Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site escher.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!escher!doug 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 Article-I.D.: escher.44 Posted: Thu Aug 8 02:52:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:17:57 EDT References: <593@alberta.UUCP> <3319@drutx.UUCP> <166@tekig4.UUCP> Organization: NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA Lines: 34 > 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.