Star Trek: The Cage & The Cage Extended (First Watch: E0)

He’s Dead, Jim Pike (Death/injury count): pike, zapped with orange.

Return to The Menagerie?

What, no opening monologue?

Number One rocking that gold shirt :D

We Are Not Giving Exposition In Careful Tones.

Kirk would’ve been over that in a shot.  Chris is more careful.

(me laying down on the bed in an intimate position before you arrive is not me trying to seduce you. …is it working?)

That scene between those two is the best in this.

Swords and armor is unusual.

‘green animal women slaves?’ really phil?

The line about meeting life head on and the same two types of customers is great, though.

Are there any red shirts at all?

Time warp à warp

Are your hands bandaged…no, Number One’s in the Helmsman’s spot, what’s the other guy’s position?

Well, what am I, chopped liver???

(okay, a lot more sexist than I remember, really?

She seems a lot lonelier, too.

Different landing uniforms!  (but always, always those awesome boots.)

Subtitles say ‘no audible dialogue onscreen’.  Thanks

I continue to believe that Number One is a different species.

You see some things break.

Spock.  are those dress pants with your turtleneck?

Subtitles.  ‘raps on solid’.  Really?

I don’t remember seeing the others (like that bird-man.  Bird-man is interest—were they hoping for rescue from a plant in that cell?

Boyce rolling his eyes :D

Those are fashionable goggles, boyce.

Pike & Vina, sort of romance except he’s not really interested.

Well, dreams are no good unless you act on them.

Husband/wife isn’t the only thing.

The landscape in the back is interesting.

The Mojave desert, huh?

Headaches aren’t Huntington’s.

And here’s the infamous Orion scene that apparently people misremember.

“actually like being taken advantage of” Oh, that’s just sick.

Hey, I’ve seen that transporter technician before.

Boyce just randomly goes on the bridge, too.

Spock’s angry.  Eep.

Phaser overload happens wayyy too much.

I don’t remember Illusion Pike.

“You recommended a rest and a change of pace.  I’ve even been home.  Does that make you happy?”

I’m glad we didn’t end up with Pike, as much as he’s awesome in AOS.  That’s one of the things they got right.

Boyce, Chris, you’re so weird.

I accidentally minimized it to a teenie screen in VLC.  …the Enterprise seems to be going a lot faster.

What is even happening?

…is this actually an overview?

Hi Gene.

Hanging out in the Enterprise.

Exploring the human condition (and getting it past the censors because it’s science fiction.  Hehhh)

Maybe the emotionlessness of Number One got folded into Spock and Vulcans weren’t ‘logical’ yet.

(I think other than the extra parts this wasn’t different than the previous.  Skipping.)

“Humans are capable of so much more than we yet understand.”  Thank you, Gene.