This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- This was the first pilot episode of the cult series
""Star Trek" (1966)" (qv). In 1964 It was presented to the NBC executives,
which rejected the pilot and asked for a second pilot.
("Star Trek - Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) (TV)" (qv)).
- The first pilot was not aired on TV until 1988, when is was used as a
filler episode for ""Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)" (qv) due to
a writers strike.
- Footage of this pilot has been used to create the two part
""Star Trek" (1966)" (qv) episode ``The Menagerie''. Because of a production
delay they had only one week to produce two episodes, and so they edited
this pilot into two new episodes.
 
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