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Star Trek: Season 1, Episode 12The Menagerie: Part II (24 Nov. 1966)At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens. Director:Robert Butler |
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Cast
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| William Shatner | ... | ||
| Leonard Nimoy | ... | ||
| Jeffrey Hunter | ... |
Captain Christopher Pike
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| Susan Oliver | ... |
Vina
(archive footage)
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| Malachi Throne | ... |
Commodore José Mendez
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| Majel Barrett | ... |
Number One
(archive footage) (as M. Leigh Hudec)
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Peter Duryea | ... |
Lt. José Tyler
(archive footage)
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| John Hoyt | ... |
Dr. Boyce
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Laurel Goodwin | ... |
Yeoman J.M. Colt
(archive footage)
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| Adam Roarke | ... |
C.P.O. Garrison
(archive footage)
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| DeForest Kelley | ... |
Dr. McCoy
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| James Doohan | ... |
Scott
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| Nichelle Nichols | ... |
Uhura
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Sean Kenney | ... | |
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Hagan Beggs | ... | |
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Spock's court-martial board views the video stream from Talos IV of Captain Pike's imprisonment 13 years earlier and of the Enterprise's attempts to rescue him. The Talosians, using their powers of mind-reading and illusion, place Pike in worlds from both his memory and his imagination. The one constant is Vina, the beautiful blonde survivor of a crashed Earth ship (the other half of a Talosian plan for a captive Adam and Eve). Number One's attempts to liberate Pike result in her and Yeoman Colt's capture (additional breeding stock for the Talosian plan), but when the humans and Talosians learn more of each other, the situation takes a turn neither side expects. As the Enterprise approaches Talos IV once again, Kirk and the court watch the past unfold and learn the real reason for Spock's mutiny. Written by Tom D.
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24 November 1966 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
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When Number One and Yeoman J.M Colt transport to the planet, Vina states that Capt. Pike would be better reproducing with a computer than Number One (Majel Barrett). Majel Barrett provided the standard Federation computer voice throughout the various Star Trek series. See more »Goofs
When Spock takes Pike to the transporter, they barely get out the door before Kirk is shown Pike with Veena on the view screen. Spock and Pike did not have time to get to the transporter room, much less have time for Pike to beam down before this scene. See more »Quotes
Captain Christopher Pike: And since you're not real, there's not much point in continuing this conversation, is there?See more »
This continues the plot of part one, with most of the episode consisting of Spock, Kirk, commodore Mendez and the crippled Pike (played by another actor, not Jeff Hunter) seated in a conference room watching movies of one of Pike's past missions. This may sound quite boring, but viewers had the opportunity to see how two separate suspenseful plots would conclude - the one with Pike in the past and the one with Kirk and Spock. This doubled impact was especially true if a viewer had never seen the original pilot "The Cage." Footage from "The Cage" dominated this second part, consisting of about 70% of this episode (whereas this was the case for the wraparound portion in the first part).
There was at least one unexplained delay during the showing of these space home movies as the 3rd act ended, as the images stopped being transmitted. This allowed the script to throw in some more jeopardy as Spock was found officially guilty by the 3 ranking officers as they waited for the show to continue. Yep, things still looked pretty grim at this point: Spock still seemed to have betrayed his current captain
- Kirk - and faced a death penalty (I do wonder how it was done in the
23rd century - death by phasers? That would probably be painless). But, to Roddenberry's credit, he managed to throw in a little whammy towards the end of his wraparound tale which probably surprised the audience and made complete sense in view of what kind of aliens Pike had faced during his past mission. I think Kirk forgave Spock a bit too quickly as the episode ended and all the 'death penalty' threats evaporated too easily, but Pike's final scene and final fate here is about as good as science fiction gets.