Number One

|| Well, I made a new account. I’ll be moving Pike and One there as well as adding some new Star Trek muses. 

~TOS/AOS~

Christopher Pike

Leonard McCoy

Montgomery Scott

Philip Boyce

~ The Next Generation~

Lwaxana Troi

Deanna Troi

~ Voyager~

Chakotay

Kathryn Janeway

Seven Of Nine / Annika Hansen

~ Deep Space Nine~

Julian Bashir

Miles O'Brien

Feel free to follow!

|| I’d love to have a Spock! I want you to play him as you see fit, I would never ask anyone to change just for me.

My headcanon for the AOS verse is that things would be basically the same, previous to the Academy (the 2009 movie), Pike, One, and Spock would have served together (possibly about the York, though that’s not canon for AOS). Once the ship was retired, many of the crew retired, joined the Academy as instructors, or transferred to other vessels.

While Pike was commandant of cadets and Spock and instructor, Number One remained Pike’s first officer in hopes of serving with him on the Enterprise. 

I headcanon that she was the spitfire woman in the 2009 movie that made McCoy sit his ass down. 

When they are on the ship, she’s the woman at the engineering console. Leaving Spock to be first officer as she was supposed to have been aboard the Yorktown. 

Number One making McCoy sit down.

Number One to McCoy’s left.

See the concern when Kirk burst onto the bridge? That’s why I have headcanon that that’s Number One.

|| Yes, Majel Roddenberry played both Number One and Christine Chapel as well as portraying Lwaxana Troi (Counselor Troi’s mother) in The Next Generation and Seep Space Nine.

I have no problem ‘rebooting’ Number One. I thoroughly enjoy both versions. No worries, my friendly anon, I don’t expect you to know all about Star Trek. Just play your character as you feel them and things will be just fine. 

|| The relation to Christine Chapel is not canon. Majel Roddenberry (who played both characters) made that joke once and I find it interesting to explore the idea.

As shown in this screencap, Spock was more ‘humanized’ in The Cage. 

The ‘blue shirt’ behind Number One and Pike is Spock. They were shown to be fairly close in the Early Voyages comics released in the 1980s and based on The Cage crew. 

As for feeling bad, please don’t. It’s such a rare episode. I have never expected anyone to watch it first. Number One and I are more than happy to work with anyone.

|| Thank you for this kind question. 

Number One was Pike’s first office. She was only seen in The Cage and The Menagerie. The Menagerie was more like a toss in of The Cage to use the footage Roddenberry used.

She’s been mentioned in a few novels and, using the ones I’ve read, I’ve tried to make her as whole as I can.

Number One has been cast as unflappable. Most comparable with Mister Spock in that she is has small emotional reactions, she’s more intelligent and stronger than humans. I’ve tried to portray her as such adding a want to adjust to being human as she is half human. 

Number One is a title given to her as the most intelligent of her ‘breed group’ (the other Ilyrians her age) and used as Pike in reference to first officer of old naval vessels. There is debate regarding her actual name. In novels she’s been given many different names such as: Una (a play on Number One), Lefler, Hudek, and others. I, personally, use the name M’Hari as it sounds alien and has been used in most Pike centered fanfictions. 

As above mentioned, she is not fully human. She’s half Ilryan. There is nothing in canon known about them, but from what is seen in canon they are very logic like Vulcans. That’s because in the second pilot (Where No Man Has Gone Before) all of Number One’s traits were given to Spock to make him seem more ‘alien’ compared to the rest of the crew.

|| Coming to this account makes me feel a bit depressed. I see all these people interacting and none with me. I do have a few that have stuck by me, so this isn’t a goodbye. I just feel unneeded by most, so I won’t be here every day anymore. I’ll work on a queue and save drafts, but only do replies once a week.

Have a great Christmas and happy New Year.