I received "The Cage" on VHS as a present because I am a big time Star Trek fan. I think that the story line is good and considering that in "The Menagerie" episode they return Captain Pike to the planet of the pilot episode it becomes even more intriguing. I believe as a pilot it should have had more interaction with the ship, the crew and one or two foreign worlds. The Star Trek plot was "to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before" but the pilot involved only one world and should have probably included more of a voyage and alien interaction (perhaps a ship battle). That is probably why the NBC executives rejected this first pilot and requested a second pilot episode. I found this an interesting story which would have fit in well as an episode later in the series, but did not do well to introduce Star Trek as a TV series. Perhaps that is why they included it in "The Menagerie" because by then the characters were set and the interactions with foreign worlds were already known. If you cannot find "The Cage" then watch the two parts of "The Menagerie" episode and you will see most of the pilot episode. I may be mistaken, but I believe that "The Cage" was also recast and retitled in another episode of Star Trek in the future.
