![]() When Captain Kirk arrived, in command of the U.S.S. The Right Captain for the Wrong Time Marni Grossman/Paramount+ The Romulan Captain was like-minded and receptive to this, But that did not hold true for the rest of his crew. So he tried extending an olive branch to the Romulans, despite their aggressive acts. He believed he could reason with any enemy. Pike, a man of peace, wanted to maintain diplomacy at all costs. When we saw the Romulan’s true appearance, Strange New Worlds used the same music as “Balance of Terror.” They also recreate the zoom-in on Spock’s raised eyebrow-some of you may only know this as an often overused meme.īut after this scene, things began to play out differently from the history we knew. The dialogue of Starfleet Outpost 4’s Commander Hanson was word-for-word the same as it was on the original Star Trek episode. Paramount+īut certain scenes played out exactly the same. Perhaps he was someone Kirk brought on board or promoted. She filled the role of the very anti-Romulan Lt. Ortegas was still on the Enterprise, which she was not in Kirk’s time. And he decided to take a far more measured response to their aggression, which left several Earth outposts destroyed.Īlthough many of the “future” scenes play out just as in in “Balance of Terror,” there were some changes. It means he remained the Captain when the Romulans returned. In 2266, he’s still in command of the Enterprise, six months after he was meant to have departed as her Captain. In “A Quality of Mercy,” Pike took a different approach to deal with the same problem. “Balance of Terror,” The Remix Paramount+ But Kirk prevented it due to his daring move to attack them before they could return home to Romulus. In the episode, Kirk’s actions prevented a new sustained conflict between the Federation and the Romulans. (Later Star Trek series fleshed this out more). And that the Romulans were the result of an early Vulcan colonization period. Not only did it introduce the Romulans, but it introduced the idea that Vulcans and Romulans were genetically related. It also established the century-long cold war that existed between them and the Federation. ![]() Most importantly however, this episode introduced the Romulan Star Empire to Star Trek canon. Both commanders were strategic geniuses, who admitted they might be friends in another reality. Each was in a battle to outthink the other and survive. Like the submarine movies it was based on, “Balance of Terror” focused on two commanders of opposing vessels, Captain Kirk and an unnamed Romulan commander (Mark Lenard, who later played Spock’s father Sarek). ![]() Its main influences were the World War II submarine films The Enemy Below and Run Silent, Run Deep. “Balance of Terror” was the ninth episode produced for the original series, although it was the fourteenth aired. This brings us straight to “Balance of Terror.” He showed him why changing his timeline would be disastrous, and takes him seven years into the future. ![]() But an older version of himself (in a Star Trek movie era uniform) arrived from the future (again, using time crystals). In “A Quality of Mercy,” Pike tried to change that fate, not for himself, but for two young cadets who he knows don’t survive. And Pike suffers terrible radiation injuries that leave his body useless. We saw this backstory detailed in the The Original Series episode “ The Menagerie.” But although he saves some of the cadets, others don’t make it. As seen on Star Trek: The Original Series, Pike will one day save several Starfleet cadets from a reactor accident. Paramount+ The Heavy Burden of Captain Christopher PikeĮver since he appeared on Star Trek: Discovery, Pike has been aware of his future fate, thanks to Klingon time crystals. But the Strange New Worlds season finale also dealt with Captain Pike’s knowledge of his grisly future fate. Kirk for the first time, played by Paul Wesley, but we’ve revisited one of the most beloved episodes of the original series, season one’s “ Balance of Terror.” And that entire episode’s importance to the overall Star Trek canon has now been reframed for all time. With the season one finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “A Quality of Mercy,” we’ve not only met our new young James T.
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