This was the premiere episode of the animated series. It began with them finding a huge ancient alien ship, and then discovering a really creepy recording of its captain trying to warn them about the parasitic alien. James Doohan voiced the alien, and voiced the majority of male extras on the animated series. He had previously provided voice work for many aliens in the original series, including Sargon, the M5 computer, the obelisk in _For the World is Hollow..._ etc. And he single-handedly created the Klingon language for ST:TMP. Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols voiced _all_ of the female characters for the animated series..
Back when TOS went off the air in June 1969, I was a despondent 11 yr. old. The realization of seeing my favorite show in seemingly endless syndicated reruns on many local UHF TV stations later that fall haven't dawned on me yet. I got over getting being down as mankind was closing in on ages old dream of landing on the moon and making it back. World excitement once again had science fact displaced science fiction/fantasy...for a few years. The new norm and routine in real life made trek fans hunger for escapist entertainment days of old. And by September 1973 Filmation brought our four year Trek drought to an end. With the simultaneous 1968 crackdown on Saturday morning children's programming on less violence more educational cutesy, musical and silly live-action formats and my own puberty kicking in during adolescence 'kidsville' had become a thing of the past. But you can bet your ass this former 16 yr old was later glued to the tube watching TAS. For all its shortcomings and flaws (and a Emmy win to boot) it sure beat the hell out of no Trek at all... This sequence remains THE BEST tension and dramatic of TAS. I have watched it dozens and dozens of times DUN DUN DUUNNN... Who among us knew back then that this was THE first TV spinoff of was eight more other series AND 13 feature films yet come!!! Way to go Great Bird of the Galaxy...
+ Mike Rogers. Both budget (the bane of TV production over the movies--and when all the Golden Age stuff was done) and NBC ordering the episodes late . . . putting Filmation in a crunch. Love it too.
Nope. Not with this footage: ua-cam.com/video/OcbPRGNHukg/v-deo.html (When Filmation had the time and money they could do really good stuff like that--like the rotoscoping work they did for Tarzan and Flash Gordon.). Plus, even with Filmation's limited animation, I always felt their action/adventure stuff was still better and more cleanly drawn (and better painted too) compared to HB.
+ Arian. RE: How cheap. No more so than any other Sat. morning animation house working on more realistically-rendered action/adventure fare, with the constrictions that come with TV (stricter scheduling and budgeting) over the movies, whether Filmation or HB or Depatie-Freleng. Plus, unlike other studios, Filmation aimed to keep all its production in the US instead of farming out overseas.
I watched the teaser clip of this episode on the NBC Saturday Morning Preview Show on Friday night 7 September 1973, after The Brady Bunch. Being the Star Trek fan I am I couldn't sleep that night waiting for 0930 8 September 1973. That night and Christmas Eve were restless times for me.
Excited as I was at 16 yrs old to see my favorite show come back (in whatever format) after a four year drought of new Trek, there was a caveat of missing those first Saturday morning runs of TAS. Back then personal VCRs were still a few years away from being mass produced. I couldn't record (DVRs were 25 years away). So from early September to early November of '73 missed first nine or so episodes, because I committed to playing JV football for my high school. I was ever so glad for that lousy season to come to an end. As 1973 rolled into 1974 I eventually got caught up in those first Saturday morning reruns. Worldwide over 'Star Trek' blood fever had exponentially began to build with craving for more. After the last first run airing of "The Counter-Clock Incident", it would be about five years and two months drought of new Trek until...The Motion Picture was released in December 1979.
+Chris Thorton I did too. I was hoping they would find a way to euthanize it to put it out of it's misery. But the alien did it to itself when it tried to take control of their ship. There is no way the Enterprise, or any Federation starship, for that matter, would ignore a plea for help. But attempted theft and intentionally injuring crew shows it to be dangerous and they couldn't bring such a dangerous thing back to civilization.
Batou3 I know. I was hoping against hope that the writers would find some way. If the thing had been non-threating, they could have worked with it to perhaps return it to its own kind. But its own actions sealed it fate.
Yeah but they actually only scored about 15 minutes of original music for the series, which they had to stretch out over the span of two seasons. Talk about trying to turn a sandwich into a banquet!
I spotted that too! Early test audiences didn't like Spock in The Cage because they said that he looked vaguely Satanic. They would have hated him in the animated series.
I feel bad for that entity. It's been alone there for 300 million years. No wonder it's so angry and desperate to get away. Where's that Starfleet sympathy?!
Remember what that entity did with the ship that was first there. If the creature was so vicious that the crew of the first ship sacrificed themselves to keep in from spreading out then there was no reason to show that creature any kind of sympathy.
Kirk showed more compassion to Kahn and to those aliens that turned his entire crew into little objects and took over his ship and killed that lady officer
They almost understood the slingshot effect by this drawing. They definitely didn't understand it in 1966. Cowboy opera writers grabbing a NASA brochure term and guessing. Glad they fixed it by ST4 and remastered the VFX for TOS 20 years ago.
I am guessing the space parasite is the author of Lonely Planet? Since it is now forever stuck on the dead sun/planet & spending an eternity alone can be hell so it took up the hobby of writing those Lonely Planet travel books after it absorbed information about Earth & star systems from the Enterprise's computer database so the thing won't go nuts from loneliness?
Somehow, I don't think the entity Had too many lonely days ahead of it. Especially, after this encounter. Human Scientists would just be too curious to leave it alone.
@@robertfeld5829 This creature reminds me and a coworker of an over the top micromanaging Boss we had. We watch this episode and laugh. ( Yeah that's Ralph)...No Sympathy..lol
God, I've been walking around work all day saying to my trainees in that weird voice, _OBEY ME!_ I'm surprised they haven't killed me yet! I got to the lunch table late and after everyone left I kept saying in that same voice, _So lonely..... so lonely....._ I swear, Star Trek makes me do some really weird things from time to time.
If life support upon Bridge shutdown by entity invaded Enterprise's computer. How could Kirk and several others officers survive without life support belts?
Life Support may be shut down, but the environment becoming unlivable takes time. There’s still plenty of oxygen in the air and decently enough shielding from radiation.
3:19 to 4:29 Captain James T. Kirk taking control of the Helm of U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 for the slingshot effect to escape the gravitation pull of the dead sun/star to save his ship and crew while being Phasered by the Automated Self Defense system set a precedent that would be followed by: Captain Jean Luc Picard with the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701D to escape a starship booby trap in an asteroid field in the Star Trek The Next Generation TNG Episode Booby Trap. Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko from rhe primary Universe while in the Mirror Universe with the Terran Rebellion Starship I.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 against the Klingon Cardassian Alliance Attack Cruiser I.K.S.Regency One in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 DS9 Episode Shattered Mirror. Captain Kathryn Janeway U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 Star Trek Voyager Episode Year of Hell Part 2 to reset the timeline by destroying the krenim time ship used by the scientist Annorax. Captain Janeway Star Trek Voyager Episode Scientific Method takes the helm to stop invisible aliens from conducting deadly experiments on her crew by taking the Starship U.S.S. Voyager through two pulsars which destroyed one of the two alien ships and caused the other ship to detached from Voyager's hull. Star Trek Enterprise Episode Singularity Captain Jonathan Archer pilots The 22nd Century United Earth Starfleet Starship Enterprise NX-01 through an asteroid field with his Vulcan First Officer Commander T'Pol plotting the course corrections to the helm despite the crew being affected mentally due to the space they are traveling through.
This was the premiere episode of the animated series. It began with them finding a huge ancient alien ship, and then discovering a really creepy recording of its captain trying to warn them about the parasitic alien.
James Doohan voiced the alien, and voiced the majority of male extras on the animated series. He had previously provided voice work for many aliens in the original series, including Sargon, the M5 computer, the obelisk in _For the World is Hollow..._ etc.
And he single-handedly created the Klingon language for ST:TMP.
Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols voiced _all_ of the female characters for the animated series..
Man alot a parallels to alien!!!!
Back when TOS went off the air in June 1969, I was a despondent 11 yr. old. The realization of seeing my favorite show in seemingly endless syndicated reruns on many local UHF TV stations later that fall haven't dawned on me yet. I got over getting being down as mankind was closing in on ages old dream of landing on the moon and making it back.
World excitement once again had science fact displaced science fiction/fantasy...for a few years. The new norm and routine in real life made trek fans hunger for escapist entertainment days of old. And by September 1973 Filmation brought our four year Trek drought to an end.
With the simultaneous 1968 crackdown on Saturday morning children's programming on less violence more educational cutesy, musical and silly live-action formats and my own puberty kicking in during adolescence 'kidsville' had become a thing of the past.
But you can bet your ass this former 16 yr old was later glued to the tube watching TAS. For all its shortcomings and flaws (and a Emmy win to boot) it sure beat the hell out of no Trek at all...
This sequence remains THE BEST tension and dramatic of TAS. I have watched it dozens and dozens of times DUN DUN DUUNNN...
Who among us knew back then that this was THE first TV spinoff of was eight more other series AND 13 feature films yet come!!!
Way to go Great Bird of the Galaxy...
It's absolutely awesome hearing the suspense music from the classic Filmation version of "Tarzan" in Star Trek!
That music was recycled in a lot of Filmation stuff. You hear Lou Scheimer's voice a lot too
Most of same music cues were used in Filmation live action shows like Ark II, ISIS, Space Academy and Jason of Star Command during middle 1970s 4:53
Gotta love Filmation, doing all they could to animate mouth movements as little as possible.
+Arian It wasn't qualifications. It was budget. I still love it!
+ Mike Rogers. Both budget (the bane of TV production over the movies--and when all the Golden Age stuff was done) and NBC ordering the episodes late . . . putting Filmation in a crunch. Love it too.
Nope. Not with this footage: ua-cam.com/video/OcbPRGNHukg/v-deo.html
(When Filmation had the time and money they could do really good stuff like that--like the rotoscoping work they did for Tarzan and Flash Gordon.).
Plus, even with Filmation's limited animation, I always felt their action/adventure stuff was still better and more cleanly drawn (and better painted too) compared to HB.
+ Arian. RE: How cheap.
No more so than any other Sat. morning animation house working on more realistically-rendered action/adventure fare, with the constrictions that come with TV (stricter scheduling and budgeting) over the movies, whether Filmation or HB or Depatie-Freleng. Plus, unlike other studios, Filmation aimed to keep all its production in the US instead of farming out overseas.
I have always been a huge fan of Filmation ever since I saw He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for the first time.
Ah, classic nostalgia - I recall watching these on the BBC as a child. Great soundtrack
Nice to hear James Doohan doing the voice of the alien.
James Doohan did several, mostly male extra voices on the series. Nichelle Nichols typically did the female extra voices on the show.
@@houseofno I can identify at least one instance of Nichols voice as an extra. I don't hear Scotty's voice here.
Loved James Doohan's work on this episode.
I watched the teaser clip of this episode on the NBC Saturday Morning Preview Show on Friday night 7 September 1973, after The Brady Bunch. Being the Star Trek fan I am I couldn't sleep that night waiting for 0930 8 September 1973. That night and Christmas Eve were restless times for me.
Excited as I was at 16 yrs old to see my favorite show come back (in whatever format) after a four year drought of new Trek, there was a caveat of missing those first Saturday morning runs of TAS.
Back then personal VCRs were still a few years away from being mass produced. I couldn't record (DVRs were 25 years away).
So from early September to early November of '73 missed first nine or so episodes, because I committed to playing JV football for my high school. I was ever so glad for that lousy season to come to an end. As 1973 rolled into 1974 I eventually got caught up in those first Saturday morning reruns.
Worldwide over 'Star Trek' blood fever had exponentially began to build with craving for more. After the last first run airing of "The Counter-Clock Incident", it would be about five years and two months drought of new Trek until...The Motion Picture was released in December 1979.
I was 12 and thrilled too
It was a continuation of season 4 and 5 in my mind
This reminds me a little of the TNG episode "Skin of Evil" where another malevolent life form was left abandoned on an isolated planet.
...but not before murdering Lieutenant Tasha Yar & threatening to kill Commander Will Riker.
Malevolent entities can kiss my...!
Was that the entity that killed Tasha Yar?
@@robertmcdonald8342 Yep
Haha I watched this earlier and the 'obey me!' Really got me cracked up
I remember feeling sorry for the alien at the end. So lonely!
+Chris Thorton I did too. I was hoping they would find a way to euthanize it to put it out of it's misery. But the alien did it to itself when it tried to take control of their ship. There is no way the Enterprise, or any Federation starship, for that matter, would ignore a plea for help. But attempted theft and intentionally injuring crew shows it to be dangerous and they couldn't bring such a dangerous thing back to civilization.
+Simone G you cant kill it. Spock said its primal energy.
Batou3 I know. I was hoping against hope that the writers would find some way. If the thing had been non-threating, they could have worked with it to perhaps return it to its own kind. But its own actions sealed it fate.
Don't worry, we'll put the word out for any freaky magnetic energy beings to come be your girlfriend. Kirk out.
That creature had 300,000,000 yrs to reconsider its methods. But it stuck to its old thinking and learned nothing. So it was rightly punished.
That was a high-stakes gamble. Only Kirk could pull it off!❤
I don't know, I suspect Spock could too.
I remember this episode. I taped it on my VCR. Showing my age.☺
I watched it on Saturday September 8th 1973 0900, the premiere date of the series. Before DVDs or VCRs.
I watched fire light in my cave!!!
So that's where Janeway learned the "I'll crash the ship" maneuver.
3:29 to 4:17 Star Trek The Animated Series TAS Musical Scores for action was on par with the music for action in Star Trek The Original Series TOS.
Yeah but they actually only scored about 15 minutes of original music for the series, which they had to stretch out over the span of two seasons. Talk about trying to turn a sandwich into a banquet!
@@ArmyJames Thank You for that insight into The Original Series. I glad they were able to pull it off stretching out the music for the Seasons.
It was very good, but not like TOS
The Doomsday Machime theme cannot be matched.
the alien deserves to be left alone in the Dead Star for gaining control of the Enterprise
ObeyMe!
I remember watching this one as a kid. Always felt sorry for the alien at the end of it.
Me too although it could be just faking.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps I don't think so, but you could be right.
Me too. I felt bad for it even though it was trying to take over the ship.
I think the animated series may have been even more heavy and profound than the live action.
Spock always saves the day!👽
Kirk: And if I refuse? *Gets zapped*
Me: Seriously Jim, what did you think was gonna happen? Tear off your shirt?
hurray for half animation. :)
2:12 - 2:16 - Spock's sneaky eyes.
I spotted that too! Early test audiences didn't like Spock in The Cage because they said that he looked vaguely Satanic. They would have hated him in the animated series.
@@SinewRending Oh on the starship Enterprise,
There's someone who's in Satan's guise,
Whose devil ears and devil eyes,
Could rip your heart from you!
I feel bad for that entity. It's been alone there for 300 million years. No wonder it's so angry and desperate to get away. Where's that Starfleet sympathy?!
Remember what that entity did with the ship that was first there. If the creature was so vicious that the crew of the first ship sacrificed themselves to keep in from spreading out then there was no reason to show that creature any kind of sympathy.
Kirk showed more compassion to Kahn and to those aliens that turned his entire crew into little objects and took over his ship and killed that lady officer
Should have hit it with a couple of photon torpedoes
@@robertpreston2220 she was cute, too.
That alien represented every Star Trek nerd dwelling in his mother’s basement. It was the ultimate self insert by the writers 😂
Imagine if Jeffery Combs voiced the entity.
Can imagine a lot of whispering involved as I've noticed Combs does that a lot.
I used to watch these all the time when I was little.
I remember the voice sounding more authoritative than it does here.
You grew up some since then...
,,Dobra spock zanim ci przetrzepie ryj powiedz co ty myślałeś kupując kurwa żyrandol do ćwiczeń."
And this, children, is why we have magnetars!
Star Trek is, awesome.
Obey obey!
You can watch it on Netflix. This makes me sleep well. 😪🌛
Is the entity a Dalek?
Darkmatter organism?
It could be :D The voice is the same.
Sounds more like Winnie the Pooh to me. A Pooh Delek. XD
sounds pre Dalek!!!!
A Dalek before its balls dropped
They almost understood the slingshot effect by this drawing. They definitely didn't understand it in 1966. Cowboy opera writers grabbing a NASA brochure term and guessing. Glad they fixed it by ST4 and remastered the VFX for TOS 20 years ago.
I am guessing the space parasite is the author of Lonely Planet? Since it is now forever stuck on the dead sun/planet & spending an eternity alone can be hell so it took up the hobby of writing those Lonely Planet travel books after it absorbed information about Earth & star systems from the Enterprise's computer database so the thing won't go nuts from loneliness?
Started watching these more after Gazelle Automations amazing TNG clip
Obey!
OBEY ME !
Entity thoughts: Which part of "OBEY ME!" do you not understand?!
It's James Doohan doing the voice, I think.
Yes, as well as Nimoy and Shatner.
"Obey me!"
He'll be revisited in Star Trek V.
Somehow, I don't think the entity Had too many lonely days ahead of it. Especially, after this encounter. Human Scientists would just be too curious to leave it alone.
Obey me!
I actually felt sorry for the alien, despite its dangers.
Nope
@@aminmalik4086 Oh?
@@robertfeld5829 This creature reminds me and a coworker of an over the top micromanaging Boss we had. We watch this episode and laugh. ( Yeah that's Ralph)...No Sympathy..lol
@@aminmalik4086 Oh, I see.
God, I've been walking around work all day saying to my trainees in that weird voice, _OBEY ME!_
I'm surprised they haven't killed me yet!
I got to the lunch table late and after everyone left I kept saying in that same voice, _So lonely..... so lonely....._
I swear, Star Trek makes me do some really weird things from time to time.
Wish to watch more of these starship clips
i wonder what the sound effects people use for the "computer processing" sound
2:42 "I heard that!" bzzzzzzzzz
If life support upon Bridge shutdown by entity invaded Enterprise's computer. How could Kirk and several others officers survive without life support belts?
Life Support may be shut down, but the environment becoming unlivable takes time. There’s still plenty of oxygen in the air and decently enough shielding from radiation.
Outstanding job!!!😎😆😆😉😉
I actually felt bad for the alien :(
If only it asked nicely
OBEY!
SO LONELY!!!!!
Obey
Cool Cartoon
"It is a magnetic organisim without mass."
Magnets, how the fuck do they work.
Anyone notice that the belts keep appearing the disappearing...
3:19 to 4:29 Captain James T. Kirk taking control of the Helm of U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 for the slingshot effect to escape the gravitation pull of the dead sun/star to save his ship and crew while being Phasered by the Automated Self Defense system set a precedent that would be followed by:
Captain Jean Luc Picard with the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701D to escape a starship booby trap in an asteroid field in the Star Trek The Next Generation TNG Episode Booby Trap.
Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko from rhe primary Universe while in the Mirror Universe with the Terran Rebellion Starship I.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 against the Klingon Cardassian Alliance Attack Cruiser I.K.S.Regency One in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 DS9 Episode Shattered Mirror.
Captain Kathryn Janeway U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 Star Trek Voyager Episode Year of Hell Part 2 to reset the timeline by destroying the krenim time ship used by the scientist Annorax.
Captain Janeway Star Trek Voyager Episode Scientific Method takes the helm to stop invisible aliens from conducting deadly experiments on her crew by taking the Starship U.S.S. Voyager through two pulsars which destroyed one of the two alien ships and caused the other ship to detached from Voyager's hull.
Star Trek Enterprise Episode Singularity Captain Jonathan Archer pilots The 22nd Century United Earth Starfleet Starship Enterprise NX-01 through an asteroid field with his Vulcan First Officer Commander T'Pol plotting the course corrections to the helm despite the crew being affected mentally due to the space they are traveling through.
Kirk is required reading at the Academy.
Getting a dalek vibe from this
Yea. Ive never seen anythg come into the atmosphere tht slow before. Was oddly controled or smoothly gliding thru the sky. Strange
Reagan was just thinking
"So lonely!"
Sounds like Kim Jung Il from Team America but without the ronnery.
Some of the Fallen Angels are imprisoned in stellar cores according to the Book of Enoch.
Hmm. The core of the galaxy, eh? Where years later, Kirk, Sybok and Spock would find the entity masquerading as God....coincidence?
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*OBEYME*
Too bad so sad
Well of you're so lonely why be a bully?
Resistance is futile........
Borrowing from "Wolf In The Fold" for this one?
Alien Kinda sounds like the Daleks
Why does this look like space heroes from Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Hmmm inspired by the Daleks, perhaps? 🤔
Sybok! This is not the god of Sha Ka Ree!
...Sooooo lonelyyyy...
Geeze, this dude sounds EXACTLY like my ex wife.
Seen this in Star trek 5..alien life form that says I am God.. wants to join with the Enterprise. 🙅
Tj
0:38 That was stupid thing to do.
Rhhe
Goddamn that is some terrible voice acting William isn't even trying.
He got tired of overacting.
Shatner is proof you don't have to be good to succeed.
Especially Since Shatner said"Mutual override" instead of "Manual override" and they left it in
Obey me!
Obey
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