“This is Vina. Her parents are dead.” In this episode we establish our personal criteria for what makes a great episode—the Order of Operations for Great Trek™—and then dissect how well this first pilot holds up. While Emmanuel doesn’t think it’s a very good introduction, he does agree that Captain Pike is a very handsome man. Laura’s tangents include: resident aliens; conspiracy theories about women’s pockets; 16th century shipwrecks.