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William Shatner as James T. Kirk, commanding officer of the USS Enterprise.; Leonard Nimoy as Spock, first officer and science officer.; DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy, chief medical officer.
In 2016, SyFy ranked "The Cage" as the fifth best out of six Star Trek TV show pilots, with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Emissary" in first place. [29] In 2017, Inverse recommended "The Cage" as "essential watching" for Star Trek: Discovery. [30] In 2023, Den of Geek ranked "The Cage" as the best pilot episode for any series in the franchise. [31]
Star Trek ' s pilot episode, "The Cage", was completed between November 1964 and January 1965, [18] and starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, Majel Barrett as Number One, and Leonard Nimoy as Spock.
Promotional photo of the cast of Star Trek during the third season (1968–1969). From left to right: James Doohan, Walter Koenig, DeForest Kelley, Majel Barrett, William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, and George Takei. Star Trek made celebrities of its cast of largely unknown actors. Kelley had appeared in many films and television ...
She also appeared in The Outer Limits (1964), The Fugitive (1965), FBI (1965), as "cousin" Gloria in The Andy Griffith Show (1965), [6] and as Lt. Mira Romaine in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Lights of Zetar (1969). [4] Shutan supplemented her acting on TV programs by making commercials, beginning with one for Tareyton ...
In 1965, producer Gene Roddenberry cast Takei as astrosciences physicist Sulu in the second pilot for the original Star Trek television series. When the series was accepted by NBC, Takei continued in the role of Sulu, who was now the ship's helmsman.
Just before Star Trek began filming, Kelley appeared as a doctor again, in the Laredo episode "The Sound of Terror". [22] Kelley visiting NASA Dryden with the Star Trek cast and crew in 1967. After refusing Roddenberry's 1964 offer to play Spock, [32] Kelley played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy from 1966 to 1969 in Star Trek. He reprised the ...
Co-star Stephen Collins described Khambatta in Star Trek as "a very gentle person, who I think was a little overwhelmed by Hollywood". [7] In 1980, she was seriously injured in a car crash in West Germany, which left a huge scar on her head. In 1983, she underwent coronary artery bypass surgery.