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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: An Original ST Pilot?
Message-ID: <374@azure.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 22:12:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 22:12:44 1985
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Reply-To: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
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In article <3319@drutx.UUCP> eac@drutx.UUCP (CveticEA) writes:
>
>>"The Menagerie" was shown recently here, and a friend of mine presented the
>>idea that Captain Pike's adventures on Talos IV comprised the original pilot 
>>of the Star Trek series.  I told him that there was no pilot for the series,
>>and the list of ST episodes distributed recently on the Net does not mention
>>one. So, the question is, is he on drugs, or what?
>
>It is true that a pilot for Star Trek was never shown as such on TV, however,
>two were indeed filmed.  The first one no longer exists and was never shown
>(what a shame!).  The second was the Pike story which does not exist
>anymore in its original form.  It was recut with the additional footage
>added to become "The Menagerie".

Huh?  I think you may have your story a little screwed up here.  The first
pilot for Star Trek was "The Cage".  It was rejected by NBC for various reasons
but the project was given a second chance when they gave the go ahead for 
the second pilot "Where No Man has Gone Before".  This episode was shown on
TV and the rest is history.  But they didn't want to waste all that had been
put into the original pilot so they sliced it into a two hour episode called
"The Menagerie".  The only color prints of the cage left are those that
are a part of "The Managerie".  There are complete copies of the original
pilot but they are in black and white (I saw it once when Roddenberry came
to our school.  It was great and would have made a great series, even without
Kirk or McCoy).

Chris Andersen

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