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From: dayoung@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug A. Young)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: Original Star Trek Episode
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 13:01:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 13:01:52 1986
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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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I attended a talk by Gene Rodenberyy in Cleveland a few years ago, and 
he concluded by showing The Cage in its entirety. It was actually a bit
disappointing, because I dont believe anything (at least nothing 
consequential) was cut when they made "The Menagerie", so there was nothing
new. If you've seen The Menagerie, you've seen The Cage. Incidently the
film I saw was in black and white.

   from:          dayoung@hplabs       Doug Young, HPLABS, Palo Alto