Star Trek's LOST Pilot Episodes

You might know that the original Star Trek had not one, but two pilot episodes. But did you also know that there were even more stories in the running to be the show’s pilot episode?

I am CaptRobau and this is the story of Star Trek’s lost pilot episodes.

📇 Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - The First Pilot
3:10 - The Second Pilot

📝 Credits
I used these sources for the research:

I used footage from the following TV shows:
-Star Trek: The Original Series

♫ Music: Star Twinkle
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[thereturningshadow]

You left out some key points to this story. It wasn't NBC execs that didn't like The Cage, it was the execs as Desilu Productions. Desilu was the production company that was funding Star Trek. NBC was just the network that was gonna show it. It was, in fact, Lucille Ball herself that saved Star Trek and overrode the execs and made then do the second pilot. They weren't thrilled with that one much more but Lucille told then to pick up the series and run with it. It is a well known fact that Lucille Ball gave the world Star Trek.

[emsleywyatt]

"The Perfect World" setting reminds me a great deal of the setting for the TV film "The Stranger", which starred Glenn Corbett (known to Trek fans as the original Zephram Cochrane.)

[mahatmarandy]

"Landing Party, " not "Away Team." They were called "Landing Parties" in those days.

[knytrydr]

The more I hear about the kind of decisions studio executives make, the more I am convinced they think that the audiences are absolute morons.

[kylehazachode]

sometimes I go on an 'unsold pilot' rabbit hole on youtube. The Robinsons: Lost In Space would have been a great show. The entire four part pilot is on youtube.

[jpboursaw]

Wow, that is some fly on the wall Trek lore not widely known! Must’ve taken some serious digging to get. Wonder if there isn’t more out there to be found, even now.

[Knightfall]

0:44 WTF a WOMAN on the Bridge 😬😬🤨🤨 How bizarre

[lisanidog]

The scene that you showed where Kirk was being whipped was Patterns of Force. The scene you showed where Kirk and the others were shot but nothing happened to them was Spectre of the Gun.

[PHOENIXGUNDAM]

Huh you know you could do a entire star trek lost media iceberg, just a idea

[nodisalsi]

So glad that of all the things they chose to keep: it was the diverse crew. The political climate in the USA was still having doubts about sharing pools with black swimmers, still experiencing trepidation owing to the cold war with the Soviets, and some veterans are still getting PTSD flashbacks from the war in Pacific everytime they see an Asian. But they pushed on with the premise that: "In the Future" these problems have all been solved.

Yeh, yeh I know the UK and USA has since stepped back to the eighteenth century - but we soldier on.

[NeonVisual]

I had to laugh at the terrible Discovery show when they called their first and second episodes "our first and our 2nd pilots", as if the viewer of the terrible quality of writing and OTT visual effects had some sort of say in CBS using it as a cash cow to try and launch a streaming service and remain relevant with virtually nothing else of value.

[WysteriaGuitar]

Red shirt guys always get killed though...