From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage?   
      
   "Will Dockery"  wrote in   
   news:ljbj9o$r70$1@dont-email.me:    
      
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   > "anim8rFSK"  wrote in message    
   > news:anim8rfsk-4584ED.20314316042014@news.easynews.com...   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Wiseguy  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I thought "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was good also.  Much better   
   >>> than the actual premiere "The Man Trap."   
   >>   
   >> Agreed.   
   >    
   > Personally I still like both of those and find them watchable dozens   
   > of times later... my grandkids were truly scared by the look of the   
   > "salt creature" in The Man Trap... the episode did have some good   
   > eerie moments all through it.   
   >    
   >    
   >    
      
   But Star Trek was supposed to be different from past science    
   fiction...more intelligent, fewer "monsters."  Any number of episodes     
   would have been suitable for a premiere, especially "Where No Man Has    
   Gone Before."   
      
   But NBC chose "The Man Trap" BECAUSE it looked (to them) like old-style    
   science fiction which defeated the whole purpose of this new science    
   fiction series.   
      
   "The Man Trap" would have been fine as the fifth episode broadcast, just    
   not the premiere.   
       
      
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