After being beaten up, "genius-level" Kirk was challenged by Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) (who had researched theUSS Kelvindisaster for his dissertation) because he was "meant for something better, something special" - to enlist in Starfleet.Plot SynopsisFilm's Opening Sequence: Sows Taken to Market, and a Young Orphaned Runty Piglet:The film's opening was a harrowing voice-over account (by off-screen melodious Narrator Roscoe Lee Browne) at a gigantic Australian hog farm where pigs were being loaded up into a truck to be taken away to market ("pig paradise"):"This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever.The boorish, shy Mac removes the newspaper from his concertina and asks what tune she would like to hear:Trina: -- 'Hearts and Flowers'?Mac: No.O'Daniel (John McGiver): "You know, with proper management, you could be takin' home fifty, maybe a hundred dollars a day, easy.