butenhof%SU-Shasta@orac.UUCP (12/27/83)
From: Dave Butenhof <decwrl!rhea!orac!butenhof@SU-Shasta> Hi there - considering the number of ST fans that are probably out there, the comment I'm addressing has probably gotten tons of responses already; but I might as well jump in. After all, I just started getting this Digest, so I have to join in SOMEWHERE . . . Spock's "TIME warp 7" report was due to the primative state of the ST universe at the time of The Menagerie (originally "The Cage"). There were many other differences - you may have noticed that Majel Barrett was "Number One", a first-officer with the beginnings of the later Spock personality; while Spock played a much more emotional character, and also looked somewhat different than later. The "time warp" line would be one of many technical differences you could notice in the episode; it was simply changed later to the "space warp" form which seemed to make more sense. For anyone who might not know, The Menagerie was the original ST pilot movie. It wasn't bought, since it was too cerebral, and not very action oriented. Roddenbury came up with a more acceptable pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, and later used both of them as episodes. For the series, The Menagerie was split into a two-parter: even so, most of the really good stuff was cut out. I had the opportunity to see the original movie at a "World of Star Trek" show; I'm not sure I'd call it Star Trek, at least by comparison with the ST Universe NOW, but it was certainly a damned good movie by any standards.