john@hp-pcd.UUCP (john) (10/12/84)
<<<< If you want to get picky you would have to say that Spock and Capt. Pike were the only two characters in both episodes. Although I have heard that the actor in the "wheelchair" was not the same one that played Capt. Pike in the first pilot. John Eaton !hplabs!hp-pcd!john
mcdonald@smu.UUCP (10/18/84)
I seem to recall that at some point NBC actually airbrushed the famous
ears out of their publicity packages. That's from _the_Making_of_ST
which I no longer have a copy of.
Does anyone know how far into the series they had gotten when they filmed
the frame episode for Menagerie?
Erin McDbsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (10/22/84)
>> ... james r kirk ... > Surely you mean James T Kirk ... nope -- in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the name writ- ten on the gravestone is `James R Kirk'. --bsa ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- From the tangled paths of the mind of: | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio |--------------------------------------- (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | R01{64,65,76}@CSUOHIO.BITNET ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'
avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) (10/25/84)
>If you want to get picky you would have to say that Spock and Capt. Pike >were the only two characters in both episodes. Although I have heard that >the actor in the "wheelchair" was not the same one that played Capt. Pike >in the first pilot. >John Eaton Capt Pike, in "The Cage", was played by the late (note *late*) Jeffrey Hunter. I don't know if he was replaced by Shatner because he was killed or whether he was fired (so to speak) before his death. He died after breaking his neck in a fall down his cellar steps wuite a few years ago. He is possibly most known for his portrayal of Christ in the movie *King of Kings* shown in every city on at least one station *every* Easter season. -- Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support 301/731-4100 x4227 UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo.ARPA
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (10/28/84)
According to Gene Rodenberry in The Making of Startrek (I'm pretty sure
it was there), Jeff Hunter was not signed to the second pilot, "Where No Man
Has Gone Before", because he was already signed to a movie during the time
they were planning to film. So they had to find a replacement and William
Shatner happened to be available.
Herb...
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