The Original Outline for "The Cage" With Gene's Handwritten Notes
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It's definitely not from de Forest Research. I've read hundreds of de Forest Research memos (including many for projects other than Star Trek; I came close to writing a dissertation about their role in Hollywood) from projects made as early as 1964 and as late as 1988, and they are all formatted the same, specific way.
I get the feeling that this memo is from August or September of 1966, based on "space, the final frontier..." and other allusions to the series proper. Hard to say who wrote this one for sure, as it's not a traditional memo -- more like rough notes that have been dictated and typed later. I think Maurice's read as to why the memo was written is correct.
A few early sketches for the Enterprise — close and not so close.
And a letter from Roddenberry to his agent, regarding "The Cage."
And a letter from Roddenberry to his agent, regarding "The Cage."
Thanks!
How were you able to find it? When I open the landing page on the Roddenberry site, I don't see any other documents beyond the two from January 1st. Is there a toggle arrow or something that's not loading on my computer?
EDIT: Looks like the Jan 4th document shows up when I view the page in Firefox, rather than Chrome. Bizarre...
What does "papyri se" mean?
A Google search turns up nothing.
What does "papyri se" mean?
It's Vulcanian for "autocorrect"
That's an interesting document. Nice to see some background context for the "too cerebral" stuff. And it appears, from this document, that "The Cage" was shown to at least two test audiences with a third test to come. Nice to see that bit of lore corroborated.
Look forward to future revelations.
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The letter to Alden Schwimmer has been online for ages now: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/maybe-its-just-catharsis-but-i-think.html (but it's still fascinating; David Alexander's biography prints another letter or two from this period between Roddenberry and his agent, as I recall).
And... gone.
It's still coming up for me.
Looks like today's post is Majel's script for "The Cage," but the extended document hasn't appeared on the Roddenberry site as yet.
This link isn't working for me.
I've heard that "too cerebral" was really a veiled way of saying that the story touched a little too much on sexuality. Did this document have notes along those lines?
If that's the case, then I think it's interesting that television science fiction wasn't quite ready for the kind of thing that literary SF had already been exploring for quite some time (as is usually the case right up til today).
Kor
You sure it's not cached? I have tried it in two different browsers and get 404 errors each time.
That link is gone for me too. But I saved a copy earlier
Although it's just a PDF of the images here
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/maybe-its-just-catharsis-but-i-think.html
Although it's just a PDF of the images here
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/maybe-its-just-catharsis-but-i-think.html
Seems they're uploading documents on there and obliterating the previously published ones. Today's is Majel's copy of "The Cage" script.
Save to disk...
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