The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series) The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series) "The Menagerie", a two-episode story arc, is both the eleventh and twelfth episodes of the of the American science fiction television series, "". Written by series creator Gene Roddenberry and directed by Marc Daniels (part one) and Robert Butler (part two), it is the only two-part story in the original series. Part one of the episode was broadcast by NBC on November 17, 1966, with part two broadcast on November 24, 1966. In the episode, Spock abducts his former commander Christopher Pike, locks the "Enterprise" on a course to the forbidden planet Talos
The Crossing (Star Trek: Enterprise) The Crossing (Star Trek: Enterprise) "The Crossing" is the forty-fourth episode of the television series "", the eighteenth of the second season. Incorporeal beings attempt to take over the Earth starship "Enterprise". At the start of the episode Enterprise is taken inside an enormous alien spacecraft of unknown origin, and ghostly aliens take over the crew's bodies. Later in the episode the crew takes shelter in the set seen in The Catwalk (S2E12), which is a long tube with enhanced shielding. While at warp speed, a huge alien vessel overtakes and swallows "Enterprise", disabling the ship's engines and weapons. When