Trivia / Star Trek S1 E11 "The Menagerie, Part I"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: Gene Roddenberry named this two-parter as one of his ten favourite episodes.
• The Other Darrin: The disfigured Pike was played by Sean Kenney rather than Jeffrey Hunter, as Hunter was neither available nor affordable. Pike's disfiguring scars were designed to hide the fact that this trope was in play.
• Prop Recycling: The panel in the room from which Spock issues orders to the Enterprise is a re-use of the neural neutralizer control panel from "Dagger of the Mind".
• Recycled Set: The Starbase Operations set is a redress of the engineering room set. An opaque blue wall has been placed behind the grid to hide the forced perspective set.
• Working Title: From the First Day to the Last.

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