The Cage
Episode 1 of 30 within Season One. Item 1 of 89 overall.
Production number 001.
Gene Roddenberry - Writer
Robert Butler - Director
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Captain Pike is captured by the illusion-creating Talosians, who want Pike as a prize specimen in their zoo.

[NOTE] The Cage was never originally aired as a separate episode. This was the rejected pilot episode incorporated into the story "The Menagerie."

Remastered Premiere Date: May 2,2009

music: Theme song  written by Alexander Courage

 

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

logh: Qav'e'. DaH 'entepray' Duj lengmey lutalu'. Qu' vagh qaStaHvIS DIS: Huj chu' qo', yISam yIn chu' tayqeq chu', vay' bolDly nuqDaq V pagh 'ej

 

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Next episode :
002 The Man Trap
Related to this story :
012 The Menagerie (I)
  Star Trek: The Original Series, Season One
013 The Menagerie (II)
  Star Trek: The Original Series, Season One

regional titles

Dutch
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English
The Cage
French
La Cage
German
Der Käfig
Irish
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Italian
Lo zoo di Talos
Spanish
The Cage