The Original Pilot Was Too Intellectual For Viewers
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So what happened to the original crew of starship Enterprise? When NBC was presented with this pilot, they thought it was “too cerebral” with “not enough action.” Although NBC rejected “The Cage” they were still confident about the series and boldly ordered a second pilot.
Very few details from “The Cage” made it to the new pilot and the only thing that did, in fact, was Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, who originally had a more enthusiastic demeanor as opposed to his reserved nature in the series. The resulting new pilot gave us the crew we know and love today, who are officially introduced in “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”
