With only one episode it is hard to see why a character could be so impactful and it is not just because he was the first. The whole crew was great from the sweet young Yeoman J. Mia Colt to Spock himself. Spock being the only character from Pike's crew to go on to be a part of Kirk's crew.
Now without sounding sacrilegious I never liked Kirk much but thought Pike was what a Captain could really be. So, I would wonder what would have happened to the whole Star Trek Universe if the pilot with Pike was picked up instead of Kirk. One big thing is that the actor Jeffery Hunter died a few months before the last episode of the original series. This means that any movie that came after would either not exist, had stared another actor as Pike or made someone else as Captain like Spock for example.
So imagine a crew of Pike as Captain, Number One as First Officer, Spock as Science officer, Jose Tyler as Navigator, Hikaru Sulu as Helmsmen, Nyota Uhura as Communications, Philip Boyce as the Doctor, Janice Rand as Nurse, Montgomery Scott as Chief Enginer, and J. Mia Colt as Yeoman. Is is a Pipe dream? Sure but, it is fun to imagine. All that said the comic series is a lot of fun. It really shows what it could have been.
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