However earlier than Pike took command of the Enterprise, the remedy Roddenberry shopped to networks was about Captain Robert April of the USS Yorktown. Features of this remedy did ultimately make it into the present, as Admiral Robert April seems in each The Animated Collection and Unusual New Worlds. And the Yorktown did take flight, getting title dropped in Star Trek IV and Voyager.
In the meantime, though Roddenberry later reworked it into the season one two-parter “The Menagerie,” “The Cage” is completely different sufficient from Star Trek correct that it feels just like the pilot of a really completely different sequence. Along with Pike, the Enterprise of “The Cage” was operated by first officer Quantity One (Majel Barrett, who would go on to play Laxwana Troi in The Subsequent Technology and voice the ship’s laptop), Pike obtained his bodily not from Bones however from the even older and grouchier Physician Boyce (John Hoyt), and trusts not in Sulu however in navigator Lt. José Taylor (Peter Duryea). Even Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, the one acquainted face, feels very completely different, laughing in glee on the sight of alien flora.
Odd as “The Cage” was, its parts have been repurposed for books and comics, in addition to plotlines in Unusual New Worlds.
Task: Earth (TV)
With the assistance of none aside from Lucille Ball, Star Trek made it to air and ran for 2 seasons. However Roddenberry might inform that NBC didn’t just like the return they obtained on their results finances. Sensing an imminent cancelation, Roddenberry developed a brand new sequence to pitch to studios. Task: Earth starred Robert Lansing as Gary Seven, a human descended from a line of individuals taken from prehistoric Earth and cultivated by well-meaning aliens.
The sequence would have adopted Gary’s makes an attempt to stop modifications in Earth’s historical past, making certain that humanity reaches its full potential. However no community (by which I imply simply CBS, NBC, and ABC) bit, so Roddenberry reworked his pilot into the ultimate episode of season two, appropriately referred to as “Task Earth.”
That episode did not launch a brand new sequence, and whereas Gary Seven and his sidekick Roberta Lincoln (Terri Garr) do stay on in comics and novels, Roddenberry needed to save Task: Earth‘s benevolent alien concepts for a little-loved 1974 film referred to as The Questor Tapes.
