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Star Trek The Original Series • Season 1The Original Series • Season 1

The Menagerie: Part I

Season 1 Episode 12 Production #tos16 Stardate3012.4 TZ ReleaseJan 1, 1970 US ReleaseJan 1, 1970 In-Universe Year2267
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SYNOPSIS

Following an accident that horribly disfigures Captain Christopher Pike, Spock fakes a message from the former Enterprise captain and steals the ship intending to return Pike to Talos IV… the only forbidden planet in the Federation.

REVIEW

This… this is where the series gets going. The trio dynamic begins to take shape with Bones and Kirk struggling to understand why Spock would disobey orders. We also get some of our first glimpses – in cannon – of the way things work with the computer and Starfleet orders.

I decided not to cap the clips from The Cage, instead find them here.

CAST & CREW
Starring:
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy
Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura
George Takei as Hikaru Sulu

Guest Cast:
Susan Oliver
Malachi Throne
M. Leigh Hudec
Peter Duryea
John Hoyt
Adam Roarke
Sean Kenney
Hagan Beggs
Julie Parrish

Written By:
Gene Roddenberry

Directed By:
Marc Daniels