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Warning.

Today's episode contained spoilers for the original, the historical pilot of Star Trek, the original series, titled The Cage.

Be warned. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion.

And I'm Rosie Knight.

And welcome back to X-ray Vision, the podcast where we dive deep.

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In today's episode, beam me up, Scotty, or not, because Scotty's not in this episode.

That's right.

Today, we are revisiting the first episode of the Star Trek, the original series, called The Cage.

Now, there is no Kirk here.

This is Captain Pike.

So come with us as we kickstart our Trek through Trek.

You can think of this as our own pilot episode, too, because if enough of you listen and the

feedback is good, we will be back with more Trek in the new year.

And of course, Star Trek is a landmark sci-fi property in only three seasons, which is kind

of like mind-boggling to think about. Like the original show only ran three seasons. Even the

fact that it was made after this aborted pilot that we're going to talk about

that was then cut up and used for the actual on-air pilot.

This pilot was received in kind of disastrous fashion, although it is quite good.

And you could see a lot of the strands that became the vibe of original trek here.

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