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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: Original Star Trek Episode
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 04:22:45 EST
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> From:	daisy!misha	(Michael Umansky)

>	I heard on this net that there is a pilot StarTrek episode
>	titled: "The Cage".  Pieces of this episode were used in
>	the two-part sequence where Spock abducts his former captain.
>	Has this episode ever been shown in full?  Under same name??
>	Is it available on video cassette??

"The Cage", as such, has never been shown on tv. As I understand it,
prints of it have been shown at Star Trek Conventions. Supposedly, no
color prints of it exist any more, only black-and-white. It is not
available on videocassette as yet, though I wouldn't be surprised if
Paramount decided to release it on tape as part of the set of tapes
(after all, we need a tape with a "1" on the spine, to complete the
set, don't we? :-)).

Oddly enough, the other week I was watching my tape of "The Menagerie"
and timed the "Cage" sequences (it's nice having a vcr with a real-time
counter). Turns out that there's ~50 minutes worth of "The Cage" used
in "The Menagerie", which means that "The Cage" must have been slightly
longer than a normal tv episode. It wouldn't be easy to reconstruct a
print of "The Cage" by cannibalizing "The Menagerie", though, since
some of the "Cage" footage does not take up the full tv screen, but
only shows up as a picture within a picture.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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