He was played by Bruce Greenwood, but that’s set in an alternate reality and hence doesn’t count for our purposes here.)Īnyway, actor Jeffrey Hunter played Pike in “The Cage,” where the captain is suffering from serious self-doubt over a recent mission where he lost several crewmembers. (Also, let’s just get it out of the way and say, yes, we know that there was also the so-called Kelvinverse version of Pike from the J.J. He’s also an admiral now on Strange New Worlds.
Interestingly enough, the name Robert April would return in the first Trek animated series where we learned he was the captain of the USS Enterprise before Pike.
This changed a few times, from April to James Winter and then finally to Christopher Pike. While developing what would become the first Star Trek pilot episode, called "The Cage," Roddenberry originally named his captain Robert April. It all started when a guy named Gene Roddenberry came up with this crazy idea for a TV show set in outer space. We’re gonna approach this mostly from the former point of view, if only because we need to get off the couch more. There are two ways to look at Pike’s story – chronologically in the Star Trek universe, and chronologically in the sitting-on-the-couch watching Star Trek for most of our lives universe.
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