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"The Cage" (pilot)
I launch my mission tonight with the pilot of the original Star Trek series, "The Cage".
Most Trekkies will remember this mainly for featuring USS Enterprise's first captain, Christopher Pike (played by Jeffrey Hunter). But it's also a fairly decent pulp sci-fi story, very much in style of stories from the 1950s and 1960s. An advanced alien species kidnaps the captain and experiments on him. And naturally, there's a hot blonde.
We see the first iterations of Treknology that will evolve in name and function as the franchise progresses: "Lasers" rather than phasers, the faster-than-light propulsion system is referred to as "Time Warp", and thrusters are called "rockets" (which is really all thrusters are, I suppose).
"The Cage" is also notable for the not-yet-fully-formed concept of the Spock character--alien, but not yet a "logical" Vulcan (in fact, they don't even name his species in this pilot).
Sam's score for "The Cage": 6.5/10.0
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