STARSHIP ENTERPRISE: THE EXTENDED MISSION

摘要

"The man trap" was not the first episode of Star Trek to be produced, but it was the one NBC chose to air first, on the evening of September 8,1966. The plot involved the last of a race of shape-shifters, one that kills crew members of the starship Enterprise because it needs the salt in their bodies to survive. At the end of the episode, a creature that has variously taken the form of an attractive woman or man-whatever form each of its victims finds most alluring-is revealed as a bizarre-looking monster. NBC considered that element quite salable-a nod to the creature-features more familiar to viewers than the kind of high-minded, unsubtly allegorical science fiction for which Star Trek would become famous. Eighteen months earlier, the network had rejected "The Cage," Star Trek's first pilot, as too cerebral, but taken the then-unprecedented step of commissioning a second pilot.