"Star Trek: The Original Series" boldly took ... was the ship's commanding officer, and the original pilot episode, "The Cage," gave fans a taste of what his crew's adventures would have entailed.

The first pilot episode of Star Trek. Led by Captain Christopher Pike, the crew of the starship Enterprise investigates of a far-off planet which was the site of a shipwreck eighteen years earlier.

"The Cage," centered on Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter), with Spock the only character who made it into the final version of TOS. After NBC requested a second pilot episode of Star Trek ...