If you're Pike, will you accept your fate for the sake of those children and Spock?

[Oddish]

And you can use them to say a lot more than "yes" and "no", I'm sure.

 

[Sci]

I only question why the wheelchair sucks so much, at least rig it to communicate using Morse code.

I imagine it must have something to do with neurological damage to the language center of Pike's brain.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I only question why the wheelchair sucks so much, at least rig it to communicate using Morse code.

Or, better yet, get a Vulcan to mind meld with Pike and help him communicate in some manner.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I've seen fanart where wheelchair Pike had a chorus a la TNG's "Loud as a Whisper" which was pretty cool. But yeah, there must be some reason in-universe why he's cripped to the point of only yes or no. Because otherwise by today's standards (let alone what later Treks have established) it makes little sense.

 

[Vince A]

Doesn’t Pike live his remaining days with Vina on Talos IV?

All things considered, this doesn’t seem like a bad fate at all.

 

[Mudd]

Any neurological damage would prevent his communicating with his mind on Talos. Those people can't even build a straight spine.

Give it up and admit that Pike's situation makes no sense - they didn't even want to think it through, and no good explanation can be constructed for it.

 

[Vince A]

I’m just going off what I vaguely remember from TOS. I remember him out of the wheelchair and running off with Vina.

I haven’t rewatched The Cage or Menagerie in a while so I could be misremembering something.

 

[Mudd]

Oh, I wasn't responding to you - just to the notion that there must be an "in-universe" explanation for Pike's inability to communicate despite having the technological means.