Star Trek Logo 'The Menagerie'
(Part 2)

by Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek Cast

As Lieutenant Commander Spock’s court martial continues, the playback of Captain Pike’s previous mission on Talos IV is resumed: Pike is now being held inside a cell in the Talosians’ underground base. He learns that the Talosians are telepaths capable of creating absolutely convincing illusions; however, although originally a strong race, decades of illusory indulgence have caused the Talosians to physically atrophy, and so they have lured the Enterprise and her crew to their world in order to use them to rebuild and repopulate their barren world - and they believe that Pike is the perfect male to create a healthier and more powerful race for them, by mating with Vina. The Talosians use their illusory powers to make Vina of interest to the captain, by presenting her as a Rigellian princess in distress, a green Orion slave-woman, and then as a loving and kind companion. But when Pike refuses the girl’s advances the Talosians are forced to entice his first officer, Number One, and Yeoman Colt to their base, hoping to use them as potential mates. Can Pike resist their feminine charms, or will he be doomed to spend the rest of his life as breeding stock in an alien zoo..?

William Shatner (Captain James Tiberius Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock), DeForest Kelley (Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy), James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott), Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), Julie Parrish (Miss Piper), Hagan Beggs (Lieutenant Hansen), George Sawaya (Chief Humbolt), Jeffrey Hunter / Sean Kenney (Captain Christopher Pike), Majel Barrett (Number One), John Hoyt (Doctor Phillip Boyce), Laurel Goodwin (Yeoman Colt), Malachi Throne (Commodore Jose Mendez / Voice of The Keeper), Peter Duryea (Jose Tyler), Meg Wyllie (The Keeper), Lon Lormer (Doctor Theodore Haskins), Susan Oliver (Vina), Adam Roarke (Chief Petty Officer Garrison)

Directed by Marc Daniels

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24th November, 1966

Notes:
*Featuring Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock, Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura and Captain Christopher Pike