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86			 THE MENAGERIE (part 1)
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WRITER: Gene Roddenberry

GUESTS: Jeffrey Hunter (Young Pike)
	Susan Oliver (Vina)
	Malachi Throne
	Julie Parrish
	Hagan Beggs
	Peter Duryea
	Meg Wylie
	John Hoyt
	Majel Barrett (Number One)

AIRED:	November 17, 1966

HACK-MAN rating: .570
Usenet rating:   .780

QUOTES:
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 - "We've learned  to tie  into every  human  organ except one:  the brain"
   --McCoy


			 THE MENAGERIE (part 1)

PLOT:
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Spock steals the Enterprise and its old  captain, Christopher  Pike (who is
now an  invalid  incapable  of  speech or  movement, except  for a blinking
light).  Kirk and another officer (Commodore Mendez)  chase after  him in a
shuttlecraft.  Spock beams the two aboard  after the  shuttlecraft runs out
of fuel.

Spock sets the ship on automatic control (destination:  Talos IV) and kills
the override (crosses it with life-support).   Three  captains are present,
so court-martial proceedings can take place, with Spock showing scenes from
"The Cage" (Star Trek's original pilot  episode), the  Enterprise voyage 13
years ago, as testimony.

FACTS:
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 - Someone  claims  there  is  a  doorknob  on  the door to  Captain Pike's
   quarters, and that it is the only doorknob in a federation setting. This
   is really ironic, since  Captain Pike is the only person who is not able
   to turn such a knob!
 - The  only  way to get  the death  penalty  anymore  is to go to Talos IV
   (general order 7).
 - The  shuttlecraft that  Kirk  is  on  is  a  class  F  shuttlecraft with
   theranium hull.
 - Spock served under Pike for 11 years, 4 months, 5 days.

OPINIONS:
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Captain Pike's one-bit prosthetic device  is pretty  lame.   We have better
technology than  that  in this  century.   Why didn't  they just  hook up a
universal translator to a mind-reading device, as in Metamorphosis, or just
assign him  a  nurse  from  a  telepathic species?   There  are many better
solutions than a single light which he can blink once or twice.   How about
three lights on the front of his chair:  A green one  for "yes",  a red one
for "no", and a yellow one for "now *there's* a  hot babe;  I wouldn't mind
getting into *her* pants if I weren't confined to this damn wheelchair!"