Type:

Alternate Timeline

Origins/Description:

Pike escapes his fate, the chair

Highlights:

- 2266: Pike is still captain of the Enterprise instead of James T. Kirk;
- The Enterprise engages Romulan forces near a neutral zone outpost
- Pike attempts diplomacy rather than deception during the confrontation
- Romulan exploit Federation hesitation, escalates toward full interstellar war
- Spock is gravely injured & confined to a life-support chair

Restored:

Future Pike travels to the past, Pike resumes his original course of action