Captain Christopher Richard Pike

"It could," Jim hazarded. "But the sense I get is that she acted against orders, or at the very least without them, to send us back. To request Spock's presence on her ship. The fact that I consider him safe enough, for the moment, is testament to that. She desired the presence of a man whom she believes capable of assisting her crew, despite the fact that he's the very man her master is bent on destroying. Which should worry me, and it does. But I don't know what she was when Nero destroyed Vulcan or threatened Earth. And she has the capacity to grow and determine her own course. Currently she claims not to go against her masters' orders, but she's edging around them in ways that suggest she is capable of self-determination."