Shatner is often slammed for his over-acting, but I liked the way Kirk stayed cool as his very likely imminent death approached ... "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard ..."
This idea of Shatner over acting is mostly from the 3rd season episodes, especially the poorest scripts which he felt he needed to liven up. Both Kirk and Spock behave out of character in many of the worst season 3 episodes.
Yep. William Windom played this part well. But his character (Commodore Decker) was kind of a nut job. One of my favorite scenes from this episode was when he flew his shuttle craft into the mouth of giant ice cream cone. At the very last moment he seemed afraid.
William Windom was known around Hollywood as "Willie the Weeper" for his ability to break down and cry on camera at a moment's notice. Seeing him in this episode, it's not hard to imagine why Decker is considered one of his best roles. "There was....but not anymore." Pure gold. 🖖😎👍
Decker(William Windom) was outstanding as Commodore Decker fighting the Doomsday machine alongside Captain Kirk (Shatner) and Scotty (James Doohan) aboard the Constellation. Decker turned out to be the hero sacrificing his life and the process revealing the strategy to destroy the Doomsday machine. Fantastic music score to top it off as the USS Constellation sets off a Nuclear explosion of 97 Megatons inside the Alien indestructible Doomsday weapon which neutralized it. Easily one of the 2 best episodes in the Star Trek Universe and one of the best across the board of all television episodes since it was aired in October 20, 1967.
The thing that really makes this work for me? The absolute professionalism of the crew. Everybody doing their jobs with cool expertise -- no jokes, snarky remarks, emotional outbursts... That's how Kirk makes it out alive. And that's the thing that modern Star Trek seems to have lost.
I was watching this episode years ago for the quadrillionth time, it just so happened my dad was walking by and got interested when the transporter was malfunctioning. When Captain Kirk said " Gentleman, I suggest you beam me aboard" my dad laughed. Ill remember that laugh for the rest of my life. What special timing it was. My favorite episode, hands down!!
I had a similar moment with my dad, but it was watching “Star Trek III”. He would watch Star Trek with me, but always claimed he didn’t understand it. We were watching the part where Kruge knocks out everything on the Enterprise and Kirk’s says, “So, we’re a sitting duck.” My dad said, “I was about to say the same thing.” He did know what was going on after all.
Surely one of the best ST episodes of all time even compared to all other series! The poofs of the smoke in the transporter room were pretty neat and just the right sound to make them seem authentic. Decker...what can you say....so well done as a captain who was pushed to the limits. The tube Scotty was in too...Wow....such great effects. The actors must have thought at the time this was a good one!
I can’t believe Captain Kirk survived! Anyway, as an old fart who watched Star Trek in reruns as a kid, one of the things that has always stood out to me and that no one seems to talk about much is the music. It is something that I still enjoy.
My all time #1 favorite Star Trek episode!! The story line is great, the music is great, even the acting which I know some people criticize is top notch. William Windom is fantastic as Decker! And of course, my childhood hero Captain Kirk saves the day!
I don't care what anyone says, Shatner is the best captain of all time, he couldn't have played this role any better, and I still feel to this day he's a brilliant actor.
One of my favorite Star Trek episodes....the scene when Sulu was counting down as the starship was close to entering inside the doomsday machine 16, 15, 14, 13. That part was real intense.
My opinion is that this scene has one of Kirk's BEST lines: "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard" and delivered with William Shatner portraying one of the few times where Kirk actually looked nervous. Just my own personal opinion anyway.
@@shepardbook because of the feud that apparently existed between Shatner and Nimoy, I can honestly picture that happening dude haha. And I'd bet Tekai would be saying that exact same thing in unison with Nimoy hahaha.
@@robertpolanco1973 I know that the dude's first name is George. I simply misspelled the last name by mistake. People actually do make honest mistakes you know.
@@reedallen4613 I can see it too, but more as a joke. A lot of the "feud" stories have been inflated and driven by people's desires to make Shatner look bad (usually for their own ego's sake) as opposed to any genuine feud existing. (They had been friends, and close ones, for 50 years) George Takei, sadly, has always come across as an angry old man who feels that he should have been more lauded for his being gay and chose Shatner as a convenient punching bag (while having conveniently never done so while raking in money for being in the shows, movies, etc)
The original Doomsday Machine was a wind sock coated in wet cement. And the wreck of the Constellation was used again as the Excaliber in "the Ultimate Computer" episode
When I first saw this beast on video tape, I was unsure of what it was supposed to originally look like since this one was nothing but a battered hulk with its main weapon still intact. Now that I’m older, I’d like to put forth a theory as to what it was originally supposed to look like. Given that the shell of the Planet-Killer was cone shaped, it leads me to speculate that it once resembled an ancient earth creature called Camaroceras, a straight-coned, ancient ancestor of both octopus and squid. So, at one point in this beastly ship’s prime, it was bristling with weapons on both its shell and tentacles and had a massive beak that covered the main weapon/core of the ship. Over time, as it was pounded by untold arsenals, the front part of the ship, the part which held the tentacles and beak, was blown off and it’s shell was beaten down to its near-unbreakable condition as we see it in this episode. The only thing still functioning on this vessel is its now exposed heart. Beyond which was a bridge which held a single person at the helm. What do you guys think of this theory? Let me know.
I think this is the best Star Trek episode of them all. It's certainly my favourite one. I have a vague memory of seeing it when it first aired and have watched it many times since.
I was eight or nine when I first saw this episode in the 70s, back in the days before I figured out that the hero of a TV show can't die. I was screaming and yelling at the TV so loud that I woke my mom up from a dead sleep. She was pissed! This is still my favorite episode of Star Trek, PERIOD. Made even better with the enhanced special effects.
What I loved was when Spock relieved Decker....and then told him he could file a protest If they survived. Breach of Regulations....Thank Goodness for his Human half!!!
Did anyone else notice that the "thirty second" countdown was actually a minute and twenty-three seconds? (And I always wondered how the transporter beam managed to find him through the opening in the neutronium hull?)
April 5, 2063 38.1K subscribers Fun Fact: Episode writer Norman Spinrad based the script on a novelette "The Planet Eater" that had been rejected by a number of publishers. He revived the idea when he had a chance to pitch it to Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry. "I did 'The Doomsday Machine' fast," he recalled. Spinrad had written the script with actor Robert Ryan in mind to play Commodore Decker, but Ryan was unavailable, owing to prior commitments. Some sources hold that the episode was influenced by Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, which features robotic killing machines built as a doomsday device by a now-vanished race to wipe out their rivals. However, author Norman Spinrad denies the influence: "I wasn't conscious of the Saberhagen stuff when I was doing this, but I was certainly conscious of Moby Dick. And, actually, my unpublished novelette, which was the genesis of "The Doomsday Machine", was written before the Saberhagen stuff." Non-canon Star Trek media refer to the device as a Berserker. According to one source, the model for the USS Constellation was an off-the-shelf AMT Enterprise model painted and torched in places for the battle damage, while other sources claim that the smallest and least detailed Enterprise professional model was altered for the episode. It has also been stated that the Constellation's hull ID number of 1017 came from simply switching the digits of an Enterprise model's 1701 hull numbers. The episode was written as a bottle episode, i.e., one that could use existing ship sets to save time and money. According to Spinrad, the episode was so well-received by Roddenberry that he commissioned him to write another for comedian Milton Berle who planned to do a dramatic turn on the show titled "He Walked Among Us". (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Well, I liked the idea of two constitution class starships working together in the same episode. Obviously they were using models back then. But still, I liked the USS Constellation with it's battle damage and half burned off warp nacelle. Good special effects for 1960's television.
3:02 Say about TOS what you want, but at least the main cast ran to the bridge when the situation was urgent, instead of slowly walking down the corridor.
The transporter guy screwed up at 1:30. He needed to move the sliders slower and not force it up too fast or it will short it out. It is like a toilet handle. Do it too fast then you might have to wait and try again when the water fills up the reserve tank again.
It's funny that you observed that about Lt. Kyle because I have thought the exact same thing for years. He slams those controls up when the transporter is barely working.
The toilet handle analogy! I just did a spit-take on that one! I’m going to have to find a place to use that in real life. “So, you know when you need a second flush, but you’re too impatient, and now you have to wait for the whole cycle to repeat?“ Too funny!
Good thing for Captain Kirk this wasn't the Mirror Universe. Kirk: "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard." Spock: "Where's your Tantalus Field now, Jimmy Boy? Too bad, so sad. See ya. Looks like I'm the new captain of the Enterprise!" Kirk: "Spoooooooooooooooooooock!" BOOM! And Kyle is lucky too, because when Kirk does make it back, Kyle's going to be wishing for the easy death of the Tantalus Field considering how long Kirk is going to stick him in the Agony Booth.
Should've been a warning to Starfleet down the road that there were technologies from other parts of the galaxy they couldn't handle. Hence Picard's arrogance.
Once that puff of smoke came out of the Transporter pad, they should have used the Agonizer on Lt. Kyle. Once again, he can't operate the Transporter properly 😀
On top of being the greatest Capt of the Star Trek universe. I believe that was the first time they used this music. Yes I love all the captains in Star Trek but if you don't have a Capt Kirk you don't have a Picard or Janeway or Sisko. Too hell with the new Star Trek
Like Father, like Son. Commodore Decker sacrificed himself, because of guilt. Yet, it wasn't in vain. He helped Kirk discover how to destroy the Doomsday Machine and save the Federation. Years later, Decker's son Will gives himself to V'ger. It saved the Federation too, but his personal reason, was being wil Ilya again.
The idea that such a powerful weapon was created by a species is a scary thought. Kirk's theory that the weapon was created by a warring race that went extinct, and the weapon continued to travel from another Galaxy destroying everything in it's path. Though I think there was a non Canon novel in TNG that explains it was created by a species that wanted to destroy The Borg.
The weapon may have come from the Andromeda galaxy for all anyone knows. The Borg, apparently, were not the kind of power when the weapon was created as when they peaked around the 24th century.
The novel in question was Vendetta written by Peter David. It’s been a while since I read it it, but I think it was established these weapons were built as a defense against the Borg.
Nowhere is it said the planet killer ate entire planet cores, much less entire planets. As big as it is, it is still very small compared to a planet. So, one would assume that unless it hangs around a planet it has sliced up for a LONGGG time, it does its thing, gobble up some debris, and then proceeds on to the next planet, leaving most of the debris behind. Really, to "kill" a planet of it's life, all the planet killer would have to do would be knock a few continental plates off. Maybe just one.
Great scene - they f'd the timing up. Spock says 20 seconds. Than, 20 seconds later, Sulu is doing a countdown from 16. Editing should have fixed that or reshot the scene.
Kirk: Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard. Spock: Oh, you wanted us to beam YOU aboard! Is this someone's CGI work or was this something Paramount released? It fits nicely.
Ship to ship communications through the ship's systems was wrecked. MAYBE something could be rigged through a communicator, but also remember all the subspace interference occurring at times. That'd likely be highest as the ship got very close to the Doomsday Machine too - in fact, we don't even really know if Kirk's final command to be beamed to the Enterprise was even heard by the Enterprise. The safest bet was probably to rig a manual switch to do something like retrieving all the rods out of the reactor (except this is a fusion reactor, not a "nuclear" reactor.) Besides, all that is really moot. If Kirk isn't in danger, the show doesn't get any viewers!
Call it me, but I would've found a way to attach a shuttle to the bridge airlock (unless that only happened in the refit) and booked it out of there on my own. It's just as easy to transport from a shuttle, no?
Shatner is often slammed for his over-acting, but I liked the way Kirk stayed cool as his very likely imminent death approached ... "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard ..."
That is one of the best lines in any science fiction series let alone Star Trek.
@@pauljeffrey4054 Are there any other best lines from "Star Trek" or any other science-fiction TV series?
This idea of Shatner over acting is mostly from the 3rd season episodes, especially the poorest scripts which he felt he needed to liven up. Both Kirk and Spock behave out of character in many of the worst season 3 episodes.
This is one of the best Trek episodes across ALL the different series. The actor who played Decker was incredible
Yep. William Windom played this part well. But his character (Commodore Decker) was kind of a nut job. One of my favorite scenes from this episode was when he flew his shuttle craft into the mouth of giant ice cream cone. At the very last moment he seemed afraid.
Decker has PTSD after losing his crew to the Planet Killer, you can’t really blame him for that
@@mysteriousowen5205 I'll give you that. But Spock also did the right thing by taking command.
@@mysteriousowen5205 DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?? 😭😭😭
@@jacksonheathen2092 Actually it was a wind sock!
William Windom was known around Hollywood as "Willie the Weeper" for his ability to break down and cry on camera at a moment's notice. Seeing him in this episode, it's not hard to imagine why Decker is considered one of his best roles. "There was....but not anymore." Pure gold. 🖖😎👍
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Decker(William Windom) was outstanding as Commodore Decker fighting the Doomsday machine alongside Captain Kirk (Shatner) and Scotty (James Doohan) aboard the Constellation. Decker turned out to be the hero sacrificing his life and the process revealing the strategy to destroy the Doomsday machine. Fantastic music score to top it off as the USS Constellation sets off a Nuclear explosion of 97 Megatons inside the Alien indestructible Doomsday weapon which neutralized it.
Easily one of the 2 best episodes in the Star Trek Universe and one of the best across the board of all television episodes since it was aired in October 20, 1967.
@@milan2cu Well, the rank for "Decker" was Commodore, not Admiral. Other than that, very good and insightful comment.
Not a talent I would want to be know for.
He wept, but pulled it together quite well and acted as a shrewd military man when he took over 1701
The thing that really makes this work for me? The absolute professionalism of the crew. Everybody doing their jobs with cool expertise -- no jokes, snarky remarks, emotional outbursts... That's how Kirk makes it out alive. And that's the thing that modern Star Trek seems to have lost.
Sol Kaplan’s score is a true masterpiece.
Yes indeed!
The lead carpenter on a construction site: "Gentlemen, I suggest you bring me a board."
You nailed that line!
I was watching this episode years ago for the quadrillionth time, it just so happened my dad was walking by and got interested when the transporter was malfunctioning. When Captain Kirk said " Gentleman, I suggest you beam me aboard" my dad laughed. Ill remember that laugh for the rest of my life. What special timing it was. My favorite episode, hands down!!
I had a similar moment with my dad, but it was watching “Star Trek III”. He would watch Star Trek with me, but always claimed he didn’t understand it. We were watching the part where Kruge knocks out everything on the Enterprise and Kirk’s says, “So, we’re a sitting duck.” My dad said, “I was about to say the same thing.” He did know what was going on after all.
The doomsday machine and balance of terror are my two favorite Star Trek TOS episodes. But the music in The doomsday machine is amazing.
Scotty's f^&$*ngg around to get the transporter up and running like usual.😲
NONE better.
“Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard”
Surely one of the best ST episodes of all time even compared to all other series! The poofs of the smoke in the transporter room were pretty neat and just the right sound to make them seem authentic. Decker...what can you say....so well done as a captain who was pushed to the limits. The tube Scotty was in too...Wow....such great effects. The actors must have thought at the time this was a good one!
" ... pushed to the limits" and well past them.
James Doohan's favourite Episode, apparently.
"Gentleman I suggest you beam me aboard." That's about as nervous the ultra cool 😎 Captain Kirk can get.
the transporter blowing like a firework special🤣
I can’t believe Captain Kirk survived! Anyway, as an old fart who watched Star Trek in reruns as a kid, one of the things that has always stood out to me and that no one seems to talk about much is the music. It is something that I still enjoy.
My all time #1 favorite Star Trek episode!! The story line is great, the music is great, even the acting which I know some people criticize is top notch. William Windom is fantastic as Decker! And of course, my childhood hero Captain Kirk saves the day!
the transporters going to blow before the ship kirks on will blow.🤣🤣🤣
Best editing, best acting, best sound, best directing, best grip.................
I don't care what anyone says, Shatner is the best captain of all time, he couldn't have played this role any better, and I still feel to this day he's a brilliant actor.
Real nail biting stuff, this is the reason this programme is still shown today, simply fantastic.
One of my favorite Star Trek episodes....the scene when Sulu was counting down as the starship was close to entering inside the doomsday machine 16, 15, 14, 13. That part was real intense.
My opinion is that this scene has one of Kirk's BEST lines: "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard" and delivered with William Shatner portraying one of the few times where Kirk actually looked nervous.
Just my own personal opinion anyway.
You can just imagine a blooper where Shatner says that line off camera and Leonard deadpans “Nah, leave him!” 😁
@@shepardbook because of the feud that apparently existed between Shatner and Nimoy, I can honestly picture that happening dude haha.
And I'd bet Tekai would be saying that exact same thing in unison with Nimoy hahaha.
@@reedallen4613 It's TAKEI, not Tekai, for George Takei.
@@robertpolanco1973 I know that the dude's first name is George. I simply misspelled the last name by mistake. People actually do make honest mistakes you know.
@@reedallen4613 I can see it too, but more as a joke. A lot of the "feud" stories have been inflated and driven by people's desires to make Shatner look bad (usually for their own ego's sake) as opposed to any genuine feud existing. (They had been friends, and close ones, for 50 years) George Takei, sadly, has always come across as an angry old man who feels that he should have been more lauded for his being gay and chose Shatner as a convenient punching bag (while having conveniently never done so while raking in money for being in the shows, movies, etc)
The original Doomsday Machine was a wind sock coated in wet cement. And the wreck of the Constellation was used again as the Excaliber in "the Ultimate Computer" episode
I called it the snowcone after the ice cream
Good classic episode. The gaint space ice cream cone was always terrifying.
Looks more like a lit blunt to me! :D
@@dominic.h.3363 That works for me too. 👍
A giant wind sock dipped in cement. 😁
@@Willpower-74205 I suppose that's also a good description.
When I first saw this beast on video tape, I was unsure of what it was supposed to originally look like since this one was nothing but a battered hulk with its main weapon still intact.
Now that I’m older, I’d like to put forth a theory as to what it was originally supposed to look like.
Given that the shell of the Planet-Killer was cone shaped, it leads me to speculate that it once resembled an ancient earth creature called Camaroceras, a straight-coned, ancient ancestor of both octopus and squid. So, at one point in this beastly ship’s prime, it was bristling with weapons on both its shell and tentacles and had a massive beak that covered the main weapon/core of the ship. Over time, as it was pounded by untold arsenals, the front part of the ship, the part which held the tentacles and beak, was blown off and it’s shell was beaten down to its near-unbreakable condition as we see it in this episode. The only thing still functioning on this vessel is its now exposed heart. Beyond which was a bridge which held a single person at the helm.
What do you guys think of this theory?
Let me know.
As a kid in the sixties this episode terrified me, brilliant acting by all the cast and particularly the guest star.
Never better.
Doomsday Machine is a good episode, William Windom was great!!! 🖖
Spock's "Mr. Scott" was way more emotional than Kirk's "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard." Good stuff.
Kyle: “Bridge, it’s shorted out again.”
Scotty: *Incomprehensible Scottish noises*
Yeah, I always wondered what he was cursing there...
I think this is the best Star Trek episode of them all. It's certainly my favourite one. I have a vague memory of seeing it when it first aired and have watched it many times since.
Never gets old.
Star Trek TOS was the best sci fi series and never gets old.
The title for the music in this scene is ironically listed as "Kirk Does it Again." Another computer "bytes" the dust to Captain James T Kirk.
I saw what you did there. Priceless!😅
I was eight or nine when I first saw this episode in the 70s, back in the days before I figured out that the hero of a TV show can't die. I was screaming and yelling at the TV so loud that I woke my mom up from a dead sleep. She was pissed! This is still my favorite episode of Star Trek, PERIOD. Made even better with the enhanced special effects.
Good story
0:50 love the waggle. Def through off DD machine. Shatner OWNS pine.
My dad favors this episode! I’d often think he would watch this episode over and over without stopping.
Yes my brother agrees; sounds like JAws
Peter David tied this episode to his TNG novel vendetta. It’s a good read, like almost all of his TNG novels.
I read that! It was good!
Read that. This thing was someone’s final idea of a last ditch Borg killer
James Doohan in the Jeffries Tube with actual pyros showering sparks on him- yeah thats toughness.
The best part of this episode is the battle between Spock and Decker. "Vulcans never bluff!"
I agree with the comments. Probably one of the best overall episodes of the series.
A good old-fashioned cliffhanger. Gotta love TOS.
This is the best of all Trek, right here. Come on. You know it.
William Shatner ( Captain Kirk ) save the day in the doomsday machine. The music was absolutely suspense.
Fantastic episode.
What I loved was when Spock relieved Decker....and then told him he could file a protest If they survived. Breach of Regulations....Thank Goodness for his Human half!!!
The soundtrack to the snowcone episode is awesome
Did anyone else notice that the "thirty second" countdown was actually a minute and twenty-three seconds? (And I always wondered how the transporter beam managed to find him through the opening in the neutronium hull?)
April 5, 2063
38.1K subscribers Fun Fact: Episode writer Norman Spinrad based the script on a novelette "The Planet Eater" that had been rejected by a number of publishers. He revived the idea when he had a chance to pitch it to Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry. "I did 'The Doomsday Machine' fast," he recalled. Spinrad had written the script with actor Robert Ryan in mind to play Commodore Decker, but Ryan was unavailable, owing to prior commitments.
Some sources hold that the episode was influenced by Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, which features robotic killing machines built as a doomsday device by a now-vanished race to wipe out their rivals. However, author Norman Spinrad denies the influence: "I wasn't conscious of the Saberhagen stuff when I was doing this, but I was certainly conscious of Moby Dick. And, actually, my unpublished novelette, which was the genesis of "The Doomsday Machine", was written before the Saberhagen stuff." Non-canon Star Trek media refer to the device as a Berserker.
According to one source, the model for the USS Constellation was an off-the-shelf AMT Enterprise model painted and torched in places for the battle damage, while other sources claim that the smallest and least detailed Enterprise professional model was altered for the episode. It has also been stated that the Constellation's hull ID number of 1017 came from simply switching the digits of an Enterprise model's 1701 hull numbers.
The episode was written as a bottle episode, i.e., one that could use existing ship sets to save time and money. According to Spinrad, the episode was so well-received by Roddenberry that he commissioned him to write another for comedian Milton Berle who planned to do a dramatic turn on the show titled "He Walked Among Us". (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Well, I liked the idea of two constitution class starships working together in the same episode. Obviously they were using models back then. But still, I liked the USS Constellation with it's battle damage and half burned off warp nacelle. Good special effects for 1960's television.
@@jacksonheathen2092 Same here too.
And this music was the inspiration for Jaws.
Spinrad is a very under appreciated writer. IMNSHO "A World Between" and "Iron Dream" were both revolutionary and influenced many later authors.
The special effects are amazing for that time!
😮 when you realize they were composing this music for a weekly tv series.
3:02 Say about TOS what you want, but at least the main cast ran to the bridge when the situation was urgent, instead of slowly walking down the corridor.
The transporter guy screwed up at 1:30. He needed to move the sliders slower and not force it up too fast or it will short it out. It is like a toilet handle. Do it too fast then you might have to wait and try again when the water fills up the reserve tank again.
Lololololololololololol
It's funny that you observed that about Lt. Kyle because I have thought the exact same thing for years. He slams those controls up when the transporter is barely working.
The toilet handle analogy! I just did a spit-take on that one! I’m going to have to find a place to use that in real life. “So, you know when you need a second flush, but you’re too impatient, and now you have to wait for the whole cycle to repeat?“ Too funny!
This show brings back a lot of child hood memories.
"Nurse Chapel, take the captain's pants and underwear to the wash station please."
Good thing for Captain Kirk this wasn't the Mirror Universe.
Kirk: "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard."
Spock: "Where's your Tantalus Field now, Jimmy Boy? Too bad, so sad. See ya. Looks like I'm the new captain of the Enterprise!"
Kirk: "Spoooooooooooooooooooock!" BOOM!
And Kyle is lucky too, because when Kirk does make it back, Kyle's going to be wishing for the easy death of the Tantalus Field considering how long Kirk is going to stick him in the Agony Booth.
Williams one of the best actors around
Captain Kirk: Beam me aboard!
Mr. Spock: Energize.
Lt. Kyle: Energizing. Bridge, it shorted out again!
Have the Captain put on the bunny suit!
No-one got the Energizer (bunny) joke
I love this better than the original
Gentlemen, I suggest that you beam me aboard! Hahaha 😮😅😂
Should've been a warning to Starfleet down the road that there were technologies from other parts of the galaxy they couldn't handle. Hence Picard's arrogance.
Bald guys in general act too confident.
Mind Blowing episode!
Simply the best. Original always
This is my favorite of the original series. Brothers disagree with me that the music reminds me of Jaws music
I always th hi was one if he best Star Trek.
Norman Spinrad wrote this, partially inspired by Moby Dick.
They killed the flaming space turd!
Scotty saves the day again.
Did you hear what he called Spock under his breath?
Once that puff of smoke came out of the Transporter pad, they should have used the Agonizer on Lt. Kyle. Once again, he can't operate the Transporter properly 😀
The Enterprise was almost destroyed by a giant Bugle!
In the game Star Fleet Battles this scenario was called "the creature that ate Sheboygan III."
Or Cleveland 2
My fav WI town.
So much for Revelation's prediction for the end of the Earth.
Always on the edge Is Kirk
On top of being the greatest Capt of the Star Trek universe. I believe that was the first time they used this music. Yes I love all the captains in Star Trek but if you don't have a Capt Kirk you don't have a Picard or Janeway or Sisko. Too hell with the new Star Trek
Spot on. Paramount should be boycotted for not putting Kirk on their current marketing.
Talk about suspense! Whoa!
Like Father, like Son. Commodore Decker sacrificed himself, because of guilt. Yet, it wasn't in vain. He helped Kirk discover how to destroy the Doomsday Machine and save the Federation.
Years later, Decker's son Will gives himself to V'ger. It saved the Federation too, but his personal reason, was being wil Ilya again.
Ohhhhh.....damn thank you for that.
The doomsday machine looked like Zappa’s inverted ice-cream cone
That last 30 seconds was a brown alert.
The idea that such a powerful weapon was created by a species is a scary thought. Kirk's theory that the weapon was created by a warring race that went extinct, and the weapon continued to travel from another Galaxy destroying everything in it's path.
Though I think there was a non Canon novel in TNG that explains it was created by a species that wanted to destroy The Borg.
The weapon may have come from the Andromeda galaxy for all anyone knows. The Borg, apparently, were not the kind of power when the weapon was created as when they peaked around the 24th century.
The novel in question was Vendetta written by Peter David. It’s been a while since I read it it, but I think it was established these weapons were built as a defense against the Borg.
BIDENOMICS
Where that alien species collected enough pure neutronium is hard to imagine.
I can't watch this episode without thinking "The doomsday machine is a giant Bugle™ crunchy corn snack!"
The bugle from hell you mean lol
Child of little imagination.
That was close!
I never noticed this before but Sulu is SUPER heated for this scene.
OH MY.
a star ship having more explosive effect than an unfettered planetary core ...
Bummer U R.
Nowhere is it said the planet killer ate entire planet cores, much less entire planets. As big as it is, it is still very small compared to a planet. So, one would assume that unless it hangs around a planet it has sliced up for a LONGGG time, it does its thing, gobble up some debris, and then proceeds on to the next planet, leaving most of the debris behind. Really, to "kill" a planet of it's life, all the planet killer would have to do would be knock a few continental plates off. Maybe just one.
And Spock always has such shiny hair.
“The Doomsday Machine” is the greatest Star Trek episode of all-time. You may disagree with me, but you would be incorrect.
Yeah next time maybe station a red shirt next to the communicator to _relay_ Scotty's messages, time being of the essence and all that?
Bless Mr. Kyle's heart thinking he got him though.
Damn....RIP planet killer
Now grab it and go mine all of that Neutronium for your hulls.
The question that always gets asked about this eoisode:
Was that doomsday machine one of Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" machines??
I may be wrong, but was this not the only TOS episode that had its own soundtrack? I don’t think this music was used before or after this episode.
With the drop in power from the shuttle craft the DM should have adjusted!!!!
If that thing was Borg, it would've repaired itself and went back to its rampage.
That's way too close for comfort. Way too close.
Funny, I watched this clip after playing Star Trek Online... where I have to destroy a Doomsday Machine by firing special torpedoes down the front.
Mr Kyle 😊
Kyle energized too fast!!! He shorted it out!!
This show did more with $20 windsock. Never to be seen in the future.
I know I’m not supposed to but I really like the updated CGI.
*Imagines him coming through the transporter giving the middle finger*
Great scene - they f'd the timing up. Spock says 20 seconds. Than, 20 seconds later, Sulu is doing a countdown from 16. Editing should have fixed that or reshot the scene.
Hmm maybe the transporter on the doomed ship was out, as well...
oh no! don't kill the space doobie! or evil cornucopia?
Try Gigantic space turd
@@deangestner6708 or try waffle cone of death.
Kirk: Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard.
Spock: Oh, you wanted us to beam YOU aboard!
Is this someone's CGI work or was this something Paramount released?
It fits nicely.
Ever heard of remote control? Don't need someone to press a light switch with 30 seconds to go 😂
Kev you must be Trans. Do it quitely.
Ship to ship communications through the ship's systems was wrecked. MAYBE something could be rigged through a communicator, but also remember all the subspace interference occurring at times. That'd likely be highest as the ship got very close to the Doomsday Machine too - in fact, we don't even really know if Kirk's final command to be beamed to the Enterprise was even heard by the Enterprise. The safest bet was probably to rig a manual switch to do something like retrieving all the rods out of the reactor (except this is a fusion reactor, not a "nuclear" reactor.)
Besides, all that is really moot. If Kirk isn't in danger, the show doesn't get any viewers!
Call it me, but I would've found a way to attach a shuttle to the bridge airlock (unless that only happened in the refit) and booked it out of there on my own. It's just as easy to transport from a shuttle, no?
And he didn't even violate the prime directive lol.
Did Scotty say, "What the fuck?" when it shorted out again?
He told Spock to F off.
@@jaimhaas5170 😂🤣😂🤣