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Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.1 - The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuver [VHS] [1969]
 
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Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.1 - The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuver [VHS] [1969]

VHS ~ William Shatner
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Made in 1964, the original pilot episode of Star Trek, "The Cage", was rejected by NBC executives because it was just "too cerebral": with well-developed characters, groundbreaking (for the time) special effects and a screen play that spoke eloquently of its creator's compassionate, liberal humanism, science fiction of this quality had simply never been seen on the small screen before. Jeffrey Hunter's stoical Captain Pike is at the helm of the Starship Enterprise, Leonard Nimoy's Spock has the ears but not the familiar reserved demeanour; and Majel Barrett's Number One is a remarkably frosty female lead. The "cerebral" story is reminiscent of Forbidden Planet, as a group of super-intelligent aliens manipulate Pike for their own mysterious ends. But instead of simply dropping Gene Roddenberry's ambitious idea, in an unprecedented move the network requested he make a second pilot. Jeffrey Hunter stepped down from the captain's chair in favour of William Shatner for "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in 1966 and, well, everyone knows the rest. "The Cage" did not quite disappear, however, as it was cannily recycled in the two-part episode "The Menagerie". This is where it all began. --Mark Walker

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The first two episodes from the original series of this popular programme plus the pilot made fourteen years earlier. Includes an introduction by James (Scotty) Doohan.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Space- the final frontier, 26 May 2003
Space- the final frontier
the first chapter in the sci-fi legend Startrek, which after 36 years is still going strong. This volume contains original never previously aired pilot, and the actual pilot with another episode. Very watchable material even after so long.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Story line still stands test of time., 10 Jun 2000
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Watching "The Cage" I wonder what posessed the TV companies not to air this episode (all right, watching your No.1 painted green doing a dance might be a little too much for prudes). Very watchable. Some laughable special effects (they haven't dated too well), with crew members being chucked to-and-fro along a passage. James Doohan's intro is an eye-opener, who'd have thought Gene Rodenberry was challenging moral concepts and civil rights? After three decades, these episodes are still worthy of a whirl in the VCR.
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