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 finally 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 identify 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 totally different sufficient from Star Trek correct that it feels just like the pilot of a really totally 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 Era and voice the ship’s pc), 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 totally 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.
Project: Earth (TV)
With the assistance of none aside from Lucille Ball, Star Trek made it to air and ran for 2 seasons. However Roddenberry may inform that NBC didn’t just like the return they obtained on their results price range. Sensing an imminent cancelation, Roddenberry developed a brand new sequence to pitch to studios. Project: 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 forestall modifications in Earth’s historical past, guaranteeing 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 known as “Project 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 Project: Earth‘s benevolent alien concepts for a little-loved 1974 film known as The Questor Tapes.
