Taken from Newfield Publications: Star Trek Universe

Inside Story: The Cage pilot episode

When the executives at NBC saw the Star Trek pilot, they rejected it. Gene Rodenberry had promised them a "Wagon Train to the stars" - an action-adventure-space-shoot'em-up. Instead what they witnessed was a thought-provoking drama that they quickly dubbed "too cerebral." But NBC did see the potential in Star Trek and asked for an unprecedented second pilot episode. The network had a few requests, though. The second-in-command, a female (played by Majel Barrett) had to go/ No one would ever believe a woman in such an important position, even three centuries from now!

The inhabitantsof Talos IV, the Talosians, were preformed by female actors with "dubbed" male voices...giving then very convincing "alien" characteristics.

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