Gene
Roddenberry promised NBC a “Wagon Train to the stars” and delivered a pilot for
Star Trek. The initial episode starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher
Pike. In the episode, Pike is captured by Talosians who have mastered the art
of illusion. Their powers worked as a narcotic and the addicts lived
vicariously through other species as their world died. The Talosians hoped to
enslave Pike and another human to save their society and species. NBC brass
thought the pilot too cerebral and ordered another pilot. Hunter would not
return, so Roddenberry turned to William Shatner and Pike became James T. Kirk.
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