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From: doug@escher.UUCP (Douglas J Freyburger)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: An Original ST Pilot?
Message-ID: <44@escher.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 02:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 02:52:08 1985
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> The first pilot is/was the Pike story used to make the Menagerie story.
> 	I believe the original pilot is still around somewhere but is only in
> 	black and white or something like that. Can someone verify this? Is
> 	there anyone out there who has seen the Pike story in its original
> 	form and would like to fill us in on the parts that aren't in the
> 	Menagerie?
> Steve Herring
> ...!tektronix!tekig4!stevenh

I saw the original pilot at a Star Trek convention I went
to in Niagara Falls 8-10 years ago.  It is in color, but
it is on a poor copy in 16mm film.  Sparks and streaks, and
a little wobble, but still watchable.  I didn't notice any
major cuts compared to the double TV version, but little
scenes and pieces of scenes could well have been missing.

The studio had detroyed all copies of the film they had
after the show was cancelled, but someone had a 16mm copy
in their closet somewhere.  Someone got hold of it and
started making copies, so there are plenty out there now
(as of several years ago).

Some of the controls on the bridge are more interesting
looking in the old version.   The individual viewscreens
are on stalks like the bendable-neck desk lights that used
to be popular.  More oo-ah than those odd things that fold
out with the buzzing noise.  There was an added shimmer in
the main viewscreen coming in and out of warp drive, too.
I guess their computer image generation wasn't supposed to
be as nice as the on used by Kirk and Co.

Doug Freyburger		DOUG@JPL-VLSI, DOUG@JPL-ROBOTICS,
JPL 171-235		...escher!doug, doug@aerospace,
Pasadena, CA 91109	etc.