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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek Pilot - The Cage
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 23:53:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 23:53:04 1984
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Mark Vita writes:
     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,
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This is not quite how I heard it.  I heard that they were getting behind
schedule, due to the fact that they were so ambitious, and no one had
done such an elaborate TV show before.  So, they realized that they
could make up some lost time by making a shorter new episode and filling
in the time with the unseen pilot.
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			Barry Margolin
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