Leonard Nimoy Hosts Star Trek’s Original Pilot Movie In Rare Footage

Rare footage has surfaced of Leonard Nimoy hosting Star Trek’s original pilot, “The Menagerie”, when it was turned into a 1975 TV movie.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek's original pilot.

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Rare footage of Leonard Nimoy hosting Star Trek’s “The Menagerie” resurfaces on YouTube, with insights into the transformation from original pilot to two-part episode.
Gene Roddenberry’s rejected pilot “The Cage” led to a recasted version, with only Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock remaining for Star Trek’s second pilot.
Discover the history behind how “The Cage” was refashioned into “The Menagerie” in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 through Nimoy’s hosting.

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Leonard Nimoy hosted a 1975 TV special of Star Trek’s The Original Series‘ “The Menagerie”, and the rare footage has resurfaced on YouTube. In 1964, Gene Roddenberry produced “The Cage,” the original hourlong pilot for Star Trek. NBC rejected “The Cage” but commissioned a second Star Trek pilot, with the entire show recast except for Leonard Nimoy’s Vulcan Mr. Spock. In Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, “The Cage” was refashioned into a two-part episode, “The Menagerie,” that showed nearly all of Star Trek’s original pilot as a flashback.

YouTube user Rob O’Hara uploaded rare footage of Leonard Nimoy hosting Star Trek‘s “The Menagerie” when it was turned into a 1975 TV movie by Oklahoma station KAUT-TV Channel 43. The footage includes Nimoy’s interstitials as he introduces Star Trek‘s original pilot and explains how and why “The Cage” was turned into “The Menagerie,” the first two-part episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Check out the video below.