Dennis Lubert All their videos do have the speech volume set far too low. They either need a sound technician who isn't deaf or a total idiot or subtitles. I thought they would've fixed it after a few videos, but it's the same shit every time.
Since I had no problem hearing anything (I listen on stereo headphones, no surround sound), I'd guess something's hinky with the center channel, either yours or theirs.
Do you want some more. 1. When it comes to the original crew and overall crews. Leonard Nimoy has the most appearances in Star Trek films. 8 in total. But for a Star Trek TNG member it is Micheal Dorn who plays Worf. He appeared in all the Star Trek TNG films. but he also appeared in Star Trek 6 as an ancestor of Worfs who ends up being Mccoy and Kirks defender in their trail. 2. All known Captains of the Enterprise have appeared in Star Trek. Captain John Harrimen who was Captain of the Enterprise B appeared at the beginning of Star Trek Generations. It was his ship that Kirk was on when he got taken into the Nexus. Rachel Garrett who was the captain of the Enterprise C appeared in an episode of Star Trek TNG. 3. Even though Star Trek Voyager never had its own film. 4 of its cast members have had appearances in Star Trek films. Tim Russ (Tuvok) appeared in Star Trek Generations as a crew member. Robert Picardo (EMH Doctor) and Ethan Philips both appeared in Star Trek First Contact. Ethan Philips plays a hologram on the Holodeck. When Picard lures the Borg their to get information from their processors. He is the one that greets them when they first go on the Holodeck. Robert Picrdo apppeared as a EMH doctor who the crew uses to distract the Borg. Kate Mulgrew who played Captain Janeway. appeared in Star Trek Nemesis as Admiral Janeway. 4. For a few years JJ Abrams denied that Khan was going to be the villain in Star Trek into Darkness. But He actually gave it away back in 2009. If you watch the 2009 film with the film makers commentary on it. Listen till about the final credits stop. They continue on talking even when the credits are rolling and reveal that they had planned a post credits scene for the 2009 film and then changed their minds. the post credits scene would have featured the SS Botany Bay. Khans original ship. The one that him and his crew were put into suspended animation and sent into space. The DVD was released back in 2009. 4 years before Star Trek Into Darkness was released. JJ Abrams reveals this himself in the commentary. 5. Jonathan Frakes has the record for appearances in different Star Treks. He has appeared in TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. 6. Gene Roddenberry himself once predicted that someone would do a new version of Star Trek with the original characters but with different actors. 7. Star Trek the 2009 film featured actors from 3 different Star Treks. the 2009 film cast. Leonard Nimoy and Will Wheaton who played Wesley Crusher in TNG had a voice role as a Romulan crew member in the film.
I must admit I didn't know all that stuff about Doohan. I only thought of him as a beloved character actor, but multiply wounded D-Day hero that is truly cause for respect .
Star trek focuses on so much modern world problems. Thats why I love it. If focuses on war, race, gender, and many other modern day problems we deal with. It also predicted a lot of future technology and promoted a equal society (fuckin commies). Star trek gives me hope for humanity, even though its fiction.
MLK also specifically met Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and asked her to stay on the show when she wanted to leave, telling her that even though her role was sometimes small, her impact was huge.
What makes this fact hilarious is there are idiots today who use the absurd statement "they shouldn't be using Star Trek to promote their liberal agenda" against the new movies. And these people claim to have been Star Trek fans, particularly of the Original Series, which had the most liberal agenda of any Trek franchise.
You missed that Nichelle Nichols found the role very demeaning and went to Dr. King to ask about it. His reply was that she was important because they made a Black Woman an officer and they could never undo that. At least that's what Nichelle said when she was speaking at the Mall in Columbus.
I do not believe she let the show originally because she found it demeaning, rather she was leaving to be on some other show, or pursue her acting career elsewhere. How on earth could she find her role in Star Trek demeaning anyway? LOL
It's been 25 or 30 years since she was complaining about her lines always being "Hailing frequencies open Captain." I think unchallenging is probably a better word than demeaning. She certainly was unhappy regardless. You could always email her and ask her for the story. She's a lovely woman I'm sure she'd be happy to tell the story herself.
The background music on this one startled me a few times. I run 5.1 Surround speakers, and the music kept playing from "random directions" making me think something on the desk was buzzing.
Another interesting fact; Kirk's uniform is actually not gold / burn orange. It's actually lime green. The velour material, lighting, and the color processing they used at the time made it appear gold on film. Later it was changed to the "command gold" it's referred to today.
It was distracting. He's a great speaker and fun facts. But that technical detail was overwhelming. I can't share this video because of it. I'm embarrassed about it.
I think I recall either an actor of TNG or DS9, or a producer jokingly arguing that 47 is essentially 42 (the ultimate answer to everything) with an added factor for inflation.
#10 Uhura wasn't the first black on TV, but she was the first black person to play a part of leadership and responsibility. The role of Urhura was created just for Nichelle Nichols. When she auditioned for the part the character had not yet been invented, so no lines had been written for her. Instead they had her read lines written for Spock. She did so well that they considered giver her that roll, but they had already filmed episodes with Leonard Nemoy. Had it not been for that Spock might have been a black woman!
I like the video and the info given in it. I appreciate the work done for the research. I don't like it that the audio of the speech is so horrible and soft in every video on this channel. I think that this channel would greatly improve in both quality and popularity if the sound levels were better.
#16-ALEXANDER SIDDIG was originally considered for the part of Benjamin Sisko. H e was discovered in a 30 year sequel to Lawrence of Arabia, there wearing a beard. But he shaved it before meeting Rick Berman and Berman realized just how young Siddig actually was (he was still going by his original name-Siddig El Fadil) But since Berman still wanted Siddig to be on DS9, he suggested that he be Doctor Bashir instead
5:34 - Bill Cosby in "I Spy" preceded Star Trek by one year, so perhaps he was the first prime-time African American TV actor. Diahann Carroll played "Julia" in '68.
Did not know you are a trekkie. The music while you are talking is distracting and makes hard to understand you at times. Good video otherwise. Thank you for being and engaging and enthusiastic speaker.
+Ayad Saleh Thanks for the feedback! We're tinkering with a lot of stuff like that with our videos at the moment, so any and all such feedback is very helpful. :-)
I agree with Ayad's comment about the music. At first I thought another sound file had opened on my computer as the music did not fit with the dialogue and was invasive.
Yeah, I have to admit the background noise was very strong and at times almost over powered your voice. Other than that... Great Video! Am really enjoying the channel
He is definitely not a trekkie.. as he would then know it's pronounced ROD-DEN-BERRY. The name consists of three words everyone should know how to pronounce.
right? Things about ST I didn't know... Zero. Here didn't even talk about“The Child” and the fourth season episode “Devil’s Due” in TNG that were from outlines from Phase II
Garrett Moffitt the ST universe is so big though you could probably make a video a million hours long filled with facts and trivia, but that wouldn't make much seance for casual fans i guess. i enjoyed the video but pretty generic facts, love this channel though
That last (14) is one of my favorite trivia questions, and has actually won me a few bar bets. But there WAS a time (possibly twice? I'm not sure) where captain Kirk said "Scotty, beam me up." Not quite the same, obviously, but it's close. ;)
***** - Yeah, I've always wondered why the mis-quotes are so well known when the real quotes are so easy to find. Something about human psychology, I suppose...
***** - Here's another one of those 'bar bet' quotes that people generally always get wrong. Ask somebody what the first words from the moon were. Lot's of people say "tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed", and lots of other people will say, "..no, because he said 'Houston' right before 'tranquility base'..." Well, both answers are wrong. The footpads on the LEM had an indicator light to show when they were touched down on the surface. So... the first words spoken from the surface of the moon were, "Contact light". Followed by, "Shutdown. Okay. Engine stop. ACA out of detent..." - and a couple dozen more technical words passed between Neil, Buzz, and mission control as they went through the landing shutdown checklist. THEN they said, "Houston, tranquility base here..." etc. The word 'Houston' was about the 30th word spoken from the moon's surface, rather than the first as so many people believe. There's your mis-quote trivia fact for the day. ;)
Shatner said "Beam me up, Scotty" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the one with the whales). It was never said anywhere else. Variations of it have been said, such as "Beam me up, Mr. Scott", but never "Beam me up, Scotty" or "Scotty, beam me up" during the original series.
slight correction, in Star Trek IV, he said "Scotty, Beam me up", in the moment just before Gillian lept into his arms saying "surprise" when she had earlier agreed to stay behind. This has always been rather awkward, since they had no reason to raise the ramp before Kirk was on board, and no reason why they couldn't just kick her off the ship. I think it was just so Kirk would say the infamous line (though backwards) at least once. I wonder if he said it backwards because he couldn't actually make the infamous line sound right, an even the way he did say it sounded a bit awkward.
Sulu was the only character on the original series who didn't have a hook up, both Kirk/Chekov got it on with androids. John Chambers who designed Spocks ears, also won an Oscar for the groundbreaking makeup in the original Planet of the Apes film. Joan Collins who was in City on Edge of Forever, met her end also in the campy 70s SciFi film Food of the Gods by a giant ant.....
Me SULU got laid in a couple of the books! Also he did have a daughter Damora ,she was the helmsman on the Enterprise -B when they hit a chunk of the Nexus and Capt Kirk wax killed.
I attended Pomona College (in Claremont, California ;) which is where the "47" thing comes from; Joe Menosky graduated from there in 1979. magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2015/02/13/the-mystery-of-47/ Pomona College is also the origin of the name of the Borg. You see, the languages dormitory on campus is named "Oldenborg Center" - but when I was attending in the mid-80s (and before TNG came out) - it was usually referred to as "The 'Borg". How that got transferred to a cybernetic/organic hive-mind species I can't explain. ;)
I had always assumed that "Borg" came from "cyborg." So if there was already something Menosky knew of called "The Borg" and he needed a name for a race of cyborgs....... But this is the first I've seen or read of Oldenborg Center, so what do I know, lol.
I think even Bill "Tiberius" Shatner himself couldn't do the vulcan greeting gesture and had some device on back of hand to keep his fingers separated.
Was the audio changed? It actually took me a couple minutes to _notice_ the background music. I'm not listening on earbuds or a phone or a potato, BTW.
#10 is a dark one. The character of Deanna Troi was obliterated by the Guinan character. It should have always been the ship's psychiatrist who presented the lines that were given, instead, to the ship's bartender. Troi should have been the source of sage advice.
A good Englishman should know that the "where no man has gone before" line is from Captain Cook's Journals. Cook - one of the foundations of Kirk - was about to attempt to find Antarctica and used that line in the 18th century.
Number 2, I think, needs more information. Lenard Nemoy himself, during an interview about Star Trek, said that he was asked, by the creative staff, if he could come up with something equivalent to an alien handshake. He said, "Well, I can do this..." and held up his hand in the now famous Vulcan hand gesture.
Here's another fun fact: Early on, in Star Trek Beyond, when Kirk is recording an entry for his log, he states that it's their 966th day out in space. 966 is a reference to the month and year that Star Trek first premiered. Here's another one: The tiny Federation ship USS Franklin is registered NX-326. 326 is a reference to the late Leonard Nimoy's birthday.
I understand your English accent would have some words sound a bit different. However... Gene Roddenberry's name is not pronounced Roe-den-bree, it is pronounced Rod-en-berry. 3:47 Whoopi Goldberg is not Whoopi Golds-berg. 5:17 Also, LeVar Burton's name s not pronounced Lee-Var, it is pronounced Luh-Var. 5:22
Item 12 caused another problem: once they switched uniforms, the gabardine tops would ride up, leading Patrick Stewart to visibly tug the hem down when he would stand after being in a seated position. This was called "the Picard Manoeuvre", the name cheekily taken from a first-season episode "The Battle".
Another Star Trek fact they didn't mention was Alexander Siddig, who played Dr Bashir in Deep Space 9 is nephew to Malcolm McDowell who played the villain Soran in the 7th movie, Star Trek Generations.
47 is also accounted to the writers being fans of Douglas Adams (the guy with the famous 42). But because Star Trek came out much later than "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 42 was increased due to "inflation".
Except the famous line is actually, "To boldly go where no man has gone before". It was changed in the 80's with the next generation to make it more politically correct, so man was changed to one.
Which is ironic cause as he points out in a later video, it's rendered pointless as beings such as Q have been everywhere. Mankind has not. So leaving it as man makes more sense.
3:10 The shot in the chest was surely a ricochet, otherwise it would not have been stopped by something like a metal cigarette case. It was shown in Mythbusters that you cannot even stop direct shots with a small caliber with such kind of objects and WW2 guns used rather large calibers.
Item 1, actually from a quote by James Cook, " Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
GeilerRitter, I come from a Scottish background & many past family members were talented engineers of one sort or other, so I really appreciate where Roddenberry is coming from here. I think the World Renown superior German Engineering & Technical prowess has more in common with Scottish inherent skills in that department than you might think - for some strange reason!!
Actually, I thought that was more of a "tongue in cheek" remark, meant more or less as a joke, owing to [the character] Scotty's heritage. Why waste time being offended? It was a television show... a FAN-TAS-TIC one, at that...
"Peace and long life." "Live long and prosper." That little redundancy always kind of bugged me a little. Couldn't they have come up with something better that sounds mystical?
Is there anything mystical about "Good day", or "Goodbye", or "Good luck". Besides, isn't wishing someone well upon meeting and departing enough? The Vulcan (and Jewish) versions sound more mystical to me.
Jaye Jay Curry They're actors playing a part. If they're not meant to sound mystical, they're at least meant to sound archaic and formal. This is of course only opinion. Nothing about anything I'm about to say is objectively true. I'm only talking about the choice of the writers. With that out of the way, if I say "good day" to you, you might say "and to you" in return. That's just the same thing. "Good day" and "Good day". If you're going to come up with something that is supposed to sound, well however it's supposed to sound since we're not agreed on "mystical", then the redundancy is in the way of that. Now had they chosen instead to say "Prosperity and long life" and "Live long and prosper" That would be the same thing. That would be another "good day" "good day". But they're not doing that. "Peace and long life" then another thing that includes long life again because we couldn't think of anything else that has that special sound to it. So, no big deal. I still love Star Trek of course. It just bugs me a little.
The quote in the 1958 pamphlet "Introduction To Outer Space" says "...to go where no one has gone before". not "...to go where no man has gone before." 0:34
A couple of corrections: 'Roddenberry' is pronounced with a short 'o' (e.g., "rod"), and the phrase was "...where no man has gone before" in its Trek origin. Cheers! :-)
Sometimes the background music is too loud. It's distracting from trying to listen to the commentary. This video is one of them. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen and seems like it should be something that is caught in the production of the video. Unless that is what you are going for. I do enjoy the videos and the work that your team does. Usually very informative, sometimes quite funny.
@1:20: Actually, your pronunciation is nearly perfect, as far as I can tell. You said "Shaddai" correctly, not an easy feat. Ironically, the one Hebrew word you pronounced wrong was the easiest one, Aaron. It's pronounced "Air-on", not "Aay-ron".
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Why does this have foreground music and background talk?
Dennis Lubert All their videos do have the speech volume set far too low. They either need a sound technician who isn't deaf or a total idiot or subtitles. I thought they would've fixed it after a few videos, but it's the same shit every time.
Since I had no problem hearing anything (I listen on stereo headphones, no surround sound), I'd guess something's hinky with the center channel, either yours or theirs.
Thought there was something wrong with my hearing.
This is indeed very annoying
It is awful LOL glad he does not do it anymore LOL
Do you want some more.
1. When it comes to the original crew and overall crews. Leonard Nimoy has the most appearances in Star Trek films. 8 in total. But for a Star Trek TNG member it is Micheal Dorn who plays Worf. He appeared in all the Star Trek TNG films. but he also appeared in Star Trek 6 as an ancestor of Worfs who ends up being Mccoy and Kirks defender in their trail.
2. All known Captains of the Enterprise have appeared in Star Trek. Captain John Harrimen who was Captain of the Enterprise B appeared at the beginning of Star Trek Generations. It was his ship that Kirk was on when he got taken into the Nexus. Rachel Garrett who was the captain of the Enterprise C appeared in an episode of Star Trek TNG.
3. Even though Star Trek Voyager never had its own film. 4 of its cast members have had appearances in Star Trek films. Tim Russ (Tuvok) appeared in Star Trek Generations as a crew member. Robert Picardo (EMH Doctor) and Ethan Philips both appeared in Star Trek First Contact. Ethan Philips plays a hologram on the Holodeck. When Picard lures the Borg their to get information from their processors. He is the one that greets them when they first go on the Holodeck. Robert Picrdo apppeared as a EMH doctor who the crew uses to distract the Borg. Kate Mulgrew who played Captain Janeway. appeared in Star Trek Nemesis as Admiral Janeway.
4. For a few years JJ Abrams denied that Khan was going to be the villain in Star Trek into Darkness. But He actually gave it away back in 2009. If you watch the 2009 film with the film makers commentary on it. Listen till about the final credits stop. They continue on talking even when the credits are rolling and reveal that they had planned a post credits scene for the 2009 film and then changed their minds. the post credits scene would have featured the SS Botany Bay. Khans original ship. The one that him and his crew were put into suspended animation and sent into space. The DVD was released back in 2009. 4 years before Star Trek Into Darkness was released. JJ Abrams reveals this himself in the commentary.
5. Jonathan Frakes has the record for appearances in different Star Treks. He has appeared in TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise.
6. Gene Roddenberry himself once predicted that someone would do a new version of Star Trek with the original characters but with different actors.
7. Star Trek the 2009 film featured actors from 3 different Star Treks. the 2009 film cast. Leonard Nimoy and Will Wheaton who played Wesley Crusher in TNG had a voice role as a Romulan crew member in the film.
I must admit I didn't know all that stuff about Doohan. I only thought of him as a beloved character actor, but multiply wounded D-Day hero that is truly cause for respect .
#15
Star Trek: TOS was the only TV show that Martin Luther King Jr. would let his kids watch due to the fact that it looked at all ppl as equal!
Star trek focuses on so much modern world problems. Thats why I love it. If focuses on war, race, gender, and many other modern day problems we deal with. It also predicted a lot of future technology and promoted a equal society (fuckin commies). Star trek gives me hope for humanity, even though its fiction.
MLK also specifically met Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and asked her to stay on the show when she wanted to leave, telling her that even though her role was sometimes small, her impact was huge.
What makes this fact hilarious is there are idiots today who use the absurd statement "they shouldn't be using Star Trek to promote their liberal agenda" against the new movies. And these people claim to have been Star Trek fans, particularly of the Original Series, which had the most liberal agenda of any Trek franchise.
SOUND! The background stuff almost completely drowns out the speaking.
Julie Anna n I agree
I didn`t notice it
You missed that Nichelle Nichols found the role very demeaning and went to Dr. King to ask about it. His reply was that she was important because they made a Black Woman an officer and they could never undo that. At least that's what Nichelle said when she was speaking at the Mall in Columbus.
I do not believe she let the show originally because she found it demeaning, rather she was leaving to be on some other show, or pursue her acting career elsewhere. How on earth could she find her role in Star Trek demeaning anyway? LOL
As I heard it, Nichols didn't feel so much demeaned as unchallenged by the role. Most of her lines were "Hailing frequencies open". ;-D
It's been 25 or 30 years since she was complaining about her lines always being "Hailing frequencies open Captain." I think unchallenging is probably a better word than demeaning. She certainly was unhappy regardless.
You could always email her and ask her for the story. She's a lovely woman I'm sure she'd be happy to tell the story herself.
What demeaning? She got to kiss Kirk.
i asimov
That wasn't until season 3 though
The background music on this one startled me a few times. I run 5.1 Surround speakers, and the music kept playing from "random directions" making me think something on the desk was buzzing.
I love how Nimory was so thoughtful about his character
The background music was distracting.
Another interesting fact; Kirk's uniform is actually not gold / burn orange. It's actually lime green. The velour material, lighting, and the color processing they used at the time made it appear gold on film. Later it was changed to the "command gold" it's referred to today.
RobotShlomo That explain green Enterprise appears grey on t.v.
The music was so bad that I stretched my piles by 16" using burning hot curling tongs. Thank you .
background music....waaayy too loud!!
Dan O'Brien Yeah what's with the background music... restarted it twice thinking something was wrong with it!
Please stop putting music behind talk. Regardless of the volume it is unnecessary and annoying.
You're unnecessary and annoying lol
Holy background (or foreground) music, Batman!
What the hell is up with that soundtrack? Not only is it annoying noise, but it gets obnoxiously loud...
It was distracting. He's a great speaker and fun facts. But that technical detail was overwhelming. I can't share this video because of it. I'm embarrassed about it.
Wil Wheaton didn't just do some of the Romulan from the Star Trek reboot, he did ALL of them except for Eric Bana's character
As a major Star Trek fan, I say "Bravo!" This episode was, to coin a phrase, "fascinating". This channel and Top Tenz rocks!
+Corky Schillinger Thanks!
music is annoying
HOLY CRAP. Sort the background sound levels out :O
perydwyn - thought is was the pot I smoked screwing with my ears
Vulcan being located in the 40 Eridani system was confirmed as intentional by Gene Roddenberry before his death.
"Muma there's a black lady on the tele and she aint no maid!" I lost my shit, that's hilarious
I think I recall either an actor of TNG or DS9, or a producer jokingly arguing that 47 is essentially 42 (the ultimate answer to everything) with an added factor for inflation.
You may also notice on signage the frequent use of 4077. I often felt the producers and designers were fans of M*A*S*H
The back ground "music" is unbearable to the point where I could not finish the video.
Needs more cow bell.
The background music fits perfectly moron.
I agree. I had to leave this in under 2 minutes.
background sound is atrocious.
Interesting info, not all of which I knew.
BUT ruined by the horribly annoying and way too loud backing noise, which I assume is meant to be music
background music (?) was horrible. had to stop.
So sweet and innocent. Simon will start to blaze like the sun.
#10 Uhura wasn't the first black on TV, but she was the first black person to play a part of leadership and responsibility. The role of Urhura was created just for Nichelle Nichols. When she auditioned for the part the character had not yet been invented, so no lines had been written for her. Instead they had her read lines written for Spock. She did so well that they considered giver her that roll, but they had already filmed episodes with Leonard Nemoy. Had it not been for that Spock might have been a black woman!
I like the video and the info given in it. I appreciate the work done for the research. I don't like it that the audio of the speech is so horrible and soft in every video on this channel. I think that this channel would greatly improve in both quality and popularity if the sound levels were better.
Wonderful and entertaining. Do more. I think you're great.
+Robert Greene Thanks Robert!
One of the OGs right there
I knew all of these Hahahah! Time to go watch more Star Trek
lol same here
Kntrytnt yep me too lol
As the great William Shatner once said, “Get a life”.
This is absolutely a member of your long best-of list Simon!
How to tell a REAL doctor from a fake one: "Derp, spandex will cause spinal damage. Derp."
What is up with that background music? It's not helping.
I enjoyed the facts, but the "background" music was way too loud.
How does this guy find time to make so many videos!! Simon you're awesome!
+Tausif ali Team work! :-)
+Tausif ali And thanks! :-)
Nice vid, but the audio backtrack was awful.
true, videos are awesome but there for a little bit I thought i blew a speaker
Agreed. I like the facts but that was a soundtrack FAIL right there. Sorry, Simon, you're usually great.
Your background sound would often jump to the foreground making it difficult to listen. Sadly. I stopped watching just after a minute because of it.
finally some star trek stuff i really didnt know!!!
Yeah, who ever thought that Spoke was Jewish? Guess he is enlightened.
"spoke"?
Rod-en-burry not Road-en-burry.
+Gerald Dokka
I thought the same also with Levar..... Leh-var not Lee-var.
+Gerald Dokka Lol this made me laugh lazy ass youtuber!
#15-Malcolm McDowell (Dr Tolian Soren of Star Trek Generations) is the maternal uncle of my favorite ST actor, Alexander Siddig (Dr Julian Bashir)
#16-ALEXANDER SIDDIG was originally considered for the part of Benjamin Sisko. H e was discovered in a 30 year sequel to Lawrence of Arabia, there wearing a beard. But he shaved it before meeting Rick Berman and Berman realized just how young Siddig actually was (he was still going by his original name-Siddig El Fadil) But since Berman still wanted Siddig to be on DS9, he suggested that he be Doctor Bashir instead
Nancy O'Malley Incredible !!
This was delightful, thank you for making it.
5:34 - Bill Cosby in "I Spy" preceded Star Trek by one year, so perhaps he was the first prime-time African American TV actor. Diahann Carroll played "Julia" in '68.
Did not know you are a trekkie. The music while you are talking is distracting and makes hard to understand you at times. Good video otherwise. Thank you for being and engaging and enthusiastic speaker.
+Ayad Saleh Thanks for the feedback! We're tinkering with a lot of stuff like that with our videos at the moment, so any and all such feedback is very helpful. :-)
I agree with Ayad's comment about the music. At first I thought another sound file had opened on my computer as the music did not fit with the dialogue and was invasive.
Yeah, I have to admit the background noise was very strong and at times almost over powered your voice. Other than that... Great Video! Am really enjoying the channel
He is definitely not a trekkie.. as he would then know it's pronounced ROD-DEN-BERRY. The name consists of three words everyone should know how to pronounce.
Wow!! Really enjoyed this clip, the information on Spock was so .....fascinating!
star trek facts i didnt already know? *cracks knuckles* i'll be the judge of that
Spock was actually a non-binary trensgender woman, and he was gay for Kirk! XD
right? Things about ST I didn't know... Zero.
Here didn't even talk about“The Child” and the fourth season episode “Devil’s Due” in TNG that were from outlines from Phase II
***** not sure about that first part.. but spock was gay for kirk? 100% confirmed cannon ;D
Garrett Moffitt the ST universe is so big though you could probably make a video a million hours long filled with facts and trivia, but that wouldn't make much seance for casual fans i guess. i enjoyed the video but pretty generic facts, love this channel though
Never give up! Never surrender!
Wait, that's not Star Trek?! Dang it.
Yep, I knew all those. However, that's not a criticism of the list, more a reflection of the fact that I need to get out more.
That last (14) is one of my favorite trivia questions, and has actually won me a few bar bets. But there WAS a time (possibly twice? I'm not sure) where captain Kirk said "Scotty, beam me up." Not quite the same, obviously, but it's close. ;)
It's like the "Luke, I am your father." Star Wars mis-quote.
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- Yeah, I've always wondered why the mis-quotes are so well known when the real quotes are so easy to find. Something about human psychology, I suppose...
*****
- Here's another one of those 'bar bet' quotes that people generally always get wrong. Ask somebody what the first words from the moon were. Lot's of people say "tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed", and lots of other people will say, "..no, because he said 'Houston' right before 'tranquility base'..."
Well, both answers are wrong. The footpads on the LEM had an indicator light to show when they were touched down on the surface. So... the first words spoken from the surface of the moon were, "Contact light". Followed by, "Shutdown. Okay. Engine stop. ACA out of detent..." - and a couple dozen more technical words passed between Neil, Buzz, and mission control as they went through the landing shutdown checklist.
THEN they said, "Houston, tranquility base here..." etc. The word 'Houston' was about the 30th word spoken from the moon's surface, rather than the first as so many people believe.
There's your mis-quote trivia fact for the day. ;)
Shatner said "Beam me up, Scotty" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the one with the whales). It was never said anywhere else. Variations of it have been said, such as "Beam me up, Mr. Scott", but never "Beam me up, Scotty" or "Scotty, beam me up" during the original series.
slight correction, in Star Trek IV, he said "Scotty, Beam me up", in the moment just before Gillian lept into his arms saying "surprise" when she had earlier agreed to stay behind. This has always been rather awkward, since they had no reason to raise the ramp before Kirk was on board, and no reason why they couldn't just kick her off the ship. I think it was just so Kirk would say the infamous line (though backwards) at least once. I wonder if he said it backwards because he couldn't actually make the infamous line sound right, an even the way he did say it sounded a bit awkward.
And you are the lost brother of Shinzon ? :) :D
+elendil6668 No, close though. I'll be in my ready room.
Hahaha great :D But you look much more kind than him :) :D
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what is with the background audio? mix it down a bit if you please.
Great channel, very interesting fact snips.
Sulu was the only character on the original series who didn't have a hook up, both Kirk/Chekov got it on with androids. John Chambers who designed Spocks ears, also won an Oscar for the groundbreaking makeup in the original Planet of the Apes film. Joan Collins who was in City on Edge of Forever, met her end also in the campy 70s SciFi film Food of the Gods by a giant ant.....
Me SULU got laid in a couple of the books! Also he did have a daughter Damora ,she was the helmsman on the Enterprise -B when they hit a chunk of the Nexus and Capt Kirk wax killed.
Soundtrack provided by dropping ball bearings onto a dulcimer.
Didn't know some of these. Enjoyed!
I attended Pomona College (in Claremont, California ;) which is where the "47" thing comes from; Joe Menosky graduated from there in 1979. magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2015/02/13/the-mystery-of-47/
Pomona College is also the origin of the name of the Borg. You see, the languages dormitory on campus is named "Oldenborg Center" - but when I was attending in the mid-80s (and before TNG came out) - it was usually referred to as "The 'Borg". How that got transferred to a cybernetic/organic hive-mind species I can't explain. ;)
I had always assumed that "Borg" came from "cyborg." So if there was already something Menosky knew of called "The Borg" and he needed a name for a race of cyborgs.......
But this is the first I've seen or read of Oldenborg Center, so what do I know, lol.
I think even Bill "Tiberius" Shatner himself couldn't do the vulcan greeting gesture and had some device on back of hand to keep his fingers separated.
6:44 "Obviously, Counselor Troi still often wore tight spandex, thankfully." HAH agreed. :-)
Great episode, the music is awefull
+Matthew Guest Sorry you didn't like the music Matthew, but I'm glad you liked the content at least :)
Was the audio changed? It actually took me a couple minutes to _notice_ the background music. I'm not listening on earbuds or a phone or a potato, BTW.
Needs more cow bell.
Matthew Guest “awefull” is that a modified way of saying great? awe + full = positive?
You mention that the presidential pamphlet was published on the 22nd but the cover says the 26th. Was there a delay in publishing?
Technically, the greeting is "Peace and long life" and the response is "Live long and prosper"
#10 is a dark one. The character of Deanna Troi was obliterated by the Guinan character. It should have always been the ship's psychiatrist who presented the lines that were given, instead, to the ship's bartender. Troi should have been the source of sage advice.
A good Englishman should know that the "where no man has gone before" line is from Captain Cook's Journals. Cook - one of the foundations of Kirk - was about to attempt to find Antarctica and used that line in the 18th century.
Great vid!! Love Star Trek!!!
Really cool stuff for the Star Trek Fans and our Star Trek Universe.
Watching him talk is more entertaining than any possible content in any of their videos.
I have to admit in all the years I have watched star trek I never noticed James Doohan was missing a finger on his right hand
Number 2, I think, needs more information. Lenard Nemoy himself, during an interview about Star Trek, said that he was asked, by the creative staff, if he could come up with something equivalent to an alien handshake. He said, "Well, I can do this..." and held up his hand in the now famous Vulcan hand gesture.
Here's another fun fact: Early on, in Star Trek Beyond, when Kirk is recording an entry for his log, he states that it's their 966th day out in space. 966 is a reference to the month and year that Star Trek first premiered. Here's another one: The tiny Federation ship USS Franklin is registered NX-326. 326 is a reference to the late Leonard Nimoy's birthday.
I understand your English accent would have some words sound a bit different. However...
Gene Roddenberry's name is not pronounced Roe-den-bree, it is pronounced Rod-en-berry. 3:47
Whoopi Goldberg is not Whoopi Golds-berg. 5:17
Also, LeVar Burton's name s not pronounced Lee-Var, it is pronounced Luh-Var. 5:22
Item 12 caused another problem: once they switched uniforms, the gabardine tops would ride up, leading Patrick Stewart to visibly tug the hem down when he would stand after being in a seated position. This was called "the Picard Manoeuvre", the name cheekily taken from a first-season episode "The Battle".
missed fact: the bird of prey exploding in Generations is actually a reverse shot of the one exploding in Undiscovered Country
Well, I came here thinking there was no way you could tell me anything I didn't know about Star Trek, and you came up with 12. Well done.
Another Star Trek fact they didn't mention was Alexander Siddig, who played Dr Bashir in Deep Space 9 is nephew to Malcolm McDowell who played the villain Soran in the 7th movie, Star Trek Generations.
Excellent video very interesting
So glad you've stopped doing the "dramatic" background music. I thought someone was running a leaf blower out in the street.
47 is also accounted to the writers being fans of Douglas Adams (the guy with the famous 42).
But because Star Trek came out much later than "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 42 was increased due to "inflation".
Some facts I already knew, but they were all quite interesting!
Background cowbells made it unwatchable for me :/
Beam me up Scotty Was Actually used in the animated series.
Except the famous line is actually, "To boldly go where no man has gone before". It was changed in the 80's with the next generation to make it more politically correct, so man was changed to one.
Which is ironic cause as he points out in a later video, it's rendered pointless as beings such as Q have been everywhere. Mankind has not. So leaving it as man makes more sense.
3:10 The shot in the chest was surely a ricochet, otherwise it would not have been stopped by something like a metal cigarette case. It was shown in Mythbusters that you cannot even stop direct shots with a small caliber with such kind of objects and WW2 guns used rather large calibers.
Nice facts that go where no facts have gone before.
+Brian H ... in your head? I mean you kinda implied that one.
"Thankfully." Amen bro!
Hey you did a good video, thankfully!
Item 1, actually from a quote by James Cook, " Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
THANK YOU! for #11!!!
the world's best engineers have been scottish? as a german a feel directly offended by roddenberry.
You mean offended by Mr.Doohan?
Who understandably may not have held german engineers in high regard?
GeilerRitter, I come from a Scottish background & many past family members were talented engineers of one sort or other, so I really appreciate where Roddenberry is coming from here.
I think the World Renown superior German Engineering & Technical prowess has more in common with Scottish inherent skills in that department than you might think - for some strange reason!!
Actually, I thought that was more of a "tongue in cheek" remark, meant more or less as a joke, owing to [the character] Scotty's heritage. Why waste time being offended? It was a television show... a FAN-TAS-TIC one, at that...
As an American, I'm offended that you're offended
Being a Scottish German American, I am sure they could both engineer extremely well. But, the German model would cost too much to repair.
"Peace and long life." "Live long and prosper." That little redundancy always kind of bugged me a little. Couldn't they have come up with something better that sounds mystical?
"I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10."
Barnaby ap Robert Yeah, there you go. Or, how much wood, would a woodchuck chuck...
Is there anything mystical about "Good day", or "Goodbye", or "Good luck". Besides, isn't wishing someone well upon meeting and departing enough? The Vulcan (and Jewish) versions sound more mystical to me.
Jaye Jay Curry They're actors playing a part. If they're not meant to sound mystical, they're at least meant to sound archaic and formal.
This is of course only opinion. Nothing about anything I'm about to say is objectively true. I'm only talking about the choice of the writers. With that out of the way, if I say "good day" to you, you might say "and to you" in return. That's just the same thing. "Good day" and "Good day". If you're going to come up with something that is supposed to sound, well however it's supposed to sound since we're not agreed on "mystical", then the redundancy is in the way of that. Now had they chosen instead to say "Prosperity and long life" and "Live long and prosper" That would be the same thing. That would be another "good day" "good day". But they're not doing that. "Peace and long life" then another thing that includes long life again because we couldn't think of anything else that has that special sound to it.
So, no big deal. I still love Star Trek of course. It just bugs me a little.
True.
The quote in the 1958 pamphlet "Introduction To Outer Space" says "...to go where no one has gone before". not "...to go where no man has gone before." 0:34
A couple of corrections: 'Roddenberry' is pronounced with a short 'o' (e.g., "rod"), and the phrase was "...where no man has gone before" in its Trek origin. Cheers! :-)
great info!
thankyou for this article
The music was way too loud compared with the vocal narrative.
Nobody said, "Beam me up, Scotty.", but I think that Kirk said, "Scotty, beam me up.". I vaguely recall that it was at the end of an episode.
Sometimes the background music is too loud. It's distracting from trying to listen to the commentary. This video is one of them. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen and seems like it should be something that is caught in the production of the video. Unless that is what you are going for. I do enjoy the videos and the work that your team does. Usually very informative, sometimes quite funny.
#15-Alexander Siddig (Julian Bashir of DS9) is the nephew of Malcolm McDowell (Dr. Tolian Soran in Star Trek Generations)
Agree with others here, background music level was way too high, distracted from what you where saying, other than that it was an interesting video.
@1:20: Actually, your pronunciation is nearly perfect, as far as I can tell. You said "Shaddai" correctly, not an easy feat.
Ironically, the one Hebrew word you pronounced wrong was the easiest one, Aaron. It's pronounced "Air-on", not "Aay-ron".
Ironically he mispronounced ROD-en-berry.
@@NeoTechni And Levar.