Synopsis: Captain Pike and the crew receive a distress signal from Talos IV, a remote planet where another ship is thought to have crash landed 18 years ago. Pike doesn't want to investigate, believing the crew likely dead. Besides, he's still reeling from losing some crew on the last planet. Spock, realizing this would make for a very boring pilot episode, looks quite concerned.
Frankly, Pike's pretty bummed out. He'd like a horse and a pasture. He tells his doctor about it. Is this the tiny seed, a man in a powerful position who makes life and death decisions and ponders the ethics of his profession, that would later bloom into another groundbreaking series: HBO's The Soprano's? Certainly.
Well... looking to spice up the show Spock locates readings of life on the planet and Captain Pike brings down a small crew to investigate. And our famous Star Trek formula really get rolling.
The crew investigates the planet ____________. Some sort of alien excrement hits the ScyFy fan. The crew has to _________________________ and they learn ___________________.
In the pilot:
The crew investigates the planet Talos IV. They discover some groovy old Trekkers who actually turn out to be illusions projected by aliens with giant heads, bad teeth and telepathic powers. The aliens kidnap Captain Pike and the rest of the crew has to help Captain Pike escape The Mind Prison
Things are already very confusing.
I have no idea who most of these people are. We have Mr. Spock.
But no Captain Kirk, no Dr. McCoy, no Scotty.
No Scotty?!!!!
So... I did some research. This episode never aired.
It was considered too cerebral.
That episode is great, though! I'm sure you recognize the Talosians from about a million pop-culture references.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you nerding out proper. My friend Soren has this outstanding ability to name any episode of classic Star Trek within the first couple minutes of the episode. He can also tell you which episode it was and the synopsis from nothing more than a pretty vague description. I have not watched every episode of classic, but I have seen every episode of Next Generation and Voyager.
Needless to say, I look forward to this bloggery.
Oh yeah. I didn't realize what fun this would be. When the lead Talosian lady said "excellent" in exactly the same way Mr. Burns would deliver the line about 25 years later! AH! muy cool.
DeleteI'm on Charlie X right now.
I've watched it 4 times.
Netflix is geek heaven.