![]() The idea was simple: there was a botched mission on Rigel VII, which is why Captain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) is depressed at the start of “The Cage,” and also why later in the episode, the Talosians telepathically recreate the fight on Rigel VII, complete with an ethereal castle, and a large, Kalar warrior for Pike to fight. As Leonard Nimoy pointed out over the years, this limp wasn’t a real injury, rather, it was an artistic choice, saying “ Gene Roddenberry told me to limp.” Navigator José Tyler has a bandage on his hand, and in several scenes, Spock walks with a limp. But, didn’t “The Cage”(“Menagerie” flashbacks) happen on Talos IV? What’s the deal with Rigel VII? Rigel VII explainedĬaptain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) relives the fight on Rigel VII in “The Cage.” CBS/ParamountĪlthough “The Cage” focuses on the Enterprise’s discovery of the telepathic big-brained aliens, the Talosians, fans tend to forget that the immediate unseen backstory is that the crew is recovering from a horrible time on Rigel VII. Although hardcore fans might be aware of this fact, it bears repeating that the entirety of Strange New Worlds only exists because of “The Cage” flashbacks that were inserted into “The Menagerie.” Basically, the first retcon in Trek history happened in 1966, when Gene Roddenberry retroactively established that his rejected pilot episode was really just a prequel to the regular show.Ĭhronologically, the events of “The Cage” happened in 2254, which is about two years before Discovery Season 1, and as confirmed in dialogue in “Among the Lotus Eaters,” the mission to Rigel VII happened five years prior to the current season of Strange New Worlds, which is in 2259. Although this pilot episode was rejected, and never released in its entirety until 1986 (or screened at conventions), the bulk of the footage was used as an extended flashback for the classic TOS two-part episode “The Menagerie,” in November 1966. The 1964 pilot episode of Star Trek, “The Cage,” has confusing canonicity. In Season 2, Episode 4 “Among the Lotus Eaters,” Strange New Worlds returns to the infamous planet that served as the backstory to the first filmed Star Trek episode, ever, “The Cage.” And this time, a few plot holes from 1964 are used as the jumping-off point into a brand-new story. And, it turns out that if your memory of this planet is a little fuzzy, that’s by design. In Strange New Worlds Season 2, the first “strange new world” in all of Star Trek canon has been revisited. What happens on Rigel VII stays on Rigel VII.
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