I love the design of The Enterprise interior design. I don't know if anybody else agrees, but it looks even more futuristic compared with the rest of the series. This is quite impressive be cause even though it was filmed in 1964 it really doesn't look that dated. But when they added multi-colour interior design of The Enterprise, it is when it began to look silly. I do not know why every thing has to be bright colours with purple walls. In the briefing room I saw the ceiling was some Octogon-shaped ceiling, or some thing that made it look futuristic. Was this ceiling in any other episode? Actually the entire pilot episode looked very impressive. Does any body else agree?
The Design From The Cage
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I thought it was good. I even think the uniforms in The Cage are quite good. The whole look of The Cage isn't better than the rest of the series, but it was an interesting look that still stands up I think.
For the NBC execs it must have blew their minds at what a series can look like if they put money into it; the pilot looked special. The designs, and color schemes were interesting, but I thought the production designers nailed it when Star Trek became an actual series. I love colors, lighting work from Star Trek.
I like the little goose-neck viewscreens everywhere 
Those are pretty futuristic IMO.
Those are pretty futuristic IMO.I also like the Away Team Jackets. It is too bad they never used them for any other moment in Star Trek. I am also just blown away those Jackets from the 1960s look as good as the grey uniforms from Deep Space Nine, only 30 years earlier.
I am also rewatching the TOS movies. All they really did was upgrade the lighting. What if they did the same for The Cage? It also makes me wonder what a TOS movie would look like in the 1960s.
I am also rewatching the TOS movies. All they really did was upgrade the lighting. What if they did the same for The Cage? It also makes me wonder what a TOS movie would look like in the 1960s.
I don't know if it was done on purpose, but TMP seemed to take it's cues, stylistically, more from "The Cage" than from the rest of TOS. Compare Captain Pike's pilot Enterprise interiors to those seen in the refit Enterprise in TMP and there's a clear design lineage. Same with the uniforms.
I don't know if TMP director Bob Wise looked at "The Menagerie" and just decided he prefered that look, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I don't know if TMP director Bob Wise looked at "The Menagerie" and just decided he prefered that look, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Well if the '66 Batman movie is any indication, probably a lot like the TV show, but maybe with a bit more money spent on a set-piece or two.
The muted colours give it a far more serious look, whilst the gooseneck viewers were always a favourite of mine. Add to that the great landing party jackets and harnesses, and lets not forget that women were in trousers!
I love "The Cage" and always wonder what route Trek might have taken had it been picked up.
I love "The Cage" and always wonder what route Trek might have taken had it been picked up.
I think CBS had done a decent job with the remastering of The Cage, the cgi interpreting Talos IV looked scary. I enjoyed the little touches done during Pike's shore leave illusion.
I went through a phase a few years ago when I thought that a new Star Trek TV series should copy "The Cage" production design and costumes completely, being set in the Pike era but aboard a different Constitution class ship.
Another retro-chic idea along the same lines would be a new non-Trek series that looked just like Forbidden Planet, with those once-futuristic costumes and props being so distinctive and offbeat today.
I'm pretty sure "The Cage" era has been continued in comic book form. For all I know, Forbidden Planet has as well.
Another retro-chic idea along the same lines would be a new non-Trek series that looked just like Forbidden Planet, with those once-futuristic costumes and props being so distinctive and offbeat today.
I'm pretty sure "The Cage" era has been continued in comic book form. For all I know, Forbidden Planet has as well.
The landscape backdrops for Talos IV, and Rigel ... 7? ... were amazing. Just think how it would have been, if the budget hadn't been cut, and we'd had planet scenes like that every week, rather than endless red-sky-and-boulders planets....
Absolutely! I have made this exact same observation. Maybe this was the look Roddenberry always wanted, before the studio execs told him to add more colour, and he went back to it when he got a chance to do the movie?
While I don't think TOS looked silly, I personally prefer the more muted colours of 'The Cage' and TMP.
I have to agree, the plain sky sound stage planet sets were lacking something.
BTW, the Talos IV "rocky skyline" painting was a cyclorama, and it got reused as Delta Vega in WNMHGB. I think Star Trek's only other detailed cyclorama was the skyline of Pike's hometown, re-used as Planet Q in "The Conscience of the King."
The Rigel VII "castle and giant moon" scene was an Albert Whitlock matte painting, and to be fair TOS had several good ones as the series went on. The budget wasn't so low that they couldn't do that.
The city matte painting from "A Taste of Armageddon" was apparently put up on a rear-screen projector to serve as Scalos in "Wink of an Eye."
Four of Whitlock's six Star Trek matte paintings got used twice each. The remaining two were the different Starbase 11 scenes in "Court Martial" and "The Menagerie." That's odd, because it's the one time when a re-use would have been totally justified in-universe.
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Its landing party. "Away team" was 1980s touchy—feely jargon.
THE WOMEN!
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