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

[@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."

[@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 :)

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

I met Gary Lockwood and William Shatner at a recent Star Trek Las Vegas convention. I was 11 when Star Trek aired and 13 when I experienced 2001: A Space Odyssey - still my favorite TV show and movie. I talked with Gary for about 15 minutes. He was really cool and told some great stories. Awesome to have finally met my heroes!

[@sgu02nsc66]

That’s fantastic! Any star trek anecdotes?

[@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.

[@bearmare9710]

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

[@deckocards6988]

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

[@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.

[@antarctic8560]

If my memory serves me correctly, I think I saw this pilot at the 1975 Star Trek convention at the old Commodore Hotel in NYC. William Shatner was there, as well as Gene Roddenberry. Everyone was waiting for Gene to show up and speak, as he was the "highlight" of the convention. He mentioned getting the green light for the movie at that time, and the crowd went beserk!

[@UNOwen1]

antarctic Your memory is correct. Ah - the old Commodore.

[@Cleptrio]

I don't know who you are,but it seems like your life has been fascinating if this is what you were doing when my dad was still in diapers.that sounds awesome!

[@UNOwen1]

Cleptrio ? I don’t know if I like the sound of that. I don’t think you anything mean by it - I hope - I just don’t ever tell my age. However, if someone picks up on things I may mention, so be it.. AS for this, my dad took me there (I begged him to). And the Commodore's STILL here - though unrecognizable (the egotistical, but, NOTHING close to as rich as he nauseatingly tries to make himself out to be - Trump bough it in the early 80's I think it was, and wrapped it in his 'signature', i.e., no taste style of nauseatingly ugly bronzed glass). If you (or anyone) wants a good source about anything of the way NYC was, go here; ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/hotel-commodore-42nd-street/.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

I remember going to a HUGE star Trek convention in early 1977 at a giant indoor stadium on Long Island. Roddenberry was there, and he showed the original THE CAGE, in black and white and color. It was so cool!

[@donberry7657]

Lucky. I went to the Boston one that year, no Roddenberry. I remember meeting Takei, he looked me over from head to foot and smiled, strange vibe in the moment. I was 14 and I'm straight so it didn't signify...Oh, well, I guess it was a compliment! Had a really great time at the convention.

[@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.

[@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!

[@rationalmuscle]

Even then, they were light years ahead of their time. The first 2 minutes sets the tone for a dozen plots, all without hardly trying.

[@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!

[@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 ?

[@bhbluebird]

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

[@EricScottBloom]

If not for Lucille Ball, who ran DESILU like General Patton, this little series would have been canned after season 1 ~E

[@Agent77X]

Desilu produced both Star Trek and Mission Impossible at the same time and was loosing money because of it at the time! LOL!

[@Einnor084]

Thank Gawd 4 Lucy! Datz y Ricky Ricardo, loved her.

[@EricScottBloom]

Lucy would NOT take NO on Trek for an answer!!!!!

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

"You can't cancel Star Trek...WAAAAAAAAAHHHH, Ricky!!"

[@thanbo]

They were long divorced by the time of Star Trek's production. She got the studio in the settlement.

[@JoelEverettComposer]

Wow, what interesting title music and scenes. Thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@sudhirpatel7620]

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

[@loreaver3882]

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

[@bigedseattle]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@TheSteveSteele]

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

[@rogerlinnenburger902]

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

[@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

[@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

[@mickeymousebiker1]

A bit like a carry-over from late 1950s Sci-Fi. I like this.

[@TananBaboo]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@richardcollingsworth2138]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@1956MercM260]

I'm happy somebody archived this! Great opening!

[@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.

[@killmimes]

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

[@Chrisunglesbee]

Haa!

[@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.

[@TubeYouViewer12099]

Hey. This is really cool. The different intro surely puts a different spin on what the show could have been. Extra galactic travel into the unknown..... wow

[@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]

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[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@speedracer1945]

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

[@tomah50]

I had never seen this before! Thanks for posting. With this version, and the title/credits format, I was expecting a deep voice dub of "Star Trek--a Quinn-Martin Production."

[@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.

[@Buc_Stops_Here]

Quite different in the end from what was launched on NBC. Actors are the same of course (beyond Pike) but the new beginning was much more upbeat with its music. Thanks for sharing!

[@raphaelbernard7954]

God I love this...RIP Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly, and James Doohan miss you all

[@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 !

[@goodmaro]

Interesting setup that the crew & ship had been repurposed. Knowing that would've subtly changed the flavor of the series.

[@azjakeza]

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

[@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.

[@marleymcleay9228]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@sed6]

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

[@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!

[@ckrtom2]

Love seeing the creative evolutionary process; how the show changed from this early rendition...Love how the sound effects (the beeping alerts and communication beacons and such) were the same as those used later...Captain Kirk seemed harsher and more devilish in this version. Great seeing how the costumes changed; (3:25) more sharp and tailored later on. They did much better with the Enterprise floating in space in the later show. (1:13) It really looked like a cartoony model on a black backdrop here.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@phillytvdirector]

Lucille Ball of Desilu studios actually gave the greenlight to Star Trek in 1965. She ran the studio with Desi Arnez and approved the second pilot

[@phillytvdirector]

Yes yes yes! I wish I could find original contracts and paperwork or.studio memos regarding this!!!!

[@braddoty4953]

***** I had no idea. Thanks!

[@susanda9469]

Has someone written (part of) a book about Lucille Ball and Star Trek? I would go out and get it in a NY minute

[@susanda9469]

maximum

[@samuelsmith6573]

jonny blaze I thought it was more like thirty seconds! Lol!

[@RagShop1]

Would LOVE to see the entire episode in this format!

[@jaysomewhereinflyoverterri735]

I've never seen this before. I have watched, "Star Trek", since I was in the 3rd grade, as a repeat in the early 70s. The show aired at 6:00PM every weeknight while I enjoyed a meal, that included, tater tots on the floor of the family room 4 feet in front of the color TV. Wow, that was 45 years ago, holy cow how the time passes. Now, what would complete my bucket list in regards to the original, "Star Trek", would be if I could actually view Kirk going where no man has gone before, on the ceiling, and Spock discovering the captain's log, in the toilet. Sorry about that, but I love those jokes.

[@mw3051]

leaving the GALAXY eh ? one of the few ST episodes that does not take place in one of the quadrants of the galaxy milky way.

[@TIMEtoRIDE900]

Until Gene Roddenberry realized that inter-stellar distances were difficult enough to negotiate in a timely manner.

[@highlyunlikely2349]

It was the Sigma Phi Lamda Lamda Sigma Alpha Epsilon Beta Gamma Phi quadrant.

[@cbee2]

It's when they run into the Millennium Falcon along Hyperspace crossroads intersecting with Warp drives.

[@jacobbrown1690]

not without a wormhole or stargate

[@doggedout]

Have seen all of this except for the intro where apparently they were going to be Star Cops (i did not know that!) Also,, unless you are going to another galaxy, leaving this one would probably be pretty boring.

[@jerrybobteasdale]

It's odd how as soon as Gary Lockwood appears onscreen, he projects personality. He stands out immediately.

[@rixlbg]

Scotty NOT wearing red?!? Unforgivable!

[@soylentteal]

Watch "The Corbomite Maneuver" (first filmed regular episode). Uhura is also "red-less."

[@rixlbg]

What?!? Scotty and Uhura red-less, all red guys alive at the end of episode, cats and dogs living together!! It's the end of the world!!!

[@MrMZaccone]

Technically, Scotty would have been entitled to wear either gold (command track) or red (support services track).

[@jamesridgell4564]

rixlbg What happened to his curly hair from the movies?

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

Look closer. No red shirts at all. Everyone is wearing either gold or blue shirts.

[@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.

[@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! :)

[@iac4357]

@ 3:55 to 4:05, Though too expensive for production use, I like the details of the set and ceiling, and I like how they filmed from above !

[@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.)

[@northside7776]

Nice, eerie dramatic symphonic score by Alexander Courage with additional music by Fred Steiner.

[@Aegelis]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Nevada_Dan]

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]

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

[@Nevada_Dan]

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

[@Fontsman]

My personal favourite. There are still traces of the pilot in terms of art direction and costumes, which is intriguing. Lockwood was fantastic and Kellerman great too.

[@jeanniethegrinch]

I always wince on Spock's line "the fact that one of my ancestors was a human female". As we all now know, Spock's MOTHER was human so it would seem strange to refer to her as an 'ancestor'. I believe Spock's ancestry and his general demeanor (smiling?) were not fully established at the time of filming this. So glad they changed those uniforms too.

[@prreynolds]

maybe Spock was too embarrassed to admit kirk was referring to his mother

[@jmmacb03]

They were still fleshing out his character. In the original pilot the second in command was a woman. Spock was just a the science officer on the bridge. I'm 57 and you can't believe how original this was. His ears constantly changed too.

[@domainofthesun4400]

+Jeannie Harris In some interview Mr. Nimoy says that for the 2nd pilot they decided to make Spock a colder more intellectual character, not a warm excitable one as in The Cage. Spock does make some harsh analytical recommendations later on. "Kill Mitchell while you still can."

[@artierodriguez8334]

Can't leave me like this!!! Where is the rest? OMG, an episode I've not seen. My childhood is now incomplete without thie rest of this episode.

[@MorganTrotter]

You have probably seen the episode. It's called "Where No Man Has Gone Before," and it aired as the 3rd episode in Season 1. It is on Netflix (or CBS) the last time I looked. This is just some unaired footage from the episode.

[@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.

[@wecontrolthevideo]

Star Trek in addition to Lucille Ball, had Kaiser Broadcasting to thank for their success. Kaiser made a deal to syndicate Star Trek on Kaiser’s six UHF stations to counter program against network affiliates. It started running weekends at 6:00 the fall after NBC cancelled the show. I lived in Detroit and WKBD Ch 50 was one of the top independents in the country at the time. One time the episodes were run uncut, complete with a graphic at the start which showed the original air date. Even the next week on Star Trek promos voiced by Shatner and Nimoy were included. Of course Trek did very well for Kaiser and they started running the show weeknights at 6:00. The rest as they say is history.

[@oneobserver2260]

Great scott! They have found R2D2's great-grandfather!😁

[@fringewebmaster3386]

Or R2D2 is the great-grandfather, since that was "a long time ago..."

[@gerardcousineau3200]

An oldie ! They were all very young !

[@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.

[@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).

[@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!!

[@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....

[@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.

[@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.

[@SchardtCinematic]

And it took Votager 70 years. LOL Got to love 60's Sci-Fi

[@JesusisJesus]

You should know that Earth is near the outer edge of the Alpha Quadrant of our Galaxy... So it is not too outragous to send the ship on a mission in that direction.

[@SchardtCinematic]

But how far would a starship need to travel to see the entire galaxy? Pretty far I would say.@@JesusisJesus

[@bobdimarzio3972]

thanks GaryMalone ! I've never seen the "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"

[@tonytigner929]

This was the version of that was shelved by desilu at the time.

[@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!