Spock returns to Talos IV in Star Trek: Defiant.
Star Trek simply had Spock revisit the destiny of Captain Christopher Pike and set proper a long-standing mistaken dedicated by the Federation. SPOILERS for Star Trek Defiant #10 by Christopher Cantwell, Mike Feehan, Pow Rodrix, Maria Keane, Marissa Louise, and Clayton Cowles observe. Captain Pike’s adventures as captain of the USS Enterprise are chronicled within the Paramount+ collection Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. However, Star Trek first launched the character within the two-part Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Menagerie.” That episode repurposed footage from Star Trek’s unaired first pilot episode, “The Cage,” which had Jeffrey Hunter taking part in Pike within the lead function earlier than producers reworked the collection and forged William Shatner as Captain Kirk.
“The Cage” noticed the USS Enterprise, whose crew included Number One (Majel Barrett) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy), visiting the Talos IV in quest of a misplaced science expedition. They discover a planet left barren by battle however are quickly imprisoned by the surviving Talosians, who’ve developed huge psychic powers. The Talosians have used their presents to lure the lone survivor of the scientific mission, Vina, and now Captain Pike. They hope to make use of Pike and Vina to repopulate their planet. The Talosians use their psychic presents to create a cage of phantasm and reminiscence with which they bind their prisoners. The Enterprise crew manages to rescue Pike. The Talosians attempt to tempt the captain to stick with guarantees of a super, albeit illusory, existence. Pike chooses to depart whereas Vina stays behind.
Star Trek: Discovery revisited this story in its second season, with Pike (Anson Mount) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) bringing Spock (Ethan Peck) again to Talos IV in order that the Talosians may restore Spock’s damaged thoughts. Vina even assisted the Enterprise crew in tricking Section 31, which was in pursuit.
However, the definitive assertion on Pike’s destiny has at all times been “The Menagerie.” There, we be taught that an accident badly scarred, incapacitated, and in want of a life-support-capable wheelchair to proceed dwelling, a destiny Pike glimpsed and accepted within the Star Trek: Discovery episode “Through the Valley of the Shadow.” In “The Menagerie,” Spock hijacks the Enterprise to return Pike to Talos IV, defying the Starfleet General Order 7, which forbids visiting the planet underneath risk of the demise penalty. Spock’s rogue actions permit Pike to return to Talos IV and Vina, the place he lives out the rest of his life within the fantasy beforehand promised by the Talosians.
Star Trek: Defiant units issues proper for the Talosians
Star Trek: Defiant happens a century after the occasions of “The Cage” and “The Menagerie.” Fearing the Talosians’ potential to control the minds of Federation residents, Talos IV stays the one planet within the galaxy nonetheless underneath General Order 7. However, the Defiant crew – underneath Worf’s command, and with Spock as First Officer — have been engaged by Starfleet as off-the-books bounty hunters in pursuit of the time-traveling charlatan Berlinghoff Rasmussen. As Rasmussen is hiding out on Talos IV, the Defiant crew has little alternative however to observe.
The Defiant crew quickly finds itself in a cage just like the one which beforehand trapped Captain Pike. A Talosian tries to control Spock with visions of Pike, first in his chair as seen in “The Menagerie,” after which as he seems in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
This is Rasmussen’s doing. He’s managed to power a Talosian into doing his bidding. The ship Rasmussen stole from Starfleet is broken, and he hopes to make use of the Talosian’s psychological powers to acquire the command codes wanted to take the Defiant off of Talos IV.
This is a ruse by the supposedly captured Talosian, who needs to depart Talos IV of his personal volition. His folks have given up on rebuilding Talos IV and search to discover the galaxy as a substitute. However, General Order 7 has successfully erected a cage across the planet, stopping them from leaving. The Talosians hope to take management of the Defiant and use it to flee their world.
The Defiant crew ultimately manages to flee after the Talosian activates Rasmussen. Worf refuses to disobey General Order 7 by personally taking the Talosians away from Talos IV. However, he does ship Ro Laren and B’Elanna Torres to restore the ship Rasmussen beforehand stole underneath the guise of getting ready it for Starfleet’s retrieval however realizing totally that the Talosians may have used it to depart Talos IV earlier than Starfleet arrives. The Talosians have lastly escaped their cage.
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