Leonard Nimoy who plays Spock, did not enjoy his experience filming the first Star Trek movie, so he actually requested to get killed off in the 2nd movie. But then he enjoyed filming the 2nd movie and began regretting his decision. So they hastily added that little mind meld with Bones at the last minute and wrote the third movie to bring him back - it wasn't planned that way, it's just what ended up happening. Also, Leonard Nimoy actually directed this movie as he does the next one.
Leonard Nimoy is easily my favorite Star Trek film director, no contest. I could just imagine how he felt not only re-uniting with Mark Leonard, but the two of them getting a chance to delve into and expand Vulcan culture and mythology even more. Oh, if only I could have been a fly on the wall in those creative meetings
@@k1productions87 Yeah, the next is definitely my fav as well. The humor in it helped a lot too. It takes place right after this one so that's back to back to back movies extremely close to one another.
@@blitzgirl6522 It is an incredible movie when you think about how there is NO WAY IN HELL any studio today would EVER greenlight such a film in the middle of a hit series like Star Trek was by this time. I won't give any spoilers here, but it's not one to say that Star Trek IV is so oddly different that it would be like making one of the Godfather films a buddy comedy...and having it not only WORK, but be one of the most widely loved movies in the franchise!
Spock, Kirk and McCoy, not only the best characters in the whole franchise but also the best friendship in most of Pop culture. there will never be anything like the bond they shared
my gods, you are watching this. This was my fav star trek of them all as I lived with 2 years of pain when I saw Spock die when i was a kid. I so wanted to go rogue and join this crew. As a nibble of backstory, they never rehearsed when Kirk learns of Davids death, there was just pure shock from the crew when it was announced and Kirk nearly falls over in his chair, and Bones tries to console Kirk but Kirk had a plan to sacrifice the Enterprise in a nearly Viking Valhalla way, in style (reminds me of Battlestar Galactica). As a kid I remember the whole theatre jumping up cheering when Kirk talks Klingon and beams to safety and it was all cheers, claps and head shakes when the movie closes.
Christopher Lloyd’s is one of the most memorable Klingon performances. Also there’s a bit of societal criticism in Starfleet refusing to give Kirk a ship - they prioritized the politics of Genesis over Spock’s life.
Yep. Even though he's not "the" Klingon (that goes to John Collicos as Kor in the Original Series) he was the one who TRULY made them the villains of Kirk's era. While there was some antagonism or hostility in the Original Series, Kruge was really the first Klingon to actually be an outright VILLAIN.
The Klingon left in command of the bird-of-prey, Maltz, is played John Larroquette, Dan Fielding from Night Court (amongst other roles). The young Enterprise officer who asks about any planned celebrations is Phil Morris who had appeared as a child in the original series episode "Miri" and would appear on Deep Space Nine as a Klingon and a Jem'hadar and on Voyager as a human astronaut.
@@exhistoriascientia yup, John Larroquette, in addition to playing the Klingon character Maltz and district attorney Dan Fielding, was also in "Stripes" with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, he played the Lieutenant in charge of the Army unit that Murray and Ramis were in and he was in one of the "Meatballs" movies (I wanna say that it was "Meatballs III")
They didn't have a plan to bring him back beforehand. In fact, the director of Wrath of Khan was legitimately pissed that they would just bring Spock back, and so he refused to be involved in the film. Fortunately these hard feelings wouldn't last long, as he would be a co-writer on the next one :P This is before a time of pre-determined trilogies and multi-film plans or cinematic universes. They fly by the seat of their pants and make films as they go along.
They used a photon torpedo casing for Spock's casket. The model of the Enterprise is 8 feet long. The Vilcan high priestess was played by Dame Judith Anderson. She was Memnoth in the 10 Commandments.
0:55 - Spock is one of the most popular Star Trek characters in the entire franchise. To the point where even people who aren't familiar with Star Trek know who he is. I remember a kid talking about Star Trek years back and how his favorite character was the 'pointy-eared guy'. That's how much of an impact this character has had on people.
"It actually looked kinda good for how old this movie is..." Old-style special effects with actual models always look BETTER than shitty CGI cartoons. Sci-fi movies from this era are some of the best-looking ones ever made.
Composite shots? They aren't composite shots nowadays. It's all CGI. No models no real objects on screen just a bunch of pathetic graphics that look like a videogame.
Dude, when young Spock was going through pon farr, it meant that he had to have sex or die. Saavik did the deed with him to save him. Originally, this was going to result in Saavik having Spock’s child but they decided to downplay it to make the movie more family friendly.
They didn't "do the deed". Spock was still an adolescent. Saavik merely taught him to meditate amd control his emotional turmoil. Saavik was like an adopted daughter to him. When she said "Vulcan males must endure the burning of their Vulcan blood every seven years" she did not specify adulthood or sex. Nobody is sexing up 7 or 14 year old Vulcan boys. Gross.
@@BiggestDawgEver Google it, they absolutely did. It was even planned that she would have his child in the third movie but they changed it and played the whole thing down as to not upset parents who took their kids to see the movies.
ST3 wasn’t originally planned during the filming of ST2. ST2 at the time was intended to be it, with Spock dying (by request Nimoy himself no less). SFDebris does a very good breakdown of both films, explaining the production story.
The Enterprise's self-destruction scene is one of my favorite scenes in Star Trek III The Search For Spock. It's so sad to see her go, but so cool to see her take some Klingons with her destruction. And the Klingon Warbird is also such a cool ship too
Yeah the Enterprise being destroyed is both a sad and epic moment. Also, gonna be that guy that informs you that the Klingon ship is known as a Bird of Prey, Romulan ships are called Warbirds.
@@Capt_Dango Thank you for the correction. I'm just getting started in Star Trek, so I guess I'm still not entirely versed in the terminology of Star Trek vehicles and their names. I will keep that in mind that Romulans have the "Warbirds", and Klingons have "Bird of Preys". I was flawed in how I called the ship the incorrect name, but I won't make that mistake in the future. As the old saying goes: "You Learn Something New Every Day".
"She's still looking dusty from the last fight too" Well, they'd said that The Enterprise was going to be decommissioned and scrapped, therefore, no effort was made to repair the damage to the ship
To each his own, but I was in love with the look of the Enterprise from Day 1. And it was truly a revolutionary design at the time, since pretty much all spaceships in science fiction before it looked like flying saucers or rocket ships. Matt Jefferies, who designed the ship as well as much of the look of TOS, combined the two into a truly unique look. I don't like to use the word "iconic" very often, as I think it's one of the most overused terms on UA-cam, but NCC-1701 is all that and more to me.
Star Trek is very near and dear to my heart because of the incredibly hopeful vision of humanity's future that it presents. Not so much the older stuff you're watching right now, but The Next Generation era (80s and 90s) means a lot to me. It's really cool to watch you react to these and become invested. I really can't wait for you to get to the Next Generation stuff.
Watching these films in the cinema, as the only option back then. It was more magic in a way. VHS came along, but it was something about cinema. Perhaps that is lost now, with everyone connected :-)
This was Christopher Lloyd's first feature film. The studio was reluctant to let director Leonard Nimoy hire him for such an important role because the only thing he was known for at the time was his part in the sitcom Taxi.
"But at what cost? Your ship... your son..." "If I hadn't done it, the price would have been my soul." As a child, STIII was actually my favourite. Even now, I like it about as much as II. Something that gets me is that, despite being a direct sequel (set at most only a few weeks after Khans' defeat), and featuring the same cast and crew, it feels very different. It has a much more somber, muted tone to it compared to its more brash, adventurous predecessor. Some critics called it 'operatic' and I get why. Anyway, as usual, some more info: - Spock-Actor Leonard Nimoy directed this movie (and the next). Infact, this was his debut as a director - Saavik was recast. As far as I know Kirstey Alley had disagreements with the producers about her salary. Personally, I prefer Robin Curtis in the role. - Kruge is often unfavourably compared to Khan but I think he is in his own way an equally good villain. No theatrics, no nonsense, gets shit done and stays focused. Except when he freaks out. And given he's portrayed by Lloyd, when he loses it he LOSES it. - Sarek appeared in one episode of the Original Series. He had a strained relationship with his son but they mended it eventually - The age of the _Enterprise_ was actually closer to 40 Years. It was already in service for a while when Kirk took command before the events of TOS. His predecessor in the Captains Chair was Christopher Pike. - Ah, the Klingon Bird of Prey, one of the coolest spaceships of the entire Franchise and one that would stick with Trek for another 15 Years. In comparsion to the large Battlecruisers seen at the start of TMP, which were capital ships designed to go toe-to-toe with the best the Federation has to offer, a Bird of Prey is more like a raider meant for hit and run attacks. In a fair fight, a ship like the _Enterprise_ would tear a BoP to shreds. - All the new Spaceships seen in this movie were designed by Nilo Rodis who also worked on "Return of the Jedi" and designed every new craft seen there. Infact, as far as effects are concerned there was a lot of overlap in terms of crew (as both Series' effects were done by ILM) - The scenes on Genesis were filmed on a soundstage and them looking a bit fake acually works selling the point that this is basically an Artificial Planet. - Lastly, my favourite Scene of this movie is Sareks mindmeld with Kirk. Some people consider William Shatner a bad actor and these people can bugger off. I know he tends to overact, but when he's rather subdued as in this movie, he's great. "The Search for Spock" is probably his best performance in the role. That soft, pained 'No..' as the meld tore that fresh wound of Spock's death wide open again was just perfect. Looking forward to the next reaction. Live long and Prosper.
Funny trivia: according to Star Trek timeline, the Enterprise, at the time of these events, is not twenty, but FORTY years old, being launched in 2245 and this and the previous movie are set on 2285/2286 (the first movie is probably set in 2271/2273). Twenty years is the age of the Enterprise in the REAL timeframe: the Star Trek original series is mid-Sixties and this movie is mid-Eighties. This is, in some way, an example of the so-called "breaking the fourth wall".
The twenty years old thing was always kind of silly to me since anyone who watched the original series(specifically The Menagerie episode)knew the Enterprise was older than that. Fun fact: at that time in the 80s there were several 40 year old WW2 battleships that like the Enterprise had been refitted only to be retired anyway after only a few more years of service just like our favorite starship. A real world parallel
A little piece of context about Christopher Lloyd and this movie: His main "claim to fame" was the character he played in Taxi, "Reverend Jim".... Back to the Future hadn't even been written yet.
@@Capt_Dango They can, some breeds have more pronounced tusks, different colors, etc. Think about how much difference there is in dog breeds, and that's about how different Targ can be.
As a boy and Teen, I always liked Kirk the most... after all, he was the hotshot, the main character, Casanova and in the end mostly solved the problems either by force or with the council of his officers and friends! Today, being wiser, I‘m totally first in the Bones camp, and second the Spock camp 😅 they are just hilarious, basically the emotional conscience and the logical one, with great humor and sarcasm... and of course Bones‘ legendary oneliners 😅
They didn't kill him off to bring him back for this movie. Nimoy didn't want to be in STII unless they killed off Spock, which they did. However, they did leave the door open for Spock to come back if Nimoy decided to play the role again which he did. And even getting him to come back was not easy, as he only agreed to do it if they let him direct Part III.
Primate, when Star Trek was developed, there had been an influx of sightings of “flying saucers”. That is why the Enterprise has a big saucer on it, the designers wanted to use a saucer design but try to make it more practical, hence the engines being behind the saucer.
in case no one in the 550 comments have mentioned it, the Klingon subtitles in the beginning are impactful. She says that he will find the data useful. He questions if she's seen it, and she confirms. He says "Unfortunate." She understands, and then says "Success, my Lord, and my Love." Lloyd's character kills his wife because she saw the classified information.
My favorite too. Possibly a bit of nostalgia talking, but 4 was my introduction to Star Trek when I was 6 years old. I fell in love with it almost immediately. I feel though, if I had started with 2 instead of 4, I probably wouldn't have been as interested, and it wouldn't have touched me quite the same way so quickly. For my money, 4 is definitely the most "Star Trek" of the Star Trek films. It literally touches every checkbox of what makes Star Trek what it is. For me anyway
At the end of Wrath of Khan, the audience assumed that Spock was dead and gone, hence the emotional sendoff. Thankfully, Leonard Nimoy was so moved by his overwhelming love he got from the fan base, and we got this movie.
The Klingon Bird-of-Prey is probably one of my favorite ship designs as well. I believe this is its first appearance, and has since become the most common design for the Klingons. Ironic since it was initially designed for a different race, the Romulans (basically evil Vulcans). They were originally supposed to be the villains of this movie, but the studio decided Klingons were more marketable to general audiences.
The Bird-of-Prey was not supposed to be a Klingon ship at all. In the early script it was supposed to be a Romulan ship that Kruge had stolen so he could its cloaking device to infiltrate th Federation. It was later changed to be a Klingon ship but the wing pattern was not changed and is obviously Romulan.
2 and 4 are great movies. 3 is actually pretty mediocre, with the exception of some key scenes. My personal ranking of ST movies is: 1-2-4-8-6, but only the first two are actually mandatory.
Having seen your Star Trek II, Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit reactions, I realised that Star Trek III would come soon. When you said that you liked Christopher Lloyd in the last two, I commented that you should look out for him in ST III. Yes, he played the Klingon, Kruge. 😂 The director of ST II, Nicholas Meyer himself, didn't know that they'd decided to bring Spock back. The scene with Bones was added at the last minute without his involvement, and he was surprised to see it in the finished film. Then, of course, Leonard Nimoy said that if he was going to be back, he wanted to direct, and the producers said okay. Anyway, even though it wasn't planned that way from the beginning, II, III and IV do very much form a trilogy. IV is definitely worth a watch.
There are subtitles for Klingon, so you know what they're saying. It's still the fastest growing language in the world, no lie. The two main antagonists in this movie, Klingons, are played by Christopher Lloyd and John Laroquette.
Kirstie Alley was in ST 2, but a different actress for number 3 (Robin Kurtis) Because Kirstie alley turned down the role, as the producers offered her *LESS* money than the last film and also didnt want to be Typecast. Then, in Star Trek 6 they changed actress again to Kim Kattrall as they wanted the character back, but they wrote her as the character 'Valeris'. They wanted Kim Kattrall for Star Trek 2, 3 and 4, but she was unavailable so that was why they went with Kirstie Alley, and then Robin Kurtis. There is a Deleted scene that Saavik was half Romulan, Half Vulkan. Read it all.................... memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Saavik#Appearances
I’m really excited to find your channel. As a lifelong Trekkie, I can’t wait to see you watch the next one. They didn’t kill Spock off in order to make a sequel. They thought that Star Trek 2 would be the last movie and Leonard Nimoy wanted the character to go out in a blaze of glory. But they all began to have so much fun making 2 and the studio realized it was such a good film that they immediately green-lit a sequel. And the producer of Treks 2-5 said that he would bring Spock back but it had to be at a huge price. Basically, we got back Spock, but we lost the Enterprise and Kirk lost his son. And they all lost their careers. There was a huge price to pay to get him back so the original death didn’t look like a gimmick.
As a long time fan of these movies, it warms my heart to see a newcomer enjoy them. Your reactions are very entertaining. That said, I can't wait for your to get to Star Trek 5...ehehe...
I love that you're sticking with these. I grew up on Star Trek and it seems like a lot of UA-camrs don't react to them so I'm glad one that I watch regularly is! I'm so pleased you seem to be enjoying them as much as I always have (even with how totally different the first one is). I definitely encourage you to keep going!
4th takes place RIGHT after. It's far more funny than the others, but I really like it. I didn't like the Enterprise when I was a kid, but I've really come to love it. Part of it is how they tried to use some real science to explain how & where the warp field is generated & how to house the crew. Also I really enjoy it's uniqueness now. most ships are based on being "shipy" & cool the Ent def stands out.
ST 2, 3 & 4 is one of my favourite movie trilogies of all time III has overtaken II for me as my favourite classic Trek movie - has a lot of emotion & heart with the crew sacrificing everything to rescue their fallen comrade & friend.
12:09 When George saw the line "Don't call me Tiny" in the Script, he thought it was so corny that he actually didn't want to say the line. When they saw the line was a hit with audiences, Takei apologized to Nimoy. Now you're invested; time to finish the Trilogy. Get on with it!
There are soooo many cool starship designs in the Star Trek universe, I hope this inspires you to check out the TV series' too, great stories in those. My favorite Federation starship design is gonna have to be either the Norway-class medium cruiser, or the Galaxy-class exploration cruiser. Those bad boys in the Dominion War were a sight to behold.
Nimoy didn't want to come back for the first film, so they started to recast with a character named Xon - who's actually in the first part of ST: The Motion Picture - but the director, Robert Wise, had a daughter who LOVED Star Trek, and she told him point blank, "Dad, you can't make Star Trek without Spock." And she was right. Spock was the heart of this thing. Every series that followed the original has a "Spock-like" character (some have more than one), and when they tried to avoid it - like with Voyager - they had to invent a Spock-like character to save the show. Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine character saved the last few seasons of Voyager, imo (AND she was smokin hot). But Nimoy was a God, lol. 10 Original Series Episodes (very Spock-centric) you MUST see: Where No Man Has Gone Before Balance of Terror Galileo Seven The Naked Time The Menagerie I & II Tomorrow is Yesterday Space Seed This Side of Paradise Devil in the Dark City on the Edge of Forever 10 Original Series Eps (very Spock-centric) you SHOULD see: Amok Time Mirror, Mirror The Apple I, Mudd Journey to Babel The Ultimate Computer The Enterprise Incident Spectre of the Gun Elaan of Troyius All our Yesterdays Loving the reactions/reviews though - keep'em coming, bruh; peace!
Star Trek 2 was going to be the last one, this movie wasn't actually planned for, however, the epilogue left the door open. There was a big change of heart and this got made.
Movies 2, 3 & 4 are like the trilogy. They all connect and imo, they are all three equally awesome. Can't wait to check out your Star Trek IV reaction!
Mark 13:55. He sat down on the, Captain's Chair, even as he was being told that he would never do so again! He wasn't being spiteful, it was just serendipity! 🖖🤓
Making an entire movie to bring a character back is still better than the cliche 1 minute dead time we get nowadays. Noone can stay dead. Everybody gets revived immediately.
I wasnt born when this movie were released, however I have the CHANCE of having an older brother. When I was a kid, I used to steal VHS from his collection and watch them. That's how, at a very young age, I fell in love with Trek. I remember CRYING like a madman when the Enterprise got destroyed. That ship was home.
7:00 - This is also the Federation trying to cover up the incident, since if certain people found out they effectively made a planet busting weapon, all hell would break loose.
Mark 0:01. Oh yeah! About the, "Starship Enterprise ™"! Her design is inspired by combining the three classic UFO shapes! Flying Saucer, Cigar-shaped, and Triangular. That's the, Primary Hull, Secondary Hull, and Warp Nacelles, respectively. 🖖
Amazing the difference from growing up with the show - To me the movie Enterprise is one of the most beautiful ships in all Sci-fi! I think my sadness at seeing that ship blow up was on the same level as seeing spock die.
First appearance of the Bird of Prey and proper Klingons in the films! "Yes, GENESIS! How can you be deaf with ears like that?" - Always my favorite Bones moment!
I am so pleased to see a young person enjoy these classic Star Trek movies with the original characters and actors. This Enterprise crew, has inspired millions world wide to seek careers in the sciences, medicine, space exploration, communications, computing, etc. Not to mention 13 feature films, and over 800 hours of television programming in the form of 9 TV series! Them being: Star Trek, Star Trek The Animated Series, Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Star Trek The Lower Deck. All spanning 55 years! It's an amazing legacy.
Mark 15:35. Heh. A Russian accent using British vernacular! The novel says that it is the first of her kind, and it is named, "Bird of Prey", so the class would be, "Bird of Prey Class". "Scout", would be the type and/or function! 🧐🤨 Somebody behind the scenes, didn't know the differences between, Klingons and Romulans. So by mistake, the Klingons got a ship to call, "Bird of Prey", too. In the same way as how the, United States Ship Monitor's name was used to denote future new ships like it. Ditto for, His Majesty's Ship Dreadnought. 🖖🤓
Mark 6:52. Huh? No! The starship and the nebula were converted! Hence the unstable nature of it. The device was only meant to be used on preexisting planetoids, planets, or moons! Not on, "nothing"! 🤨
They teased the audience with the opening credits: the space between Shatner's credit and the next one was twice as long as the spaces between all the others - that space was where Nimoy's credit would be if they'd wanted to give the game away completely. Saavik was played by a different actor this time; apparently the original actor wanted a "typecasting" bonus that was way out of budget. This was directed by Nimoy, as was TVH. UK's London Transport is always trying to get more people to use public transport rather than drive into London and add to the congestion. When TSFS came out, they showed the poster for the film and added underneath "By the time you find somewhere to park they'll have found him".
Mark 0:35. Huh? Actually it wasn't a, "crash landing" or even an impact! It was a soft landing, with no damage done! According to the movie adaptation novels, the gravity was in flux enough to allow that to happen. 🖖
About the destruction of the beloved Enterprise: for many fans, including me, this was an even sadder event than the "death" of Spock. You probably can call me crazy, but is like the death of a symbol. After over 35 years I still don't forgive the writers for that plot choice ;-)
This film doesn't get the amount of love the 2nd and 4th do but I've always liked it. You can also find Christopher Lloyd in "The Dream Team" and he has a small part in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".
They didn’t plan on bringing back Spock. Leonard Nimoy hadn’t planned on coming back to play Spock. There wasn’t even a definite plan for a third movie. The second was seemingly so good that Leonard thought up a great moment that could be used to bring him back, if they wanted.
In his documentary he said he didn't feel that sad when shooting but he then realised it afterwards - no more nerve pinch, no more mind meld, no more "fascinating" and "logical/illogical", no more raising the eyebrow, no more salute - "and i thought.... 'oh my god, what have i done?'"
I remember watching this in theatre as a 7yr old kid with my ol man. This is what i remember You could hear a Pin drop during the intro and when they watched the Enterprise falling. I was traumatized when Kirk’s son died. And I remember everyone in the theatre clapping when Kirk killed the Klingon. 😅
Love your Star Trek reactions bro. Nice to see someone going in with an open mind, making good observations and reacting to beloved characters and classic stories. Hope you continue with the movies and enjoy them.
5:26 The Excelsior class when she was first commissioned she was to be able to go to transwarp which is faster than warp, after the experiment proved less than fruitful Starfleet's corps of Engineers saw the potential of the ships frame and she was made into a full class of ship her designation if memory serves me correct is a heavy cruiser and explorer as all ships were for Starfleet, fate would ultimately be on the ships side as she served as the fleet's backbone for nearly a century seeing combat in wars such as the Dominion War, and the Federation-Cardassian War she's by far in my opinion the best looking ship in all of Starfleet
Leonard Nimoy who plays Spock, did not enjoy his experience filming the first Star Trek movie, so he actually requested to get killed off in the 2nd movie. But then he enjoyed filming the 2nd movie and began regretting his decision. So they hastily added that little mind meld with Bones at the last minute and wrote the third movie to bring him back - it wasn't planned that way, it's just what ended up happening. Also, Leonard Nimoy actually directed this movie as he does the next one.
Leonard Nimoy is easily my favorite Star Trek film director, no contest.
I could just imagine how he felt not only re-uniting with Mark Leonard, but the two of them getting a chance to delve into and expand Vulcan culture and mythology even more. Oh, if only I could have been a fly on the wall in those creative meetings
When your character is so great they make an ENTIRE movie to retcon and "fix" the best Original Series movie.
@@MrAlexSan00 while setting up for what I actually feel the best original series movie is :P
@@k1productions87 Yeah, the next is definitely my fav as well. The humor in it helped a lot too. It takes place right after this one so that's back to back to back movies extremely close to one another.
Yep, I was coming here to say that same thing, though I assumed that someone would have beaten me to it... and you did lol.
“I don’t know if the next one will have any kind of time jump or not.”
Lol You could say that...
And it's easily one of the best. It makes me happy to hear how many other people love ST IV as much as I do!
Both!!
Hahahaha in a manner of speaking...
@@blitzgirl6522 It is an incredible movie when you think about how there is NO WAY IN HELL any studio today would EVER greenlight such a film in the middle of a hit series like Star Trek was by this time. I won't give any spoilers here, but it's not one to say that Star Trek IV is so oddly different that it would be like making one of the Godfather films a buddy comedy...and having it not only WORK, but be one of the most widely loved movies in the franchise!
I can’t wait.
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
"That's not very damn funny"
"I see your sense of humor has returned"
"The hell it has"
Up next, Star Trek IV: Nuclear Wessels.
Yesss lmao
I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the bay. In Alameda.
they like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales
New clee are WESSELS!
Colorful metaphors
Spock, Kirk and McCoy, not only the best characters in the whole franchise but also the best friendship in most of Pop culture. there will never be anything like the bond they shared
Star Trek 3: How to look epic backing out of the garage.
You can make anything epic with enough James Horner galloping violins in the background.
my gods, you are watching this. This was my fav star trek of them all as I lived with 2 years of pain when I saw Spock die when i was a kid. I so wanted to go rogue and join this crew. As a nibble of backstory, they never rehearsed when Kirk learns of Davids death, there was just pure shock from the crew when it was announced and Kirk nearly falls over in his chair, and Bones tries to console Kirk but Kirk had a plan to sacrifice the Enterprise in a nearly Viking Valhalla way, in style (reminds me of Battlestar Galactica). As a kid I remember the whole theatre jumping up cheering when Kirk talks Klingon and beams to safety and it was all cheers, claps and head shakes when the movie closes.
I love STIII. The whole Odds=bad/ Even = good rule is a bunch of BS imo.
That's awesome, probably telling your folks you can't go to school because you have to go help Captain Kirk rescue Spock, lol.
@@sfodd1979 Beam me up!!! oooo..sorry.. i mean... MOOOK CHOOOOY-TOOOOO!!!
"Kirk, you do this and you'll never sit in the captain's chair again."
"Warp speed."
One of the finest moments in the franchise.
Christopher Lloyd’s is one of the most memorable Klingon performances. Also there’s a bit of societal criticism in Starfleet refusing to give Kirk a ship - they prioritized the politics of Genesis over Spock’s life.
Yep. Even though he's not "the" Klingon (that goes to John Collicos as Kor in the Original Series) he was the one who TRULY made them the villains of Kirk's era. While there was some antagonism or hostility in the Original Series, Kruge was really the first Klingon to actually be an outright VILLAIN.
23:00 "I dont know if we're going to have a time jump or what" ....lol, um, something like that ;)
LOL I see what you did there :P
Ikr like "Sure... yea
This is now Spock 2.0 and he isn't exactly running on all thrusters.
It's all that LDS he did at Berkley
@@halgari rotfl
More like v3.0. He had a serious change from TOS after his meld with V'Ger.
@@ShujinTribble True, and I pointed this out myself in the STMP reaction comments.
@@halgari maybe a little TLTDH gas too (if you know that gas you are a legend)
"Bones, where you at?"
He's in the Federation Psyche ward
"Did that say 'Christopher Lloyd' ?"
Yes it did, he played the Klingon Captain Kruge
The Klingon left in command of the bird-of-prey, Maltz, is played John Larroquette, Dan Fielding from Night Court (amongst other roles). The young Enterprise officer who asks about any planned celebrations is Phil Morris who had appeared as a child in the original series episode "Miri" and would appear on Deep Space Nine as a Klingon and a Jem'hadar and on Voyager as a human astronaut.
I find it a bit humorous that despite the makeup he didn't recognize Lloyd at first glance.
@@exhistoriascientia yup, John Larroquette, in addition to playing the Klingon character Maltz and district attorney Dan Fielding, was also in "Stripes" with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, he played the Lieutenant in charge of the Army unit that Murray and Ramis were in and he was in one of the "Meatballs" movies (I wanna say that it was "Meatballs III")
Christopher Lloyd made a time machine, and then Kirk and Co. used it to get some whales
itsaprimate "Is there going to be a time jump in the next movie?" Me: whistling and gazing anywhere else but the screen.
They didn't have a plan to bring him back beforehand. In fact, the director of Wrath of Khan was legitimately pissed that they would just bring Spock back, and so he refused to be involved in the film. Fortunately these hard feelings wouldn't last long, as he would be a co-writer on the next one :P
This is before a time of pre-determined trilogies and multi-film plans or cinematic universes. They fly by the seat of their pants and make films as they go along.
They used a photon torpedo casing for Spock's casket. The model of the Enterprise is 8 feet long. The Vilcan high priestess was played by Dame Judith Anderson. She was Memnoth in the 10 Commandments.
How the fuck can you not like the way the Enterprise looks dude. Lol. It's a beautifully designed ship.
I think he was referring to how damaged she was. Not the design.
@@logandarklighter ah
0:55 - Spock is one of the most popular Star Trek characters in the entire franchise. To the point where even people who aren't familiar with Star Trek know who he is. I remember a kid talking about Star Trek years back and how his favorite character was the 'pointy-eared guy'. That's how much of an impact this character has had on people.
"It actually looked kinda good for how old this movie is..." Old-style special effects with actual models always look BETTER than shitty CGI cartoons. Sci-fi movies from this era are some of the best-looking ones ever made.
I like a lot of old school effects for the reason you mention, but the composite shots really have gotten a lot better over time.
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Stealing the Enterprise scene for me is probably the greatest moment in Star Trek.
Bullshit. Some not all. lol
Composite shots? They aren't composite shots nowadays. It's all CGI. No models no real objects on screen just a bunch of pathetic graphics that look like a videogame.
Bones to Kirk: “What you had to do. What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live.”
Dude, when young Spock was going through pon farr, it meant that he had to have sex or die. Saavik did the deed with him to save him. Originally, this was going to result in Saavik having Spock’s child but they decided to downplay it to make the movie more family friendly.
I kinda wished they got together
for those of us who knew about Pon Farr watching this movie.... yeah😉
They didn't "do the deed". Spock was still an adolescent. Saavik merely taught him to meditate amd control his emotional turmoil. Saavik was like an adopted daughter to him. When she said "Vulcan males must endure the burning of their Vulcan blood every seven years" she did not specify adulthood or sex. Nobody is sexing up 7 or 14 year old Vulcan boys. Gross.
@@BiggestDawgEver Google it, they absolutely did. It was even planned that she would have his child in the third movie but they changed it and played the whole thing down as to not upset parents who took their kids to see the movies.
there is actually a novel out there that dealt with that and the child that came from it.
ST3 wasn’t originally planned during the filming of ST2. ST2 at the time was intended to be it, with Spock dying (by request Nimoy himself no less). SFDebris does a very good breakdown of both films, explaining the production story.
The Enterprise's self-destruction scene is one of my favorite scenes in Star Trek III The Search For Spock. It's so sad to see her go, but so cool to see her take some Klingons with her destruction. And the Klingon Warbird is also such a cool ship too
And then all the movies that followed had to cheapen it by having ALL the Enterprises either blow up or crash on planets.
Yeah the Enterprise being destroyed is both a sad and epic moment. Also, gonna be that guy that informs you that the Klingon ship is known as a Bird of Prey, Romulan ships are called Warbirds.
@@Capt_Dango Thank you for the correction. I'm just getting started in Star Trek, so I guess I'm still not entirely versed in the terminology of Star Trek vehicles and their names. I will keep that in mind that Romulans have the "Warbirds", and Klingons have "Bird of Preys". I was flawed in how I called the ship the incorrect name, but I won't make that mistake in the future. As the old saying goes: "You Learn Something New Every Day".
and the fact they used the TOS code for the self destruct is awesome
"She's still looking dusty from the last fight too"
Well, they'd said that The Enterprise was going to be decommissioned and scrapped, therefore, no effort was made to repair the damage to the ship
She went down swinging and took her enemies with her in a ball of fire. glorious.
Decommissioned, not necessarily scrapped. They could have turned her into a museum.
What're you saying? The _Enterprise_ is a beautiful ship! :D But of course, you didn't grow up in the era of STTOS. :)
To each his own, but I was in love with the look of the Enterprise from Day 1. And it was truly a revolutionary design at the time, since pretty much all spaceships in science fiction before it looked like flying saucers or rocket ships. Matt Jefferies, who designed the ship as well as much of the look of TOS, combined the two into a truly unique look. I don't like to use the word "iconic" very often, as I think it's one of the most overused terms on UA-cam, but NCC-1701 is all that and more to me.
Star Trek is very near and dear to my heart because of the incredibly hopeful vision of humanity's future that it presents. Not so much the older stuff you're watching right now, but The Next Generation era (80s and 90s) means a lot to me. It's really cool to watch you react to these and become invested. I really can't wait for you to get to the Next Generation stuff.
Watching these films in the cinema, as the only option back then. It was more magic in a way. VHS came along, but it was something about cinema. Perhaps that is lost now, with everyone connected :-)
The new ones are a confused mess.
This was Christopher Lloyd's first feature film. The studio was reluctant to let director Leonard Nimoy hire him for such an important role because the only thing he was known for at the time was his part in the sitcom Taxi.
I thought his first was "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"... bit part but...
Star Trek III was Christopher Lloyd's first film?? It was his FIFTEENTH film.
Two, three, four, six. Kind of works as one connected story.
Too bad they never made a fifth movie and skipped right to making the sixth movie. It was very experimental but I think it worked out well this way.
@@MrAlexSan00 oh come on, TFF wasn‘t THAT bad
@@rapliberationarmy089 Yes, yes it was.
@@MrAlexSan00 I like it better than most of TNG and reboot movies.
@@mem1701movies Too bad they never made any movies after the Sixth movie, and only made one of the JJ Abrams reboots.
dammit, seeing spock come back made me tear up again. as a kid i cried when the enterprise blew up too.
Why does Primate not like the Enterprise?
Literally one of the most beautiful and majestic spaceships of all science fiction :(
Agreed. the Constitution-class refit is just PERFECT. There's no angle that she doesn't look good.
"But at what cost? Your ship... your son..."
"If I hadn't done it, the price would have been my soul."
As a child, STIII was actually my favourite. Even now, I like it about as much as II. Something that gets me is that, despite being a direct sequel (set at most only a few weeks after Khans' defeat), and featuring the same cast and crew, it feels very different. It has a much more somber, muted tone to it compared to its more brash, adventurous predecessor. Some critics called it 'operatic' and I get why.
Anyway, as usual, some more info:
- Spock-Actor Leonard Nimoy directed this movie (and the next). Infact, this was his debut as a director
- Saavik was recast. As far as I know Kirstey Alley had disagreements with the producers about her salary. Personally, I prefer Robin Curtis in the role.
- Kruge is often unfavourably compared to Khan but I think he is in his own way an equally good villain. No theatrics, no nonsense, gets shit done and stays focused. Except when he freaks out. And given he's portrayed by Lloyd, when he loses it he LOSES it.
- Sarek appeared in one episode of the Original Series. He had a strained relationship with his son but they mended it eventually
- The age of the _Enterprise_ was actually closer to 40 Years. It was already in service for a while when Kirk took command before the events of TOS. His predecessor in the Captains Chair was Christopher Pike.
- Ah, the Klingon Bird of Prey, one of the coolest spaceships of the entire Franchise and one that would stick with Trek for another 15 Years. In comparsion to the large Battlecruisers seen at the start of TMP, which were capital ships designed to go toe-to-toe with the best the Federation has to offer, a Bird of Prey is more like a raider meant for hit and run attacks. In a fair fight, a ship like the _Enterprise_ would tear a BoP to shreds.
- All the new Spaceships seen in this movie were designed by Nilo Rodis who also worked on "Return of the Jedi" and designed every new craft seen there. Infact, as far as effects are concerned there was a lot of overlap in terms of crew (as both Series' effects were done by ILM)
- The scenes on Genesis were filmed on a soundstage and them looking a bit fake acually works selling the point that this is basically an Artificial Planet.
- Lastly, my favourite Scene of this movie is Sareks mindmeld with Kirk. Some people consider William Shatner a bad actor and these people can bugger off. I know he tends to overact, but when he's rather subdued as in this movie, he's great. "The Search for Spock" is probably his best performance in the role. That soft, pained 'No..' as the meld tore that fresh wound of Spock's death wide open again was just perfect.
Looking forward to the next reaction. Live long and Prosper.
Star Trek always thought moral lessons to us kids. Now it's gone.
Funny trivia: according to Star Trek timeline, the Enterprise, at the time of these events, is not twenty, but FORTY years old, being launched in 2245 and this and the previous movie are set on 2285/2286 (the first movie is probably set in 2271/2273). Twenty years is the age of the Enterprise in the REAL timeframe: the Star Trek original series is mid-Sixties and this movie is mid-Eighties. This is, in some way, an example of the so-called "breaking the fourth wall".
I always thought as a nipper that it had been 20 years since the re-fit.
Or maybe the Admiral is bad at history. But I like that refit idea as well
clever
(taps nose twice)
@@ListerDavid Best estimates locate TMP around 2271/73. ST:III is around 2285/86, thus the refit was about 12/15 years before
The twenty years old thing was always kind of silly to me since anyone who watched the original series(specifically The Menagerie episode)knew the Enterprise was older than that. Fun fact: at that time in the 80s there were several 40 year old WW2 battleships that like the Enterprise had been refitted only to be retired anyway after only a few more years of service just like our favorite starship. A real world parallel
Man, can't wait til you get to Star Trek IV! One of the highest box-office draws of the series!
That was the first I ever saw in the theater.
best star trek movie imo
A little piece of context about Christopher Lloyd and this movie: His main "claim to fame" was the character he played in Taxi, "Reverend Jim".... Back to the Future hadn't even been written yet.
"A Dying Planet."
"A Fight For Life"
"The Search For Spock."
The tagline for the poster reads as follows.
Shouldn't that be "reads as precedes"?
Or, sayeth it thus as above before previously.
Kruge's pet/ship mascot is a called a Targ.
That was a Targ? I thought they were supposed to look kinda look boars.
@@Capt_Dango They can, some breeds have more pronounced tusks, different colors, etc. Think about how much difference there is in dog breeds, and that's about how different Targ can be.
@@jameyhej3 That's a good point, plenty of dog breeds out there that look nothing like other breeds.
17:23 In retrospect, this is a much better fate for the Enterprise than being decommissioned and scrapped. She needed to go out fighting.
As a boy and Teen, I always liked Kirk the most... after all, he was the hotshot, the main character, Casanova and in the end mostly solved the problems either by force or with the council of his officers and friends!
Today, being wiser, I‘m totally first in the Bones camp, and second the Spock camp 😅 they are just hilarious, basically the emotional conscience and the logical one, with great humor and sarcasm... and of course Bones‘ legendary oneliners 😅
"This ship looks the most badass"
Yeah, the B'rel Bird of Prey is one, if not the, best looking Klingon ship class ever.
ironic considering it was originally romulan
They didn't kill him off to bring him back for this movie. Nimoy didn't want to be in STII unless they killed off Spock, which they did. However, they did leave the door open for Spock to come back if Nimoy decided to play the role again which he did. And even getting him to come back was not easy, as he only agreed to do it if they let him direct Part III.
Primate, when Star Trek was developed, there had been an influx of sightings of “flying saucers”. That is why the Enterprise has a big saucer on it, the designers wanted to use a saucer design but try to make it more practical, hence the engines being behind the saucer.
Spock in ST 4 is my favorite performance. He's almost together in his head, almost the same, but not quite.
in case no one in the 550 comments have mentioned it, the Klingon subtitles in the beginning are impactful.
She says that he will find the data useful. He questions if she's seen it, and she confirms. He says "Unfortunate." She understands, and then says "Success, my Lord, and my Love."
Lloyd's character kills his wife because she saw the classified information.
Was it made clear that was his wife? I thought she was just an agent.
Directed by Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy
wait till you get to star trek 4 - my personal fav of the movies, its a lot of good fun
My favorite too. Possibly a bit of nostalgia talking, but 4 was my introduction to Star Trek when I was 6 years old. I fell in love with it almost immediately. I feel though, if I had started with 2 instead of 4, I probably wouldn't have been as interested, and it wouldn't have touched me quite the same way so quickly.
For my money, 4 is definitely the most "Star Trek" of the Star Trek films. It literally touches every checkbox of what makes Star Trek what it is. For me anyway
the one with the whales will always be my favorite :')
At the end of Wrath of Khan, the audience assumed that Spock was dead and gone, hence the emotional sendoff. Thankfully, Leonard Nimoy was so moved by his overwhelming love he got from the fan base, and we got this movie.
The Klingon Bird-of-Prey is probably one of my favorite ship designs as well. I believe this is its first appearance, and has since become the most common design for the Klingons. Ironic since it was initially designed for a different race, the Romulans (basically evil Vulcans). They were originally supposed to be the villains of this movie, but the studio decided Klingons were more marketable to general audiences.
The Bird-of-Prey was not supposed to be a Klingon ship at all. In the early script it was supposed to be a Romulan ship that Kruge had stolen so he could its cloaking device to infiltrate th Federation. It was later changed to be a Klingon ship but the wing pattern was not changed and is obviously Romulan.
One of my favorite Star Trek movies. I will always love the sequence where they steal the Enterprise and escape spacedock.
2-3-4 is such a great trilogy of films
2 and 4 are great movies. 3 is actually pretty mediocre, with the exception of some key scenes. My personal ranking of ST movies is: 1-2-4-8-6, but only the first two are actually mandatory.
Trek 2, 3 and 4 are a trilogy essentially. Enjoy part 4, it's hillarious! Huge crowd pleaser.
Having seen your Star Trek II, Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit reactions, I realised that Star Trek III would come soon. When you said that you liked Christopher Lloyd in the last two, I commented that you should look out for him in ST III. Yes, he played the Klingon, Kruge. 😂
The director of ST II, Nicholas Meyer himself, didn't know that they'd decided to bring Spock back. The scene with Bones was added at the last minute without his involvement, and he was surprised to see it in the finished film. Then, of course, Leonard Nimoy said that if he was going to be back, he wanted to direct, and the producers said okay.
Anyway, even though it wasn't planned that way from the beginning, II, III and IV do very much form a trilogy. IV is definitely worth a watch.
There are subtitles for Klingon, so you know what they're saying. It's still the fastest growing language in the world, no lie.
The two main antagonists in this movie, Klingons, are played by Christopher Lloyd and John Laroquette.
The Klingon Lord is Christopher Lloyd. Savek is Kirstie Alley, a great actress from the 80s.
Kirstie Alley was in ST 2, but a different actress for number 3 (Robin Kurtis) Because Kirstie alley turned down the role, as the producers offered her *LESS* money than the last film and also didnt want to be Typecast.
Then, in Star Trek 6 they changed actress again to Kim Kattrall as they wanted the character back, but they wrote her as the character 'Valeris'.
They wanted Kim Kattrall for Star Trek 2, 3 and 4, but she was unavailable so that was why they went with Kirstie Alley, and then Robin Kurtis.
There is a Deleted scene that Saavik was half Romulan, Half Vulkan.
Read it all.................... memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Saavik#Appearances
@@ChannelReuploads9451 If I was wrong, I apologize. Thank you for the correction.
I’m really excited to find your channel. As a lifelong Trekkie, I can’t wait to see you watch the next one.
They didn’t kill Spock off in order to make a sequel. They thought that Star Trek 2 would be the last movie and Leonard Nimoy wanted the character to go out in a blaze of glory. But they all began to have so much fun making 2 and the studio realized it was such a good film that they immediately green-lit a sequel.
And the producer of Treks 2-5 said that he would bring Spock back but it had to be at a huge price. Basically, we got back Spock, but we lost the Enterprise and Kirk lost his son. And they all lost their careers. There was a huge price to pay to get him back so the original death didn’t look like a gimmick.
As a long time fan of these movies, it warms my heart to see a newcomer enjoy them. Your reactions are very entertaining. That said, I can't wait for your to get to Star Trek 5...ehehe...
I love the diversity of people and positions in Star Trek.
Mark Lenard is the actor who's been playing Spock's father since the original series.
The "dog" is a Targ. It's a household pet and also food among Klingons.
Great reaction! Can’t wait for part lV. “Humpbacks Mr. Scott!” “Humpbacks?” “Humpback people?”
I love that you're sticking with these. I grew up on Star Trek and it seems like a lot of UA-camrs don't react to them so I'm glad one that I watch regularly is! I'm so pleased you seem to be enjoying them as much as I always have (even with how totally different the first one is). I definitely encourage you to keep going!
Ah this makes me want to watch Star Trek IV...
It wasn't until he bellowed out "Chon scott!" did you recognize Cristopher Lloyd...
4th takes place RIGHT after. It's far more funny than the others, but I really like it.
I didn't like the Enterprise when I was a kid, but I've really come to love it. Part of it is how they tried to use some real science to explain how & where the warp field is generated & how to house the crew. Also I really enjoy it's uniqueness now. most ships are based on being "shipy" & cool the Ent def stands out.
ST 2, 3 & 4 is one of my favourite movie trilogies of all time III has overtaken II for me as my favourite classic Trek movie - has a lot of emotion & heart with the crew sacrificing everything to rescue their fallen comrade & friend.
12:09 When George saw the line "Don't call me Tiny" in the Script, he thought it was so corny that he actually didn't want to say the line.
When they saw the line was a hit with audiences, Takei apologized to Nimoy.
Now you're invested; time to finish the Trilogy. Get on with it!
There are soooo many cool starship designs in the Star Trek universe, I hope this inspires you to check out the TV series' too, great stories in those.
My favorite Federation starship design is gonna have to be either the Norway-class medium cruiser, or the Galaxy-class exploration cruiser. Those bad boys in the Dominion War were a sight to behold.
IS THAT john larroquette AS A KLINGON? 😳
Yep
Yes, yes it is.
Yup.
Nimoy didn't want to come back for the first film, so they started to recast with a character named Xon - who's actually in the first part of ST: The Motion Picture - but the director, Robert Wise, had a daughter who LOVED Star Trek, and she told him point blank, "Dad, you can't make Star Trek without Spock." And she was right. Spock was the heart of this thing. Every series that followed the original has a "Spock-like" character (some have more than one), and when they tried to avoid it - like with Voyager - they had to invent a Spock-like character to save the show. Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine character saved the last few seasons of Voyager, imo (AND she was smokin hot). But Nimoy was a God, lol.
10 Original Series Episodes (very Spock-centric) you MUST see:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Balance of Terror
Galileo Seven
The Naked Time
The Menagerie I & II
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
This Side of Paradise
Devil in the Dark
City on the Edge of Forever
10 Original Series Eps (very Spock-centric) you SHOULD see:
Amok Time
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
I, Mudd
Journey to Babel
The Ultimate Computer
The Enterprise Incident
Spectre of the Gun
Elaan of Troyius
All our Yesterdays
Loving the reactions/reviews though - keep'em coming, bruh; peace!
Star Trek 2 was going to be the last one, this movie wasn't actually planned for, however, the epilogue left the door open. There was a big change of heart and this got made.
Movies 2, 3 & 4 are like the trilogy. They all connect and imo, they are all three equally awesome. Can't wait to check out your Star Trek IV reaction!
Please watch "Galaxy Quest" !
Wait till he's finished the trek movies first
Yeah, by the end of 6 he'll have enough lore to get it properly :)
Mark 13:55. He sat down on the, Captain's Chair, even as he was being told that he would never do so again! He wasn't being spiteful, it was just serendipity! 🖖🤓
Wow, you skipped over David’s murder and Kirk’s reaction.
Well he is not a star trek fan
Making an entire movie to bring a character back is still better than the cliche 1 minute dead time we get nowadays.
Noone can stay dead. Everybody gets revived immediately.
I wasnt born when this movie were released, however I have the CHANCE of having an older brother. When I was a kid, I used to steal VHS from his collection and watch them. That's how, at a very young age, I fell in love with Trek. I remember CRYING like a madman when the Enterprise got destroyed. That ship was home.
7:00 - This is also the Federation trying to cover up the incident, since if certain people found out they effectively made a planet busting weapon, all hell would break loose.
Mark 0:01. Oh yeah! About the, "Starship Enterprise ™"! Her design is inspired by combining the three classic UFO shapes! Flying Saucer, Cigar-shaped, and Triangular. That's the, Primary Hull, Secondary Hull, and Warp Nacelles, respectively. 🖖
Amazing the difference from growing up with the show - To me the movie Enterprise is one of the most beautiful ships in all Sci-fi!
I think my sadness at seeing that ship blow up was on the same level as seeing spock die.
These effects are awesome because the ships are real. Actual filming miniatures will always be better than the CGI "cartoons" they use now.
The big-eared guy at the bar was an homage to Yoda by Nimoy and the producers. Hence the backwards talk and the ears.
First appearance of the Bird of Prey and proper Klingons in the films!
"Yes, GENESIS! How can you be deaf with ears like that?" - Always my favorite Bones moment!
Loving these reactions. Still loving the characters. And the iconic ship. Such a nostalgic feeling
I am so pleased to see a young person enjoy these classic Star Trek movies with the original characters and actors. This Enterprise crew, has inspired millions world wide to seek careers in the sciences, medicine, space exploration, communications, computing, etc. Not to mention 13 feature films, and over 800 hours of television programming in the form of 9 TV series! Them being: Star Trek, Star Trek The Animated Series, Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Star Trek The Lower Deck. All spanning 55 years! It's an amazing legacy.
We Trekkies used to have a saying: Even numbered Star Treks don't suck.
That has kind of fallen away in recent years after Star Trek 10, which sucked.
The first is odd numbered but don't suck ;-)
@@andreabindolini7452 It's an exaggeration, sure, but until 10, the even numbered were the favorites
For some reason those life forms look like tilapia filets XD
Mark 15:35. Heh. A Russian accent using British vernacular! The novel says that it is the first of her kind, and it is named, "Bird of Prey", so the class would be, "Bird of Prey Class". "Scout", would be the type and/or function! 🧐🤨
Somebody behind the scenes, didn't know the differences between, Klingons and Romulans. So by mistake, the Klingons got a ship to call, "Bird of Prey", too. In the same way as how the, United States Ship Monitor's name was used to denote future new ships like it. Ditto for, His Majesty's Ship Dreadnought. 🖖🤓
4:14, that music in the background was reused in ALIENS as well as The Action Horror WOLFEN.
Mark 6:52. Huh? No! The starship and the nebula were converted! Hence the unstable nature of it. The device was only meant to be used on preexisting planetoids, planets, or moons! Not on, "nothing"! 🤨
They teased the audience with the opening credits: the space between Shatner's credit and the next one was twice as long as the spaces between all the others - that space was where Nimoy's credit would be if they'd wanted to give the game away completely.
Saavik was played by a different actor this time; apparently the original actor wanted a "typecasting" bonus that was way out of budget.
This was directed by Nimoy, as was TVH.
UK's London Transport is always trying to get more people to use public transport rather than drive into London and add to the congestion.
When TSFS came out, they showed the poster for the film and added underneath "By the time you find somewhere to park they'll have found him".
2,3 and 4 are a great Interconnected Triology.
Mark 0:35. Huh? Actually it wasn't a, "crash landing" or even an impact! It was a soft landing, with no damage done! According to the movie adaptation novels, the gravity was in flux enough to allow that to happen. 🖖
About the destruction of the beloved Enterprise: for many fans, including me, this was an even sadder event than the "death" of Spock.
You probably can call me crazy, but is like the death of a symbol. After over 35 years I still don't forgive the writers for that plot choice ;-)
Perhaps sad but not nearly so jarring as seeing the first real battle damage to the Enterprise in Wrath Of Kahn.
@@spaceactivistarchive4180 Some scars rendered the ship even more sexy ;-)
This film doesn't get the amount of love the 2nd and 4th do but I've always liked it.
You can also find Christopher Lloyd in "The Dream Team" and he has a small part in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".
I love how in the 23rd Century the Klingons are still using 8-tracks
They didn’t plan on bringing back Spock. Leonard Nimoy hadn’t planned on coming back to play Spock. There wasn’t even a definite plan for a third movie. The second was seemingly so good that Leonard thought up a great moment that could be used to bring him back, if they wanted.
In his documentary he said he didn't feel that sad when shooting but he then realised it afterwards - no more nerve pinch, no more mind meld, no more "fascinating" and "logical/illogical", no more raising the eyebrow, no more salute - "and i thought.... 'oh my god, what have i done?'"
"That Green Blooded Son of B*tch. Its his revenge for all those arguements he lost!"
So Bones!
I remember watching this in theatre as a 7yr old kid with my ol man. This is what i remember
You could hear a Pin drop during the intro and when they watched the Enterprise falling. I was traumatized when Kirk’s son died. And I remember everyone in the theatre clapping when Kirk killed the Klingon. 😅
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" is awesome
Love your Star Trek reactions bro. Nice to see someone going in with an open mind, making good observations and reacting to beloved characters and classic stories. Hope you continue with the movies and enjoy them.
5:26
The Excelsior class when she was first commissioned she was to be able to go to transwarp which is faster than warp, after the experiment proved less than fruitful Starfleet's corps of Engineers saw the potential of the ships frame and she was made into a full class of ship her designation if memory serves me correct is a heavy cruiser and explorer as all ships were for Starfleet, fate would ultimately be on the ships side as she served as the fleet's backbone for nearly a century seeing combat in wars such as the Dominion War, and the Federation-Cardassian War she's by far in my opinion the best looking ship in all of Starfleet