Random "The Cage" thoughts

[syredronning]

Working and watching "The Cage" once more. Random thoughts:

Pike and his fascination for Orion slave girls and possibly dirty businesses, deep down in his conscience - very nicely mirrored in the current Pike fics IMVHO ;) Pike as a pirate, yay. It also makes Reboot Pike/Gaila highly likely to me. His captaincy morals do not uphold all the time.

Pike stating "All ships doctors are dirty old men" - hehehe! Reminds me that I have one old K/Mc TOS story with Pike/Boyce implied ;)

Number One rocks. Love her. Not sure I'll ever really write Pike/No1 but she's a great female character and I like to read fic with the two.

Now I need to suffer through the "Menagerie", one of my least liked episodes, because I need SpockPrime's take on the events...

(My doom: Related Videos brought up this Bruce interview *sigh sigh sigh* Damn the man. Makes me write endless Pike fic and eats my brain.)

Comments

[illariy.livejournal.com]

It also makes Reboot Pike/Gaila highly likely to me. His captaincy morals do not uphold all the time.

Hm, seeing it written out like that, it does make Pike/Gaila very likely. Perhaps he even met her when he was acquiring girls for his "business" and that somehow made him turn around in Reboot? What both Pikes seem to share is a discontent with Starfleet. For TOS Pike it's the dissatisfaction with his captainly duties IIRC, he doesn't think he's doing any good, it's all same old same old. For Reboot Pike, he's dissatisfied because Starfleet to him doesn't act as well as it should, he maybe even feels trapped in a bureaucracy that moves far too slowly and in predictable patterns. He, however, seems much more constructive in solving it: through recruiting and shaping the new generation of Starfleet personnel to think and act differently. I wonder if he's ever in a doom and gloom, doesn't make any difference anyway frame of mind... it's esp. likely after the Narada incident, when he's in rehab and can't do much. /tl;dr

Thanks for the link to the BG interview! OMG, that man...! So different from his Pike character. When he talked about authority, I wanted to jump him. Seeing him so relaxed makes me want to see Pike as relaxed and happy. :D :D :D

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Wanting to see Pike happy is one of my major writing motivations! But damn, it's hard to achieve :P

Pike/Gaila wasn't something close to my mind so far, but "The Cage" is rather suggestive here ;)

Love your thoughts about Pike's dissatisfaction with Starfleet. And yeah, I see him relatively gloom after Narada, but he's the type to push things away as possible as long as he can (I see him Kirk-like there; like most captains. You either set your jaw and survive or you give up.)

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

I need to write more Pike/Gaila one of these days. The one happened because I saw the prompt on the kinkmeme and was all "Really? Seriously?" and then once I sat down and actually thought about Vina-as-orion-dancing-girl, I was all "OH HELLS YEAH. DUH." and now I keep imagining her showing up at various odd moments in his life, to occasionally have clandestine sex in semi-public places, and then wander off to have her own adventures again.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Ooooh please write that because it sounds HOT!