Continuity q: Will this be set post-"Where No Man Has Gone Before"

[Kryton]

Now, now...don't make too many presumptions.

It's fairly common knowledge that Star Trek was a rarity in that it even GOT a second pilot. "More action, less braininess" was essentially what it came down to.

Didn't mean "The Cage" sucked (or they wouldn't have reused almost all of it in "The Menagerie")...just wasn't exactly what they were looking for at the time.

 

[Dojhar son of Bob]

On the Shakespeare topic (just cause it's interesting), I just thought I'd toss in that I once saw a production of MacBeth that was set in feudal Japan with Macbeth plotting to be come shogun rather than king and, of course, everyone wearing feudal Japanese costumes.

I should mention that it was a college theater company. Is that canon?

 

[Sector 7]

^ Not canon. It wasn't on screen.
(Can you believe it? I never even knew what 'canon' was until I joined this board.)
BTW, Somewhere in the last couple posts.... I MADE CAPTAIN!!! Yay me!

 

[Dojhar son of Bob]

Yeah, but Okuda was sitting next to me in the audience and he clapped at the end. Doesn't that make it canon?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^
^^And don't forget that WNMHGB was a re-boot of The Cage.

All that talk of The Cage being "13 years prior to TOS season one" was never the plan...The Cage was just a failed pilot that only a few TV executives ever saw (until the mid-1980s).

I'm sure Roddenberry originally intended WNMHGB to take place around the same future time as The Cage. However, when he realized he could use that existing film footage in The Menagerie to save money (instead of producing another episode with brand-new original footage), he decided to re-con The Cage as being 13 years prior to explain Spock's presence without the rest of the TOS crew.

Exactly. They adapted it to their continuity.

For the new production team to ignore either "The Cage" or "Where No Man Has Gone Before" because they are pilots would just be lazy, at best.