STAR TREK UNAIRED VERSION 2ND PILOT INTRO from 16mm film

The original print from Star Trek's 2nd pilot was never aired in this format. Had different opening narration, credits, had acts 1 thru 4 like an old quinn martin show and had scenes cut from aired version and different end credits and music. The original 16mm print is now stored in the Smithsonian oddly enough the soundtrack for this version was released with the cage. CBS owns all rights to Star Trek and no rights are implied. Just a part of trek history to share.

[@paktype]

I've been watching Star Trek for almost 40 years and I didn't think there was anything I have not yet seen. I am truly shocked.

[@terrylong8894]

I don't know why. This is Where No Man Has Gone Before, which aired on September 22, 1966.

[@JimKile]

Terry Long The beginning is different from the episode aired in 1966. The episode begins after the "Act I" overlay and none of the introductory dialogue is included.

[@paktype]

Jim Kile is right - I have seen the episode many many times, but not with that introduction.

[@hakavon]

paktype Um... Maybe that's why the write up above says this was a "never aired" version.

[@domainofthesun4400]

+paktype Me too - except I saw the first episode as as little kid nearly 50 years ago. Quite disorienting isn't it?

[@blkmanbat]

Gene Roddenberry was at the University of Alaska Anchorage back in the very early '80's. He brought with him the original B&W "The Cage" and the complete Original "Where No Man Has Gone Before" versions that were never aired. We watched them on a huge projection screen. What a treat it was to be there!

[@AgentM79]

I saw "The Cage" in NYC at a "Creation" convention in the early 80s as well. Part color, part b&w. We lost our freakin' minds!!!! Gene was a great speaker, and it was a profound "Trek" experience for us.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

​@@RockBrentwood Amazing when the great ones quoted each other. I think The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone AND of course Star Trek really form the holy trinity of the BEST of the BEST that 60s television productions and writing could deliver. And that is also why these shows aged so well and are still highly watchable today.

[@sdjohnsononyoutube]

Had to be awesome. My mom would have love to had seen them.

[@GeneralPadron]

You have to think to yourself, "What the hell is a retired USA Air Force Officer doing writing "science fiction" scripts for a tv show about space travel and ecploration. And why would he go to a University to show the pilot films?".

[@wdd3141]

@@RockBrentwood Don't forget, Vic Perrin, the voice actor who narrated "The Outer Limits" also did the voice of Nomad in "The Changeling" and made a rare on-screen appearance as the leader of the Halcan Council in "Mirror, Mirror."

[@bearmare9710]

Easily one of the best and least seen episodes of the original series. Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman turned in killer performances.

[@normkirk65]

I watch this several times a week. Have been for the last, well, about 10 years and I am totally amazed and elated by it every time. Each "Act" has those awesome musical cues by Alexander Courage. They are ethereal, creepy, inspiring, timeless and are just plain cool to listen to. They invoke the mood, the situation, the science and the upcoming "creepiness" about to unfold. I've been totally into Star Trek for the last 50 years and it seems like there are endless gems like this to find ! The music, the sound effects, the stories, you name it. It is such an inspiring television show with so much hope for the future.

[@jeffg1524]

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is another classic episode, among many others, of course. It still works beautifully all these decades later.

[@Willifrex]

It has such a profoundly different feel to it, rather bizarre. I rather prefer this version. Although I guess its a bit more edge and less... hippy :)

[@sudhirpatel7620]

"One of my ancestors married a human female." Yeah your father.

[@loreaver3882]

i'd imagine he doesn't refer to his parents much

[@billanthony7896]

This was the second pilot, and it WAS aired, just without the introduction shown here. The second pilot was with William Shatner as the captain. The first pilot, which they eventually used in their only two part episode, starred Jeffery Hunter as Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike. Nimoy was in both as Spock. In neither pilot, however, had they yet settled on the Spock character being devoid of emotion, and driven on pure logic, which is why he's portrayed differently in both pilots from how he eventually evolved.

[@bedlam6666]

This is great. I am taken by Spock's reaction--more emotive considering this is a pilot episode--I would have expected this from later years when his character was more developed. I also love the look of it--more cinematic with overhead shots than you saw in the actual series. thanks for the post. it is a gem

[@photonicus]

+bedlam6666 At this point in his life,Spock may trying his hand at "mimicking"human emotions.

[@christopherjahn2044]

At this point, they hadn't decided that Spock would have no emotions, only that he didn't understand human emotions.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I love the shots of all the crew walking through the hallways! Why didn't they use these on the series? Man, this was great! It really felt like the ship was big and full of people.

[@goodmaro]

+Don Diego Vega Because it's a waste of time & sets. Just make reference to it occasionally, and that's all we need to know.

[@davandstudios]

+Don Diego Vega Yeah that stood out to me too. It gave it a more realistic look.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

+Don Diego Vega Ah yes, that was the irritating sounds scene.

[@Bwanadave1313]

+Don Diego Vega Concur, Don Diego. I enjoy the earlier episodes that have more of the ship's daily business, like in Corbomite Maneuver and Balance of Terror with all of the intercom chatter about the exercises they're running. Nice attention to detail that fell away after a while.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Good point!

[@deckocards6988]

Man, this takes me back!! I'd forgotten about all the noises :-) Thanks for posting this! Such a Classic!!

[@Seeker386]

Nimoy had Spock showing more emotion than in later programs. Fascinating.

[@PETERJOHN101]

Nimoy said years later that he was not fully in character in the unused pilot, his more logical Spock took a few episodes to show up.

[@jkocol]

In the original pilot, The Cage, he actually smiled and made clever humorous wise cracks.

[@oneobserver2260]

Well,he was half human.

[@chopsueykungfu]

@@oneobserver2260 yes, but not in this original one - "one of my ancestors married a human female"

[@oneobserver2260]

@@chopsueykungfu What are you talking about ?

[@UltraKryptonian]

Big Star Trek fan and I never seen this before! Thanks for sharing - this is pretty cool! The lack of CGI makes this even more impressive!

[@cytherians]

Anyone else notice Gary Mitchell trying to exercise his "special powers" (3:45) before he actually had them? ;-)

[@blkmanbat]

@ cytherians Yes!!

[@VolkXue]

Can't blame a guy for trying

[@josephsorce2543]

he was just fantasizing

[@josephsorce2543]

... over Yoman Rand !

[@josephsorce2543]

... maybe it wasn't Yoman Rand, but Gary was just Mentally Acting out a lust synario in his mind. ... kind of plays into his already inflated ego later when he gains the Power in this episode.

[@murraytoews5353]

I'm enjoying the above POV and textured lighting from this original version!

[@foskten10]

I've always liked that shot - very unique vantage point :)

[@camapa233]

Did you notice that when Kirk, Spock and Mitchell get on the elevator there is no line on the floor, indicating that the car could move up and down through a tube?

[@tracywilliams7929]

It wasnt until the last year that they returned to the use of creative camera work. Like tilting the frame to show the skewed oerspective of a crazy character.

[@willdwyer6782]

@@tracywilliams7929 the tilted frame was very often used on the Batman TV series, which was on the air during the same years as Star Trek. The villains on the Batman TV series were almost always shown through a tilted frame.

[@RonJohn63]

The evolution from the original "The Cage" to this "Where No Man Has Gone Before" to the broadcast version og WNMHGB is very interesting.

[@KCOliver1960]

I half way expected to hear that Quinn Martin announcer say "STAR TREK: A QUINN MARTIN PRODUCTION."

[@stevenoverton8316]

"Tonight's episode."

[@EllPhillip]

Steven Overton .......starring William Conrad and Buddy Ebsen ! !

[@JeffDeWitt]

William Conrad as James T. Kirk?!?

[@QED_]

Buddy Ebsen as Mr. Spock ?!?

[@jesseMadoo]

Michael Douglas as Kirk, Buddy Ebsen as McCoy, Karl Malden as Spock, William Conrad as Scotty.

[@bhbluebird]

I've been watching these old episodes on NETFLIX and they have help up relatively well. The show was ahead of its time.

[@rogerlinnenburger902]

In my universe this was not the second pilot but the first. Fascinating.....and interesting.

[@auldjohnmastersage477]

Fascinating Star Trek creation lore. Interesting to not see the distinctive "Roddenberry" font and the lack of the Alexander Courage iconic theme song. I was also pleased to Guest Stars Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman. It does belong in the Smithsonian collection. Hopefully, at some point CBS will release the entire episode as part of Star Trek lore or retrospective. Thanks for sharing this clip.

[@AvengerII]

This was the NETWORK submission for Trek to go into production... It was a pilot episode, hardly the tweaked product of the weekly series. They did a re-edit of this that was closer to the normal series format and which did air on NBC a few weeks after the series' official premiere. The re-edit is the version most people have seen... It's what been able in ALL the home video releases of Star Trek: TOS. In the meantime, the original 35mm copy of this network submission was lost or stolen from the studio archives. A film collector in Germany actually bought this "lost" 35mm film from somebody and later loaned it back to Paramount for them to create a high-definition scan for the Star Trek archives. That's how THIS version was able to be released for the first time OFFICIALLY on home video as part of the original series. It was included as an extra on the Third Season set for the Star Trek: TOS (Remastered) Blu ray edition. Before, you actually COULD get the network version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" on VHS. It was a mail-order thing... I saw it in a catalog in the early 1990s but never bought it -- I was never a huge VHS collector. That VHS tape is probably where this came from... It was from a 16mm, worn copy struck from the 35mm master.

[@bigedseattle]

Wow, almost Fifty years later and still something new for me to watch. Thank you!

[@marcparella]

What you don't see on the episodes but is clear on this excerpt is the sense of full crew. Interesting.

[@Anonymous01959]

+Marc Parella Did you notice the women were wearing pants?

[@jay55also]

+Anonymous01959 An early point in Star Fleets history,then a couple of years later , women in mini StarFleet skirts....The 60's

[@mrwebber35]

+Anonymous01959 No, no one notices women wearing pants

[@Anonymous01959]

mrwebber35 what about naked women?

[@mrwebber35]

Anonymous01959 Ever thought of running for Congress?... He asks knowingly

[@ToddSF]

The second pilot is peculiar in so many ways. For one thing, they didin't show it as the first episode in 1966 when Star Trek began airing on NBC. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the third episode they aired and the differences were notable. For one thing, they changed the uniforms -- the ones in the second pilot were the same as in the first pilot, with regular sleeves instead of raglan sleeves, and odd knit crew necks that didn't hug the necks and were higher in the back than in the front, with different gold trim on the sleeves to indicate rank. The bridge was different, with a smaller main view screen that had a wide border and rounded corners, plus there were those communication devices with goosenecks, one of which came out of the side of the captain's chair. Suddenly, too, there was a different doctor from Dr. McCoy, Dr. Mark Piper played by Paul Fix. Sulu had a different job, and there wasn't any Uhura. I'm guessing Paul Fix wasn't available by the time the series was picked up, so they hired DeForest Kelley and came up with Leonard McCoy as the new ship's doctor. I think they had Captain Kirk's middle initial as "R" in the second pilot, or so the name James R. Kirk shows up on the tombstone created by Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell. The names of the departments on board can be strange -- they called "sick bay" something else, I think.

[@MorganTrotter]

All of which adds to the charm in my book.

[@blockmasterscott]

I always liked that over head camera view at 3:57

[@foskten10]

Me too. I gives a unique shot of a common area of the ship you never see any other time.

[@drcurv]

?

[@benjohnson6666]

blockmasterscott I just made the same comment to my wife.

[@miguelsilvagnoli1803]

That was a mistake, when they step into the elevator the angle of the view shows the floor of the deck and the floor of the elevator in one piece!

[@justgivemethetruth]

I always loved the music on Star Trek.

[@tracywilliams7929]

Was it not that man with the great name who wrote it: Alexander COURAGE!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

The music of Alexander Courage fit the series so well! Like John Williams music fit LOST IN SPACE, and STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and SUPERMAN and INDIANA JONES.

[@TrussttN01]

Amok time is my favorite

[@MorganTrotter]

Me too, especially in the first season. So otherworldly...

[@Beamshipcaptain]

@@MorganTrotter Alexander Courage's Theme and music were so evocative and perfect. Deep Space. Starships. Cool shit.

[@TananBaboo]

I thought I had seen everything Star Trek. This is awesome! Definitely ended up making the right choice though.

[@Jetfire-kk1ti]

I haven't heard the "black void of beyond" speech since it was used in an NBC promo back in the 60's. I've always wondered what it was from.

[@richardnaulty6724]

Could have been Flash Gordon

[@odysseusrex5908]

The original series did such a marvelous job, with music, and camera work, and audio effects, especially in the early episodes, of making you *feel* like you were really in a ship, far out in the vastness of space. None of the other series or movies have ever achieved that same feeling.

[@1stAmendmentguy]

I didn't know about this until now but it makes perfect sense. The whole "act" thing and the narrated credits is straight out of 12 O'clock High which was the origin of most of the Star Trek music.

[@1956MercM260]

I'm happy somebody archived this! Great opening!

[@natashanyxx9486]

I noticed “Sulu” in the hallway with a blue shirt.

[@user-so4gp2sf1o]

I saw him too

[@honeymesquite3229]

Yep I believe originally he was a science officer, specialising in botanology or something.

[@jeffreysaunders8895]

R.I.P. Grace Lee Whitney

[@ghenulo]

She's not even in this episode, IIRC.

[@thomaspick4123]

If you read her book, without naming him, she was raped by the Jew, Gene Roddenberry, then he fired her. Nimoy was sympathetic to her sad tale.

[@tracywilliams7929]

This is news to me! I do not think Roddenberry was a Jew. A Christian Texan. He dated Uhura and she noted he could be a bit wild when high off of pot and sex, but a prim Southerner when not. Rand was described by him as having the body of a striptease artist and a constant temptation to Kirk who had to remain proper. May be Roddenberry lost it around Whitney. He seemed conflicted to me like a lot of white southern males. Restrained around white females, yet partying hard around black girls. Note how Kirk is strung between two women. Nurse chapel has a name suggesting being proper and chaste, a nice girl. She is in a profession that dresses in virginal white and is a white woman. Uhura in Swahili means freedom, perhaps as in sexual freedom? Black girls seen as loose in their morals by southerners? Always available for guilt free sex in the Bible belt. Black being the colour of evil as in black hatted villains. If Roddenberry was this sexually conflicted then he might well have done something. And did this incident trigger her later crack addiction and working as a prostitute? Very often reactions to sex assaults?

[@tracymiller1149]

@@thomaspick4123 He was Jewish? I didn't know that. Not sure how it's relevant to your statement.

[@psal8715]

​@@thomaspick4123 Gene Roddenberry was a non religious Humanist, and was raised a southern Baptist. And she never asserted that she was fired because of the sexual assault by one of the execs but because of politics.

[@martinwillms5876]

This is much cooler than the standard episodes. The sound, the cut and the camera position gives it a very serious feeling. In my opinion, it was its time (beginning ofthe siyties) much ahead.

[@ACLTony]

Classic. So neat that in spite of a very tight budget, the second pilot was nicely done. A nod to Lucille Ball as she helped to finance the 1st and 2nd pilots and even went against the board of directors by supporting ST.

[@kimkinsey579]

What I found interesting is that she really went to bat for it, but hadn't read the script of the original pilot!

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

I only recently read that "Desilu" was the business pairing of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (makes sense of course), though being a Brit born in '72, I've only ever seen that logo at the end of ST.

[@geoffreybidlack3774]

ACLTony

[@davidlawrence7681]

IThinkYouLookLarvely Mission Impossible was also a Desilu production. Both shows were expensive by the standards of the day, pushing the studio toward insolvency.

[@KCOliver1960]

David Lawrence Which is why Lucy had to sell Desilu to Paramount.

[@susiedupuy9532]

I watched this when it was first show on TV on a little black and white..

[@Patriotgal1]

Me too. We are old AF. ;)

[@scottstrang1583]

My dad watched this when it aired. I remember seeing Spock in jail on the Enterprise. My dad was a ST fan.

[@TheSteveSteele]

The soundtrack, foley and various sound effects are wonderful and in my case, influential.

[@WormieHerMajesty]

What I find most interesting about this is the fact that all the women wore the same type of uniform as the men. Long pants with long sleeve shirts. I wonder what made them change that.

[@Einnor084]

Studio XXXecutivez?

[@Einnor084]

They still had awesum rackz, tho!

[@ronjonnj01]

It was the Sixties man, The time of Hot pants go go boots

[@ronjonnj01]

It was the Sixties man, The time of Hot pants go go boots

[@telocho]

They are wearing the first style uniforms from the original pilot. It changed when it went into production (notice the turtle necks of the men are not black, too, but some corduroy thingy.)

[@brianarbenz1329]

This reminds us that every great TV series had to get the approval of a room full of network executives who looked at everything as a commodity, rather than art, before those who genuinely appreciate its aesthetics could ever see it.

[@kevinatkins6205]

The Doctor in this 2nd Pilot episode, Dr. Mark Piper (played by Paul Fix), also played 'Marshal Micah Torrance' on The Rifleman. My fiance and I are big fans of both shows and we got a kick out of this when we saw this episode on Netflix the other night.

[@thanbo]

Interesting, then, that both he and DeForest Kelley came out of Westerns.

[@kevinatkins6205]

Yeah, there were a lot of actors that were in the old TV westerns that became big names later on thru the late 60s and 70s. Burt Reynolds and Dennis Weaver from Gun Smoke, Clint Eastwood from Rawhide, Lee Majors in Big Valley, Steve McQueen from Wanted Dead or Alive, etc... I enjoy seeing these actors when they were still young and somewhat unknown in the old B&W westerns.

[@jimburrill8149]

Roddenberry’s original concept of Star Trek was the series Wagon Train set in space...

[@josefzack4617]

thanks for posting this, i had almost forgotten this episode. i know i did see it only in a different format. both gary lockwood [a good actor known back then fo being a regular 'sci-fi' actor] and sally kellerman [not yet famous for a brief nudity moment in the movie version of M.A.S.H.] gave wonderful supporting actor/actress performances. one very good episode for sure.

[@AndTheCorrectAnswerIs]

Glad they kept working on the intro. A good intro and theme can make or break a show. Love the "half a trashcan" probe. I don't know why Hollywood doesn't know how to use imagination any more. Special effects don't make a good show...writing and acting do.

[@sonnyburnett8725]

All the QM “Quinn Martin” series in the 60’s and early 70’s had that act one, act two etc. with an epilogue at the end. Star Trek, The FBI , Streets of San Francisco. Good stuff but our good ol Star Trek was the best and historic!

[@terentii]

For the first time in many years, I watched the (remastered) second pilot on the Space Channel not long ago, and was struck by just how different it was from this version. What we see here is true to the actual shooting script (the first part of which was reproduced in the book "The Making of Star Trek"), right down to the "wild grating" they filmed Mitchell through as he walks down the corridor. I'd be interested to learn which version Roddenberry presented to the SF fans at WorldCon in 1966.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

LOL AT Spocks eyebrows. Holyshit 45 degree angles on them brows.

[@mrwebber35]

+Mikanojo Agreed

[@ericnk58]

+Mikanojo In the first pilot, "The Cage," they allowed Spock to show a LOT more emotion than anywhere else. That grin when he was remarking about irritation was small potatoes compared to the other pilot, which, of course, is available, in B & W and color mixture, in all color, and in parts of "The Menagerie."

[@DelcoRanz93]

I'm guessing Fred Phillips was still in the process of perfecting the Spock makeup.

[@ToddSF]

Spock's eyebrows had that steep angle in both the first and second pilots. They finally got them the way we expect them in the first regular episode and kept them that way.

[@ToddSF]

As he was originally conceived, Spock was emotional and passionate. "Number One", Captain Pike's female first officer whose name is never stated (played by Majel Barrett), was cold and unemotional. By the time they made the second pilot, Number One had been eliminated (and Majel Barrett played Nurse Christine Chapel regularly). The decided to incorporate that unemotional personality into Spocks and came up with the idea that Vulcan culture is all about logic and repudiating emotions. I've seen other pilot episodes of TV shows where one can see differences between the pilot and the subsequent episodes of the show, once it got under way. Cast changes, by the way, or even character changes, are not uncommon once a pilot has been made and a regular series begins.

[@primovid]

Hey thanks for this! I loved that show and found so many episodes really insightful in their messages. Virtually all the set is still futuristic to this day with the one exception of the hairstyles at times, perhaps.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Shows how much work they had to go through to get this show on the air! I loved Star Trek as a kid when it came out.

[@richardcollingsworth2138]

Interesting what gets left on the cutting room floor, past and present.

[@soylentteal]

I saw this at a sci-fi convention, long ago. Masterful music from Alexander Courage. This was the version that debuted before a live audience when Isaac Asimov hacked off Roddenberry because he was talking too loud.

[@saml760]

RIP Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015 You have now truly gone "Where No One Has Gone Before".

[@eddiejlauzon1962]

he will be missed

[@rcabletn]

Samuel Lees I have gone there several times. I do not know how many times I have been there and back often. So many incarnations. So many life cycles !

[@superchitownhustler]

Randy Cable so much bs

[@porflepopnecker4376]

superchitownhustler No, YOU so much bs.

[@superchitownhustler]

Porfle Popnecker No, you so much BS.

[@jaysomewhereinflyoverterri735]

I have read about this and I love Lucy for all of the episodes of the original, "Star Trek", that were produced. Thank you for this Mrs. Ball.

[@speeta]

I recall this cut of the pilot preserved on video at the the Museum of Broadcasting decades ago. It was recut to serve as a first-year episode of the series.

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

I love the line in this version, where Kirk adds, "But you may learn to enjoy it (Spock's human blood) someday!" In a way he's predicting Spock's acceptance of his human half in TMP, if you think about it....

[@kuribo1]

So the transporter was not even the transporter but the "materialator"....fascinating.

[@seikibrian8641]

* materializer; and that's just part of the transporter. Before being materialized they first have to be dematerialized.

[@kuribo1]

Just did not sound like that and I watched it twice. I do realize how a transporter technically "works" in trek with pattern buffers, Heisenberg compensators and matter stream integration. But all these words did not come into play until TNG.

[@seikibrian8641]

"Just did not sound like that and I watched it twice." I had my universal translator optimized for Scottish. ;-)

[@timdaly3724]

There's no language called "Scottish".

[@susanda9469]

your funny bone needs a tuneup, Tim

[@marleymcleay9228]

The Enterprise sounds awesome, this iteration is my favourite configuration.

[@paktype]

Roddenberry was a visionary. When you think about how sci-fi was portrayed on TV in 1966 - Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, et al - Star Trek was far more sophisticated and intelligent. It was ahead of its time.

[@kirbysauers6519]

How Amazing and Awesome to stumble on to your channel and Discover this ! Am i dreaming ? all the years hooked on the trek universe i never knew this existed, THANK YOU !

[@speedracer1945]

If You notice , the cool camera angles that was thru out the begaining of the first season .

[@azjakeza]

THANK YOU ! This is awesome .. I wish I could watch the whole thing as it is here

[@JayH7745]

It does seem to resemble a Quinn Martin Production. LOL The chess scene always looks sort of Twilight Zone 'ish to me also. Rare treat! Thanks for posting this! :)

[@cagedraptor]

I, as well, got to visit with Gene, in Florida in the late 80's, I got to watch the original "The Cage" as well and had dinner with him. I have to say it was the greatest moment that any Trek fan could ever experience.

[@bain5872]

Wow! Thanks. Never saw this. A piece of history indeed!

[@killmimes]

"What is out there in the black void?" ......oh look a Kardashian!

[@Chrisunglesbee]

Haa!

[@ratbutler]

They had crewman Kelso appear on a really modern looking screen while they were playing chess.They should have kept those.

[@maryvalentine9090]

I noticed that, too. It looked like a flat screen.

[@Nrgheal]

Look at the flat screen TV in 'Requem for Methusela' and you'll see a modern flat screen TV 45 years ahead of it's invention

[@johntiggleman4686]

Back in the mid 60s, in either a "Electronics Illustrated" or "Popular Electronics" magazine, there was an article "And now, flat TV." Wish I had kept those magazines. I find it interesting to find that they were working on that type telly way back then.

[@MrStabby19812]

John Tiggleman You'll find that quite a lot in good SciFi they do predict tech then again they do get it drastically wrong too like having magnetic tapes on computers in the 23rd century.

[@thurin84]

too expensive for a 1960s weekly tv show. it wouldve been nice though.

[@aliensoup2420]

Interesting that Gary Lockwood appears in 2 pioneering SF shows: the first episode of Star Trek; and 2001 : A Space Odyssey . Star Trek was years before 2001 was released, I wonder if it had anything to do with his being selected for the part in 2001.

[@Aegelis]

Reminds me of work, where people stroll around like "oh, it's this condition alert crap again..."

[@deeffourjay5632]

"Leaving the galaxy" idea tossed out. SO MANY MILLIONS of scripts inside it. Saved the extragalactic trip for the Kelvan invasion plot in "By any Other Name".

[@jameslewis5411]

Interesting seeing Paul Fix in "Star Trek" (as the ship's chief physician prior to DeForest Kelley). Fix cannot subtly stop walking like his character Micah Torrance in "The Rifleman". Either a permanent limp or one leg shorter than the other.

[@dean8842]

I once knew a woman with one leg shorter than the other, her name was Eileen.

[@1952rq]

Age sir age. He had a limp on the Rifleman as well. He had been films since the 1930's BTW, he did one of the John Wayne early films that usually took a week to make.

[@oxcarthabu]

@@dean8842 I know, I know! "You're here all week, try the fish!!"

[@dean8842]

@@oxcarthabu I once knew a CHINESE woman with one leg shorter than the other, her name was Irene. You're welcome. :o)

[@VictorLepanto]

I always find it noteworthy how the earlier episodes of a show tend to be more creative. They experiment w/ interesting camera angles, have characters act in ways they won't ever again. I guess once people get busy w/ the grind of putting out a new show every week they get lazy about trying new things.

[@tomjustis7237]

"Until now our mission has been that of space law regulation...". So the Enterprise was initially a giant space faring police car and the crew were all law enforcement officers?!? Adam-12 with warp drive!!!

[@mjsoukup]

Tom Justis gotta ticket all those jay walking aliens 😂

[@NoName-tz5ji]

Communist Lucy would of loved it that way.

[@anarchy6622]

@@NoName-tz5ji , haha. Good observation.

[@matthewbittenbender9191]

Tom Justis Roddenberry made the series mirror a wagon train which was a popular genre. It worked. However, helad they chosen the dragnet frame instead Trek would’ve had a much different feel.

[@setnaffa]

@@NoName-tz5ji Even her hair was red...

[@BAllen-bk6ti]

Thank you Alexander Courage : ) Peace and Love Everybody : )

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

1:54 Strange seeing Spock crack a smile. Later, that only happened a few times when something made him go crazy.

[@moreanimalspirits]

In the first two pilots, Spock was more emotional than he became to be.

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Yes, good point- I've read it could have been Leonard going through a developmental stage with deciding exactly what to do with such an innovative character. I recall he gives a grin in The Cage when looking at the plants, and some say it could be put down to Spock being a few years younger. Also later, playing the harp when Uhura flirts with him- but we all know they had a thing :D

[@STho205]

IThinkYouLookLarvely. In the first year Spock was an ASS. Watch him at the end of CharlieX. Watch him as he brings in Mudd's Women. Watch him several times. He is that smug, chauvinistic, smart ass in the office. They toned him down quite a bit with Galileo 7. That became his stable character.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Uhura was the most beautiful and sexy communications officer in all Starfleet! And she is so NICE and KIND. Our entire family just loves her! I love her incandescent SMILE! What a lovely person.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Russell Anderson Nichelle Nichols was beautiful even in old age. She inspired many young black girls, one of whom, Mae Jemison, became the first African American woman in space, on the Shuttle. Nichelle may be the only TV actor talked out of quitting a series by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (they met at a NAACP dinner between the first and second seasons).

[@charleskuckel3173]

The second pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, should have been where Star Trek kept the storyline. Interesting and technical science fiction. More character development would've helped. It really hurt Kirk to have to get rid of Gary Mitchell because they had been friends for so long and Gary saved Kirk's life once.

[@BenjaminWirtz]

"In fact, one of my ancestors married a human female" Oh you mean your father?

[@susanda9469]

well they WERE estranged... (reaching desperately for an explanation)

[@RogueTwo]

Sarek didn't approve of Spock's decision to join Starfleet. He wanted him to stay on Vulcan and attend the Vulcan Science Academy. Hence the rift. Spock was slow to tell his friends and shipmates the details of his family. In Journey to Babel, after taking Sarek and Amanda aboard, Kirk offers to let Spock go down to Vulcan and visit his family, unaware his parents were standing right in front of them, until Spock relucantly explains.

[@bryanmccollum210]

Patient Grasshopper "the fact " not "in fact"

[@whatsup7202]

@OldPossum Who peed on your cornflakes?...

[@SMunro]

Patient Grasshopper no he does not mean his father, though his father does. 'One of my Ancestors' refers to people beyond your immediate parents. His father would be the only ancestor at that tier level capable of marrying a human.

[@mqbitsko25]

"Don't know what it is. Small enough to bring aboard if you want to risk it." Who do you think you're talking to? HELL YES!

[@moreanimalspirits]

I like the tone. Much more Twighlight Zone.

[@shkeni]

That was what I was thinking, it feels like a horror show.

[@colemanadamson5943]

Twilight Zone.......geeesh!

[@cameranmanner4701]

i felt the TZ feel to it. only thing missing was gene roddenberry doing a monologue on the enterprise.

[@ronniejhatta9168]

I've always said star trek was like a twiligjt zone in outer space something the new movies seriously lacked and that is why they fail.

[@richardgoldin2639]

Perhaps more "Outer Limits". Definitely follow where you're going with it though.

[@mjm33mjm]

I dug this out the other day and the Tombstone at the end reads: James R. Kirk with some other indiscernible date numbers on it. Fascinating trivia.

[@sed6]

I was just getting into this episode clip when it ended!

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Enjoyed the intro. Star Trek fan from its first year.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Me too, Star Trek fan, me and my whole family, since Sept. 8, 1966 when I was in kindergarten.

[@pauljenkins6877]

This is an undiscovered gem.

[@47barolo]

Very cool. Note that Gary Lockwood calls Kirk "Jim" rather than "Captain" when he hops into the elevator (that has a solid floor, by the way!). Guess his character is one of the "in crowd" that can do that (Spock, Doctor McCoy.).

[@digitalnomad9985]

Yes they are establishing that Kirk and Mitchell are good friends. That ups the dramatic stakes in the climax. When you see this episode out of order it rather grates, if he is a crew member and such a chum of Kirk why haven't we seen him before? But in proper order it makes sense.

[@steelers6titles]

For the aired version, William Shatner's intro "Space...the final frontier..." was eliminated from the opening flyby sequence.

[@richardgoldin2639]

Has an "Outer Limits" quality to it.

[@chatboxguy3363]

I am so glad that they didn't use this version. It would have been a blunder to copy dragnet's INTRO for 2 reasons, people would be unhappy, and it kinda shows the idea of the future as no different than now or rather then. This was an important factor. Cheers.

[@humongousaldo]

This is great! I love the non-traditional theme music. I actually like the corridors of the ship. even with the corny mylar. Tremendous. Thanks for posting!!

[@dhonzik]

Yes, you are correct this episode did make it to the regular series, but as you all know with a different beginning. I wonder if the rest of the episode is the same as the newer version

[@ewaf88]

The music makes it very atmospheric - this looks like a real space adventure series. Not a grooved forehead or rubber mask in sight.

[@hakavon]

But there were two pointed ears.

[@ewaf88]

Live long and prosper -

[@welshwidgetman2o1o76]

It's amazing the things they did with so little money back in those days.

[@ewaf88]

***** Composers - musicians - model makers were all outstanding on Star Trek.

[@domainofthesun4400]

+ewaf88 The dark, glittering, subdued yet edgy music is absolutely perfect for the intrepid little starship venturing into the enormous blackness.

[@NandoRedrum]

Does anyone know the name of this intro music? That one phrase is prevalent throughout the 1st two seasons and I'm obsessed with it!

[@profgandalf]

I will join the chorus: Of course I have seen the second pilot but these opening bits and the shots of the various guest stars--very exciting to see.

[@willdwyer6782]

I'm glad they changed the music.

[@zamasama69]

DId anyone else notice Dr. Piper's brief cameo? No lines but a walk through....

[@MorganTrotter]

Yes.

[@MorganTrotter]

And I could've sworn that was DeForrest Kelly talking to Jim in the turbolift.

[@Teabone3]

that over head shot was very creative

[@vivalawholesome3483]

Spok- "Ah, yes. One of your earth emotions."

[@Skelly5962]

Says it with a half smile on his face.

[@chrisbomber101]

yeah lol seeing him smile was kinda freaky

[@Species-rj9si]

He also smiled in "The Menagerie" and "This Side of Paradise."

[@soylentteal]

And "Mudd's Women."

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

+chrisbomber101 - yes, as a kid it freaked me out a little whenever he smiled- it made me think something bad had affected him!

[@Moonmaster440]

2malscott may be referring to seeing the entire episode in the format we're seeing it here. Of course "where no man has gone before" has been on the air forever...but he's correct. It never hit the air with the QM type "Tonights episode" format we've just seen. This is what the network execs viewed prior to approving the 2nd pilot but not a format that was ever aired. All we've ever seen is the commerical edited, scene cut -made for tv version.

[@Steve20127]

"It's an ancient washing machine, Captain!!"

[@mrwebber35]

@ 1:53 Spock shows delight at knowing what irritation is in a human. Spock did show emotion in the early shows.

[@vitajazz]

By the way, this original unaired second pilot HAS been released on bluray and DVD, it is copyrighted as "Episode 100." The original FIRST pilot, The Cage/Menagerie, is episode 99.

[@tonyminnichsoffer7401]

This 4:18 enticed me. So please show us the entire episode.

[@A1Authority]

Oh, the other 4:18 s aren't good enough for you?

[@petscraftsandwonderfulthin1279]

"Well I figured you were-"

[@saml760]

This version of the 2nd pilot is available on the Star Trek Original Series Season 3 Blu Ray set.

[@crashoverride1000]

Love this episode thought it would make a good movie bringing back Kirk's friend with the God powers.

[@rickroscoe4734]

The got rid of ladders. The crew preferred to use the elevators.

[@relentlessmadman]

turbo lifts! ladders are not very futuristic

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

But more MILITARY, as Roddenbery had to conform to the network's 'suggestions' at the start...;)

[@W44F]

V-GER!!!!

[@tracegreathouse3295]

Nomad!

[@spockmcoyissmart961]

Ah, yes, the reliable Chevy Nomad.........

[@highlyunlikely2349]

KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

[@fredweller1086]

;)