Yeah, it's a well established Star Trek blunder.
I don't know your age, but it's cool whenever people give that old series a chance. That pilot is one of my favs. The eyes were so creepy and I loved how Lockwood played Gary Mitchell.
That pilot was made 50 years ago this year. Amazing.
For the sake of nerdiness
My fav movie was
[i]Wrath of Kahn[/i]
My fav TOS was
[i]Where No Man Has Gone Before[/i]
My fav TNG was
[i]Mind's Eye : Where Geordi was captured by Romulans and brainwashed to be an assassin but got stopped by data.
Also Cause and Effect: where the crew was stuck in a time loop, same day keep repeating and they had to break the loop. Kelsey Grammer did a cameo[/i]
My fav Enterprise was
[i]The Andorian Incident [/i]
I've haven't gotten to the other two series, Voyager and DS9