Poll What do you want Pike's fate to be?

[Kirk Prime]

I was always under the impression that the damage to Pike included some kind of brain damage that prevented modern technology from interfacing effectively with his brain.

I'm pretty sure there was a line in the episode saying that Pike's brain was 100 percent in tact. It was his body that didn't work.

 

[Vger23]

I'm pretty sure there was a line in the episode saying that Pike's brain was 100 percent in tact. It was his body that didn't work.

Not exactly. They said he could still think, hope, dream just like anyone else. But they also made it very clear that "he can't reach out and nobody can reach in."

 

[USS Triumphant]

Airiam herself brings up so many new questions.

Everyone still seems to be assuming that she was robot-ed because of damage in the wreck, and I still think she joined the New Humans as part of her soul-searching after the wreck and lost love, and did that to herself. In which case, it wouldn't necessarily apply to Pike - even if it does imply some fairly advanced options are generally available, they might not work for him.

 

[Nyotarules]

I don't think it would be as unfulfilling as the nexus, since it's a shared experience between him and Vina. I think/hope that they can lead a meaningful existence together, since I thought that If Memory Serves added a feeling of true affection/longing between the two that I kinda didn't get when looking at The Cage alone.

That's because in The Cage it was not there, unless the Keepers knew deep down he was attracted to her.

I voted option one (staying the course) - but if I had my way, I’d prefer he was given another ending / alternative - simply due to Mount’s harrowing performance. As an actor, he’s owned this role, and part of me wants him not bound to his known fate, and to have a ‘happier’ ending, than the one he’s sacrificially chosen.

I realise that this would undermine his choice to go through the Delta radiation ordeal, rescuing the cadets on the j-class starship, etc - however I have wondered if the writers might be using a misdirect, in other to rewrite Pike’s fate?

Subvert audience expectations?

Or stay the course and let Pike have his date with destiny / fate?

Beep, Beep?

Or

Beep?

In light of major medical advancements in the last 50 years since The Cage was produced having Pike end up in a beep beep chair due to the in universe limits of 23rd century medicine seems ridiculous to me. The injury they showed last week was a very burnt face, he was not paralysed from the neck down.

There are 8 or 9 years before the end of Discovery Season 2, and the time when Pike will suffer the accident.
So, time enough for a show focused in Pike, Spock and Number one. Five seasons at least.
But his destiny must be kept and the canon preserved.

Its not Holy Writ

 

[Cyrus]

I want Pike's fate to be as depicted in "The Menagerie". That is one of my all time favorite Trek episodes. I have rewatched it after seeing Discovery episodes "If Memory Serves" and "Through the Valley of Shadows" and each of those episodes enhanced my enjoyment of "The Menagerie". Any other fate for Pike will do the reverse and mess up "The Menagerie".

 

[Pauln6]

The Talosians have advanced medical technology. They rebuilt Vina, just not in an aesthetically pleasing way. I'm sure there was a lot they could do to improve Pike's quality of life too, illusions or not, even if, like Vina, he would not be exactly as he was before.

He might indeed be healed to the point where he could leave Talos should he choose.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Talosians have advanced medical technology. They rebuilt Vina, just not in an aesthetically pleasing way. I'm sure there was a lot they could do to improve Pike's quality of life too, illusions or not, even if, like Vina, he would not be exactly as he was before.

He might indeed be healed to the point where he could leave Talos should he choose.

With access to the Federation's medical database, they could improve on what they did to Vina as well as help Pike.

 

[Ithekro]

The siblings of Sarek (Spock and Michael) are in cahoots. Spock does the delivery with Enterprise, and gets Starfleet to look the other way. After Kirk leaves, Michael drops in with future/alien tech to heal Pike and Vina, then given the choice of remaining, or going with her to the future to make a difference (since Starfleet's last record of Fleet Captain Christopher Pike was his voyage on USS Enterprise to Talos IV under the command of Captain James T. Kirk)

 

[Mudd]

I figure he has another five year mission in him.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomedByCanon

Just, not actually shown in Discovery. Let the guy have a few more years.

 

[RPOW0614]

Let future history play out. He's seen his future and accepts his fate.
Much like Londo on B5 seeing his own death at the hands of J'Kar.

I am loving Mounts portrayal of Pike. Quickly becoming my favorite captain.
Jim who?

 

[Noname Given]

As a purely hypothetical scenario, now that we've seemingly retconned the Talos IV death penalty rule - and good riddance to it,

You proceed from a false assumption. They didn't retcon anything. IMO after the events depicted in Discovery, I'm sure Fleet Command will accept Georgiou's (or whoever is running Section 31 at that time) recommendation that the Talosians are TOO DANGEROUS - and extreme measures need to be taken to prevent any further Federation contact.

Per Commadore Mendez (see bolded part):

KIRK: (reading) For eyes of Starfleet Command only.

MENDEZ: Oh, I'm certifying I ordered you to read it. Know anything at all about this planet?

KIRK: What every ship Captain knows. General Order 7, no vessel under any condition, emergency or otherwise, is to visit Talos Four.

MENDEZ: And to do so is the only death penalty left on our books. Only Fleet Command knows why. Not even this file explains that. (unlocks the magnetic strip) But it does name the only Earth ship that ever visited the planet.
^^^
So, yeah, the reason IS NOT in the only report on file, and even that report is heavily 'guarded' in that only certain people can even read it. <--- That probably means only Section 31 and those involved with it know of Spock's and Burnham's second visit; and as a result; said death penalty is put in place.