From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage?

"Will Dockery"  wrote in
news:ljbj9o$r70$1{at}dont-email.me: 

> 
> "anim8rFSK"  wrote in message 
> news:anim8rfsk-4584ED.20314316042014{at}news.easynews.com...
>> In article ,
>> Wiseguy  wrote:
>>
>>> I thought "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was good
also.  Much better
>>> than the actual premiere "The Man Trap."
>>
>> Agreed.
> 
> Personally I still like both of those and find them watchable dozens
> of times later... my grandkids were truly scared by the look of the
> "salt creature" in The Man Trap... the episode did have some good
> eerie moments all through it.
> 
> 
> 

But Star Trek was supposed to be different from past science 
fiction...more intelligent, fewer "monsters."  Any number of episodes  
would have been suitable for a premiere, especially "Where No Man Has 
Gone Before."

But NBC chose "The Man Trap" BECAUSE it looked (to them) like old-style 
science fiction which defeated the whole purpose of this new science 
fiction series.

"The Man Trap" would have been fine as the fifth episode broadcast, just 
not the premiere.
 

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