who played captain kirk in star trek?
Jimmy Bennett Chris Pine William Shatner
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 Apart from Captain Kirk , the episode introduced two other regular characters to the show : James Doohan , a friend of director James Goldstone , was cast as the Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott ( the name chosen after Doohan had tried various accents , and had decided that an engineer ought to be Scottish ) and George Takei was cast as Ship 's Physicist Sulu , who would become the helmsman in the regular series . Lieutenant Uhura and Dr. Leonard McCoy do not feature ; the ship 's doctor is instead Mark Piper ( Paul Fix ) . Piper was intended as a regular ; DeForest Kelley , who played McCoy in the series proper , had been considered for the role . 

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 Casting took place in June 1965 . Jeffrey Hunter was unwilling to reprise his role as Captain Christopher Pike . Lloyd Bridges and Jack Lord were considered , but William Shatner was finally cast as Pike 's replacement , Captain James Kirk . The character of Number One , the female second @-@ in @-@ command , was dropped on the insistence of the NBC network , and Science Officer Spock was given Number One 's unemotional demeanor . NBC was worried about Leonard Nimoy 's " satanic " appearance and pressured for his removal . 

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 Both the Human fleet and the rebel Cylons are disillusioned after finding Earth devastated by a nuclear holocaust , which occurred at least 2 @,@ 000 years prior to the events of the episode . After research on the bodies found in the soil , the Cylons and Dr. Baltar ( James Callis ) conclude the remains are not Human , but Cylon in origin . The rebel Cylons further state the mechanical Cylon remains resemble older Centurions of theirs , but are of a kind unknown to them . Following this , they postulate that the Thirteenth Tribe consisted of a different kind of Cylon which existed over 2 @,@ 000 years ago and moved out from Kobol to populate Earth . When addressing the fleet , Admiral Adama ( Edward James Olmos ) never states this fact , leaving the fleet in the belief that the Thirteenth Tribe was human . Meanwhile , Samuel Anders ( Michael Trucco ) , Galen Tyrol ( Aaron Douglas ) and Tory Foster ( Rekha Sharma ) receive memories of their lives on Earth 2 @,@ 000 years ago . Kara Thrace ( Katee Sackhoff ) has Leoben ( Callum Keith Rennie ) help track the origins of the beacon . However , what they find is a crashed Colonial Viper , containing a corpse with Starbuck 's dog tags . After Kara recites what the Hybrid has told her , Leoben becomes scared and retreats , with Thrace wondering what she is . In shock , Thrace takes the body and burns it on a pyre , and decides to not tell anyone about what she found , making people believe she lost the signal . 

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 There were also several Star Trek debuts in " Storm Front " , including Golden Brooks , better known for her main cast role in UPN 's Girlfriends ; and Joe Maruzzo and Steve Schirripa , who both appeared in HBO 's The Sopranos . These three appearances were described as " stunt casting " by UPN President Dawn Ostroff . Jack Gwaltney was cast as Vosk , the villain of the two @-@ parter . 

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 Bryan Cranston as Rear Admiral Lyle Haggerty , United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps 
