A German collector and film restoration expert has gone where no man has gone before and managed to find a long-lost missing pilot episode from
Star Trek titled, well,
Where No Man Has Gone Before. The first pilot for the series, titled
The Cage, starred Jeffrey Hunter and was rejected by NBC, which commissioned this second pilot episode starring William Shatner. Unsurprisingly, the second pilot had plenty of differences compared to the actual series that followed. The collector, Thomas Booch, located a print on 16mm in 1989 that was being sold through the old Big Reel newspaper. Twenty years later, he finally got around to proposing an official restoration for home video, which CBS Home Entertainment has approved. For more
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