![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Sean Kenney guest-starred as the older Pike, who had been badly maimed and disfigured in an accident. But this was the first time that viewers met Pike, although Hunter didn’t reprise his role for the newly created scenes set years after the initial story. ![]() To keep up with the grind of making new episodes, the creative team repurposed footage from “The Cage” into the two-part episode “The Menagerie.” Those episodes also gave fans a glimpse of a more youthful and exuberant Spock, which was in stark contrast to his more reserved persona. But Nimoy remained, and his presence in the original Star Trek pilot helped solve a problem for the producers. Almost the entire cast of “The Cage” was released after the original pilot was rejected, and Hunter left the series behind to focus on making movies before his untimely death in 1969. ![]()
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