UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek The Original Series - S1E12 The Menagerie Part 2
Added 2023-01-30 13:00:09 +0000 UTCHere is our last Star Trek TOS Season 1 uncut reaction of the month. Now both parts of The Menagerie are here on Patreon!
This is the closest we will get to watching The Cage for a while, although we could definitely watch that episode in full sometime after finishing TOS.
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TOS Sex Scoreboard - for this update: episodes 9, 10, 11 and this one (12) is included. I will be posting on these uncut posts but all TOS are being watched and if anything happens it will be included. ONCE AGAIN the main crew play a lot of solos but we do have a score in Ep 11-12. Finally something horizontal may be going on. Kirk 0 Bones 0 Spock 0 Extra: Pike +1 new yes that is right, the first big score comes from a former crew member (well I mean capt so not exactly a crew member). The question is in what form was Vina. I am hoping for the Orion slave girl get up cause that gets me up .....so to speak..... I almost want to give all audience members a +1 too since it looks like an up close encounter with a bent over ass but it turns out to be the back of a head so I guess not. update on ep 9 and 10. NONE although I thought there was going to be a major move when Kirk says "no, we'll stay the night". I really thought Kirk was going to have a much needed role playing night of 'prison and naughty prison guard'. It looked like a certainty when Kirk showed up late and Helen was clearly . But no. That is all so still no main cast pounding. WHEN DOES THE SEX START?!!?!
Prof Moff
2024-11-22 15:29:57 +0000 UTCYeah, this second half REALLY leans into the unused footage. There's not a ton going on in the present day till the end, and the dismissal of charges is rather abrupt to wrap it up. As far as bottle and clip episodes go, The Menagerie did a good job filling out the schedule while production on new eps continued. I can never quite remember if I saw this or The Cage first. I was born in 1988 halfway through TNG S1. My parents were pretty conservative and thought TV was a bad influence(little hypocritical given they both grew up watching the original show) so my first exposure to Trek was through the VHS tapes of TOS eps they'd collected. I was around 2 and a half when I started watching Trek. Pretty scary at the time, especially the fight in the castle. The Cage had been released at that point, but it's easy to confuse with Menagerie. This Side of Paradise, Piece of the Action, Trouble with Tribbles, Day of the Dove, Where no Man has Gone Before, Conscience of the King, Tomorrow is Yesterday, City on the Edge of Forever, Let This be Your Last Battlefield, and a few others I must have watched dozens of times back then. I enjoyed the show, but as soon as my parents started renting those TNG eps from Blockbuster, it quickly took over as my favourite show. Even back then Data was my favourite. My watching experience of TOS and TNG was very fragmented and out of order, but being episodic helped. It was probably 1996 or 97 when my parents got a cable package. Didn't have the channel to see new eps, but the Space channel did rerun past seasons of the 4 shows released at that point and my siblings and I could finally watch it all in order. My dad was away for work a lot in the late 90s and only home every other weekend, but he did record and bring back the DS9/VOY episodes that were airing at the time. Seeing them less than 2 weeks behind was a step up from years after the fact, but aside from the odd new episode I may have caught when visiting extended family, the first Trek show I watched on it's original airdates was Enterprise. Interestingly the reason for that was 9/11 just happened and my parents got a more extensive cable package to keep track of world news. Anyway, none of that has anything to do with this episode, but being one of my earliest Trek related memories, it always gets me thinking about my own journey through this franchise.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-04-08 02:55:51 +0000 UTCAfter watching this reaction I watched The Cage again. I have the full series set on Blu-ray and it's a bonus feature on the final disc and is also included on the Season 3 set. I know a lot of people don't like it or find it unnecessary unless you're a completist, but it is a part of the show's history. The entire franchise probably wouldn't exist without it. Even though the network didn't buy it, at least they deemed it worthy of another chance. The narrative does, of course, flow differently when it isn't being interrupted by Kirk and company, and there are some differences. You get a small glimpse of some of the other specimens, some additional scenes on the Enterprise and other scenes that were eliminated or shortened to fit into The Menagerie segments, and the ending isn't as abrupt with a little bit of the flavor of most of the other endings in the show. It's also a few minutes longer than what the other TOS episodes are so if it had aired by itself some cuts would have been necessary. The Keeper also has a different voice in some segments because actor Malachi Throne, who played Commodore Mendez in The Menagerie, had already provided The Keeper's voice in The Cage so a different voice was dubbed in for segments used in The Menagerie. The original voice was later altered to better match the new voice. On this disc there's also an extended version that finally aired on TV as a special in 1988. This one is in both color and B&W and is introduced by Gene Roddenberry. He says the color scenes are the ones used in The Menagerie and the B&W was all that was left of the rest of the original pilot. However, a color print without sound was later discovered in an archive and was restored, and it also got the remastering that the rest of the series got.
KatWithAttitude
2023-01-31 07:55:31 +0000 UTCThe Cage is skippable imo. The main reasons to watch it are to get a glimpse of what might have been. Loved this reaction!
Chuck Rice
2023-01-31 02:09:52 +0000 UTCThis is such a great episode always a favourite of mine mixing in the original pilot as a result if you haven't seen the pilot it makes it even better. There are some extra scenes in the pilot including I think Spock laughing which is strange to see now but certainly not worth making a video of you watching.
AzoriusMage
2023-01-30 19:29:11 +0000 UTCThe Cage is worth watching for nostalgia and completeness, but 90% of what is in it is seen in The Menagerie. I enjoy it, but I am a total fan and weird that way. The Menagerie parts 1 and 2 are my favorite episodes of TOS but without the framing story of Spock wanting to help Pike (sort of a father to Spock, as we later learn his own father was less appreciative and accepting of Spock) at the risk of the Enterprise and its crew, the Cage does not have as much weight and punch.
Collin Freeman
2023-01-30 15:26:04 +0000 UTC
