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"The Cage" went
into production in 1964. |
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This is the first ever
Star Trek ever made. |
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This episode was never aired, only first aired in
1988. |
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Jeffery Hunter, only
appeared in active footage of this episode in
"The Menagerie, Part
I" and
"The Menagerie, Part II". |
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Leonard Nimoy, is the
only character to survive the un-aired pilot. |
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The episode takes place
13 years before the episode
"Where No Man Has Gone Before". |
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The Enterprise was
almost called the U.S.S. Yorktown. |
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This is the time we see
Orian Slave girls, until Star Trek: Enteprise. |
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The Enterprise is
different in this episode. |
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Matthew Jefferies, designed the U.S.S. Enterprise. |
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In the fan made
production, Star Trek: New Voyages. Pike helps Kirk in saving his
Enterprise in theat episode "In Harms Way". |
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There is two cuts of
"The Cage", one is in color and one own by Gene Roddenberry that was
in black and white. |
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Majel Barrett, played
Nurse Christine Chapel/Lt. M'Ress/Enterprise computer/Additional
voices. She never reprises "Number One" from this lost pilot. She
later plays the Enterprise-D'S computer, Defiant in
Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine, and the Voyager's computer in
Star Trek: Voyager. She
reprise her roles as ships computer in
"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I"
and
"In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", also in
"These are the Voyages" in
Star Trek: Enterprise. Majel, also played
Lwaxana Troi, Deanna Troi's mother. |
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Majel Barrett is married
to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the series. |
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Gene
Roddenberry originally envisioned the Talosians as being crab-like
creatures, but budget constrains and the visual effect capabilities
of the mid 1960's made this unfeisable. |
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This pilot was rejected
by NBC, who thought Spock might scare children. |
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Spock served, 11 years
with Captain Pike. This mentioned in
"The Menagerie, Part I" and
"The Menagerie, Part II". |
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In
"The Cage" Pike says he
doesn't want women on his bridge, Number One being the singular
exception, and he keeps ordering Colt off of it. Somehow, though, he
overlooks the very obviously female crew-woman seated at the science
station when the computer print-out about Talos is being generated. |
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Special effects of the
ship in space were very expensive in the 60s and couldn't be wasted.
So when a larger model was built with slightly different nacelles,
shots of both versions became common, even within the same episode.
This is why the Enterprise sometimes had red needle-tipped nacelles
and sometimes lighted "spinning" ones, and in aft views she had
either round white balls or perforated vents at the nacelles' ends. |
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In the first illusion,
Vina runs down the path from the fortress to Pike. When we cut to
close-ups, they're both suddenly standing much closer to the
building than before, and the fortress has changed color from
brownish orange to white. |
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When the doctor is
mixing the drink and Pike gets up off the bed to accept it, an
equipment shadow sweeps across the left side of the screen. |
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This is the first
episode we saw the transporter. |