Besides his acquaintance with Commander Spock, there’s also the open secret that Pike knows the elusive Dr. Jonathan Thorpe Kirkpatrick. Try as they might to pry it out of him with free meals, cash bribes, and the occasional indecent proposal, Pike swears this is one secret he’ll take to his grave. Though he would never betray Kirkpatrick’s confidence, he is the ferry between the secretive man and the journals that publish his work. All results are verified, and there’s a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that the good doctor can’t possibly deal with when he’s in space.