Kalar The Kalar was a warrior species native to the planet Rigel VII . Somewhat larger than Human s , they primarily relied on weapons such as sword s , spear s , and mace s . In 2254 , Captain Christopher Pike of the starship had a violent encounter with a Kalar on Rigel VII , during which three of his own crew members , including his yeoman , were killed and seven were injured . Captain Pike later blamed himself for this , claiming that his own complacency was the reason the Kalar had been able to successfully attack them . While en route to the Vega colony to hospitalize some of his crew who had been injured in the incident , the " Enterprise " was diverted to Talos IV , where Captain Pike was kidnapped by the Talosian s . The Talosians used their illusion - creating powers to force Pike to relive the battle on Rigel VII , creating an illusory Kalar and this time adding the Human female Vina to the illusion , in an attempt to manipulate Pike into developing an emotional bond with her . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The story outline for " The Cage " ( as reprinted in " The Making of Star Trek " , pp . 47 - 65 ) includes an illusion similar to the one in which Pike is challenged with protecting Vina from this type of warrior . However , that early version of the scenario incorporates multiple such beings , described in the outline as " hairy manlike creatures , " bipedal and armed with medieval weaponry that is not specifically described . ( " The Making of Star Trek " , p . 50 ) In the second revised final draft script of " The Cage " , the " Enterprise " s commanding officer ( at that point known as Captain James Winter ) mentions the Kalar by saying its species name , during a discussion with Doctor Philip Boyce . However , the name " Kalar " is said only once in that episode ' s final version ( in footage that was reused in ) , spoken by Vina , shortly before the reenacted battle scene . The conversation in which Pike talks about the Kalar with Dr . Boyce is still present in the final version of " The Cage " ( as well as in ) , though he indirectly refers to it as " one of their warriors . " In the script for " The Cage " , the sound produced by the Kalar is initially described as " " a strange bellowing like a man - beast creature in a rage . " " When the Kalar first appears in the episode , it is physically characterized as " " a huge Neanderthal - like figure [ . . . ] It is humanoid , huge , hairy , with carnivore ' s fangs , clad in a strangely shaped armor breastplate and helmet , brandishing a deadly looking mace . " " In , the Standards and Practices Department of NBC sent a memo which , as well as commenting on various other aspects of the script for " The Cage " , politely advised that the production team " avoid camera angles that would feature the lance protruding from the giant creature ' s back " and " exercise caution when the creature falls to the compound below . " ( " " , pp . 207 & 208 ) The Kalar warrior was played by Mike Dugan . The look of the Kalar was given a distinctly Viking flair . ( " " , p . 177 ) The name of this species is spelled " Kaylar " in the official reference book and the closed captioning on the DVD set erroneously interprets Vina saying the name as " killer " rather than " Kalar . " However , the name is spelled " Kalar " in the script of " The Cage " . James Blish , in his adaptation of " The Menagerie , Part I " and " The Menagerie , Part II " as " The Menagerie " in the book " Star Trek 4 " , also noted that the alien species was the " Kalar . " Blish worked from the actual scripts used in filming , noting that they were " " heavily revised in various handwritings ( and in which Pike confusingly appears from time to time as ' Captain Spring ' and ' Captain Winter ' ) . " " A Kalar was illustrated on the front cover of " A Child ' s Garden of Lifeforms in Our Galaxy " . ( " " , p . 579 ) The reference books " Star Trek Maps " , " The Worlds of the Federation " and " " , which all used the " Kalar " spelling , describe the Kalar as pre - industrial . " Star Trek Maps " ( p . 29 ) and " The Worlds of the Federation " describe the species as rated D - plus on the Richter scale of culture , while " Star Trek : Star Charts " ( p . 54 ) describes Pike ' s encounter as the first contact with the species , details the Kalar as being the dominant species of Rigel VII and characterizes the world as being quarantined without any aligned political system , pending development of warp drive . Whereas " Star Trek : Star Charts " ( p . 54 ) gives Rigel VII a population of 725 , 000 , " Star Trek Maps " ( p . 29 ) cites a population of only 10 , 000 for the planet . Apocrypha . The " " comic " Our Dearest Blood " greatly expands on Pike ' s original encounter with the Kalar , and Kalar culture in general . In the comic , the Kalar are shown to be a warrior caste in a humanoid Rigelian species . As Rigel VII aims to join the Federation , the Kalar are threatened with being disbanded and conduct a coup . The attacks made by the Kalar in the coup are those which lead to the casualties and fatalities described in " The Cage " . The novel " Burning Dreams " expands on Vina ' s point of view of the Talosian ' s illusory Kalar encounter . It describes her playing up to her role as damsel - in - distress to assist in the Talosians ' plan to have Pike fall in love with her and stay on Talos . From her viewpoint , she screams melodramatically and purposefully knocks things over to attract the attention of the Kalar , to try and draw Pike into the illusion by being too distracted with defending her to rationalize the Kalar as not being real . The " " issue " A Matter of Dates " depicts a group of Kalar co - founding a new Federation colony with the Rigelian s in the 2360s . In the comic , the Kalar work as laborers , building and servicing the infrastructure of the colony . Unfortunately , the cooperative venture is soured when the Rigelians try to renegotiate their contract with the Kalar workers , to give the Kalar less compensation for their work . This act provokes the Kalar into repossessing the dam they had built , which provided power to the colony , which in turn leads Starfleet to send in the to mediate the dispute . Both comics and the novel used the spelling " Kaylar " for the name of the species .