STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 1, Episode 12

The Menagerie, Part II

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 1
Episode #: 12
Production #: 6149-16B
Original Airdate: 11/24/1966

Writer(s): Gene Roddenberry
Director(s): Marc Daniels and Robert Butler

Guest Stars
Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike
Susan Oliver as Vina
Malachi Throne as Commodore José I. Mendez
Majel Barrett as Number One
John Hoyt as Dr. Philip Boyce
Peter Duryea as Navigator José Tyler
Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman J.M. Colt
Meg Wyllie as the Keeper
Malachi Throne as the Keeper's Voice
Adam Roarke as Crewman Garison
Sean Kenney as the Injured Captain Pike
Hagan Beggs as Lt. Hansen
Julie Parrish as Miss Piper

Uncredited Guest Stars
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Tom Curtis as the Voice of Starbase 11 Starbase Com Operations
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Brett Dunham as Security Chief Lt. Pitcairn
Tom Lupo as an Enterprise Security Guard
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Jan Reddin as the Enterprise Court Recorder
George Sawaya as Chief Humbolt
Georgia Schmidt as the 1st Talosian
Serena Sande as the 2nd Talosian
Sandra Gimpel as the 3rd Talosian
Leonard Mudie as the 2nd Columbia Survivor
Anthony Jochim as the 3rd Columbia Survivor
Ed Madden as the Geologist
Joseph Mell as the Earth Trader
Robert Phillips as the Space Officer
Janos Prohaska as the Anthropoid Ape

Stardate: 3013.1

Synopsis

The U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew are diverted by a signal from the former captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise on Starbase 11, and proceed to the call. When they arrive they find Captain Christopher Pike, who is severely crippled by radiation burns, confined to a moving chair and his ability to communicate limited to the answers "yes" and "no."

Unbeknownst to Captain Kirk, Spock abducts Pike on board the ship. Captain Kirk returns to the U.S.S. Enterprise with Commodore Mendez, and soon discovers that Spock has locked the ship's controls on a course set for the planet Talos IV - a planet to which a visit carries the death penalty. Forced by the extreme actions of the Vulcan first officer, the two convene a court-martial against Spock.

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During the proceedings, from an unknown source, they watch the events that transpired when Captain Pike was in command of the U.S.S. Enterprise. They are shown Pike's initial contact with the Talosians, a race of beings eager to study human beings in their natural state, and who can provide illusions to make things appear exactly as they would like. The transmission relays Captain Pike's entire mission surrounding the Talosians and their bizarre experiments while holding him in a powerful cage. The Talosians are telepathic beings, able to dig deep into the memories to find whatever illusion will be most effective. They attempt to hold Pike captive until his passion and fury force them to release him.

As the proceedings end, the entire court-martial is found to be meaningless, a result of Commodore Mendez being an illusion created by the Talosians for Kirk's benefit. The events, as well, which depicted Pike on Talos IV were also found to originate from the Talosians.

Because of Pike's condition, Spock has risked his career and freedom to bring his former captain to a place where he will be able to live an illusion of a pleasant life, rather than the tragically limited one he lives now. Kirk allows Pike to beam down to Talos IV and all charges against Spock are dropped.

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