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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792160540
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0792160541
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 157850
Studio: Paramount
Related Items:- Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 1, Episodes 2 & 3: Where No Man Has Gone Before/ The Corbomite Maneuver
- Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1: Turnabout Intruder/ The Cage (B&W/Color Version) / The Cage (Full Color Version)
- Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 10, Episodes 19 & 20: Arena/ The Alternative Factor
- Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 6, Episodes 12 & 13: Miri/ The Conscience of the King
- Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 9, Episodes 17 & 18: Shore Leave/ The Squire of Gothos
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Volume 8 in the DVD series of original Star Trek episodes includes the fascinating two-part drama "The Menagerie." As if guided by the frugal wisdom of schlockmeister producer-director Roger Corman, Trek creator Gene Roddenberry found a clever way of using, instead of losing, extensive and costly footage from the then-unseen, discarded Star Trek pilot, "The Cage." Roddenberry's solution was to integrate pieces of "The Cage" into a whole new story context, and the surprisingly moving result was "The Menagerie." First, a bit of background: "The Cage" starred film actor Jeffrey Hunter (King of Kings, The Searchers) as Christopher Pike, the original captain of the Enterprise. Among Hunter's costars was Leonard Nimoy as Science Officer Spock, who eventually carried over, of course, into the reconfigured series starring William Shatner. Rather than write off "The Cage," Roddenberry conceived of a story line in which Captain Pike would re-appear on the show in a badly disfigured, paralyzed, and mute form--the result of a terrible accident in which the character saved a number of lives but took a pounding in the process. In "The Menagerie," Spock hijacks the Enterprise to transport Pike to a secret destination. During court-martial proceedings for this crime, Spock's defense is presented via archival footage of an old, pre-Kirk mission aboard the Enterprise. That footage, of course, is a re-edited "The Cage." A must-see for Star Trek fans, "The Menagerie" is a stellar example of Roddenberry thinking on his feet. --Tom Keogh
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"The Menagerie" is a unique chapter in Trek history. Unable to deliver new episodes quickly enough (due to Trek's exceptionally long postproduction times in those days), the producers wrote a 2-part episode based largely around the original pilot for the show, which NBC had rejected. The newer scenes are mostly simple set-ups aboard ship or a starbase.
The story-telling device is ingenious. Spock was the only crew member to carry over from the original cast. In Part I of "The Menagerie," ... Read More
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This episode was awarded a Hugo, the highest award that is given in science fiction. That award was well deserved, this is one of the most imaginative stories in the series. All fans of the show rejoice that Gene Roddenberry decided to use the first pilot as the basis for this two-part episode. It would have been tragic if all of the original ideas in that first pilot had not been expanded into one of the best episodes of the series.
Spock reports that an urgent message has been received and ... Read More
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On September 8, 1966 Star Trek premiered on NBC to little critical acclaim. In the weeks that followed Star Trek's audience of ardent fans was treated to shows unlike anything else they had seen on television. Over the course of the evenings of both November 17 and November 24 of that same year Star Trek aired an episode titled 'The Menagerie' and science fiction on television came of age - and, more importantly, people noticed. The episode has become legendary over these past many years, some Trekkies ... Read More
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This two part episode based on pilot #1, in which Spock is in the hot seat, is difficult to evaluate separately from 'The Cage.' Overall, the team did a good job of generating an episode 'without' another episode. On the other hand, the main thing going for the episode is The Cage. And it is better just to watch The Cage as it was intended, without all the artificial breaks. As noted by another reviewer, it isn't just the breaks in The Cage that are awkward; the need for breaks in The Menagerie also made for ... Read More
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this is one of the best original series episodes.it shows scenes from "the cage" star treks unscreened pilot episode which starred jeffery hunter as captain christopher pike.this is very much a spock episode showing how much he cares about his captains.the injured pike is played by another actor [not jeffery hunter].it took about 6 hours to apply the makeup the actor wore.i myself think that the crew of pikes enterprise would make a good crew.but no bones.
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