The Menagerie: Part I
- Episode aired Nov 17, 1966
- TV-PG
- 50m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
4.9K
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Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.
Jeffrey Hunter
- Captain Christopher Pike
- (archive footage)
Susan Oliver
- Vina
- (archive footage)
Majel Barrett
- Number One
- (archive footage)
- (as M. Leigh Hudec)
- …
Peter Duryea
- Lt. José Tyler
- (archive footage)
John Hoyt
- Dr. Phil Boyce
- (archive footage)
Adam Roarke
- C.P.O. Garrison
- (archive footage)
Bill Blackburn
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
Tom Curtis
- Jon Daily
- (uncredited)
Frank da Vinci
- Guard
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Marc Daniels
- Robert Butler(footage from "The Cage") (uncredited)
- Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- John D.F. Black(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough scenes from The Cage (1966) feature Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, he was unavailable and unaffordable for the framing story into which the scenes were to be inserted. Sean Kenney, an actor who resembled Hunter, was used instead. He plays the mute, crippled Captain Pike, now wheelchair-bound after an accident.
- GoofsJust before their first visit with the injured Capt. Pike, Commodore Mendez asks Kirk if he knows Pike. He then states that Pike was about Kirk's age. However, the plot is about an incident that happened 13 years before, when Spock was Capt. Pike's science officer. This would make Pike a 21-year-old starship captain.
- Quotes
Captain Christopher Pike: What the devil are you putting in there, ice?
Dr. Boyce: Who wants a warm martini?
Captain Christopher Pike: What makes you think I need one?
Dr. Boyce: Sometimes... a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song. Highlights include a new exterior shot of the starbase, complete with real people and vehicle traffic.
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: The Cage (1966)
- SoundtracksTheme From Star Trek
Written by and credited to Alexander Courage
Featured review
A Very Intriguing Plot
I am always a sucker for this episode, even though the producers saw fit to use footage from the pilot of the series. Obviously, this was to try recoup some of the money they had thrown at this project. Christopher Pike, who was Kirk's predecessor on the Enterprise, is basically left with his thoughts. His body was destroyed in a fire where he heroically save a group of children. He is in a kind of box/wheelchair where his brain can answer questions by way of a light that flashes. Mr. Spock, out of loyalty to his old Captain, kidnaps Pike and takes him to Talos IV, a planet forbidden to the Federation. Spock actually lies about his reasons and is brought up for court martial and potential execution. During the trial the evidence is damning and the judges, including Kirk, have pretty much seen enough. There is a tape of the whole thing. Spock insists on them watching the whole tape, but must beg at the end of the episode. Trying to gerrymander a plot around a previous piece of film doesn't work very well, but in this case it keeps us guessing. It ends with a great narrative hook and we are coaxed into watching the next installment.
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