Hunter famously played the Enterprise's original captain, Christopher Pike, in Gene Roddenberry's first "Star Trek" pilot, ...

Years earlier, there had been a similar connection in that actor Jeffrey Hunter, who portrayed Christopher Pike, first captain of the vessel, in the 1964 TV pilot "The Cage," preceded that by ...

Hunter had been a movie actor until a change in contracting made it more difficult for him to find work. That’s why he’d signed up to make the Star Trek pilot. In the episode that remained ...

Strange New Worlds EPs Akiva Goldsman & Henry Alonso Myers on ending the series and teasing expanding the TOS characters' ...

Additional team returning included Sean Kenney, who played Captain Pike beginning in “Star Trek: The Menagerie,” and Chris Hunter, son of Jeffrey Hunter, who played Captain Pike in the pilot.

Fans of Star Trek, prepare for a cosmic twist to your knowledge: The USS Enterprise had a captain before Captain James T. Kirk! The original Star Trek pilot introduced us to Jeffrey Hunter's ...

Girls! and starred alongside Jeffrey Hunter in “The Cage,’ the rejected first pilot made for Star Trek, has died. She was 79. Goodwin died Feb. 25 in Cathedral City, California, her sister ...

Girls! and starred alongside Jeffrey Hunter in “The Cage,’ the rejected first pilot made for Star Trek, has died. She was 79. Goodwin died Feb. 25 in Cathedral City, California, her sister ...

Laurel Goodwin, an actress who appeared in “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and the rejected “Star Trek” pilot, died Feb. 25 at 79. The star’s sister Maureen Scott confirmed her passing in an ...

STAR TREK, (from left): Jeffrey Hunter, Leonard Nimoy, 'The Cage' (original pilot screened to NBC executives in Feb. 1965).