injury, he was described by Jose I. Mendez as being "big, handsome man, vital, active." Afterwards, the disfigured Pike was put on a form of advanced life support which sustained his withered body and life functions, as he was too weak and incapacitated to move or respond to physical stimuli. The wheelchair he was confined to was tuned to his brain could use blinking light signals to respond to simple queries in the affirmative (one flash) or negative (two flashes), but that was the extent to which he could communicate. ()
In an alternate timeline where Pike found a way to prevent the accident, he found himself in command of the Enterprise, responding to the destruction of several outposts by a Romulan Bird-of-Prey along the Neutral Zone, in 2266. In an effort to prevent a war, he tried to avoid engaging the Romulan vessel, instead seeking to negotiate peace. This allowed the Romulans time to bring in reinforcements, resulting in a war that ran for many years thereafter. The battle also resulted in the loss of the USS Farragut and the death of many crew members aboard both that ship and Enterprise, most notably Commander Spock. After seeing this future, Pike realized that he could not fight his fate, and accepted it much more willingly. ()
Return to Talos
In 2267, after being contacted by the Talosians, Commander Spock devised a plan to use a fake message in an attempt to divert the Enterprise (of which he was now first officer under Captain Kirk) to Starbase 11, where Pike was hospitalized. Spock's intention, risking execution if caught, was to deliver Pike to Talos IV, where the Talosians could tap Pike's mind with telepathy and illusions, providing a hospice of sorts in sparing him from dying helplessly in his lifeless body.
Pike, also contacted beforehand by the Talosians, at first refused Spock's plot to spirit him away to Talos IV. However, on the journey to the forbidden planet, images of Pike's earlier experience on Talos IV – presented during Spock's on-board court-martial (a court-martial later revealed to have been concocted by the Talosians) – convinced Pike to accept the Talosians' offer.
On Talos IV, with the help of the Talosians, Pike lived out a life of illusion with Vina, in which his devastating handicap no longer existed. Pike went into retirement from Starfleet active duty and lived on Talos IV permanently, with no further outside contact, since the secrecy of the Talosian power made his fate largely unknown. ()
Legacy
In 3189, after failing to connect with his crew, Captain Saru compared his efforts with Pike's and noted to Tilly that Pike made connecting with his crew seem so effortless. ()
While being questioned by Starfleet in 3189, Jett Reno made reference to Pike's rescue of her from the Hiawatha. ()
When Captain Saru was trying to come up with a catchphrase, he tasked Ensign Tilly with coming up with one, and one of the options was Pike's own catchphrase "Hit it". ()
Alternate timelines and realities
In an alternate timeline, Pike manages to avoid his crippling fate by writing a letter dissuading Cadet Maat Al-Salah from joining Starfleet using the information that he gained from the time crystal on Boreth. As a result, Pike remains captain of the for years more to come. However, Pike's involvement in the Neutral Zone Incursion results in an endless war between the Romulans and the Federation in which millions die.
Pike is eventually promoted to rear admiral and consults with the monks at Boreth and learns that his actions have also prevented reunification between the Vulcans and Romulans due to Spock suffering crippling injuries resembling Pike's own in the original timeline. In order to stop himself from making this mistake, Pike convinces the monks to give him another time crystal to travel back in time and show his past self the consequences of his actions. As a result, this timeline is erased from existence. ()
Intellect and personality
Pike had a strong moral center and devotion to the values he found embodied in the Federation, spending his life in its service and defense. In numerous incidents, he risked his life for causes he deemed just. Even when faced with evidence of his future, Pike accepted this fate as he had confirmed that his sacrifice saved lives. ()
Awards and honors
Starfleet Medal of Valor
Medal of Excellence
Order of Tactics
Legion of Honor
Star Cross
Medal of Commendation
Decoration for Gallantry
Extended Tour Ribbon
Starfleet Silver Palm
Proficient Service Medallion
Legate's Crest of Valor
Scientific Legion of Honor
Carrington Award
Federation Citation of Honor
Okuda Award
Rigel Cup
Campbell Award
By 2256, Pike was one of Starfleet's most decorated captains, ranked among other legends such as Robert April, Jonathan Archer, Matthew Decker, and Philippa Georgiou. ()
The Christopher Pike Medal of Valor was named in Pike's honor. Benjamin Sisko and received the award in the 24th century. () On the planet Cestus III, Pike City was named after him. () There was also a shuttlecraft carried on board the . ()
Vitality
Aliments
During his childhood, he was diagnosed with asthma. He also suffered from space sickness. () While not necessarily an ailment, Pike hated spiders. ()
Injuries
While on New Eden, a young girl named discovered one of the landing parties' phaser and accidentially caused it to discharge. Pike pushed her out of the way, causing him to suffer from the phaser blast instead. Pike would eventually recover. ()
In the 2260s, Pike suffered a critical injury when he was exposed to Delta radiation. The exposure left him physically disabled and badly scarred. ()
Relationships
Friendships
Robert April
Due to Pike being Robert April's first officer, the two became friends. Even after April was promoted to admiral, Pike was still able to call him by his first name "Bob". ()
Spock
Pike first met Spock in 2254 when he transferred to the Enterprise from Starbase 40 to become Pike's new science officer. () By 2257, Spock became one of Pike's most valued bridge officers as he trusted him implicitly. ()
When Spock decided to remain onboard the Discovery, Pike believed there weren't words to describe the pride Pike had for him. ()
Spock wound up returning to the Enterprise during the events at Xahea, and served under Pike for several more years, during which time they continued to become friends. After realizing that preventing his own death meant that Spock would die instead, and take with him any chance of peace with Romulus, Pike again accepted his fate without hesitation and expressed relief at Spock's own survival. (; )
Even after Pike was promoted to fleet captain and left the Enterprise, Spock was fond of Pike even so far as to risk court martial in 2267 to kidnap his disabled former captain and bring him to Talos IV to live a life of illusion and happiness. ()
Leland
During his lifetime, Pike and Section 31 agent Leland had been friends, though their differing career paths and resulting value systems strained that friendship considerably. ()
M'Benga
Pike and M'Benga became friends sometime prior to 2259. M'Benga toured Mojave with Pike and in return, Pike toured Kenya with him. The two were reunited when M'Benga was assigned to the Enterprise as chief medical officer. ()
T'Pring
Due to Spock being assigned to Captain Pike's command, T'Pring and Pike were acquainted with one another as T'Pring called Pike by his first name. ()
George Samuel Kirk
Sometime prior to 2259, Pike met George Samuel Kirk and was well acquainted with Sam and his family. Upon Pike's return to the Enterprise, he personally requested Kirk be assigned to the Enterprise. ()
Romances
Alora
Pike met the Majalan Alora in 2249 when he was a lieutenant. He struck up a relationship with her, after he risked his life to rescue her shuttle from a pulsar. According to Pike, he was hitting on her just a little. The two wouldn't meet again until a decade later when the Enterprise saved Alora's life again. During their second encounter, the two would sleep together. Their relationship ended when Pike soon discovered that the ascension ceremony involved connecting the First Servant directly to Majalis' power systems to keep the city afloat. Pike was disgusted at the idea of a civilization being built on the suffering of a child, and brusquely requested to be beamed back to his ship, leaving a tearful Alora behind. ()
Vina
Christopher Pike first met Vina when the Enterprise made contact with Talos IV in 2254. ()
Three years later, in 2257, Pike and Vina reunited when the Talosians used their powers to project Vina's image to Pike on the Discovery. ()
After Pike was critically injured to delta radiation exposure, Spock commandeered the Enterprise and transported Pike from Starbase 11 to Talos IV where The Talosians restored Pike to his normal state and he and Vina were finally reunited. ()
Batel
Sometime after returning to Earth, Pike and fellow Starfleet Captain Batel began a romantic liaison. The day before Captain Batel was supposed to ship out, Pike made breakfast for the two of them at his home in Bear Creek, Montana. Batel inquired about if he had made a decision about returning to captain the Enterprise or resign. She also inquired about what was bothering him but Pike told her that it was so classified that even her high security clearance wouldn't allow him to tell her. Before she left, Batel told Pike that she hoped he wasn't around when she returned as she believed he had better places to be. ()
Pike's relationship with Batel continued as the Enterprise and her ship, the , participated in upgrades to outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. In the course of that mission, Batel was forced to arrest Una Chin-Riley for her illegal genetic modifications, placing a strain on their relationship, although Batel admitted that she didn't like her arresting Una any more than Pike did. ()
Key dates
Early 2200s – Pike is born in Mojave, California on Earth
Stardate 3201.4: graduates from Starfleet Academy
Between stardate 3201.4 and the year 2245:
Assigned to the
Assigned to the
Assigned to the
2245–2250: Assigned to the under Captain Robert April as First officer
2250: Appointed captain of the USS Enterprise
2250s: Sets out on a Five-year mission
2254: Achieved first contact with the Talosians
2256–2257: Along with the rest of the Enterprise crew, sits out the
2257-2258:
Temporarily appointed captain of the
Achieved first contact with the New Eden Humans on Terralysium
2258: Returns to the Enterprise on Stardate 1050.8
2259:
Achieved first contact with the Kiley on Kiley 279
Achieved first contact with the
2260s: Promoted to fleet captain
2266: Exposed to delta radiation leaving him disfigured and confined to a wheelchair.
2267: With assistance from the Talosians, is able to live out a life of illusion on Talos IV
Appendices
Appearances
Background information
Identifying performers
Captain Pike was played by Jeffrey Hunter in the original unaired pilot, , and in segments of archive footage from that episode which were included in and . Actor Sean Kenney portrayed a disfigured Pike in the "The Menagerie" two-parter, because the part of a wheelchair-bound Captain Pike was a bit role in the context of the script and would not justify the expense of hiring back the more popular Jeffrey Hunter for such a small part, especially since he had moved on to other projects. Hunter's stunt double for the role, Robert Herron, made appearances in "The Cage" and "The Menagerie, Part II". In , and , Christopher Pike was portrayed by Anson Mount.
Name and preliminary depictions
Christopher Pike was originally named Robert April, which was then changed to James Winter. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, pp. 206 & 209) James Blish noted that the scripts for Star Treks original unaired pilot, , were "heavily revised in various handwritings and Pike confusingly appears from time to time as 'Captain Spring' and 'Captain Winter.'" A revised draft of the script for "The Cage", from , listed him as Captain James Winter. However, that moniker was used only briefly; the name change from James Winter to Christopher Pike was made on 25 November. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 206)
An ultimately unused concept for the depiction of Captain Pike was suggested to Gene Roddenberry by "The Cage" Director Robert Butler. "I begged him to do […] a captain who had been out there for seven [years] […] but it all fell on deaf ears," Butler recalled. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 101)
In the aforementioned script, Captain Winter was described thus; "Our first and most important impression is that he would not be completely out of place on the bridge of a naval cruiser in our own day. About thirty-four, he is a complex personality with a sensitivity and warmth which the responsibilities of command often forces him to hide."
Star Trek consultant and historian Larry Nemecek once claimed the character's full name, by the time the part was filmed for "The Cage", was changed to "Christopher R. Pike". Nemecek also suggested a holdover of the middle initial as a possible reason for why a tombstone commemorating Captain Kirk in is emblazoned "James R. Kirk", though his middle name was later established as "Tiberius". () However, no canonical evidence provides Pike's middle initial as "R", or even states he had a middle name.
In reality, LeVar Burton knew, when he auditioned for the role of Geordi La Forge in , that the name of the captain from the original Star Trek pilot had been "Christopher Pike". He used that knowledge to "break the ice" with John Pike, the President of Paramount Network Television, during the audition. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features)
The American author (b. 1955) took "Christopher Pike" as his pen name.
Original casting
Trying to find a suitable lead actor for Star Trek was the most difficult factor in casting "The Cage". The role had several requirements. These included physical attractiveness, the ability to project a huge degree of personal warmth to increase the chances of likeability and, thirdly, believability in the part, such as by looking athletic and being convincing in a position of leadership. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 007; The Making of Star Trek, p. 111) By the time Star Trek started casting for the lead actor, so many other series were in production that there were very few performers available. Those who were could afford to be selective about what part they took. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 111)
Before Gene Roddenberry wrote "The Cage" (but once the captain's name was Christopher Pike), he asked Lloyd Bridges to accept Star Treks lead role. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9; These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Three: Designing Star Trek"; ) "When I approached him with it," stated Roddenberry, "he said, 'Gene, I like you, I've worked with you before in the past, but I've seen science fiction and I don't want to be within a hundred miles of it…" (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9) Not only had Bridges seen science fiction, he had been burned by it. Less than two years had passed since Daily Variety had complained about an episode of The Lloyd Bridges Show wherein he had played an astronaut who landed on an alien planet. Thus, Bridges was not eager to participate in another outer space adventure any time soon. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Three: Designing Star Trek") Concerning the performer's anxious reaction to the prospect of featuring on Star Trek, Roddenberry noted, "I understood what he meant then." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9) This was because Roddenberry accepted that science fiction of the time was poor. Hence, he thought the choice Bridges made "wasn't a foolish move on his part." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 9) Roddenberry attempted to make a persuasive argument that he could do science fiction differently, but was not yet sure himself if he could manage to do so. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9) Ultimately, Bridges made it clear that he strongly believed appearing in an outer-space series would obliterate his future credibility.
Following Lloyd Bridges' rejection, Gene Roddenberry spent several weeks in search of a suitable actor to play the part. (Star Trek Memories, paperback ed., p. 41) "I came to realize […] that there just weren't a lot of actors who would do it," he related. "I was talking about what was in many people's eyes a silly show." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9) Nonetheless, many actors were considered. Roddenberry noted, "We went through a lot of film in casting the part." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 9) Several casting consultants submitted lists of names to Roddenberry, which he then analyzed. One such list was comprised of forty names, including the following:
Nick Adams
Jack Cassidy
Mike Connors
Frank Converse
Ray Danton
Howard Duff
Steve Forrest
Peter Graves
Sterling Hayden
Earl Holliman
Skip Homeier
Ed Kemmer
Robert Loggia
Jack Lord
Cameron Mitchell
Leslie Nielson
Hugh O'Brien
Rhodes Reason
Jason Robards, Jr.
George Segal
William Shatner
Robert Stack
Warren Stevens
Guy Stockwell
Liam Sullivan
Rod Taylor
Efram Zimbalist, Jr.
Though not included in the above list, James Coburn was an additional possibility; Majel Barrett strongly suggested him to Gene Roddenberry and a group of other men. Barrett found her suggestion rejected because Coburn – in the opinions of the aforementioned men, including Roddenberry – "wasn't sexy enough," although Roddenberry later revised his judgment. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 209; The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 9)
After analyzing the lists from his casting consultants, Gene Roddenberry sent a shorter list of names to the television network NBC for their comments. This list included James Coburn, Jeffrey Hunter, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick O'Neal, and Tom Tryon. The next day, he was notified by Herbert F. Solow, via memo, that the network was "very much against" Jeffrey Hunter and two others on the list. NBC proposed several alternatives, including Patrick McGoohan and Mel Farrar. The memo ended by saying, "There was a strong reaction for both James Coburn and Patrick O'Neal." (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, pp. 209-210)
Gene Roddenberry finally selected Jeffrey Hunter – who had recently portrayed Jesus in King of Kings – to feature as Captain Pike. (Star Trek Memories, paperback ed., p. 41) "Jeff Hunter seemed to be about the closest to what I had in mind for a captain," Roddenberry stated. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 9)
At this point, Robert Butler – director of "The Cage" – was unfamiliar with Jeffrey Hunter, who was aged thirty-seven. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Three: Designing Star Trek") Butler remembered, "Jeffrey Hunter had probably been cast beyond my control, which is the way it goes, but I certainly knew of him." ()
Joseph D'Agosta, a casting director who Gene Roddenberry consulted, later explained that the casting of Jeffrey Hunter as Pike was "a network-producer-Desilu decision." (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 211) D'Agosta clarified about the actor, "That was a selection made from the name list given by the network and the studio. I was not even involved in that." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 213) However, D'Agosta also laid claim to having somehow "dealt" with Hunter from a casting perspective. (Star Trek Memories, paperback ed., p. 58)
Though Jeffrey Hunter had found starring as the title character in the short-lived television series Temple Houston to have been a disastrous experience (one year earlier), he nonetheless accepted the Star Trek role, agreeing to make another TV pilot. The reference book These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One ("Chapter Three: Designing Star Trek") postulates that he did so while possibly motivated by "fearing his initial failure in television had hurt his chances to reclaim big screen status." In a comment Hunter made upon acquiring the Captain Pike role, he joked that any actor able to rule over all of Christianity could easily command a starship crew. After some typical haggling between agents, Hunter was hired. (Star Trek Memories, paperback ed., p. 41) Hunter was contracted to play Pike over the course of sixteen days, receiving US$10,000 in return. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 211) The captain was the final role in "The Cage" to be cast. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 111)
At about this time, Jeffrey Hunter was highly enthusiastic about Star Trek, particularly about the potential of the series. He talked enthusiastically about the project, after production on "The Cage" ended. In an interview for the Los Angeles Citizen News, he raved, "It's a great format because the writers will have a free hand [regarding the kinds of stories they could tell]." In addition, he told the same publication (on ) that the thing which most intrigued him about the show was the high reliability of its projections as regards the future. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Four: Test Flight & Filming 'The Cage'" and "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot")
On , Gene Roddenberry sent a note to Jeffrey Hunter, inviting him, his wife and a few other people to a Desilu screening of "The Cage". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot"; Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 225) Although NBC had unofficially revealed they planned to give the unprecedented go-ahead for the making of a second pilot (having been dissatisfied with "The Cage"), Hunter's contract required his participation in only one pilot, not two. If the already-produced pilot sold, he would be locked into a five-year contract. If the pilot was not purchased, he was contractually free to pursue other interests. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot") Recollected Herb Solow, "We therefore had to devise a plan that would enable us to keep Jeff Hunter in the fold [....] We […] looked forward to running the completed pilot for our star, Jeff Hunter. We hoped it would convince him to do another pilot." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., p. 63)
The screening, which turned out to be a fateful event, was held on . (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 225) Remembered Herb Solow, "Gene and I waited in the Desilu projection room for [Jeff Hunter] […] to arrive. He never did." Hunter's wife, Joan 'Dusty' Bartlett, attended the ceremony in his stead. "We traded hellos, and I nodded to Gene," Solow carried on. "He flicked the projection booth intercom switch. 'Let's go.' And so it went. As the end credits rolled, and the lights came up, Jeff Hunter's wife gave us our answer: 'This is not the kind of show Jeff wants to do, and besides, it wouldn't be good for his career. Jeff Hunter is a movie star.' Mrs. Hunter was very polite and very firm. She said her good-byes and left, having surprisingly and swiftly removed our star from our new pilot." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., p. 63) Having decided she hated the pilot episode, Bartlett didn't want Hunter to remain in the role of Captain Pike. She convinced him that, being a dutiful husband, he didn't want to resume the persona either and that science fiction was beneath him. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 225; The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 10) In contrast to how Pike firstly contemplates resigning his commission and retiring from Starfleet but later changes his mind, Hunter's change of heart led him to want to quit. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 007)
In his autobiography Star Trek Memories (paperback ed., p. 70), William Shatner alleged that Jeffrey Hunter was essentially "fired" from playing the part of Captain Pike. Shatner asserted, "Apparently there were problems with Jeffrey. Not while he was shooting or on the set or anything like that, but afterward. They started when the go-ahead came in for the second pilot, and Hunter's wife, who was an ex-model, suddenly started coming to production meetings. Evidently she hated the first pilot, and as a result she began to frequently storm into Gene's office, loudly making demands like 'from now on, my Jeff must only be shot from certain angles,' and apparently it became 'Jeff wants this' and 'Jeff demands that.' Gene later told me that he'd much rather be dealing with Jeff and his agent, or even Jeff and a gorilla, than Jeff and his wife. He continued that there were so many tantrums, restrictions and ultimatums being laid out on the table that he finally thought, 'Well, I can't possibly do an entire series like this. They'll drive me nuts." In Leonard Nimoy's autobiography I Am Spock (hardback ed., p. 32), Nimoy agreed with Shatner, saying, "Jeff Hunter was let go when his wife began to represent him and made what Gene considered excessive demands."
In reality, Jeffrey Hunter – having decided to give up the character of Pike – made his feelings known to Gene Roddenberry within two weeks of the Desilu screening. On , Roddenberry responded with a private letter between them in which he stated, "I am told you have decided not to go ahead with Star Trek. This has to be your decision, of course, and I must respect it. You may be certain I hold no grudge or ill feelings and expect to continue to reflect publicly and privately the high regard I learned for you during the production of our pilot." (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, pp. 225-226)
Even though a second Star Trek pilot was commissioned, Jeffrey Hunter was insistent that he not participate in the making of that episode, entitled . "Business affairs negotiated with Jeffrey Hunter," remembered Oscar Katz, "and we all thought it was the usual actor/network situation. They don't want to do it for reason XYZ, and it's a device […] for getting the price up. We kept increasing the price and he kept saying no. One day I said, 'What's up with Jeffrey Hunter?' and I was told he just won't do it at any price. Finally I said, 'Tell Jeffrey Hunter to get lost. Tell him we're going to do the pilot without him." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 14) Shortly thereafter, once the trade papers began reporting about a second Star Trek pilot, Hunter told J.D. Spiro for his Milwaukee Journal report, "I was asked to do it, but, had I accepted, I would have been tied up much longer than I care to be." Hunter's decision to depart was propelled specifically by the fact he wanted to focus on his career in feature films, instead of resuming his participation in television productions. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot") In his autobiography, Shatner acknowledged that the "official" story reported over years had been that Hunter turned down the role of Pike and was unable to commit to the series due to a film commitment, despite Shatner disputing this account. (Star Trek Memories, paperback ed., p. 70) Hunter's departure left an opening for the series lead. "I just had to pick someone else," noted Roddenberry. William Shatner was who he picked, Shatner going on to regularly appear as James T. Kirk. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 11) The replacing of Hunter with Shatner was reported in Daily Variety on . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot")
Desilu and NBC executives had discussed possibly broadcasting "The Cage" as a movie-of-the-week if Star Trek did not proceed as a series. After that pilot episode was rejected, Jeffrey Hunter was approached by Desilu; they requested he rejoin the cast in order to enable the filming of enough additional footage to make the movie option viable. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 092) The year was when Gene Roddenberry proposed to film added scenes to lengthen "The Cage" into a feature-length movie. He also planned to try organizing a theatrical release for it. Hunter refused, though, to have any participation in these plans. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., p. 251)
Rewriting the part
Despite Jeffery Hunter's rejections, the canon portrayal of Christopher Pike was affected when the decision was made for the archive footage from the original pilot to be edited into a two-parter together with contemporary scenes that would form an "envelope" around those depictions of the past. In an early version of the two-parter – which was called "From the First Day to the Last" and was written by John D.F. Black – an official review of Pike's actions on Talos IV took place at Trium Supply Base after Spock asked Kirk to take Pike, who was now in a disabled condition and confined to a wheelchair but was still capable of nodding, back to the planet, to die there. The request was opposed by Commander Jermane, a desk-bound officer who had placed a ban on travel to Talos IV, because he believed the Talosians were a menace, and he wanted to do everything he could to make Pike look bad. Although otherwise residing at the base hospital, Pike attended an initial, morning review session. He was then examined by his doctor at the hospital, who decided the strain was too much for him. After Jermane persuaded the doctor to change his mind, however, Pike was forced to attend another review session that afternoon, an arrangement Doctor McCoy protested against without success.
In the second part of the "From the First Day to the Last" two-parter, Kirk expressed that he was determined to enable Pike to return to the planet but that an imperative question for the review to consider was whether Pike had escaped from Talos IV or solved "the problem of Talosian menace" there. Despite the potential consequence of being hanged, McCoy was ready to take Pike out of the hearing room if he seemed at all to be becoming too ill. As the afternoon session got underway, Pike glared at Commander Jermane, moments before the footage of Pike's previous visit to Talos VI began to be displayed and analyzed by the group. After their review of Pike's past actions and a private (unseen) discussion between Kirk and Jermane, Kirk returned to the hearing room and asked Pike how he was feeling. Pike managed to answer Kirk with a small nod, just as a male nurse arrived to take Pike back to the base hospital.
As it turned out, "Commander Jermane" was actually a Talosian who had taken the place of the real Jermane, who had dreamt of personal glorification and had sought that dream on Talos IV but had died in the instant when the Talosians had given him it. Pike had been restricted from being returned to Talos IV because the Talosian impostor strongly believed that the gift of complete illusion was too powerful for any person to have. When the Talosian admitted defeat to Kirk, however, Pike was permitted to be taken back to Talos IV aboard the Enterprise on the condition that Kirk, even in his personal log, would subsequently maintain a lie that Pike had been murdered by the Talosians. Kirk felt this requirement extremely hard to accept, but the impostor insisted it was necessary in order to keep the planet restricted.
Pike, in his wheelchair, was beamed aboard the Enterprise together with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. At Kirk's suggestion, he was given a tour of the ship by Spock, who, at one point in the tour, mentioned that Pike had made numerous reports and recommendations about enlarging the Jefferies tubes, suggestions that Spock pointed out had evidently been taken notice of. Pike reacted to this discovery with a smile that was almost imperceptible but noticed by Spock. Other areas of the Enterprise which Pike viewed were the recreation room, engineering, and the bridge, the last of which nearly brought a tear to his eye. As Spock said farewell to Pike in the ship's transporter room, Pike tearfully nodded in response to Spock saying he hoped Pike would be successful in finding what he wanted to find on the planet, McCoy also wishing Pike "good luck." He was then transported down to Talos IV along with Kirk alone, although Spock had wanted to accompany them too. Pike's return to Talos IV, by the time it actually happened, felt very important to him. Upon beaming down to the planet, he and Kirk found nobody there, though a Talosian soon arrived and pushed Pike, in his wheelchair, away. The next thing Kirk knew, Pike seemed to be miraculously transformed into his younger, able-bodied form and appeared to walk up a slope with the youthful Vina, pause to turn back and wave, then move on, to which a surprised-looking Kirk waved back but not with vigor. Later, in his captain's log, Kirk mentioned he had "left Captain Christopher Pike in the care of the Talosians per his request." Contacted by "Commander Jermane" from Trium Supply Base, Kirk refused to lie about what had happened to Pike, explaining that his example provided evidence that, despite being potentially dangerous, illusion was not necessarily corruptive nor overly powerful.
While Roddenberry was scripting and in 1966, the production staff had some puzzlement about whether Jeffery Hunter would okay segments of footage from "The Cage" to be reused throughout the forthcoming two-parter. On , Robert Justman wrote a fairly apprehensive message to Ed Perlstein at Desilu Legal, wherein – among other related points – Justman wondered, "Does Jeff Hunter's original contract allow for this sort of contingency? Perhaps you ought to check it out with his agent." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)
Gene Roddenberry had the idea, while the two-parter was in development, of casting another actor in the role of Christopher Pike for the new scenes. That method was to be used in the foreseeable eventuality that Jeffrey Hunter declined to take part in the envelope scenes himself. After Roddenberry turned in his first draft script for part one of the duology (on ), Herb Solow sent the teleplay draft to Grant Schloss and Jerry Stanley at NBC, telling them, "Should Jeff Hunter's wife won't [sic] agree to let him appear in any envelope, Roddenberry has come up with an interesting device to treat Pike [sic] Character (Hunter) as having been injured beyond recognition – this so the actor can play the part." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) The dramatic device of disfiguring Pike beyond recognition did allow a replacement actor to appear in the same role, apparently at an older age. (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 188)
In the final draft script of (dated ), Pike was described as "A shadow of a man, the marks of Delta ray burns, impossibly thin and sagging, hair dull white, without life, skin pale, almost lifeless. He sits in a complex power wheelchair which operates on brain impulses. The dull eyes, once clear and blue." The script went on to say that, aside from merely a single tear, "the sagging, lifeless muscles are incapable of emotion."
Jeffery Hunter eventually agreed for the necessary archive footage featuring himself as Captain Pike to be reused in the two-parter. He was paid US$5,000 for the reuse of this footage, and his residuals were minimal. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 259) On , Ed Perlstein wrote a memo to Shirley Stahnke at Desilu Business Affairs, announcing the news he had closed a deal to pay Hunter US$5,000. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) Hunter was unwilling, though, to take part in further filming for the budget-saving remake of "The Cage" into the two-parter. (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 188) Since he had turned down the prospect of "The Cage" becoming a movie, there was no chance he would cooperate to redo the pilot episode for televised Star Trek. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., p. 251) He was not only unavailable but also unaffordable for what amounted to a minor supporting role. (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 48) Therefore, finding another actor became a necessity to produce the two-parter.
Recasting the part
Since the story imagined Pike as being confined to a 23rd century wheelchair and so permanently wounded as to be unable to speak, there was considerable latitude in recasting the role. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 38) On the other hand, the two actors had to look somewhat alike. "Because Jeffrey Hunter wasn't available to play the disabled Capt. Pike, they had to find an actor who had the same facial structure and features," Sean Kenney pointed out. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
At first, John D.F. Black – who had recently departed from working on Star Trek from behind the scenes – was asked to represent the disabled Pike. John's wife, Mary Black (who had also been involved in the show from a production perspective), offered, "Dorothy [Fontana] called and said that they had this really fun idea. Because John's eyes matched the eyes of Jeffrey Hunter – and they couldn't find another actor who had the right eyes, and they were so sure John's did – they wanted him to come in and sit in the wheelchair and be Captain Pike, with lots of makeup on." John Black himself stated, "Both of us immediately had the attitude that that wouldn't be very much fun. I didn't hesitate at all in turning it down." The search for a suitable actor resumed. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)
Sean Kenney was initially invited to try out for the role of Christopher Pike one evening right after making a one-off appearance in the Los Angeles stage show "The Deputy", on its opening night. As he removed his makeup backstage, a woman who turned out to be talent agent Mitzi MacGregor approached him and explained that she wanted him to meet with a man at Paramount called Gene Roddenberry, even though Kenney didn't yet know who he was. (; Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter One: Lift Off!") The agent arranged to schedule an appointment between the two men, on the condition that Kenney – who didn't have an agent at that point – signed with her. () "My life completely changed that night," admitted Kenney. MacGregor agreed to ensure him a lead role on Star Trek, which was in the very early days of its creation at Paramount. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter One: Lift Off!") Kenney eagerly accepted the arrangement proposed by MacGregor. (; Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter One: Lift Off!") A profile picture of the actor was then promptly sent to Paramount. ()
One week after Sean Kenney first met Mitzi MacGregor and the image of him was dispatched, Kenney was interviewed by Joseph D'Agosta. (; Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") D'Agosta recommended Kenney for the part of former starship captain Christopher Pike to Gene Roddenberry, with whom the actor met during the next week. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Years later, Kenney noted, "Gene Roddenberry himself interviewed me and OKed my casting in the part." ( #113) The interview between them was in October 1966. "I felt like I was in 'alpha state' when I entered Desilu Studios [....] I was ushered into a small interviewing office and waited about ten minutes until Gene's secretary came by and stated, 'Mr. Roddenberry wants to interview you personally. Would you please step into his office?' [....] [After doing so] I sat facing his desk and noticed my casting photo was lying there. I waited only a few minutes and when he came in, I stood up and shook his hands." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero")
Gene Roddenberry began the discussion by speaking about the concept of Star Trek and the fact he had been searching for a lead actor to portray former starship captain Pike. "As I sat back down," continued Sean Kenney, "Gene got up and walked around me holding my casting photo in his hand." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Meanwhile, Roddenberry looked at Kenney from every side. The actor, though, was perplexed by this behavior. Roddenberry finally stopped circling Kenney and spoke. () "Continuing, he said that the lead character, Pike, had been severely injured in a training accident and was unable to speak or move any body parts. Much of this role would come from emoting feeling through my eyes." Roddenberry outlined that the Star Trek creative team would age Kenney to look about eighty years old and that Pike would answer all questions with "yes" or "no" replies using a specially rigged light system. Kenney contemplated the seeming oddness of hiring a young actor to play an old man, a main part without any lines whatsoever. "I'm thinking, why me, why don't they just get an old guy?" the performer related. Roddenberry also voiced some direct questions. For instance, he inquired about whether Kenney would be able to handle intensive makeup for the part. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Another example was Roddenberry asking the interviewee if he had a problem with being confined within a tight area for long durations, to which Kenney declared he would be honored to play Pike. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, pp. 38 & 40) He believed the reasoning why Roddenberry "asked so many pointed questions when [Kenney] […] grabbed the role of Captain Pike" was that Roddenberry wanted to ensure the actor could be trusted to know what he was doing and was going to deliver reliable performances as Pike, whatever happened on the set. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Twenty-One: Thespian Style")
According to a statement made by Gene Roddenberry in his interview with Sean Kenney, Jeffrey Hunter was unavailable because he was busy filming a movie in Spain. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Of course, Kenney owed much to Hunter for his inclusion in the "The Menagerie" two-parter. "I received the part of Captain Pike in the wheelchair because of my strong resemblance to Jeff Hunter," Kenney explained. ( #113) He elaborated that his extreme physical similarity to Hunter was "to the point that nobody else in town resembled him as much as I did, though I was only 24 years old." () The huge resemblance between the two performers was first noticed by Joseph D'Agosta. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 38) Roddenberry noted aloud the strong degree of likeness between the actors, during Kenney's interview with him. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Kenney later hypothesized, "Maybe there is some ancestral DNA at play here. Jeff's real name was McKinney and most likely his family was from Ireland like my own." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Ten: Watch Your Back!")
Disfigured portrayal
Despite the similarities between Sean Kenney and Jeffrey Hunter, the role of Christopher Pike required Kenney to undergo some drastic physical alterations. After-the-fact, Director Marc Daniels remarked, "It took a considerable amount of preparation and work to get it done properly." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 33)
During their initial meeting with one another, Gene Roddenberry informed Sean Kenney that the sides of his eyes would be taped down with extensive makeup, that his hair and eyebrows would be dyed stark white and that latex makeup would be extensively used on his face, with the same makeup reconstructed every day for at least a week. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") In fact, Roddenberry even went as far as to explain that the latex makeup would so inhibit Kenney's movements he would likely end up having to eat through a straw. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 38) When Roddenberry asked if Kenney had any problem with having his hair and eyebrows dyed white, the actor stated he had absolutely no such difficulty, very eager to accept the role. Towards the end of their first encounter, Roddenberry ascertained the actor had no allergies to latex makeup. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero")
Disfiguring Sean Kenney gave the makeup team a lot to do. "In retrospect, regarding the makeup, I have a few insights," detailed Kenney. "The two makeup geniuses who worked on my face, Fred Phillips […] along with a young artist named Ray Sebastian, had their work cut out for themselves." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") The creation of the makeup soon began. "When Fred Phillips, who was Paramount's head makeup man, had me come into the studio the week before," Kenney recounted, "we experimented with the different types of scars and aging processes available. I was then screen-tested for matching with Jeff's facial structure, makeup reality and hair color [....] Fred Phillips wanted to perfect the makeup by making a life mask of my face during the early stages of the experiments. They applied plaster of Paris to my face with […] two little rubber hoses in my nostrils for breathing." ( #113) Phillips' interest in constructing a life mask was so he could use it as a makeup-testing device. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40)
Sean Kenney found the creation of a life mask of his own face was "a scary time" and highly claustrophobic. "And, I'm no claustrophobe!" he exclaimed. "My face hardened up like a rock and suddenly, I wondered whether I was going to breathe or not. It was quite an experience." ( #113)
Meanwhile, hairstylist Virginia Darcy commenced work on Sean Kenney's hair. Gene Roddenberry wanted it white and brittle, not merely streaked with temporary makeup, but dyed so white it made the entire character seem damaged as well as aged. After Darcy finished, she and Roddenberry walked Kenney to the set for testing his hair under the studio lights. The actor's hair was so bright, it was off the color band and consequently made the television signal almost crackle. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40) "Gene felt the first screen test showed my hair to be too white looking on camera," he recalled. "They sent me back to the Paramount hairdresser who agreed something was amiss. So she dyed my hair to a light blonde color." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") The synthetic dulling of Kenney's hair was done with a beige powder. ( #113) Darcy combined this with a hair preparation and combed the resulting mix through Kenney's hair, before allowing it to dry. Afterwards, the hair color passed the color registration assessment, then Kenney was moved onto another stage of makeup tests. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40) In hindsight, he decided he "wasn't too happy about" the dying of his hair. ( #113)
Two days before filming, Fred Phillips and Ray Sebastian initiated camera tests on the makeup layouts they'd devised using Sean Kenney's life mask. Applying the designs for real and testing them on camera depended on a six-and-a-half-hour application procedure. Sebastian, instead of Phillips, was in charge of applying the makeup and was assisted by Fred Obringer. The makeup was arranged directly on Kenney's own skin, rather than using latex appliances. The first step of the technique was applying spirit gum all over the actor's face to produce a tacky surface on the skin, which subsequently was covered with cotton. The excess cotton was removed. Then, liquid latex was stippled onto various parts of Kenney's face while the skin was stretched tightly. Owing to the fact they were working under tight time constraints throughout the process, the makeup artists used hair dryers to quicken the drying time, opting not to wait for the latex to dry naturally. They next applied a second coat of latex. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40)
Representing the scar on the right side of Pike's head was originally very difficult, when the Sean Kenney mask was under development. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40) After the makeup appliances began to melt a lot in rehearsals, a piece of fabric was designed to be incorporated into the makeup. Recalling how this came to be, Kenney offered, "One day, they were so frustrated with the melting of the horrific scar on the side of my face that Ray [Sebastian] came up with an ingenious solution. He reached down and cut out a piece of his own Levis he was wearing, made it into the shape of the scar, then taped it to the side of my face, creating an ideal radiation burn scar that would not melt or appear to be healing." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") After the material was applied, a base color of Rubber Mask Greasepaint was put on, covering nearly all of Kenney's face. The only exception was the artificial scar, which was next colored with a blueish-purple center and a deep red outer area to make it seem constantly painful. The entire makeup was lastly set with a translucent face powder. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40)
The makeup designers gave Pike's eye special attention because, amid their tests, they realized Pike would appear more sympathetic if he had a drooping eyelid. Hence, Ray Sebastian pulled down the outer edge of Sean Kenney's eyelid using clear medical tape. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40) Tying the corners of the actor's eyes down with scotch mending tape had the added effect of giving him an aged appearance. ( #113)
The development time for the Pike makeup was at least twenty hours. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "gallery pix") Daily, it took the makeup artists nearly five hours to apply. ( #113) "Every day, they would have to start from scratch applying the same makeup," Sean Kenney reported, "and placing that valuable piece of jean material in the correct spot [....] The makeup job on the first day took almost five hours to construct while on the last day they had it down to two and a half hours." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") As a result of the multiple reapplications that were needed each time over the course of five production days, Kenney found the proceedings painstaking and tedious. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40) Because the appliances started to often melt in rehearsals, his time in front of the camera was extremely limited. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") He practically lived in the makeup room, spending ten to twelve hours there each day of the shoot. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 40)
Due to Sean Kenney's long hours in makeup, the shooting company did not become familiar with the appearance of the actor under all those appliances. "I'd come in before everyone to get the make-up on and left after everyone because I had to get the make-up off," Kenney recollected. "It was the weirdest feeling, because no one ever saw me." () Moreover, Kenney was rendered unable to converse with any of the cast and crew due to the restrictive makeup. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One; Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero") Looking back, he said, "With the Captain Pike makeup limiting my socializing, I didn't linger on the set after we wrapped for the day. I would quickly remove my […] latex mask [....] Through that whole eight day shoot, I walked and talked to everyone outside the studio as a perfect looking albino gent." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") Kenney's predicament during the shoot elicited pity from fellow actor Malachi Throne, who mentioned, "Poor Sean – Sean was stuck in the box." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)
Sean Kenney once described his latex mask as "dreaded." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula") "The appliances were very tight around the face," he expressed. "Eating was very difficult [due to the heavy makeup restrictions] so my lunches were taken through a straw, consisting of soups and mush, so to speak." ( #113) Kenney elaborated, "On the set, I actually felt like I was being starved." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Two: Ground Zero")
For his portrayal of Christopher Pike, Sean Kenney concentrated much of his attention on his eyes. "Most of the feeling had to come through my eyes," he stated, "especially due to the fact that they would tie the corners of my eyes down with scotch mending tape." ( #113) The actor clarified, "It was an immense acting challenge, trying to say so much only through my eyes."
For one specific scene, Sean Kenney thought about his father having died when he had been eight years old. "That's where the tears came from in my big scene," he reflected. "I remember everyone saying, 'OK, we got it." ()
Towards the end of filming the scenes involving the injured Christopher Pike, an issue arose concerning the scrap of denim used as the character's scar. Sean Kenney remembered, "About the eighth day into the shoot, Ray [Sebastian] was so tired he placed the scar on the wrong side of my face. When I looked in the mirror, I knew something was wrong and we both cracked up, realizing exhaustion had finally taken its toll." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
Reception and aftermath
First portrayal
Originally, NBC, Herb Solow, Gene Roddenberry, and Robert Butler were all delighted they were able to secure Jeffrey Hunter for the part of Christopher Pike in "The Cage". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., p. 36)
Robert Butler was left with the feeling Jeffrey Hunter's stint as Christopher Pike was not wholly satisfying. "I thought he was probably a good, chiseled hero for this type of part," Butler critiqued about Hunter. "He was an extremely pleasant, centered guy, and maybe decent and nice to a fault… I remember thinking, 'God, he's handsome,' and this was sadly the opinion of him at the time. When one is trying to bring reality into an unreal situation, that usually isn't a wise thing to do – to hire a somewhat perfect looking actor. You should find someone who seems more natural and more 'real." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Three: Designing Star Trek") Butler also stated about Hunter, "I […] found him to be a real cooperative good guy. He was a little heroic and a little stiff, and I tried to modify that a little bit, and maybe I did and maybe I didn't." ()
According to Joseph D'Agosta and Robert Justman, the executives at NBC opted for William Shatner as James T. Kirk rather than Jeffrey Hunter as Christopher Pike because they were disappointed with Hunter's depiction of Pike. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 56 Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 14) "The network seemed to feel that Jeff Hunter was rather woolen," remembered Justman. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 14) D'Agosta concurred, "When they saw the pilot, they didn't like Jeffrey Hunter. They'd pick up Star Trek based on recasting him." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 56) In accordance with these opinions, the Press-TV Radio reported in 1967 that Hunter was let go from Star Trek because "he didn't cut the meteoric mustard as the Captain." () However, in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (paperback ed., p. 60), Herb Solow recorded that, upon specifying their wants and desires for the second Star Trek pilot, NBC proclaimed, "Jeffrey Hunter was okay, and if you want to use him again, that's fine with us." In the book Star Trek Memories (paperback ed., p. 70), Shatner referred to Hunter as "one of the few cast members [from 'The Cage' who was] spared the wrath of the network."
Robert Justman thought Jeffrey Hunter lacked a sense of energy in his portrayal of the captain, whereas William Shatner provided the much-needed quota of energy. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, paperback ed., pp. 71-72) Justman also claimed he and Roddenberry felt strongly that Hunter was a less "accomplished" actor than Shatner, with less "dimension" and unable to exhibit as varied an emotional range as Shatner could. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot"; Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 14) Joseph D'Agosta agreed with this notion. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, "Chapter Five: Double or Nothing: A Second Pilot") However, Roddenberry himself speculated about Hunter, "He would have made a grand captain." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 14) Likewise, writer D.C. Fontana once commented that, in her view, Hunter regularly appearing as Pike would have resulted in "a good captain," and also said, "He wouldn't have been Captain Kirk; his approach would have been very different, but I think he would have been perfectly fine." () TOS fan and Star Trek spin-off writer/producer Ira Steven Behr concurred, "I would have been just as happy if Jeffrey Hunter had played the lead. I liked him a lot." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 42)
Actor Mark Lenard once voiced an alternative opinion, commenting, "Using a straighter fellow like the original choice, the character would have been stiffer than [William] Shatner with less of a personality. I don't think it would have worked as well with Jeffrey Hunter in the lead." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 77) Leonard Nimoy similarly expressed that he believed Pike's relationship with Nimoy's own character of Spock would not have been anywhere near as successful as that between Kirk and Spock. "Hunter was more reticent and less dramatic in his acting choices," Nimoy criticized, "leaving Spock's maneuvering space less clearly defined." ( #63) Despite liking Jeffrey Hunter as an actor, Ronald D. Moore was also doubtful that Pike would have been as successful in the lead character role as Kirk turned out to be. "I don't think Jeffrey Hunter, as Captain Pike in the adventures of the Enterprise was really going to work," he noted. In agreement, Michael Taylor commented about Pike, "Looks like he stepped out of Forbidden Planet or something." (audio commentary, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Blu-ray) special features)
By , Jeffrey Hunter's performance as Captain Pike had become highly popular. Bruce Greenwood, who played the alternate reality version of , referred to Hunter as having a "legion of fans he had from creating that role." "People feel so strongly about every tiny little aspect of it," Greenwood stated. (Star Trek Magazine Souvenir Special, p. 34) On the other hand, Hunter's portrayal of Pike is less well known than William Shatner's depictions of Kirk and Leonard Nimoy's take on Spock, a situation which Greenwood pointed out. ()
In the critical review reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (pp. 144, 29 & 30), Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross make remarks on Jeffrey Hunter's characterization of Captain Pike. Altman refers to it as "a powerful performance" and reckons of Hunter, "Although he probably wouldn't have proved Shatner's equal in a continuing series, he shines in his sole Star Trek outing." Gross opines, "Jeffrey Hunter is a bit stiff as Captain Pike, but he's an effective enough progenitor of William Shatner's James T. Kirk."
British writer found Jeffrey Hunter in the role of Captain Pike particularly memorable and a performance "no one is ever likely to forget." () Similarly, British journalist and author rhetorically asked, "Who can resist speculating on an entire parallel Star Trek history where Christopher Pike is captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise?" () American writer Robert Greenberger observed, "There's a lot of [Horatio] Hornblower in Jeffrey Hunter's Pike, but it's mixed with a dash of Hamlet." (Star Trek: Enterprise Logs, "Introduction") American writer Stuart Moore noticed a particularly curious element of the character, commenting, "Pike […] had an interesting set of relationships with the women under his command." ()
Reiteration
Michael Okuda thought recasting the character of Christopher Pike for the "The Menagerie" two-parter, due to the unavailability of Jeffrey Hunter, worked "perfectly" and was done in an exceedingly clever fashion. Concerning how Sean Kenney adopted the role of Pike, Okuda supposed, "This is probably his most famous role, on Star Trek at least." ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray)
In the two-parter, Christopher Pike is highlighted in the credits. "I guess they figured top feature credit," Sean Kenney speculated, "was the least they could do to compensate all the restructuring to my anatomy and reward my patience." He revealed, "I had no misgivings about not being recognized. It was a thrill to be in the show [....] All in all, I felt proud of my efforts." ( #113) However, he also conceded, "I'm not tooting my own horn I hope, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time for their sake and for mine." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
Sean Kenney's appearances as Pike were highly successful with Marc Daniels, who directed Kenney in the "The Menagerie" two-parter, as well as with the creative staff at large. Daniels characterized the method in which they dealt with Jeffrey Hunter's absence as "a neat way out if it." Additionally, the director commented, "We were all satisfied by the results." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 33)
Gene Roddenberry also approved of Sean Kenney's performances as Pike. Said the actor, "On the last day of the shoot Gene came up to me and congratulated me for my terrific 'emoting job' [....] He said that I had put up with a lot and he wanted to reward my tenacity and good spirit. I certainly agreed with his point." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
One reason why Sean Kenney concurred with the idea he had gone through a lot was because he was still suffering hair loss. He specified, "My hair was falling out from the two dye jobs they'd done on me [....] After the show wrapped [the Paramount hairdresser] […] had to dye my hair back to its original dark brown color (a third dye job within a month). My hair was coming out in large clumps. I remember she used a product called Fermadil from Austria (placenta from unborn sheep), and rolled it into my scalp and it stopped the hair loss." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
After playing the deformed Christopher Pike, Sean Kenney sent a photograph of himself in the part to Fred Phillips. On it, the performer had written a message including the statement, "Thank you for your wonderful 'face lift'." (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 188) The photo was from the series of screen tests conducted while the Pike makeup had been in development. The particular image Kenney used showed the makeup in its "final" form. (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "gallery pix")
In 1966, a TV Times Preview – misunderstanding that the wheelchair-bound Pike was Jeffrey Hunter under heavy makeup – was amazed by the performance. The publication praised Hunter for doing "excellent work" in the part. ()
The representations of Christopher Pike in "The Menagerie" inspired curiosity in J.K. Woodward, who (decades later) collaborated with Stuart Moore on the comic Captain's Log: Pike. Woodward's interest in Pike was piqued when he saw "The Menagerie" at age seven. He related, "I remember thinking at the time, 'What's that guy's story? How do you get from being like Captain Kirk to being stuck in that chair?" ()
Sean Kenney's stint of playing Christopher Pike was instrumental in landing him the role of Lieutenant DePaul, the casting of which was one way Gene Roddenberry attempted to reward Kenney for the job he had done as Pike. While Kenney was playing DePaul in , however, very few people really knew he had played the earlier part. When McCoy actor DeForest Kelley became curious how such a young actor could have been cast as DePaul, it was one of the men assigned to the makeup department who revealed Kenney's previous role, to which Kelley either responded, "You were Pike? Damn, you're so young," or "You played Pike? You're so damn young." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula"; )
Pike was to have been mentioned in the original version of the episode , undeveloped for TOS. (The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration, p. 51) In the original outline of that installment (dated ), Kirk told Spock, "I remember reading Captain Pike's reports on the trouble you had adjusting."
One night after ten years had elapsed since his appearances on Star Trek, Sean Kenney was visiting Chuck Norris' wife's restaurant in Marina Del Ray when he had an encounter with Jeffrey Hunter's wife, Emily McLaughlin. "As I approached her table, her face nearly turned white," Kenney related. "I did resemble her late husband quite a bit and by now I was in my late thirties and more mature looking than when I played Pike. As I sat, I calmed her nerves and relayed the story of how Gene Roddenberry had hand-picked me to play Pike because Jeff was not available. She kept shaking her head at the strong resemblance [....] I often wish that I had met Jeff at some point, while he was still alive." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Ten: Watch Your Back!")
Andy Lane noted that Pike's disfigured face is "not unlike that of the Phantom of the Opera." Lane went on to comment, "The result on the audience is horror tinged with disquiet [....] We are only too aware that disease or accident might one day result in us wearing the same face." ()
In Cinefantastique (Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 27), the mistake of crediting Jeffrey Hunter with the role of the disfigured Pike was made by critic Thomas Doherty. He also likened the character's fate, as established at the end of , to the experience of watching science fiction fantasy. He concluded, "Like the viewer, locked in a chair, Pike is free to roam the galaxy in his mind."
Co-Executive Producer Chris Black reckoned that, had he recommended that ENT adhere to canon by portraying someone other than Jonathan Archer as the first captain of the starship Enterprise, he would have suggested that Pike had historically filled that role (whereas Robert April had actually preceded Pike). Black therefore reasoned that he would have submitted that Pike, rather than Archer, be prominently featured in ENT. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 646)
Christopher Pike was an influence on one particular military protocol, which Sean Kenney learned when two F-16 pilots approached him. One of the pilots, who was extremely military-looking, asked Kenney if he was aware the Air Force uses "a Captain Pike code" when flying over hostile territory in Iraq. Kenney was highly surprised and at first questioned whether the pilot was joking. (; ) "He said, 'No. When we break radio silence we say, "Is that a one-beep or two-beep Roger?" Only a person who is a Trekker would know that code," Kenney relayed. () He was still stunned by the news. "I thought that's hilarious," he expressed, "that now I'm a code in Iraq for the pilots there."
Shortly before his death in , a wheelchair-bound Robert Justman introduced himself to Sean Kenney at an annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas and thanked him personally for having played Pike. "He told me," relayed Kenney, "that if Gene and he hadn't found me for the role of Pike they were in big trouble." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Three: The Formula")
Sean Kenney was proud of the ways in which his representation of Captain Pike inspired physically disabled people, in general. When interviewed in , he mused, "Here was a guy, Captain Pike, who was almost the first physically challenged person anyone saw on TV in a major part [....] I meet people now [in wheelchairs] who roll up to me and say, 'When I saw that show I thought, what if I lost my voice? I've only lost my legs." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One; )
At a San Francisco signing show called Wondercon in November , Christian Slater directly thanked Sean Kenney for, in Kenney's words, "the Pike inspiration." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Twenty-Two: Looking for a Galaxy… Try Ours!")
In , Sean Kenney referenced Pike in the title of his autobiography, Captain Pike Found Alive! He ended the book by addressing Star Trek fans with the statement, "I […] want you to remember what Captain Pike would have wanted to say to you as you look toward the heavens… 'Your being here does matter." (Captain Pike Found Alive!, "Chapter Twenty-Six: The Future")
Bruce Greenwood learned about the popularity of the Pike character, especially Jeffrey Hunter's presentment of it, after he received the task of adopting the alternate reality variant. "Regardless of what I choose to do, I thought I'd better know what other people's frame of reference is," he remembered. (Star Trek Magazine Souvenir Special, p. 34) He noticed the original Pike was highly ambivalent and torn about remaining with Starfleet, whereas these qualities seem to be essentially reversed in the character's alternate reality counterpart. () Greenwood pointed out, "The central dilemma for Jeffrey Hunter is not the central dilemma for my Pike." The actor suggested, "They are almost opposites [....] Yet you can look at it as though they are two sides of the same coin, because of the parallel universe." Owing to the relative obscurity of Hunter's portrayal of Pike (compared to William Shatner's and Leonard Nimoy's depictions of Kirk and Spock respectively), Greenwood admitted feeling no need to infuse any of Hunter's performance style in the way he re-enacted the character, being unsure if such likenesses would actually be apparent. As a result, only one unmistakable "tip of the hat" to televised Pike was included in Greenwood's portrayal, which was that Pike ends up in a wheelchair at the end of the film . () Despite this, Sean Kenney reckoned, "I think Bruce was inspired by Jeffrey Hunter's work because, obviously, I played the crippled Pike." He also announced, "If J.J. Abrams ever goes into looking for the crippled Pike, I'd love to do it again."
Although the alternate reality version of Pike dies in , a scene in , involving Captain and Doctor , was inspired by Pike's interaction with Dr. Boyce in "The Cage". Beyond director Justin Lin, during his boyhood, had repeatedly been confused by seeing Pike in that episode, while Lin was watching out-of-sequence reruns of TOS. (SFX, issue 276, p. 47)
Discovery
In 2019, Anson Mount appeared in the role of Christopher Pike during the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, serving as the captain of the USS Discovery in-between stints on the Enterprise. Reception to Mount's portrayal of Pike was largely positive. In a review of the season as a whole, Kyle Hadyniak of the site TrekNews cited Mount's portrayal of Pike as the highlight of the show's second season. He stated that Mount "brought charm, intelligence, gravitas, and authority" to a character that had previously been seen only briefly in the franchise and that it was easy to see why fans had grown attached to the character. Keisha Hatchett of TV Guide described Mount's portrayal as dashing and charismatic, stating that he was "very much the man Gene Roddenberry envisioned so many decades ago but never feels like a relic of the past." Following the news that Mount's Pike character would not be a part of the program's third season, fans began a petition for the character to return to the franchise in some form, possibly as part of his own spin-off series. Mount expressed openness to the idea, saying "It’s a character I love; it’s a franchise I love; it’s an experience that I have already loved." In May 2020, the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, featuring Mount's Pike character, as well as Spock and Una Chin-Riley, was announced. The fan reception to the characters was stated to have played a part in the decision to create the series.
Apocrypha
Outside of the canon information derived from Christopher Pike's on-screen appearances, Diane Carey's lists his full name as "Christopher Richard Pike." His adventures as captain of the Enterprise were the center of Marvel's Star Trek: Early Voyages series, establishing his father as retired Admiral Josh Pike. Pike was also featured in a handful of novels and comics, some of them depicting his life after being injured and left on Talos IV, some of them depicting his earlier adventures.
The Pocket novel Vulcan's Glory by TOS script writer D.C. Fontana states that Pike previously commanded the starship , a reference to the original name intended to be given to the Enterprise. Some stories (published prior to it becoming canon in ) have also said that Pike served as the executive officer on board the Enterprise under Captain Robert T. April. (Crisis on Vulcan; Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years)
In the Star Trek novel Enterprise: The First Adventure, Pike is promoted to commodore upon relinquishing command of the Enterprise. This could indicate that "fleet captain" was considered a position and not a rank.
Pike is also the main focus of the non-canon novel Burning Dreams, which gives a detailed account of his life and career, as well as The Captain's Table #6: Where Sea Meets Sky. Burning Dreams establishes that, after the incident on Talos IV, Pike spent much of the rest of his career wondering if his life and everything that he was experiencing in life was an illusion and if he was still in the cell on Talos IV, until, while on a mission with Spock, Pike asked him about it. Spock clearly refutes the idea, saying the idea that the Talosians could have made such a perfect illusion that none of the crew ever saw through it as extremely unlikely. According to the novel, his parents were Charlie Pike and Willa McKinnies, and he lived on Elysium as a child.
In the novel , Ezri Dax said that Pike was part of the joint Starfleet-Trill mission where the parasitic being was first discovered. At that time, Pike was a fleet captain. This is from The Lives of Dax.
The novel The Enterprise War depicts Pike and the adventures of the Enterprise and its crew during the 2256-57 Federation-Klingon War.
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En route to the red giant , discovers a derelict Xindi-Insectoid starship on the surface of an uninhabited planet and apprehends a Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle. The Enterprise crew discovers a hatchery, containing Xindi-Insectoid eggs, aboard the Insectoid ship; one of multiple tendrils attached to one of the eggs squirts Enterprise Captain Jonathan Archer with a mild neurotoxin, which makes him obsessive about their protection. He authorizes MACOs to be put in place, until T'Pol, Commander Charles Tucker III and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed lead a successful mutiny against Archer. Once he is cleared of the neurotoxin, though, he resumes command. ()
Enterprise arrives at Azati Prime and, thanks to the Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle, the Enterprise crew manages to inspect the installation. Jonathan Archer decides to sabotage the Xindi weapon but is apprehended. In the process of his imprisonment, he gains Degra's trust. Enterprise is heavily damaged in the Battle of Azati Prime, where approximately eighteen crewmembers are killed. () However, the attack is recalled by the Xindi-Primates. ()
As the crew of Enterprise repairs the ship, Archer is delivered by the Xindi-Aquatics in an escape pod. After he is recovered, Hoshi Sato discovers a hidden message by Degra in the pod, inviting him to a meeting in three days. Unable to arrive in time, Archer decides to pirate an Illyrian starship to steal its primary warp coil. ()
The crew holds a memorial for their dead shipmates. Enterprise arrives at a Delphic Expanse sphere, where it meets with Degra's ship. Archer briefs Degra about what he knows regarding the Delphic Expanse and the Sphere-Builders who are planning an invasion. Degra and Jannar offer to stop the launch of the weapon if Archer can prove the Xindi have been manipulated. After Archer reveals to them knowledge about the Xindi bio-weapon and other discoveries, Degra invites Archer to meet the Xindi Council to share this information. A Xindi-Reptilian warship arrives at the sphere, but is destroyed by Degra's ship, at Degra's instruction. ()
Preparing to use a subspace corridor to travel to the Xindi Council planet, Enterprise encounters a version of itself from an alternate timeline generated by the subspace corridor, a duplicate under the command of Lorian, who is the offspring of Tucker and T'Pol. The crew of the two versions of the ship disagree on the proper way to pass through a nebula controlled by a hostile species called the Kovaalans. T'Pol is unable to achieve more than an eighty-six percent reduction of the particle wake with impulse manifold modifications, but an elder version of herself shows her where to place an isomagnetic collector (a piece of Ikaaran technology) to reduce any residual particles. Lorian's Enterprise helps Archer's Enterprise to pass the corridor but doesn't emerge from the other side itself. Under Archer's command, Enterprise meets with Degra. ()
February
Corporal F. Hawkins is killed while defending T'Pol and Lieutenant Reed inside a Delphic Expanse sphere. ()
Major J. Hayes is killed on February 13th of this year. ()
The Xindi weapon is destroyed by Jonathan Archer and his crew as it approaches Earth, thereby blighting the plan of the Sphere-Builders to annihilate Humanity and to prevent the Federation from forming in 2161. ()
In an alternate timeline, Earth is destroyed by the Xindi, who then proceed to wipe out most of the rest of Humanity. ()
After the intervention of Enterprise in 1944 of an alternate timeline, the Temporal Cold War ostensibly comes to an end. ()
Enterprise finally returns to Earth after the conclusion of the Xindi incident. ()
May
Two unarmed Augments single-handedly hijack a and kill its crew, setting in motion events that will significantly alter Klingon physiology for a period of time. ()
Relations between Earth and the Klingon Empire nearly boil over into war because of intervention by Arik Soong and a group of Augments who regard him as their father. ()
Arik Soong gives up his work in genetics and begins research in cybernetics. ()
July
Administrator V'Las of the Vulcan High Command, while secretly taking Romulan advice, covertly orchestrates the bombing of the United Earth Embassy on to discredit the Syrrannite movement and their interpretation of Surakian logic. The High Command also attempts to assault Andoria, to destabilize the region, but when the Syrrannites recover the Kir'Shara, the High Command is forced to disband. ()
Enterprise travels to the Barrens. There, the inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, tries to search for his lost son, Quinn, who is recovered but dies moments later. ()
The Organians observe the crew of Enterprise reacting to an infection on board. Though Commander Tucker and Ensign Hoshi Sato die from the infection, Archer ultimately persuades the Organians to resurrect them. Owing to Organian influence, the Enterprise crew members retain no memories of their encounters with the species. ()
November
The Romulans continue attempts to destabilize Earth's region of space. A Romulan drone ship attacks Andorian and Tellarite travelers to a planned peace conference on Babel. Other ships attacked include a Rigellian scoutship. A Human, Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite is formed to help the species work together to locate the drone ship and lead to talks on board Enterprise. ()
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Enterprise doctor Phlox is kidnapped and forced to help the Klingons discover a cure for a virus spreading through the Empire. ()
Notable Earth first contacts this year include the Illyrians, the Na'kuhl, and the Orions. (ENT Seasons 3 and 4)
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noun (pl. Trekkies) informal A of the US science fiction television program Star Trek
Trekkies are forward looking people.
Robert Justman, interview on the TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning".
There is an about the term Trekker which in a sense means the same as trekkie, i.e. fan of the Star Trek phenomenon in all its iterations, although the differences in terms are also debated among trekkies/trekkers. As a collective, trekkies/trekkers are known as "Star Trek fandom", in parlance, especially among themselves, often contracted to "Trekdom".
Generic observations
The term "Trekkie" seems to be the one most used in English-speaking countries, but has also become increasingly adopted in non-English speaking countries.
One could argue that Trekkies could be so-called space-travelers: those interested (trivially) in space travel, but there is also a good chance Trekkies are simply enjoying the show, just for fun.
The term "Trekker" is preferred by some Star Trek fans, as the term "Trekkie" is perceived to be a derogatory (or a diminutive one at best when used by non-fan family members) term, especially by the non-fan society at large, who consider Trekkies as being obsessive in their fandom. One joke – and definition they themselves adhere to – is that Trekkers, habitually preferring to keep their fandom more low-key, "know it's just a TV show" versus Trekkies, in reference to William Shatner's famous "Get a Life!" rant on Saturday Night Live. In response however, many of the more die-hard fans have taken a defiant stance against a wary outside world by embracing the term "Trekkie" as a "", as clearly evidenced by the 1997 docu-comedy Trekkies and its 2004 follow-up Trekkies 2.
According to the Trekkies 2, Gene Roddenberry once stated at a Star Trek convention in response to a "Trekkers!" call-out from the crowd, "No. It's Trekkies. I should know. I invented it." The differences sometimes perceived among themselves notwithstanding, Trekkers and Trekkies alike presented, until the advent of specifically, a more-or-less unified "us-against-them" front to the outside world.
In the 2014, season five episode "Bid Strong and Prosper" of the reality show Storage Wars, Gabriel Koerner, who made a cameo appearance in the episode as the spokesperson of a three-person strong Trekkie commitee – all clad in their Star Trek attire– , offered up an alternative definition of the dichotomy; according to them, a "Trekkie" is a Original Series fan, whereas a "Trekker" is a The Next Generation fan.
A (sub-)category of fans more related to and called "Niners", also exists.
The by non-fan society perceived status of Trekkies as societal misfits is amply demonstrated by a plethora of Hollywood productions in which – typically in a derogatory manner and not rarely viciously so, the assumed sexual inadequacy of Trekkies in particular as exemplified by the quoted Saturday Night Live, Dharma & Greg and The Big Bang Theory episodes – fun is poked at the fans, the hugely popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory (a later production from the Dharma & Greg creators, incidentally) having become the most visible and best known one.Incidentally, in the above referenced Storage Wars episode, primary cast member Jarrod Schulz was utterly unable to refrain himself from viciously ridiculing, insulting and belittling the Star Trek fanbase throughout the entire episode, even expressing his disdain straight into the face of Koerner's three-Trekkie team at the end of the episode.
Both the Dharma & Greg quote as well as The Big Bang Theory in general touched upon the fact, that Trekdom is commonly believed by the non-fan society to be almost exclusively composed of (white) males. While it is undeniable that in science-fiction fandoms in general, males are over-represented – hence the misconception – , the two Trekkies documentaries and several registrations of Star Trek conventions included in the special features on home video formats provide proof positive that people of color and females form a substantial contingent of Trekdom as well. Their respective ranks were strengthened by their favorable reception of (headed by an Afro-American male commander) and (headed by a female captain). The gross generalization of assuming (biased) white male dominance, played a substantial part in the assessment of (media) critics, when thrashing the critical part of Trekdom for their negative reception of Star Trek Discovery.
A first hour female fan of considerable note had been Bjo Trimble, in the process arguably becoming not only the best-known Star Trek fan, but the archetypal "Trekkie" as well, and has for decades been the most sought-out person by (non-fan) media reporters wanting to report on Trekdom. Another notable early female fan had been Millicent Wise, who was instrumental in bringing Leonard Nimoy back into the franchise fold as Spock in – directed by her husband – against the wishes of studio executives, Michael Eisner in particular. Both women were rewarded for their efforts with cameo appearances in the film. A third example concerned Susan Sackett, likewise making a cameo appearance in the film, who went on to become a Star Trek author, as well as the personal assistant of Gene Roddenberry for the remainder of his life.
The 1999 film Galaxy Quest, itself an insightful satire on the entire Star Trek phenomenon, is a very rare example of a major Hollywood production which, while witty, treated the phenomenon with respect. In effect, Jean-Luc Picard performer Patrick Stewart at first refused to see the film, because he was falsely led to believe that the film ridiculed and insulted the fanbase before he was informed to the contrary by co-star Jonathan Frakes. Ironically, DreamWorks, the studio the film was produced for, had expected a slapstick kind of comedy purposely ridiculing and thrashing Star Trek and its fans, but the film's producers were of decidedly different mind, craftily making use of the studio's preoccupation with another very expensive film project, Gladiator. Too late do anything about it, DreamWorks went ahead nonetheless to market the film as they had expected it to be, explaining its belated adoption by Trekdom, being coined "the best Star Trek movie" by Wil Wheaton, and rise to cult status. (Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary, 2019)
While "" is a generic, commonly used expression in the English language to indicate a person with a single-minded obsession with any subject matter in a derogatory and insulting manner, it is arguably also the second most used term by the non-fan society to indicate Star Trek fans in similar vein, as shown by its recurrent use as such in shows like, again, The Big Bang Theory.
The Star Trek franchise itself has indeed acknowledged this state of affairs when it had, during the production of Discoverys second season, an one-minute homage clip made for streaming on the Apple TV+ app – also featured in a Carpool Karaoke episode (Season 2, Episode 11, 31 January 2019) – in which the uniform-clad Discovery primary cast were singing a song (adapted from a song featured in the musical Rent) on its bridge set, profusely thanking the "nerds" – "nerds" being emphasized with flashy, sing-along captions, repeatedly – for keeping the franchise alive for all these decades. Its reception having been mixed at best, Discovery had turned out to be a divisive show, turning fans against each other – thereby succeeding where decades of ridicule from the outside world had not; fracturing the fanbase. And as the equally divided reactions to this supposedly well-meant clip have shown, Discovery fans loved the homage, whereas the critical fans took offense, considering it a derogatory slur, and an intentional insulting one at that in their opinion – with some even interpreting it to be a franchise lash-back for their critical reception of the show. The by these fans as offensive perceived clip has not been included in any of the special features of the later released second season home video formats. Nonetheless, the mere fact that the clip was produced at all, is for all intent and purposes the formal confirmation that the franchise has appointed the term "nerd" as their official moniker for the Star Trek fan.
As has been the case with "Trekkie", a small part of fandom wears "nerd" as a badge of honor (conceivably a contributing factor to the franchise's misguided formal stance), but the majority of these fans appear to prefer the similar, but less offensive sounding expression "", as it is for example the expression of choice of Wil Wheaton as evidenced by his book Just a Geek – even though he consistently addressed his fellow fans with the "officially" endorsed "nerds" in , most likely enforced by the franchise to do so. Both Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman are self-professed and unapologetic "Star Trek geeks" and who in effect wrote a quasi-autobiographical Star Trek parody, the 1999 film , in which "über-fans", played by actors who served as proxys for the writers, unexpectedly meet their idol William Shatner, who actually played a fictionalized version of himself in the film.
The political weight of the Star Trek fans made it possible to impose the name Enterprise for the first American space shuttle built for the NASA (OV-101), whereas this one was to be called Constitution in the beginning, after a massive campaign of letters organized by the aforementioned Bjo Trimble produced more than 200,000 requests to President .
A considerable part of Trekdom places great importance and value on adherence to canon as established onscreen and sees (too much) deviation from it as a serious violation. This played a substantial part in the fan criticism of , and in even greater measure still in their critical reception of Discovery. Former VAM producer (and Original Series fan) Robert Meyer Burnett sided with those fans in regard to the latter series, coining himself a "canonista".
A term closely related to, and associated with the "Trekdom" part mentioned in the preceding point, is "", a contraction of "fan" and "canon", and used to signify widely and steadfastly held beliefs by fans that is not substantiated by canon.
While rival science fiction franchises have very similar fandoms, the main ones, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica do not have generally accepted nicknames for their fans, with the intended nickname "" failing to gain a foothold for the Stargate franchise. Some of the smaller, and somewhat in memory receded, ones did however; Babylon 5 fans for example were occasionally referred to as "", whereas the more fanatical ones from Firefly referred to themselves as "". American fans of the older and still running British Doctor Who franchise used to call themselves "", while the home-grown fans never did.
Star Trek production staff "Trekkies"
Many production staffers on the Star Trek franchise were self professed "Trekkies" (or "Trekkers", depending on one's point of view) and in the 1970s, early 1980's that was considered an asset as Art Director Richard Taylor recalled, "To design the models for the show I hired an exceptional team of designers. First and foremost was Andy Probert. Andy was a true Star Trek expert and knew all the mythology of the series. I on the other hand was not a Star Trek fan." (Star Trek: Creating the Enterprise, p. 104) It even held true to some extent as late as 2009 when Conceptual Illustrator John Eaves became the only regular production staffer who had worked on prime universe Star Trek productions – excepting Industrial Light & Magic's staffers, who had previously worked on the Star Trek franchise and were still in the employment of the company at the time – to be officially hired and credited for J.J. Abrams' re-imagined . Though Abrams steered clear from hiring any former Star Trek staffers in order to be as unencumbered as possible for his vision on the franchise, he was aware that some consistency needed to be observed, or as Production Designer Scott Chambliss has put it, "I brought John in because he knew the story and lore, what should and shouldn't be done. The ships in the Starfleet Armada to go to Vulcan were influenced by John's knowledge." (Star Trek - The Art of the Film, p. 58)
However, as time progressed, being a fan was increasingly frowned upon by studio executives and show producers alike, afraid of being bogged down creatively by vocal, highly knowledgeable "Trekkies". This indeed had already been somewhat of an issue in Probert's case for The Motion Picture as far as his non-fan colleagues were concerned. Production Coordinator Michelle Small recalled at the time, "We had one person working with us at Abel whom I was told to literally keep away from [by] Magicam. He was changing the design of the Enterprise, he was a stickler for detail, a stickler for accuracy. He was the only real Trekkie on the film and he really didn't quite understood that this was a movie, he wasn't redesigning a NASA spaceship, this was somebody's made-up design of a spaceship, and just because they'd put out books of the Federation didn't mean that the ship had to look exactly like the old Enterprise. And if you take a look at the old, original Enterprise, it's a very simple design. Besides, as Harold said, it's supposed to be a redesigned Enterprise in the script, so that should explain any deviations from the original. Well, this was just another manifestation of aberrated behavior, and my job was to keep these little aberrations contained." This was even acknowledged by Probert himself to some extent when elaborated on his behavior, "There was usually a joint groan that would emanate from the Robert Abel modelers as I entered the Seward shop everyday [note: the company were the completed Magicam models were sent for final detailing], because they knew I would discover another level of detail that hadn't been approached and needed closer attention. But I think it's quite evident in the final results that the modelers outdid themselves." (Return to Tomorrow - The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp. 103, 201-202) A decade later, the consummate Star Trek fan Probert would actually resign his illustrator position after the first season of over perceived violations of Star Trek-continuity.
Production staff "Trekdom" in Berman-era Star Trek
Makeup Artist and Production Illustrator Doug Drexler, who in effect started out in Star Trek fandom, has elaborated in the Trek Radio Q&A interview session of 22 January 2011, "If you were a rabid fan, you know, you kept it low key. The thing was, that when I came on The Next Generation, I wasn't just, I'm not saying I was anything special or anything, I had just come from Dick Tracy. So I wasn't really concerned about, if I was just a day player or makeup artist, if you acted like a geeky fan they wouldn't ask you back. But because I had just got done working with Warren Beatty, and stuff like that and all these actors, that they turned a blind eye to me being that way. And I actually would gush to the actors the next day after a show, you know, and act like a gushy fan. And Mike warned me, I think, a couple of times, but I was, "I don't care.""
How sensitive producers and executives were on this issue by then, was discovered by Drexler in an incident, occurring when he sought out Mike Okuda for a position on the art department staff,
"When TNG premiered, I was blown away by the production design. One thing that really impressed me was the new LCARS interface prominently displayed all over this new amazing starship. It was clean, direct, and ingenious. I wondered if it was done by that guy Bob was talking about? That guy who came all the way from Hawaii? Man, if it is, he is not just a lucky cat, but he is one COOL cat. Turns out he was both.
"Dick Tracy had finished up, and I knew what I had to do. I made a bee line for Paramount Pictures and Trek makeup guru Mike Westmore. TNG was starting up its third season, it had found it’s legs, and there was no way the Enterprise was leaving spacedock with out me this time, and it didn’t. Mike Westmore and I liked each other instantly, and I was on board. The first week I was there, I saw Mike Okuda on stage, getting a cup of coffee at the craft service table. I think I probably embarrassed him because I gushed like a little kid over his brilliant work. I sensed that the unbridled praise made him a little uncomfortable. Over the next few years I got to know Mike, Rick, and Richard James, and made regular visits to the rarified air of the art department. I knew that this was were I had to be. This was the place. One day during the fifth season I approached Mike about what the odds were of making the jump to the art department. I started off with my usual enthusiasm for Star Trek. Mike looked around nervously and motioned me to follow him down the curved corridors of the Enterprise D. He was leading me away from ears that might overhear our conversation. I did not know yet that being branded as a fan by the guys who inherited the show from R&J could be detrimental. At the far end of the corridor, and away from the production crew, was the entrance to the ship’s hangar bay. Mike slipped his finger tips between the two heavy doors, and pried them apart revealing the new shuttle with its aft gangway hatch open.
"I stepped inside the hangar and looked around wide eyed, as Mike dragged the heavy doors of the shuttle bay closed with a thump. This was truly impressive, the bay was complete and enclosed. It was fully immersive, and with that beautiful shuttle sitting there, I WAS on board my dream ship. Mike tapped my arm and quietly motioned me into shutlecraft. He took the pilot seat, and I took the copilot seat. As I peered through the canopy of the craft, out into the enclosed bay, the situation went from immersive to immersive within immersive. I’ll never forget that day. Mike and I spoke about what the odds were of me getting into the art department (pretty slim). We also spoke freely as fans of the show for the first time. It occurred to me later that we had unwittingly recreated a scene from where Bowman, and Poole shut themselves into one of the Discoveys pods to evade HAL's prying ears."
As to underscore Drexler's statements, Scenic Artist Geoffrey Mandel noted in this regard in 2002, "The absolute WORST way to get a job at Star Trek is to tell them that you’re a Star Trek fan! When they started Enterprise, they made a conscious decision to bring in some new blood, and not just round up the usual suspects; but in practice, it meant that fans like Rick Sternbach, Tim Earls and myself weren’t asked back. However, a number of fans who had worked on DS9 and had been taking an extended leave of absence came back when Enterprise started, so the total number of Star Trek fans stayed about the same." Yet another production staff fan, Visual Effects Supervisor Ronald B. Moore, fully agreed with Mandel, "It is okay to be a fan of a show or an actor but if you want to work in the business it is probably best to keep it low-key. I have seen some people go nuts when confronted by a star, director or some other person they admire. In some cases it cost them their jobs. Be professional and you might just earn their respect. If you fawn over them you certainly will not." (Flying Starships, p. 125) Another illustrative incident in this respect, also involving Drexler, occurred when he helped out Mike Okuda applying signage graphics onto the Voyager studio model, though he was formally forbidden to do so as he was officially part of the team. producer Wendy Neuss caught him in the act, but, as Drexler fondly recalled, "BUSTED! My heart was in my throat as Wendy surveyed our work. She did not make eye contact with me, and spoke only to Okuda. She seemed quite pleased, and Mike thanked her for coming out in the middle of the night to view the finished project. As Wendy headed for the door, she turned, looked at me, and said, "…and thank YOU, whoever you are," and gave me a wink. With that, she dissapeared into the cool California night. Without a word, I looked at Mike wide eyed. "It’s ok," he smiled, "she’s one of us"." Drexler's account had already been related eleven years earlier by Stephen Edward Poe in his 1998 reference book, A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager (p. 325), but at the time Drexler's name could not be divulged, due to the studio's policy.
While not discernible at the time, it was exactly the production Mandel referred to, , due to its chosen visual and story directions by executives and producers, that has apparently raised tension levels between the creative (fan) production staff and "management" and producers, as was evidenced on several internet blog entries after-the-fact. The usually very diplomatic Drexler (coincidentally, one of Mandel's production staffers who had taken "an extended leave of absence") himself did slip a remark, concerning the design of the , that he liked "(…) the NX-01, even though it was a frustrating experience. I'm a "canon" kind of guy. I would have liked to have seen the Daedalus style ship. You know…the sphere instead of saucer. The producers wanted it to be a saucer because they wanted it "recognizable". , to which Mandel added, "Having been around then, I also know that [the NX-class designers] Doug Drexler and John Eaves did exactly what the producers asked them to." One of the more outspoken critics afterwards, was yet another Original Series fan production staffer, Foundation Imaging's Robert Bonchune, who stated on the decision to have the bird-of prey graphic from the Romulan Bird-of-Prey (22nd century) removed in Enterprises episode , "Oh and as for the BOP drawing underneath, it was rejected for no other reason than, once again, contempt for the Trek, the fans and the Original Series by …uh."management"…you know who they are. ;-) (Oh and it wasn’t there idea, that didn’t help…)" , and even more vehemently as late as 2014, "Ahhh Producers.....you showed those fans who's boss didn't ya?"
Still, Stand-in Performer Guy Vardaman, also a fan, and who chimed in on Drexler's Q&A session, tried to put the matter somewhat in perspective, "Someone like Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach, they could be fans, out of the closet as it were, because they were professionals, they got their jobs done. And by the way, it was handy sometimes to have a Star Trek fan around when they said "How do we do this?" or "What was done before?" or "How do we pronounce Berthold rays?". It was handy, so it was good to have people, like yourself, that were professional enough that if someone like me came out and said "You know, I actually did watch Star Trek as a kid and I am a fan", I wasn't immediately escorted off the set. They kind off went, "Well you've been here for awhile, and we got a couple of other guys who have admitted to that "disease" and it seems to be okay." So I want to thank you for that." To which Drexler added, "We were really the "keepers of the flame", and defended as much as we could, whenever we could.(…) And if you're lucky enough to be someone that takes things seriously, you can help keep things on track." Having had "keepers of the flame" around though, proved exceptionally useful for the production of the acclaimed homage episodes , and . The "Relics" episode in particular, caused many production staff fans to come "out of the closet", as the episode writer Ronald D. Moore (who, incidentally, was one himself also, and therefore the main reason why he took over the writing chore for the episode from Brannon Braga, who was not) has also put it, further stating, "A lot of people put in a lot of extra effort and didn't get paid for it and put in a lot of extra hours to make that possible and just bit the bullet because they wanted to do the scene." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 24, issue 3/4, p. 26)
The second, very practical, reason for the studios of being hesitant to hire fans as staff, was the fear of property theft by fans, that actually did occur on occasion throughout the entire run of the franchise, hand held props being the most frequently stolen, or as Archivist Penny Juday has dryly put it, when discussing an early The Next Generation phaser rifle, "These are becoming harder and harder to find, as they have disappeared over the years, as you can imagine!" (TNG Season 2 DVD – special feature, "Inside Starfleet Archives"). In several instances it did even interfere with production. The theft of the Type 18 shuttlepod studio model for example, necessitated the build of a CGI model, which became the Chaffee-type shuttlepod, at the eleventh hour. The theft of The Next Generation'''s captain's chairs on two occasions, necessitating the construction of new ones for both and , was another example, and apart from being some of the more spectacular ones, also some of the more costly, the replacement for the latter theft reportedly coming in at a cost of US$15,000. Leaking behind-the-scenes information during production to the outside world was another aspect of the studio's fear, which has, for example, resulted in the premature publication of the unlicensed The 24th Century Technical Manual.
Nevertheless, one 1990 incident in particular, has proven to be the watershed event for the studio to harden their stance on hiring fans as staff, as Vardaman and Drexler recalled in the Q&A session, "[Drexler:]They also had serious problems, like, I remember there was a videotape that was made by, I am not going to mention any names, of someone who snug onto the stage wearing a Starfleet uniform, and took videos of himself and going through the sets and giving a tour of the ship. [Vardaman:] And breaking the clam shell in sickbay and messed up our shooting schedule the next day, do you remember that? [Drexler:] Yeah, yes I remember, and that, that really set the precedent." Despite being hesitant to divulge names, the identity of Drexler's person in question, Greg R. Stone, was, in effect, already known for quite some time in the Star Trek fan-community, as his video, in which he identified himself, had, on and off, been circulating on the internet for years. Stone, an on-call studio staffer since The Next Generations first season, and already been involved in leaking behind-the-scenes information the year previously (some of which published in the aforementioned The 24th Century Technical Manual), has not been working for the studio since.
Yet, 2004 saw a remarkable all-out reversal of the franchise's stance, for which Enterprise proved to be yet again the primary agent. Though having started out with a relatively large audience, the series quickly lost viewer-ship and inspired intense criticism of both the series and its show runners Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, with the fan community vocally criticizing perceived violations in established continuity, coming close to disavowing Enterprise as being Star Trek altogether. With the approach of the end of the third season of Enterprise, Paramount and its television network UPN indicated its cancellation and the apparent end of Berman's tenure as the overseer of Star Trek productions. Though remaining credited, both Berman and Braga were indeed effectively relinquished from their position by the franchise at the end of the third season, and all pretenses of not hiring fans as production staff were entirely dropped when their places as show runners were de facto filled for the last season by openly Original Series fans Manny Coto and Mike Sussman in particular. Under their tenure much of the perceived continuity violations was redressed, aided by writers such as Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who, also fans and like them, had an equally thorough understanding of original Star Trek lore. The season as a whole was generally well received – though it did not save the series, as its cancellation had been already decided upon –, and it was commonly understood that it were their efforts, together with those "keepers of the flame" such as Curry, Moore, Drexler and Okuda already working on the show, that had, at least as far as the fan community was concerned, "saved" the Star Trek status of the series within the franchise.
Yet, when the ENT Season 4 Blu-ray set was released in 2014, it was revealed in its newly produced special features for the release that the handing over of the creative reins to production staff fans was far from being the act of benevolence on the part of studio management, it appeared to be at the time. Dismayed at the poor performance of Enterprise and the theatrical movie , new management entered into a decision making process, putting the fate of the entire Star Trek franchise at stake. Cancellation of Enterprise after its third season was in fact already a given, and it was only through skillful political maneuvering by the few executive friends Star Trek had left, former UPN Executive Garry Hart specifically, as well as some practical considerations in regards to UPN, that a by four episodes truncated fourth season was even allowed to proceed. Fans now running the show, was, simply put, something that the executive echelons could no longer be bothered with. Though the production staff was not privy to the going-ons at the executive levels, they sensed the writings on the wall, and this was instrumental for their decision to pull out all the stops for the hugely popular In a Mirror, Darkly two part episode, the most Original Series heavy production of Enterprise, albeit to no avail as already mentioned, when top conglomerate executive Les Moonves – not known for his affinity with science fiction in general and Star Trek in particular – personally terminated the series definitely in February 2005, thereby ending Star Trek prime all together for the time being. For further particulars on this situation, see: Demise of "The Franchise" in the prime universe.
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William "Get a Life!" Shatner trashes Trekkies is a parody played by Captain Kirk's actor on Saturday Night Live in 1986.
is a sort of recipe showing how to connect socially with this category of die-hard fans called "Trekkies".
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The Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS for short) was the main computer system employed by the United Federation of Planets by the mid-24th century. It was used aboard all Starfleet vessels, starbases, and space stations. (; ; ; )
Interfaces
LCARS was accessible virtually anywhere in a facility or starship by both voice and keypad commands via control interfaces. These interfaces included bridge stations, consoles, PADDs, tricorders, and desk computers. Typically, these were graphical controls housed underneath touch-sensitive clear panels that could be quickly reconfigured by users to suit the task at hand. There were also tactile interfaces for visually-impaired officers. (; )
By 2399, Starfleet had begun deploying three-dimensional holographic interfaces for the LCARS system aboard Federation starships and installations. Civilian craft such as La Sirena also had access to this technology. ()
Operation
LCARS used sophisticated subroutines in order to understand and execute vocal natural language commands. This enabled even complicated tasks to be executed with just a few commands in the case of voice or button presses in the case of keypad commands. LCARS controlled the retrieval and storage of files in the data banks housed within the ship's computer cores including logs like personal logs or transporter logs, element and chemical compound data and data on archaeological artifacts. () It was used to retrieve files in external databases like when a ship needs to assess traffic control around starbases or investigate inventory databases of surplus depots. () It was also used for command system access and for viewing the crew manifest. () It was also used to display recently recorded data like medical scans, tactical scans and sensor scans. () It displayed results of analyses like linguistic analyses, configuration analyses of system networks, and magnetic flux density analyses. ()
Design
LCARS retained the same basic layout and design across Federation starships and installations, however, a few variations in the color schemes can be noticed.
During normal operations, LCARS color schemes could alternate between a wide ranges of colors, such as tans, purples, and yellows, in addition to blues, aquas, and oranges. (; ; ; )
During emergencies or special operations, LCARS color schemes were updated to reflect the current alert status, such as red or blue alerts. When these alerts were called, LCARS interfaces switched to either a red/white or blue/white scheme, respectively. (; ; ; ; )
In the alternate timeline of the anti-time future around 2395, LCARS was still used and similar in appearance to its mid-24th century version. ()
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Background information
LCARS interfaces are seen in almost every episode of , , and . The interfaces seen in are never named and their designs are quite different.
A close-up view of one of the science stations aboard the Enterprise-D in "The Vengeance Factor" has the label "Library Computer Subsystems". The full name "Library Computer Access and Retrieval System" can be seen in several episodes, including , , and . The phrase "library computer access and retrieval" is spoken in )
The sickbay used in is a minor redress of the TNG sickbay, and the LCARS panels on the wall are barely altered, so this could be the first LCARS appearance. They also appear in just below the warp core, but they do not appear in the 23rd century portion of .
According to a Next Generation episode text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, the LCARS displays were rarely actual computer simulations; one such example was the computer screen used by Romulan Commander Sela to monitor the Federation fleet during her attempt to smuggle weapons and supplies to Lursa and B'Etor during the Klingon civil war in the episode . This was due, according to the Okudas, to both the high cost and primitive state of computer graphics in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Therefore, most LCARS displays were, in fact, plastic panels with spinning light devices behind them to give the impression that the information on the "displays" was changing.
In the first two seasons of The Next Generation, large black rectangles are clearly visible on the LCARS displays on the bridge (and sometimes in main engineering). This was a result of the studio lights reflecting off the displays, which director of photography Edward R. Brown tried to solve by sticking cardboard onto them. When Brown was replaced by Marvin V. Rush for the third season, a number of changes in filming (including better film stock and a smaller number of lights) allowed the LCARS displays to be seen properly.
The interface was updated for by a team that included playback supervisor Martin Garner, creative director Chris Kieffer, and designer Andrew Jarvis. The new palette used in season one included the values: E7442A, 9EA5BA, 6D748C, 2F3749, and 111419.
Apocrypha
The LCARS layout has been used in several computer games and applications such as the CD-ROM version of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, as well as the TNG and DS9 CD-ROM Companions. The LCARS layout is also used on the Star Trek PADD app for the Apple iPad.
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Saturn, also known as Sol VI, was the sixth planet of the Sol system. It was well known for its rings (; ) and was orbited by many moons; three of which were Mimas, Rhea, and Titan. (; ; ) It was also orbited by navigational control satellites. ()
Saturnian rings
An image of Saturn's rings, taken by the Voyager 2 probe in 1981, was displayed in astrometrics aboard the in the year 2374. (, et al.) The rings of Saturn generated magnetic distortions. These distortions could make a starship invisible to another starship if the vessel could jump out of warp behind one of the planet's moons. ()
Location
In 2024, the position and orbital path of Saturn were depicted on a map of the Solar System, which was seen at the gala held for the Europa Mission astronauts. ()
In 2267, the position and orbital path of Saturn were depicted on "Chart 14A: The Sol System", stored in the library computer. The chart was scanned by the probe Nomad in auxiliary control. ( production art)
History
Before the invention of the telescope, Humans discovered Saturn in the night sky. ( okudagram)
In the mid-20th century, Saturn was depicted on the mission insignia for Apollo 17. On the insignia the sun god Apollo was looking toward Saturn. ( )
On September 1, 1979, the space probe Pioneer 11 became the first Earth spacecraft to visit this planet, having traveled six and a half years and 3.2 billion kilometers. The probe discovered that this planet had a magnetic field and a magnetosphere. ( okudagram)
When she was a child, Rain Robinson was able to see Saturn's rings through her brother's telescope. She used to think that they looked like jewels from a pirate's treasure. All she ever wanted since then was to reach up and touch them. This was when she realized that she wanted to become an astronomer. ()
In 1996, the Griffith Observatory featured an exhibit about Saturn. A picture of the planet also decorated Rain Robinson's office. ()
The Cassini mission by NASA brought more images of Saturn, its rings, and its moons. ()
During the early 21st century, the first manned Earth-Saturn probe was launched under the command of NASA's Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher. () Accompanying Christopher were astronauts Fontana and . ()
An image of Saturn was contained in the library computer aboard the . This data was flashed on a viewscreen when the Talosians scanned the Enterprise computer in 2254. ()
Saturn was featured in a nonsense two-line poem that Charlie Evans forced Spock to recite in 2266: "Saturn rings around my head, down a road that's Martian red." ()
According to Arex, the cosmic cloud encountered by the in 2269 had a diameter twice that of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune combined. ()
By the early 24th century a shuttle route had been established "from Jupiter to Saturn and back, once a day, every day," know as "the Jovian Run." Both Edward Jellico and Geordi La Forge used to pilot shuttles on this route early in their Starfleet careers. ()
In early 2367, the invading Borg cube passed Saturn on its way towards Earth. ()
In 2368, the Nova Squadron was set to perform a demonstration near Saturn that was be transmitted to that year's Starfleet Academy graduation ceremonies. ()
Teero Anaydis kept a photograph of Saturn in his home in 2377. ()
In 3189, the spore-jumped into the vicinity of Saturn on its way to Earth. ()
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Background information
According to the , Saturn has a "mass 95 times greater than that of Earth" and "a diameter of some 120,800 kilometers, and orbits its sun at a mean distance of 1.4 billion kilometers".
Additionally, the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 149), Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 39, "United Federation of Planets I"), and StarTrek.com classified Saturn as a Class J gas giant. This planet was a charter member of the United Federation of Planets in 2161.
Saturn was named after the titan (son of Uranus) from Roman mythology. It was unclear if Saturn itself was inhabited or not, though a reference made to Saturnius harem girls in might suggest that it somehow was. The necessity of a daily shuttle run would also seem to support this possibility.
The Janus loop training program may be named after or related to , another moon of Saturn.
A graphic of Saturn and the orbits of four of its moons was seen in (depicted to the right above). The outermost and largest moon was identified as Titan. The remaining three inner moons weren't named but it was very likely that they were , , and , as they are the largest moons with smaller orbits than Titan (for instance, was larger than both Tethys and Dione but its orbit was further away from Saturn than Titan's) and were all discovered in the 17th century and are well established.
According to Spaceflight Chronology (p. 45), the Earth-Saturn probe mission was conducted on the UNSS Lewis and Clark. Signs of past mining activity was discovered from the second and fourth moons of Saturn, first proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. This last detail and would put the mission after 2032.
A painting seen in , according to Rick Sternbach, was meant to show Saturn as seen from its moon Rhea.
Saturn was one of the planets seen in both versions of the opening sequence of beside the Earth, Luna, Sol, and Jupiter, shortly before the started its exploration of the unknown space.
According to the of , the Enterprise passed through the Saturnian system on its course to intercept V'ger. This was changed to the Jovian system for the film.
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Titan
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Titan was an inhabited moon of Saturn. The dense atmosphere of Titan, which was toxic for Humans, was used for exceptional starship maneuvers. (; ; )
History
In the 2140s, while on Titan as part of the Omega training mission with Captain Jonathan Archer, encountered problems while on an extravehicular (EV) exercise. His EV pack froze up and he experienced nitrogen narcosis. However, Archer was able to convince Tucker not to remove his helmet while still unsheltered on Titan's surface. ()
In the mid-23rd century, sometime between 2234 and 2259, the Crestbrock mining collapse occurred on Titan. The AP 350 atmospheric processor saw its first deployment during the relief efforts. ()
In 2258, in the alternate reality, the crew of the used the conditions on Saturn and Titan to help hide their ship from the sensors of the Narada. ()
In the 24th century, Titan was a major navigational reference in the Saturnian system and its orbit was part of the Academy Flight Range. Nova Squadron used Titan as a rendezvous point before beginning training maneuvers during preparations for Starfleet Academy's commencement exercises in 2368. They entered Titan's gravitational sphere, and then moved into a diamond slot formation before executing a low apogee turn around the moon in preparation for an illegal Kolvoord Starburst maneuver. ()
Titan was also a favored way point for pilots making the Jovian Run. A dangerous shuttlecraft maneuver sometimes performed by Starfleet pilots on this run was called Titan's Turn. ()
A research colony was established on Titan by Humans, consisting of habitats and a liquid hydrocarbon research base. In the post-Burn era, the colony, being fully self-sufficient, split off from Earth in circa 3089.
About a century later, there was an accident at the research base, which wiped out the tillable soil and destroyed a third of the habitats. With no long-range communications, Titan sent a ship to Earth asking for help; the ship was fired upon and destroyed by Defense Force ships. Believing that Earth had left them to die, the colonists became dilithium raiders, targeting Earth ships and grabbing what dilithium they could. In 3189, with Captain Saru of the acting as a mediator, the two sides agreed to a truce and began working on the terms of a deal. ()
Val Sasha grew up on a Titan colony where she had never seen a non-Human before. ()
By 3190, Titan had re-joined United Earth to form United Earth and Titan. ()
When the Sol system was threatened by the Dark Matter Anomaly later that year, the entire population of Titan was evacuated by the . The moon was subsequently badly hit by the DMA, but Earth sent swift aid. ()
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According to the , Titan was the largest of Saturn's moons and had a diameter that was half of Earth's.
A script for , dated 9/5/68, referred to Captain Garth as "Garth of Titan".
According to both the Pocket Books series Star Trek: Titan and the episode of aftershow, the was named after this moon.
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The Jovian Run was a regular Starfleet shuttlecraft route between Jupiter and Saturn, the two major gas giant planets in the Sol system. The shuttle flew once a day, every day. Titan's Turn was a popular maneuver performed during this run.
Geordi La Forge and Edward Jellico were both pilots on the Jovian Run during their early careers. ()
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Titan's Turn was a dangerous shuttlecraft maneuver sometimes performed by Starfleet pilots on the Jovian Run. Upon entering the Saturnian system, the pilot would accelerate almost directly towards Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and then graze the moon's atmosphere before turning sharply around the limb of the moon at 0.7 .
Geordi La Forge and Edward Jellico were both experienced at performing Titan's Turn during their stints as pilots on the Jovian Run. When the former described the maneuver in his own words, Jellico added, "And pray like hell nobody saw you." La Forge also believed that William T. Riker was so skilled a pilot that he could perform the maneuver in his sleep. ()
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