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Subject: Re: An Original ST Pilot?
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 13:37:32 EDT
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Star Trek was (and probably still is) one of the only TV shows that
had TWO pilots.  The first pilot, submitted to NBC around 1964 or
so, was the 70-minute-long "Menagerie," written by Gene Roddenbury.
As you may have guessed, it consisted of the film that is transmitted
to the Enterprise by the Talosians in "The Menagerie, Parts I and II"
and featured, among other things, the Satanic-looking Mr. Spock, Captain
Christopher Pike, and Majel Barrett (sp) playing Number 1, who was
Captain Pike's first officer.

NBC, despite some of it's executives shouting "Great!", rejected the pilot,
but they asked Roddenbury to make a second pilot.

The second pilot featured the almost-complete Enterprise crew, especially
Bill Shatner as Captain Kirk, and Salley Kellerman guest-starred in
"Where No Man Has Gone Before," which later became a ST episode in its
entirety.  NBC accepted this pilot, and I guess the rest is history.

				Mark Abramowitz
				Bell Communications Research
				Morristown, NJ
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