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Lost Footage from Second TOS Pilot Episode Available Online

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By GustavoLeao / 23:51, 29 May 2004 / General Star Trek

Almost 40 years ago, Gene Roddenberry delivered his second STAR TREK pilot, entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before", to NBC. After the network rejected his first TREK pilot, called "The Cage" and starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike, Roddenberry, with the help of writer Samuel A. Peeples delivered a more action-oriented story in the second pilot, which introduced canadian-born actor William Shatner in the role of Captain James T. Kirk. NBC liked, and in January 1966, Roddenberry was notified of the network acceptance of the pilot.

According to author Allan Asherman in his The Star Trek Compendium resource book, there are actually two different versions of "Where No Man Has Gone Before", only one of which has been televised and it is available on VHS and DVD. The unaired, extended version is the one that Gene Roddenberry submitted to NBC.

It began with a view of our galaxy, accompanied by William Shatner's voiceover introducing the starship mission, a narration not indicated as a Captain's Log entry.



The first interior scene was the chess game between Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy).But when Kirk remarked how terrible it was that Spock had "bad blood" (human blood) in his veins, in the extended version the captain added "But you may learn to enjoy it some day".

When the disaster recorder materialized and began to flash off and on in the transporter room, the scene "froze" and, and over the picture the words STAR TREK appeared in pink letters trimmed in silver-blue. In the same block-lettering style, the words "Tonight's Episode : 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'" materialized as the opening theme was heard. This original theme music by Alexander Courage was not the same used in "The Cage" and during the series three seasons.



The original opening credits were very short and were followeb by a commercial break. The next lost scene consist of footage of the ship corridors in Red Alert, and introduced the rest of the main characters, including Lt. Gary Mitchel (Gary Lockwood), Doctor Mark Piper (Paul Fix) and Physicist Sulu (George Takei).



This version of the second TREK pilot was divided into four acts, with a prologue and a epilogue, unlike the first pilot and the series' episodes. The end credit were backed again by the alternate music theme, that was never heard again in STAR TREK. A fast-moving, almost cheerful eletronic melody, it accompanied the end credits that listed only the main actors.



Again we remind you that this extended version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" never aired on TV, and it is not available on VHS and DVD, and will not be include in Paramount's upcoming TOS Season 1 Box Set, but you can download those rare scenes at the Trek Brasilis website in the AVI (DivX) format.



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