Spock hijacks the Enterprise to take his crippled former captain, Christopher Pike, to the forbidden world of Talos IV . He then demands a court martial where he uses the events of “The Cage” to tell the tale of Pike’s captivity on the planet years earlier. After witnessing the Talosians’ capabilities of mental illusion, Kirk realizes that Spock intends to return Pike to the planet to live a life of illusion, unencumbered by his crippled condition