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Not THAT much different...
By Jadzia-Dax

I have a 1988 recording of this from a local independent station along with my Sci Fi Channel Special Edition, and the main difference with the segments that the Brazillian website showed, save for the extended scene during the Red Alert, where Gary Lockwood is shown dallying through the corridors, is the opening credits without what is now the familiar monologue, the theme music (which was dropped after being used in the original pilot "The Cage", and picked up again later), the end credits, and some of the titling (which was used in "The Cage"). It looks like they were trying to distinguish this enough from the original pilot so that it wouldn't be rejected out of hand again. The same costumes as "The Cage" were used however.

And there may be some more footage lost somewhere (maybe on a blooper reel) because on the SE version, Sally Kellerman says in an interview snippet:

"Gary Lockwood and I were like the Veloz and Yolanda of television. And he and I were the guest stars on this second pilot. So there we are, walking around a man-made lake, we're bumping into trees, we're slipping into the water, and no one is saying 'cut' and I'm getting... starting to get just the small amount of the giggles. And now he reaches for the perforated peach and he's gonna rip it apart like this great god that he was... and hand me a piece. And I took it like.. riippppp and he couldn't get it apart and... riiiipppp! And still nobody saying 'cut'. We had to wear lenses. We wore silver lenses in our eyes. And I had never worn glasses and and Gary hadn't and he couldn't stand it for one second. He'd have them in for one second and 'You get these lenses out of my eyes', you know, this big screaming. I feel that I'm responsible for Star Trek's success, because I was the guest star on the pilot. Hey, I never thought of that. Gee... maybe it really was me."

And certainly that scene of them wandering through the "eden" that Mitchell had created, was relatively brief.

One thing to note is what Shatner says as commentary in part:

"And lastly the women in this episode, all wear pants. That was going to change. Star Trek, to the appreciation of all the men on the set, in fact all around the world, would boast the shortest skirts on women, of any regular series on television."

;-)

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