I love how the actor in the Gorn suit clearly can’t see anything, so he’s walking on those rocks as slowly and carefully as possible to not trip and die! So much charm in these TOS episodes!
Mythbusters tried to reproduce the bamboo cannon but overlooked one factor, the battle did not take place on Earth. Whatever planet Kirk and the Gorn fought on must have a lot stronger bamboo than what could ever be found on Earth.
I believe the Gorn was also the Captain of his own ship. As silly as this Sci-Fi show might seem, it is brilliant in the fact that it showcases one of the best qualities of the humanrace--compassion. That's our Captain Kirk!
No one can convince me that the final scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Predator (in the movie with the latter's name, right after Schwarzenegger's character's booby trap was dropped straight down from the tree) wasn't influenced by Captain Kirk's behavior in the scene here immediately after the cannon discharge.
At the end. That higher being says we're still Half Savage even though Kirk didn't kill the Gorn. After seeing people fight over Toilet Paper during covid and Black Friday sales. He has a point.
@@Hawken54 I strongly agree. We Humans as a species... To quote Optimus Prime, Leader of The Autobots: "Were we so different? They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
Honestly Gene Rodenberry was a freakin genius. Seriously, when you sit there an watch the series some of the stuff that he addressed were far beyon his time. For real, come on Cell phone techology, raical integration, germ warefare, nuclear warefare, warp speed. Dam I tell you he was probably an alien himself. A genius I tell you!
Maybe, but most of that stuff wasn't specifically 'ahead of its time'... for example, the US military had walkie-talkies/handie-talkies(SCR-536) and nukes, 20 years before Star Trek, as well as racial integration, however limited (see the movie 'Go For Broke', which tells the story of the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team, in 1943). Germ warfare, such as anthrax, were also created for WWII. So we had all that, 20 years before Star Trek... with the exception of 'warp speed', which isn't real. I do agree that GR was probably a genius of some kind, though.
@hxhdfjifzirstc894: In the years between WWII and Vietnam, humans developed faster-than-the-speed-of-sound flight, and used Mach numbers. The numbers for Warp speed is like that for the speed of light.
@@davidcaldwell4916 Yeah, we also learned why the Gorn attacked the colony, which was due to the Gorn's highly territorial nature as they were trying to reclaim lost territory of their ancestors, something present even in Star Trek Online after the Gorn have been absorbed by the Klingon Empire.
I'm 35 and my father is 55 and both of us love this episode. The Gorn was so ridiculous it was good. Why people would mock this episode compared to the rest of series is beyond me. A lot of stuff from Star Trek gets referenced today for it's moral messages but the show had some really chessy crap in it as well.
It never had any cheesy crap in it. If anything had cheesy crap in it, it was that next generation space boy space toy stuff. The Original Star Trek series Rules!
@kitcat7538: But Kirk had intended to blast the alien vessel into space junk before the chase was stopped by the Metron. He planned to wipe out the whole crew of the Gorn spaceship.
I love how, with all the advanced tech in Starfleet, Kirk still knows how to make a fire. I can see that being a thing everyone would know in the 60s. But I cannot see anyone these days knowing how to do that anymore due to the dependence on technology. I didn't even know how to do it until a few years ago.
But eventually, the movies showed us that Kirk enjoys camping. So that’s probably why he knows how to make a fire. (If the goal was to get closer to nature, he would probably leave his phaser at home.)
Once again this episode just shows that Kirk is absolutely THE MAN. I don’t care what anyone says no other Star Trek Captain could pull this off. I love at the start of the episode he puts Spock in his place and basically shows that you need a dump truck to fit Kirk’s balls into
@@calvinmasters6159 She would of complained so much about not having coffee on the planet the Gorn would of killed himself just so he wouldn't have to hear the word coffee again.
Can't keep running if the Gorn keeps pursuing you. Imagine if it doesn't need much sleep. Humans caught wild horses by chasing them relentlessly, until they tired out.
Based on a short story of the same title by Fredric Brown, written in 1949. The original story was, of course, not a STAR TREK story, but adapted for use as an episode of TREK. The alien antagonist in the original story, which was described as a spheroidal creature with tentacles that could protrude from slits in its body, could, at that time, only conceivably been realized by means of stop-motion, the use of which would have exceeded TREK's effects budget for the episode. I've noticed many criticizing the Gorn suit, but, for '60s TV, it actually looks pretty good. The original story ends differently; I feel STAR TREK improved the ending.
The plot to this episode is a reference to the 1944 science fiction short story Arena the main difference being the ending. In the short story the Human protagonists kills the alien opponent (called the outsider) and in doing so exterminates his entire species as the aliens brought the two together to fight out their war because they saw that ultimately both sides would be destroyed. As seen here Star Trek, and Kirk, reject this outright and instead Kirk embraces peace and forgiveness.
The story of “Arena’s” adaptation into this episode is actually more convoluted. When writer-producer Gene Coon turned in the script the studio’s research department discovered the link to the Frederick Brown short story, which Coon had read but forgotten years before. So the project could be salvaged, Brown was given a payment and story credit.
This ending where Kirk spares the Gorn always leaves me in awe. I wish all people would remember the advanced trait of mercy. The more times I see this, the less cheesy it gets and the more profound it becomes.
I think this myth was basically busted in "Strange New Worlds", when it gave more background to the Gorn. They would have laughed in the face of this "mercy", shipped you to their nursery planet and used you and your family as breeding sacs to feed their parasitic young. Most of Nature is like that: it's called survival of the fittest, not the most merciful.
Im 60 and everytime i watch a movie with that landscape i always notice that particular rock formation, its probably on the back lot of the studio where they must have filmed a thousand movies.
What a sweetheart Kirk is for not stabbing the Gorn in cold blood, right after he shot him with a cannon at point-blank range. A real peace-lovin' Quaker is Kirk!
To be fair, Gorn are a naturally sturdy race, and a canon to the face that was obviously more like buck shot only could really do so much. Though, most creatures have a habit of dying easily when stabbed in the neck.
Written independently of Fredric Brown’s fantastic, highly similar 1944 short story “Arena”. It was right gentlemanly of producer Gene Coon to give him screen credit.
What if the Gorn gets up, grabs a cane and hat, and sings "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!" like the dancing frog on Looney Tunes?
yes this is a feat of extreme engineering, Kirk had to get the gunpowder mixture perfect, make an accurate fuse,,,,,, ensure the bamboo had a gas tight seal and aim it accurately, from Kirks trajectory of cannon if Gorn was 12 foot he would have hit him
The most beautiful fight scene ever. This is not a story about lightsabers, violence and people killing each other. Star Trek is a story about ethics, humanity, politics and civilization. Suck it, haters;
Kirk is actually well-versed in science and chemistry while not being a full-on Spock. The sciences alone are not enough for starship commander types, though they possess at least reasonable knowledge in science.
In one episode of TOS, someone who attended Starfleet Academy with Kirk says that the Kirk of those days was "a stack of books with legs". A serious and ambitious student, then.
@@kitcat7538 Exactly. Captains have to at least have a GENERAL idea of what their science officers are talking about. Kirk probably forced himself to understand science texts, although I'm sure he preferred the military strategy books.
When you learn science at school you don't learn ALL science. Like every chemical reaction.. So it's unlikely he'd know gunpowder. But it's pointless arguing about it lol
“No. No, I won’t kill you. Maybe you thought you were… protecting yourself… when you attacked the outpost.” “No, I won’t kill him! Do you hear? You have to get your entertainment someplace else!”
Try Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Thoughtful, literate scripts. Superb acting and direction. A huge number of subtle, nuanced characters. Episodic plots which are properly resolved, so that one can miss an episode without losing the thread, accompanied by overriding arcs which carry the series forward. Beautiful spacious sets. Colorful costumes and excellent makeup for the nonhuman characters. A fascinating set of species -- each with its own culture -- and the infinite ways for them to interact with one another: shifting alliances, religious schisms, different concepts of honor, commercial conflicts, independence movements, spy networks. An epic tapestry!
Why are people hating on the realism of this? It's a freakin' 1960's sci-fi series! Appreciate it for what it is, not what you think it should be today! The fun is the fantasy!
You know whats cool about this clip? The fact that there is a Trekkie out there that can tell me the following: -When they Switch from Shatner to Lubins -Where every part of the set was found & where it is now -How many different wardrobes there are in this scene -Where they got that Godzilla suit. It's just amazing.
@Devious1Funk: The Gorn's a lizard species, and it knows it can't function if it gets too cold. He worries he may freeze up and drop like a frozen iguana.
As a snot nosed 3rd grader in the 80s this used to scare the shit outta me but sparked my vivid imagination of whats out there. As a 48 yo man, this is a portrayal of a nightly ritual btween my wife and I, tryin to get her to come to bed. She usually plays the Gorn.
All these years later, and I still love this show. I'm convinced that Gene Roddenberry was psychic, or a visionary. Do not the communicators look like flip phones? We use tablets and styluses all the time now, in everyday life. Diagnostic beds are a must in hospitals. Even the disks that they use in the computers look like the old 3 1/2 inch floppies that we used to use. Seriously, maybe he was psychic or something. (If you believe in that kind of thing.)
I’d like to think that our smart phones are better than ST tricorders. I would’ve never thought in my lifetime that I would have the technology that we all take for granted now. Having said that, it is also amazing how the smart phone seems to make some people so dumb…
At the end. That higher being says we're still Half Savage even though Kirk didn't kill the Gorn. After seeing people fight over Toilet Paper during covid and Black Friday sales. He has a point.
@yuirrr Damn straight. Some people think that good special effect = good story telling. Wrong. There's a reason we forgive the foam boulders and all the other "flaws". Just as yuirrr tells it, it's because of superb story telling about humanity, ethics, politics and civilization. I would add friendship to that list. When we watch Star Trek we learn more about ourselves. Timeless.
This episode remains a cult classic if no other reason because of the manner in which it is held to such ridicule and derision among fans. The story line itself is one that is naive and highly impropable, doesn't really make sense. An advanced race with seemingly limiltles ability to prevent confrontation between The Enterprise and the Gorn, instead teleport Captain Kirk and the Gorn Commander in a battle to the Death, with winner take all to survive and while the crew and ship of the losing side being destroyed. The Gorn Commander's clumsy slow-motion gait, body movement is the basic butt of the entire episode, one that reamains the singular focus of fan ridicule throughout the entire show appearing in incredibly amusing disbelief as if watching a video in slow motion. But it is this clownish movement that belies the Gorn's overwhelmingly superior strength, physcial abilities that works to the Gorn's advantage in enslaring Captain Kirk in a trap he nearly survives
We have no evidence that the Gorn captain and crew were destroyed. Only that the Earthlings were accepted as civilised and allowed to enter the aliens' area of Space. Obviously when the aliens told Kirk he and his ship would be destroyed if he lost they were lying to him. If they hadn't lied, there would have been no fight and no test. The original Fredric Brown story made it a fight to the death, but the Star Trek writers rejected that.
Gorn lifted a boulder with ease, yet couldn't grapple with Kirk,,,,,, and when Kirk was trapped by a 15 ton boulder Gorn shifted it first before trying to stab Kirk, obviously not a great intellect, on saying that the rubber suit he was wearing did restrict his movements
Yes that's a fact, he is a lizard,,,, but why is he wearing fingerless arm length gloves,,,,,, knee-high crocodile skin boots and an halter neck dress??????
It is the quality of the acting that puts this series, Star Trek: The Original Series, across. Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan rise above sometimes banal scripts and cheap sets to hold the audience with sheer talent and charisma. And when the scripts are good, the quality of the acting makes the experience magical. Try Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Thoughtful, literate scripts. Superb acting and direction. A huge number of subtle, nuanced characters. Episodic plots which are properly resolved, so that one can miss an episode without losing the thread, accompanied by overriding arcs which carry the series forward. Beautiful spacious sets. Colorful costumes and excellent makeup for the nonhuman characters. A fascinating set of species -- each with its own culture -- and the infinite ways for them to interact with one another: shifting alliances, religious schisms, different concepts of honor, commercial conflicts, independence movements, spy networks. An epic tapestry!
Gorn doesnt have mobility on his side,,,,,,,,,, and he is breathing like an asthmatic pensioner who is on 5 packs of untipped cigarettes a day,, Gorn really did telegraph those punches, he looks like the time lapse photography used on early Disney films
i would agree, but Gorn could press about 200 kilos of boulder off his chest, then struggled in a hand to hand fight with Kirk. but despite all of that he spoke almost perfect English, funny old world isnt it?
@@stevenwilliams4172 Perhaps getting the boulder off his chest sapped what strength he had. The convention of the Universal Translator kicking in! Where would sci-fi be without it? In Deep Space Nine, the Kingons in their own ships speak English to one another, enabling us to follow and enjoy the intricacies of internal Klingon politics and relationships. Leave that out, and you get trash like Discovery with its repulsive KlingOrcs grunting through rubber masks while the viewers read subtitles. It isn't possible then for anything like the nuance of expression and characterisation of Deep Space Nine's wonderful Klingons -- or even TOS' Klingons. I'd have more respect for a Gorn than a KlingOrc any day.
In the James Blish novelization, he wrote that when Kirk tested the bamboo, it gave a metallic ring. It would partially explain why the cannon worked. To me, the hard part believing was Kirk getting the mixture right for the gunpowder in so short a period of time.
They were both prisoners of an alien entity. It was up to the alien entity what disposition to make of the Gorn. In the event, it sent him back to his ship and sent Kirk back to the Enterprise.
Ah, that age old Gorn saying: Never bring a stone dagger to a wooden cannon fight.
Lmao!
Or the old Teddy Roosevelt saying: Speak softly and carry a big wooden cannon.
Boxhawk
rust logic
I think that cannon could have been made by the Professor on Gilgan's Island......
Nevah bring a shtone daggah to a wooden cannon fight.
I love how the actor in the Gorn suit clearly can’t see anything, so he’s walking on those rocks as slowly and carefully as possible to not trip and die! So much charm in these TOS episodes!
No doubt there are some bloopers of him falling somewhere
I bet it was like a 100F that day and he couldn't drink water in that suit.
It looked to me that Shat had a stunt double, running up and down on those rocks?
Not to mention that it was probably a million degrees in that suit and very uncomfortable to wear.
They didn't have CGI back then.
Mythbusters tried to reproduce the bamboo cannon but overlooked one factor, the battle did not take place on Earth. Whatever planet Kirk and the Gorn fought on must have a lot stronger bamboo than what could ever be found on Earth.
That's not really hard to imagine, it would just need a higher silicone content.
Why does nobody see that captain kirk tied the bamboo tube around its contour with rope? That gives extra strength so the tube won't burst???!
@@coolpaulmechanic The Mythbusters did exactly that during their experiments. It still didn't work.
I've one from a documentary firing a bamboo cannon at it worked with a buckshot a full size ball damage the gun
Cestus 3
Here today, Gorn tomorrow.
get out!
Gosh freaking dangit
Why'd he disappear? Was it not real?
Here today, predator the day after!
@@gaminggoof1542It was real, he was just transported back to his ship.
I believe the Gorn was also the Captain of his own ship. As silly as this Sci-Fi show might seem, it is brilliant in the fact that it showcases one of the best qualities of the humanrace--compassion.
That's our Captain Kirk!
The alien Metron did say that the Gorn was captain of the Gorn ship earlier on the episode .
No one can convince me that the final scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Predator (in the movie with the latter's name, right after Schwarzenegger's character's booby trap was dropped straight down from the tree) wasn't influenced by Captain Kirk's behavior in the scene here immediately after the cannon discharge.
Wow, I never thought of that before. Nice catch!
I related to the same scene 😂
I'm really glad Kirk showed mercy by refusing to kill the Gorn Captain. Wise move.
At the end. That higher being says we're still Half Savage even though Kirk
didn't kill the Gorn. After seeing people fight over Toilet Paper during covid
and Black Friday sales. He has a point.
@@Hawken54 I strongly agree. We Humans as a species... To quote Optimus Prime, Leader of The Autobots: "Were we so different? They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
love how everyone on the ship is watching kirk the same way people at home would be watching the show
I was laughing. If they were stuffing their mouths with popcorn, i would have laughed myself to the gorn homeworld.
Honestly Gene Rodenberry was a freakin genius. Seriously, when you sit there an watch the series some of the stuff that he addressed were far beyon his time. For real, come on Cell phone techology, raical integration, germ warefare, nuclear warefare, warp speed. Dam I tell you he was probably an alien himself. A genius I tell you!
Maybe, but most of that stuff wasn't specifically 'ahead of its time'... for example, the US military had walkie-talkies/handie-talkies(SCR-536) and nukes, 20 years before Star Trek, as well as racial integration, however limited (see the movie 'Go For Broke', which tells the story of the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team, in 1943). Germ warfare, such as anthrax, were also created for WWII.
So we had all that, 20 years before Star Trek... with the exception of 'warp speed', which isn't real. I do agree that GR was probably a genius of some kind, though.
@hxhdfjifzirstc894: In the years between WWII and Vietnam, humans developed faster-than-the-speed-of-sound flight, and used Mach numbers. The numbers for Warp speed is like that for the speed of light.
Shoots him with a blast-full canon,
''No I wont kill you''
Well in Kirk's defense it was self defense, and besides chances are the gorn captain got treated for the wounds if they were lethal.
@@davidcaldwell4916 Which he did, as he later appeared in some old comics from my knowledge.
@@funkmantim2661 Really now?
@@davidcaldwell4916 Yeah, we also learned why the Gorn attacked the colony, which was due to the Gorn's highly territorial nature as they were trying to reclaim lost territory of their ancestors, something present even in Star Trek Online after the Gorn have been absorbed by the Klingon Empire.
@@funkmantim2661 Wow.
I'm 35 and my father is 55 and both of us love this episode. The Gorn was so ridiculous it was good. Why people would mock this episode compared to the rest of series is beyond me. A lot of stuff from Star Trek gets referenced today for it's moral messages but the show had some really chessy crap in it as well.
It never had any cheesy crap in it. If anything had cheesy crap in it, it was that next generation space boy space toy stuff. The Original Star Trek series Rules!
'No, I won't kill him'. Now I know that's a quote
Gene Anthony 6 year check in. How are things going now?
@@costco_pizza he's 41 and dads 61. They drink romulan ale and give each other Mr. Spock death pinches while speaking Klingon.
People don’t realize this today because it’s done so seamlessly but the Gorn did a lot of his own stunts.
It's perfectly reasonable that Kirk had the know-how to make gun powder and fashion a bazooka. Thats why he's the Captain.
Remember your basic chemistry!😊
"no i wont kill you, i'll just let you bleed out in the desert" lol
It wasn't up to Kirk. He and the Gorn were both prisoners of an alien entity.
@kitcat7538: But Kirk had intended to blast the alien vessel into space junk before the chase was stopped by the Metron. He planned to wipe out the whole crew of the Gorn spaceship.
I just purchased Gorn the action figure for $100! I can't get over my Dad saying "no" during my childhood!
I hope you are referring to the Asylum Diamond Select Gorn figure.
One of those memorable episodes showing Capt. Kirk's humanity.
I love how, with all the advanced tech in Starfleet, Kirk still knows how to make a fire. I can see that being a thing everyone would know in the 60s. But I cannot see anyone these days knowing how to do that anymore due to the dependence on technology. I didn't even know how to do it until a few years ago.
He also makes gunpowder and a one-time-use cannon.
But eventually, the movies showed us that Kirk enjoys camping. So that’s probably why he knows how to make a fire. (If the goal was to get closer to nature, he would probably leave his phaser at home.)
Once again this episode just shows that Kirk is absolutely THE MAN. I don’t care what anyone says no other Star Trek Captain could pull this off. I love at the start of the episode he puts Spock in his place and basically shows that you need a dump truck to fit Kirk’s balls into
Captain Kathryn (the Borgslayer) Janeway would have made short work of that Gorn.
@@kitcat7538 Yeah, she would have lectured him to death.
@@calvinmasters6159 She would of complained so much about not having coffee on the planet the Gorn would of killed himself just so he wouldn't have to hear the word coffee again.
@DeathlordSlavik:
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Kirk had to come up with something quickly....everyone knows you can't outrun a gorn.
Can't keep running if the Gorn keeps pursuing you. Imagine if it doesn't need much sleep.
Humans caught wild horses by chasing them relentlessly, until they tired out.
Based on a short story of the same title by Fredric Brown, written in 1949. The original story was, of course, not a STAR TREK story, but adapted for use as an episode of TREK. The alien antagonist in the original story, which was described as a spheroidal creature with tentacles that could protrude from slits in its body, could, at that time, only conceivably been realized by means of stop-motion, the use of which would have exceeded TREK's effects budget for the episode. I've noticed many criticizing the Gorn suit, but, for '60s TV, it actually looks pretty good. The original story ends differently; I feel STAR TREK improved the ending.
The plot to this episode is a reference to the 1944 science fiction short story Arena the main difference being the ending. In the short story the Human protagonists kills the alien opponent (called the outsider) and in doing so exterminates his entire species as the aliens brought the two together to fight out their war because they saw that ultimately both sides would be destroyed. As seen here Star Trek, and Kirk, reject this outright and instead Kirk embraces peace and forgiveness.
The story of “Arena’s” adaptation into this episode is actually more convoluted. When writer-producer Gene Coon turned in the script the studio’s research department discovered the link to the Frederick Brown short story, which Coon had read but forgotten years before. So the project could be salvaged, Brown was given a payment and story credit.
I miss old TV shows, like this ....
I love the other scene where the Gorn walks right into the lens of the camera. EPIC! Hey, when you are a kid that's scary.
Scared this 8 year old back in '67 !
One of my favourite moments of TOS, it looks heaps corny and old but it is epic and in many ways it seeded the future of sci-fi TV shows.
This ending where Kirk spares the Gorn always leaves me in awe. I wish all people would remember the advanced trait of mercy. The more times I see this, the less cheesy it gets and the more profound it becomes.
Kill or be killed is the way of nature.
@@cjomurph7380 There are some things that seem natural that human beings have evolved out of. Why can’t we evolve out of violence?
WE CAN EVOLVE
Ban all assault obsidian knifes
I think this myth was basically busted in "Strange New Worlds", when it gave more background to the Gorn. They would have laughed in the face of this "mercy", shipped you to their nursery planet and used you and your family as breeding sacs to feed their parasitic young. Most of Nature is like that: it's called survival of the fittest, not the most merciful.
Im 60 and everytime i watch a movie with that landscape i always notice that particular rock formation, its probably on the back lot of the studio where they must have filmed a thousand movies.
Vasquez Rocks near Agua Dulce, north of LA. Scene of many movies and TV programs.
Looks like captain kirk made himself a ghost gun. The ATF would like a word with him.
It's OK, since he didn't sell it.
What a sweetheart Kirk is for not stabbing the Gorn in cold blood, right after he shot him with a cannon at point-blank range. A real peace-lovin' Quaker is Kirk!
To be fair, Gorn are a naturally sturdy race, and a canon to the face that was obviously more like buck shot only could really do so much.
Though, most creatures have a habit of dying easily when stabbed in the neck.
And Kirk's alternative to shooting the Gorn in his own defense was ...?
The needs of the many, are greater than the needs of the few, or the One.
Greatest lines ever spoken by a Crewman of the Enterprise.
I like how in Starfleet Battles, the Federation and the Gorn Confederation are staunch allies .
I was a kid when this came out!! Scared the crap out of me. 😂
Star Trek needed way more Gorn, damn it
Written independently of Fredric Brown’s fantastic, highly similar 1944 short story “Arena”. It was right gentlemanly of producer Gene Coon to give him screen credit.
What if the Gorn gets up, grabs a cane and hat, and sings "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!" like the dancing frog on Looney Tunes?
well i know it doesnt make any sense here but i gotta give you a like for the reference anyway
Or the baby Alien from Space Balls
Did someone order the special?
He had the space soup.
I’d say “check, please,” and leave the place.
You could say the Gorn got Bamboozled.
He should have gone for a wicked-wango card!!!
Diamonds aren't a Gorn's best friend.
yes this is a feat of extreme engineering, Kirk had to get the gunpowder mixture perfect, make an accurate fuse,,,,,, ensure the bamboo had a gas tight seal and aim it accurately, from Kirks trajectory of cannon if Gorn was 12 foot he would have hit him
I know! You construct a weapon. Look around you - can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
LOL
One of the greatest movies ever made.
Yeah! Galaxy Quest just nailed it.
Whoever wrote that line in Galaxy Quest should get a medal.
Nice clip. I was actually at that location and met the "Gorn" a few years ago.
They don’t get enough credit for what they do
2:09 Anyone notice Kirk makes a surprised face while looking at the dying Gorn BEFORE it disappears?
Yes the gorn suit would be ridiculous if it was not understated.
The most beautiful fight scene ever.
This is not a story about lightsabers, violence and people killing each other.
Star Trek is a story about ethics, humanity, politics and civilization.
Suck it, haters;
Morality Plays.
It's sci-fi, but it's really about us. Who we are, where we've come from, where we're going 🖖
Kirk is actually well-versed in science and chemistry while not being a full-on Spock. The sciences alone are not enough for starship commander types, though they possess at least reasonable knowledge in science.
In one episode of TOS, someone who attended Starfleet Academy with Kirk says that the Kirk of those days was "a stack of books with legs". A serious and ambitious student, then.
@@kitcat7538 Exactly. Captains have to at least have a GENERAL idea of what their science officers are talking about. Kirk probably forced himself to understand science texts, although I'm sure he preferred the military strategy books.
I like when this happens. I’m remembering when he fixes some of the Constellation controls in The Doomsday Machine too.
When you learn science at school you don't learn ALL science. Like every chemical reaction..
So it's unlikely he'd know gunpowder. But it's pointless arguing about it lol
“No. No, I won’t kill you. Maybe you thought you were… protecting yourself… when you attacked the outpost.”
“No, I won’t kill him! Do you hear? You have to get your entertainment someplace else!”
good thing kirk was in science class
Good to see that episodes of MacGyver made it to the 23rd century.
"No, I won't kill him! It's a man in a suit!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@PvtJ8ker I'm 21 and I discovered the classic Star Trek series 1 year ago. Needless to say I fell instantly in love.
Try Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Thoughtful, literate scripts. Superb acting and direction. A huge number of subtle, nuanced characters. Episodic plots which are properly resolved, so that one can miss an episode without losing the thread, accompanied by overriding arcs which carry the series forward. Beautiful spacious sets. Colorful costumes and excellent makeup for the nonhuman characters.
A fascinating set of species -- each with its own culture -- and the infinite ways for them to interact with one another: shifting alliances, religious schisms, different concepts of honor, commercial conflicts, independence movements, spy networks.
An epic tapestry!
@@kitcat7538 lame
Such incredible acting there...by the Gorn.
My favorite all-time episode!! The 'Metrones' were merciful toward the Gorn ship.Thanks to Kirk.
this is nothing, the actual hand to hand combat between these two is breathtaking
We are indifferent to the sarcasm of trolls.
Why are people hating on the realism of this? It's a freakin' 1960's sci-fi series! Appreciate it for what it is, not what you think it should be today! The fun is the fantasy!
it was cheesy then, and I was 7!
Gorn but not forgotten
I dont know what to say to this one...
What can you say to such genius, lol?
This has gorn too far now....
Where do you think you're Gorn?
hello there
You know whats cool about this clip?
The fact that there is a Trekkie out there that can tell me the following:
-When they Switch from Shatner to Lubins
-Where every part of the set was found & where it is now
-How many different wardrobes there are in this scene
-Where they got that Godzilla suit.
It's just amazing.
is there a lightsaber attached to gorn's belt?
nah that's just a rectal thermometer...most aliens be carrying that shit.
It is... the Gorn find it useful to clear out his rectum of blockage...
@Devious1Funk: The Gorn's a lizard species, and it knows it can't function if it gets too cold. He worries he may freeze up and drop like a frozen iguana.
I love that an ominous lizard-like alien creature requires a knife.
The Great Gorn lives, to fight another day..
One of the most valid scientific processes shown on the original series!
As a snot nosed 3rd grader in the 80s this used to scare the shit outta me but sparked my vivid imagination of whats out there. As a 48 yo man, this is a portrayal of a nightly ritual btween my wife and I, tryin to get her to come to bed. She usually plays the Gorn.
But diamonds aren't a Gorn's best friend.
That Gorn lives somewhere between Chatsworth and and Palmdale..that is why a ride between those two areas is so scary
Gorn would've won if he only pressed X, X, X, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, RIGHT, RIGHT, Z, Z, START. What a shame.
No, it's up up down down left right left right B A
@@youtertIf he had used jab, jab, forward, short, fierce, then he would've won.
I remember watching this scene when I was little - great scene - liked and subscribed 👍
I totally understand it... Just look at the sad face expression Gorn has. It melted my heart
We are indifferent to the sarcasm of trolls.
Most suspenseful part for me as a kid. I was like KIRK HURRY UP BRO!
All these years later, and I still love this show. I'm convinced that Gene Roddenberry was psychic, or a visionary. Do not the communicators look like flip phones? We use tablets and styluses all the time now, in everyday life. Diagnostic beds are a must in hospitals. Even the disks that they use in the computers look like the old 3 1/2 inch floppies that we used to use. Seriously, maybe he was psychic or something. (If you believe in that kind of thing.)
He could have also inspired generations of scientists and engineers whose ideas of what's cool and futuristic would come from star trek
@@pacotaco1246 it’s true, he could have, but I doubt he would have inspired SOOO MANY. It’s creepy how MUCH stuff in ST:TOS came to fruition.
I’d like to think that our smart phones are better than ST tricorders. I would’ve never thought in my lifetime that I would have the technology that we all take for granted now. Having said that, it is also amazing how the smart phone seems to make some people so dumb…
@@pacotaco1246 , my thoughts exactly
@@Simon-oq6ds , excellent point 👉
The Gorn looks like its had a few too many Romulan Ales !!!!
It;s like the Hunger Games!! Or where Suzanne collins got the idea..? hehe iono
Right before he shot off the bamboo cannon, I thought I heard Kirk say...‘now go home and get your shine box!’
And now we know from Strange New Worlds that the Gorn are relentless merciless hunters who feed humans to their embryos.
At the end. That higher being says we're still Half Savage even though Kirk
didn't kill the Gorn. After seeing people fight over Toilet Paper during covid
and Black Friday sales. He has a point.
Definitely one of the most memorable parts of the series.
Best show ever made (from 1966). I watch this daily!
remember those days when I was of 7 years
@yuirrr Damn straight. Some people think that good special effect = good story telling. Wrong. There's a reason we forgive the foam boulders and all the other "flaws". Just as yuirrr tells it, it's because of superb story telling about humanity, ethics, politics and civilization. I would add friendship to that list. When we watch Star Trek we learn more about ourselves. Timeless.
no. people do not think that.
the greatest battle in sci-fi history LOL i love these old shows
the 1st tv show that explained how to make gunpowder
I love how Kirk doesn't put the Gorn out of its misery, but rather, let him suffer as long as possible. Truly sinister.
The Gorn’s eyes look like Shure 58 microphones. Brilliant!
"BOOM" Gorn go Down!!!
And the creature vanishes. Here today, Gorn tomorrow.
Isn't "Gorn" some kind of Amish corn chowder or something?
Gorn had to come over to see how Kirk was coming along building his mortar.
This episode remains a cult classic if no other reason because of the manner in which it is held to such ridicule and derision among fans. The story line itself is one that is naive and highly impropable, doesn't really make sense. An advanced race with seemingly limiltles ability to prevent confrontation between The Enterprise and the Gorn, instead teleport Captain Kirk and the Gorn Commander in a battle to the Death, with winner take all to survive and while the crew and ship of the losing side being destroyed. The Gorn Commander's clumsy slow-motion gait, body movement is the basic butt of the entire episode, one that reamains the singular focus of fan ridicule throughout the entire show appearing in incredibly amusing disbelief as if watching a video in slow motion. But it is this clownish movement that belies the Gorn's overwhelmingly superior strength, physcial abilities that works to the Gorn's advantage in enslaring Captain Kirk in a trap he nearly survives
You'd expect an intergalatic traveling species, implicitily flying a spaceship, to have faster reflexes than a Terran tortoise.
We have no evidence that the Gorn captain and crew were destroyed. Only that the Earthlings were accepted as civilised and allowed to enter the aliens' area of Space. Obviously when the aliens told Kirk he and his ship would be destroyed if he lost they were lying to him. If they hadn't lied, there would have been no fight and no test.
The original Fredric Brown story made it a fight to the death, but the Star Trek writers rejected that.
obviously the best episode in star trek history
If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times: the Gorn can easily defeat the Borg .
Or maybe the klingons
Vasquez Rocks in CA. Beautiful place.
Now picture Ted Cassidy in a recording studio doing the Gorn's growls and hisses into a microphone. Your welcome.
Best episode ever.
Agreed. There is nothing at all wrong with this episode.
And why does Gorn have kneepads??
For protection of his knees?
Gorn lifted a boulder with ease, yet couldn't grapple with Kirk,,,,,, and when Kirk was trapped by a 15 ton boulder Gorn shifted it first before trying to stab Kirk, obviously not a great intellect, on saying that the rubber suit he was wearing did restrict his movements
He also has elbow pads
For when he has to crawl on his belly, he is a lizard after all!!
Yes that's a fact, he is a lizard,,,, but why is he wearing fingerless arm length gloves,,,,,, knee-high crocodile skin boots and an halter neck dress??????
I’ll be honest I’ve barely seen Star Trek, heck I’ve just started the series not too long ago, but this scene will always put a huge grin on me
It is the quality of the acting that puts this series, Star Trek: The Original Series, across. Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan rise above sometimes banal scripts and cheap sets to hold the audience with sheer talent and charisma. And when the scripts are good, the quality of the acting makes the experience magical.
Try Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Thoughtful, literate scripts. Superb acting and direction. A huge number of subtle, nuanced characters. Episodic plots which are properly resolved, so that one can miss an episode without losing the thread, accompanied by overriding arcs which carry the series forward. Beautiful spacious sets. Colorful costumes and excellent makeup for the nonhuman characters.
A fascinating set of species -- each with its own culture -- and the infinite ways for them to interact with one another: shifting alliances, religious schisms, different concepts of honor, commercial conflicts, independence movements, spy networks.
An epic tapestry!
@@kitcat7538 I’ll definitely try DS9 and next gen after the original
hell, after watching this clip, i WANT to get my entertainment from someplace else
I"m Captain Kirk
Goodbye. We'll soldier on without you.
Wow... the quality of the video is outstanding if you think about it. Is this a remastered version?
Like for the inexpected final.
This should've won an Oscar
You mean an Emmy. Remember this is TV.
Well ill be dog gorn
Me when I'm home alone: 00:00
Funny
@@Philipp-ql9wg Echt?
What the ?
lmao
Gorn doesnt have mobility on his side,,,,,,,,,, and he is breathing like an asthmatic pensioner who is on 5 packs of untipped cigarettes a day,, Gorn really did telegraph those punches, he looks like the time lapse photography used on early Disney films
Reptiles are no good at all in the morning. They have to sunbathe and get their cold blood warmed before they can function at all.
i would agree, but Gorn could press about 200 kilos of boulder off his chest, then struggled in a hand to hand fight with Kirk. but despite all of that he spoke almost perfect English, funny old world isnt it?
@@stevenwilliams4172 Perhaps getting the boulder off his chest sapped what strength he had.
The convention of the Universal Translator kicking in! Where would sci-fi be without it? In Deep Space Nine, the Kingons in their own ships speak English to one another, enabling us to follow and enjoy the intricacies of internal Klingon politics and relationships. Leave that out, and you get trash like Discovery with its repulsive KlingOrcs grunting through rubber masks while the viewers read subtitles. It isn't possible then for anything like the nuance of expression and characterisation of Deep Space Nine's wonderful Klingons -- or even TOS' Klingons. I'd have more respect for a Gorn than a KlingOrc any day.
In the James Blish novelization, he wrote that when Kirk tested the bamboo, it gave a metallic ring. It would partially explain why the cannon worked. To me, the hard part believing was Kirk getting the mixture right for the gunpowder in so short a period of time.
Mythbusters brought me here
Alien bamboo is apparently stronger than earth bamboo
Mythbusters' myth has been shown to be a lie by Lord Thrand, who made a video demonstrating that it works.
Mythbusters busted!
Look at it this way: the style is like your childhood nightmares, where you could not outrun the slow monster no matter how you tried. Or not.
I could in my dreams and even could float away, but I constantly had to be on-guard.
Captain Kirk shot the Gorn and wounding him that's a terrible that he'd let him die slowly
They were both prisoners of an alien entity. It was up to the alien entity what disposition to make of the Gorn. In the event, it sent him back to his ship and sent Kirk back to the Enterprise.
The funniest thing about this clip, look at the end of the bamboo after kirk fires, it looks exactly like a looney tunes cartoon gun.