The Cage | Where No Man Has Gone Before
Season One: 1966-67 | Season Two: 1967-68 | Season Three: 1968-69

Star Trek Episode Guide

The Cage

  1.) The Cage
       Written by Gene Roddenberry
       Directed by Robert Butler
       Music by Alexander Courage
       Rejected by NBC in February, 1965
       Pilot story outline: 6/29/64
       First draft script: 9/8/64
       Revised script: 11/20/64
       Final title: "The Menagerie"
       Filming began: November 27, 1964
       Film date: late November, early and middle December, 1964. Filming of some opticals began in middle September 1964.

       En route to the Vega Colony, the United Space Ship Enterprise picks up a radio distress signal from the S.S. Columbia, which disappeared in the Talos star group about 18 years ago. Science Officer Spock determines that the fourth planet is Class-M (oxygen atmosphere).

       Captain Christopher Pike leads a landing party to Talos Four and discovers a camp of survivors from the crashed ship, but the captain is captured by aliens and the camp vanishes; the Enterprise crew realizes that the distress call and camp were illusions to lure them to the surface.

       Captain Pike finds himself in an underground cage with a human woman named Vina, the only survivor of the crashed ship. The Talosians want the two humans to breed and create a servant race for them, but they release Pike once they realize that humans would rather die than live in captivity.

Cast Credits:
Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike
Susan Oliver as Vina
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
John Hoyt as Dr. Phillip Boyce
Peter Duryea as Lieutenant José Tyler
Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman J.M. Colt
Majel Barret as Number One

Uncredited:
Michael Dugan as The Kalar
Clegg Hoyt as Transporter Chief Pitcairn
Jon Lormer as Dr. Theodore Haskins
Leonard Mudie as Columbia Survivor #2
Anthony Jochim as Columbia Survivor #3
Joseph Mell as Earth Trader
Ed Madden as Enterprise Geologist
Adam Roarke as C.P.O. Garrison
Robert Phillips as Orion Space Officer
Meg Wyllie as The Keeper
Malachi Throne as Voice of The Keeper
Georgia Schmidt as First Talosian
Serena Sande as Second Talosian
Bob Johnson as Voice of First Talosian
Felix Silla as Talosian
Tom Curtis as Voice
Janos Prohaska as Anthropoid Ape/Human Bird
Gene Roddenberry as Host of Video Release
[ Laserdisc, 1989 ], [ VHS, 1994 ], [ DVD, 2004 ]

Stunts:
Robert Herron ( stunt double for Jeffrey Hunter )
Frank da Vinci ( stunts )

Dance Choreography:
Penny Romans ( dance choreographer for Susan Oliver )

The Cage
Production Credits

Produced by: Gene Roddenberry

Written by: Gene Roddenberry

Directed by: Robert Butler

Associate Producer: Byron Haskin

Director of Photography: William E. Snyder

Camera Operator: Jerry Finnerman

Art Directors: Franz Bachelin, Pato Guzman

Assistant Art Director: Walter M. Jefferies

USS Enterprise designed by: Gene Roddenberry, Walter M. Jefferies

Music Composed & Conducted by: Alexander Courage

Costumes Created By: William Ware Theiss

Film Editor: Leo Shreve

Assistant to the Producer: Morris Chapnick

First Assistant Director: Robert H. Justman

Set Decorator: Ed M. Parbers

Sound Mixer: Stanford G. Houghton

Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Company

Special Effects: Joe Lombardi

Property Master: Jack Briggs

Gaffer: Bob Campbell

Production Supervisor: James A. Paisley

Makeup Artist: Fred B. Phillips

Hairstyles: Gertrude Reade

Research: Kellam DeForest

Special Scientific Consultant: Harvey P. Lynn, Jr.

A Desilu Production

The Cage | Where No Man Has Gone Before
Season One: 1966-67 | Season Two: 1967-68 | Season Three: 1968-69