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Majel Barrett played in "The Cage" Captain Pike's "Number One". After Pike is kidnapped by the mysterious Talosians, she has to step up and run the show. And she is a total badass - 15 years before Alien's Ripley. #Feminism was not invented during the shooting of "Captain Marvel". Majel is quite amazing in this role, while being completely stoic and unpretentious. #startrek #majelbarrett #thecage #pilot

The actor Jeffrey Hunter was cast to be the lead of the new Star Trek series in the 1964 pilot. It's not a bad choice. Hunter had a lot of charisma and beauty to spread around, and he certainly had the physique and the enticing appearance of a “complicated man”. Marilyn Monroe said about Hunter: “He has sort of — well, an all-encompassing type of magnetism. And he's a walking advertisement for marriage." #startrek #jeffreyhunter #pilot #tos #leonardnimoy #thecage #marilynmonroe

New Podcast! While we wait for new Star Trek in July, we're looking back to where it all started - the first pilot episode, The Cage. Folks don't talk about The Cage's story, ethics, philosophy, and lessons learned very often these days, but that's our podcast's mission, so we do. Join us! #StarTrek #TheCage #TOS #AllStarTrek @startrek@fedigroups.social https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/startrekacademy/episodes/Episode-186-The-Cage-e3len9u