Star Trek: Worse Than the Accident – Captain Pike’s greatest loss is yet to come!

• Captain Batel and Captain Pike are a wonderful couple who get along well. Unfortunately, their relationship has no future.
• In the latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode, Pike has temporarily broken up with Batel. Will there be a final separation soon?
• Seven years later, Batel is no longer mentioned in “Spaceship Enterprise”. So something has to happen.

In the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) has broken up with Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) only to end up realizing that he does love her very much and be with her would like. Unfortunately, this temporary separation was already a foretaste of their sad future.

Trekkies had already guessed it: Batel will disappear from Pike’s life before Pike’s accident, which in the “Star Trek” chronology will take place about seven years after the current SNW events. Batel is no longer mentioned in “Spaceship Enterprise”!

Star Trek: Pike will later be with Vina, there is no talk of Batel!

The “Star Trek” canon is relatively clear as to Captain Pike’s future. As we learn in the “Starship Enterprise” episode “Talos IV – Taboo”, after his serious accident that ties him to a wheelchair, through which he can only communicate with flashing lights that can signal yes or no, Pike is of Spock brought to Talos IV.

From then on, Pike lives there in an illusion created by the Talosians. In this Pike can live a life as if the accident never happened. However, he cannot leave the planet. At Pike’s side is Vina, who we also met on Star Trek: Discovery, played by Melissa George.

Pike was already having a fling with Vina. And then he will spend the rest of his life with her. There is no trace of Captain Batel. What happened between the two is not yet known. Will we get an answer in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3?

Captain Pike hasn’t told Batel of his fate yet!

So far, Pike Batel has kept secret that he will have an accident in seven years. Will he eventually bring himself to tell her about his fate? Of course, this could change quite a bit in the relationship and maybe also cause emotional pressure that changes the dynamic of the two.

It would put Batel in a bad light, but in self-defence she might leave Pike. It is also possible that she only leaves him after the accident because she does not know how to deal with it. This would of course be an even harder blow to Pike than the accident itself.

However, since Batel has so far been portrayed as being very understanding, patient and loving, and able to keep her cool even in stressful situations, we assume that she will disappear from Pike’s life before then. And not necessarily voluntarily!

It is likely that Pike wants to protect her and therefore breaks up with her before his accident, so as not to expect his fate from her. A sad decision, but one that suits Pike’s considerate nature. It could also be that Batel dies in an accident and there is no separation at all.

We will surely find out more soon. There’s still no end in sight to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is good, but let’s wait and see. We list you all “Star Trek” new releases that await us at Paramount +.