I don't hear this episode mentioned too often among fan discussions about the original series. But it is one of my favorites from the second season. Mostly because of the way it highlights again the relationship between "the big three!"
I guess we should be glad that they didn't do a Next Generation follow-up on this episode, or we'd have had Captain Picard doing an impassioned speech about amoeba rights like he did in "Silicon Avatar" for the Crystalline Entity.
- Right, Good on that Doctor for putting that literal monster down and avenging her Son. Standing orders to sound blast that kind of creature on sight should be the general rule.
Yeah, even as an overly idealistic kid, I was confused by that… Did Picard forget that the entity consciously communicated with a homicidal android to conspire mass murder? It was clearly sentient and malevolent. That scientist did nothing wrong when she destroyed it.
If the creature knew what it was doing, then it was clearly malignant and I can't feel sorry it was destroyed, but the ep wanted the audience to believe the creature didn't really know and was only trying to survive. However I'm not sure it proved that. Either way, the scientist woman's grief was heartrending to see. Any parent would feel the same. She doesn't deserve any punishment for that, altho I imagine we're to believe her career was censured or ended afterwards.
That episode stil fckn angers me.... Picard ALLOWED the thing to go its way in data lore. How many people has it consumed after that, how many planets?
*Sigh* Why couldn't they just take a queue from the video games and explore the post dominion war Star Trek era with new characters? Star Trek should be forward looking not retconning the past for all of Picard's and Lower Decks faults at least they got that much right.
@@Terminalsanity Which is why I will cut Discovery Season 3 some slack. I mean it still has a lot of problems but its at least better than the first two and has an interesting setting.
Clearly the multiple planetary sized mega amoeba grew up in a large Nebula cloud, gobbling up dust and energy, and now is floating around looking for more to munch on.
Prior to this Spock named McCoy as his closest friend next to Kirk. It's a threeway bromance...ohh...pure choice of words. Anyway. You can easily take McCoy's nattering as Spock prepares for his kamikaze mission as McCoy running his mouth to keep his own mind off fear and worry about his friend.
The irony was this created before we discovered macro and massive scale single cell organisms. Not necessarily ambia like, but still a single cell, with one being the size of basketball. So it wouldn't take much to increase even further given enough time and environmental pressure. I say this because we are still unsure how the ones we have could exist.
I don't know why the space amoeba would be any more inherently absurd than the multitude of beings with god-like powers whose disparate goals and brands of omnipotence somehow don't conflict with each other.
I like how the zone of darkness is now in the same shape as the Amoeba in the remastered version . Also the remastered version of the Amoeba kinda has a human face on it behind its nucleus .
Long ago I dubbed this one 'Attack of the Giant Germ', which sounds like a Powerpuff Girls short subject. It's an average episode in its general effect, though I think it must have been the cheapest to produce. No guest cast, no new costumes, sets or props. No miniature shots, no new incidental music. I've been told that Wink of an Eye was the cheapest, but I don't see how it could be.
know what i have just noticed, 80 uears later... how insanely short spick's trousers are... is it just nimoy's height or did gene want vulcans in capris?
I wish the other platform you use was more device friendly. I can't watch the last two B5 videos until my new tower is ready. My portable devices can't handle the video element.
Long time SF Debris follower. I’d seen bits and pieces of Star Trek before, but it wasn’t until last year I decided to binge the whole of TOS and TNG. I’m surprised by the high rating, if only because I didn’t remember this episode at all. I got it confused with The Tholian Web, because that’s another one were Bones and Spock get good character interaction and the ship is in danger. I think it’s the amoeba, after all the weird anomalies and planet cracking cones and crystal jellyfish in space, “a giant germ that just sits there” is boring and forgettable in comparison.
He apparently uploads to multiple hosts now, to avoid any one host getting taken down. So I think this is SFDebris Red because UA-cam's logo is red. You want to see all his content, it's still best to go to the website linked in the description.
@@ZipplyZane I thought it was a play on the NBC Red and Blue networks. Fun Fact: the Blue Network, as part of antitrust rules, eventually became the independent ABC.
Strange New Worlds **might** do some things to improve Sybok. I mean, they gave Number One a real personality (and dumped the "she's secretly in love with Pike" from the Cage), so why not fix a few other things.
They saw the USS Intrepid under repairs on Starbase 11 during "Court Martial". That must have been before it got an all-Vulcan crew (probably from the Vulcan Science Academy). I guess Spock didn't transfer to join them because they couldn't shut up about him being half-human when he was a kid. Vulcans are racists who don't want to work alongside humans so demanded their own Constitution Class ship. We previously saw a couple Vulcan women get their jollies seeing Kirk and Spock fight "to the death."
Sure it's fine for the Vulcans to have a ship with only Vulcans, but the minute some humans get together and want to have a ship for only humans suddenly they're *racist*.
"Shut up, Spock! We're rescuing you!"
"Why, thank you, Captain McCoy."
I feel it....as though as a million Vulcans suddenly cried out...and then were silenced
....wait
I don't hear this episode mentioned too often among fan discussions about the original series. But it is one of my favorites from the second season. Mostly because of the way it highlights again the relationship between "the big three!"
I guess we should be glad that they didn't do a Next Generation follow-up on this episode, or we'd have had Captain Picard doing an impassioned speech about amoeba rights like he did in "Silicon Avatar" for the Crystalline Entity.
- Right, Good on that Doctor for putting that literal monster down and avenging her Son. Standing orders to sound blast that kind of creature on sight should be the general rule.
Yeah, even as an overly idealistic kid, I was confused by that… Did Picard forget that the entity consciously communicated with a homicidal android to conspire mass murder? It was clearly sentient and malevolent. That scientist did nothing wrong when she destroyed it.
If the creature knew what it was doing, then it was clearly malignant and I can't feel sorry it was destroyed, but the ep wanted the audience to believe the creature didn't really know and was only trying to survive. However I'm not sure it proved that.
Either way, the scientist woman's grief was heartrending to see. Any parent would feel the same.
She doesn't deserve any punishment for that, altho I imagine we're to believe her career was censured or ended afterwards.
That episode stil fckn angers me.... Picard ALLOWED the thing to go its way in data lore.
How many people has it consumed after that, how many planets?
Huh. I forgot about this review.
Good episode, good review.
I think TNG recycled the energy drain concept a couple times, but never with an amoeba.
Oh, the backstory joke.. I almost spat out my food there ;P
*Sigh* Why couldn't they just take a queue from the video games and explore the post dominion war Star Trek era with new characters? Star Trek should be forward looking not retconning the past for all of Picard's and Lower Decks faults at least they got that much right.
@@Terminalsanity Which is why I will cut Discovery Season 3 some slack. I mean it still has a lot of problems but its at least better than the first two and has an interesting setting.
Star Trek 5 did it first, so, ball's in someone else's court.
The largest known specimen of an amoeba measured ten centimeters in diameter.
They aren't all itty bitty.
seeing as this one is bigger than earth?
they're all itty-bitty by comparison
Clearly the multiple planetary sized mega amoeba grew up in a large Nebula cloud, gobbling up dust and energy, and now is floating around looking for more to munch on.
That's insane WHAT THE FUUUU-
12:27 - all the talk about peril had me thinking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail... "Oh come one, let me face the peril!", "No, it's too perilous."
I remember watching this as a kid, and being scared by the premise.
Prior to this Spock named McCoy as his closest friend next to Kirk. It's a threeway bromance...ohh...pure choice of words. Anyway. You can easily take McCoy's nattering as Spock prepares for his kamikaze mission as McCoy running his mouth to keep his own mind off fear and worry about his friend.
One of my favourite episodes.
Star Trek making the absurd very entertaining and engaging...love it
A perfect summation of TOS lmao
The irony was this created before we discovered macro and massive scale single cell organisms. Not necessarily ambia like, but still a single cell, with one being the size of basketball. So it wouldn't take much to increase even further given enough time and environmental pressure. I say this because we are still unsure how the ones we have could exist.
Holy shet what? There's a basketball-size single celled organism???
I don't know why the space amoeba would be any more inherently absurd than the multitude of beings with god-like powers whose disparate goals and brands of omnipotence somehow don't conflict with each other.
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Sounds like they have an instant case of multiple sclerosis😢
Thanks for the UA-cam link 🥰😇
I like how the zone of darkness is now in the same shape as the Amoeba in the remastered version . Also the remastered version of the Amoeba kinda has a human face on it behind its nucleus .
Giant space amoebas are best amoebas.
... and now I'm having MoO2 flashbacks. Great.
All amoebas matter bro
Long ago I dubbed this one 'Attack of the Giant Germ', which sounds like a Powerpuff Girls short subject. It's an average episode in its general effect, though I think it must have been the cheapest to produce. No guest cast, no new costumes, sets or props. No miniature shots, no new incidental music. I've been told that Wink of an Eye was the cheapest, but I don't see how it could be.
know what i have just noticed, 80 uears later... how insanely short spick's trousers are... is it just nimoy's height or did gene want vulcans in capris?
Stranger things have happened... like said amoeba following you home like a puppy dog.
It wants a friend! 😅
@@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs I was referring to something from Stellaris... but yes. That might be true.
@@ImperatorPenguin oh oof I don't even know what that is guess I missed your reference
Just imagine the things an ameoba of this size could turn into.
I get the names of this and "Operation: Annihilate" mixed up for their stories about killing alien life forms.
I wish the other platform you use was more device friendly. I can't watch the last two B5 videos until my new tower is ready. My portable devices can't handle the video element.
Enterprise is attacked by the IRS !
Long time SF Debris follower. I’d seen bits and pieces of Star Trek before, but it wasn’t until last year I decided to binge the whole of TOS and TNG. I’m surprised by the high rating, if only because I didn’t remember this episode at all. I got it confused with The Tholian Web, because that’s another one were Bones and Spock get good character interaction and the ship is in danger. I think it’s the amoeba, after all the weird anomalies and planet cracking cones and crystal jellyfish in space, “a giant germ that just sits there” is boring and forgettable in comparison.
Shatner looks so very tired in this episode.
Lol. Yeah
He was starting to put on a little weight by this time
If they're in opposite world and forward engines make you go forward, why not try sedatives instead of stims to keep people awake?
Perhaps it's only mechanically opposite?
@@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs everything is mechanics if you zoom in far enough
@@73rmin8r ur probably rite lol
What is SFDebris Red? Is this actually sfdebris? Not finding info about why there is a second channel.
It’s official, it’s on his website. I’m not 100% sure why he has 2 channels now but I assume it’s in case of copyright strikes.
He apparently uploads to multiple hosts now, to avoid any one host getting taken down. So I think this is SFDebris Red because UA-cam's logo is red.
You want to see all his content, it's still best to go to the website linked in the description.
@@ZipplyZane I thought it was a play on the NBC Red and Blue networks.
Fun Fact: the Blue Network, as part of antitrust rules, eventually became the independent ABC.
@@KonElKent I didn't know that, but it's probably part of it. Still, he likely decided to make UA-cam the red one due to the logo.
Red is his comedic sarcastic reviews, Blue is his editorial serious material.
how come we didnt see the ruins of the INtrepid? And How could a crew of regular Earth bound humans outsmart a 400 crew of Vulcans?
Being second gives them an advantage.
I like this episode there was a lot of thrusting and penetration in this!
looks more like a paramecium
Make the decision for yourself whether the contrived relative is Michael Burnham or Sybok
Strange New Worlds **might** do some things to improve Sybok. I mean, they gave Number One a real personality (and dumped the "she's secretly in love with Pike" from the Cage), so why not fix a few other things.
Kick it in the Jimmies!
They saw the USS Intrepid under repairs on Starbase 11 during "Court Martial". That must have been before it got an all-Vulcan crew (probably from the Vulcan Science Academy). I guess Spock didn't transfer to join them because they couldn't shut up about him being half-human when he was a kid. Vulcans are racists who don't want to work alongside humans so demanded their own Constitution Class ship. We previously saw a couple Vulcan women get their jollies seeing Kirk and Spock fight "to the death."
Sure it's fine for the Vulcans to have a ship with only Vulcans, but the minute some humans get together and want to have a ship for only humans suddenly they're *racist*.
This narration put me to sleep.