This clip shows that the movie uniform is still a great design. It's a timeless style that does NOT need a lot of redesigns.

Kirk: Captain of the Enterprise? Picard: That's right. Kirk: Close to retirement? Picard: I'm not planning on it. Kirk: Let me tell you something. Don't. Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship. Because while you're there, you can make a difference. I wonder where Kirk got that from?

Everyone is talking about the uniform, what about the acting? Admiral Pike’s demeanor is very much that of a man who’s lived through a very difficult war, and with the weight of knowing all he had to do to prevent it was to do nothing.

The reason that all of this got included in the shows is that this is LITERALLY Christopher Pike's canon fate: he's horribly disfigured in that accident. TOS has a 2 part episode covering the aftermath of that. In the end, Spock arranges for Pike to settle on that planet with the telepathic aliens, Talos 4. Remember the ones who helped Spock when his memory got screwed up??? Well, they're able to give Pike a comfy life using their illusion powers so to him it seems like he's back to normal again and he lives out the rest of his life with the woman who helped Burnham and Spock when they went there. Pike met and fell in love with her on a mission in the original pilot episode TOS.

Pike wanting to save himself and those cadets is a normal reaction to knowing one's future.

Seeing him in the maroon uniform (the best uniform in all of Star Trek) is, so far the highlight of this show.

*As an original Trekie, That update to the original movie red navy uniform, looks likes someone actually made an effort to keep 'All' of its original design principles. Including its unmistakable distinct Silhouette. That looked awesome!*

That movie costume is epic. Anson Mount is one hell of an actor. What a guy

Captain Pike tries reason and diplomacy, but the Romulans respect strength and self-sacrifice. Kirk chased the Romulan Warbird into the Neutral Zone and the Captain of the Warbird died with honor. Pike convinced the Romulan Captain to consider peace, which made him a dishonorable traitor in the eyes of Romulan High Command. Kirk showed strength, and through destroying his ship, the Romulan Captain showed self-sacrifice. The Romulans felt they had dealt a strong blow, but also felt the Federation was strong enough to counter any deeper moves, and backed off. Pike showed an ability to subvert an experienced Romulan Captain with a short conversation, which likely scared the f__k out of the Romulan High Command and convinced them that the Federation posed a threat requiring them to be wiped out entirely, before their talent for subversion could cause dissension in the ranks. Basically, Pike did what Picard might have tried to do in his place, in an era where the cowboy tactics Kirk favored where actually the better option.

I like how Pike’s nostalgia for the room and his personal items subtly hints that the Enterprise is destroyed in the alternate future timeline.

What a mindscrew for Pike, to learn that his unpleasant fate is the best of all possible options for the rest of the galaxy in the long term. Well, he's going to get very cozy with the Talosians, which by itself is something to be explored in depth. What will it be that causes the Talosians to expend the non-trivial effort required to give Pike a convincing and pleasant experience after being stuck in the wheelchare going BEEP BEEP as a means of communication? (Which doesn't play well, considering that we have more sophisticated means of communication for people today who are just as completely crippled, such as Stephen Hawking's voice computer.) How did Pike get into such good standing with the Talosians that they'd create and sustain such a detailed and convincing simulation for his mind to live in? I remember when we first saw the Talosians in Discovery. It was really like seeing old friends again, for the first time in a long time. Very much a pleasurable moment.

I really love Pike as a Captain in this series. I hope they continue with the potential of the first season and really make Pike a captain to remember, even though we know what happens to him. Seems to be a martyr of the grandest order. To be such a good man, a good captain, and someone we should all strive to be, and knowing that you just suffer a horrible fate to actually save billions of lives.

Great Uniform

I just love the updated movie era uniform; it looks so good!

Pike's new uniform is an example of how they probably should've approached the 'outdated' TOS designs. Retexture, don't completely redesign.

This is a consequence of the Control situation. And how. Pike and his crew and the Discovery saved the galaxy ! There was always both alternatives and possibilities. This letter to Ma'at was one of these.

What this episode says to me in the immortal words of Ambassador Spock of Vulcan: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one." Last of season one. Sad. Bitter. Like 85% cacao chocolate. One of my favorites.

Pike looks good in the TWOK Uniform!

Anson Mount is an excellent actor.

The Monster Maroon!

@True Trek Clips Basically, the letters that Pike wrote will cause a “Butterfly Effect”, that will cause him to avoid his future fate, but will place him in command during the events of the TOS episode “Balance Of Terror”, instead of Captain James T. Kirk. Oh man…😂

Cool pike makes rear admiral this surpasses his original fleet captain rank

One thing of note, is that after younger Like returns from ' the future ', he still has a working time Crystal , so perhaps an opening for a future story or crossover , probably with Discovery or the Picard era . As Spock might say, ' There are always possibilities '.

I really like the update to the TOS-movie uniforms.

We need an alternate universe comic where this future Pike goes to Borath in the Refit Enterprise or the 1701-A to change the future.

Such contrasting styles of command. Kirk was the brash arrogant, but quick-thinking action oriented captain. Pike is more like Picard, diplomatic and cerebral, one who weighs out the possibilities and if time permits, will not be rushed into a decision. Both are effective, BUT for this particular B of T scenario - we already know Kirk's style was more effective.

"If you are doing something and your future self doesn't show up to stop you, how bad can it be?"

After seeing this I definitely want to buy the DVD. Since I don't really have the money to afford too many luxuries in life (Too many bills & car repairs)

The Admiral is a lot more than seven years older, just look at him. He moves like an old man, more weight, less muscle, weighed down by years and horrors with hair grey going white and so many lines on his face... I'd guess at least twenty years older, which likely means the War he's coming back from goes on for at least that long. An intergalactic conflict that goes on for that length of time? Billions are dead, worlds destroyed, infrastructure is gone, nowhere is safe. The known galaxy on fire while the Klingons raid both sides and wait to destroy the winner utterly... The only way that kind of future ends is Apocalypse for the Federation.

Finally a new Trek series that's returned to True Trek.

Never seen this show, been put off by the horror show of Discovery and Picard s1&s2... but after getting into Lower Decks and seeing Picard season 3, it gives me hope for Strange New Worlds. In this video, Pike comes across as immensely likeable and charismatic, so as long as he's the show's lead, it's time to try this new show.

"Unforeseen Consequences" - cool Half-Life reference

I like that his first impulse was to try and save Maat. If this was TNG Picard he wouldn't even consider it.

Imagine knowing your fate and nothing you do changes it for the better. Better for you but hella worse for someone else. Takes a brave person to see what’s meant to be through to the bitter end.

Time crystal same color as the Time Stone in Marvel! Doctor Strange wants it back! 😂

Nice update of the Wrath of Khan uniforms.

Now since he knows how the alternative future is he can step down early and he can let Kirk have the command of enterprise before the events of balance of terror.

FAR better than Discovery!

So, I'd love to know HOW far into the future FP is from. I'd honestly also love a couple of seasons of exploring this path before coming back to this point before he writes the letter, because I do love me some alternate reality shenanigans. :D

Really liked this episode.But was sad also. Pike realizes there is no way to change the future. But at least he knows his sacrifice saves millions.

i think its funny; the guy they got to play Pike looks more like what Kirk "should" look like than the guy they got to play Kirk...

I love that rendition of the Maroon Monster uniform.

0:57 mark - I have that knife, it came with my Lagostina set

I like the Star Trek movie Uniform.

The movie uniform looks amazing.

Fans: Red TWOK uniform made by rare needle.... Paramount: Don't forget to get TWOK UHD Blu Ray

I want a Admiral Pike figure!

We all know what happens to Pike, but its interesting in a "Trek Multiverse of Madness" sort of way.

I hope that uniform get some live action in a series its iconic I'm in my 30s and remember watching undiscovered country thinking that uniform is amazing

I'm always curious with all these time travel episodes, why the Department of Temporal Investigations never appears to stop the change happening.

The "FIRST" pike didn't get a warning , so he's in a new timeline , asking No telling him to so nothing is insane

Τhat episode is wonderful..

Y'know... I can't help thinking, if a Starfleet captain turned up dead in his quarters of a Bat'Leth injury, that would also probably alter history.

definitely a case for Lusly and Dulmer of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations to look into.

Stop. Federation Office of Temporal Investigations. Double Pikes, you’re under arrest.

They just can't help themselves can they? They just had to fiddle with the Wrath of Khan uniform.

that uniform though... man.. if they fixed it just a little bit it'd be the perfect trek uniform.

Still curious how a future looks like where he saves himself by resigning and leaving after the altered accident happened, so we still get Kirk as captain, but the events from TOS The Menagerie never happen.

This has been an impressive re-boot so far, I enjoy the characters a lot. Discovery should take some pointers.

Wow the Romulans run the table as the Klingons did in TNG Yesterday’s Enterprise! Pike as the Enterprise C has a destiny which was run the course! Where’s Doctor Who when you need him or her? Love this episode 🖖🏿

Great story writing whom ever they are! Cinematic great work 🎉

"How do we make TMP uniforms 25% different?" "Make the sleeves a different material"

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See now thats good written

Actually the more I think about this episode, the less I liked the way it made pike look indecisive and weak. Sure we all know kirk played hard and fast with the rules... But without kirks arrival, I do think pike would have reached the same conclusion as prime kirk. Especially as spock waa recommending attack. To make our current pike as much of a diplomate as picard is a flaw in this episode. Otherwise it's bloody brilliant and we got to hear scotty

What’s never said is what future Pike is giving up by restoring the timeline. We see he’s an admiral, but maybe he also got married and had a family. I do like that this episode is more in line with City of the Edge of Forever, Yesterday’s Enterprise, and Tapestry than Voyager’s Endgame. The first three all involve restoring the original timeline. But Voyager’s ending is Janeway risking the future to get her ship home sooner. Not only did SNW offer a great episode that makes me like Pike even more, it also made me dislike Voyager and Janeway more than I already did.

What i find funny is what this means, while humans were still recovering from World War 3 and the Vulcans have established with their own limited understanding that time travel was impossible...Klingons must have been randomly appearing in peoples rooms throughout history to cut them down for one reason or another...probably for giggles.

K'mtar and Janeway and now Pike.

3:28: The war between the Federation and the Romulan gets to bad that the Klingons are ready to "Let's kill Hitler" Pike.

A link with the movies and SNW, those were the best uniforms in the Star Trek universe

I wonder how the Refit Enterprise looks in this future.

I can't help but think that the last episode of SNW is going to be a remake of The Cage.

By the way, just Pike knowing his fate alters the timeline, so they can deviate from canon slightly, I expect if SNW goes into the Kirk era, They'll tell both Original and updated classic episodes

Regardless of Canon, if they somehow figure out a way of getting pike out of his fate, or lessen the effects, I might consider it an acceptable change of Canon.

Wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out the consequences of his altering the timeline just turned out to be a very minor inconvenience, like he gets a splinter, or a papercut, or he’s ten minutes late to a party and misses something hilarious?

so the klingons wanted to put that Blade in him

In the future, he turns into an Oompa Loompa?

Is Pike or is Kirk more similar to Robert Mitchum's DDE captain in The Enemy Below?

Everybody says he can step down.. Well no he can't.. As he never goes to Talos IV... He never changes other things that he did before the Accident..As he was never there to accomplish them...Not to mention the crew he recruited and mentored..

This scene seems eerily remniscient of one contained in "Star Trek: Generations"

So did they find one of those rare needles to make that?

As a writer myself (I have written and had--traditionally published--an alternate history novel) the writing on any series is always something important to me. For the most part I enjoyed this episode very much and thought the writing quite good, but there is an aspect of it that has bothered me: If seeing the future provides Pike with information that consequently informs his decisions regarding the letters to the cadets (which is to say, deciding NOT to write to them and apprise them of their fates), why wouldn't that same knowledge of the future likewise be employed to simply subvert those decisions he made in his (brief) look at his command during the encounter with the Romulans? He has seen the result of his choices during that incident, so knowing that, surely he could simply make different choices. The writers seem to indicate that no matter how Pike plays it, any scenario in which he and the cadets are spared their tragic fates results in disaster for the galaxy. But the suggestion therein is that this (the fate of the cadets and Pike in the reactor incident) is the focal point of that future history. That, however, seems almost deus ex machina, in the sense that the real turning point in the galaxy's fate might more arguably be the encounter with the Romulans; it's there where everything seems to go awry. So in now having knowledge of how that incident plays out, why would Pike not simply be able to make the same decisions as Kirk (hunting down and destroying the Romulan warbird) and thus prevent the endless war that kills millions (should he, of course, make choices regarding his and the cadets' fates that lead to him commanding the Enterprise in the future)? There's also a paradox here, because if Pike makes the choice to allow his and the cadets' fates play out as they supposedly should, then how do we get to a future where an unmaimed Pike must come back to prevent himself from making the wrong choices? This is something I've often found a weak point in many SF scenarios involving time travel. Writing a good time travel tale that doesn't involve paradoxes is difficult, though often those paradoxes are either outright ignored, obliquely referred to as mind-bending, dealt with using some variation of the many world/multiverse concept, or avoided through the use of deus ex machina. Even Harlan Ellison's fine CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER requires an element of the latter in order to allow Kirk and Spock to travel back in time to prevent McCoy from altering the past. Regardless of all this, when it comes to the writing, SNW is far and away better (in my opinion) than either ST:DISCOVERY or ST:PICARD. For me, this is possibly the best Trek since I watched the original series back when it first aired in the 60s. It may not be able to have the same cultural and societal impact the original series had, but it is a stellar show, with a great cast, tremendous production values, visually stunning cinematic effects and sets, and a tone that better reflects TOS than any of the other Treks oeuvres (including TNG). I anxiously await season two.

Pike had a pony, and it got put down because it broke its leg? It's the 23rd century, there's replicators and teleportation and faster-than-light travel and they still can't fix horse legs?

The black part is at an angle, not straight across like in TWOK.

The white balance is off ........... and in shadow, for god sake people turn the lights on .

Pike can make the decision to attack the Romulan. Issue solved.

*sad beep* 🥺

Come on, man. Everyone and their targ has time travelled. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, Harry Kim, Seven of Nine, the entire Discovery crew. I am getting bitter.

I wonder why the klingons care at all about this. From the episode there aren't any universe shattering paradoxes or anything like that, just a romulan war with the federation. If anything that puts the klingons' two enemies against each other or potential for another glorious war they could get involved in.

I didn’t understand what the time crystals were. Can someone explain them? Were they in some episode of Discovery? I don’t recall them in any other series.

is that a tos type of uniforrm on tha admiral pike

A time crystal. Right.

so basically, admiral pike left talosian world after getting healed? or did he not encounter the part of his life when he was crippled?

The only misstep with that uniform is the sleeves. Totally unnecessary and the two-tone look of the different materials drags it down.

What he saw Star Trek is owned by Disney and the next Star Trek is a Neelex jar jar binx buddy film written. By jj Abrams with lots of lens flares…….

But what about the mighty "Temporal Prime Directive"?

Can't Pike run things as usual up until the time of the accident then call off the training exercise thus saving everyone then retire and promote Kirk to Captain? Temporal mechanics gives me a headache.

Wow. They even managed to mess up the movie era uniform.

You think with CGI they could have made the actor look more like William Shatner. And why is Cpt. Pike talking to the Klingons ? Kirk was having problems with them all the time, hence he was the best “Space Sheriff” in Starfleet !!!

Prepare... for unforeseen consequences.