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Before the Infinitive Split

Alternate Pilot for Original "Star Trek" Found / Steven Lloyd Wilson

Trade News | November 19, 2009 | Comments (13)

So a German film collector is rooting around old reels of film, finds a particularly fetching reel and mounts it onto his film projector, which resembles a DVD player, except with vacuum tubes and a pocket steam engine. That’s actually why old movies had intermissions, not just because they predate the invention of bladder control, but because fresh coal needed fed into the projector’s hopper half way through.

“Heilige Scheiße!” he exclaims as the footage begins, according to my meticulous babelfish research. The fuzzy images splayed across the white screen he has erected in his authentic Prussian dungeon are not of vintage sixties amateur amputee snuff, but of James Tiberius Kirk himself! And uttering dialogue the likes of which has never been heard. Like any responsible lover of film, our kind German shackles the conjoined dwarfs back in their dollhouse and composes an immediate telegram to CBS informing them of his stunning discovery: an original, alternate version of the pilot of “Star Trek.”

The pilot, recognizable as a take on the familiar “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” will be released as an extra on the third season Blu-Ray release of “Star Trek,” scheduled for December 15th. This version was never aired, but is believed to be the one NBC screened that led to them picking up the show. Bits and pieces of the episode are available on YouTube, including the video below, which is a cut up of various scenes from the pilot. Most significantly? The legendary title sequence is almost unrecognizable. No boldly going anywhere, no triumphant music, no seeking out of new life or new civilizations.


(source: THR Feed)


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Comments

DOES ABRAMS HAVE NO SHAME?! What, one reboot wasn't enou---oh.

Nevermind.

Posted by: Kballs at November 19, 2009 11:48 AM

The word trekgasm currently yields 2,510 results on Google. Expect that number to climb as the day progresses.

Posted by: Jerce at November 19, 2009 11:53 AM

..... and I see that header photo predates the Shatner girdle.

Posted by: tarn at November 19, 2009 11:54 AM

Is this...heaven?

Posted by: karen at November 19, 2009 12:02 PM

I....I'm gonna need a towel.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 19, 2009 12:12 PM

Holy shit indeed. I love this old stuff.

Posted by: Cindy at November 19, 2009 12:29 PM

Thank you SLW for acknowledging the split infinitive controversy. I wrote to gene Roddenberry about this when TNG came out. It seemed appropriate to me that James T. Kirk would not be educated to the level where he would care about the split infinitive but it was preposterous to think that Jean-Luc Picard would ignore such an important rule in his formal log.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 19, 2009 12:43 PM

All I saw was the picture. *Kirkgasm*

Posted by: Chickaboom at November 19, 2009 1:06 PM

I've seen this before. Whats the big deal?

Posted by: logan at November 19, 2009 1:25 PM

Fit Wicked! George Takei as chief physicist? Gosh that man is so pretty...you know they had to keep him. And oh Spock! Funny, funny Spock!

(I've gone preschool from all happy feeling time.)

Posted by: replica at November 19, 2009 3:34 PM

Oh! And didn't the guy in the elevator thingie look JUST like Keith Urban there for a bit? I was utterly confused for a second.

Posted by: replica at November 19, 2009 3:40 PM

There is nothing wrong with a split infinitive, Paddydog, as the rule's origins makes no sense. Folks didn't seem to want to split it as the derivative was one word (i.e. Latin, esse, French, etre, English, to be).

Stupido rule that has no place in the Queen's English (although considering your name, mentioning that may have lost whatever small scrap of credibility I may have had).

I find the the split infinitive often sounds better in a sentence (rhythmically).

Posted by: Peter G at November 19, 2009 5:35 PM

I'm with Peter G on this. From 1834 (the earliest reference):

"the rule which I am about to propose will, I believe, prove to be as accurate as most rules, and may be found beneficial to inexperienced writers. It is this :—The particle, TO, which comes before the verb in the infinitive mode, must not be separated from it by the intervention of an adverb or any other word or phrase; but the adverb should immediately precede the particle, or immediately follow the verb."

Language rules come and go. There has never been a perfect English, frozen in time and exempt from cultural influence.

Posted by: Brenton at November 20, 2009 1:00 PM





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