{"id":9497,"date":"2019-12-28T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2019-12-28T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T04:08:38","slug":"star-trek-the-original-series-complete-series-review-season-1-episode-11-12-the-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/28\/star-trek-the-original-series-complete-series-review-season-1-episode-11-12-the-menagerie\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek \u2013 The Original Series \u2013 Complete Series Review \u2013 Season 1 Episode 11 &#038; 12 \u2013 The Menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Menagerie was a reformulating of the first Star Trek pilot episode, \u201cThe Cage.\u201d\u00a0 Jeffrey Hunter was the original pick to be the captain of the Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike.\u00a0 But the network rejected that pilot and when Roddenberry asked Hunter to do the second pilot he bowed out.\u00a0 So, the original story of the Enterprise on Talos IV is embedded in the two-episode story of Spock\u2019s mission to help Captain Pike.<\/p>\n<p>The plot revolves around events that involved the Enterprise long before Jim Kirk was captain.\u00a0 Chris Pike was the captain during the Talosian incident and his science officer at the time was Mr. Spock.\u00a0 Fast forward to Jim Kirk\u2019s Enterprise and Spock fakes a distress signal from a Star Base in order to kidnap a critically injured and horribly disabled Christopher Pike and hijack the Enterprise to reach Talos IV.\u00a0 Captain Kirk and the star base commander Commodore Mendez follow after the Enterprise and once aboard they put Spock on trial for mutiny.\u00a0 Spock provides evidence in the form of an audio-visual record of the Talosian incident which as it turns out is being transmitted to the Enterprise by the Talosians.\u00a0 This transmittal explains why Talos IV is quarantined by the Federation and nature of the Talosians powers.\u00a0 The 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went on to play the always annoying Nurse Chapel, as Pike\u2019s First Officer known as Number One.\u00a0 Barrett played her part as a cold logical officer.\u00a0 In this part she was far more entertaining than with her Chapel character.<\/p>\n<p>Since Captain Kirk has a relatively small part in these two episodes, he really had no chance to demonstrate his special acting skills.\u00a0 Interestingly, the plot does have a couple of incidents where Jeffrey Hunter had to react to psychic torture with exaggerated facial expressions and spasmodic body gestures.\u00a0 It appears then that the writers and directors are partially responsible for all the histrionics that Bill Shatner is so famous for.\u00a0 But obviously he had a greater ability than Hunter at hamming it up.<\/p>\n<p>So, with respect to scoring I\u2019ll go with 10\/\/2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" 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