Johnny Ringo said:
Yeah, a little birdy [Dayv] pointed that out to me earlier, But Pike wasn't the first captain of the Enterprise [ncc 1701] either.
I'm not saying there's a problem here, Just making an observation.
Yeah, a little birdy [Dayv] pointed that out to me earlier, But Pike wasn't the first captain of the Enterprise [ncc 1701] either.
I'm not saying there's a problem here, Just making an observation.
Yes, the first Captain was Robert April. He was shown in an episode of the short lived cartoon. That episode title is "The Counter-Clock Incident".
When Roddenberry submitted his first proposal for Star Trek to MGM Studios in 1964, his name for the starship commander was "Robert M. April"
He was also used in a few of the official novels. ("Final Frontier" and "Best Destiny" by Diane Carey and in "Crisis on Vulcan" by Brad and Barbara Strickland)