Series: Star Trek: The Original SeriesEpisode: Unaired Pilot EpisodeTitle: The CagePrevious: (None)Next: (None)Recapper: Insert Witty Name Here The original Pilot Episode of Star Trek the Original Series. Written by Gene Roddenberry and produced in late 1964, it preceded the series itself by a good two years. While this pilot was not considered to have been a success at the time, the network executives did like it enough to finance a second pilot episode. And you all know how well that turned out.