From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: will.dockery@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage?   
      
   On Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:11:12 PM UTC-4, Wiseguy wrote:   
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   Yes, in the end, NBC obviously aimed for catching as many viewers as they   
   could, rather than the choice to go where no network had gone before.   
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