Star Trek Thoughts: The Menagerie

After watching the second pilot of Star Trek and the first regular episode filmed, I was interested in getting around to the two-part episode that parsimoniously reclaimed the first pilot, "The Menagerie." Quite a while ago, my family had managed to videotape a TV special wrapped around "The Cage" itself, but I had never quite got around to watching the whole thing. This might have had to do with having read James Blish's short story adaptation (pleading the difficulty of adapting a story within a story, he just adapted the pilot) and not wanting to see just how it ended. Now, though, I was more than ready to get around to that unfinished business.
( 'But we're not here. Neither of us. We're in a menagerie, a cage!' )