fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix (12/08/82)
From: Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay> From: Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren@LBL-UNIX> Many of the lines from "Menagerie" that don't seem to make much sense (in the "flashback" footage) make perfect sense when viewed in their original context. --Lauren-- ------------------------------ One of these which took me quite a long time to figure out is how they got the footage of Capt. Pike walking back to the Talosian's elevator with the girl after he had beamed down to the planet, which was televised to the Enterprise at the end of ``The Menagerie''. Since they couldn't have known of the need for this scene when ``The Cage'' was filmed, and the notion that they went to the trouble of re-creating the set for a 5-second shot seemed equally ridiculous, there was no explanation for where this film came from. The answer lies in Capt. Pike's request: ``You'll give her back her illusion of beauty?'', to which the Talosian replies: ``Yes, that and more.''. The ``more'' the Talosian was referring to (in the original) was the illusion of Capt. Pike returning with her to the Talosian's caves, not ``more beauty'' as was implied in the version which made it to TV. Thus in ``The Cage'' the film is of an illusory Capt. Pike returning to the elevator while in ``The Menagerie'' it is used as a scene of the real capt. Pike. This change of context seems rather clever. (and fortunate too, that they were able to do it)