Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Captain Pike

10. His Horses

In Quality Of Mercy, the finale of the first season of Strange New Worlds, Pike encountered his future self, who came to warn Pike not to prevent the injury that left him paralysed and disfigured, in order to protect the future of the Federation.

To convince Pike that he was telling the truth, his counterpart told him about how their first horse, the creatively named Sir-Neighs-A-Lot, broke his leg in a rainstorm and had to be put down when Pike was a child. Pike was heartbroken and cried for a week over his loss, but never told anyone, explaining that it's hard to give a tragic backstory with such a silly name.

Earlier, we also saw Pike riding one of his horse's in the snow near the start of the first episode. Something that you may not have noticed is that Pike's love of horses was actually a small callback to The Cage. When the Talosians were trying to get him to fall in love with Vina, they created an illusion of Pike's old home in Mojave, complete with his two beloved horses, Tango and Mary Lou.