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

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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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Alternate WNMHGB | Report this post to moderator
By: Tom (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:17:26 on Jun 01, 2004

I've actually had a copy of this version purchased at a Trek convention from years back (along with the unseen Lost in Space pilot which eventually made it to DVD).

Some of alternate theme music from WNMHGB is on the GNP/Crescendo soundtrack for "The Cage/WNMHGB". If you have the album or CD (or do a google search for it), you can give it a listen.

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    By: BWilliams (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:29:17 on Jun 01, 2004

    I picked up my copy about 14-15 years ago at a comics shop in town. The quality on it looked really fantastic, though the picture looked like it was shifted over a bit to the right. Otherwise, a great-looking tape. Video Rarities, an independent video label in the late 80's-early 90's, released the alternate pilot.

    Ironically, it is this alternate version of "Where No Man..." that is archived at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Why doesn't Paramount go there, retrieve its lost booty, and do an all-out SE DVD of "Where No Man..." with the alternate footage? They're missing another opportunity to prime the pump, so to speak.


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Not THAT much different... | Report this post to moderator
By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:49:29 on Jun 01, 2004

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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75 Minutes? | Report this post to moderator
By: Russ the Trek Guy (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:37:35 on May 31, 2004

I think I remember reading somewhere that the 2nd pilot was originally 75 minutes long. Could it be that they edited down/excised 15 minutes from this alternate pilot into the 60 minute episode that we all know?

Wouldn't it be great if Paramount resurrected this alternate pilot and released it as a special/extra on the DVD for the new TOS seasons?

Just some thoughts.


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Help! | Report this post to moderator
By: spacebeluga (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:02:59 on May 31, 2004

Only the sound is working, and I've tried it with Quicktime, Windows Media player, and realone. Anyone know what to do? Thanks. :-)


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  • Also... | Report this post to moderator
    By: vyger (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:13:22 on May 31, 2004

    Gustavo was dead on with the Divx. I also recommend getting Xvid. These two are the most commonly used encoders.

    Also, if I were you I would get rid of Real player as soon as possible. It is the most pervasive program I have ever seen. It scans your system, sends common practices back to the realone, and it makes itself your default player. KILL IT!

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Very cool. | Report this post to moderator
By: Admiral Arex (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:30:39 on May 30, 2004

I love the sequence with Gary Lockwood stutting in the corridor.


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I may have this | Report this post to moderator
By: John (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:44:10 on May 30, 2004

I have a video put out some years ago (late 80's) that has a different version of this episode on it, I don't recall specifics but it is split into four acts as described. I'll take another look when I get time. It's on a compilation tape with bloopers and interview stuff, and has the commercial with Doohan and Shatner where Bill's head gets beamed on backwards or something.


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credit where credit is due | Report this post to moderator
By: dx31701 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 07:54:57 on May 30, 2004

Y'know, you might want to credit Allan Asherman's Star Trek Compendium for most of your information here - for several paragraphs you almost precisely quote his information about the alternate version of Pilot 2, with just a few words changed here and there.

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  • RE: credit where credit is due | Report this post to moderator
    By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 12:58:19 on May 30, 2004 | Edit History (1)

    You are right. Most of the information here came from Asherman's book, which is a wonderful book, BTW. I will edit the article and post the credit, plus the link to the book on Amazon. Thanks,

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WNMHGB Esoterica | Report this post to moderator
By: Yorik (Odo's file, contact) @ 04:13:00 on May 30, 2004

Some related esoterica:

In the days before VHS and DVD, there used to be regular Star Trek Marathons (5 episodes for 5 dollars) held in an auditorium at ANZAC House in Sydney. This version of WNMHGB was the one that screened whenever that episode was on the schedule.

The music of this episode is a variation of the alternate theme, in the same way that the music that accompanies much of City on the Edge is a variation on the song Goodnight Sweetheart. It was weird, then, hearing the replacement song used in the VHS copies of City during the copyright dispute )resolved for the DVDs).

There was another episode that played at ANZAC House which included US TV commerials in the print (one had Buddy Hackett as a potato chip loving psychiatrist).


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Yea! | Report this post to moderator
By: Dukat (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 02:35:41 on May 30, 2004

I saw this alternate footage for Where No Man at a convention in the basement of the Memphis Central library about 20 years ago. I had always hoped of seeing it on a DVD, but I can make that DVD myself now!

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Wow... I've never even heard of this... | Report this post to moderator
By: Cap'n Calhoun (Odo's file, contact) @ 01:07:35 on May 30, 2004

...and I wrote my term paper on Gene Roddenberry!

Of course, I guess a few seconds here and there are routinely cut from each episode, so this shouldn't be a huge surprise. Then again, I had never heard of the alternate end music either...

Any idea how these guys got ahold of this footage? Babelfish isn't giving me quite the informative translation I had hoped for.

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    By: enterprise1965 (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:37:54 on May 30, 2004

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    I had never heard of the alternate end music either...

    The music you are reffering to is available on the "Where no man has gone before" soundtrack. I've heard those clips before.


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    By: Meglo (Odo's file, contact) @ 01:44:42 on May 30, 2004 | Edit History (1)

    Actually, the music is in the series, mostly used in the end-tag shot of the Enterprise heading off. I never knew they used it as the theme, though.

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    • RE: Wow... I've never even heard of this... | Report this post to moderator
      By: spacebeluga (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:52:17 on May 31, 2004

      It's not too bad as an ending theme, is it?

      Variations of that music are used in several early episodes to build tension, not just at the end. The only one I'm remembering besides "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is "The Naked Time," when they do the warp field inversion or whatever it is and they start traveling back through time.


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Holy Crap! | Report this post to moderator
By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:40:34 on May 30, 2004

Trek never ceases to amaze me!!

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These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise. Its five year plan calls for us to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly fly where no man has gone in space. Live long, and be happy."

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