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"The Menagerie" was positively received and won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. [1] It was the only multi-part episode produced for the original series. Multi-part episodes would become far more common in later Star Trek series.
Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel, medical officer.; Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand, Captain's yeoman.; John Winston as Kyle, operations officer.; Michael Barrier as Vincent DeSalle, navigator and assistant chief engineer.
The original series pilot, "The Cage", was released to home video in 1986, consisting of black-and-white workprint footage combined with color footage from the season-one, two-part episode "The Menagerie" with a run time of 73 minutes. In 1988, the excised color footage was found and the full-color version of the episode debuted on television ...
The crew of the Enterprise follow a distress signal to the planet Talos IV, where Captain Pike is taken captive by a group of telepathic aliens who create realistic illusions. The events of this pilot are revisited in the two-part Season 1 episode "The Menagerie". [27] "
Much of the original footage from "The Cage" was later incorporated into the season 1 two-part episode "The Menagerie" (1966); however, "The Cage" was first released to the public on VHS in 1986, with a special introduction by Gene Roddenberry, as a hybrid of the color footage that was used in "The Menagerie" and black and white footage which ...
Not broadcast in its original form for many years, most of the episode was included within the two-part "The Menagerie" (1966). [4] As Throne was cast in another role in "The Menagerie", Commodore José I. Méndez, the Keeper's voice was electronically altered in pitch. [5] On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Throne played Pardek, a Romulan ...
The episode was subsequently rejected by NBC as a pilot, [16] but the footage was later used in the two-part episode "The Menagerie". [17] Unlike the other actors from "The Cage", Oliver's contract did not contain a clause to cover re-use of the footage, and so was not paid any additional fees. [18]
[1] [2] Footage from "The Cage" featuring the character was reused in the two-part story "The Menagerie" in 1966, establishing Pike and Number One as members of a previous crew of the Enterprise and part of the Star Trek canon; Barrett herself, who would become the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, would portray a number of unrelated ...