in:Mythology
Hell-Fire
Pike's vision of Hell-Fire
Hell-Fire was ahellish,mythologicallocation.
During hischildhood,Christopher Pike onceheard afable in which Hell-Fire was featured.
During hiscaptivity onTalos IV in2254, now-Captain Pike was subjected to anillusion of Hell-Fire. Thissimulation served as apunishment when he refused to cooperate with hisTalosian jailers, specifically an instruction fromThe Keeper to consume aprotein complex. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part II")
No name for this location was ever provided on-screen. The name "Hell-Fire" comes from thescripts for "The Cage". In the first and final drafts, Hell-Fire was described in a stage direction that stated, "[The captain] finds himself writhing in bubbling,sulphurous[sic] brimstone, in a dark place obscured with smoke, flame licking at him from all sides."