Jennifer Morrison is Pikes Number One
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She looks nothing like Riker.
Or the gut.
If Number One gets a name, they'd better call her Morgan Primus. 
I wonder if she will be killed in battle? You know there is always a bridge crewman to be killed like in the recent movies.
^
Nah, House would save her.
Nah, House would save her.
Funny how with all the speculation about who she was playing, no-one seemedto suggest this role. Guess the blonde hair proved a bit of a red herring. Mind you, I thought she was too old for Rand (but never thought she was old enough for No. 1).
Seems a decent enough pick, age query aside, and it's good to see Abrams being loyal to Pike's crew as seen in The Cage/ The Menagerie.
Seems a decent enough pick, age query aside, and it's good to see Abrams being loyal to Pike's crew as seen in The Cage/ The Menagerie.
Majel Barretts age in the Cage as Number One was 33.
Ah, but is she also playing Chapel later in the movie? A dual role?
^ I hear she's also sleeping with JJ.
She seems way too young to me, especially given the age differential between her and Greenwood (playing Pike). Pike should be just a little bit older than Number One.
I think she's probably Carol Marcus, especially given what we saw of her costume from the spy photos. If Number One is in the film, I'm hoping to see a believable senior officer played by a mature woman.
I think she's probably Carol Marcus, especially given what we saw of her costume from the spy photos. If Number One is in the film, I'm hoping to see a believable senior officer played by a mature woman.
I gotta tell you - and I can't explain this - that I'm much more excited by the sudden prospect of seeing a big part of this movie revolve around Spock as part of Pike's crew alongside characters like "Number One" than I am by the idea of seeing the early years of Kirk and Spock and the TOS Gang.
I agree completely. For 40 years, that one episode hinted at such a rich backstory (and was the first hint that the Trek universe had historical depth), I'm very excited to actually see some more of it.
It's also, frankly, the part of the story that might be least likely to rankle fans -- we've seen 1 hour of Pike, but nearly 100 hours of the other TOS folks, so there's much less continuity-furniture to bang their elbows into. In other words, it's much more free to be its own thing. Which is all for the good, IMO.
(Of course, this also works the other way too -- because Pike et al suggested were such a rich area for mining story ideas, a lot of what people "know" about them is based on their own ideas and/or decades of fan fiction. Those kinds of preconceptions are bound to be injured by any new material. So, of course, the producers can't win
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it was the first hint that the Trek universe had anything at all. it was the first episode. I'm not a big fan of seeing Number One. I think it would be hard to allude to who she was without making it really obvious and silly. Also, with a cast as big as it is, I don't see the need for another Cage character to interfere with the new TOS crew - she should have been Carol Marcus.
btw how does this news track with her wearing the scientist getup in the spy photos?
cultcross said:
Actually, not in any practical sense. For those of us who saw the series on NBC, "The Man Trap" was the first episode. For those of us who saw it in syndication, where the shows usually ran in production order, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first.
In either case, "The Menagerie" comes up somewhere in the middle of the first season and - as Cranston says - for many of us it really expands the "window" on the so-called "Trek Universe" enormously. The false sense of historicity that so intrigues many of us hard-core about "Star Trek" and that arguably provides the springboard from which "Star Trek: The Next Generation" would one day launch has its seeds in "The Menagerie."
"The Menagerie" is not "The Cage."
"The Cage" is, of course, the very first Trek episode made. But none of us would see it until years after "Star Trek" was cancelled, when Roddenberry would show the 16 mm work print at his campus speaking engagements. The first pilot wouldn't in fact be made commercially available folr viewing until 1986, and I'd be surprised if even to this day many viewers have had their first introduction to Trek as a result of seeing "The Cage."
Morrison isn't wearing a "scientist getup" in the spy photos. She's wearing a blue thigh-length poncho. Since all the folks in costume are wearing long ponchos - of a different design - to cover most of their (presumably) Starfleet uniforms, we assumed that she was in costume and clearly in a costume of different design from the others. We may have been wrong in that assumption.
Did anyone ever consider she could be Pikes second Number One because of Pikes age. The Number One we knew in the Cage could have moved on by being reassigned or have been killed during the missing years.
Starship Polaris said:
cultcross said:
Actually, not in any practical sense. For those of us who saw the series on NBC, "The Man Trap" was the first episode. For those of us who saw it in syndication, where the shows usually ran in production order, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first.
In either case, "The Menagerie" comes up somewhere in the middle of the first season and - as Cranston says - for many of us it really expands the "window" on the so-called "Trek Universe" enormously. The false sense of historicity that so intrigues many of us hard-core about "Star Trek" and that arguably provides the springboard from which "Star Trek: The Next Generation" would one day launch has its seeds in "The Menagerie."
Yes, thank you. I should've been more clear that "that one episode" that I mentioned was "The Menagerie," not "The Cage." And for most of us who watched Star Trek avidly long before Roddenberry's work print showed up, that was the only context we had for Pike and his crew.
And I still marvel at how ingenious, and just how damned elegant was the idea to make "The Cage" a glimpse into the past. From a purely practical standpoint, the decision to reuse "Cage" footage was mostly financial, but the fact that they decided to actually embrace continuity differences between "The Cage" and TOS by chalking it up to time depth was just brilliant. And by doing it this way, I think they created that "false sense of historicity" far better than they would have if they'd tried to make an "older" version of the Enterprise.
