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From: elb@mtx5d.UUCP (Ellen Bart)
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Subject: Re: Original Star Trek Episode
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 08:47:45 EST
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> 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
> 
> --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)
> 

Interesting fact I picked up from the James Blish novelization of 
The Cage in which he restored the story's original ending.

After Pike is shown Vina as she really is, he says you'll give her
back her illusion of beauty won't you?  The Keeper replies "And More".

(now that always bothered me in the Menagerie because she doesn't
look *more* beautiful or more of anything)

Well, in the original, Vina walks back to the elevator - as beautiful
as before *AND* accompanied by a *duplicate* of Pike !!

(That's where they got the scene of the supposedly *rehabilitated* Pike
with Vina that's shown at the very end of the Menagerie!!)

Romantic that I am (see previous posting on Private Little War) I
really love that as an ending.

Interesting also that The Cage is the only ST story that *won* a Hugo
award (though there are others that were nominated)

Happy Treking.

Ellen Bart
(lots of things)!mtx5d!elb