The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series) of the eventual series, but there were numerous differences. The Captain of the starship USS "Enterprise" was not James T. Kirk, but Christopher Pike. Spock was present, but not as First Officer. That role was taken by a character known only as Number One, played by Majel Barrett. Spock's character differs somewhat from that seen in the rest of "Star Trek"; he displays a youthful eagerness that contrasts with the later more reserved and logical Spock. He also delivers the first line in all of "Star Trek": "Check the circuit!" followed by, "Can't be the screen then." The weaponry used
Lords of the Starship the Starship" was "a bad and disappointing book on its own terms." Brian Stableford characterized it as an "earnestly stylish stud[y] of terminal cultural decadence". Lords of the Starship Lords of the Starship is a 1967 science fiction novel by American author Mark S. Geston. His debut work, it was written while he was a sophomore at Kenyon College. It was originally published in paperback by Ace Books, then reprinted for the British market in hardcover by Michael Joseph in 1971 and in paperback by Sphere Books a year later. Gregg Press published an archival edition in 1978 (a facsimile