Star Trek‘s original pilot, “The Cage,” ingeniously fulfilled the Starship Enterprise’s mission to explore strange new worlds in a single episode. Produced in 1964, written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Robert Butler, “The Cage” starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, with Majel Barrett as his First Officer, Number One, Leonard Nimoy as the alien Mr. Spock, with Susan Oliver as Vina. “The Cage” was ultimately rejected by NBC but was repurposed in Star Trek: The Original Series‘ “The Menagerie,” and it’s the inspiration for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
