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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 05:44:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 05:44:29 1984
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    There have been a couple of questions about the Star Trek pilot.
Here's the story as I understand it:
    
    The first pilot, which was originally called "The Cage", was the
story concerning Captain Pike et al on Talos IV.  The network executives 
liked the pilot, but thought it was "too cerebral" for T.V.  They 
wanted something more on the lines of an action-adventure show.
So, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was filmed, and it was this second
pilot was the one that sold the show.
     However, Roddenberry still had the first pilot, and it was
too good to waste.   So, a "framework" was constructed during
the "current time" of the show, where Spock takes over the ship
and abducts the crippled Captain Pike, and subsequently goes
on trial.  During the trial he shows a story on the screen, which
is the first pilot, "The Cage".  The whole thing ("The Cage" + framework)
became the two-part episode "The Menagerie".
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                            Mark Vita
                            Dartmouth College
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