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Input (English): Context: Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called "Star Trek" and now referred to as "", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS "Enterprise", a space exploration vessel, built by the interstellar federal republic United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The "Star Trek" canon of the franchise include "The Original Series", an animated series, four television series, its film franchise and an upcoming television series scheduled to debut in 2017., Christopher Pike is a character in the Star Trek science fiction franchise . He was portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter in the original Star Trek pilot episode , `` The Cage '' , as captain of the USS Enterprise . The pilot was rejected , and the character was dropped during development of the second pilot when Hunter decided that he did not want to continue with the series . Sean Kenney portrayed Pike in new footage filmed for a subsequent Star Trek episode , `` The Menagerie '' , which also re-uses original footage featuring Hunter from `` The Cage '' . Bruce Greenwood portrays Pike in the 2009 Star Trek movie and its sequel , Star Trek Into Darkness ., Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series premiered on July 19, 2007, on the cable network AMC. After seven seasons and 92 episodes, "Mad Men's" final episode aired on May 17, 2015., Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and producer. He is generally known for his roles as U.S. presidents in "Thirteen Days" and "", Ben Stevenson in "Mao's Last Dancer" and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 "Star Trek" film and its sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness". In television, Greenwood starred as Gil Garcetti in "", and has appeared in "Mad Men", "St. Elsewhere", "Knots Landing" and "John from Cincinnati"., St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama black comedy television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, underrated Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama "Hill Street Blues", during that same time; both series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for "St Elsewhere" quoted a critic that called the series "'Hill Street Blues' in a hospital"). "St. Elsewhere" was filmed at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show began; coincidentally, 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the series when it bought MTM Enterprises in the 1990s., The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979., James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the "Star Trek" franchise. Kirk first appears in "" and has been portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes, and video games. As the captain of the starship USS "Enterprise", Kirk leads his crew as they explore "where no man has gone before". Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively., The United Federation of Planets, abbreviated as UFP and usually referred to as "the Federation", is a fictional interstellar federal republic composed of planetary sovereignties depicted in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise. The planetary governments agree to exist semi-autonomously under a single central authority based on the Utopian principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality, and to share their knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation and space exploration; each member world retains its own political and social structure, with the Federation itself serving as a 'United Nations'-type advisory body., William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS "Enterprise", in the "Star Trek" franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek", and has co-written several novels set in the "Star Trek" universe. He has written a series of science fiction novels called "TekWar", which were adapted for television., Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926  May 27, 1969) was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in classic films such as "The Searchers," and "King of Kings". On television, Hunter was known following his death for his 1965 role as Capt. Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of "Star Trek" and the later use of that footage in ""., Subject: christopher pike , Relation: creator, Options: (A) city (B) gene roddenberry (C) james (D) matthew weiner (E) nbc (F) united nations (G) william shatner
Output (English): gene roddenberry