The Menagerie: Part I: Directed by Marc Daniels, Robert Butler. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver. Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.

The Menagerie: Part II: Directed by Robert Butler, Marc Daniels. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver. At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.

Talos IV is the 4th planet of this star system and a class M planet. They beam down to a barren, rocky planet and find vibrating plants and a tent-camp full of very old men. These men sent the distress signal many many years ago, when their ship crashed, and are shocked to see humans coming toward them.

"Star Trek" The Menagerie: Part I (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

"Star Trek" The Menagerie: Part II (TV Episode 1966) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...

"Star Trek" The Menagerie: Part II (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

The only 2-part story in Star Trek: The Original Series. All Star Trek spin-offs had many two-part stories. The "frame" story of Captain Pike's injury and abduction to Talos IV was necessitated because the producers' inability to use the original pilot The Cage (1966) in its unedited form.

In Menagerie Shatner on a space station lay over with the Enterprise discovers his predecessor Captain Christopher Pike now confined to a futuristic wheelchair, his body destroyed pretty much by an explosion.

"Star Trek" The Menagerie: Part II (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

The merger comes to a head in the second part of The Menagerie, arguably one of the best Star Trek episodes, or at least as far as the first season is concerned.