Star Trek: The Oiginal Series

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The Menagerie Part 1 & 2 Season 1 Episode 12 & 13 - Written by: Gene Roddenberry 

   This episode is one of my favorite episode of the Original Series. It is more or less the pilot episode, but from the perspective of an older Spock. In this episode Spock is on trail for kidnapping his former captain, and Captain Kirk is the one who is running the trail. This whole situation is impossible for Kirk to believe because Spock is one of his most loyal friends. When it was revealed Spock did go behind the Kirk's back everyone who ever watch this episode was probably thinking Spock is up to something, I know I was. This episode interest me because you get a look at the days before Kirk. You get to see Spock's former captain, Captain Pike, and the differences between him and Kirk. In ways they are very similar, they bother get easily distracted by beautiful women (let's be honest, Kirk is quite the ladies man), they also both seem too eager to beam down and go on dangerous adventures, and they both are devoted to their duties. But one big factor (and this might be us not seeing enough of Pike) but it seems, to me, Kirk is more open about talking about his past, where Pike seems more secretive, that is just the vibe I got from Pike. In the end of the episode the whole trail turns out to be an illusion from the planet they are orbiting. The ending just made me go like, " wait, say again?" which is almost always what all Star Trek: The Orginal Series episodes do.