In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode “The Cage” is widely regarded as a landmark in sci-fi TV—a serious, ...

Despite being Star Trek: The Original Series' pilot episode, "The Cage" was not the world's first taste of Gene Roddenberry's creation. Most fans would have first witnessed "The Cage" while watching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a redo, that second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” was a recalibration. Gene Roddenberry and his team took a ...

It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry had trouble getting Star Trek on the air. He went to NBC with a pilot and believed that he had cooked up something really unique. The powers that be didn’t agree, ...