The tragic future awaiting Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) is central to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1, and here's everything the show has revealed about his destiny. Pike is canonically meant to be horrifically injured by delta radiation while heroically saving Starfleet cadets in 2266, about 7 years after Strange New Worlds season 1. Pike will be left unable to speak or move without the help of a wheelchair, and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) will eventually rescue and deliver Pike to live out his life on Talos IV in Star Trek: The Original Series.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 upended Pike's fate by giving him foreknowledge of the future. During a visit to the Klingon monastery on Boreth, Pike saw his own future thanks to a Klingon time crystal. When Strange New Worlds season 1 begins months after the USS Enterprise helped the USS Discovery save the galaxy and permanently time travel 930 years into the future,...