@Knixon said:

You'd think if Kirk's brother had served with Pike, Kirk would have mentioned it sometime. Such as when they went to see the injured Pike in part 1 of "Menagerie" and Kirk mentioned how long Spock had served with him. "Oh, and my brother George too!"

Piffle.

This doesn't have to be mentioned. It is well known that everyone served with Pike, except James T. Kirk. They only knew each other from classified missions, alternate time lines and Pike's social dining parties, where everyone cooks together.

@SecretaryIMF said:

@FormerlyKnownAs: I'm getting ready to watch the last 2 episodes of Strange New Worlds season one, and the first 3 episodes of season 2. However, I am still very annoyed about Jim Kirk being on the show. This series is about PIKE'S Enterprise, not Kirk's Enterprise. I thought that it was great to have Kirk's older brother Sam Kirk as a recurring character on the Enterprise, but this time Paramount Plus has gone too far!

I watched part of the first episode...turned out not to be "my cup of tea".

@FormerlyKnownAs: Well, that's understandable. I watched the first five episodes of season one of Star Trek Picard, then lost interest in it.