Christopher Pike
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- This article is about Christopher Pike, the Star Trek character. For the author, see Christopher Pike (author).
Little is known about his personal life history. He was from the city of Mojave in North America on Earth. He also had or still has a horse named Tango.
Pike assumed command of the Enterprise sometime after Captain Robert April stood down. Shortly before the incident at Talos IV, the Enterprise was on a mission at planet Rigel VII. It was on that mission that several members of the landing party were killed by the inhabitants, an incident that filled Pike with so much guilt that he considered resigning his commission with Starfleet. He considered either going back to his home on Earth or becoming an Orion Trader, an occupation which included dealing in the buying and selling of Orion Slave Girls.
Shortly after the mission on Rigel VII, while en-route to Vega Colony to drop off wounded crew members, the Enterprise received a distress call from the survey vessel S.S. Columbia, lost 18 years ago. Pike initially did not plan to go to Talos to answer the distress call, but soon changed his mind when a follow up message was sent confirming that survivors were present on the planet.
However, all but one of the survivors were faked by the Talosians in order to lure the Enterprise crew to Talos. The Talosians made every effort to provide sexual fantasies which might appeal to Pike using the only real survivor of the Columbia, Vina. After escaping the cell with the aid of his first officer Number One and Yeoman J.M. Colt, the Talosians showed Pike Vina's real appearance (as a disfigured older woman); the Talosians saved her life but had no guide on how to repair a human body. Pike requested that the Talosians restore her illusion of beauty. The Enterprise left Talos IV shortly after.
Many years after Pike's visit to Talos IV, he was severely injured by blast from a malfunctioning warp reactor. The delta ray radiation left him mute, badly scarred, and confined to a wheelchair. The character ended up living on Talos IV permanently, still crippled, but given the illusion of perfect health.
The Christopher Pike Medal of Valor was named in his honor. The award was bestowed on Captain Benjamin Sisko for leading the recapture of space station Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War.
A shuttlecraft named the Pike was carried aboard the USS Enterprise-D.
In the episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", the Mirror Universe version of Charles 'Trip' Tucker was, like Pike, exposed to heavy delta ray radiation - the alternate Trip even sports facial scars similar to the crippled Pike.
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