Me too; I'll be sixty in February. My dad joked about the female crew members uniforms - the short skirts. Yes; Marta and Rachael Welch in One Million Years BC. There was also a cartoon Herculodes that had a cave woman in it; I think the character was based on Rachael.
@@wiseonwords I believe it was because of the scene where Marta is killed by Garth with an explosive. It was pretty brutal back in the day. Yet the TV series, "Combat" showed much more brutality IMO. Not sure how that show fared in by the BBC. Please correct me if I'm wrong for the reason why the BBC banned the episode.
They had to be martial dances; steps no longer used to train children in the art of warfare. Steps that might prepare them for another kind of hand to hand combat.
According to her autobiography, Yvonne made up the dance pretty much on the spot. He told her to do a demented dance. And yes she is totally green. She stood naked while a man spray-painted her body. This was against the union rules, and he could have been fired. But there was no one else who could have done the job. She did not get along with Shatner, and Nimoy teased her about her shaved eyebrows. "If you can grow a beard, you can grow your eyebrows back." The paint left globs in her arm pits.
Nobody got along with Shatner during the original series. Shatner was too much of an egomaniac. Nimoy and Shatner became close friends in later years when Nimoy struggled with alcoholism and Shatner helped get and stay dry. Shatner himself is a reformed alcoholic.
"Liquid bandage" spray was used to keep Yvonne from sweating off the green body makeup. When they shot the scene where Marta is taken outside into the planet's poisonous atmosphere and she pleads for her life with outstretched arms, the stuff formed cobwebby globs and it looked like green moss hanging from her armpits. Fortunately, it didn't show up on film.
The late Yvonne Craig was a very talented actress.she was great not just as Batgirl in 1960s Batman, but also highly memorable as Martha in Star trek episode Whom Gods Destroy.She has been memorable in many other shows such as Man from Uncle,etc.
1:26 the look kirk gives spock LOL!! Did anybody read the wiki page on the slave girl, Yvonne Craig? She didn't graduate high school because of a single physical education credit, yet she became an awesome ballet dancer and stunt girl! wtf
The music and dance were very similar to the first "pilot" of Star Trek where Susan Oliver performed a similar dance with almost identical music. However, I personally believe this actress gave a much better performance while dancing. She had prior dance experience that Susan Oliver didn't have. Just look at the awesome muscle tone of her legs and the "V" format of her back. She definitely had ballet dance experience during well beyond the regular experience of dancers from the later 1960s. But the dream sequence by Captain Pike with the green Orion dancer (Susan Oliver) set the stage for all green Orions in Star Trek lore after the original pilot. IMHO.
Yvonne Craig was a ballet dancer before she became an actress. I actually was unaware that she was the one who played Marta. I always remembered her as Batgirl in the 60s batman show
I also watched Star Trek TV episodes here where I live in Asia. I liked the series very much but I was also not aware of these actresses at that time, specially about late Ms. Yvonne Craig who has also starred as Batgirl. Thank you for the explanation. Sorry about the late comment.
I prefer Susan Oliver's dance as well as the music they reused in "Wolf in the Fold" which seems substantially different to this. I'm also not a fan of the short-haired women on Star Trek.
I kinda expected Kirk to say, "They say no Earth male can resist an Orion woman. So, who's resisting?" :) Anyway, great episode, Garth was both charismatic and insane! Always a huge fan of Yvonne's! Thanks for posting, and THUMBS UP!
You wrote that?" "Yesterday, as a matter of fact." "It was written by an Earth man named Shakespeare a long time ago!" "Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!"
Curiously, this episode was banned in the UK (along with Miri, Plato's Stepchildren, and The Empath) "because they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease". The odd thing is that I distinctly remember this episode from my childhood (unlike the other three).
In the Star Trek pilot "The Cage," the captive Earth woman Vina (Susan Oliver) appeared in the illusory guise of a green Orion slave girl. But in this episode, there's really no on-screen evidence that Marta is or was a slave, or even that she's an Orion. All we know is, she's green!
Marta is being played by the original Barbara Gordon Batgirl from the 60s. I often wonder if Yvonne Craig's performance here, wasn't the inspiration for "Harley Quinn" of Fox's Batman aminated series and later comics. 🤔
If she started dancing around me like she's doing William Shatner at 1:35 I'd be breathing hard, my pulse racing and I'd be breaking out in a cold sweat
I'vs seen this episode a few times...and just noticed something...when she dances away from the men, at the end, they shined a GREEN LIGHT on her to make her look more GREEN!
Yvonne Craig appeared as Batgirl in a PSA promoting equal pay for women. She was in her only season on the show and being paid three times as much as Burt Ward who was in his third season on the show.
Marta's poetry is an actual potem by A.E.Housman: In midnights of November, When Dead Mans Fair is nigh, And danger in the valley, And anger in the sky, Around the huddling homesteads The leafless timber roars, And the dead call the dying And finger at the doors. Oh, yonder faltering fingers Are hands I used to hold; Their false companion drowses And leaves them in the cold. Oh, to the bed of ocean, To Africk and to Ind, I will arise and follow Along the rainy wind. The night goes out and under With all its train forlorn; Hues in the east assemble And cocks crow up the morn. The living are the living And dead the dead will stay, And I will sort with comrades That face the beam of day.
Garth: "Marta my dear, won't you dance for our guests?" Marta hesitates Garth: "That was not a request." 😅 After her dance Garth: "She's yours if you wish, Captain." Can't remember what Kirk said, but if it was anything other than "I'll take her".. 😅.
I was around 7 and used to watch trek with my dad when it came on in the 60s. I thought she was the prettiest lady I ever saw!
Me too; I'll be sixty in February. My dad joked about the female crew members uniforms - the short skirts. Yes; Marta and Rachael Welch in One Million Years BC. There was also a cartoon Herculodes that had a cave woman in it; I think the character was based on Rachael.
Herculoids
This episode was banned by the BBC up until 1994!
Yvonne Craig (Bat Girl)...
@@wiseonwords I believe it was because of the scene where Marta is killed by Garth with an explosive. It was pretty brutal back in the day. Yet the TV series, "Combat" showed much more brutality IMO. Not sure how that show fared in by the BBC. Please correct me if I'm wrong for the reason why the BBC banned the episode.
Mr. Spock! Talk about a back handed compliment! :P
Rest in peace Leonard Nimoy and Yvonne Craig. Thank you for being a part of our lives.
Me too!
Damn, I love Star Trek and all those Green Women...never better TV aired EVER!❤
Man, what a beautiful woman!
The question is: What the heck kind of dances did they teach Spock in nursery school?
AndTheEarthSang th-cam.com/video/5wZ39aAhokQ/w-d-xo.html
-the kind joe biden likes.
They had to be martial dances; steps no longer used to train children in the art of warfare. Steps that might prepare them for another kind of hand to hand combat.
i think spock was being sarcastic and trying to get under garth's skin, force him to make a mistake
@@mac1701e i don't think Spock would be sarcastic with a stranger.
Whom Gods Destroy is a great episode. Yvonne Craig as Marta was superb! RIP.
Yvonne Craig knew how to entertain. That is why she got the best roles from the 1960's to the 1970's as an actress.
Apr 22, 2020 @ 7:20 pm
Steve Ihnat died about five years after this episode was filmed, he was only 37.
According to her autobiography, Yvonne made up the dance pretty much on the spot. He told her to do a demented dance. And yes she is totally green. She stood naked while a man spray-painted her body. This was against the union rules, and he could have been fired. But there was no one else who could have done the job. She did not get along with Shatner, and Nimoy teased her about her shaved eyebrows. "If you can grow a beard, you can grow your eyebrows back." The paint left globs in her arm pits.
...and her muff?!?!
Nobody got along with Shatner during the original series. Shatner was too much of an egomaniac. Nimoy and Shatner became close friends in later years when Nimoy struggled with alcoholism and Shatner helped get and stay dry. Shatner himself is a reformed alcoholic.
That lucky guy.
"Liquid bandage" spray was used to keep Yvonne from sweating off the green body makeup. When they shot the scene where Marta is taken outside into the planet's poisonous atmosphere and she pleads for her life with outstretched arms, the stuff formed cobwebby globs and it looked like green moss hanging from her armpits. Fortunately, it didn't show up on film.
Yvonne was a trained ballet dancer, it must have been hard for her to dance "demented"
Even Marta knows not to waste any time caressing Spock.
I said the same thing as she walked by him. Lol
Spock is only interested in Kirk. And there is no breaking him from that.
The late Yvonne Craig was a very talented actress.she was great not just as Batgirl in 1960s Batman, but also highly memorable as Martha in Star trek episode Whom Gods Destroy.She has been memorable in many other shows such as Man from Uncle,etc.
Also, My Three Sons. As she was a meter maid eho gave Steve Douglas a ticket.
@@danbasta3677 i've been trying to find a youtube vid with her on an episode of the Mod Squad
Did she act in Man from UNCLE also? Thanks for your information.
Sorry for the late comment.
She was a guest star in Wild Wild West as well.
Yvonne Craig was indeed very talented and lovely lady. I hope managed get more intelligent roles before her career ended.
"I find it mildly interesting" (mr. Spock)
I was a child and, after seeing this, i desperately searched for a green girl but could not find any 😊
When he said "Marta,. my dear", I couldn't help thinking of Paul McCartney! LOL
Rest In Peace, Yvonne Craig
She did a good job on her dancing.
Ok, stop everything!!!
Did Spock just imply that he has learned how to dance like this in Vulcan nursery school?! XD
He said She yours if u wish, Kirk was already thinking she is mine
1:26 the look kirk gives spock LOL!! Did anybody read the wiki page on the slave girl, Yvonne Craig? She didn't graduate high school because of a single physical education credit, yet she became an awesome ballet dancer and stunt girl! wtf
The music and dance were very similar to the first "pilot" of Star Trek where Susan Oliver performed a similar dance with almost identical music. However, I personally believe this actress gave a much better performance while dancing. She had prior dance experience that Susan Oliver didn't have. Just look at the awesome muscle tone of her legs and the "V" format of her back. She definitely had ballet dance experience during well beyond the regular experience of dancers from the later 1960s.
But the dream sequence by Captain Pike with the green Orion dancer (Susan Oliver) set the stage for all green Orions in Star Trek lore after the original pilot. IMHO.
Yvonne Craig was a ballet dancer before she became an actress. I actually was unaware that she was the one who played Marta. I always remembered her as Batgirl in the 60s batman show
I also watched Star Trek TV episodes here where I live in Asia. I liked the series very much but I was also not aware of these actresses at that time, specially about late Ms. Yvonne Craig who has also starred as Batgirl.
Thank you for the explanation.
Sorry about the late comment.
I prefer Susan Oliver's dance as well as the music they reused in "Wolf in the Fold" which seems substantially different to this. I'm also not a fan of the short-haired women on Star Trek.
@@sandal_thong8631 Nor they of you......
That's Steve Ihnat from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Died young, bad heart. 'Westdale High School' Wall Of Fame. My hometown.
Wow...Thanks Tom. From down the QEW in Mississauga.
Born in Slovakia. He had a lot of charisma.
AS a kid do you know how many times I....never mind, forget it.
yvonne craig was a most magnificent specimen of female perfection.
Agreed. A great dancer, she was also Batgirl. She oozes sex appeal.
The Batgirl episodes of the old Batman series were my favorite ones
My favorite Orion Slave Girl
Soo true. 10/10 woman right there
Oh man! I can’t even count the number of times I have rewatched this scene and loved it every time.
She is "well coordinated"
She played Batgirl from 1967-1968. She played Marta on Star Trek in 1969.
Marta was my favourite guest star. I chose it as a possible baby name. Yes! I was going to name my first born after her.
Notice she does not mess with Spock, she knows his green blood runs cold.
That Lady was a Doll. Will always be remembered sexy beyond belief. Yvonne Craig. Simply. Wow
My husband remembers this episode very well.
Apr 22, 2020 @ 7:40 pm
RIP, sweet and courageious Batgirl.
Awesome Star Trek episode classic gem!!
Marta was definitely tweeking for a second there.
I kinda expected Kirk to say, "They say no Earth male can resist an Orion woman. So, who's resisting?" :) Anyway, great episode, Garth was both charismatic and insane! Always a huge fan of Yvonne's! Thanks for posting, and THUMBS UP!
This scene got my 15yr old hormones working in 1969
Marta my dear, you have always been my inspiration.
Yvonne was a true hottie!
Hotter than Barbie? th-cam.com/video/7fG9dSCKTm4/w-d-xo.html
she was an accomplished dancer and classically trained ballerina
rip Yvonne Joyce Craig. you will be missed.
Madly in love with her when I was young...
I sent a sympathy card to Yvonne's family when she passed away.I had a crush on that lady and will miss her.
You wrote that?"
"Yesterday, as a matter of fact."
"It was written by an Earth man named Shakespeare a long time ago!"
"Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!"
Unmatched writing and character development.
As a technicality, she never said that it was her original creation. She merely said she wrote it. It kind leaves some room open for interpretation.
yvonne craig. Just stunning
Orions have uh... good genes ;)
One of my favorite episodes and I never knew she was Bat-Girl
I just wonder who are the people that gave this a thumbs down ? The clip was cool and she was great !
its probably the jealous star wars fans who are mad that *THIS* is the original "hot sexy space babe in revealing clothes," not Leia Skywalker.
If I were to complain, it would be that her dance was not long enough. It left me wanting for more.
I was 11 when this episode aired. I remember it well!
Nice but how old are u
@@Lordmij I am 66.
Garth wasn't sick. He was just worked to death/worked himself to death over his long career.
"That was not a request" - simple line, tossed off casually, became a common idiom, an original line then.
wow i was not expecting much but bravo bravo.
Yvonne Craig was trained in ballet and classical theater. This was her career before she became big in TV and film.
I just saw an interview where she talked about the makeup and the costume.
She was cute all over.
Yvonne Craig, who also played Batgirl in the 1960's TV series ... YUM!
Curiously, this episode was banned in the UK (along with Miri, Plato's Stepchildren, and The Empath) "because they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease".
The odd thing is that I distinctly remember this episode from my childhood (unlike the other three).
How many multi-hued children did Kirk leave all over the universe? Deadbeat's got to have unpaid child support up the intergalactic wazoo.
slide4180 Was Captain Kirk actually black?
slide4180 ha! ha! no doubt!
slide4180 I've noticed I have a very similar jawline to that shag-happy bastard.
Well,David Marcus for one.
so True, every Episode a New love
Do they still have the "Crazy / Hot Matrix" in the 23rd Century?
Marta would score high. REAL high.
R.I.P. Yvonne Craig, Leonard Nimoy and Steve Ihnat.
All I can say is honestly the only thing I remember about this episode is Yvonne Craig and her green Orion slave girl dance.
R.I.P. Yvonne Craig
In the Star Trek pilot "The Cage," the captive Earth woman Vina (Susan Oliver) appeared in the illusory guise of a green Orion slave girl. But in this episode, there's really no on-screen evidence that Marta is or was a slave, or even that she's an Orion. All we know is, she's green!
Fascinating. I checked, and the transcript does indeed not mention that she is Orion. Memory alpha says she is Orion, but does not give a source.
Marta is being played by the original Barbara Gordon Batgirl from the 60s.
I often wonder if Yvonne Craig's performance here, wasn't the inspiration for "Harley Quinn" of Fox's Batman aminated series and later comics. 🤔
Ahh yes, the good old days when all you had to do to create an alien was to paint somebody blue.
NBC put them on a lean budget. They did with what they had.
Man... Yvonne Craig, future Bat Girl, deserves more than 233 views!
If she started dancing around me like she's doing William Shatner at 1:35 I'd be breathing hard, my pulse racing and I'd be breaking out in a cold sweat
This I call "Pimp Stick". Capt. Garth is Pimp Stick😂.
I'vs seen this episode a few times...and just noticed something...when she dances away from the men, at the end, they shined a GREEN LIGHT on her to make her look more GREEN!
At the end of her dance, how did they prevent green makeup from noticeably coloring the floor? (the floor color is green)
Yvonne Craig. The swingingest chick on '60 television. :-D
Is this music being played from a CD on the Enterprise.???
I hope Dr.McCoy mixed up a batch of some space age Penicillin, because you know damn well the Captain was going to get some of that green gash!
Rough year for Star Trek fans
Whom The American Gods and Goddesses destroy. Star Trek the original series. "Marta" aka Yvonne Craig. R..I.P.
I find it hilarious that this was banned at the time in the UK. It's no different than any dancing in sword and sandals movies of the '40s and '50s.
she has some amazing legs.
Wow.
Yvonne Craig appeared as Batgirl in a PSA promoting equal pay for women. She was in her only season on the show and
being paid three times as much as Burt Ward who was in his third season on the show.
CAPTAIN GARTH ! LORD GARTH !
Marta's poetry is an actual potem by A.E.Housman:
In midnights of November,
When Dead Mans Fair is nigh,
And danger in the valley,
And anger in the sky,
Around the huddling homesteads
The leafless timber roars,
And the dead call the dying
And finger at the doors.
Oh, yonder faltering fingers
Are hands I used to hold;
Their false companion drowses
And leaves them in the cold.
Oh, to the bed of ocean,
To Africk and to Ind,
I will arise and follow
Along the rainy wind.
The night goes out and under
With all its train forlorn;
Hues in the east assemble
And cocks crow up the morn.
The living are the living
And dead the dead will stay,
And I will sort with comrades
That face the beam of day.
Orion slave osiris was also green too and came from Orion the symbology in the TV show is crazy someone sure does know alot
Sweet Batgirl.
Tingeling testicles BATMAN! That was BATGIRL!
At least three dead people in this video. Steve Ihnat, Leonard Nimoy and Yvonne Craig. Life goes on.
Look! Someone dyed Batgirl green.
Yvonne Craig proving once again why she was perfect for cloning.
Cloning my arse. Breeding with me first!LOL!
Por trás de tudo tem um objetivo.
Not the Best episode but Yvonne makes it worth watching
Was expecting Hulk to walk in with a smile and say 'me smash '
the legs ! the legs!
Yvonne had some great legs
The Galaxy is on Orions Belt. Which one of thos 3 Stars would you say they come from. Ah its not easy been green is it John or Jane Doe.
She also played batgirl on the batman t.v. series
Of course, any true Fan who's seen the original version on the show knows this is an edited version of the dance.
👽🌎👽...
🚬👓...
I remember her very tight Batgirl costume and her beautiful figure is on display here to full effect
Garth: "Marta my dear, won't you dance for our guests?"
Marta hesitates
Garth: "That was not a request." 😅
After her dance
Garth: "She's yours if you wish, Captain."
Can't remember what Kirk said, but if it was anything other than "I'll take her".. 😅.
I wonder how many takes did they have to shoot.
She played Bat girl!
oh the episode where the aliens turn out to be tiny bags on sticks with enormous telepathic powers.
You’re referring to the episode “Cat’s Paw”. The episode referred here is “Whom Gods Destroy”
Yvonne Craig was so pretty!
I remember watching this as a boy and thought the dance was more than mildly interesting
I think Kirk and Spock cracked chubbies watching this.That's why they didn't stand up lol!
Spock could have held on. He wasn't in season. :)
Nana nana nana nana...Batgirl!
RIP Yvonne.
Well that's... that's very magnanimous of you.
R.I.P Yvonne Craig
I didn’t know Vulcan children were taught to dance provocatively. Strange observation, Mr. Spock.
seemed like one healthy lady!
Shes yours Captain....Um......Ok!