doubleofive said:

SilverWook said:

When I was a kid, and only knew of The Menagerie two parter, I really thought they had gone to the trouble of changing the sets and costumes to create the "past" scenes.
That's hilarious. I love how they used it for those episodes, fitting this unseen abandoned episode into continuity. I also like how thrifty it was. For the cost of sitting on one "courtroom" set for a day, they got two episodes out.

I think the Captain Pike chair and makeup probably cost a little bit too. They were incredibly lucky that they had a actor who looked a lot like Jefferey Hunter to play the radiation scarred Pike.

The framework story really defined Spock in terms of what he's willing to do out of loyalty and friendship.

The Enterprise fly by with the zoom into the bridge is still an amazing FX shot.