When they watched “The Cage” in February 1965, almost ten months after they had first expressed an interest in Star Trek, they turned it down. To be quite honest, I don’t think the “powers that be” at the studio were aware of how much we were spending until after it was spent. We had to realize that we were building the interior of a spaceship, doing complex opticals of ships in flight and transporter effects and so forth, all props had to be built from scratch, all costumes had to be designed from scratch. Roddenberry admitted that it was an “abnormal amount”, but argued in The Making of Star Trek: Production costs were estimated to be in excess of half a million dollars - an extraordinary high amount for a television series pilot at the time, especially for a small studio like Desilu.īy the time the episode was completed, costs had soared to $630,000. Gene Roddenberry had rewritten the story again and again, obsessing over every detail. “The Cage” had received the green light two years earlier, in September 1964. “The Cage” was the original Star Trek pilot that later became part of the double episode “The Menagerie,” which was first broadcast in November 1966. Leonard Nimoy and Gene Roddenberry on the set of “The Cage” in December 1964
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