The Cage has a long, storied history. Nine days later, Weekly Variety covered the same story in … "When we first discovered the original film print existed, we jumped at the chance to give Star Trek fans the opportunity to add this never-aired pilot to their collections," said Ken Ross, executive vice president and general manager of CBS Home Entertainment. "It will be a real treat for fans to see and hear how it all could have begun." Hunter was a movie star slumming in television, and had no interest in making a second pilot. This is the pilot to the series that would star William Shatner. But now, a new task: A probe out into where no man has gone before." The second season of Star Trek: Discovery, which is set before "The Menagerie" but after "The Cage", has Pike (now played by Anson Mount) assume temporary command of the USS Discovery She first appeared in "The Cage", the initial 1965 pilot episode of the original series, as the unnamed, intellectual second-in-command to Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise. Virtually the entire show was recast, with only Leonard Nimoy's Spock returning from the original pilot. "Star Trek: The Original Series" The Cage (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Star Trek did not return to television until 1987 with the debut of Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, "The Man Trap" wasn't the original pilot for the series. Number One is a fictional character in the science-fiction franchise Star Trek. Just ask Laurel Goodwin. Following three more spin-off productions, the 2005–2006 TV season was the first since 1987 without a new Star Trek series being broadcast, though all series remain in syndication. This was the second Star Trek pilot. How Lucille Ball saved 'Star Trek' ... NBC ordered a second pilot—introducing Shatner as Kirk—which Lucy agreed to help finance, again over her board’s objections. We go through Star Trek history to assess the managerial skills of every Star Trek captain. Only in this version there is different Captain, Christopher Pike, and with the exception of Mr. Spock, an entirely different crew. Andrea Dromm (born 18 February 1941; age 79) portrayed Yeoman Smith in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before".She filmed her scenes from Monday 19 July 1965 through Thursday 22 July 1965 on Desilu Culver Stage 15.Dromm was the second actress to play a captain's yeoman, after Laurel Goodwin, who played yeoman J.M. On September 8, 1966, the original science-fiction series Star Trek aired its first episode, "The Man Trap." Star Trek has finally given a name to one of its first Starfleet officers. The second pilot Edit. NBC famously rejected the pilot, but ordered a new one and, well, here we are. William Shatner was cast to play James Kirk, a much more self-assured, animated captain, and the rest is future history. Then, a few years later, in 1988, a full-color original print of the episode was discovered in the Paramount archives and then released as a filler episode during the original syndication run of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" due to a Hollywood strike (it was later shown during the Sci-Fi Channel's first run of the original "Star Trek" series). A pilot is a test film a network would order so they could see what a series based on it would be like.