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From: ins_akew@jhunix.UUCP (Montgomery Scott)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Number One from "The Cage"
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 23:47:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 23:47:48 1986
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>> And why did they replace Hunter with Shatner?  Was it supposed to be
>> that way all along?  Didn't they like Hunter?
> 	I believe the reason was that after the first pilot the
> show wasn't picked up immediately. A year later they were going 
> to shoot another pilot, but Hunter turned down the role of Pike
> to play the lead in some type of cheese-whiz, sf-spy adventure.
> I don't remember the name of the movie, but the lead had a little
> time travel device so he could prevent assasinations and other fun
> stuff like that. It sure wasn't a great career choice for Hunter.

One other note of interest:
   NBC, before accepting Star Trek for broadcast put 2 conditions on
their acceptance:
         1)  get rid of the female first officer
         2)  get rid of the guy with the pointed ears
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