Season 1 watched by me on Netflix November/December 2012.
The Cage (Pilot): believed to have been filmed in late 1965.
The Cast is different and it unfair to judge the 1 episode of Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike to the 79 episode and 7 Movies of William Shatner's iconic Captain Kirk.
Large chunks of the Episode were seen later in season 1 in "The Menagerie". The plot simply is the Captain Pike is taken prisoner by the Talosians who keep him in a human zoo with the lovely Susan Oliver.The Talosians can read minds but the have a block toward negative emotions.
The Sci fi questions posed by The Menagerie are better, once you realize Pike is a shell of himself and would do better living restored to his whole with Susan Oliver rather than remain the shell.Kind of a Matrix type plot, do we want to live in the real world or a fantasy world.
You can see why the Pilot failed, this is a very serious plot, it is not the "wagon train" in space than Roddenberry envisioned the series. The Casting of Majel Barrett, Roddenberry's wife as second in command is noteworthy in the mid 60's, 20 years before Geraldine Ferraro was second on a Presidential ticket of a major party in the US.
I remember seeing the episode in the fall of 1983 as part of a traveling Star Trek bloopers festival that traveled College Campuses.
The Man Trip (1x1) September 8,1966
When you consider this is the first episode of the series shown on television it is disappointing what a pedestrian episode this is. Salt Draining plant,Kirk attacked Alien.
Charlie X (1x2) September 15,1966
The main feature of this episode is finding out Robert Walker who plays the 17 year kid who is the last survivor of a crash is in fact not a young Patrick Duffy,
As one of the questions I have as I watch the show is could it be done today,Charlie in this episode has been alone for 14 years and Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand is the first woman he has ever seen and well by todays standards is sexually harassed and attempted raped.Watching the episode now I was mesmerized by the weave of her hair.
Where No Man has Gone Before (1x3) September 22,1966
The second pilot and from I understand the first episode with Kirk,Spock,McCoy filmed. If the first two episodes have been Meh , this one delivers the goods big time.Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman play crew members whose ESP capabilities turn them into creatures with Godlike abilities. Kirk has a trademark hand to hand combat with Lockwood after Kirk plans on marooning him on a planet. Like most Pilots to TV shows, this is one of the best of the series.
The Naked Time (1x4) September 29,1966
A landing party beams down to Psi 2000 to find a team of scientist dead, a crewman is contaminated by a liquid with is taken aboard the Enterprise. Strange things begin to happen to the crewman , Nurse Chapel puts the moves on Spock, Sulu wonders the hallways getting into sword fights and worst of all Lt. Kevin Riley tries to take over the ship and sing drunken songs over the intercom to the whole ship.
Riley eventually turns off the engines of the ship and Scotty comes up with a plan of mixing Matter and Anti Matter (Kids DO NOT try this at home)which works and sends the Enterprise 3 days into the past. Spock speculate they can now Time Travel, Kirk replies "We may risk that someday." which of the series has several time travel episodes and it was the subject of one of the movies.
The Enemy Within (1x5) October 6,1966
Sooooo, one of the great myths of the series is n Scotty is some sort of an Engineering genius. This is the first of many episodes where there is a malfunction with the Transporter. Scotty of course all "I Donna know what could have happened,Cap't. It work all right when I tested it."(Yeah,right) I am guessing the Federation has gone through some massive budget cuts.
In this episode a transporter accident somehow creates an Evil Kirk who goes after and sexually harasses Yeoman Rand in what I think is her last episode. You really have to feel for Yeoman Rand who goes through so much. I am sure there are thousands of Women's Crisis Center across the universe named in her honor.
The Cage (Pilot): believed to have been filmed in late 1965.
The Cast is different and it unfair to judge the 1 episode of Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike to the 79 episode and 7 Movies of William Shatner's iconic Captain Kirk.
Large chunks of the Episode were seen later in season 1 in "The Menagerie". The plot simply is the Captain Pike is taken prisoner by the Talosians who keep him in a human zoo with the lovely Susan Oliver.The Talosians can read minds but the have a block toward negative emotions.
The Sci fi questions posed by The Menagerie are better, once you realize Pike is a shell of himself and would do better living restored to his whole with Susan Oliver rather than remain the shell.Kind of a Matrix type plot, do we want to live in the real world or a fantasy world.
You can see why the Pilot failed, this is a very serious plot, it is not the "wagon train" in space than Roddenberry envisioned the series. The Casting of Majel Barrett, Roddenberry's wife as second in command is noteworthy in the mid 60's, 20 years before Geraldine Ferraro was second on a Presidential ticket of a major party in the US.
I remember seeing the episode in the fall of 1983 as part of a traveling Star Trek bloopers festival that traveled College Campuses.
The Man Trip (1x1) September 8,1966
When you consider this is the first episode of the series shown on television it is disappointing what a pedestrian episode this is. Salt Draining plant,Kirk attacked Alien.
Charlie X (1x2) September 15,1966
The main feature of this episode is finding out Robert Walker who plays the 17 year kid who is the last survivor of a crash is in fact not a young Patrick Duffy,
As one of the questions I have as I watch the show is could it be done today,Charlie in this episode has been alone for 14 years and Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand is the first woman he has ever seen and well by todays standards is sexually harassed and attempted raped.Watching the episode now I was mesmerized by the weave of her hair.
Where No Man has Gone Before (1x3) September 22,1966
The second pilot and from I understand the first episode with Kirk,Spock,McCoy filmed. If the first two episodes have been Meh , this one delivers the goods big time.Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman play crew members whose ESP capabilities turn them into creatures with Godlike abilities. Kirk has a trademark hand to hand combat with Lockwood after Kirk plans on marooning him on a planet. Like most Pilots to TV shows, this is one of the best of the series.
The Naked Time (1x4) September 29,1966
A landing party beams down to Psi 2000 to find a team of scientist dead, a crewman is contaminated by a liquid with is taken aboard the Enterprise. Strange things begin to happen to the crewman , Nurse Chapel puts the moves on Spock, Sulu wonders the hallways getting into sword fights and worst of all Lt. Kevin Riley tries to take over the ship and sing drunken songs over the intercom to the whole ship.
Riley eventually turns off the engines of the ship and Scotty comes up with a plan of mixing Matter and Anti Matter (Kids DO NOT try this at home)which works and sends the Enterprise 3 days into the past. Spock speculate they can now Time Travel, Kirk replies "We may risk that someday." which of the series has several time travel episodes and it was the subject of one of the movies.
The Enemy Within (1x5) October 6,1966
Sooooo, one of the great myths of the series is n Scotty is some sort of an Engineering genius. This is the first of many episodes where there is a malfunction with the Transporter. Scotty of course all "I Donna know what could have happened,Cap't. It work all right when I tested it."(Yeah,right) I am guessing the Federation has gone through some massive budget cuts.
In this episode a transporter accident somehow creates an Evil Kirk who goes after and sexually harasses Yeoman Rand in what I think is her last episode. You really have to feel for Yeoman Rand who goes through so much. I am sure there are thousands of Women's Crisis Center across the universe named in her honor.
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