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Star Trek 1x12 The Menagerie Part 1 (Patreon)

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2026-06-13 16:00:39
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Paul K. Bisson

Damn! Another I can't watch immediately! But very excited to see your treaction. I think I wrote this in another Trek comment that I found it interesting that "The Cage" wasn't on your list but "Menagerie" was. It seemed some forethought went into that decision; watching both in one, if you will. I hope you enjoy the "first" Star Trek pilot.

Michael Gehrman

Great as always, Kat! Well done! It's a real treat every weekend seeing these and the x-files! Thanks for doing this! As you see, these episodes are crucial and are not in any way camp. Whoever said otherwise had no idea what they were talking about. I'm very glad you didn't follow their awful advice! I do suggest that Wolf in the Fold and Specter of the Gun be added to your list. One is a horror episode, and the other is essentially the most recent x=files episode you just watched.

michael mccafferty

The scene where the landing party teleports down to the planet really takes its time, but then I remembered that this was the first ever teleportation scene. Can't risk that people will blink and miss it, because the show is introducing a brand new concept.

Robert Raszkowski

KAT - I can't believe You will make us wait a WHOLE week... XD KAT-ship flies by... whoosh.

BrakYeller

This two-part episode was Roddenberry finding a way to use the original pilot that had been shot for the show, "The Cage" (often seen as episode 0 in some listings of the show order). Production fell behind in mid-season 1, and Roddenberry thought "well, I'll just build a wrap-around story so that I can use all the footage from 'The Cage,' get another two episodes into this season for the price of one, *AND* I'll get to show my original pilot after all!" Similarly, one of the reasons that I voted for this two-parter and not "The Cage" on the polls was to get both episodes for the price of one viewing, since Kat was trying to pare down the Original Series to 'essential viewing.' (I also genuinely think that the events of "The Cage" work better when introduced through the framing story of "The Menagerie," as opposed to a stand-alone episode with Captain Pike that's immediately backpedaled by the introduction of Captain Kirk and an almost entirely different crew.) Fun fact- "The Cage" was never aired on television in its original pilot episode cut until 1988, as part of a sort of anniversary celebration of the franchise in light of the TOS movies and TNG gaining popularity as a series in its own right. The uniform insignia- back in the TOS TV series days, each starship had its own insignia patch that represented crew from just that ship, and Enterprise's was the little delta with the inset five-pointed star. The 'flower' Commodore Mendez is wearing is the insignia of the starbase he commands. By the time the TOS movies hit theaters, it was developed as lore that Starfleet as an entire organization had adopted the Enterprise's insignia, as Kirk's five-year mission had become somewhat legendary in its exploits, and came to represent the 'best' of Starfleet's overall mission of exploration and protection. (Nothing to do with streamlining continuity for the costume department, I'm sure.) Here in 2026, 60 (!) years later, the Enterprise/Starfleet Delta is used as the symbol for the whole dang franchise. Not bad for a little bit of behind-the-scenes costuming, right?

Victor E. Darlage

I loved watching you with the horror movies, but I have to admit, your reactions to original Star Trek is my favorite.

Who Are These People

I don't know if this is confirmed or fanfic, but the word I heard is that Nimoy was supposed to 'karate chop' or otherwise knock the actor out when he snuck in the room, but he decided it wouldn't fit Spock's style, so he improvised the 'nerve pinch'. And I'm not going to look it up because...I Want to Believe.

Who Are These People

Credit to Rodenberry for casting women in positions of command and responsibility, but he also cheated on his wife with Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and then dumped them both and married yet another actress from the show. Some of that old misogynist attitude would affect TNG at first, but thankfully others were given control of TNG and it improved dramatically.

Pirateman

It's truly fascinating to me, the progressivism of the past. Not just in Star Trek but elsewhere also. One giant leap for race and gender representation, one small uniform skirt.

Erich

"Imagine being so pretty you end conversations." It's for comments like these that I watch!