Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiere. Captain Christopher Pike is on a ...

Teens have loved Christopher Pike’s horror novels for decades. But it took Mike Flanagan bringing those stories to Netflix to help convince Pike of his own popularity. Freelance writer Next ...

If you're a Gen Xer or Millennial, there's a good chance you grew up reading the YA novels of Christopher Pike. His horror and thriller titles, like Slumber Party (1985), Witch (1990), and The ...

But Kirk had actually been preceded as captain of the Enterprise by Christopher Pike — a stoic, vague figure played by Jeffrey Hunter in a rejected 1964 “Trek” pilot who made only a fleeting ...

Captain Pike commands the USS Enterprise, but his girlfriend, Captain Marie Batel, beat him to her own starship in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

After the latest Discovery and Picard seasons, Christopher Pike is finally helming a new Star Trek show — and Strange New Worlds offers non-toxic masculinity for Anton Mount’s captain.

This isn’t to say that Pike was the first to do such a story, but that for many young readers his versions were our entry point into some of horror’s most fun and recurring story archetypes.

The show is based on a novel by Christopher Pike, but showrunner Mike Flanagan weaved some of his other books into the story. These other works by Pike inspired some of The Midnight Club.

After joining Star Trek: Discovery ‘s second season, Anson Mount reprised his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the first two episodes of Short Treks ‘ second season.

Christopher Pike (“Discovery,” 2018) • He’s No. 1 for all the reasons listed above. Personally, I’d love to see a series with Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise, circa 2258.