Spectre of the Gun // Star Trek: The Original Series Reaction // Season 3
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This is an episode that has gotten a lot of criticism over the years. I like it very much despite all that. Most of the cast had considerable experience in westerns before Star Trek, but no one more so than DeForest Kelley, who had been in countless westerns, both TV and film. The one most relevant to this discussion is his role as Morgan Earp in the 1957 movie "Gunfight at the OK Corral", which starred Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. Now Kelley has played on both sides of this famous conflict. The use of facades for the buildings wasn't just a cost saving measure (although it was that), it gives the episode a strange unreal feeling that to astute observers should have been a hint that the whole scenario was an illusion. The Melkotians are yet another alien race with godlike powers. They are very similar to the Talosians with their powers of illusion. They set up this scenario, drawing from Kirk's mind, to test how violent the human species actually is. Seems like godlike aliens love setting up forced moral choices. The Metrons had done that in Arena. Anyway, I enjoyed the scenario and Spock realizing it was an illusion when physical laws were violated. At least the Melkotians weren't trying to add humans to some menagerie. They just wanted to be left alone. Probably, despite the mission statement at the start of each episode, some species should be left alone.
Yes, each of the core four (Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, and Doohan) did either Western movies or series. All four did Gunsmoke, including one of the last black and white episodes for Nimoy right before ST, and one of the first color episodes for Shatner, just as ST went on the air.
The buildings with fronts only is also a play on the well known old Hollywood movie and tv series sets where towns were constructed only with building fronts for filming. Those sets were very commonly used in Western series and movies.
This was actually Kelley's 3rd visit to the OK Corral. He was also there in a 1955 episode of the TV series "You Are There."
@@susansokoloski2233 Actually, it was because the budget simply ran out before they could finish the buildings. Then it occurred to the director that it would add to the surrealism of the episode.
I think you misunderstand the Melkotians motivation. They are a telepathic race. Disease to them includes diseased thoughts. They can't risk the undisciplined thoughts of non-telepathic minds infecting their own. The Melkot mentioned at the beginning of the episode that "they are disease".
This is a good science fiction episode. It has the classic Star Trek theme of humanity overcoming its baser instincts.
Interesting pickup on Doc Holliday being one of the Melkotians, or else an avatar for them.
Scotty believed the gas would knock him out, so by rights he should have been rendered unconscious. Eh, can't have Star Trek without plot holes.
Sorry to hear that people are being disagreeable in the comments. I know a lot of people like to put in spoilers.
Also, on the day that this reaction was made public, the official Jeopardy channel posted a video about the category "Bunny Lit". So drink up, don't shut up, Bunny!
IMO the Melkotians were controlling the experiment to see what Kirk and company would really do. It's quite possible that even if they had believed they would die by being shot, the Melkotians would have let Kirk and company go since they didn't draw their guns. Who knows. I didn't get this episode when I was a kid but boy do I understand it now. As you get older it's more about the concept of right and wrong then about the props or action. When you are a kid that all that attracts you to an episode.
@@starexplorers1202 "It's quite possible that even if they had believed they would die by being shot, the Melkotians would have let Kirk and company go since they didn't draw their guns."
That is an excellent, excellent observation. Indeed, perhaps the Melkotians would have allowed Kirk access to their planet if he didn't draw.
Maybe Kirk and his party were never in real danger, and the Melkotians would have sent them on their way if they did draw. The Melkotians either had the power to teleport Kirk from their planet back to the Enterprise, or they were able to prevent him from teleporting onto their planet in the first place, so they were quite capable of protecting themselves. It also occurs to me that if the Melkotians were as advanced as they claimed, they would not allow any of the outsiders to actually be killed.
You are right, as we get older we appreciate the moral questions raised by Star Trek more and more.
The many people (yourself included) who do behave themselves in the comments, more than make up for the ill-mannered ones. I do appreciate it!
@@bunnytailsREACTS You're welcome! Always remember you have the power to delete negative comments that are nothing but infighting. Just like in Star Trek, sometimes you will have to be the one that acts as a grown up. 😃
Bravo! To your beautiful speech 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love your comments at the end, Bunny. That’s exactly what ST is all about, and that’s why we love your channel.
Bunny, you understand Star Trek better than J.J. Abrams.
I think that could also be said of Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman, in addition to J.J.
That could be said of anyone who actually watched and enjoyed the series.
@@paulsander5433 i agree so much! Modern trek is to grim and pessimistic. Wished they changed the showrunners to someone who knows what star trek is!
hey, about a star trek movie where the bad guy wants revenge?
Lost in Space was for people who weren't smart enough to understand Star Trek. JJ would make a good Lost in Space movie.
Bunny... I truly love the emotional expression of your beautiful heart! ❤🎉
thank you for your VERY THOUGHTFUL reaction 👍☺
Listening to your concerns about the name calling in the comments reminds me of problems I had on my own channel...and I only mostly post music. But I've gotten into the habit of just blocking people who have been disrespectful to other subscribers. I personally would rather have a small group of subscribers than to have a larger group of people who are disrespectful.
You're always going to have cranky people in the comments, I get cranky myself but I never post anything I wouldn't say to your face.
At the time the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" was so famous every American knew the date it happened, the names of the people involved and for very good reasons. The stories about the people involved are very much larger than life. For example, Wyatt Earp never took cover, dodged or ran in a gun fight, preferring to walk calmly towards his enemies taking aimed shots as bullets whizzed past him taking off pieces of his clothes but never so much as scratching him.
There have been six movies and the shootout has appeared or been referenced in many TV shows. The narrative of the fight has changed dramatically over time. Originally it was the triumph of law enforcement over outlaws, but by the '60s it was an example of the brutality of law enforcement and the system keeping down regular men. By the '90s release of Tombstone, the last movie on the subject, the narrative had swung back.
Reality was that both sides were HEAVILY into both illegal and legal activities with multiple convicted criminals in each camp. Their core dispute was over the election to the position of Territory Marshal a position that brought with it a cut from the booming silver industry which adjusts for inflation to around $150 million a year. The election was a competition of overt fraud by both sides with the two newspapers in town taking extremely biased positions, printing far more propaganda than facts, they would continue throughout the feud.
Many legendary figures of the time worked on opposing sides of the law at different times.
Oh Bunny. We're here for more than just "the Star Trek". We like you. You're interesting and cute and have a wonderfully charming way of speaking. May you never feel anything but "the love" on your channels.
So true - even though I've seen these episodes a million times - she makes it so wonderful - !!! 🌟
Absolutely! It’s Star Trek+. Take a great thing, add Bunnytails, and you have an even greater thing.
Agreed, absolutely.
Amen, brother. Love live the Bun!
Try "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham. Captivating! The BBC also filmed a limited series in the 79 or early 80s.
try THE HICHHICKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY...they are a quick fun read.....give it a shot.....amd dont forget your towel
Or, she could even do reactions to the six-episode BBC TV series that aired in 1981 - and *then* read the books! 😀
Wyatt Earp long outlived his brothers Morgan and Virgil. He traded on his own legend, dying at the age of 80 in 1929. The Old West passed into mythology within the lifetimes of many of its actual personages.
All of the cops you see today learned how to be cops from John Wayne. John Wayne learned how to be a lawman from Wyatt Earp himself. There are no coincidences
You have always really understood Star Trek at its core and your comments here solidify that feeling. Yes, it's very optimistic and has always spoken to the great potential of humanity. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush but it seems like so much of modern media is dark, depressing and pessimistic with characters who are cynical and anti-heroes. There's a place for that but too much of it really wears on the soul.
At any rate, this is a decent episode that does echo "Arena" a bit but the acting is great and I thought the cinematography was really strong. The actor who played Wyatt Earp,, Rex Holman, appeared as the captain of the Flying Dutchman in the show "Land of the Lost" a few years later; I'd really love to see you review that series sometime.
Happy Saturday Bunny!
Consider add8ng The Hitchhikers Guide To Galaxy, The Ship Who sang, and Good Omens to your reading list
Regarding HG, it's a tradition for myself to have a yearly re-read of the "trilogy", nearly every time it has resonated differently, especially at milestones of life. A kid, a young teen, an older teen, an
"adult", and even older adult... it's fantastic. I sorely miss Adams’ wit and terribly miss all the things he would have said about society and tech that we have today.
The idea of people ultimately learning to get along with one another is definitely the biggest reason why *I* enjoy Star Trek; the peace and prosperity are the elements I would most wish to see happen in real life, even more than technology like Warp Level or transporters. I think most Trekkies of my generation yearned most for such things themselves back in the day, and one reason why trek became so popular was because it was relatively unique among even the best sci-fi shows in showing such things as being possible (let alone reality). This is imo Star trek's biggest strengths, and may it never be forgotten.
I've spent my life adoring Star Trek for its message. One of love and cooperation for humanity. But, in the last few years, I've lost that hope. Mainly because of Americans and capitalism. But none more then lately with America's funding of g//E-noc/id-e. Seeing other humans perceive as "sub" human is so very painful. The lies and false information circulating to change the minds of people so that violence and hate can be justified is just too much 😔. Also, the amount of immaturity I see on the Net is also a clear indicator of how humanity has just too much of a gap/jump to accomplish to even just BEGIN its journey towards the idealism of Star Trek... I cry often when I think about these things. Hope is so very fleeting and almost impossible to grasp...
@@claudegrenier3180 Well, I never expected that hope to come to fruition in my own lifetime myself anyway. And there's a lot of things wrong in the world besides Americans and capitalism; Russian aggression, Chinese imperialism, islamic zealotry, and so on. But there has been some progress in that past century - or was until people like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Assad, and a host of other dictators came along to muck things up. We'll never see world peace and harmony occur in our lifetimes; neither will our grandchildren. But maybe someday, a few centuries from now, anything could happen.
@@jasontoddman7265 Indeed. Id put Netanyahu and Zionists on the top of that list lol. Evangelical Christians very close second.
@@claudegrenier3180 Lol. I'm sure listing all the people we would both consider guilty of contributing to Earth's woes could occupy us all day and all night, but I'm not really sure that helps any. :)
DeForest Kelley starred in a few westerns, he even played Morgan Earp in the film Gunfight at the OK Corral. Another fun, enjoyable reaction with commentary.
Yeah, it almost makes me wonder if he suggested this to Gene Coon as an idea somewhere along the line.
A few? Westerns were his bread and butter for a long time! He was in a ton of them, including movies and television appearances.
This was actually Kelley's 3rd visit to the OK Corral. He was also there in a 1955 episode of the TV series "You Are There."
@@docsavage8640 I only stated a few as I only watched a few with DeForrest but I thank you for the correction and would welcome any film recommendations to watch as I am sure my father would also enjoy watching them too.
@@docsavage8640 I will see if I can find that episode online.
This is another favorite episode of mine. I actually like the fact that the buildings are incomplete.
Yes, the incomplete buildings have been criticized as a budgetary choice but I think they were an actual artistic choice. They give the set the feel of a surrealist painting - nothing is real, it's all an illusion as they eventually realize and use that knowledge to survive the situation.
It was firstly a budget reading they had their eyes on a backlot that had more complete realistic looking buildings, but they couldn't afford to shoot there. The art department made do and the story was also adapted around their limitations. Art is sometimes altered by the constraints put on it and at times it can be made better or goto unexpected places. For instance as an example there's a show I used to watch, when the creator was forced to be a little less crude because of his core audience, the show was actually funnier because he had to write in such a way that wouldn't be in your face crude humour. So he adapted and worked harder and it was more clever and funnier. Years later he was freed from that constraint and it was the lowest, dumbest, scraping that the bottom of the barrel crudest jokes most in your face jokes with no ounce of subtly or wit.
Same! The incomplete buildings give immediate clues as to what kind of situation they are in.
If you wanna react to a good movie I suggest tombstone with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. I think everybody would love a reaction of that movie from you
Ha, loved your referencing the “Wagon Train to the Stars”, this theme is vital to all of Star Trek, even on the newer shows which some seem to disregard, but that’s par for the course. Every show after the original has been judged as “not Star Trek” by some segment of the fans. So it goes.
Bunny, you should totally watch Tombstone!
YES!!
Bunny should watching everything that only *I* like!
New docu-drama on Netflix about this event as well, "Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War", pretty good.
The gunfight in Tombstone didn't take place at the O.K. Corral. It's a myth, just like the Battle of Hastings didn't take place at Battle Abbey. The so-called gunfight at the O.K. Corral really took place on Fremont Street, across the block from the Corral. My guess is that they chose the name of the Corral because it was nearby and more memorable. The Earps also tried to arrest the Cowboys (a.k.a. the Clantons), and not take them on. After all, they were the law, not a bunch of thugs looking for a fight as this depicts them as.
Yeah, after watching both Tombstone and the Netflix docu-drama series about this recently, I was surprised how Trek seemed to take the side of the Clantons, and portrayed the Earps as almost the villains.
Guess that was the 60s interpretation...
I think this was the first Star Trek show I watched. A young 5 year old the same age as the show. The monster with headlight eyes in a thick mist, both terrified and intrigued me. I was also BIG into westerns. There were a lot on back then. Alias Smith and Jones, Big Valley, Bonanza, Maverick. So many movies also. This episode was a bridge between westerns and Science Fiction. Most sifi was pretty bad back then. They had bad effects, bad stories, bad villains and characters. Then there was Star Trek.
Dr. McCoy was in many westerns back then and actually was in three or so OK Corral shows and movies.
To me the opening seems like a copy of the episode The Corbomite Maneuver. With a probe stopping the Enterprise.
The landing party arrives in an obviously fake western town. They quickly realize they are in trouble. The characters they encounter don't seem to understand care or really want to help them. They find the Earps and Doc Holliday eager to kill them and will not listen either. Checkov both falls in love, and dies. The usual outcome for love. His reality became about the woman, not the gunfight. In most modern movies, the Earps are the good guys. The Clantons are the bad. Man's humanity is apparently being tested. Force fields keep the crew from escaping. Spock's realizes the whole thing is an illusion is able to convince himself and the rest the bullets are not real! This allows them to not die when shot and instead Kirk tackles Wyatt and punches him. Kirk refuses to use deadly force and that action allows the Melcotians to see the humans are really peaceful. To me the Melcotian form was interesting and was my first introduction to aliens.
The hopeful perspective of Star Trek and our future was one of the best aspects. We indeed were making progress, but at my age we lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Racism seemed to be dying out. Sadly people learned to make a living with it, so it is back. We have in a lot of ways failed. Instead of increasing our culture and society, we seem to be running head long into destroying it all. I still look to Trek for a better world. We cannot go forth into space with the current level of civilization. Given that, the people in the same situation would prove to the Melcotions we are evil and devious.
Thank you for your shows, I enjoy them.
The movie 'Tombstone' would make a nice revisit to the O.K. Corral - from a different perspective.
I like this episode. 😅🤣 I deleted my earlier comment about my Personal Top Ten and Twenty List for Season 3 Trek TOS and other series up to VOY. 😂 My bad. Carry on.
@bunnytailsREACTS It sounds like you got the true meaning of Star Strek: it's truly aspirational of a better future. I think that's what has attracted so many fans.
It has an even more significant message during our contemporary time when factions would rather personally profit from dividing us rather than advancing us collectively.
It's gratifying to watch your journey. You're father would be proud!
I'm reading Grace Lee Whitney's "The Longest Trek".
You’re only on the first show of a long run, I hope the fan excitement for episodes and favourites doesn’t rob your joy before you get out of this show alone. Star Trek incites a lot passion with its fanbase, some of it good, some of it quite toxic. I can only control myself, but as a kindness to you I’ve endeavoured to not mention favourites as that is one area I didn’t previously regard as a spoiler, but with your channel and your perspective on them and a few other channels I get the reasoning so I’m trying to do better. So for any past lapses my apologies. Now I don’t wish to puff myself up too much and say I’m better than certain commenters, but lately I’ve seen a lot more of the “I’m so smart I’m going to drop cleverly designed hints about what’s coming and claim I’m not spoiling and gripe about it when called out for it” type of spoilers and those piss me off… they all know what they are doing so feck them… those are the worst.
An interesting fact: part of the reasons for the writing of this episode was a decision higher up to feature Chekov more… probably because he could garner the younger viewers, as he was hired partly out of this reasoning, to catch the viewers who were wrapped up in things like Beatlemania and The Monkees. I remember a funny story about when he was first hired they liked his longer hair that matched all of that younger vibe they were going for. But before he showed up on set for the first time he had his hair cut for movie or tv show he was in previous to Star Trek. The execs made him wear a wig until his hair grew back.
The visuals of this episode are amazing. I didn't appreciate just how well it conveyed the hallucinatory aspect of the story as a little kid. As I've grown older and rewatched it multiple times, I appreciate it more and more for its aesthetics.
Star Trek (Original Series) had a hard time surviving the hatred of the late '60s. But it was a glimmer of hope in a sea of darkness. It has transcended time and still shows any generation that wants to reach the stars that optimism will get you there if you can lay down your arms long enough.
I recommend star trek novels by Diane Duane and Diane Carey. I feel they get the characters the most accurate. Other good novels include Enterprise, Federation, Uhuras Song and Ishmael
Good call. The ones written by Shatner were pretty good as well.
Also the novel Star Trek The New Voyages especially the short story in it called Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited 🖖
@@rufus5966 Can't see any ST The New Voyages in kindle store.
Lets gooo more Star Trek with Bunny❤
Doc Holiday was buds to the Earps for years. He was quite ill with tuburculosis.
But where was Big Nose Kate?
Suggest you watch the movie Tombstone. It's a really good movie about the Earps & the Clantons story.
In the situation, the Earps were the good guys despite what the sheriff said when Kirk & Co. arrived in town. As others have said please watch “Tombstone (1993)” Bunny. We would all be interested in your reaction.
Thank you for allowing me to re-experience my favorite show again...I was 7 when Star Trek TOS premiered in 1966...never missed an episode...you are lovely. 😌
Star Trek was made just a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. My older sister was trained to hide under her school desk during a nuclear attack. In the 80s, about 64,000 nuclear weapons existed. Today, only 14,000 still remain. (Yaaay humanity!) That's still too many, but we have earned a lot of our hope.
Once, someone made the accusation that humans were never portrayed accurately in _Star Trek._ Roddenberry's answer was , okay, perhaps not, but it's the way we damn well _ought_ to be. TV, at the time, was sometimes referred to as The Great Babysitter. People could just plop their kids in front of the set and not worry that unwholesome things would be presented to them. So this show still stands the test of time. Behind its too fantastic facade, there lurks truth and lessons to live by no matter what the current year is.
In a recent interview, Shatner made a good point about America being too young of a country to have developed its own mythology. _Star Trek_ fills that mythological void.
I love how the showdown at the O.K. Corral is portrayed with a "minimalist theater" motif. How is this not a stage play?
Wagon Train was a very popular Western on t.v. for years. Wagon trains were a common form of travel as European ancestors pushed west in the U.S.
If you haven't seen it, Tombstone from 1993 is also based around this historical event and is a fantastic film.
It would have been freaky if the Doc Holliday in Spectre of the Gun had told McCoy "I'll be your huckleberry."
@@BrianMiller-r3f lmao
You got a really great show. I enjoy it so much . Try 60's James Bond.
Oh, another thing Bunny. If you want to see a WONDERFUL movie about the events that happened in Tombstone Arizona, watch one of the best (if not THE best) westerns of all time, "Tombstone" from 1993, starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, and a host of other stars. Contrary to what some say, it's pretty much historically accurate, and certainly the MOST historically accurate of all the movies made about Wyatt Earp, the gunfight at the OK Corral, and the rest of the events that happened back then. It's a GREAT film!!
The new camera is infinitely better!
A bizarre episode. Instead of going back in time to the Wild West the Enterprise is in another test, like the one with the Gorn. Except the question isn't survival and mercy, it's whether they can resist the urge to save themselves from some Terminator-like villains. Apparently trying to stop someone from killing you right now is a sign of moral turpitude, as Spock helpfully explains at the end.
There's a lot of problems with the plot, simulation bringing different problems than time travel. The main one is the great plan of altering their consciousness to survive the Earps and Holiday. I always thought Kirk ruined it when he went for his gun at the last minute, which should have resulted in instant death for him and the others losing their concentration. Also, it's too bad the Earps' shot all their bullets at once, because when the fist fight broke out the landing party would have been vulnerable again. Liked the realism of the fence splintering! I believe it's plausible that effect was the inspiration for Spector of the Gun.
Right, the fist fight doesn't make sense, so I suspect that is not how it was written.
You ruined the episode, not Kirk.
@bunnytailsREACTS An excellent trilogy to start with.
I am making a book recommendation based upon your, shall we say, surprised reaction during your watch of _'TRON: Legacy'._
Therefore, I recommend to you Jules Verne's _'20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'._
"What am I reading...now?"
It says "do not take alcohol or operate heavy equipment while using this product"
Lord of the flies mentioned. Cool.
Doing good.
Sorry to hear about the accident.
Once again Star Trek influences future mega franchises. In the Matrix your thoughts were only what could kill you since it was not real. When Neo realized this he became the one. Where could that idea come from I wonder?
I’m fairly sure this was an idea long before Star Trek. People being in simulations or realising they were in “dreams” that can’t harm them unless they think it will.
Gene Rodenberry's vision of a peaceful future is what makes you feel emotional. We can only hope we can achieve this. Love watching these with you. Thank you💙💙💙
Tombstone is an excellent western movie from 1993 with Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell. You would enjoy it!
Perhaps Sulu was off shooting The Green Berets with John Wayne.
Sulu was doing what he does best, bringing up the rear.
I can percieve the difference in picture quality with your new camera. Looks great! On a trivia note for you the actress playing Chekov's girlfriend in this episode was actually a close friend of singer Bob Dylan!
Glad you can see a difference!
My #1 favourite Star Trek original series episode
Why?
We come in peace... Phasers on "kill." :)
hey bunny, you are so trek savvy now.....very impressive knowledge and memory.....
Just clearing the moist and blurry out of my eyes....you are inspiring kid !! What a wonderful lady you are....wish I had a daughy like you....May God protect you and your family
Nice Red shirt. This is one of Walter Koening’s favorite episodes. This episode showed of Chekov getting the girl, getting a death scene, helped show off his acting abilities more.
Im reading 1984. - it sucks and is VERY BORING
Just the name Tombstone should be what is memorable, not the date.
You are right that what made Star Trek, Star Trek, was the hopefulness. But that understanding has been lost. Which is why you shouldn’t watch Star Trek Discovery.
How about the casting of the bad guys! Talk about ruddy, tough-looking, ugly guys ... they were perfect. I understand they went on to play romantic leads in Hallmark TV movies ... not. :) Great episode.
Girl sitting here looking like Wonder Woman lol
I'm reading the official transcripts of the TITANIC.
Its dry, but interesting.
I spent all day at Star Trek Tours in Chicago meeting a good chunk of Star Trek actors across all the shows. Crazy awesome day then got to watch this on my drive home.
Bunny, now you need to watch the movie Tombstone. Starring Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell, and Michael Biehn. -OG
I feel like if Gene Roddenberry were alive to hear you, he’d be proud because his message and ideas are still alive and needed and people still get it. And you’re right about that positive view of the future and why people love Star Trek. I feel like we’re all optimists and it will fall to us to finally change things. Who knows I’m just rambling…😃
Bunny, I've said this to you once before, I think. You have SUCH a good heart. Never let the world take that from you. All the best to you.
It is a beautiful thing to see you get emotional, and over star trek no less. As for the episode, I have always been fond of this one, it is so suspenseful, it could have been written by Alfred Hitchcock.
2:20 I've been finding it hard to read books in the last few years, because I'm ALWAYS watching videos.
I wish I would have a little more time for reading. I am just so incredibly tired with my job right now. I wish I could read in bed like I used to. I have terrible insomnia, and for me, I typically take Lunesta so I can sleep. Now, in my recliner... I did order a great light to help my reading. 😊
As far as Specter of the Gun, I love that episode!! "Psychedelic satellite" and all!! 😂🤣😂🤣
This isn't the first time DeForest Kelley (or Leonard Nimoy) appeared in a western set. Most actors in ST appeared in westerns.
ive said this before, but you probably didnt see it.. read "a tale of two cities" by dickens. Its the book Spock gave to kirk in ST2 wrath of khan. Im sure you will rewatch that movie after the first movie. You will understand what spock was trying to tell him.
There’s some amazing classic Westerns you’d love if you liked this. Some with a similar message to this Star Trek episode.
You just described the hopefulness of Star Trek very well.
This episode marks DeForest Kelly's 3rd or 4th foray into a version of the gunfight at the OK Corral.
Filmmaker here Bunny. Immediately could tell you just got a new lens and the dof makes big difference
I'm re-reading the 40+ Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" stories. They are detective fiction novellas and short stories written from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Lens - I could tell right away - big time.
I’m a photographer that lOves all scifi & the Star Trek universe is easily #1. I always look forward to your Saturday posts.
You are a favored reactor. Cheers !
I've heard that the set for this episode was intended to be more realistic, but they didn't have the budget and ended up with mostly fronts of building, etc. Personally, I think it worked better for the situation than a more realistic set.
You look like Wonder Girl from the amazing 70a and early 80s Teen Titans comic ( the ones drawn by George Perez, particularly -not that lame cartoon-)with your red outfit and cool haircut!
Also, Bunny... have you ever noticed that mister Scott's right hand is NEVER completely seen?
If the season 3 Star Trek uniforms tend to look a bit wrinkly they are totally new because they stopped using Velor because it would always shink slightly after being washed and in seasons 1 and 2 alot of money was spent replacing them so went to something else. Thats why they look a little off if anynody noticed.😊😊
When I saw this episode for the first time I was thirteen. It was my first introduction to the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Up until that point, I had heard that gunfight title mentioned before ....but knew absolutely nothing about it. I had probably heard the name Doc Holliday mentioned too, but had no idea who that was either. I had never before heard of the Earps, nor the Clantons. I learned a lot more about the Gunfight at the OK Corral afterwards as I grew up, of course. I did initially proceed with an angry and almost hateful bias towards the Earps and Doc Holliday ......all because of how furious their characters in Spectre of the Gun made me feel. lol However, as I learned more, my perspective on Wyatt Earp and his brothers and Doc Holliday became more "balanced".
The new camera's quality is-GREAT-you can tell the big difference. This episode is not one of my favorites,even tho I LOVE westerns,costs saving episode at it's best. Oh,I forgot the budget for the 3rd season was slashed in half.
Bunnytails. you bring so much joy and sunshine to our lives with your reactions and commentary. Never believe we are only here to watch Star Trek episodes.
Since you've read Lord of the Flies, let me recommend Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit.
You might want to read up on the gunfight at the OK Corral as I believe the whole story/mythology was emblematic of how the US settled it's frontier communities. My father told me that my grandmother told him that the way Canadians--her family was originally from Ontario--settled the frontier was different from the Americans. Canadians set up a system in the Northwest Mounted Police (I had a relative who was a Mountie), then the settlers came. In America, the people came, but there was lawlessness, so they hired gunslingers to bring order. Anyway, that was her perspective. The episode does show the American mindset in this story (all that is interesting as Shatner was from Canada). Of course, the First Nations people suffered from the actions of both societies. I appreciate your comments after the episode. I have lived many years and I am still an optimist over the long term. I agree that what pulls people to Star Trek is a hopefulness about the future. I do believe we will get there. It may not be in my lifetime, but my hope for my kids, their kids, and then their kids is that humanity will learn to work out emotions in healthy ways and find ways to help each person have enough not just to survive, but thrive. It will require that we build institutions which can aid us in those endeavors whether its broad-based therapy on a personal level all the way to transnational, even across planets, institutions which have the power to resolve conflicts, heal wounds both physical and psychological, and repair damage in all its manifestation. I believe AI and more likely, its later iterations, may be helpful in this regard, but I also know we need to have institutional guardrails to protect us against people acting badly. Please keep speaking about such things. We need people to remind us sometimes again and again. Thanks for doing that.
At 2:20: "Shut up, Bunny!" First time I've heard that phrase! Can you imagine some twisted dude running around a meadow, scolding the rabbits? :)
I've always liked this episode.
There is, however, one thing that I have always disliked about it, which is that Captain Kirk ignores the explicit instructions of the Melkotians to turn back immediately on the basis that his orders are to establish contact with the Melkotians at all costs.
The Melkotians' instructions to turn back are a form of contact. The Melkotians' lack of response to Kirk's further overtures sends a clear message that they are not interested in further contact. Thus, by proceeding passed the Melkotians' territory marker, the Enterprise's crew are illegally trespassing into Melkotians' space. That is not a good way to establish peaceful relations and is against Federation policy.
In other words, how would you react if a group of people you don't know knock on your door, and without opening the door, you tell them to go away, but they just say they're intent is to establish peaceful relations with you. Then when you don't respond, they barge into your house anyway.
In the early 70s in texas while on vacation , our Family stumpled on a deserted wild West town. The town buildings were exactly like that frontal prop , Just like that Star trek … movie sets. Good memories
Startrek Gives us hope
The new camera looks much better!
I enjoyed the Han Solo trilogy a lot back when I was really into the Star Wars EU.
"and I'm very excited! because now I can read more stuff!" Excellent!
You are absolutely correct about wanting our planet to behave like in the Star Trek universe. It would be a dream come true. It gets to me when I'm down to Walmart and look at how people treat each other. This world could be such a better place.
You really should read the "Screwtape Letters" it's a series of letters between a Junior demon and his more experienced uncle. It's a wonderful contemplation on human nature disguised as a fantasy novel.
It was written by CS Lewis who is the author who also wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. Both are regarded as Christian allegory but they are not apologetics.
I think you're right. Humanity will probably never achieve the peaceful state we see in Star Trek. But the example the show sets for us Earthlings sure is a good one to strive for in every little way we can. Where so much media focuses around war and vengeance, Star Trek always appeals to the better angels of our nature, and I love it for that.
You are coming through crystal clear. The last book I read was Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Considering what is happening in the world right now it seemed appropriate. In the Star Trek universe humanity is always on trial in one way or another.
This has always reminded me of "The Corbomite Maneuver" inside out. The space buoy blocking the ships path. However, instead of beaming over to the weakened ship, they're on the planet and experiencing Kirk's ancestry in a violent way. Good reactions
It’s a core message that gets repeated throughout Star Trek, to be the people we say we are, people who see to better themselves through inner and outer exploration.
Ignore the haters that are on every forum - they just like to fight to get attention, like the kitten that is currently biting my ankles. I am glad to see that you understand the core ethos of Star Trek. For me, Star Trek is a religion, but I am ashamed to also admit that my faith is starting to waiver. For a long time the arc of history seemed to be bending, with some starts and jerks, in the right direction (and I have lived through every decade since TOS aired). Today it is hard to keep the faith. As for the episode, it took me a long time to appreciate, particularly the use of minimalist set pieces to signify the "unreal" nature of what was happening.
Out of all the episodes of aliens with godlike powers testing humans, i like this one the most because it shows how little aliens care about accuracy.
On the other hand the meesage about violence is the wrong message. The message should have been: "Would you kill if you felt that someone deserved it?" Kind of liky arguing: Is a death sentence justified for a criminal?
Because through every episode, we see Kirk using violence to achiece results. He has had to beat enemies and friends to protect.
A better resolution would have been for the humans to accept their fate but the show couldn't just show your heroes accept death so there had to be an action scene.
The episode had a huge message to send but the censorship and writing even today wouldn't allow it. Imagine if today we had an episode like this where the heroes have to accept their death, would it still be entertaining?
The best of Kirk Fu!!
Now you're ready for the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before."
The best part of this review was your thoughts at the end. You have a good soul bunny, like my mother had.💫
"wagon train" to the stars. It was a tv show in the fifties. Leonard Nimoy had a very historic role in one of the episodes ten years earlier.
The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner