The Cage: Directed by Robert Butler. With Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett. Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

"Star Trek" The Cage (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

On the first voyage of the Starship Enterprise, Kirk's predecessor, Captain Christopher Pike, tries to rescue an Earth crew that disappeared eighteen years earlier. But it's a trap! Pike is imprisoned in a zoo-like cage and studied by mysterious higher life forms. —Robert Lynch <[email protected]>

Watching Star Trek's first pilot episode The Cage is like watching a historical what if taking place. Famously deemed "too cerebral" at the time of its production The Cage is where one of the most popular television programs of all time got its beginning.

It comes from the Talos star group. Number One : We've no ships or Earth colonies that far out. Mr. Spock : Their call letters check with a survey expedition; S.S. Columbia.

It comes from the Talos star group. Number One : We've no ships or Earth colonies that far out. Mr. Spock : Their call letters check with a survey expedition; S.S. Columbia.

Captain Christopher Pike : Back in my cage, it seemed for a couple of minutes that our keeper couldn't read my thoughts. Do emotions like hate, keeping hate in your mind, does that block off our mind from them?

The Cage: Directed by Robert Butler. With Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett. Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

Originally, this shot followed a closeup to Veena, a cut to the Enterprise bridge, and a cut to the prisoners asleep in the cage. All of that was ruined (maybe permanently) by the dissolve made in 1966.

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