The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series)

"The Menagerie"
Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
1989 VHS release
Episode nos.	Season 1 Episodes 11 and 12
Directed by	Marc Daniels (Part I) Robert Butler (Part II)
Written by	Gene Roddenberry
Featured music	Alexander Courage
Cinematography by	Jerry Finnerman (Part I) William E. Snyder (Part II)
Editing by	Robert L. Swanson (Part I) Leo Shreve (Part II)
Production code	016
Original air dates	November 17, 1966 (1966-11-17) (Part I) November 24, 1966 (1966-11-24) (Part II)
Running time	50 minutes (Part I) (runtime) 50 minutes (Part II) (runtime)
Guest appearances
Jeffrey Hunter – Captain Christopher Pike Malachi Throne – Commodore Jose I. Mendez Susan Oliver – Vina Sean Kenney – Fleet Captain Christopher Pike Julie Parrish – Lt. Piper Majel Barrett (billed as M. Leigh Hudec) – Number One Peter Duryea – Lt. José Tyler John Hoyt – Dr. Philip Boyce Adam Roarke – C.P.O. Garrison Hagan Beggs – Lt. Hansen Laurel Goodwin – Yeoman J.M. Colt Meg Wyllie – The Keeper
Episode chronology
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The Menagerie is a two-part episode from the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. It comprises the eleventh and twelfth broadcast episodes of the series. Written by series creator Gene Roddenberry, with portions directed by Marc Daniels (credited for part one) and portions directed by Robert Butler (credited for part two), it is the only two-part story in the original series. Part I was broadcast by NBC on November 17, 1966, and Part II was broadcast on November 24, 1966. In the episode, Spock abducts his former commanding officer, Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, locks the starship Enterprise on a course to the forbidden planet Talos IV and turns himself in for court-martial where he presents an elaborate story explaining his actions.

The complexity of Star Trek's production had steadily increased the show's production time, leading to concerns that Desilu Productions would not be able to deliver episodes to NBC in time to meet their series commitments. "The Menagerie" was created as a means to reuse footage from "The Cage" — the unaired 1965 pilot episode of Star Trek — within a frame story as the early history of the Enterprise. As such, the two-part episode only required a week of production time.

"The Menagerie" was positively received and won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.^[1] It was the only multi-part episode produced for the original series. Multi-part episodes would become far more common in later Star Trek series.