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Strange New Worlds Makes Kirk's Best Enterprise Trick The PIKE Maneuver


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Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 4 - "Memento Mori"

The slingshot effect used several times by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was retconned as invented by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 4. Commanding the USS Enterprise on a new five-year mission of galactic exploration, Pike and his crew are attacked by the Gorn. Desperate to survive, Pike orders Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) to pilot the Enterprise close to a black hole, where the Gorn ships hesitate to follow. But escaping both the black hole and the Gorn required Pike to ingeniously mastermind a move that would become synonymous with Captain Kirk and time travel.

Also known as the lightspeed breakaway factor, Kirk's slingshot effect was the method the Starship Enterprise used for time travel. By accelerating to warp 10 and using the gravity of a star to accelerate to an even faster speed, the Enterprise could break the time barrier. This, of course, requires precise mathematical calculations by a higher intelligence like Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) so that the Enterprise could arrive at a specified point in time. The Enterprise used the slingshot effect to time travel twice in Star Trek: The Original Series, in the episodes "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and "Assignment: Earth," (which was retconned by Star Trek: Picard season 2) with both missions bringing Kirk and his crew to the late 1960s and back again to the 23rd century. Kirk used the slingshot effect one more time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to retrieve two humpback whales from 1986, which were transported on a stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey.

In Strange New Worlds episode 4, "Memento Mori," the Enterprise was mired between the Gorn ship and a brown dwarf star that was quickly being pulled into a nearby black hole. Pike had the inspired idea to use the black hole's gravity to slingshot the Enterprise to safety. As for the Gorn ship, which would attack the Enterprise as soon as it surfaced, Pike's brilliant plan was to utilize "gravitational red shift" by ejecting the damaged AP-350 unit in the cargo bay as a decoy. Even severely damaged by the Gorn attack and the gravimetric pressures of the nearby black hole, the Enterprise's hull held as Pike believed it would, and the Captain's plan succeeded. The Enterprise was able to slingshot away and warp to safety while the Gorn ship pursued the decoy. Lt. Ortegas declared that if the plan worked (which it did), it would officially be known as the "Pike Maneuver."

As a prequel set before The Original Series in 2259, Strange New Worlds episode 4 now slots into the Star Trek canonical timeline as the first instance of the slingshot effect being used by the Starship Enterprise before Kirk was its Captain. The key difference between the "Pike Maneuver" and the later uses of the slingshot effect is that Kirk specifically utilized the lightspeed breakaway factor to time travel. Because of this enhanced use, it's reasonable to assume that Kirk's slingshot effects weren't "Pike Maneuvers," even though it's the same basic premise. Curiously, Spock is present on the Enterprise under both Captains, yet Leonard Nimoy's Vulcan would never specify the slingshot effect as a variation of the "Pike Maneuver" in TOS, for the simple reason that it would be another 55 years before Strange New Worlds would retcon the tactic as Pike's invention with the younger Spock (Ethan Peck) present to help execute it.

Despite the number of times Captain Kirk used the slingshot effect, it never became known as the "Kirk Maneuver." Unfairly, there is no specific starship tactic named after Captain Kirk. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, a strategy that made the USS Stargazer appear to be in two places at once was named the "Picard Maneuver" after Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Star Trek: Voyager's Captain Kathryn Janeway also had the "Janeway Protocol" named after her. With the help of the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching), Admiral Picard used the slingshot effect to time travel to 2024 in Star Trek: Picard season 2. Yet the slingshot effect was never called the "Pike Maneuver" after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which sadly indicates that moniker didn't stick and may have been lost to time.

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