For All You Star Trek Fans. 🛸
This is the rejected, original, 1966, Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," Staring the late Jeffrey Hunter.
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NBC rejected the show’s original pilot but asked for changes which ultimately became the basis for The Original Series. The reasoning was they found “The Cage” too cerebral and wanted to see a show with more action. But the details go further than that and demonstrate just how hard Gene Roddenberry and his partners had to work to bring his vision to the screen.
When Hunter died very unexpectedly, William Shatner was brought in to take his place.
While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago (¡Viva América!), a story about the Chicago Mafia, Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion when a car window near him, which had been rigged to explode outward, accidentally exploded inward. Hunter sustained a serious concussion. According to Hunter's wife, Emily, he "went into shock" on the flight back to the United States after filming and "couldn't speak. He could hardly move." After landing, Hunter was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, but doctors could not find any serious injuries except for a displaced vertebra and a concussion.
On the afternoon of May 26, 1969, Hunter suffered an intracranial hemorrhage while walking down a three-stair set of steps at his home in Van Nuys, California. He fell, knocked over a planter, and struck his head on the banister, fracturing his skull. He was found unconscious by Frank Bellow, an actor and a friend of Hunter's, who came for a visit, and taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital, where he underwent brain surgery. He died at about 9:30 the following morning at the age of 42.
Gene Roddenberry was a man ahead of his time.
His ashes are encircling the Earth in a satellite.
A very poetic honoring of his genius.
https://theflixer.tv/watch-tv/watch-star-trek-full-39401.5430688
NBC rejected the show’s original pilot but asked for changes which ultimately became the basis for The Original Series. The reasoning was they found “The Cage” too cerebral and wanted to see a show with more action. But the details go further than that and demonstrate just how hard Gene Roddenberry and his partners had to work to bring his vision to the screen.
When Hunter died very unexpectedly, William Shatner was brought in to take his place.
While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago (¡Viva América!), a story about the Chicago Mafia, Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion when a car window near him, which had been rigged to explode outward, accidentally exploded inward. Hunter sustained a serious concussion. According to Hunter's wife, Emily, he "went into shock" on the flight back to the United States after filming and "couldn't speak. He could hardly move." After landing, Hunter was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, but doctors could not find any serious injuries except for a displaced vertebra and a concussion.
On the afternoon of May 26, 1969, Hunter suffered an intracranial hemorrhage while walking down a three-stair set of steps at his home in Van Nuys, California. He fell, knocked over a planter, and struck his head on the banister, fracturing his skull. He was found unconscious by Frank Bellow, an actor and a friend of Hunter's, who came for a visit, and taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital, where he underwent brain surgery. He died at about 9:30 the following morning at the age of 42.
Gene Roddenberry was a man ahead of his time.
His ashes are encircling the Earth in a satellite.
A very poetic honoring of his genius.
