Feb 5, 2025
STAR TREK 0x01 The Cage
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STAR TREK 0x01 The Cage
Captain Pike's bridge staff.
Peter Duryea with Gene Roddenberry. Duryea played helmsman Jose Tyler in the original pilot for “Star Trek”.
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 2 of a double feature! This episode had so many good shots of the Star Trek star, and so many Trek connections, that trying to put it all in one post would have made it way too image heavy.
James Doohan guest stars in "Expanding Human," episode 4 of the second season of The Outer Limits (original air date October 10, 1964).
Jimmy plays a hardboiled police detective investigating a series of crimes linked to a university science lab where the faculty and students have been experimenting with mind-expanding drugs. One of the professors has been using himself as a guinea pig and ends up in a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation where he gains superpowers but loses his moral compass. The drugs wear off at an inopportune moment during a hostage situation that turns into a fatal shootout with Doohan's police colleagues.
Other Trek connections:
Jason Wingreen, who plays the police coroner here, can be seen as the doomed scientist Dr. Linke in the Star Trek episode “The Empath.” He was also the original voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, before his lines were redubbed in 2004.
Peter Duryea, who played navigator José Tyler in the Star Trek pilot The Cage" and its repackaged version “The Menagerie,” appears in “Expanding Human” as one of Dr. Clinton's inner circle of students.
Doohan's assistant, Detective Sgt. Alger, is portrayed by Troy Melton. He did stunt work on several episodes of Star Trek, and also played an unnamed Eminian guard in "A Taste of Armageddon."
The narrator of The Outer Limits, known as "Control Voice," was prolific voice actor Vic Perrin. He provided voices in three episodes of Star Trek, including that of Nomad in "The Changeling," and appeared in a fourth as the leader of the Halkans in "Mirror, Mirror." Non-Trek "spaceship" trivia: he was also the original narrator of Spaceship Earth when it opened in EPCOT Center in 1982.
Gene Roddenberry and actor Peter Duryea (Lieutenant Tyler) during the filming of the Star Trek pilot “The Cage”.
Heading out to explore more strange, new worlds.
ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS--
Georgia Schmidt, in costume and makeup as a Talosian, with Gene Roddenberry.