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Create a Pike crew if they do a tv show.

Jayson1

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We already got Pike,Spock and Number 1. Who else would you like to see as characters?

Me the doctor from the pilot is the only other character from the Cage I would really care about. A kind of old crusty doctor type who gives advice seems like something that feels kind of old school which also befits a show that would hopefully feel very traditional. Of course you can add layers if you want. Maybe he is dying from a kind of cancer or something. Who knows.

The alien communication officer from "The Early Voyages" comic who in theory might also be a CGI character.

A young British female cadet yeomen on her first assignment who is not so much into exploring but just getting experience in space because she has lofty goals someday of getting into politics. Her arc is her sort of falling in love with space travel for the first time and in away with Trek kind of like a metaphor of a new fan just getting into it so at some point we will see her want to move beyond a yeomen to command.

A man from 2020 who has a chip in his head who allows him info on how to use modern tech quickly almost on instinctive level though he see's the world basically from our point of view.

50 year old women who is a expert on weapons, all weapons and frankly is the Trek equivalent of a gun nut. Thanks Pike and Number are both hot and crushes on both of them. Head of security.

Jason
 
Pike, Number One (Una), Spock, Boyce, Louvier, Mann, Nicola, Amin

you got the CO, XO/Helmsman, SciOfficer, CMO, Chief Engineer, Tactical officer, Comm officer, and the Navigator.
 
- Captain Christopher Pike
- Number One Una (Helmsman)
- Ensign Spock (Science Officer)
- Cadet Thira Sidhu (Engineering)
- Louvier (Chief Engineer)
- Lt. Amin (Navigator)
- Lt. Jose Ortegas (alternate Navigator; was originally in the script of The Cage before being changed to Jose Tyler)
- Dr. Phil Boyce (Chief Medical Officer)
- Chief Pitcairn (Transporter Chief)
- Fisher (Geologist Technician)
- J.M. Colt (Yeoman)
- Lt. Mann (Ops)
- Lt. Vicente Nicola (Comms)
- Lt. Gaila (Orion computer technician recently transferred to the enterprise along with her brother ( yes this is the same Gaila from the Kelvinverse movies))
 
Besides Pike, Spock and Number 1. I would keep Dr. Boyce and I would add Scotty to the series. Scotty was old enough to be around back then. He becomes the new chief of Engineering. I also like the idea of Ensign Gary Mitchell straight out of the academy joining the Enterprise crew. Dr. Dehner says that Spock knew Mitchell for several years so I could see them being on the Enterprise together before Kirk joined up.
 
My crew list:
  • Captain Christopher Pike, Commanding Officer
  • Commander Una, Executive Officer/Chief Helm Officer
  • Lieutenant Commander Philip Boyce, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
  • Lieutenant Commander Vyhax, Chief Engineering Officer
  • Lieutenant Spock, Chief Sciences Officer
  • Lieutenant D.L. Alden, Chief Computer Officer
  • Lieutenant Jose Tyler, Chief Navigation Officer
  • Petty Officer Jessica-Marie Colt, Senior Yeoman
I'd likely have Transporter Chief Niles Pitcairn as a semi-regular character like Transporter Chief Miles O'Brien was in TNG. Another semi-regular character would be Lieutenant Mei-Lee Yang, R.N. as the ship's head nurse. An inside-joke would be a different security chief in every episode where one would be necessary.
 
A problem with the concept is that the cast is too white at the top.

They would need to compensate for that.

We don't need a return to the days of white leads with a minority supporting cast.
 
A problem with the concept is that the cast is too white at the top.

They would need to compensate for that.

We don't need a return to the days of white leads with a minority supporting cast.

Well, here’s how I would split the cast:

Main Cast:
- Captain Christopher Pike
- Number One Una (Helmsman)
- Ensign Spock (Science Officer)
- Dr. Phil Boyce (Chief Medical Officer)
- Cadet Thira Sidhu (Engineering)
- Lt. Cmdr Louvier (Chief Engineer)
- Lt. Gaila (Chief Computer Technician)
- Lt. Jose “Joe” Ortegas (Stellar Cartography)


Minor Cast:
- Lt. Trina Mann (Ops & Tactical)
- Lt. Vicente Nicola (Comms)
- Lt. Amin (Navigator)
- J.M. Colt (Yeoman)
- Chief Pitcairn (Transporter Chief)
- Fisher (Geologist Technician)
- Upjohn (who in engineering, but we only hear her voice in Q&A)

Lt. Commander Louvier could be a mix of French and Middle Eastern heritage.

I was thinking that Lt. Jose Ortegas could be black, but he could also be from Cuba, or possibly Brazil, since there are black Brazilians after all. And maybe instead of being a navigator (just leave Lt. Amin there, although he could still retain that skill), he could be a skilled mathematician working in stellar cartography. He is largely influced by ideas for Jose Tyler in The Cage, but never came to fruition.

Lt. Gaila would help with alien diversity. There shouldn’t be so many humans on the Enterprise at this point, hence why I added her & her Orion brother (who could be Chief of Security). Besides there needs to be someone who makes sure the ship’s computer runs fine, the recreation rooms run fine, and can tell stories about Kirk, Uhura, and Bones from her days at the Academy.
 
The crew would change all the time as Pike goes from one illusion to another, and before that he’d have had no crew for years. (The important thing is to show him handing over command to Kirk and see his initial crew, so that fans invested in a Pike show would switch gears towards a Kirk show once they’ve seen the actual Pike show become a study of sacrifice, debilitation, illusion vs free will — nothing like the obvious thing they wanted.)
 
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Bridge Crew:
Pike (capt)
Number One (Helm, XO)
Troy Januzzi (comms)
Spock (science)
Arex (nav)
Colt (Yeoman)

Medical:
Dr Boyce, CMO
Dr Mbanga, non-human speclialist

Engineering:
Louvier: chief engineering
 
While this wouldn’t be main crew and more of a guest crew, but it would be possible to have Commodore Robert April (Federation ambassador-at-large), Sarah April, and George Kirk appear on a Pike show. For probably no more than 3-6 episodes tops though. I wouldn’t want them to be on the show the whole season like Discovery tends to do it. The show should really be about Pike and his crew.

I’m not sure if they would want to make it canon that George Kirk was April’s original first officer before Pike. TBF, George Kirk has never been seen in the Prime Universe before, just referred to.
 
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