@@zekeblack7004 Dang blasted man! Don’t you know Romulan Ale is illegal?!? They’ll bust you down to ensign second class and make you wear a red shirt!?!
Great music. Scotty's complaining that it won't work but as always he comes through.. Sulu smirking when he figures out Kirk is going to teach the Klingon's a lesson. What an episode!
This one is indeed awesome. But I think an even better one is the battle sequence in ‘Journey to Babel.’ Kirk was severely injured, and is in immense pain, and still has the tactical fortitude, and command presence, to save his ship.
She's a thing of absolute beauty. The lines and curves are stunning. The way she glides and turns. I'm overwhelmed with envy. She's a gorgeous work of art. Every shot is expertly framed. The Klingon ship isn't bad either.
Scotty: "That could blow us up just as effectively as ..." Kirk: "Let me know when it's in place." A real captain doesn't dither. He makes quick decisions.
Except that they had their technology wrong. You can't cut in warp drive and then cut around to fire torpedoes. I know they hadn't worked all of the technology canon out yet (even though this was a third season episode), but you simply can't fire weapons while at warp. And you can't turn on a dime at warp speed. That's why you need to drop out of warp in order to do battle.
@@thekevinkaye You ve got it wrong. All though you did not see it the Enterprise allowed the ship to pass and then pivoted to follow the ship and was right under her. The Kingon ship had here flank exposed and was struck hard by several photon torpedoes. Both ships moving at was speed.
Agree, Sulu was a great #2. Always good to see him working with Kirk (and Chekov). Great episode, France Nuyen was terrific in this as the super elitist princess.
When I met Nichelle Nichols at a Comic Con a few years ago, I watched this episode just before then because it has a glimpse of her character’s quarters, and she had a scene in sickbay. The point was her favorite episode was every one where she got to be off the Bridge. She’s a very nice woman too.
And that is a space battle! You don't need Computer graphics and glowing lens flares... just the perfection of story telling and a crew of actors who know how to act.
It was CGI, and awfully amateurish CGI at that. The original effects were better. Paramount spent a lot of time and money remastering the whole series but ultimately produced an inferior product.
You said it! Even Third Season "Star Trek" episodes where the show was dying a slow death are a hell of a lot better than anything else around. And that's saying something.
@@TwiigssGames Hey, I was there in 1966 when TOS premiered! I was 13 years old at the time and was hooked immediately! I concur; TOS, TNG, and DS9 were excellent. Honestly I liked "Voyager" as well but when "Enterprise" came along quite frankly I was "Star Trek'd" out. I've got NO use for the J.J. Adams movies or the new TV shows which I haven't seen much of anyway since I don't do the streaming thing.
This was always one of my favourite episodes of TOS, from when I first saw it in the late sixties. It had it all, a traitor, sexy but feisty girl, angry Klingon commander, battle scenes and Kirk and the crew at their best, kickin Klingon ass. Yeah, love it.
That’s how a real captain does it…he believes in his crew and their capabilities and pushes everything and everyone to the limit. He’s able to make split second judgements with confidence based his skill and experience. Seriously, Kirk is the Real Thing! And brilliant acting by all and great script writing bring it all to life.
@@jamestcallahanphotographer Kirk would be the only captain I would follow without question to end of the galaxy. He has no fear and would bust a lip with no problem for his ship and crew!
It's great that the writers of the show can do that with the characters. Then again, it kinda sucks when they're not paying attention to the dialog. Kirk ordered photon torpedoes, repeatedly. After the direct hits, Sulu says, "Direct hits by photon torpedoes." Well... thank you for reminding us, since he just said it, just seconds after ordering it. Duhhh! I don't get out much.
He was holding his breath while waiting for that split-second order to fire. Also, the director told him to breath heavy to show his excitement to the home audience.
I don't care how hard they try, there will NEVER be a better Star Trek, period. It was as much the era as it was the show. That simply cannot be recreated, reimagined, whatever.
I love those K'tinga-class ,D7, battle cruisers. I had the old model, with the little battery powerd 'grain of wheat' bulbs inside it hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember the box called it 'The demon of the deep space'. I tied red threads from the nacelles making it look like it was blowing holes in an Apollo LEM.😀
0:17- Did you see that hard swallow Shatner did when Sulu announced the shield collapse? That, ladies and gentlemen is called, acting. Well done! That’s how it’s done!
The first time I remember seeing that to convey a character is nervous and maybe even a little fearful was when Gary Cooper did it in "High Noon". It conveys a lot without requiring any dialoge
I only watched the original series because my older sister watched it. (she still had command of the TV, because she was still bigger than me as that age😂) I attribute my love of sci-fi, and especially Star Wars, to Captain James T Kirk❤
3:32 "He's badly damaged Captain. Continuting away at.... reduced speed." I love that pause. They're just sitting there pushing buttons, but they treat it like they are in a battle on the open sea
He lets the Klingon retreat instead of pursuing and finishing him off after badly damaging him, just like how killing unarmed prisoners is not the Jedi way. So Kirk’s actions could possibly be the Federation way.
@@patrickwilson1459 he lets the Klingons retreat so they can eventually begin to understand compassion and it was the 'compassion' of ambassador Spock that led to the first alliance of the Klingons and the federation.
@@tonebonebgky2 No, he lets the Klingons retreat because it's _tactically and strategically idiotic_ to try to pursue an enemy which is no longer a threat to you when you are still heavily damaged, barely have functional shields, and your warp engines could fail at any moment, and if they do _your ship would once again become incapacitated and completely vulnerable,_ plus you have an important interstellar dignitary on board whose safety really should be your top priority anyway.
Star trek was liberal brainwashing. Imagine firing a laser from space on to the inhabitants of a planet because they don't vote the same way you do. Shame on the liberal minions and their perverted high tech hero's.
Something about nothing. The set itself is a labor of love. The bridge is something that a camera could pan ten times and find something that fits the 60's and 2550.
The original Star Trek battles are so much better than the shoot-em-up space battles that dominate most films in recent years (decades). This episode, the Balance of Terror, and don't forget the Journey to Babel battle at the end, are all classic television. The Balance of Terror borrowed from The Enemy Below, the classic WW2 Destroyer - Sub battle film, staring the great Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
Can we just admire Captain Kirk's badassery here without feeling the need to sh!t on Captain Picard's command style? They were both amazing, legendary captains with their own styles of leadership. Also the plots of the respective episodes sort of called for their respective styles. The episodes in TNG more often called for Picard's Democratic Centralist style, while many episodes in TOS more often called for Kirk's off the cuff tactical brilliance with iron balls. When an instant decision was needed, Picard could make a command decision without consulting his staff... when the situation allowed more time, Kirk was capable and willing to consult his staff before making a decision.
I totally agree, and these two series were set in two different time periods. In Next Gen, humans are less emotional, more balanced, more complex. Here we have a Wild West shootout(strategy included).
This is one scene where the enhanced space filming takes away from the scene. In the original airing, Enterprise fires, then there’s a pause, then the view screen shows a near miss, then a sudden pause, a second torpedo comes much closer, another pause, and then a third torpedo hits direct a midships.
The professor was smart. By pretending to be stranded, he got dibs on two hot young gals. Do you think he really wanted to fix the ship or get rescued?
Kirk demanded that McCoy give him the shot of adrenaline serum when he was rapidly aging and going senile. When he wrestled with Garth as the shape shifter, he told Spock, you have to shoot us both. It's the only way you can save the ship!
Kirk used the 'walking stick' ploy that Captain Aubrey used in Master and Commander to lure the Acheron in close. Pretend to be something you're not. Also shades of Sun Tsu, "Be where the enemy does not expect you to be, and do not be where the enemy does expect you to be, then give them a mouth full of photon torpedoes."
I'd forgotten what a beauty France Nuyen was back then - dark skinned, sultry, exotic. Born in 1939, she's still alive today at age 84. This episode was released near the end of 1968, after the release of The Green Berets a few months earlier, in which she also starred.
The new footage was certainly a huge improvement over the stock shots they were originally forced to use, but Enterprise is “pivoting” away from the Klingon ship as it moves in and should be turning to face it.
LOL, shields collapsing, impulse power down to 31%, slow maneuverability, no phasers! No problem! Kirk is the ultimate 3 dimensional combat officer, The best of the best. Kirk is stalling and playing the Klingons.Kirk has already won before the battle started.
"You are not going to finish him off"? Kirk's stare says it all " Woman Please I'm Taking You To My Quarters And Working All This Tension Out On Your Ass"
"This is Captain James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. We have considered your terms for surrendered but we only offer one crewman to board your vessel. It will be, Zulu............you will find him most resourceful as he is known on this ship to operate under full impulse power at all times. (Plus we wanna get rid of his a** as soon as possible; he constantly pinches McCoy's rear and repeatedly goes apesh*t with a sword.) You Romuluns, are you game?". 'We do not understand your words, "impulse power" as it relates to humans." 'Well,........you will......'
This is one of Captain Kirk’s finest moments, perhaps his most defining moment. William Shatner is such a good actor, he is so in tune with the desperate situation he’s in, that he does something most of us do when we’re nervous - we swallow! Notice Shatner nervously swallowing right after Sulu tells him the number 4 shield just collapsed (00:13). Watch his Adam’s apple fluttering. That nervous swallowing is so subtle it had to be instinctive and unconscious, and it happened because Shatner was fully in the moment, fully feeling the danger he was in. When the character and the actor are one and the same, the emotion is so real that fiction and reality become one, as in this moment, and that’s something only the best actors can achieve!
Quite true, and remember what Bill Shatner was seeing during the filming. WE see the bridge and the bridge crew but what Shatner saw were cameras, sound equipment, technicians of various sorts, production assistants, the director, EVERONE who goes into TV and film production. Quite frankly everything that would "break the spell" if one of the cameras was turned the other way. It makes Shatners and the rest of the casts concentration and professionalism all that more impressive. And you could apply that to any TV and movie cast as well.
Truly, Shatner does not get enough credit for making the little things wholly believable. The moment in Wrath Of Khan when the main viewscreen flickers and then first shows us Khan's face, the sudden shock of recognition on Kirk's face is brilliant!
Shatner's lines were designed to convey the ideal leader - and its great! Intelligent, decisive, strong, and yet compassionate. Corny for sure but well thought out. For us to recognize those qualities as something desirable, in us, there must be something primordial in those qualities. It is strange that at this day and age, movies and shows no longer feature those qualities. And yet, here I am, watching the video clip and can't help but smile
Her name is France Nuyen . Not only is She an actress and model, She’s also an award winning psychologist, who was noted in 1989. She was and Still is an Extremely Attractive Woman
3:51- I love the baby doll frame shots of women on the original Star Trek. Elan o T: “I don’t understand. Aren’t you going to finish him off? Kirk: “No. Now just go back to being beautiful and I’ll go back to being valiant and irresistible.”
All I can say is I can't get enough of it I keep replaying that because of the tail end just can't get enough although I wish to tell Lynn did have a little bit of bones coming up to the bridge and saying he found the cure for the captain when spot tells him he found his own care the enterprise he was already married to the ship just like the captain would be
Kirk is mission oriented. The mission comes first, last and always. As far as he is concerned, his personal feelings come 2nd. The mission always comes first. He starts with the mission. When things go awry he thinks of the mission. When all else fails, he returns to the mission. He became hopelessly attracted to the Doleman, But he was able to overcome that by concentrating on and putting the mission first.
@@mckinleymac3452 I guess we can agree to disagree, then. I saw him in a movie, The Outsider, and his performance there was excellent. I hated the character, but Shatner the actor should have gotten an academy award for that performance. He was playing a virulent racist. I'm a decent actor, but I couldn't have accepted that role because I, personally couldn't have made it believable. But Shatner did just that. He played the role with feeling and basically became that character.
Kirk was 100% devoted to the Enterprise and her crew. Even Carol Marcus couldn't change that, so the tears of an alien would only be able to control him until his ship and crew were on the line.
@@mckinleymac3452 I must disagree. You may not like his acting style, but Shatner was regarded at the time as a rising star, with numerous credits to his name. His portrayal of Kirk in The Wrath of Khan has been highly praised by serious film critics. Star Trek stereotyped Shatner ( as well as Leonard Nimoy and other cast members. But he went on to create another iconic character in Denny Crane, from Boston Legal. Since Shatner was often criticized for overacting ( a charge not widely shared by industry insiders), he used a caricature of himself to portray Denny Crane. He certainly has a big ego. And he has alienated a lot of his colleagues from Star Trek. But there's a reason why people imitate Shatner's James Kirk. It was the right portrayal of the man whose character helped launch one of the most successful TV and film franchises in history.
@@larrysmith2638 Hello Mr Smith. You make some good points but I have to disagree. He captured lightning in a bottle with that role and in that show. He was cast in an incredibly ridiculous sci-fi show that people latched onto because of timing. He and most of the cast were just laughable, but it mattered little because of again, the timing was pretty much perfect for a show like that. And admittedly I like some of them too. The disintegration chamber was very good. So was Shatner for that episode. But he's a terrible actor. Always has been.
Best line this episode: Kirk: "That's no way to treat someone who's telling you the truth." (knife lands in wall) "Tomorrow's lesson will be about courtesy."
No Red Shirts were harmed during the filming of the scene 🖖
🤣🤣🤣
Live long and prosper...you made me shoot romulan ale outta my snout just now...
Old joke:
A Stormtrooper fires his blaster at a Red Shirt,
Stormtrooper MISSES
Red Shirt STILL dies!
😁
@@zekeblack7004 Dang blasted man! Don’t you know Romulan Ale is illegal?!? They’ll bust you down to ensign second class and make you wear a red shirt!?!
@@nurse425 🤭 I'm Stil waiting for someone to do a video like that on TH-cam lol. Cause its just acurated
Great music. Scotty's complaining that it won't work but as always he comes through.. Sulu smirking when he figures out Kirk is going to teach the Klingon's a lesson. What an episode!
Everything I really needed to know about Space Combat I learned watching Captain Kirk.
Sulu was down for the fight and Checkov is like, "I got your back!" Great scene!
Great show! They don't make 'em like ST TOS anymore, because they don't know how!
"You did what you had to do, what you always do. You turned death into a fighting chance to live." -Bones
The look on Sulu's face when he realizes they are about to kick some ass
Kirk: "We'll pivot at warp 2!" Sulu: "Oh, my!"
Perhaps in this case not the best metaphor to use.
was that kick some ass or lick some ass
hard to tell with him
@@scotte2815 Anything to do with ass is fine with him!
@@scotte2815 LOL! I was going to say kiss... BUTT you BEAT me to it :-)
This was one of their best fights against the Klingons! This was edge of your seat action, and great strategy by Captain Kirk!
original TOS bridge crew at it's finest - Trek does not get better than this - magnificent - 🛸🖖
The music is better than anything since as well, especially 2:13. I never understood why subsequent series went for elevator music.
The captain's chair is the focus point of the bridge. TNG made it look like a school desk.
Every other bridge crew is 1000x better. I’ll take Sisko over Kirk any day
I love Ben Sisko. However, Kirk spent more time on the bridge@@nevasmile1
@@mattosullivan9687 didn’t stop him from being an absolute unit in the field
1 of 2 of the best star ship battle scenes ever. The music, the suspense without just blasting away. my favs.
I agree. Only the Wrath of Khan beats it for me...
Watch the Expanse. Completely different universe, of course, and much less advanced weapons, but the battle scenes are fantastic.
This one is indeed awesome. But I think an even better one is the battle sequence in ‘Journey to Babel.’ Kirk was severely injured, and is in immense pain, and still has the tactical fortitude, and command presence, to save his ship.
I'm 68 yrs. old I watched this when I was in the 5th. grade.
Same here.
I'm 54, & likely watched it in the 5th grade 15 yrs later (TOS ran reruns for about 25 yrs).
WOW
Now at 73 i watched this with my dear old Dad.
All you old farts are suffering dementia... but okay, close enough! I'm 59 and watched with my Dad in 1969.
She's a thing of absolute beauty. The lines and curves are stunning. The way she glides and turns. I'm overwhelmed with envy. She's a gorgeous work of art. Every shot is expertly framed.
The Klingon ship isn't bad either.
I agree the exterior shots of the Enterprise are amazing. She is a beauty indeed.
Are you talking about Elaan?
@@endlesswick Yes
@@garypranzo9334 Yes, her too.
Uhuru
Scotty: "That could blow us up just as effectively as ..."
Kirk: "Let me know when it's in place."
A real captain doesn't dither. He makes quick decisions.
The battle tactics are pretty sophisticated. What a damn good show.
This is one of the worst episodes of Star Trek in the entire history of the franchise. Famously so.
@@Thy_Boss That's your opinion. I myself loved it.
Except that they had their technology wrong. You can't cut in warp drive and then cut around to fire torpedoes. I know they hadn't worked all of the technology canon out yet (even though this was a third season episode), but you simply can't fire weapons while at warp. And you can't turn on a dime at warp speed. That's why you need to drop out of warp in order to do battle.
That is why Kirk will always be better than Picard.
@@thekevinkaye You ve got it wrong. All though you did not see it the Enterprise allowed the ship to pass and then pivoted to follow the ship and was right under her. The Kingon ship had here flank exposed and was struck hard by several photon torpedoes. Both ships moving at was speed.
As another captain said..
Never give up, never surrender!
😄
Didn't that captain also say "more power!" Lol
Captain Tim the Toolman!! 🤣👊
@@jedironbo Thank God he wasn’t the chief engineer.
Galaxy Quest.
I love when Kirk, Sulu and Chekov work together.
Agree, Sulu was a great #2. Always good to see him working with Kirk (and Chekov). Great episode, France Nuyen was terrific in this as the super elitist princess.
I love the sly grin Sulu gives when Kirk announces his plan
Kirk got the woman
Sulu got the shaft
Eye Captin.
@@jamesdelaney3797And everyone was happy.
When I met Nichelle Nichols at a Comic Con a few years ago, I watched this episode just before then because it has a glimpse of her character’s quarters, and she had a scene in sickbay. The point was her favorite episode was every one where she got to be off the Bridge. She’s a very nice woman too.
You where so luck to meet Nichelle Nichols in person.
Other episodes had glimpses of her underquarters and red underpants. Very nice ass too. Roddenberry was her hush hush beau.
When I was a kid, I had a crush on her
Who didn't have a crush on Uhura watching these episodes
She was a recruiter for NASA.
And that is a space battle! You don't need Computer graphics and glowing lens flares... just the perfection of story telling and a crew of actors who know how to act.
That was the remaster. It IS CG.
@@cliffftonI don’t have a problem with today’s FX on the old Star Trek series as long as it fits the timeline of the show.
And you gotta love the music.
It was CGI, and awfully amateurish CGI at that. The original effects were better. Paramount spent a lot of time and money remastering the whole series but ultimately produced an inferior product.
@Kathleen
I totally agree!
I cant believe how well these episodes held up! They are more entertaining then the modern TV shows
Honestly modern TV shows and movies are a pretty low standard.
You said it! Even Third Season "Star Trek" episodes where the show was dying a slow death are a hell of a lot better than anything else around. And that's saying something.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 The only quality Trek shows/movies is TOS, TNG and DS9. All original TOS movies and all TNG movies. Everything else is crap.
@@TwiigssGames Hey, I was there in 1966 when TOS premiered! I was 13 years old at the time and was hooked immediately!
I concur; TOS, TNG, and DS9 were excellent. Honestly I liked "Voyager" as well but when "Enterprise" came along quite frankly I was "Star Trek'd" out.
I've got NO use for the J.J. Adams movies or the new TV shows which I haven't seen much of anyway since I don't do the streaming thing.
I can't believe how well the shields held up!
How is it that an intelligent script and actors working in a cardboard box make such gripping drama feel so real and memorable?
People used to have natural talent.
@@leifcatt that and we still believe in the magic of our childhood.
It's more than a cardboard box.
That's what makes this the best action show ever
I love the shoulder tap and acknowledgment to Sulu for a job well done at 3:39.
It was years later that Sulu, in his quarters, realized the meaning of Kirk's arm tap and said "oh my" 😋😅
This was always one of my favourite episodes of TOS, from when I first saw it in the late sixties. It had it all, a traitor, sexy but feisty girl, angry Klingon commander, battle scenes and Kirk and the crew at their best, kickin Klingon ass. Yeah, love it.
Picard, faced with this situation, would have first asked for Riker's opinion, then asked Troi what she was feeling. Kirk just kicked a**.
Troi “Captain, I’m sensing hostility from that Klingon ship”
Guessing 'Picard' has something to do with that comment
@@neneshubby Exactly! Or possibly "Captain, I'm sensing the Klingon commander is hiding something".
@@outermarker5801 if you rewatch TNG you will see Picard is often painfully slow to act when faced with a decision.
@@prion42 Maybe, but he's talking about TNG Picard.
Picard is realistic. People change with advanced age and tough experiences. A lot.
Such a great battle scene! Best lines: "Test it in combat." and " You and Spock get up here". Brilliant.
That’s how a real captain does it…he believes in his crew and their capabilities and pushes everything and everyone to the limit. He’s able to make split second judgements with confidence based his skill and experience. Seriously, Kirk is the Real Thing! And brilliant acting by all and great script writing bring it all to life.
@@jamestcallahanphotographer Kirk would be the only captain I would follow without question to end of the galaxy. He has no fear and would bust a lip with no problem for his ship and crew!
Kirk's tactical prowess helped make him a Starfleet legend and has earned him respect from both friend and foe alike.
It's great that the writers of the show can do that with the characters. Then again, it kinda sucks when they're not paying attention to the dialog. Kirk ordered photon torpedoes, repeatedly. After the direct hits, Sulu says, "Direct hits by photon torpedoes." Well... thank you for reminding us, since he just said it, just seconds after ordering it. Duhhh!
I don't get out much.
Until he ran into Khan. 😂
Klingons lose their bowels when they hear the name, Kirk.
I love how Chekov is out of breath after pushing 2 buttons.
He was holding his breath while waiting for that split-second order to fire. Also, the director told him to breath heavy to show his excitement to the home audience.
Fear can do that to you.🤔
Wonderful acting work by "the gentleman who played Chekov."
Dude, there was a Klingon warship out there! Shields failing warp power gone and 31% impulse power...I would be terrified.
It's called acting and pretending to be nervous.
Music was exceptionally good in the scene.
in the immortal words of mr. croce, "don't mess around with jim."
On a star ship he would sing, "...don't spit into the solar wind...."
Always nice to get a glimpse at France Nguyen.
This, along with "Balance of Terror" show Capt. Kirk at his best.
The Klingons survived - in shame.
aye
If Kirk had a motto don't fight unless you have to but if you have to, win
I wish Kirk remained like this for all the movies.
"Balance of Terror" is one of the best episodes of television in the history of Star Trek. This episode, "Elaan of Troyius", is one of the worst.
I don't care how hard they try, there will NEVER be a better Star Trek, period. It was as much the era as it was the show. That simply cannot be recreated, reimagined, whatever.
I love those K'tinga-class ,D7, battle cruisers. I had the old model, with the little battery powerd 'grain of wheat' bulbs inside it hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember the box called it 'The demon of the deep space'. I tied red threads from the nacelles making it look like it was blowing holes in an Apollo LEM.😀
i have a real D7 cruiser in leading Trojan orbit of Neptune.. your coordinates please... will beam you up
i had the enterprise hanging from my ceiling too,
being chased by a Romulan bird of prey....good times in the 70's
I love flying mine in Star Trek Online. I fly that, the OG Enterprise, and the OG Romulan show from Balance of Terror.
Note to Lt. Commander Worf (STG): THIS is a full spread of photon torpedoes…
Hahaha. Yup he would fired just one.
Lmao I'm dead
@@Persian-Immortal And he targeted that ship’s primary reactor which quickly destroyed it since its shields were down.
France Nguyen was one of the most beautiful "women of the episode" actresses to grace Star Trek.
they are also know as "female guest star" "Kirk's woman" "alien love interest" . . . trouble
Nancy Kovak from Jason and the Argonauts!
@Tessmage_Tesseraadd Terri Garr and Joan Collin’s.
Diane Muldar made several very attractive guest appearances on TOS.
0:17- Did you see that hard swallow Shatner did when Sulu announced the shield collapse? That, ladies and gentlemen is called, acting. Well done! That’s how it’s done!
Thats called having too much saliva in his throat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Come on now we all know Shatner is a so so “actor” he aint no Captain Picard 😎
The first time I remember seeing that to convey a character is nervous and maybe even a little fearful was when Gary Cooper did it in "High Noon". It conveys a lot without requiring any dialoge
I only watched the original series because my older sister watched it. (she still had command of the TV, because she was still bigger than me as that age😂)
I attribute my love of sci-fi, and especially Star Wars, to Captain James T Kirk❤
3:32 "He's badly damaged Captain. Continuting away at.... reduced speed." I love that pause. They're just sitting there pushing buttons, but they treat it like they are in a battle on the open sea
@@hibbidyjibbidyy ....it was always Koenig, never Shatner that did that.
And Chekov is not a Vulcan or android, so he knows what's relevant to convey instead of going into multiple decimal places
He lets the Klingon retreat instead of pursuing and finishing him off after badly damaging him, just like how killing unarmed prisoners is not the Jedi way. So Kirk’s actions could possibly be the Federation way.
@@patrickwilson1459 he lets the Klingons retreat so they can eventually begin to understand compassion and it was the 'compassion' of ambassador Spock that led to the first alliance of the Klingons and the federation.
@@tonebonebgky2 No, he lets the Klingons retreat because it's _tactically and strategically idiotic_ to try to pursue an enemy which is no longer a threat to you when you are still heavily damaged, barely have functional shields, and your warp engines could fail at any moment, and if they do _your ship would once again become incapacitated and completely vulnerable,_ plus you have an important interstellar dignitary on board whose safety really should be your top priority anyway.
Lots of good acting in this scene. Especially from Takai and the actor playing Elaan.
The Klingon warship looks so cool up close. Nice remake.
STOS shows aren't remade. They've been remastered.
@@davidtaylor8002 All right then, remastered. My point was that it was redone. So, nice redo.
TOS Star Trek was awesome.
Star trek was liberal brainwashing. Imagine firing a laser from space on to the inhabitants of a planet because they don't vote the same way you do. Shame on the liberal minions and their perverted high tech hero's.
Kirk always kicked Klingon ass
. This was one of the episodes that really illustrated Scotty's skills and value !!!
I love when you can hear the plywood set creaking as Kirk walks delivering his lines.
That was just the diuranium decks buckling as Kirk walked on them bearing his massive balls.
It's SPACE PLYWOOD. Very sophisticated stuff.
titanium was in short supply that week.
It's so easy to forgive creaking plywood and foam boulders when the show is just so damn good.
Something about nothing. The set itself is a labor of love. The bridge is something that a camera could pan ten times and find something that fits the 60's and 2550.
My favorite episode ❤
The original Star Trek battles are so much better than the shoot-em-up space battles that dominate most films in recent years (decades). This episode, the Balance of Terror, and don't forget the Journey to Babel battle at the end, are all classic television. The Balance of Terror borrowed from The Enemy Below, the classic WW2 Destroyer - Sub battle film, staring the great Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
Other than the obviously modern CGI, I loved seeing this.
Can we just admire Captain Kirk's badassery here without feeling the need to sh!t on Captain Picard's command style? They were both amazing, legendary captains with their own styles of leadership. Also the plots of the respective episodes sort of called for their respective styles. The episodes in TNG more often called for Picard's Democratic Centralist style, while many episodes in TOS more often called for Kirk's off the cuff tactical brilliance with iron balls. When an instant decision was needed, Picard could make a command decision without consulting his staff... when the situation allowed more time, Kirk was capable and willing to consult his staff before making a decision.
So true!!!
Picard was a far better Captain than Kirk!
Yeah but could he save the day with his fists while making out with the green alien chick?@@Trev359
I totally agree, and these two series were set in two different time periods. In Next Gen, humans are less emotional, more balanced, more complex. Here we have a Wild West shootout(strategy included).
This is one scene where the enhanced space filming takes away from the scene.
In the original airing, Enterprise fires, then there’s a pause, then the view screen shows a near miss, then a sudden pause, a second torpedo comes much closer, another pause, and then a third torpedo hits direct a midships.
If Scotty was on Gilligan's Island, would have made spark plugs from seashells.
Didnt the professor do that?
The professor was smart. By pretending to be stranded, he got dibs on two hot young gals. Do you think he really wanted to fix the ship or get rescued?
No the Professor kept Ginger and Mary Ann there and invented Viagara @@blueskull6789
@@kevinemmers7025 the rumor was he was mrs Brady’s 1st husband
Dammit Jim, I am a starship, not a spaceship!
Kirk demanded that McCoy give him the shot of adrenaline serum when he was rapidly aging and going senile. When he wrestled with Garth as the shape shifter, he told Spock, you have to shoot us both. It's the only way you can save the ship!
And your statement relates to what?? @@paulleckner8235
Klingon captain: "You must surrender immediately or be destroyed. No terms!"
Kirk: "Yeeeeah... you haven't heard of me yet, eh?"
Kirk loved the old bait and switch to finish off superior enemy ships
Lol, Kirk loved it too!
Kirk: "You sound like you're new to the sector so I'm going to cut you a break. I won't kill you."
Klingon captain: Why should I have ?
Kirk: "Yeeeeah... I have more plot armor than anybody else.
Denny Crane!
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Watched them all back in the 60’s … Now my local station plays them nightly. Life is good. 😇
The 'new' cgi looks great for this scene. That, coupled with the battle music makes this one of my all time favorite TOS scenes.
Kirk out of the Captain's Chair is a little overdramatic. Suppose he got knocked to the floor of the Bridge?
Thanks 🙏 for the download ❤I was just a kid watching this on my dad’s Zenith bid television set 😅
Kirk used the 'walking stick' ploy that Captain Aubrey used in Master and Commander to lure the Acheron in close. Pretend to be something you're not. Also shades of Sun Tsu, "Be where the enemy does not expect you to be, and do not be where the enemy does expect you to be, then give them a mouth full of photon torpedoes."
@Davik Delcon That pesky time-flow issue. Can never quite work out which way it’s going from week to week.
"Appear weak where you are strong. Appear strong where you are weak. Appear attractive when you are with alien women."
@Etienne de Vignolles Of course. Sun Tzu's translations are easily lost if you don't use the original Klingon version. 😉
He used the same 'play dead' tactic to defeat the Romulan ship in "Balance of Terror" and the Orion ship in "Journey to Babel".
Sun Tsu was so prescient.
Scotty is a miracle worker...Jim knows that
I'd forgotten what a beauty France Nuyen was back then - dark skinned, sultry, exotic. Born in 1939, she's still alive today at age 84. This episode was released near the end of 1968, after the release of The Green Berets a few months earlier, in which she also starred.
She was my girlfriend for 2 months, then she dumped me. 😢
@@Peter-976Was this last Thursday?
Sulu was also in the Green Berets. He was the commander of the South Vietnamese special forces.
@@albundy6008 Yes, Cpt Nghiem. He was absent from Star Trek in order to take that role.
Kirk decides to beam Sulu to the Klingon's bridge with a pair of kneepads on in an effort to stall the Klingon for a few minutes to buy some time!
"Test it in combat!" He knows the odds
The new footage was certainly a huge improvement over the stock shots they were originally forced to use, but Enterprise is “pivoting” away from the Klingon ship as it moves in and should be turning to face it.
Great original score by Fred Steiner, who started scoring the series very early on, going all the way back to “Mudd’s Women”.
I loved those snare drums and horns.
"You won't pursue and finish him off...?"
"No."
"Then, I shall not finish you off either."
And so she cried on him, to gain control.
I love the music in this scene. I don't believe it is used in any other episode. Pity. It's the most energetic attack music in Star Trek.
What a great show . . . great actors.
LOL, shields collapsing, impulse power down to 31%, slow maneuverability, no phasers! No problem! Kirk is the ultimate 3 dimensional combat officer, The best of the best. Kirk is stalling and playing the Klingons.Kirk has already won before the battle started.
Love the music cues in this one, especially.
"Elaan of Troyius" - I never got that until I took a Great Book Course
nice
This was the best Sci-Fi show growing up, before they even called it Sci-Fi, and Kirk was the epitome of a great Captain.
He just did the picard maneuver.....they just didn't have the proper animation for it back in the day :P
"You are not going to finish him off"? Kirk's stare says it all " Woman Please I'm Taking You To My Quarters And Working All This Tension Out On Your Ass"
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This comment killed me 😂😂😂😂
"This is Captain James Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. We have considered your terms for surrendered but we only offer one crewman to board your vessel. It will be, Zulu............you will find him most resourceful as he is known on this ship to operate under full impulse power at all times. (Plus we wanna get rid of his a** as soon as possible; he constantly pinches McCoy's rear and repeatedly goes apesh*t with a sword.) You Romuluns, are you game?". 'We do not understand your words, "impulse power" as it relates to humans." 'Well,........you will......'
This is one of Captain Kirk’s finest moments, perhaps his most defining moment. William Shatner is such a good actor, he is so in tune with the desperate situation he’s in, that he does something most of us do when we’re nervous - we swallow! Notice Shatner nervously swallowing right after Sulu tells him the number 4 shield just collapsed (00:13). Watch his Adam’s apple fluttering. That nervous swallowing is so subtle it had to be instinctive and unconscious, and it happened because Shatner was fully in the moment, fully feeling the danger he was in. When the character and the actor are one and the same, the emotion is so real that fiction and reality become one, as in this moment, and that’s something only the best actors can achieve!
Well spotted !
Quite true, and remember what Bill Shatner was seeing during the filming. WE see the bridge and the bridge crew but what Shatner saw were cameras, sound equipment, technicians of various sorts, production assistants, the director, EVERONE who goes into TV and film production. Quite frankly everything that would "break the spell" if one of the cameras was turned the other way.
It makes Shatners and the rest of the casts concentration and professionalism all that more impressive.
And you could apply that to any TV and movie cast as well.
Truly, Shatner does not get enough credit for making the little things wholly believable. The moment in Wrath Of Khan when the main viewscreen flickers and then first shows us Khan's face, the sudden shock of recognition on Kirk's face is brilliant!
This why William Shafter is still the greatest James T. Kirk of James T. Kirks!😁😱💥
Kirk was the man. But if you follow the Trek universe…you will agree that Sulu was a brass balled, stone cold…OG.
He became a Captain in his own right. Not bad for a helmsman…!
no, he was a whinny want-to-be
@@scotte2815 Takei might be, but Sulu was awesome.
Oh, my!...😘
Sulu really liked the klingons ! Litterally
Shatner's lines were designed to convey the ideal leader - and its great! Intelligent, decisive, strong, and yet compassionate. Corny for sure but well thought out.
For us to recognize those qualities as something desirable, in us, there must be something primordial in those qualities. It is strange that at this day and age, movies and shows no longer feature those qualities. And yet, here I am, watching the video clip and can't help but smile
Shades of the wrath of khan reliant surprise attack. They built up this scene tension pretty good.
Best Trek battle scene outside of Wrath.
I just noticed that at 3:22, that's not Chekov on the bridge.
No, it’s Billy Blackburn and the back of his head is seen throughout the series when a short clip of stick footage was used.
I saw “Satan Never Sleeps” with her and William Holden recently. I had to do a search to remember where I’d seen her before.
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25.9K subscribers "No Terms! Surrender must be unconditional and immediate!"
Capt. Kirk had an almost Gary Seven look to him.
Best battle sequence in TOS
One of Fred Steiner's best music scores.
Her name is France Nuyen .
Not only is She an actress and model, She’s also an award winning psychologist, who was noted in 1989.
She was and Still is an Extremely Attractive Woman
Great job by Kirk and the crew. F to the Klingon Empire
I think I prefer Scotty saying the shields are "buckling."
Captain Sulu still would make a great series.
Saber que este cara alcançou o espaço nos dias atuais me enche de alegria!
"United Spaceship Enterprise..."
3:51- I love the baby doll frame shots of women on the original Star Trek.
Elan o T: “I don’t understand. Aren’t you going to finish him off?
Kirk: “No. Now just go back to being beautiful and I’ll go back to being valiant and irresistible.”
France Nuyen
France Nuyen is still alive age 82
but Kirk is framed the same way . . . .?
All I can say is I can't get enough of it I keep replaying that because of the tail end just can't get enough although I wish to tell Lynn did have a little bit of bones coming up to the bridge and saying he found the cure for the captain when spot tells him he found his own care the enterprise he was already married to the ship just like the captain would be
Kirk is mission oriented. The mission comes first, last and always. As far as he is concerned, his personal feelings come 2nd. The mission always comes first. He starts with the mission. When things go awry he thinks of the mission. When all else fails, he returns to the mission. He became hopelessly attracted to the Doleman, But he was able to overcome that by concentrating on and putting the mission first.
Sadly, bill shatner is one of the weakest actors ever on US film
@@mckinleymac3452 I guess we can agree to disagree, then. I saw him in a movie, The Outsider, and his performance there was excellent. I hated the character, but Shatner the actor should have gotten an academy award for that performance. He was playing a virulent racist. I'm a decent actor, but I couldn't have accepted that role because I, personally couldn't have made it believable. But Shatner did just that. He played the role with feeling and basically became that character.
Kirk was 100% devoted to the Enterprise and her crew. Even Carol Marcus couldn't change that, so the tears of an alien would only be able to control him until his ship and crew were on the line.
@@mckinleymac3452 I must disagree. You may not like his acting style, but Shatner was regarded at the time as a rising star, with numerous credits to his name. His portrayal of Kirk in The Wrath of Khan has been highly praised by serious film critics. Star Trek stereotyped Shatner ( as well as Leonard Nimoy and other cast members. But he went on to create another iconic character in Denny Crane, from Boston Legal. Since Shatner was often criticized for overacting ( a charge not widely shared by industry insiders), he used a caricature of himself to portray Denny Crane.
He certainly has a big ego. And he has alienated a lot of his colleagues from Star Trek. But there's a reason why people imitate Shatner's James Kirk. It was the right portrayal of the man whose character helped launch one of the most successful TV and film franchises in history.
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Hello Mr Smith. You make some good points but I have to disagree.
He captured lightning in a bottle with that role and in that show. He was cast in an incredibly ridiculous sci-fi show that people latched onto because of timing. He and most of the cast were just laughable, but it mattered little because of again, the timing was pretty much perfect for a show like that. And admittedly I like some of them too. The disintegration chamber was very good. So was Shatner for that episode.
But he's a terrible actor. Always has been.
They're darn lucky the energy flux from those crystals went the right way!
Hell... at that distance, Spock could have thrown a brick through their windshield when they went by
i agree
The so-called Picard maneuver was the KIRK maneuver!
The Picard Maneuver is a direct jump forward, not a pivot.
This has the best battle music of ALL Trek...except maybe TWOK.
Best line this episode: Kirk: "That's no way to treat someone who's telling you the truth." (knife lands in wall) "Tomorrow's lesson will be about courtesy."
such a good show!
This is famously one of the worst episodes of Star Trek in the entire history of the franchise.
When strong, feign weakness. When weak, feign strength. Sun Zhu or somebody like that.
This is more Star Trekkie than all the JJ Treks put together.
What a cool show
The actress who played Elaan had such beautiful eyes!
@D Sullivan uh. That's not what I said or am saying. Where did that come from?
That side view in that dress! 😍😍😍
I always thought she looked a little like Donna Summer.
Yeah I overreacted. I just find that a women's eyes are a very attractive feature
@D Sullivan Because the eyes are the window to the soul hence the term beautiful eyes