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Star Trek: Season 1

The Cage (24 Dec. 1988)

TV Episode  -  64 min  -  Adventure | Sci-Fi
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Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

Director:

Robert Butler

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry (creator)

Stars:

Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver and Leonard Nimoy
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Cast

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Storyline

This is the pilot to the series that would star William Shatner. Only in this version there is different Captain, Christopher Pike, and with the exception of Mr. Spock, an entirely different crew. Now it begins when the Enterprise receives what appears to be a distress message. But when they get to the planet where the message was sent from, they discover that the supposed survivors were nothing more than illusions created by the inhabitants of the planet, for the purpose of capturing a mate for the one genuine surviving human, and Captain Pike is the lucky winner. While Captain Pike tries to cope with the experiments and tests that the aliens are conducting on him, his crew tries to find a way to rescue him. But the aliens' illusions are too powerful and deceptive (at first). Written by <rcs0411@yahoo.com>  

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Plot Keywords:

Illusion | Spacecraft | Pilot Episode Has Different Cast | Hell | Teleportation  | See more »

Genres:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

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Budget:

$630,000 (estimated)
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Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1
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Trivia

Footage of this pilot has been used to create the two-part Star Trek episode "The Menagerie". Because of a production delay, they had only one week to produce two episodes and so they edited this pilot into two new episodes. See more »

Goofs

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Pike's first awkward moment with Colt, he tells Number One that he "just can't get used to having a woman on the bridge"--with the backhanded compliment that she is "different, of course." Yet, in the scene before this one, a woman is seated at the station where Garrison reads Pike the follow-up message from Talos, and Pike doesn't seem particularly fazed by or upset about it. See more »

Quotes

The Keeper: With the female of your choice, you will now begin carefully guided lives.
Capt. Pike: Can we start by burying you?
The Keeper: That is your choice.
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Referenced in William Shatner's Star Trek Memories (1995) See more »