The Very Different Version Of Star Trek You Never Saw
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2021
- Over the many seasons of Star Trek we have seen many crews of the USS Enterprise. But after the initial pilot was shot, the entire crew was actually fired except for Leonard Nimoy's Spock. Many Star Trek fans may have heard of The Cage, the first pilot of the show. But few probably know what led to everyone but Spock being replaced with a new crew including the famous William Shatner as Captain Kirk taking over the Enterprise. Star Trek would not be the franchise it is today without this major overhaul.
#StarTrek #Spock #Nerdstalgic
Written by Dave Baker
Edited by Nick Murphy - บันเทิง
I love the fact that we owe star trek primarily to Lucille ball
a shrewd and talented woman. had no idea she had anything to do with star trek though, really surprised me.
IT'S JUST SO RIDICULOUS!!!
(read in a Ricky Ricardo voice)
While mostly true, Lucille Ball had no idea what the show was about. When Desilu found itself without a show, they flipped thru all the options they had. When Lucille Ball pitched Star Trek, she thought it was a traveling USO-type show where celebrities would go to visit troops. LOL!!! True story, I'm afraid.
A bit overstated, but I'm glad I learned about her important role.
And Mission Impossible. In fact, the guest stars would be in both shows at the same time.
Roddenberry went on to marry Majel Barrett. She also is the voice for the computer in the shows. Not to mention Deanna Troi’s mother in TNG. Even though she was removed as Number One after the first episode, she still had quite the impact on the franchise.
She also played Nurse Chapel
Oh, wow, I didn't know that. I love Lwaxana Troi! Barrett did a good job with her.
Nurse Chapel.
Gene loved shrimp.
And Rebecca Romjin is now playing Number One quite well
Jeffrey Hunter wasn't fired, he decided not to return to the series. In his contract, he was obligated to return if the show went into production or if the pilot was turned into a TV movie, calling for extra scenes to be filmed. Since NBC ordered a second pilot, Hunter was not under contractual obligation to continue working Star Trek. Desilu tried many times to rehire him at first, but all their offers were refused.
I've read that Jeffrey Hunter's wife felt that her husband was a MOVIE Star, not a "mere TV actor" and kept everyone at bay.
I guess he missed out.
His wife made him quit
He wanted to concentrate on movies.
@@Otokichi786 ironically of course there’d be many Trek movies. Of course Hunter wouldn’t live to see them anyway.
When Startrek TOS became available on Netflix, I started with The Cage. I was mesmerized by the storyline and storytelling. So glad I started on The Cage.
Majel Barrett went on to play McCoys Nurse Chapel through the entire run of the show and the motion picture as well as the ships computer, she wasn't fired from the show, she also then went on to play Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9
She was Roddenberry's mistress. She was shit canned because the studio didn't want to deal with the troubles of the show's creator hiring his mistress becoming public knowledge. In the pilot, she was credited as Majel Hudec, her real last name. When Roddenberry brought her back to play Nurse Chapel, she changed her last name to Barrett.
@@krim7 I have always thought what a person did off screen was their business not mine.. unless it was against the law and then the whole world would know . Just for the heck of it how would you like your every move talked about by those you don't even know?
@@cynthiamerrick2335 All of this is public knowledge, which has been talked about ad nauseum for 60 years both by the fans and by the people involved in what happened.
The original title of the pilot was "The Menagerie". It was only renamed "The Cage" when it went on to be released separately from the the famous two-parter in TOS, which by then had inherited the original name.
Also, Majel Barrett wasn't Rodenberry's girlfriend at the time of filming the original - she was his mistress, a potential scandal that was an open secret in the studio at the time. The bigwigs would have been perfectly happy with a female as the second in command, they just wanted someone other than Majel.
Kudos for not falling into the trap that refilming a pilot was somehow unusual or unique to Star Trek though.
Yup - the outrage over not wanting a woman as the first officer was perhaps popular amongst fans but it just isn't the truth.
@@dirdib69 Personally I suspect that the story began with something Gene told to Majel (in order to shift the blame away from himself) and then just stuck around in the retellings he did over the years
@@MatthewCaunsfield This has been my assumption as well.
"Firefly" Cough! cough! (The Pilot episode was "Too slow/not enough action" for the Teen Ade Mutant Fox TV programmers!?)
Majel Barrett was the voice of the computer, also she was a flamboyant betazoid Lwaxana Troi.
Jeffrey Hunter (Christopher Pike) wasn't fired. He declined to return for the second pilot. He wanted to focus on his movie career instead.
And now the only thing he’s remembered for it being Pike in the pilot. Ironic, isn’t it.
@THE RENAGADE that's fine. Either way it was their decision not to return, not that he was fired from the show.
@@keirfarnum6811 wow, interesting observation
I cant imagine what life would be like if star trek never happened. it's a huge part of my memories watching the original star trek with my dad when i was a kid.
I recall the network did not like Spock either hence the " Get rid of the guy with the ears " comment. Glad Gene stuck to his guns there :)
I rewatched the pilot a ton of times on Netflix, I never knew they redid it by the next pilot, I just thought it went forward in time with Pike being shown later. They managed to patch up the canon with the managerie episodes and i didnt noticed
I think it's interesting how the pilot of TOS is being honoured in a way with the new series coming out next year I think, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which is going to be an episodic Star Trek show about the crew Pike captained. It has Pike, Spock and Una all there in the show as main characters so in some way it's coming full circle.
Wait, it's gonna be episodic, and not the galaxy being in imminent danger ever season?
Pike sounds familiar 🤔
@@AB-dm1wz that’s what I heard anyway
Too bad it still has Kurtzman in charge. He doesn't have the ability to honor classic Star Trek.
Kurtszman Treck is just copyrighted names and brand stamped in twisted aberrations.
I loved The Menagerie precisely because it incorporated the original pilot into the series. Although it was really done because they were short on scripts during the first season, and the 2-parter gave them breathing room to come up with more usable scripts to finish the season.
They weren't short on scripts. They were falling behind on production. Doing The Menagerie allowed them to film for a usual week, but get two episodes out of a week's worth of shooting. If more of "The Cage" had been usable, they might have even saved another day of production, but they cut some 13 minutes out of it, including a scene where the Talosians cut the ship's power (and Spock acts VERY emotionally), leaving questions about the scene where Spock is told all power's coming on and the helm is responding. Cut scenes also showed the very human and humorous interplay of characters but that didn't really add to the story for Spock's trial.
@@chizmcquade489 Thanks for the clarification. I knew The Menagerie was meant to buy them time, but I had the particulars wrong.
Hundreds of thousands of people DID already know this.
Right. Anyone who calls himself a Star Trek fan knows about The Cage and The Menagerie.
Don't get me wrong I like the video. But......This is called "The Very Different Version Of Star Trek You Never Saw",but it not talk about the show I never saw. You know the one with Pike,Spock,and Number One. That is the Trek I never saw. I was born in 1966(the same year it was put on TV) 55 years age. So I've been watching all my life. I thought this video was going to be about what Trek would have been like with out Kirk,McCoy, Scotty and the rest of the crew we all know. Plus I saw The Cage(mixed BW and Color cut) back in the 90's and knew about it back in the 80's.
In the small town where my parents and I lived in the mid-1960s, color TVs weren’t the norm as yet. My parents had saved and saved to buy one, so when TOS aired in that time........ WOW, so special!! TOS series became my dad’s favorite TV show because it had in our future ‘world peace’. He had joined the USN the day after Pearl Harbor and had served his WWII time in the Pacific (had nightmares due to it too). Spock is my favorite and as that young teen girl back then, my wall had a poster of him.
Of you’re going to do more videos like this, I’d be very interested in a video about the character change between Prescription: Murder and Columbo. The change in Columbo’s personality is so drastic it would be very interesting to compare.
As a young minority Star Trek lead me to believe that nothing could stop me from rising above my circumstances! And so I did.
People keep repeating the "Execs didnt want a woman as second-in-command". Actually, the people involved have stated that Roddenberry was told Majel Barrett (as married Gene's mistress) was an inappropriate choice. Plus, they say, at the time, she was not a very good actress.
NBC actually supported the idea of a strong female second-in-command. Their problem was the actress portraying her.
Indeed. Many lies were told over the decades about Roddenberry, in order to keep some of the less than savory aspects of his behavior secret. Among many others is the idea that he created Number One specifically because Barrett asked him to, and got rid of the character when the executives said "recast this part".
Did she need to be a good actress? Her character was an ice queen. That cold trait got passed to Spock, which was fortunate. Of course, Spock wasn't emotionless; he just suppressed that side of himself, which occasionally required Nimoy to act (and he was great at it). One of the Talosians flat-out said that Number One wasn't cold underneath, and I do wonder if Majel could have shown us that internal conflict. She *was* emotional as Christine Chapel, but that's easier than being a complex character with a frigid mask.
@@racookster I think, at the time, it was more about Gene having his mistress on the set. They probably said "bad actress" to justify their actions. I agree that it was in poor taste to have Barrett there. Of course, Nichelle Nicholls was also Gene's mistress at the time. LOL!!!
@@salsanchez4177 And actually Nichelle Nichols also got cast because of her close ties to Gene. In fact, the character of Uhura was a last minute addition to the cast after Nichols phoned up Roddenberry: "Hi dear, I heard you're doing a new TV series. I'm out of a job, so you might have one for me."
She was offered such a ridiculously good contract (she earned more than either DeForest Kelley, James Doohan or George Takei per episode) that the studio immediately smelled foul play and forced Roddenberry to renegotiate it with her.
The stories about Nichelle not earning as much as her white male co-stars is another big lie which fans tend to believe for some reason.
Yes, as a character in Star Trek, Spock was the only returning character from the original pilot. However, both Majel Barret (Nurse Chapel) and George Takei (Sulu) returned to the series as other characters.
What was George Takei before?
@@coolcucumber372 Actually George Takei had a brief cameo as a department head on the bridge during the second pilot (with Kirk) titled, " Where no man has gone before". He was not in the first pilot after all.
Wow. I never knew Lucille Ball had such a connection to Star Trek history.
Watch the series The Center Seat on History. It's great so far. The one on the animated ST from the 70s was top notch.
Keep this content gold my guy love your work. The discord love u also.
Oh heck you're crossing over into my territory! Great video, wonderful coverage of the story! ^.^
I downvoted this video simply because it was wrong about the NBC execs wanting to keep Spock. It was Gene that insisted he be kept. NBC wanted to "delete the martian". Also Jeff Hunter wasn't fired. He just refused to come back for a second pilot and wanted to do movies instead.
Is that worth a dislike? A correction like you've just given would definitely suffice.
@@KorriTimigan I’d say multiple factual inaccuracies are worth a dislike.
@@petemccutchen3266 Then the dislike is worth it. Spock was not the only actor retained from the pilot. Both Bob Johnson and Tom Curtis were in "The Cage" and did voice work or appeared in other Star Trek Episodes.
@@KorriTimigan What else would be worth a dislike? A video that supposedly gives facts when they are actually untrue is definitely worth a dislike.
@@petemccutchen3266 this. The video has a good meaning but is improperly researched.
We could have easily still had Star Wars without Star Trek but we certainly would not have had the Star Trek movies without Star Wars (as Paramount decided to scrap the new Star Trek show and make a Star Trek movie after they saw the wild success of Star Wars).
Yeah, it's the other way around. Star Trek became a big hit after Star Wars. The reason Paramount started releasing Star Trek movies was because of the success of Star Wars.
Star wars would had been a much smaller film. Positive reaction by Trekkies at conventions led Fox to invest the full 11 million
it would be logical to assume many of those who stood in line 5-25-77 were Trekkies
My favorite part of the pilot was when at some point towards the end the doctor breaks out his little kit and mixes up martinis for he and Pike.
Actually it was the beginning
Honestly my favorite scenes in TOS is when Kirk, Spock and bones shit talk with each other, mostly at Spock’s expense. Those times you could really see the dynamic story potential of such well written characters.
I heard that the reason the "suits" didn't keep Number One was that they didn't like Majel's acting or the fact that she was Gene's mistress at the time. They didn't think she should play a main role. However, they agreed to accept her in the fairly minor recurring role of Nurse Chapel.
Actually she’s in every single episode. She is also in every episode of the next generation, and every episode of Voyager. And she is in all six of the star trek films.
She is the voice of the computer.
@@gz9520 That's true, but I guess back then the execs were more concerned about her screen presence. They probably didn't mind who did the computer voice.
@@gz9520 Additionally she played Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek the Next Generation. I met her at a Star Trek convention and she said that Gene came home one day and said to her, "Majel, I have a part for you and you don't even have to act." That part was Lwaxana Troi. She also did voice work in 2 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise as well as voice work in Deep Space 9.
I heard that women audience members at the time didn't like her commending attitude.
that is what herb solow claimed. but he is the only one who claimed this
1:04 “It was a long journey”
So you could say it was a long road getting from there to here? 😉
It was a trek.
You debunked some myths, but my understanding is that the letter-writing campaign is also likely a myth. There was such a campaign, but it's far from certain that TOS was ever on the verge of cancellation, and when NBC announced the renewal in context of the campaign, the implication was more of "stop writing to us" rather than "we listened to you."
not a myth because i took part in it
the myth was that it was started by the fans, when it was in fact started by rodenberry and his production team and fans thought it was organic
was a brilliant pr stunt and yes, the show was on the verge of cancellation and the 3rd season was given a smaller budget
@@thewkovacs316, I didn't say it didn't happen. And there are conflicting reports about its cancellation status, as well as whether the campaign had any effect.
@@sm5574 if rodenberry wasnt worried about the show being canceled, why did he start the campaign?
still an amazing thing to happen before the advent of the internet
the problem at the time was how ratings were counted.
when the show went to syndication, it got big numbers for local stations....so as usual, the suits were wrong
@@thewkovacs316, Roddenberry could have been worried about something that wasn't actually a problem. Or maybe the studio execs had changed their minds before the campaign actually started rolling. No one knows for sure. That's my point.
@@thewkovacs316 I wrote a letter also, so there was at least two!
I love at the end, your final lines, you so carefully say what needs to be said…without saying it.
I'm impressed with this informative video. My brother Robert is a big fan of Star Trek.
Lovely presentation. Thank you for the Trek love :)
"NBC fired everyone involved in the original pilot except for one guy - Spock"
False - Bob Johnson was the voice of the first Talosian (played by Meg Wyllie) in "The Cage" and played the role of Transporter Chief Pitcairn in "The Menagerie." He did voice work in other Star Trek The Original Series episodes including; Provider 3 in "The Gamesters of Triskelion", Starbase 6 Commander in "The Immunity Syndrome", and ground control in "Assignment Earth".
Tom Curtis did voice work in "The Cage", played Jon Daily in "The Menagerie", and the part of Corrigan in "Court Martial".
Bears beats Battlestar Galactica.
An actor named Edward Madden appeared in both "The Cage" and a Season 1 episode called "The Enemy Within." It could be argued that he even played the same character: Geologic Technician Fisher.
Meg Wylie played the chief Talosian, the "Keeper", whose voice was dubbed by Malachi Throne. When Throne played Commodore Mendez in the two-part "Menagerie," his voice as the Keeper was pitch-shifted using an analog tape machine called an Eltro Information Rate Changer.
" But few probably know what led to everyone but Spock being replaced with a new crew"
Well, they didn't replace Majel Barret, although they gave her a new role. It's because Roddenberry was "dating" her.
2 views? Never been this early, should i come back?
Since you said that Star Trek laid the foundation for all the modern-day sci-fi franchises, I'm just going to mention that Doctor Who was launched years before the original Star Trek, and there are even a few Star Trek episodes and concepts that are dangerously close to Doctor Who ones (the most notable one being the Borg)
Yeah, and Roddenberry and company tried to launch their own spin off trek show Gary Seven, which was a blatant Dr Who clone show, which was the season 2 finale of Trek. Pretty wild stuff, honestly.
There were also a lot of similarities between Star Trek and another sci-fi show that began two years before Star Trek called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, about a military group of explorers who encountered adventure, disaster and aliens. One could argue THAT show laid the foundation for Star Trek.
@@Nerdstalgic Gary seven makes it sound like Terry Nation (the guy who created the daleks) may of took quite a bit of ideas from star trek and changed things to his liking for Blake's 7.
I would argue that Dune laid a far greater literary foundation yet than Trek did. And that was written in 1965.
@@darkjedi74 You could also say that Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" was the foundation for Dune.
As someone who only got into Star Trek a few months ago, watching "The Cage" first and then the "actual" first episode confused me so much because where the heck did everyone except Spock go? I only realised afterwards lol
Hahaha, the Wilhelm scream in The Lieutenant! Nice touch :)
Star Wars took heavy inspiration from Frank Herbert's classic Sci-Fi novel "Dune" as well as comics of the time. Star Wars would still absolutely exist even without Star Trek, albeit in an alternate form.
There is a story that filming an episode a cameraman got sick or had to leave for some reason. Lucy was there in a full evening gown for a later formal engagement. The cameraman could not be replaced soon enough so she got behind the camera and shot the episode.
Your last words in this video are so true. Thanks, I needed to hear them today.
Hunter wasn't fired he didn't want to do a series he wanted to do movies😊
Great video.
LOL, that Chris Pine footage was from SNL
The first episode is awesome! One of the best.
Majel Barrett, who played Number 1, was recast as Nurse Chapel.
Spock is Star Trek, Star Trek is Spock now and forever linked. When ever I think, or hear or even say the word Star Trek the first and only person in my mind is Spock.
Of course, Leonard Nimoy wasn't the only actor to make the jump to ST:OS. Majel Barrett also made the jump. But not as Number 1, but as the ship's computer, and later as Nurse Chapel as well as Lwaxana Troi in ST:NG.
Jeffrey Hunter did so well in the role of Capt. Christopher Pike. This is why there is so much interest in the character until now, and the latest TV iteration of ST features him in the lead. Too bad Hunter could not or did not return to the part during his time.
The pilot has been available for awhile
Big Brain Alien: "Its necessary to perpetuate the species."
Picard: "You realize the Federation has entire planets of people perpetuating the species."
FYI: If you own the Season 3 of Star Trek TOS the Original Pilot titled ‘The Cage’ is on the 6th Disc both the Original Cut and the Extended Cut of that Episode on the same Disc. And as for that ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’ maybe the Pilot for the Kirk Version of Star Trek TOS but it is always Listed as the Third Episode after ‘The Man Trap’ and ‘Charlie X’
That would be because what is commonly used is the broadcast order, not the production order.
@@manic5378 Yeah I kind of suspected it that
Maybe they fired everyone but they brought back the actress (Majel Barrett) shown @0:35 at the far right. Any Star Trek fan will recognize her in everything from the original series (nurse Chapel) to the Next Generation (Lwaxana Troy) and even the video games!
The studio told Roddenberry to ditch number one because the test audience didn’t like her. Ironically, the women in the test audience didn’t like her because she dared to be pikes equal while talking to him.
The studio told Roddenberry to ditch Majel because he was having an affair with her and they didn't want to be associated with a scandal. The stories saying otherwise were made up by Roddenberry to protect Majel and to make NBC look bad.
@@ZeroSpawn47 my bad, it’s funny how something that happened so long ago still has misinformation
@@jamesalexhowlett If anything, the fact that it happened so long ago will lead directly to misinformation, since there's fewer people to refute claims.
The most obvious example being things like pirates, ninjas, and vikings all having a cartoony misrepresentation in modern times thanks to much more recent books and movies.
Fun fact.. Leonard nimoy did the voice of decepticon commander "Galvatron" in the 1986 animated transformers movie and also voiced "seintinal prime" in the live action transformers movie Dark of the moon.
Those facts are not fun.
@@LaurenceQuint I wasn't asking you.
@@Kickback-dm7zt You were making a statement. As was I. Your consent was neither sought nor required.
@@LaurenceQuint fuck off loser. Its a public comment section and I can say what I want and I sure as hell DONT need your (or any one else's) "consent" to say anything. 🖕🖕🖕
@@Kickback-dm7zt Wow, it's like you're actively trying to miss the point! Good work!
There were two who were not fired: Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett (XO in the pilot episode and Nurse Chappel in TOS).
"Studios often don't have their hands of the pulse of the bodies they're bearing."
100% accurate.
There thousands of shows we could say about this.
But as far as Sci fi is concerned... I start that list with Firefly.
And I will follow up with Enterprise. 🙄
This explains why Leonard Nimoy argued that the Star Trek story was about him due to him being in every episode with a long dialogue .
They didn’t fire Majel Barret (Gene Roddenberry’s wife.) They recast her as Nurse Chappell.
Nice video -
I saw episodes of "The Lieutenant" recently. Excellent show. Many of the actors from this show also appeared in Star Trek.
Fascinating (Raised eyebrow)
Agreed.
Donald Glover would make a good Miles Morales though
The editor seemed to have fun with this video!
Good beginning and middle, but the concluding post-amble was Ring Around the Rosie.
Studios back in the day evaluated line-ups, not shows. It wasn't like TH-cam where you can still push "publish" to share a video with just two family members and a devoted Border Collie with with an assistive-input paw glove. A lot of people wanted those broadcast hours, and there were a lot of bills to pay when the dust settled under the sign-off colour bars.
Title: The Very Different Version Of Star Trek You Never Saw
The Episode: Literally the first episode on Netflix.
Majel Barrett was beautiful!
It was such a huge step up from previous corny and low tech designed sci fi movies ( I say that excluding the pilot which was a little like previous stuff ) it was amazing
They also kept Gene's wife...Majal.
"Wilhelm scream" at @1:32
You just couldn't help yourselves.
One of the great shows the networks canceled too soon. Like 'Firefly,' another science fiction show with a great cast and interesting premise. I guess they needed more cop shows... /s
Actually, Spock was not the only carryover. The actress cased Number One, later known as nurse Chapel, Majel Barrett went on to appear in 210 episodes +7 movies.
Technically they kept 2 actors/actresses. Spock and Number One; who became Nurse Chapel.
Seems to me that someone forgot that Majel Barrett, who played Number one was also nurse Chapel, and went on to be Roxann Troy on STNG.
This is one show that I don’t remember as a youngster back in the late 1960”s!I just remember the re-runs of;Star Trek!The re-runs had grown on me as a teenager,too,way back in the late 1970”s.Now,the Hereo’s and Icon”s channel show”s Star ⭐️ Trek on the weekend’s on Saturday evening’s.Of course,there’s still those Star Trek collectable’s that they sell at the used book 📕 store!
I can actually remember Watching the original broadcast of the salt monster episode and I wasn’t quite two years old. It gave me nightmares. I grew up trying to be Spock which is why went into math and computer science.
Few things:
1) Star Trek was *not* a ratings sensation. It never spiked above 54th in the Nielsen Ratings of the time.
2) There were two letter writing campaigns. Star Trek was cancelled *twice*. Once after the first season, and again after the second. What actually saved it was that RCA, then parent company of NBC said that they wanted the show to stay on the air because people were buying color TVs just to watch it.
3) The Writer's Strike of 1968, and internal strife (thanks to Gene Roddenberry being "absentee dad" in season 3, and the subsequent hiring of Fred Frieberger as Executive Producer/Showrunner) killed Star Trek. In fact, there was supposed to be one more episode after "Turnabout Intruder", but NBC told them *not* to bother filming it. Most people didn't even watch the final episode first run because it was aired 3 months after the penultimate episode ("All Our Yesterdays").
4) Star Trek's second go-round had not one, but THREE pilots submitted: "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Corbomite Maneuver" and "The Man Trap". NBC bought all of them. Then aired them out of order. On September 8, 1966, the first episode aired was "The Man Trap", not "Where No Man Has Gone Before". This really confused people because they inexplicably switched the entire cast around again.
5) In 1972, NBC apparently got a new computer algorithm to compute demographic data and included new categories in the Nielsens. With this new data, Star Trek actually scored 2-3x better than they thought and realized they had cancelled a potential gold mine. They asked Gene Roddenberry if he still had access to the old sets and wardrobe. Sadly, Gene responded, it was all burned when the show was finally cancelled as per tradition (or sold or lost). Since NBC was run by skinflints, they instead commissioned The Animated Series as an "official continuation" of the series.
I love these nostalgic retrospectives. But when you either gloss over or completely misrepresent key details (there's more, but the point is made), especially given that this show is one of the most thoroughly compiled, researched, and preserved pieces of science fiction in television history (one that has an extensively monitored and updated wiki behind it to chronicle this information), it makes mistakes or omissions much more egregious. And I've yet to find one that is 100% correct in any respect. Somewhat alarming.
That said, I did enjoy your video, even if it seems I did not from this lol
Majel Barrett was also on the initial pilot. She changed roles but was not fired. She was giver a smaller role but was not fired. Leonard Nimoy also changed roles.
Fantastic how much Star Trek tech has and is becoming real!
04:20 actually Desilu had sunk a lot of money into that pilot and needed to recoup that, hence Lucille Ball lobbying so hard for it.
I saw this title and immediately thought "jokes on you, of course I've seen that."
It took sixteen years to bring back Doctor Who because the bigwigs at the BBC didn't realise what they had. The modern series has been successful all over the world and a ton of merchandising is sold every year. Doctor Who is finally a pop culture icon
and Chibnall has all but destroyed it.
That intro...the foundation :). Asimov's works, Metropolis, Dr Who, Dune series, Flash Gordon have far greater influence on Matrix, Star Wars etc. But I think Star Trek contributed to the result as there are parallels.
Yes. Not just literary works but in cinema as well. The only thing star trek helped with was commercial merchandising.
Akira as well, Japanese anime arguably played a bigger part in all of these series to build a foundation. Star trek certainly carried this forward.
The other piece star trek helped do is build confidence that sci fi and the like has a place in American cinema and tv.
Before then, metropolis and some dark sci fi comedies tried to dabble but nothing like a true space faring opera/adventure series. It was and still is unique. I still think if someone were to present star trek today, it would laughed out the door
@@cheetah219 I think it would be ok introduced today, but execs would want something changed. Dr Who had to evolve to be about future robot/aliens instead of history, just as Star Trek evolved to be about War instead of exploration. Star Wars sells best with family as a theme, which is odd given the name. Who knows what executives would want the original series Star Trek to be like introduced today.
A lot is now said about Lucille Ball's involvement with the development and advancement of Star Trek, which is funny. In their 1996 book, "Inside Star Trek, the Real Story," Herbert Solow and Robert Justman describe how Lucy had virtually nothing to do with the running of Desilu, at least when it came to property development. They basically write that she didn't know anything about the show and in Chapter 2 indicate that she thought it was going to be about a troupe of USO entertainers in the South Pacific.
I'm not making that up.
When I was in high school, I found the beta tape my dad recorded when this pilot was aired. It was an event hosted by Patrick Stewart, with a majority of it being The Cage and then some promos for the new series, The Next Generation. I liked it.
Funny, that at 0:47 you used part of the German opening titles to TNG.
Just when I thought I knew Star Trek. Lol! I thought September 8, 1966 was the airdate and the "pilot" that sold the series was "The Man Trap" which if memory serves was the 6th episode in production order.
I saw somebody calling you a fake intellectual TH-cam essayist and I was like what you mean the dude who makes videos about Spider-Man I don't think he's pretending to be anything other than a nerd and I don't think you're pretending that either. Nice video keep up the good work
Who called him that?
roddenberry's original draft was originally titled the cage and appears in it's entirety in Steven e. Whitfields book the making of star trek
They hadn't gotten the full cast together by the time the filmed the first episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which was aired third. In fact, some of the actors look like they were left overs from the pilot, which is why that episode looks strange compared to the previous two.
I love Star Trek and saw this episode and never knew it was the pilot.
Majel Barrett was in the pilot too, as The first officer, and was in Every Episode as Nurse Chappell or the voice of the computer.💪🗽💪🇺🇸✊
We used to have movies made from TV shows that were too "cerebral" for television audiences, but everyone who watched the shows went to see the movie versions anyway. Now we have shows like "The Bachel______" that are too vapid even for TV. They're only selling ads because folks are tired of watching reruns on Nickelodeon and SYFY.
Spock was not the only character to make an appearance in both the original pilot and then TOS. It can be argued that Geologic Technician Fisher (played by Edward Madden) appears in both as well.
When The Cage was originally released on video it was in B&W and colour. Pretty sure there were two releases. The missing colour segments were later found and the pilot was restored and released to video. That was back either in the late 80s or early 90s. The Cage does suffer from poor audio in places, I assume these were the previously missing colour segments?
Would love to see "why the wheel of time didn't work"
"Basically the whole cast was replaced.'
Sulu- "What about me?"
oh thank god it's this guy
Is this channel related to nerdwriter1?
It's been a long road. Getting from there to here. 😂
I wouldn't say Star Wars & Matrix wouldn't exist because of Star Trek.
Star Wars is clearly more SciFi pulp story inspired while Matrix rips off William Gibson and Philip k Dick's works.
Plus this also ignores such formative works of science fiction in cinema like Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth stood Still.
@@elijahblechman8633 I'll grant you Forbidden Planet. The Day the Earth Stood Still is just another cheap 50s "Sci Fi" piece of crap with (evil) political baggage, a wish fulfillment fantasy for totalitarians. But FP would have been forgotten without Star Trek. And if Star Trek had not been such a success in syndication, not only would Star Wars not have gotten made, it would never have gotten written. Lucas is not that creative, most of his plot turns and whole scenes are lifted from other movies. Fortunately, SW and ST from that point kept each other alive and spawned a great number of worthwhile series and movies. Nowadays, all good things must not just end, but be tortured to death.