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dorothygale · 3 months ago

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the cage: let's name the captain uhhh christopher pike. and put him in a situation

the menagerie: hey we have all this footage to use and oh no the guy doesn't want to come back so we'll make him unrecognizably disfigured due to an accident

new star trek writers some 50 years later:

#likeeee i just keep thinking about how his entire character is determined by circumstances that weren't supposed to matter #the cage was a rejected pilot… his injury was necessitated by using a different actor…#literally all the time i think about how much star trek canon comes from Random Bullshit #created by people who had no clue they were setting any precedent #and now we have a story about a man whose fate we already know #blabs #*st #*dsc #*snw #*tos #stwatch #tos 0.01

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