I wish I'd had that experience. The first Star Trek movie I saw in theaters was V. Stumbling out, everyone was asking each other "What the hell was that?".
@Cory Sprang ✅ dunno if I agree, BUT, despite watching this film a dozen or more times, can’t think of a better line atm. So, looks like !!!!!!! *Drum Roll *There Be Whales Here Admiral* Is The Winner! Congrats Cory🎉
I love Scotty's enthusiasm and delight when the whales materialise in the makeshift whale tank on their captured bird of prey. It's so well acted by dear old Jimmy Doohan , you really believe he's just beamed two giant hump back whales aboard the ship.
It may have been a Klingon ship piloted by Starfleet crew. But I can imagine even the Klingon would have done the same and swooped in. “Hunting majestic creatures who have done you no harm, and only wish to give the world their music? You have no honor!”
The Klingon ship was the way to go. After seeing the ship decloak, those whalers might never sleep soundly again. If the crew could’ve used the Enterprise, I can’t think of anywhere onboard they could’ve beamed the whales to. Plus it would be in orbit, so best case scenario they could’ve beamed the whalers aboard, or hit the ship with a phaser shot and knocked everyone out.
@@sandal_thong8631 i feel like theyd eat the whole whale and honor the fight it put up. klingons are blood thirsty but they're also romantic and poetic. even though they take lives they value them
This movie was before my time but was the Star Trek movie I remember seeing before anything else Star Trek and got me hooked on the franchise immediately! So glad I got to experience Star Trek in its prime!
Betraying my age a bit, I was sitting in the movie theater watching one of the first showings. Just as we were watching the Bird of Prey fly over the whaling ship…the power went out in the theater (and a number of blocks around the theater too). Waited around half an hour for the power to come back on and the film had advanced enough to see Kirk tell Scotty, it’s all on him.
Nice. I didn't catch this in the theater but (heh) caught Star Trek 2 (TWOK) in its first run. I was a kid. What they did with those ear burrowing worms (I only really learned the proper name for them were Ceti Eels) traumatised me.
@@PaulIsDeadMissHim Running at 24 frames per second. It took a few seconds for the projector to stop…a sudden stop could’ve damaged up the print. As the Bird of Prey was passing over the ship, that’s when the power was lost and you could see the image get darker and the film slowing. When the power came back, they had to check the projector and insure the film was still undamaged, with the proper loop through the gate. Then restarting the projector, it had to get back up to speed for both sound and picture.
By the way, by 1966 the total population of Humpbacks was reduced to as few as 5,000 individuals. Today it is estimated at 135,000. At least we did something right...
When Gillian says "how can you do that," in response to Admiral Kirk's order to put the whaling ship on screen is a very nice little touch of realism, because even in an old Klingon ship so much of what they were doing would have seemed like magic. I'm sure there are scientific theories to explain how you would get external images on the view screen of the whales. In fact those theories might go all the way back to the 1960s genesis (pardon the pun,) of Star Trek.
And honestly, I don't think the B'rel class bird of prey was that old. Five or six years old at least, for Sulu to recognize what type of ship it was on sight.
@@georgepierson4920,according to Memory Beta,the Bird-of-Prey featured in ST III and IV,the B’rel class,was introduced in 2270, the second known Bird-of-Prey operated by the Klingon Empire.
Maybe the idea is based on some kind of super-duper magnification and bouncing rays of light off of particles in space to capture the image you want. I'm surr a proper physicist could explain it.
Actually not uncommon. Because of the amount of leverage needed to operate a rudder, manually-operated rudders on vessels larger than pleasure craft have to go through a series of pulleys that give the wheel a mechanical strength advantage at the expense of distance. Nowadays they're all electrohydraulically operated but back then it was common on vessels of that size for it to be a purely manual system.
At 2:50, I'd LOVE to know what they're saying BEFORE they go into panic mode when the Klingon ship decloaks in front of them. And AFTER it decloaks, they'd be SHITTING themselves....😂
Showing this scene to my class I'm teaching "The Whale Rider". Want to illustrate how high in the public consciousness the plight of endangered whales was back in the mid-80s, and a big-budget film in a major TV and film franchise, nearly the highest-grossing of the original series, seems just the ticket.
I think they could've theoretically beamed the whales aboard while they were being hunted. On the other hand I suppose it doesn't hurt to make a point about why you shouldn't whales in the first place. ;-)
At a guess im thinking that klingon transporters are not as well accurate as well any other ones.. and proxmity is jeeded for such a energy intensive beam. Pattern buffers must of had a fit holding that much data
@@blairbrown4812 Well Starfleet transporters arnt the best. Wasnt there some Delta Quadrant race Voyager met who had super transporters that could do this stuff easily?
I can only imagine what those hunters were feeling when, "wtf. Our harpoon just bounced of off of the something. Wtf." Bird of Prey Decloakes. "WTF IS THAT! GET US THE F*** OUT OF HERE! HOLY SH**! WE KNEW IT! ALIENS!"
As the one man asked, "What the hell is wrong with the harpoon?" *Bird of Prey decloaks overhead* Every man on board the whaling ship now needs fresh underwear and hopes not to be abducted or obliterated.
I first saw this on tv back in the late 90s and say what you like about the movie, but when that harpoon bounced off the hull of the bounty its one of the best moments in trek. And then looking at the rusky crew like "ohhhh you in trouble now", imagine being that whaling captain on the radio with his superiors "DAH, I said a fucking UFO!!!
0:51 he shouts ”There it blows” in Finnish (Siellä se puhaltaa) 2:50 the guy asks ”What the hell was that” (Mikä helvetti tuo oli) 2:57 I think it’s ”Let’s go fast” (Mennään nopeasti)
In this part of the video it's a known fact that whales swim along the California coast then head for HAWAIIAN WATERS where they know that they are protected in American waters how they know is beyond me and scientists don't know either but they are very smart
Judging by the looks of 3:02, the bird of prey's Bridge module is bigger than that entire wailing ship. On the other hand, Klingon bird of prey was designed as a scout ship, and I seriously doubt that the designers had intended it to transport anything 45 to 50 ft long and about 440 tons if you count the water that the whales would have to be in.
Officially, the Klingon Bird of Prey is around 110 meters long, and half again as wide, wings flat (165 m). For the non-metric crowd, 360 ft long by 540 ft wide. Small by starship standards, but gigantic if you're on a comparatively tiny whaling ship.
My beef with the entire plot is....Why didn't they go back and SAVE the whales? I mean save all the whales from extinction? Then there would have been thousands of replies to the rod-in-space. A "changing Earth's timeline" argument won't hold water (unlike the tank) because they already altered the past by going back.
I kind of want to know how they have live full motion video of the whales and the ship too. I understand short range and long range scanners, but how did you place cameras in position from that distance? It deserves a better explanation.
@@Laeadern That's the sort of answer that you give when you don't understand what a high resolution magnification imaging device is and how it works. You might have well have just said "magic".
Mr. Scott is Scottish, so this really is correct. Now if he said there finna gonna be whales here, I would be more inclined to agree. And no, I'm not being racist here; I have coworkers who literally talk that way.
At the beginning of the movie, Dr. McCoy named the ship the HMS Bounty after the mutineers of the original HMS Bounty. In the novel after they engage the cloaking device, Kirk thinks that they should have named the ship the Flying Dutchman.
@@KuDastardly The actual Flying Dutchman ghost ship of seafaring lore has no connection to krakkens or any other sea monster. It's merely a ghost ship.
Saw this in the theater... *EVERYONE* cheered when the harpoon hit the side of the ship.
I wish I'd had that experience. The first Star Trek movie I saw in theaters was V. Stumbling out, everyone was asking each other "What the hell was that?".
Klingon Bird of Prey - Best insurance policy against whalers.
😂
Probably scared them out of their wits
@@zarachastellaris9016 to them they just encountered little green men from mars considering the ship is green
I saw James Doohan at a Star Trek convention many years ago and he said that this was his favorite Scotty line and even did it for us.
"Admiral, There Be Whales Here!" My favorite line in the whole movie
No, it's transparent aluminum!
@Cory Sprang ✅ dunno if I agree, BUT, despite watching this film a dozen or more times, can’t think of a better line atm.
So, looks like !!!!!!! *Drum Roll
*There Be Whales Here Admiral*
Is The Winner! Congrats Cory🎉
I love Scotty's enthusiasm and delight when the whales materialise in the makeshift whale tank on their captured bird of prey. It's so well acted by dear old Jimmy Doohan , you really believe he's just beamed two giant hump back whales aboard the ship.
@@tubewatcher77 I can't wait til they invent transparent aluminium
@@U2QuoZepplin Technically, it does already exist. People have found a process to making it
It may have been a Klingon ship piloted by Starfleet crew.
But I can imagine even the Klingon would have done the same and swooped in.
“Hunting majestic creatures who have done you no harm, and only wish to give the world their music? You have no honor!”
Nah, they'd be like the human exploiters in _Avatar: the Way of Water._
The Klingon ship was the way to go. After seeing the ship decloak, those whalers might never sleep soundly again.
If the crew could’ve used the Enterprise, I can’t think of anywhere onboard they could’ve beamed the whales to. Plus it would be in orbit, so best case scenario they could’ve beamed the whalers aboard, or hit the ship with a phaser shot and knocked everyone out.
@@shawnharris5682 it would’ve been the same as the BOP, just convert a large cargo bay
@@shawnharris5682 shuttlebay maybe?
@@sandal_thong8631 i feel like theyd eat the whole whale and honor the fight it put up. klingons are blood thirsty but they're also romantic and poetic. even though they take lives they value them
This movie was before my time but was the Star Trek movie I remember seeing before anything else Star Trek and got me hooked on the franchise immediately!
So glad I got to experience Star Trek in its prime!
Betraying my age a bit, I was sitting in the movie theater watching one of the first showings. Just as we were watching the Bird of Prey fly over the whaling ship…the power went out in the theater (and a number of blocks around the theater too). Waited around half an hour for the power to come back on and the film had advanced enough to see Kirk tell Scotty, it’s all on him.
Nice. I didn't catch this in the theater but (heh) caught Star Trek 2 (TWOK) in its first run.
I was a kid. What they did with those ear burrowing worms (I only really learned the proper name for them were Ceti Eels) traumatised me.
How did the film advance without any power?
@@PaulIsDeadMissHim Running at 24 frames per second. It took a few seconds for the projector to stop…a sudden stop could’ve damaged up the print. As the Bird of Prey was passing over the ship, that’s when the power was lost and you could see the image get darker and the film slowing. When the power came back, they had to check the projector and insure the film was still undamaged, with the proper loop through the gate. Then restarting the projector, it had to get back up to speed for both sound and picture.
Would have been funny if the power went out when Scotty was needing all the power on the Klingon ship to transport the whales.
I'd like to think those whalers were rethinking their life choices after they encountered an alien ship.
Same here. Must've scared them pretty good.
nah people who been out to sea too long have seen weird unexplained shit all the time which is why they also drink heavily. lol
The guy at the gun said something which sounded like "kva i helvete " (what the hell ; dialect of Norwegian?).
As well as a change of trousers...
Greenpeace would love that bit.
Hopefully Scotty has left some air pockets for the whales' breathing as well.
He probably left some air space at the top of the tank.
By the way, by 1966 the total population of Humpbacks was reduced to as few as 5,000 individuals. Today it is estimated at 135,000. At least we did something right...
Mostly done in by Soviet whaling ships following rigid 5 year plans
You did nothing.
Only the animal called Human, is wrecking their world.
Ngl, if that Klingon Bird of Prey appeared above my boat, I’d probably crap my pants.
Well it was a captured alien ship and to the guys on the boat it was a UFO.
When Gillian says "how can you do that," in response to Admiral Kirk's order to put the whaling ship on screen is a very nice little touch of realism, because even in an old Klingon ship so much of what they were doing would have seemed like magic. I'm sure there are scientific theories to explain how you would get external images on the view screen of the whales. In fact those theories might go all the way back to the 1960s genesis (pardon the pun,) of Star Trek.
And honestly, I don't think the B'rel class bird of prey was that old. Five or six years old at least, for Sulu to recognize what type of ship it was on sight.
Actually, it sounds more like it did not cross her mind that there would be "cameras" on the outside of the ship.
@@blairbrown4812 Huh?
@@georgepierson4920,according to Memory Beta,the Bird-of-Prey featured in ST III and IV,the B’rel class,was introduced in 2270, the second known Bird-of-Prey operated by the Klingon Empire.
Maybe the idea is based on some kind of super-duper magnification and bouncing rays of light off of particles in space to capture the image you want. I'm surr a proper physicist could explain it.
I'm betting those Whalers were regretting their life's profession at that moment.
I would've jumped on the intercom and been like "this is green peace, approch any more whales and i will fuck you up!"
Well, you gave those guys on the boat a story for a life time that no one will believe..
Sir Thomas More: Why Richard(Rich) it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?
RIP Paul Scofield and John Hurt
Here after the most recent episode of Picard.
So many things about this are completely ridiculous, but it's so awesome anyway.
He turned that wheel several times around 360 degrees. LOL
Actually not uncommon. Because of the amount of leverage needed to operate a rudder, manually-operated rudders on vessels larger than pleasure craft have to go through a series of pulleys that give the wheel a mechanical strength advantage at the expense of distance. Nowadays they're all electrohydraulically operated but back then it was common on vessels of that size for it to be a purely manual system.
@@WardenWolf Thank you, I learned something new today. I appreciate that.
At 2:50, I'd LOVE to know what they're saying BEFORE they go into panic mode when the Klingon ship decloaks in front of them. And AFTER it decloaks, they'd be SHITTING themselves....😂
It sounded like the man asked, "What the hell is wrong with the harpoon?" or something to that effect.
Showing this scene to my class I'm teaching "The Whale Rider". Want to illustrate how high in the public consciousness the plight of endangered whales was back in the mid-80s, and a big-budget film in a major TV and film franchise, nearly the highest-grossing of the original series, seems just the ticket.
I think they could've theoretically beamed the whales aboard while they were being hunted.
On the other hand I suppose it doesn't hurt to make a point about why you shouldn't whales in the first place. ;-)
At a guess im thinking that klingon transporters are not as well accurate as well any other ones.. and proxmity is jeeded for such a energy intensive beam. Pattern buffers must of had a fit holding that much data
@@mpittard21, I'm not even sure there was a recorded instance where such a feat was done with Starfleet transporters.
@@blairbrown4812 Well Starfleet transporters arnt the best. Wasnt there some Delta Quadrant race Voyager met who had super transporters that could do this stuff easily?
@@mpittard21 The Voth once beam up the Voyager it self abord there city ship
@@mpittard21 And like Scotty said, it wasn't just the whales, it was the water.
I can only imagine what those hunters were feeling when, "wtf. Our harpoon just bounced of off of the something. Wtf." Bird of Prey Decloakes. "WTF IS THAT! GET US THE F*** OUT OF HERE! HOLY SH**! WE KNEW IT! ALIENS!"
As the one man asked, "What the hell is wrong with the harpoon?" *Bird of Prey decloaks overhead* Every man on board the whaling ship now needs fresh underwear and hopes not to be abducted or obliterated.
I first saw this on tv back in the late 90s and say what you like about the movie, but when that harpoon bounced off the hull of the bounty its one of the best moments in trek. And then looking at the rusky crew like "ohhhh you in trouble now", imagine being that whaling captain on the radio with his superiors "DAH, I said a fucking UFO!!!
Given the stakes, I would have used the ship's disruptors.
Shrapnel. Too high a risk of injuring the whales
Or just, you know, beam every lifeform on the boat into space. Or at least into the atmosphere for a long drop.
@@Salty_Balls Or, to save power, just beam their heads.
Jesus both yall-
Come on now. Kirk isn't gonna execute a fishing crew....lolo
One of the greatest lines in all of cinema
I wonder if the whalers wore their brown pants.
If you treat her like a lady,she will always bring you home
"Spock, lock on the ship and fire photon torpedos at will."
It was probably just a weather ballon.
Swamp gas.
0:51 he shouts ”There it blows” in Finnish (Siellä se puhaltaa)
2:50 the guy asks ”What the hell was that” (Mikä helvetti tuo oli)
2:57 I think it’s ”Let’s go fast” (Mennään nopeasti)
Always a nice treat.
Full powered descent, Mr Sulu
GREAT SCENE
imagine if it lost power and decloaked in the middle of San Francisco
Pure CLASS ❤
Greenpeace just got serious!
In this part of the video it's a known fact that whales swim along the California coast then head for HAWAIIAN WATERS where they know that they are protected in American waters how they know is beyond me and scientists don't know either but they are very smart
Had to take into account of weight of the water as well
It's not just the whales, it's the water.
That steering wheel can spin forever if you let it
I still wonder how they made sure the whales could breathe in the space ship.
Scotty probably left some airspace at the top of the whale tank.
How many times do they have to turn that wheel to move the rudder all the way over?
Truly one of the most silliest scenes on star tek just sayen 😂😎🖖
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2:53 Red ring of death.
The music is so good.
same composer as for Robocop 2
For this to be accurate they would have needed to be a Japanese boat.
Norway also hunted whales.
Funny part is, that whalers speak Finnish... well... bad Finnish... and we even dont have whales here :DDDD
I don't remember the pace being so SLOW.
Yeah, no way will two whales fit in that Klingon ship which, by the looks of it, is smaller than that whale itself
Judging by the looks of 3:02, the bird of prey's Bridge module is bigger than that entire wailing ship. On the other hand, Klingon bird of prey was designed as a scout ship, and I seriously doubt that the designers had intended it to transport anything 45 to 50 ft long and about 440 tons if you count the water that the whales would have to be in.
EC Henry made a great video on this exact topic.
Klingon Birds of Prey are built like a Tardis.
What is the size of that Bird of Prey? Specifically in this shot.
Officially, the Klingon Bird of Prey is around 110 meters long, and half again as wide, wings flat (165 m).
For the non-metric crowd, 360 ft long by 540 ft wide. Small by starship standards, but gigantic if you're on a comparatively tiny whaling ship.
@@moseshughes2670 Thanks!
Half again as long as a typical 747 and twice the wing span, if you want a more tangible scale.
@@davidkaminski615 Thanks buddy!
2:49 Whaling ship shot first the Bounty should blast that whaling ship with its disruptors.
I think the only reason Jim doesn't have chekov blast the whalers is he doesn't want to hurt George and Gracie.
My beef with the entire plot is....Why didn't they go back and SAVE the whales? I mean save all the whales from extinction? Then there would have been thousands of replies to the rod-in-space. A "changing Earth's timeline" argument won't hold water (unlike the tank) because they already altered the past by going back.
The scale doesn’t look right. Shouldn’t the Bird of Prey be way bigger than the boat?
It's the smallest class of Klingon ship in their fleet.
How did the whales breathe? No air pocket seen.
prop.dep. scooba guy behind the bulkhed.
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have a real awful need to have 3:00 blown up into a big landscape poster.
i totally plussoie this
Let the whales and orcas eat the rich yachts!!!!!!!
I kind of want to know how they have live full motion video of the whales and the ship too. I understand short range and long range scanners, but how did you place cameras in position from that distance? It deserves a better explanation.
Well it being the 23 century it's not a stretch that they have high resolution high magnification imaging devices would be my best guess.
@@Laeadern That's the sort of answer that you give when you don't understand what a high resolution magnification imaging device is and how it works. You might have well have just said "magic".
@@seanwebb605 Its a friggin sci fi show dude, it's not real so don't take it so hard.
Hollywood! Anything can happen.
@@patrickmccrann991 That's a shit answer from an intellectual dullard.
Zwei Schiffe auf dem Grund des Pazifik .. eines... in frankreich eines im Süd pazik ..
the only thing that spoilt it for me with this otherwise cool film is the recurrent "10 seconds sir/admiral" from the bloody crew.
These short clips are frustrating , bad because they get cut off at the worst time. SHOULD BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THE CLIP BY USING THE FOWARD > BUTTON.
Buy the movie
This clip ends at the iconic line that marks the success of the whale rescue, how is that "the worst time"?
Must be cold in those Klingon ships. 😉
Yeah, when you have so much vengeance stored in the food rep, I'm not surprised, lol.
Ship in the shade.. then not in the shade, then in the shade again.. C'mon.. and he went "Hard over" enough to do a 720...
Why did Scotty talk in Ebonics?
It's pirate.
Mr. Scott is Scottish, so this really is correct. Now if he said there finna gonna be whales here, I would be more inclined to agree. And no, I'm not being racist here; I have coworkers who literally talk that way.
Too small to be a whaling ship and why is an 81yr guy at the helm?
it was BOTANY BAY !
NOT BOUNTY
Botany Bay was the spacecraft KHAN was in.
At the beginning of the movie, Dr. McCoy named the ship the HMS Bounty after the mutineers of the original HMS Bounty. In the novel after they engage the cloaking device, Kirk thinks that they should have named the ship the Flying Dutchman.
@@javaman7199 If they named it "The Flying Dutchman", then they'd have to transport a giant squid into the tank instead of whales. :P
@@KuDastardly The actual Flying Dutchman ghost ship of seafaring lore has no connection to krakkens or any other sea monster. It's merely a ghost ship.