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Quote: Originally Posted by wade8069 I like this pic, looks so manly. I prefer his daughter....

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve Gennarelli ....Now that Paramount..err CBS has added "The Cage" to the syndicated package, yes..you can consider that the first episode or "Oldest" episode with "Where No Man..." coming in a Episode #2. I can see why they added it after the expense of "remastering" it. But considering The Menagerie is also avilible, it can be confusing...

Quote: Originally Posted by Roysten Nice flyby, is another great example of how that design is timeless and beautiful 40 years on, didn't mind the lens flare too much, though it does seem to be the fashion these days. On the DVD there's a little comparison of the final flyby in the film as completed and then without the little flares across the hull of the ship. It's amazing how flat and dull the same scene is without them to...

I had to go with "can't pick/both are good". Jefferey Hunter played the Pike of the time.... intelligent, concerned about his crew, troubled with his command choices, and disdainful of the notion of women in the crew (as per the times when the show was made). He played that role well. Bruce Greenwood played the Pike similar to most military officers I've served with.... father-like, intelligent, sense of humor,...

Has anyone else noticed How Gary Lockwood, who played Gary Mitchell in Where No Man Has Gone Before and Karl Urban who played Dr. Leonard McCoy could have been brothers? I think Urban looks so much like Lockwood, (at least how Lockwood used to look, I don't know about now.) ? Anyone else see the resemblence?

Bump.

....Now that Paramount..err CBS has added "The Cage" to the syndicated package, yes..you can consider that the first episode or "Oldest" episode with "Where No Man..." coming in a Episode #2.

What does this sound like? From Memory Alpha: "In the end,... won out because its straightforward action plot was not considered too exotic, it had the advantage of a monster to thrill the viewers" Maybe NuTrek is much more like TOS than I previously thought?! (I know I have had this discussion before!)

Well, studio executives have believed and still believe that the audience wants monsters, fist fights and some ray gun shooting. Comparing the popularity of "The Cage" and the "The Man Trap" should have changed their minds long ago whereas the success of ST09 fortified their believes.

Nice flyby, is another great example of how that design is timeless and beautiful 40 years on, didn't mind the lens flare too much, though it does seem to be the fashion these days.