Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!rayssd!msf From: msf@rayssd.UUCP (Michael S. Frank) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: An Original ST Pilot Message-ID: <938@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:15:35 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.938 Posted: Thu Aug 8 14:15:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 07:07:43 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 23 > In article <593@alberta.UUCP> andrew@alberta.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) writes: (short discussion on "Menagerie" as pilot) > "The Cage" was the first pilot, which the network did > not buy. It was used to expand "The Menagerie" into two episodes when the > budget required it. (Otherwise we could speculate on the de-aging of Spock; > a sort of Deadly Years in reverse.) The second pilot was "Where No Man > Has Gone Before". NBC bought it, obviously. > So, the question is, are you on arrogant pills, or what? I'm not a Trekkie, though I am a Trek fan. My understanding of the origin of the series is a little different, though. I thought that when NBC saw "WNMHGB", they said "That's good, but this is SF - we need a monster!" And therefore "Man-Trap" was born. Therefore, "WNMHGB" was the first show filmed, "MT" was the first episode shown in the series. Am I right? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ | From the deranged synapse of: | | Michael Frank | | path: rayssd!msf | ------------------------------------------------------------