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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Vita)
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Subject: Re: Star Trek Pilot - The Cage
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 13:29:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 13:29:07 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,
>--------------------
>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.
>-- 
>			Barry Margolin
 
  This may well be true.  But I'm sure that at least one of the
motivations for making "The Menagerie" was that so much time
and care went into the making of "The Cage" that Roddenberry
wanted to see it used in some way.
  Also, I don't think they really added *too* much time to 
the length of "The Menagerie" by incorporating "The Cage".
As I recall, only short clips of the older film are shown,
in the courtroom scene.  If you read the script of "The
Cage" (which appears in "The Making Of Star Trek"), much
more goes on than actually appears in "The Menagerie".
Some of the cuts/changes were necessary to make the
story make sense in the context of the "new" Star Trek
scenario (i.e. with Kirk et al).
-- 

                            Mark Vita
                            Dartmouth College
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