@@TCFan25 That is a wonderfully original idea. I was tempted to say it's also completely crazy, but I have to agree, physically he would have made a good Vulcan. Whether he had an ounce of logic in him to call upon for the acting the part is another question.
I've been watching sci-fi for over 50 years so I feel I can say this with some confidence: Nimoy created the most perfect and complete alien character in movie and TV history.
Spock's essence is not "alien-ness". Spock's essence is rationality, and the embodiment of the reason-emotion conflict which had been a theme of western culture. He is an abstraction of human characteristics, and yes, in his best moments Nimoy portrayed that perfectly.
I would disagree. The character is too humanoid, he is basically human with a few exaggerated features like his logic and pointy ears. Compare that with the heptapod aliens in Arrival. They were radically different in any imaginable way, thinking, language, time perception and obviously shape. Exactly what you would expect of a life form that evolved on a different planet. So, no Spock is a relatively poor approximation of an alien character that took humanity as a universal template for intelligent life.
I served in the USAF from 1994-2002, and remember they still used those same green office chairs in some of the older buildings. They were not replaced because they were clean, dry, and serviceable. If they work, don't replace them.
@@darylefleming1191 1986-2006 USAF (load master)... I remember those same desks and chairs when I first came in... but what bugs me about the episode (and movies, etc) is the uniform wear... the hats, and "gun belts", not to mention the roy-rogers pearl-handled pistols... in the 1960s, those shouldn't be pearl handled six-shooters, the standard sidearm of the USAF at that time was the M1911... those damn pistols look like a prop extra from Gunsmoke.
@@wolfshanze5980 The SAC Security Police carried the M-15 (Revolver .38 caliber) with Pearl handles. The standard 38 calibers were used by all USAF Security Police (Security Specialist and Law Enforcement Specialist from 1986 until 1992) until they were replaced by the Beretta M-9. The USAF switched to the Sig Sauer P320 in January 2017
The words "in fact I do" caught me by surprise many, many years ago, the first time I heard them. I did not expect Spock's response to be a statement in the positive. I had to process their meaning that first time. I have carried those words and their meaning with me all these years and have, from time to time found them valuable. There is much wisdom to be found in Star Trek. I like that.
@@adamb89 Well, I would have waited until the guard had opened the door just wide enough, grabbed the guard by the collar, yanked him out into the hallway, and pushed the door back closed with my foot. Then knocked him out. Then what would the Colonel do? If he had not looked directly at the door and seen what happened, he would have gotten up, and opened the door to see what happened. Then, given _him_ the same thing! Actually, I would have warned Kirk and Sulu to change into Air Force MP uniforms before beaming down, in the first place! 🙄
When Captain Christopher first sees Spock after saying "I've never believed in little green men." Spock answers, "Nor have I." The reaction on Captain Christopher's face when seeing Spock is priceless!
Saturday was work day around our household, but Dad never missed his Trek when it came on around lunchtime. One of the few TV shows we really bonded over. We're both mechanical geeks.
I loved that episode. I also loved the story telling from that series, never really explaining everything. Like where did Gary come from really, and why was he able to talk to a cat. Lots left to speculation and imagination. Story telling today reveals too much, no mystery.
I loved the Gary Seven episode! But apparently the idiots at the network wouldn’t follow through and start a spinoff featuring Gary Seven and his assistant (and cat lady).
As a kid I would I spent hours infront of the mirror trying to do the eyebrow lift at one point even tried to shave them like a Vulcan. Did not turn out well
As one who grew up with the original series, prefer it to all that followed. The episodes were not always great, but there were so many wonderful scenes and lots of great moments. And the characters were indelible.
the ONLY other in the franchise i liked was DS9. Voyager wasnt terrible though... TNG was an absolutely horrific pile of dung. Picard sucked. Data sucked. Riker sucked. that stupid blonde that died early, well that was her redeeming grace. she died early.... every flipping time they went on the holodeck something malfunctioned... should have just gone back to the base and had it ripped out...
@@truthsayers8725 I think that DS9 was the best overall series in terms of actors, characters, and writing. I agree with you about TNG. The first few years it was trying to find itself and used a lot of new age imagery and themes, which I found unoriginal and tiring. I didn’t much care for the characters either, except for Worf, who had the best funny scenes. But the scenes in which he tried to act as a father to his annoying and non credible son were just ghastly.
@@rev.markcarrier1894 I've just finished watching (and thoroughly enjoying) the recent Picard series. Very nice closure to almost every loose end from STNG. But yes, Worf, who has undergone a spiritual transformation by this time, continues to be the FUNNIEST character in the entire ST universe. I wonder if Michael Dorn is like that IRL. But it's Data who has the single best line, in the penultimate episode.
@@aquamarine99911 I bet Dorm is very funny. My favorite funny scene with him is when he delivered Chief O’Brien’s son in an emergency situation and he said, “This . . . This was not like it was in the training videos” or something like that. The humor was in the timing and the delivery. What was Data’s line in the penultimate episode?
When I was a kid, my dad was a monster, I use to imagine that captain was my dad and him and the crew would rescue me, they didn’t, but I eventually got away from the monster and this show gave hope.
I am glad you got away. I loved the show too and still want to do all this stuff. You know, if they gave you hope, they did rescue you! Love to you! I also hope you never see you dad again!
After all these years, I just noticed, they got Captain Christopher's rank correct on his Starfleet uniform sleeve. He's an Air Force captain, which is roughly equivalent to a Navy Lieutenant, which is basically the grade system Starfleet uses. Pretty cool.
I cannot agree but there was enough good stuff that we (the fans) were engaged enough to push hard enough for the studios to see that the franchise was worth resurrecting.
I grew up on the original series so it holds a special place in my heart and psyche. I thought TNG was great and I loved Voyager (How could you not love species 8472 and the Borg?). I watched DS9 for the first time in 2021. Too much Quark for my taste but it was pretty good overall...I only watched a couple episodes of the prequel series Enterprise and never watched Discovery.
I hear you to a degree. The original series was brilliant. However, The Next Generation was as brilliant if not more in my opinion. Some of the episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation left me absolutely stunned with my mouth agape! They were captivating beyond words! As for the other Star Trek series....Voyager had a great concept and had some really fantastic episodes....Deep Space Nine? I really couldn't get into it...Enterprise? I watched a few seasons and was never really taken by it....
The incidental music is one of the best parts of T.O.S. When I read Star Trek books, or other TOS stories, then later think about what I read, my mind automatically fills in the appropriate incidental music. 🎶
I love most of their music. They've got some--The Man Trap, The Doomsday Machine, Mirror Mirror and others right here on the Tube. Listen to the music in this video when the crewman produces the chicken soup -- hilarious.
@@raven4k998 you're funny. I grew up with Captain Kirk and his crew. Kirk, to me, is still the best captain. Picard's great too, don't get me wrong. Both were great in Star Trek Generations but I'm a die-hard Kirk fan.
@@maximusmeridius9227 yeah but you grew up with Kirk I grew up with Picard Kirk was an old man by then and so yeah by the time I saw the original series it was sadly very very dated where as next gen was new and looked state of the art in comparison plus to make matter worse next gen had so many more episodes due to having a much longer run then the original series but that was due to them getting next gen seen and having a bigger viewer base then the original series had
A favorite episode..for the simple reason of giving viewers visuals of the late 1960s vs where Stat trek was. Watching it now in 2022...even further magnifies the difference in where start trek was compared to where Earth was when filming this episode
Paul Yes Compared to my Earth ? We saw it First run on T.V . Today's Kids would not understand how puzzled I was when the Card Catalog in the Library was missing . I was Pointed to a Computer and stood and Stared at it for a Few Minutes . Then just like Star trek when he talks to the Elevator I start asking this Computer how to find the Book I wanted . We have come a Long way ?
I wouldn't go that far. If you want "Cool", it would have been better if when the MP had opened the door just enough, Spock grabbed him by the collar, yanked him out into the hallway ... And then shut the door again. If the Colonel wasn't looking directly at them when it happened, he wouldn't realize where he went. He might get up, and try to go look out in the hallway himself, and ...
Palmer - Oh, really? How interesting. there is something I've always wondered about; How does the set they used compare to a real Air Force base? I'd always wondered where they filmed this. How much does that photo lab look like one on a real Air Force base? I always thought it was kind of small to pass for the real thing, but I've never seen a real one.
Oh the nostalgia! That over-the-top suspense music! Those uniforms! The sets! I encountered these much later in syndication as a kid but I loved them so dearly!
I watched these when they were first-run, with my dad when I was a kid. I remember that fondly, as a cool bonding time. It was only much later in life I found out that though he was a sci-fi fan he didn't really like Star Trek, thinking the show was too cheesy! It's even more touching since I've had kids, realizing that he did it just because I liked it and he wanted to do something with me.
@@InformationIsTheEdge sorry, his point was correct... An elephant in a miniskirt...not cute.... we're just not supposed to say that As is 50 year old women trying to wear teenybopper clothes style
I like the expression he gave the transporter chief after barely tasting the chicken soup. When I was a kid I would watch Star Trek at midnight on weekends. Great time.
Had to look it up. What Kyle used was not a food replicator but a synthesizer which turned cubes into the desired food. Replicators did not appear until TNG.
The description of it being "a saucer shape" with the roughly cylindrical engines above and secondary hull below matched the stereotypical "flying saucer" concept for UFOs. Such a great way to figuratively and literally show the 1960s and Star Trek viewpoints.
I don't like it being so low in the sky; it should have burned up in the atmosphere. I feel like later reboot series decided the Enterprise should enter the atmosphere because of this and to make it canon that it could.
"Still going strong"? I don't think so. Star Trek is dying out, albeit slowly, and the new batch of producers are not making anything current to attract new followers! In fact, my greatest complaint about STD is that it is made for current Star trek fans, _only_ ! It is not made to win over new fans, in fact, just the opposite!
I have always patterned my thinking after Mr. Spock but one thing learned is you can't use logic on people that are illogical or reason on people that are unreasonable even in the presence of empirical data.
Jose Sarmiento exactly. I prefer this version of star trek. The others are terrible. The Orville is a star trek wannabes rip off parody tv show that did not last long.
This and the Khan episode is the reason I choose to believe Star Trek's timeline is 200 years in the future. I picked up on this as a kid. Khan asks "how long?" had he been asleep to which Kirk says, "we estimate 200 yrs". Somewhere along the way someone retconned it all to 300 years in the future. I've never quite understood why. The Colonel says to Kirk, "I'm going to lock you up for 200 years"....to which Kirk says, "that ought to be just about right". I still choose to believe this cool future is only 200 years away.
As a young boy I knew Charles A Cross, the first to draw the official maps of Mars for NASA (look for the crater named after him there). He died of cancer aged 60, not long after that his wife knocked on the door and said that he wanted me to have something that had belonged to him and guess what? It was a set of souvenir Enterprise blue prints presented to him on one of his visits to the USA. I also have a copy of the Mars atlas signed by him and Patrick Moore! I actually saw him drawing some of the maps on his dining room table too. He was a big Star Trek fan.
Who puts food replicators in the transporter room? And there's no chairs to sit and eat some you have to balance your tray on the edge of the console. A small lurch of the ship could put the entire transporter system completely out of action until they've mopped all that chicken soup out of the circuit boards.
Kiyoshi Kirishima, good point. I hadn't thought of that but it all makes sense now. On that basis I assume the bridge is loaded with food replicators too.
I like how Spock pulls Christopher to the center of the transporter pad - while you can see Sulu stand on the pad with one foot half off the pad. Seems like a missed detail.
One of the best of the original shows! Too bad ST was cancelled before it was able to finish it's 'four year mission.' It was the real thing and one of the few programs on television that stretched the boundaries, truly going where no show had gone before. That's why the episodes stand up so well even today, even the lesser ones. The cast was spot-on with perfect chemistry, the writing was good to great, and the special effects were the best they could do with the budget they had and the technology of the time. But the shows weren't about special effects...
I agree with you. I seem to remember your name , maybe. Have you been published , before ? Have I maybe read some of your commentary , .... in print format , Sir ?
I do love the original series. It is the only Star Trek product I can consume. But. let's be honest, quite a few episodes were clunkers. But I concur with everything else you wrote. Live long and prosper!
The Air Force MP later played Danny Bonaduce's Dad, in an episode of "SHAZAM!" The interrogation officer is Ed Peck. He played Officer Kirk, in "Happy Days".
I haven't seen the rest of the episode in a while, but beaming Capt Christopher into himself was strange and he lost his memory to boot. I guess from a writing perspective it wraps an hour long episode quickly and tidily from the looks of it. Still one of my favorites and one of the few where the Enterprise is out of orbit and in the atmosphere.
Even as a kid (a strange one) I would grin thinking about beaming him back into a high speed aircraft in exactly the same atom-for-atom place using vacuum tubes and mechanical relays in the 1960's conception of high-tech. Sure, let's do it.
Yeah, that was a weak point in the plot. Better to just beam him to the ground and let them decide what to do with a pilot who went missing for a day or two, as well as the airman. One of the problems with sci-fi shows and comic books is that if one thing is possible, like faster-than-light travel, then why not everything, including time travel and alternate universes?
*Beautiful ....* *Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ....* *Beautiful acting, beautiful dialog, beautiful camera work ....* *"Star Trek" at it's very core.* *Not the hot dogshit that's been the case ever since Berman/Braga split ....* 😢
Breaking the fourth wall! Almost! Because Kirk almost seemed to be addressing the viewing audience when he said it. "Breaking the fourth wall" is when a character in a story _acknowledges_ that they _are_ in fact, within a story.
I must have seen this episode 50 times since it first aired. And I have just now noticed that when Spock points Christopher to the transporter pad, he points with his pinkie finger, and not his index finger.
It's funny that they need to stand on the pads to transport out, but when they transport in, they could be in any pose or position, like when they beam up a pair fighting in "The Cloud Minders."
Spock: "We're ready to beam down Captain Christopher. Give the transporter chief the coordinates." Captain Christopher: "The coordinates are (insert coordinates here)." Spock: (Spoke gives him the Vulcan nerve pinch) "Ik vesh' duhik."
I always thought Star Trek and Batman were similar. Robin would punch his hand and say " gosh Batman"! McCoy would say " damn it Jim". Both had inexpensive sets, both had outlandish villains. Batman was humorous with an undertone of seriousness, Star Trek was serious with a touch of humor. I liked both.
I remember the commercial for this episode. That next day at school I couldn't wait for the day to be over because it was coming on that night! Imagine the Enterprise in our time period!
They made sure the transporter operator had that tape after that time Sulu was stuck on that planet while Kirk was split by the transporter malfunction.
2:57 I've seen these episodes so many times and I just now noticed that the actor who's getting knocked out by Kirk had the wherewithal to move the chair with his right hand to his left, which then he used to push it out of the way, so he could fall on the floor correctly rather than ... just back on the chair.
Good bet he was not knocked out, just knocked down & not unconscious. That's why they should not have next started talking about .... certain things they didn't want the AirForce people to hear.
Eight years after this episode first aired, I was a Security Policeman (LE) in the Strategic Air Command. We did wear blue berets (although different from these) and white ascots, but we didn't have revolvers with white staghorn handles; just standard checkered wood grips.
SeikiBrian I'm retired L/E. And wore that same uniform when I was stationed at Andrews AFB. This was 1975, someone at the Pentagon must have been a die hard trekkie.
Didn't SAC "cops" also use a cross draw holster system or was that only for the Elite Guard Unit? I was LE and Corrections, until I made Superintendent level and then it became Security Police Superintendent with assignment to any part of the Career Field. My Secondary was Education and Training Superintendent. 27 years (13 AD, 14 Reserves).
Well, then I have a question for you guys, I've always wondered about the set they used. How well did they do with duplicating an actual Air Force Base? The colors of the walls, the trophy cases & curving shape of the hallways, would the photo lab be smaller or bigger, things like that. And what about that office at 2:47? For a security office, the entrance didn't seem to be secure if Spock could just grab him once he opened the door. Do you guys have any thoughts or observations about it?
What else could he do? He never studied karate. He studied fencing. So he just followed the director’s orders. Though he DID get to display his fencing skills in another episode.
I feel the two biggest mistakes the Star Trek franchise made after TOS was showing future Earth society and also telling us what year it was supposed to be. Budgetary limitations, etc... led to showing and telling just enough to wrap my imagination around, which was always better than seeing and knowing everything.
Yes! That explains why he looked so familiar. That, and I've been watching a lot of Barney Miller lately. He played Fish's old buddy who always had a thing for Bernice. Looking at IMDB, he seems to have been cast as a cop most of the time. With that voice, no wonder.
Frank Welch, I believe, but can not confirm, that the police chief also played the voice on the radio transmission about the "moon landing" that James Kirk referred to as "that was in the late 1960s" at the beginning of this episode. The voice on that transmission had the same N.Y.C. type accent as the police chief. Also, it's amazing that this episode was written by Dorothy C. Fontana (an H.S. Alumni of Passaic Valley High School in Little Falls New Jersey). She had the foresight to predict that the Moon Landing was to happen in the "late 1960s". Of course, the Star Trek writers had NASA techs to help them during the early episodes. But that prediction was three years before the first step on the moon. It could have gone all wrong and this episode could have been a historical disaster if the moon landing didn't happen as predicted in this episode. But, I'm proud to be an alumnus with you, Dorothy. Because you were a woman from back in the 1960s and with the Desilu Studios who were probably reluctant to allow your full female name and influence to have a say. Maybe it was for some fear of embarrassment by the studio to admit that women like D.C Fontana had the sci-fi brains to construct a written script as awesome as this. This episode was one of the precursors of the early "time paradox" sci-fi movies we are now overly inundated with. Of course, Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits take first dibs for the credit toward this Minecraft. I'm surprised Lucille Ball did not step in and allow Dorothy C. Fontana to use her full first name for writing this great episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday". It is a credit to the now overly done time paradox movies. But even women as powerful as Lucille Ball had restrictions to her control back in the day, even though she broke through many glass ceilings. Please don't forget that these were the days just before women protested by going braless. The braless generation protest became a fashion after Woodstock in 1969. That is a whole "nother" story. Anyway, this episode is probably one of my top five favorite Star Trek episodes of all time.
One of the best things about the original series was the regular use of incidental music to add impact to the action on screen. Alexander Courage was a genius.
My uncle was the biggest Star Trek fan I know, He liked the original first season I loved all of the new shows‼️ I just made a StarTrek Stop Motion tribute with one of my Enterprises 🎬📸🎞️ Hope you enjoy it 🖖🏻
It is amazing how in the 60s everybody was thin and standing straight up, 55 years later, even kids are 150 lb and hunched back by their computers playing games , they call it progress I suppose.
In the 60s, kids were playing outside. Now, everyone is ordered to stay at home. Because that seems to be very healthy, of course! I wish we could all be rescued from our domestic prisons by Mr. Spok. I would trust him, 100%!
Curious how at 1:25 Spock points Christopher to the landing pad with his pinkie finger when most of us would use our index finger. I've always wondered about small moments like that; did Leonard Nimoy do that naturally, or deliberately, or did the director perhaps tell him to do it as a small indication of Spock's alien nature?
Oh, really? You don't have "Google Home", do you? There is no such thing as a voice recognition technology that understands what you say, or what you _mean by_ what you say 100% of the time! Do you speak French? The French word for "Poison" and the French word for "Fish" are pronounced _almost_ exactly the same! If you were to ask the replicator for a "fish dinner" ....
@MennerMovies You are being a real downer, Menner. Even though you are being realistic. Fun fact; They say "Space is Big, I mean *Really BIG* ". If we could travel at half the speed of light (Which is reasonable and viable, but not _currently_ obtainable with today's technology), to get from the Sun to The Earth would take something like sixteen to eighteen minutes. How long would it take to get to the edge of our solar system, traveling at half the speed of light? The Oort Cloud is 1/2 a light year wide, so let's just say the _beginning_ of the Oort cloud is the edge of our solar system. It would take *Nine Days* !
That officer watching them transport down to the surface reminds me of the first time I ever watched ST in the 70´s, my brain just went like WTF is going on? I was just 8 years old.
I watched this episode last night and Kirk was really hilarious during the questioning with the Colonel 😂 however Bones should have been nicer to Spock in the episode since he was a total hothead just cause Kirk was kept prisoner on the planet like I just wanted to choke out Bones cause I have enough dealing with Bones rude mannerisms and hot headed mannerisms
I've watched the ISS pass overhead many times and just realized that the Enterprise being much bigger would make a much brighter more obvious moving star in the sky.
It depends on the altitude. From the planetary visual FX shots, "Standard Orbit" for the Enterprise was much higher than ISS orbits at. The Star Trek Voyager Technical Reference Manual lists Standard Orbit as being a geosynchronous one. That would be 91 times higher (22,000 miles higher) than ISS.
1:22 - 1:25 Having already gotten the coordinates from Captain Christopher in exchange for a reluctant agreement on Spock's part to take him with the landing party, Spock didn't really need to correct Christopher's position on the transporter to ensure that he actually did beam down with them.
@@sandal_thong8631 This wouldn't have been a lie; it would have been remaining silent. Spock is certainly capable of practicing deception in the interest of accomplishing a mission. He has done so on many other occasions, and he did regard Captain Christopher's presence as an unnecessary risk.
Spock remains one of the most magnificent characters ever invented and portrayed most brilliantly. Nimoy was utterly captivating in the role of Spock.
I completely agree, and Spock came in at #7 on the all-time greatest fictional characters in literature and media list, right behind Sherlock Holmes.
I totally agree with you on that statement.
This is the right clip to say that on. These Spock moments were spot-on, which one can't say was always true.
If Lee Marvin was ever casted, he'd be the next best Spock.
@@TCFan25 That is a wonderfully original idea. I was tempted to say it's also completely crazy, but I have to agree, physically he would have made a good Vulcan. Whether he had an ounce of logic in him to call upon for the acting the part is another question.
I've been watching sci-fi for over 50 years so I feel I can say this with some confidence: Nimoy created the most perfect and complete alien character in movie and TV history.
Spock's essence is not "alien-ness". Spock's essence is rationality, and the embodiment of the reason-emotion conflict which had been a theme of western culture. He is an abstraction of human characteristics, and yes, in his best moments Nimoy portrayed that perfectly.
Even better than Ford Prefect?
uhhhhh, he's half alien.
I would disagree. The character is too humanoid, he is basically human with a few exaggerated features like his logic and pointy ears. Compare that with the heptapod aliens in Arrival. They were radically different in any imaginable way, thinking, language, time perception and obviously shape. Exactly what you would expect of a life form that evolved on a different planet. So, no Spock is a relatively poor approximation of an alien character that took humanity as a universal template for intelligent life.
John. It is most logical!
I served in the USAF from 1994-2002, and remember they still used those same green office chairs in some of the older buildings. They were not replaced because they were clean, dry, and serviceable. If they work, don't replace them.
1985-2005 USAF (crew chief). Those desk were indestructible.
@@darylefleming1191 1986-2006 USAF (load master)... I remember those same desks and chairs when I first came in... but what bugs me about the episode (and movies, etc) is the uniform wear... the hats, and "gun belts", not to mention the roy-rogers pearl-handled pistols... in the 1960s, those shouldn't be pearl handled six-shooters, the standard sidearm of the USAF at that time was the M1911... those damn pistols look like a prop extra from Gunsmoke.
@@wolfshanze5980 probably a good guess....
But, Desilu actually made some westerns, too
@@wolfshanze5980 The SAC Security Police carried the M-15 (Revolver .38 caliber) with Pearl handles. The standard 38 calibers were used by all USAF Security Police (Security Specialist and Law Enforcement Specialist from 1986 until 1992) until they were replaced by the Beretta M-9. The USAF switched to the Sig Sauer P320 in January 2017
@@darylefleming1191 Tho.....the desks could be dented.....(Reacher reference....)
"you don't trust me do you spock"
"In fact I do. but only to a certain point"
Spock could seriously be a badass if he wanted to.
That is what I said to my ex wife.
"Spock could seriously be a badass if he wanted to."... two words.... Mirror, Mirror!
The words "in fact I do" caught me by surprise many, many years ago, the first time I heard them. I did not expect Spock's response to be a statement in the positive. I had to process their meaning that first time. I have carried those words and their meaning with me all these years and have, from time to time found them valuable.
There is much wisdom to be found in Star Trek. I like that.
And you see Captain Christopher’s assured smile falter just slightly there.
Spock's raised eyebrows speak volumes!
Can we just appreciate how Spock has the courtesy to knock on the door before he knocked out the guy ? Absolute king behavior
He wants to draw him to the door. Can't nerve pinch across the room.
@@fionam3554 duh.
You get a knock on your door. You see Spock. He says "Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Surak?" What do you do.
What...do you do.
@@adamb89 Well, I would have waited until the guard had opened the door just wide enough, grabbed the guard by the collar, yanked him out into the hallway, and pushed the door back closed with my foot. Then knocked him out.
Then what would the Colonel do? If he had not looked directly at the door and seen what happened, he would have gotten up, and opened the door to see what happened.
Then, given _him_ the same thing!
Actually, I would have warned Kirk and Sulu to change into Air Force MP uniforms before beaming down, in the first place! 🙄
Fascinating
When Captain Christopher first sees Spock after saying "I've never believed in little green men." Spock answers, "Nor have I." The reaction on Captain Christopher's face when seeing Spock is priceless!
The correct answer should have been, "Let me take you to Orion" 😁
"There is nothing little about my husband." (RE Sarek)
-Amanda Grayson, _Spock's World_
"I've never believed in little green men."...after a little Romulan Ale you will!
Spock also had never met a work of art.
Lil green men from alpha centurie
One of my many favorite episodes. Right up there with "Gary Seven". Seeing these cuts make me feel like a kid again!
I remember watching the reruns on terrestrial TV in the 1970's.
Saturday was work day around our household, but Dad never missed his Trek when it came on around lunchtime. One of the few TV shows we really bonded over. We're both mechanical geeks.
You mean “Galileo Seven”?
I loved that episode. I also loved the story telling from that series, never really explaining everything. Like where did Gary come from really, and why was he able to talk to a cat. Lots left to speculation and imagination. Story telling today reveals too much, no mystery.
I loved the Gary Seven episode! But apparently the idiots at the network wouldn’t follow through and start a spinoff featuring Gary Seven and his assistant (and cat lady).
I used to go to sleep holding my ears to a point.... Hopefully, I thought I would wake up with points on my ears like Spock.
How old were you? Please don't say 37.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Hahaha! 🤣
Taping would have worked better
That’s not logical
As a kid I would I spent hours infront of the mirror trying to do the eyebrow lift at one point even tried to shave them like a Vulcan. Did not turn out well
As one who grew up with the original series, prefer it to all that followed. The episodes were not always great, but there were so many wonderful scenes and lots of great moments. And the characters were indelible.
It is a stretch to place the Strange New Worlds with its advanced technology and spacious ships before the original Star Trek.
the ONLY other in the franchise i liked was DS9. Voyager wasnt terrible though...
TNG was an absolutely horrific pile of dung. Picard sucked. Data sucked. Riker sucked. that stupid blonde that died early, well that was her redeeming grace. she died early.... every flipping time they went on the holodeck something malfunctioned... should have just gone back to the base and had it ripped out...
@@truthsayers8725 I think that DS9 was the best overall series in terms of actors, characters, and writing. I agree with you about TNG. The first few years it was trying to find itself and used a lot of new age imagery and themes, which I found unoriginal and tiring. I didn’t much care for the characters either, except for Worf, who had the best funny scenes. But the scenes in which he tried to act as a father to his annoying and non credible son were just ghastly.
@@rev.markcarrier1894 I've just finished watching (and thoroughly enjoying) the recent Picard series. Very nice closure to almost every loose end from STNG. But yes, Worf, who has undergone a spiritual transformation by this time, continues to be the FUNNIEST character in the entire ST universe. I wonder if Michael Dorn is like that IRL.
But it's Data who has the single best line, in the penultimate episode.
@@aquamarine99911 I bet Dorm is very funny. My favorite funny scene with him is when he delivered Chief O’Brien’s son in an emergency situation and he said, “This . . . This was not like it was in the training videos” or something like that. The humor was in the timing and the delivery. What was Data’s line in the penultimate episode?
When I was a kid, my dad was a monster, I use to imagine that captain was my dad and him and the crew would rescue me, they didn’t, but I eventually got away from the monster and this show gave hope.
Sci Fi is good source of escapism, we become removed from reality of an hour or so to somwhere where hope lives. I learned this a long time ago.
Wow ,glad it helped you
We had Sheriff Andy...
I am glad you got away. I loved the show too and still want to do all this stuff. You know, if they gave you hope, they did rescue you! Love to you! I also hope you never see you dad again!
Same here, except I liked to imagine I could run away and join the academy, and work my way up a starship. Gave me a ton of hope as well.
After all these years, I just noticed, they got Captain Christopher's rank correct on his Starfleet uniform sleeve. He's an Air Force captain, which is roughly equivalent to a Navy Lieutenant, which is basically the grade system Starfleet uses. Pretty cool.
which is basically who cares.
@@garyv2196 I do. :)
@@josephmassaro Me too
@@dethlokprime8655 Me too. Funny how people who DGAS come to these threads to display their insecurities.
As do I, Captain Kirk!
In my opinion classic Star Trek is vastly superior in every way to any of the other series that came after it.
Oh yes
Have you seen Star Trek Continues on TH-cam?
I cannot agree but there was enough good stuff that we (the fans) were engaged enough to push hard enough for the studios to see that the franchise was worth resurrecting.
I grew up on the original series so it holds a special place in my heart and psyche. I thought TNG was great and I loved Voyager (How could you not love species 8472 and the Borg?). I watched DS9 for the first time in 2021. Too much Quark for my taste but it was pretty good overall...I only watched a couple episodes of the prequel series Enterprise and never watched Discovery.
I hear you to a degree. The original series was brilliant. However, The Next Generation was as brilliant if not more in my opinion. Some of the episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation left me absolutely stunned with my mouth agape! They were captivating beyond words! As for the other Star Trek series....Voyager had a great concept and had some really fantastic episodes....Deep Space Nine? I really couldn't get into it...Enterprise? I watched a few seasons and was never really taken by it....
I liked the part where he said "You don't trust me Spock." Spock's response was spot on.
And logical.
That's why he waited for Spock to go into the other room before pulling the gun.
Yes the timing and delivery was perfect.
@@briansammond7801 And that's why Spock knew he would try something and went around to come up behind him, so he could stop him
@@ArgonTheAware exactly
Star Trek,the best TV show ever. Shows what humanity could be like
Are here we are, descending into global mess.
If we stopped being so manipulatable and bulliable by religious fanatics, war profiteers and chaos sowers.
@@montanacrone8984 I thought this comment would be more recent, but it only shows how we have been in this mess for a lot longer.
@@montanacrone8984 mire like aproaching... an Age of Strife.
But largely isn't........
I always love in TV shows and movies how easy it is to knock someone out, and they always stay knocked out for extended periods of time...
And they always wake up the correct amount of time later and feel fine.
Again, the original Star Trek had the best background music, by far, than any other version of Star Trek.
The incidental music is one of the best parts of T.O.S.
When I read Star Trek books, or other TOS stories, then later think about what I read, my mind automatically fills in the appropriate incidental music.
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YES!
I love most of their music. They've got some--The Man Trap, The Doomsday Machine, Mirror Mirror and others right here on the Tube. Listen to the music in this video when the crewman produces the chicken soup -- hilarious.
Oops. I didn't put that slashing in there. Appears to be my use of dashes. - HB
@@TheNoiseySpectator exactly!
Still the best crew to ever live. GO KIRK!!!
no no no silly the best crew was and always has been Picard's crew Kirk was always an amateur to Picard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 you're funny. I grew up with Captain Kirk and his crew. Kirk, to me, is still the best captain. Picard's great too, don't get me wrong. Both were great in Star Trek Generations but I'm a die-hard Kirk fan.
@@maximusmeridius9227 yeah but you grew up with Kirk I grew up with Picard Kirk was an old man by then and so yeah by the time I saw the original series it was sadly very very dated where as next gen was new and looked state of the art in comparison plus to make matter worse next gen had so many more episodes due to having a much longer run then the original series but that was due to them getting next gen seen and having a bigger viewer base then the original series had
@@raven4k998 Picard is no Kirk!😁
@@billyfoster3223 nope Picard is better🤣
A favorite episode..for the simple reason of giving viewers visuals of the late 1960s vs where Stat trek was. Watching it now in 2022...even further magnifies the difference in where start trek was compared to where Earth was when filming this episode
Paul Yes Compared to my Earth ? We saw it First run on T.V . Today's Kids would not understand how puzzled I was when the Card Catalog in the Library was missing . I was Pointed to a Computer and stood and Stared at it for a Few Minutes . Then just like Star trek when he talks to the Elevator I start asking this Computer how to find the Book I wanted . We have come a Long way ?
That scene where the MP opens the door and Spock is standing there is just so damned good.
I wouldn't go that far.
If you want "Cool", it would have been better if when the MP had opened the door just enough, Spock grabbed him by the collar, yanked him out into the hallway ...
And then shut the door again.
If the Colonel wasn't looking directly at them when it happened, he wouldn't realize where he went. He might get up, and try to go look out in the hallway himself, and ...
in assignment earth two nyc cops get beamed outa sevens office by wide beamout the cop sezs CHARLIE......................priceless
I love how Spock doesn't bother with the other guy, because he knows K i
rk's on it. Then they forget to keep an eye on the renegade, but never mind.
Kirk was caught at the Photo Lab in an earlier beam down. My job when I was in the USAF. So, this episode always became a meme at work.
Palmer - Oh, really? How interesting. there is something I've always wondered about;
How does the set they used compare to a real Air Force base? I'd always wondered where they filmed this. How much does that photo lab look like one on a real Air Force base?
I always thought it was kind of small to pass for the real thing, but I've never seen a real one.
Oh the nostalgia! That over-the-top suspense music! Those uniforms! The sets! I encountered these much later in syndication as a kid but I loved them so dearly!
I can imagine. ☺
I watched these when they were first-run, with my dad when I was a kid. I remember that fondly, as a cool bonding time. It was only much later in life I found out that though he was a sci-fi fan he didn't really like Star Trek, thinking the show was too cheesy! It's even more touching since I've had kids, realizing that he did it just because I liked it and he wanted to do something with me.
Yeah,especially the short skirts,but only on slim women!
A fat woman wearing a skirt is a LAUGHINGSTOCK!
@@iggyarctic5711 Your sense of beauty is as pale as your skin.
@@InformationIsTheEdge sorry, his point was correct...
An elephant in a miniskirt...not cute.... we're just not supposed to say that
As is 50 year old women trying to wear teenybopper clothes style
I like the expression he gave the transporter chief after barely tasting the chicken soup. When I was a kid I would watch Star Trek at midnight on weekends. Great time.
Had to look it up. What Kyle used was not a food replicator but a synthesizer which turned cubes into the desired food. Replicators did not appear until TNG.
The frozen smile on Captain Christopher's face when Spock says he trusts him only to a point. Like, "Shit. Better not mess with this guy."
Exactly
Certain point
Liked how they show the Enterprise as a UFO in the sky at an earth point of view. Great writing and cinematography.
Yes Astonishing and Logical
The description of it being "a saucer shape" with the roughly cylindrical engines above and secondary hull below matched the stereotypical "flying saucer" concept for UFOs. Such a great way to figuratively and literally show the 1960s and Star Trek viewpoints.
original graphic before refit cgi had 1701 like a paper paste on
I don't like it being so low in the sky; it should have burned up in the atmosphere. I feel like later reboot series decided the Enterprise should enter the atmosphere because of this and to make it canon that it could.
General: "I'm going to lock you up for two hundred years!"
Kirk: "That ought to be just about right."
More like 300
A bit alarming to realize we're already more than halfway through the first of those 2 (or 3) centuries!!
Fred
Great reply and the officer was a Lt. Colonel, not a General.
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@@EvanG529 That was fairly early in the series before it was decided it took place in the 23rd century.
STAR TREK, WHAT AN AMAZING TV SHOW .!!!!! . AFTER 50- YEARS !!!! . STILL GOING STRONG ON THE HERO & ICON TV 📺 CHANNEL. !!!! . 👍💖👍🛸🖖🏻..
They should now put Star trek continues series on same channel as well.
How old are you?
@@joestitz239 The universe does keep expanding. LOL 😥
"Still going strong"? I don't think so. Star Trek is dying out, albeit slowly, and the new batch of producers are not making anything current to attract new followers!
In fact, my greatest complaint about STD is that it is made for current Star trek fans, _only_ !
It is not made to win over new fans, in fact, just the opposite!
No one has any thoughts on that?
Agree / disagree?
I have always patterned my thinking after Mr. Spock but one thing learned is you can't use logic on people that are illogical or reason on people that are unreasonable even in the presence of empirical data.
In other words, you can not fix stupid
@@katherinkeegan8601 No, but you can use it.
Otherwise, the Democrats wouldn't exist.
That's why it's so challenging and frustrating to communicate with many Americans.
@@bugwar5545 lol. You just proved that Katherin Keegan is right. 😂
But you can exploit their illogic to benefit yourself.
The writing was stellar (pun intended) and Nimoy spot-on as always. Spock made Trek what it became.
Favourite TV Series of my school time. I have watched every episode of Star Trek.
Oscar Jacob There was a couple or so episodes not shown on UK tv for some reason! Have you seen those?
Along with the original Twilight Zone.
Nothing beats the original
Jose Sarmiento exactly. I prefer this version of star trek. The others are terrible. The Orville is a star trek wannabes rip off parody tv show that did not last long.
Especially not that Sexually Transmitted Disease known as Star Trek Discovery!
The Orville is great, actually, and Fox will be airing season 2 soon....
Jose Sarmiento Next Generation and Deep Space Nine come close.
Yeah, sure, compared to SJW Trek.
This and the Khan episode is the reason I choose to believe Star Trek's timeline is 200 years in the future. I picked up on this as a kid. Khan asks "how long?" had he been asleep to which Kirk says, "we estimate 200 yrs". Somewhere along the way someone retconned it all to 300 years in the future. I've never quite understood why. The Colonel says to Kirk, "I'm going to lock you up for 200 years"....to which Kirk says, "that ought to be just about right". I still choose to believe this cool future is only 200 years away.
140 now, that's the problem.
As a young boy I knew Charles A Cross, the first to draw the official maps of Mars for NASA (look for the crater named after him there). He died of cancer aged 60, not long after that his wife knocked on the door and said that he wanted me to have something that had belonged to him and guess what? It was a set of souvenir Enterprise blue prints presented to him on one of his visits to the USA. I also have a copy of the Mars atlas signed by him and Patrick Moore! I actually saw him drawing some of the maps on his dining room table too. He was a big Star Trek fan.
Part of history, man.
Thanks i always watched the original Star Trek with my father while growing up!!! It was on NBC back then!!!!!
Who puts food replicators in the transporter room? And there's no chairs to sit and eat some you have to balance your tray on the edge of the console. A small lurch of the ship could put the entire transporter system completely out of action until they've mopped all that chicken soup out of the circuit boards.
Would at least explain why the consoles are always exploding!
Kiyoshi Kirishima, good point. I hadn't thought of that but it all makes sense now. On that basis I assume the bridge is loaded with food replicators too.
He's just lucky the guy had the chicken soup disk with him.
MrAlumni72 the chicken soup Zip disk...
SuperVstech - I hope they have that zip disk backed up. Those drives kind of sucked.
I like how Spock pulls Christopher to the center of the transporter pad - while you can see Sulu stand on the pad with one foot half off the pad. Seems like a missed detail.
One of the best of the original shows! Too bad ST was cancelled before it was able to finish it's 'four year mission.' It was the real thing and one of the few programs on television that stretched the boundaries, truly going where no show had gone before. That's why the episodes stand up so well even today, even the lesser ones. The cast was spot-on with perfect chemistry, the writing was good to great, and the special effects were the best they could do with the budget they had and the technology of the time. But the shows weren't about special effects...
I agree with you. I seem to remember your name , maybe. Have you been published , before ? Have I maybe read some of your commentary , .... in print format , Sir ?
*FIVE year mission!
I do love the original series. It is the only Star Trek product I can consume. But. let's be honest, quite a few episodes were clunkers. But I concur with everything else you wrote. Live long and prosper!
Just from someone who grew up on original star trek.....it was a five year mission sir
5 year mission right.
Still holds up, decades later. Early days were the best days.
Love the prolonged “studio fall” the air policeman makes after Kirk punches him.
Needs a Wilhelm scream.
The guy Sulu karate choped made a nice epic fall
And Kirk missed him by a mile.
I think the actor was closer to the door than he thought he was, and had to adjust.
@@DVincentW or tweeting birds.
The Air Force MP later played Danny Bonaduce's Dad, in an episode of "SHAZAM!" The interrogation officer is Ed Peck. He played Officer Kirk, in "Happy Days".
I haven't seen the rest of the episode in a while, but beaming Capt Christopher into himself was strange and he lost his memory to boot. I guess from a writing perspective it wraps an hour long episode quickly and tidily from the looks of it. Still one of my favorites and one of the few where the Enterprise is out of orbit and in the atmosphere.
Even as a kid (a strange one) I would grin thinking about beaming him back into a high speed aircraft in exactly the same atom-for-atom place using vacuum tubes and mechanical relays in the 1960's conception of high-tech. Sure, let's do it.
Yeah, that was a weak point in the plot. Better to just beam him to the ground and let them decide what to do with a pilot who went missing for a day or two, as well as the airman. One of the problems with sci-fi shows and comic books is that if one thing is possible, like faster-than-light travel, then why not everything, including time travel and alternate universes?
*Beautiful ....*
*Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ....*
*Beautiful acting, beautiful dialog, beautiful camera work ....*
*"Star Trek" at it's very core.*
*Not the hot dogshit that's been the case ever since Berman/Braga split ....*
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2:46 Standard issue government desk and chair. Probably still some on active duty. The chairs have a distinctive squeek, I can still hear it.
Standard issue bone-handled revolver too, I guess.
Nah, it's a prop, that's not the regulation government issue squeak.
Money and time always produce Change. Why complain?
Probably some will still be there in Kirk's time, although only Fleet Admirals have them . . . .
they still have those desks at work, govt surplus
Such a great episode, so many great moments plus Kirk breaking the fourth wall: "That oughta be...just about right."
That does not qualify as fourth wall.
Breaking the fourth wall! Almost!
Because Kirk almost seemed to be addressing the viewing audience when he said it.
"Breaking the fourth wall" is when a character in a story _acknowledges_ that they _are_ in fact, within a story.
I love that!
I must have seen this episode 50 times since it first aired. And I have just now noticed that when Spock points Christopher to the transporter pad, he points with his pinkie finger, and not his index finger.
It's funny that they need to stand on the pads to transport out, but when they transport in, they could be in any pose or position, like when they beam up a pair fighting in "The Cloud Minders."
2:53 That's why Kirk is the captain. He kicks the gun out of the colonel's hand in a split second to protect his crew.
2:59. Kirk so good, he can punch air and knock someone out.
I thought it was the sheer force behind his ego.
Kirk, the last air bender.
William Shatner, the 1960's Chuck Norris.
Spock: "Phasers on st..."
Kirk: *pow*
But it was the dramatic, slow fall that sold it. :D
This series should have gone much longer.
Kirk missed his nose, but the force just from the air was so great, it knocked him out.
Spock: "We're ready to beam down Captain Christopher. Give the transporter chief the coordinates."
Captain Christopher: "The coordinates are (insert coordinates here)."
Spock: (Spoke gives him the Vulcan nerve pinch) "Ik vesh' duhik."
The sound department and sound effects were always sublime
For the amount of money they had to produce the show they did a Fantastic job.
I always thought Star Trek and Batman were similar. Robin would punch his hand and say " gosh Batman"! McCoy would say " damn it Jim". Both had inexpensive sets, both had outlandish villains. Batman was humorous with an undertone of seriousness, Star Trek was serious with a touch of humor. I liked both.
1:50 Out of the 4 meal cards, one happened to be chicken soup?
The normal colored protein cubes would have freaked him out.
Nimoy ! you magnificent Vulcan !
There was an ever-so-slight smirk on Spock's face when he asked Kirk if his hand was painful from punching someone.
It’s of greater interest that he called Captain Kirk “Jim,” instead of "Captain.” Very rare on that show.
I remember the commercial for this episode. That next day at school I couldn't wait for the day to be over because it was coming on that night! Imagine the Enterprise in our time period!
Why can't I remember this episode? I guess I'll just have to watch the whole series again... Oh darn
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Always loved the way Kirk used his fist like a club.
I wonder how many kids were inspired to be logical thinkers by that raised eyebrow
Yep! Nimoy was a master of the subtle expressions
Me, for one.
Me.
Truly, his was the best of all the portrayals of Vulcans. RIP.
This generation needs to be inspired, for sure
3:12 I love that they had a U.S. military personnel carrying a stag handled revolver...LOL. I'm pretty sure those were not standard issue at the time.
Nothing beats soup after a long journey in the transporter.
They made sure the transporter operator had that tape after that time Sulu was stuck on that planet while Kirk was split by the transporter malfunction.
Puts you back together again, so to speak
That is what my Mom always says.
Soup's not a meal.
@@marlinmiller786 Did he crumble crackers on top?
2:57 I've seen these episodes so many times and I just now noticed that the actor who's getting knocked out by Kirk had the wherewithal to move the chair with his right hand to his left, which then he used to push it out of the way, so he could fall on the floor correctly rather than ... just back on the chair.
Good bet he was not knocked out, just knocked down & not unconscious.
That's why they should not have next started talking about .... certain things they didn't want the AirForce people to hear.
There could been a dozen spinoffs from this show alone.
Spock was iconic, Sulu in command of his own ship, McCoy in medical field,, on and on..
Na, let's do Disco instead.... Ugh.
Sulu was a terrible Captain...
@@thatguyinelnorte
How so?
You served with him?
indeed Gene intended this as a spinoff a backdoor pilot but it never sold
@@rsprockets7846 I didn't know that..
at risk to sound cliché , the best sci fi ever, no drama, just pure aventure.
3 minutes of this is WAY better than 3 hours of ST:Discovery.
Three minutes of the TV being turned off are better than three minutes of STD!
1:51 good thing he had chicken soup as one of the 4 options available in his hand
Eight years after this episode first aired, I was a Security Policeman (LE) in the Strategic Air Command. We did wear blue berets (although different from these) and white ascots, but we didn't have revolvers with white staghorn handles; just standard checkered wood grips.
SeikiBrian I'm retired L/E. And wore that same uniform when I was stationed at Andrews AFB. This was 1975, someone at the Pentagon must have been a die hard trekkie.
Chris Cheshire I think that uniform looks pretty cool, actually.
Didn't SAC "cops" also use a cross draw holster system or was that only for the Elite Guard Unit?
I was LE and Corrections, until I made Superintendent level and then it became Security Police Superintendent with assignment to any part of the Career Field. My Secondary was Education and Training Superintendent. 27 years (13 AD, 14 Reserves).
seikiBrian: I was going to ask that
Well, then I have a question for you guys,
I've always wondered about the set they used.
How well did they do with duplicating an actual Air Force Base?
The colors of the walls, the trophy cases & curving shape of the hallways, would the photo lab be smaller or bigger, things like that.
And what about that office at 2:47?
For a security office, the entrance didn't seem to be secure if Spock could just grab him once he opened the door.
Do you guys have any thoughts or observations about it?
Always loved the Sulu chop.
socksumi It's a queerish chop tbat's not limp wristed - deal with it!
Homer: “Mmm, Sulu chops!”
Nothing compared to the deranged Dr. McCoy “double chop” used to get to the transporter!
Sounds like a Ron Popeil product: "It slices! It dices! It chops!"
What else could he do? He never studied karate. He studied fencing. So he just followed the director’s orders. Though he DID get to display his fencing skills in another episode.
I feel the two biggest mistakes the Star Trek franchise made after TOS was showing future Earth society and also telling us what year it was supposed to be. Budgetary limitations, etc... led to showing and telling just enough to wrap my imagination around, which was always better than seeing and knowing everything.
They said what year it took place in tos dude
Such a great episode! One of the best re-mastered/upgraded CGI outcomes, too.
The remastered planets no longer look like plastic beach balls...
The guy sitting at the desk at 2:45 played police Chief KIRK on Happy Days. He was always trying to catch the "FONZE" doing somethingwrong.
Yes! That explains why he looked so familiar. That, and I've been watching a lot of Barney Miller lately. He played Fish's old buddy who always had a thing for Bernice. Looking at IMDB, he seems to have been cast as a cop most of the time. With that voice, no wonder.
Thanks!
THAT’S where I know him from!
Frank Welch, I believe, but can not confirm, that the police chief also played the voice on the radio transmission about the "moon landing" that James Kirk referred to as "that was in the late 1960s" at the beginning of this episode. The voice on that transmission had the same N.Y.C. type accent as the police chief.
Also, it's amazing that this episode was written by Dorothy C. Fontana (an H.S. Alumni of Passaic Valley High School in Little Falls New Jersey). She had the foresight to predict that the Moon Landing was to happen in the "late 1960s". Of course, the Star Trek writers had NASA techs to help them during the early episodes.
But that prediction was three years before the first step on the moon. It could have gone all wrong and this episode could have been a historical disaster if the moon landing didn't happen as predicted in this episode. But, I'm proud to be an alumnus with you, Dorothy. Because you were a woman from back in the 1960s and with the Desilu Studios who were probably reluctant to allow your full female name and influence to have a say. Maybe it was for some fear of embarrassment by the studio to admit that women like D.C Fontana had the sci-fi brains to construct a written script as awesome as this. This episode was one of the precursors of the early "time paradox" sci-fi movies we are now overly inundated with. Of course, Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits take first dibs for the credit toward this Minecraft.
I'm surprised Lucille Ball did not step in and allow Dorothy C. Fontana to use her full first name for writing this great episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday". It is a credit to the now overly done time paradox movies. But even women as powerful as Lucille Ball had restrictions to her control back in the day, even though she broke through many glass ceilings.
Please don't forget that these were the days just before women protested by going braless. The braless generation protest became a fashion after Woodstock in 1969. That is a whole "nother" story.
Anyway, this episode is probably one of my top five favorite Star Trek episodes of all time.
The quality. So much detail in the film was always there and lost thru 640x480 broadcast. Good to see
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.
TheMellowPumpkin They used to crouch down for eating.
Deep fried in conspiracy!!
I loved all these time travel episodes.
One of my favorite episodes. Fixing time line wow was 8 first time round.
I think this is about as close to a Stargate- Star Trek crossover as we will ever get.. Could easily see that guy as Jack O Neil
O'Neil or O'Neill ? One of those guys has no sense of humor :D
Pardon me.. Or should I say Pardon the flying auto spell
I miss the original crew
One of the best things about the original series was the regular use of incidental music to add impact to the action on screen. Alexander Courage was a genius.
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It is amazing how in the 60s everybody was thin and standing straight up, 55 years later, even kids are 150 lb and hunched back by their computers playing games , they call it progress I suppose.
Agreed. Probably cause every kid has their nose stuck in a smart phone.
De-evolution
Maybe we should all do like William Shatner, and wear a girdle
@@MarcillaSmith He did not do that until Star Trek the Motion Picture.
In the 60s, kids were playing outside. Now, everyone is ordered to stay at home. Because that seems to be very healthy, of course! I wish we could all be rescued from our domestic prisons by Mr. Spok. I would trust him, 100%!
Curious how at 1:25 Spock points Christopher to the landing pad with his pinkie finger when most of us would use our index finger. I've always wondered about small moments like that; did Leonard Nimoy do that naturally, or deliberately, or did the director perhaps tell him to do it as a small indication of Spock's alien nature?
Lucky that guy happened to have the "chicken soup" card with him...
Oh, really?
You don't have "Google Home", do you?
There is no such thing as a voice recognition technology that understands what you say, or what you _mean by_ what you say 100% of the time!
Do you speak French? The French word for "Poison" and the French word for "Fish" are pronounced _almost_ exactly the same!
If you were to ask the replicator for a "fish dinner" ....
@MennerMovies You are being a real downer, Menner. Even though you are being realistic.
Fun fact;
They say "Space is Big, I mean *Really BIG* ".
If we could travel at half the speed of light (Which is reasonable and viable, but not _currently_ obtainable with today's technology), to get from the Sun to The Earth would take something like sixteen to eighteen minutes.
How long would it take to get to the edge of our solar system, traveling at half the speed of light?
The Oort Cloud is 1/2 a light year wide, so let's just say the _beginning_ of the Oort cloud is the edge of our solar system.
It would take *Nine Days* !
That officer watching them transport down to the surface reminds me of the first time I ever watched ST in the 70´s, my brain just went like WTF is going on? I was just 8 years old.
That guy was more amazed at the chicken soup than he was about seeing 3 guys disappear into thin air
Proving that....You can't beat a hot bowl of chicken soup!
The look on his face was priceless. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
It was the 60s. Air Force food wasn't very good back then.
I watched this episode last night and Kirk was really hilarious during the questioning with the Colonel 😂 however Bones should have been nicer to Spock in the episode since he was a total hothead just cause Kirk was kept prisoner on the planet like I just wanted to choke out Bones cause I have enough dealing with Bones rude mannerisms and hot headed mannerisms
Hey, CBS, just put the whole darn series up on TH-cam FOR FREE and monetize it through TH-cam with ads (only 4 per episode please). (It's time.)
Good luck there. They won't even let fans make their own TH-cam videos anymore.
Only four ads per episode??!
Asking that is like telling a grizzly bear it can come live in your house as a pet, if it refrains from eating meat!
I like the way Spock comes back into the behind him and gives him the vulcan nerve pinch. He knew
I've watched the ISS pass overhead many times and just realized that the Enterprise being much bigger would make a much brighter more obvious moving star in the sky.
It depends on the altitude. From the planetary visual FX shots, "Standard Orbit" for the Enterprise was much higher than ISS orbits at. The Star Trek Voyager Technical Reference Manual lists Standard Orbit as being a geosynchronous one. That would be 91 times higher (22,000 miles higher) than ISS.
@@stargazer7644 Living up to that name, nicely done.
The amazing Sulu Karate whack at 2:40 -- virtually zero physical contact with the victim!
"Tomorrow is Yesterday." One of the absolute finest & funniest episodes! 👍
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Tomorrow is always when I start my diet!!🤣🤣🤣
@@brunoav6999 works every time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"This chicken soup is too cold. Mr Kyle........Your Agonizer Please!"
Sulu wasn't a prisoner. Only Kirk got caught!
Sulu’s judo chop was epic
The intercept aircraft at the beginning of the episode is the F-104 Starfighter, one of my favorite jets.
And unstable, as I recall. Fast, though.
I just noticed that when Spock corrected Christopher on the transporter he kinda grinned, Spock that is..
Hmm transporter technology, looks interesting, do that a lot?
*10 seconds later*
HOLY FFINGG SHIT THAT'S CHICKEN SOUP I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!
Bento Wait till he sees the future automatic Space Toilet - WOW look at the Captains LOG!!!
I think they skimped on the special effect. Without the materialization effect, the replicators just look like an automat.
Not sure,is this episode where Sulu says "oh my"!.....🤔
Funny that they decided to put good replicators in the transporter room just so that the writers can do something impressive for the little earth man.
1:44 "Do they do that all the time??"
LOL
1:22 - 1:25
Having already gotten the coordinates from Captain Christopher in exchange for a reluctant agreement on Spock's part to take him with the landing party, Spock didn't really need to correct Christopher's position on the transporter to ensure that he actually did beam down with them.
Vulcan's don't lie (usually).
@@sandal_thong8631 This wouldn't have been a lie; it would have been remaining silent. Spock is certainly capable of practicing deception in the interest of accomplishing a mission.
He has done so on many other occasions, and he did regard Captain Christopher's presence as an unnecessary risk.
Beaming down a man missing a leg and screaming might hinder the mission a bit.....
I've always appreciated Lt Kyle's response at 2:19.