{"id":10768,"date":"2010-11-19T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T01:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2010-11-19T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T01:21:43","slug":"kenney-as-the-menageries-christopher-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/11\/kenney-as-the-menageries-christopher-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenney As The Menagerie’s Christopher Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Jeffrey Hunter<\/strong>‘s portrayal of Christopher Pike but before Bruce Greenwood<\/strong> appeared in Star Trek XI<\/em> as the predecessor to Captain James T. Kirk, Sean Kenney<\/strong> appeared as a disfigured Captain Pike in the two-part Menagerie<\/em> original series episode.<\/p>\n

Kenney appeared in two other Star Trek<\/em> episodes, Arena<\/em> and A Taste of Armageddon<\/em>, but he is best-known to fans of the original series at the captain who was injured in an accident and who could only communicate through a flashing light on his special wheelchair controlled by brain waves.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Menagerie<\/em> was a story ahead of it’s time, according to Kenney. “I’m proud of it because the story said so much and it was taken so \u2013 how shall I say \u2013 emotionally by so many people,” he said. “Here was a guy, Captain Pike, who was almost the first physically challenged person anyone saw on TV, in a major part. He was in a wheelchair, couldn’t talk. I meet people now (in wheelchairs) who roll up to me and say, ‘When I saw that show I thought, ‘What if I lost my voice?’ I’ve only lost my legs.’ It was a really profound episode and touched on so many things.”<\/p>\n

Kenney has seen the newest Star Trek<\/em> movie and gave his opinion about Bruce Greenwood’s \"\"<\/a>performance. “I liked it,” he said of the movie. “I thought Bruce Greenwood did a great job. Now, I think Bruce was inspired by Jeffrey Hunter’s work because, obviously, I played the crippled Pike. Bruce did a great job because he had (a similar) temperament to Hunter. I would’ve loved to have read for the part, but I don’t think they’d seen me on film in many years and probably didn’t know what I look like now. I was only twenty-five at the time I played Pike. I think that Bruce was a good choice. Now, if J.J. Abrams<\/strong> ever goes into looking for the crippled Pike, I’d love to do it again.”<\/p>\n

These days, Kenney is a professional photographer. Trek fans can see him at various conventions; he attends several a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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