November 21, 2011 in The Original Series
Story
Pike and crew track a distress signal to a planet known as Talos 4. They find an old crew and a beautiful woman (surprise) living on the surface, awaiting rescue for 18 years – but they turn out to be an illusion. Pike is captured and caged underground by a telepathic race who have set him up with the beauty to make some babies. Only through sheer force of will is Pike able to resist; by focusing all of his energy on raw hatred, he is able to block out the Talosians’ mind-reading abilities. His constant and total refusal to comply helps to convince his captors that humans are too willful to serve them, and that said captors as a race must fall to extinction: after having given up on real life in favor of enjoying their power of illusion, they cannot remember how to maintain their technologies, and they’re all apparently already dying. Read on
Tags: pike, pilot, powerful alien, talos