Ah, this episode. It was a mess. Roddenberry gave a personal friend of his a shot with the script, it was confusing even to the producers, and the script kept changing all the time until they filmed it. They at first wanted a love story between the female officer and Lazarus, leading her to betray the crew; but it was so similar to "Space Seed" that this was scrapped. They also envisioned a duplicate Kirk (similar to Lazarus), but the network vetoed this because they had used duplicate Kirk before. Then when it came to filming, they had given the role of Lazarus to John Drew Barrymore, who bailed on his first day. They hastily had to recast this role. The director wasn't very familiar and comfortable with filming outdoors, and everyone knew halfway through filming that this episode was going to be a stinker. It was also immediately clear that this episode wasn't going to be rebroadcast by NBC on days when no new episodes were ready to air. BTW: You are really rocking the costume, love it!
Love the costume… “that planet” is Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park. Parts of the park have been used in a large number of Star Trek episodes and other sci-fi shows for decades.
Vasquez Rocks is used in this way because it's located inside the "Thirty Mile Zone"-basically, an area within thirty miles of Hollywood, within which shooting is considered 'local'. If a TV or movie production films outside that area, it's considered a location shoot, and thus, the studio is required to pay for travel, food, and accommodation for cast and crew.
@@N0-1_H3r3 Could be, but the fact that the area is such a uniquely picturesque geological oddity, being a textbook case of an angular unconformity is probably the bigger reason.
This episode always freaked me out as a kid. Probably first saw it at age 9, I couldn't make head or tail of it. It hasn't become much clearer 54 years later.
It's never made any sense to me. Kirk acts out of character, Lazarus never makes any sense and yet they all think he's just this all right dude, or something. Star Fleet calls and says the universe is coming apart - you gotta do something and the next minute Kirk is telling Bones to relax and let this guy wander around the ship all he wants. I dont get it.
@ michaelm6948 Oh me too ! My mom worked with arial plates and was an amateur photographer so I was exposed to negatives my whole life and they FREAKED ME OUT as a kid too... seeing people I knew in negative like that !
Not a favourite episode, however watching it again through your reaction it actually makes it seem better as you’re trying to figure out who’s who and what’s happening ...oh and you make a fine starship officer lieutenant Bunny.
I agree. This one was a stinker. As was the Roman Empire one, the Nazi one, the 1930's Chicago mob one, the Yangs and Combs. I still love the series but many of them are unwatchable now.
As known to many, Robert Brown who played Lazarus was a last-minute replacement for the original actor, John Drew Barrymore, (father of Drew Barrymore) - who failed to show up for filming. Brown did a great job but one can imagine Barrymore would have been incredible.
The Barrymore’s had such a massive multi-generational history with impressive actors and actresses since the late-1800’s. Unfortunately they also have had a very long history of alcoholism and mental issues. John Drew’s father and grandfather both drank heavily and unfortunately at this time John Drew Barrymore was heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol. Hollywood had been giving him second chances for most of the 1960’s. The Star Trek incident was kind of the final indication that he had given up fully and totally stopped doing any jobs what so ever by the 1970’s. Drew Barrymore was the youngest of his children and she spent most of her early life taking care of her father and supporting him through her acting till his death. Luckily Drew Barrymore seeing her dad join in her family’s fate was able to break her own addiction to drugs and alcohol.
For Spock, good Lazarus' sacrifice was a matter of pure logic. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. No emotional response required.
Although he came aboard at the eleventh hour for the episode, Robert Brown turns in a compelling performance as an obsessed fanatic, and keeps you watching. He chews a lot of scenery, however, making William Shatner look restrained, by contrast, which is saying something.
I vote you the number one Star Trek Channel OG! I've watch your channel for awhile watching the original series and give you props for going through them and very impressed with your understanding of them. Definitely support you all the way, Keep up the Great Work!
PS, a little pointless trivia: Robert Brown was one of the first choices to play Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five O, but that role ultimately went to Jack Lord. Jack Lord was one of the first choices to play Captain Kirk, that role going to Shatner. 😉
BTW, back in the sixties I don't believe that science/scientist had described the theory of a multiverse or parallel universes. It might have been written about by fiction writers at the time; hence, Star Trek stories like this where anything is possible. But, not in real theoretical physics. It is interesting though. That's what's so fun about this. Thanks.😊
@@porflepopnecker4376 I was always I impressed by the fact that it was Brown in the lead role. He looked as though he hit the gym for the role, just seemed more robust and athletic appearing.
I'm old enough to have watched the original Trek in first-run, and also Here Come the Brides. I remember a not-very-good episode of the latter show featuring a guest appearance by Bruce Lee. It was the one and only role of his entire adult acting career that didn't involve his fighting skills.
4:00--4:20, Translation: This show does not have the budget to make multiple studio models of other starships for large fleet shots. We COULD fill up space with model kits of the Enterprise, but the deal with AMT was just finalized and the models have not been manufactured as of the production of this episode. Nope, it's just cheaper to have a massive plot contrivance to leave the Enterprise crew on their own instead of introduce the rest of the fleet.
This episode aired on March 30, 1967. A few month later on December 27, 1967 the CBS series Lost in Space aired the episode, The Antimatter Man. That episode dealt evil opposites in an antimatter universe trying to replace the "good" Robinson family father and Jupiter 2 pilot Major Don West. It ended with a battle between the good John Robinson and the evil antimatter John Robinson.
John Drew Barrymore, the Lazrus who quit the show, was sued for thousands of dollars by Star Trek and suspended from the Screen Actor's guild for 6 months. The guy who took over , Robert Brown is also a Canadian like Shatner, they went to drama school together. They almost got cast in a TV series about King Arthur that wasn't picked up by the network. Brown got his own series, as lead Jaxon Bold in the TV western Here Come the Brides....a year later. That show went 3 seasons. Many Star Trek actors found parts on that show too.
No, Robert Brown was not Canadian. He was born in Elizabeth, NJ. His parents were British (father) and Scottish (mother). Shatner and Robert Brown knew each other from their stage acting days in NY. Never heard that they were in a TV pilot about King Arthur. They were in a TV pilot called Colossus in 1963. You can find it here on UA-cam. Robert Brown was Jason Bolt in Here Come the Brides, it lasted 2 seasons.
When these shows first aired I was 6, 7 and 8 years old so many of the concepts in them went over my head except for this one and "The Menagerie". In The Alternative Factor I ignored the sci-fi element because I saw Lazarus as a man tormented by the bad things he had done in his life and I felt for him. When he crossed over into the psychedelic world with the wild colors I saw that as himself fighting his own conscience, trying to keep his bad self buried while trying to keep control. Being almost 7 when this episode first aired I look back and wonder where that came from, it finally occurred to me that it was an extrapolation of what happened to a classmate the first few weeks I was in school. There was a kid who would randomly get violent for no reason, it got so bad that he had to be removed from school. I asked his brother a few weeks later what happened to him and he said he was locked away, fighting himself in his own mind, in my mind this is just what happened to Lazarus. In The Menagerie the Keeper telling Pike that his punishment was from a fable he had heard as a child really stuck to me and I remember Granny and my teacher getting really mad when I asked about it, I wasn't allowed to watch anything on TV for a month after that.
It's nice to relive these original episodes through the lens of someone who is seeing them for the first time. I've probably seen each episode multiple times and know where it's heading. Thanks for sharing your very first reactions. I'm living vicariously through you once again. That's something I can't recreate when watching reruns.
Dilithium crystals channel the vast energy created by matter-antimatter reactions into the warp drive engines. The warp drive engines create a space-time warp, in which the ship travels at incredible speeds. The higher the warp, the more energy is drawn from the crystals. That is why traveling at high warp for prolonged periods of time is not recommended and even dangerous.
I choked back tears in 1967 when I realized that the ‘good’ Lazarus was sacrificing himself for all eternity to save our existence. It happened again as I saw you react to that scene. It still hits hard! A few years ago the same story came up in another show. Two warring factions intent on annihilating each other put aside generations of hatred, as they realize that invaders from another dimension was coming to destroy all life. They joined forces and entered the ‘corridor’ to grapple with the common enemy and hold them at bay for eternity. Elders tell children that they are still fighting together holding the enemy at bay. Every now and then their eternal struggles leak out as earthquakes, tidal waves and eruptions. When it calms down, they are still there protecting existence.
They were swapping universes. Lazarus positive and Lazarus negative each got to mix with the crew of the Enterprise. It's why McCoy was puzzled as to why Lazarus would have a cut in one scene but not in another. The exchange seems to happen when they are at each other's necks. When one throws the other off, that one seems to win entering our universe. That's what I gather from it. -OG
There was a scene that was cut from the episode where Spock interacts with the Lazarus that isn't crazy in the rect room and that's how he ultimately figures out that might be two of him.
This episode gets a lot of flak, but for me it's one of the most "science fictiony" in all of TOS. If you think about it, the resolution is heartbreaking.
Yes, I approve of the uniform. Bunny, you look great in it. Please continue to enjoy the episodes. Great reactions and you are very aware of the plot points. 🖖 😊
Definitely one of my favorites. Learning the truth at the end is just overwhelming. The fact that Lazarus, and we still don't know which is really ours. We assume because he seems on our side. We really don't know. Great episode and your reasoning and need to re-watch it says everything. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
You are watching the episodes in the order they were filmed. This episode was originally broadcast much later in the season, precisely because they had to wait for effects to be completed.
They filmed an extra day to create that calm cordial expository diablgue between the Good Lazrus and Kirk. The director figured out that everyone had no clue what the story was about so they took a time out to get the whole story straight for the audience. You man notice that all the other scenes on the planet were filmed outside on location except for that one.
When you said the 'planet' looked familiar - you were right. That rocky area is known as 'Vasquez Rocks' in real life and is in a public area that tourists can still visit. In the Gorn episode "Arena" you could see a certain rock outcropping that has since become so famous that most science fiction fans recognize it. Later "Star Trek" shows in the 1980s, 1990s, and movies often film at Vasquez Rocks as a tribute to the original show. The 2009 movie had the CGI guys duplicate the outcropping as a ridge pattern and placed it near Spock's birth home. - the Music Loving Klingon
Life long Star Trek fan who has just found your Chanel. As a kid growing up in the 80s i would rush home from school to watch G.I. Joe Transformers and reruns of Star Trek TOS. I have subed and will be watching more of your reactions.
Star trek has lessons to learn, things to discover, and adventures to go on. I love how you appreciate the show, and seriously try to figure out each episode. You would also be the best looking tribble..... I mean bunny, on the ship.
One thing I wondered is when the Enterprise destroyed Lazarus' ship was there a duplicate Enterprise in the alternate universe simultaneously destroying the other Lazarus' ship?
No, I think the once the crazy Lazuras's ship went that effectively closed the door as it's like a worm hole you need two ends open destroy one and the other end is useless. Just my take.
Bunny!! Look at you in your red Star Fleet uniform. Magnificent. You made it. You became a full blown Trekkie for sure by this point, as much so as any of the rest of us. Well done, Bunny!!!
12:01 "I am _really_ struggling with this episode, guys. I have no _idea_ what's going on." Oh, sure. _Star Trek_ _often_ deals with material in which the _rational_ understanding and the _intuitive_ understanding are at odds.
The thing about trapping both Lazurus in the corridor is the assumption that they could survive there without food or water for all eternity, which seems like quite the leap. Also, what prevented Kirk from arresting the evil Lazurus and putting him in an institution somewhere, thereby preventing any chance of the two Lazurus meeting and destroying the fabric of the universe? Just poorly thought out.
Given how nuts Lazarus is I doubt they'd be able to keep him locked up forever. Half dead at times and he's still looking for the other version of himself. So it's either the kill him or lock him between universes.
After the first season pretty much ALL women wore red because it was the most attractive. Can’t fault the logic. Take a look at the early episodes with Uhura in gold and you’ll see what I mean.
Fun Fact: the "gold" uniforms weren't actually gold. They were green! Red blue and green were meant to reflect the phosphors in color tvs and encourage people to buy them. For some reason though that shade of green didn't read correctly on camera, so we've always seen them as gold.
You mentioned in a previous reaction video that you like books. Cool. Plus you like to look back and watch episodes again. Back when Star Trek was new, there were novels written by James Blish and published by Bantam Books starting in 1966. Back then we could not watch episodes again after second repeat. And then not until it went into syndication when it was shown in a cycle on UHF TV stations. So we relied on the novels to fill us in and do what books could while TV could not. Some of the episodes might have been better novels or short stories rather than on TV. I am in the second group of Star Trek fans who had some memories of the show when it was new but really did not start watching it seriously until it went to syndication. I did make a first friend because of Star Trek in fact in 1973. Then my family moved from CA to WI in 1974, disrupting everything. But I still enjoyed Star Trek.
And so the sheer bizarre wonder of Star Trek continues! Very cool that it had you enthralled, despite it being one of the least popular episodes. It has fans :)
Obviously there are a lot of people who consider this one of the worst, but I don't. I don't seek it out, but I don't think it is bottom-of-the-barrel. Maybe I'm being forgiving due to me being interested in the heroic end with the sane-Lazarus, and not being overly annoyed with the rest of the episode. (I do agree with BT when she questioned why Lazarus didn't have a few security officers supervising him while on the Enterprise. And why Spock and the other guards were sitting back and eating popcorn while Kirk was wrestling with the insane-Lazarus.)
The thing that disappoints me is that the matter universe (our universe) is the crazy man. The implication is that Lazarus saw his double in the atni-matter universe and went NUTS!
Yeah this was a Top 10 Star Trek episode for me. The negative effect always freaked me out as a kid. My mom was an amateur photographer and worked briefly with arial plates before she started her family so I was exposed to photographic negatives all my life and they FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT !... pictures of people I knew in negative... just scared me.
This is the "heaviest" episode thus far, introducing the concept of matter versus anti-matter, and daring to suggest that all things in two universes could be obliterated. The music and special effects are very effective in conveying a portentous atmosphere.
I really enjoyed your reaction today,. You really seemed to get into the episode and tried figuring it out long before the end. Don't worry, because I struggled as well, the first time I watched this episode. So you're not alone in finding this a little confusing . I was happy to see that you eventually made your way to plot. ALSo, I like your Star Fleet uniform ( not in a creepy way) , you look like you belong in it. Does this mean you are going to take over for Yeoman Rand??
1960s. Writers were experimenting with a lot of things, not limited to crazy story ideas like this one. They had a concept, and didn’t know quite how to bring it all together. Nonetheless, we episode makes more sense to me now than it did before. Thank you.
There's an episode in Season 2 called "Mirror, Mirror" that, while not directly connected to this story, serves as a bit of a companion piece to this. You'll understand when you see it. It deals with parallel universes. VERY entertaining.
@@bunnytailsREACTS No, Lazarus wasn't lying. If one listens to the dialogue, they have been fighting for many years. It was long ago that Sane Lazarus & Insane Lazarus first met. The "destruction" of their civilization, as I have always interpreted it, came with the passage of time during their chase, encounter, chase battle. The obsessive need to chase "The Other" and thus not being able to live a normal life with his people while they still existed fueled the insanity of unstable Lazarus.
Yay! You made my day wearing that Uniform. You look great! Great reaction. Hope these videos are getting enough views for you to keep posting them. Watching you from Chicago.
Another Vasquez Rocks episode! That's my neighborhood! I've been hanging out there since I was a kid! It never ceases to amaze me how much Star Trek manages to make it look like some far-off distant planet a million light years away, but they're within sight of the 14 Freeway the whole time!
The over simplified explanation of the engines is.. The glowing red domes on the front of the engines suck up interstellar gas and dust (matter) like giant vacuums. Some of that gas/debris is put thru a machine that turns large amounts of matter into a small amount of antimatter. The explosive energy created by combining that antimatter with yet more regular matter is focused thru the dilithium crystals (a fictitious material strong enough to contain that much energy) and converted into usable energy to power the ship in general and the warp engines specifically.
Your Trekkie uniform is fantastic and looks great on you! This episode used to scare me when I was a kid, some of the music is like a horror movie. I miss hearing you say "Where no bunny has gone before", it always made me smile.
In earlier episodes they refer to lithium, which references a real-life proposal for a kind of fusion engine that would use lithium as fuel. However, the showrunners realised it would be best not to be tied to a real-life element with known properties, rather than one where they could make them up as they went along! Dilithium is actually a real term in chemistry, but it just means two lithium atoms joined together, whereas here it's meant to be its own substance.
Hi Bunny, this episode without a doubt has the most convoluted script, storyline and sci-fi conundrums imposed on the viewers and fans of the series. The concept of a matter and antimatter universe or a parallel universe is one of the best sources for sci-fi shows, movies and books.This episode was unfortunately put together quickly without much cohesive integrity so we get some curious interchange between Lazurus A (madman) and Lazurus B (saneman) without any hint of what triggers their transposition between the two universes. The conversation with Kirk and Spock helps explain what is happening plus the peaceful Lazurus gives us a bit more to the storyline. It's possible that the insane Lazurus is partially being truthful about being a timetraveler and his experiment had a side effect that caused a rip in the universe as he traveled to his planets future. The shock of a parallel universe including himself existing drove him insane and created the delusion that his other self was a hideous monster that killed his civilization. The performance by Robert Brown as Lazurus was commendable and well performed considering that he was a last minute replacement for John Drew Barrymore who was notorious for disappearing right I'm the middle of productions of a TV show or movie.
“Am I on drugs?” ha😅ha ha. You happened to have your new uniform during a strange episode. That single solid ribbon on your sleeve indicates you are a lieutenant.
I really like how you really try to understand things. I remember when I was young I tried to follow it and just shook my head at some point and thought well I'll just wait until next week's episode.
Love your costume and you fill it in to make Nichelle Nichols proud. Your patience for AF is commendable; that you would consider watching it twice remarkable. I've been watching it 50 years and still don't love it, however, I think there was a good premise there and plan to write a reworked story.
@@bunnytailsREACTS Exactly! The concept itself was **really** ambitious from a SciFi point of view... Back in the day there was space opera sci fi, speculative sci fi (most of Trek is speculative), and then this really wild out-there sci fi, whose name I can't quite remember. Deeply abstract.
Glad you enjoyed the episode, I think your reaction mirrors how I felt when I saw it. Personally, I`ve always preferred the TOS uniforms, as I grew up in the `60`s when the mini-skirt ruled fashion, thanks to Mary Quant. I think you looked very fetching in the uniform. Merry Xmas to you, your family & all the other commentators & viewers of your channel. :)
Bunny, I grew up watching this episode and I never could figure it out, either. According to the history of Star Trek's production, this was a story put together pretty fast. I don't think things were all that well fleshed out in The Alternative Factor. Not to say there weren't good moments --- especially that haunting ending. But, hey! Even on a so-so episode, there are those great characters! Always something to enjoy! Oh, and terrific costume, Bunny! Did you make it?
Not only was the writing rushed I think they had to rewrite the episode, cut a few things out, and the original actor cast as Lazarus went on a bender so they scrambled to get the one who pops up in this one. End ofvthe day the fact the episode got made was a miracle.
In all the years, I've only ever seen the last 15 minutes of this episode. The wavering starfield photo at the beginning, however, revealed what the episode was.
Imagine a puppy dog with floppy ears slowly tilting his head to one side and making an “arooo?” noise. That’s my reaction to this episode every time I watch it, and that’s been a few times. You’re not alone. First time I saw it when I was a kid, I honestly wondered if I liked this show at all. Fortunately, I saw other episodes that made it into my ten year old brain and got me.
This is one of the episodes that isn’t very popular that I’ve always been a big fan of. I remember as a kid in the 80’s it making me think about things I’d never thought of before. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in my enjoyment of it! Very nice reaction Lieutenant! 🖖🏻
Due to the unpredictability of rerun schedule back in the day, this episode is one of the last ones I caught after seeing almost every other episode numerous times. I just saw some pictures in magazines and paperbacks. It was a strange one for sure and has not made any more sense all these decades later.
Wow. I love your red ST tunic! You wear it perfectly. Lazarus' ship was the means to get into the magnetic corridor that would lead to the antimatter universe. Lazarus was the man who JC resurrected in Bethany. He did this before he was crucified and before JC himself was resurrected. Yes, this episode definitely kept you guessing. This one dealt with the existence of an alternate universe but made of antimatter instead of matter. This episode was one of the first that dealt with this topic. Back in the 1960s, we didn't know that much about antimatter. Today, we know much more about it. This episode aired in early 1967. Later that year, they aired an episode of Lost In Space called The Antimatter Man which also dealt with matter and antimatter and antimatter worlds. In the Marvel comics back in the 1960s, they had The Negative Zone which was a negative and very hostile universe. In the Negative Zone, there was the Zone of Antimatter, a place you would NOT want to be caught in. Villains like Blastarr and Annihilus lived in the Negative Zone. In Space 1999 which aired in the mid-1970s, they had an episode where people met their antimatter counterparts. Yes, the security in engineering was very poor indeed, how easy it was for people to steal their dilithium crystals. Yes, that admiral dumped all of the responsibility and danger onto Kirk. There was one other TV show back in the late 1960s that dealt with things like time travel and alternate realities - the gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows. That show had Barnabas Collins, a vampire with a soul 30 years before Angel on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Yes, they filmed this episode at the Vasquez Rocks just north of LA, there they also filmed Arena.
Anothr show from the 60's era ws 'Time Tunnel'; not sure that show dealt with any Matter/Anti-Matter worlds but would have been something to see if they did.
The Enterprise uses Deuterium, a form of hydrogen as the matter, and antimatter, to generate huge amounts of clean power. There is a bit of hand-waving over the precise nature of dilithium, but it does not fully exist within our physical world, a property that allows it to focus and direct the most of the energy from the matter/antimatter reaction to form it into high-energy plasma, without being harmed. This plasma is routed up the pylons to the warp nacelles to power them. Some of the energy is routed to the ship's unternal electrical systrems. There is some inconsistency in that in some instances the reaction wears down the crystals, eventually consuming them. There is also inconsistency in whether the warp drive can operate without the crystals or not, but the most consistent answer seems to warp travel is possible, but the speed would be limited to Warp 2, maybe 3. Kirk indicates the loss of crystals cuts the ship's power. This implies that even though the matter/antimstter reaction still operates, the resulting energy cannot be converted to power the ship's systems. Kind of like a car engine if one ir more cylunders are not firing. The engine may operate, but will lose power output.
I love your uniform! This episode might have benefited from a Vulcan mind meld with Lazarus (either of them), that technique we first saw back in the mental institution episode, Dagger of the Mind. Notice also the business once more of a double with a wound, like the bad Kirk in The Enemy Within. You can see the effect they were going for -- Kirk wondering "But what of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?" -- but the story needed a better way to tell it, rather than the Enterprise getting endlessly monopolized by an annoying stranger. Don't beat yourself up too much over this one -- you're being kinder to it than a lot of us veteran fans feel. Luckily, we have many smoother, stronger episodes ahead. Thanks, Bun.
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Maybe it is an anti-Bunnytails?
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i get those from a lot of people...never fall for it. thanks for the warning,though.
OMG, your uniform! The teasing is unbearable! Don’t stop. Yes, it looks amazing.
@@archlittle6067 If it was, she'd have a beard.
omg bunny, husband will LOVE that outfit 😲 lol 🙂 you are beautiful as always 🙂 Haven't seen this episode in a while, as you know the end is crazy! 😲
Bunny: "Ok, I'm confused."
TOS Writers: "same."
Ah, this episode. It was a mess. Roddenberry gave a personal friend of his a shot with the script, it was confusing even to the producers, and the script kept changing all the time until they filmed it. They at first wanted a love story between the female officer and Lazarus, leading her to betray the crew; but it was so similar to "Space Seed" that this was scrapped. They also envisioned a duplicate Kirk (similar to Lazarus), but the network vetoed this because they had used duplicate Kirk before.
Then when it came to filming, they had given the role of Lazarus to John Drew Barrymore, who bailed on his first day. They hastily had to recast this role. The director wasn't very familiar and comfortable with filming outdoors, and everyone knew halfway through filming that this episode was going to be a stinker. It was also immediately clear that this episode wasn't going to be rebroadcast by NBC on days when no new episodes were ready to air.
BTW: You are really rocking the costume, love it!
Yes, I've never heard the word "enthralled" when referring to this episode before. But hey, I'm glad she enjoyed it!
Bunny is one of the best cosplayers I've seen.
I congratulate the Enterprise for getting a new Operations crewman. When you get your doctorate, be sure you trade that red dress for Blue.
you really don’t wanna be hanging around in red if you plan making retirement 🤣
I just wanted to see the whole star trek costume and see what it looked like.
Check the community post if you didn’t see it yet! Some pictures there
Love the costume… “that planet” is Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park. Parts of the park have been used in a large number of Star Trek episodes and other sci-fi shows for decades.
True..very iconic in scenes in The Outer Limits’ episode “The Zanti Misfits”.
Vasquez Rocks is used in this way because it's located inside the "Thirty Mile Zone"-basically, an area within thirty miles of Hollywood, within which shooting is considered 'local'. If a TV or movie production films outside that area, it's considered a location shoot, and thus, the studio is required to pay for travel, food, and accommodation for cast and crew.
@@N0-1_H3r3 Could be, but the fact that the area is such a uniquely picturesque geological oddity, being a textbook case of an angular unconformity is probably the bigger reason.
Also the site of the battle with the Gorn in “Arena”
@@Gowrons_Stare Also seen in “Friday’s Child”.
This episode always freaked me out as a kid. Probably first saw it at age 9, I couldn't make head or tail of it. It hasn't become much clearer 54 years later.
100%. I was probably 7 or 8. The phrase "WTF?!" hadn't been invented yet, but I was searching for it after this episode.
It's never made any sense to me. Kirk acts out of character, Lazarus never makes any sense and yet they all think he's just this all right dude, or something. Star Fleet calls and says the universe is coming apart - you gotta do something and the next minute Kirk is telling Bones to relax and let this guy wander around the ship all he wants. I dont get it.
@@Lethgar_Smith Plot convenience.
@ michaelm6948 Oh me too ! My mom worked with arial plates and was an amateur photographer so I was exposed to negatives my whole life and they FREAKED ME OUT as a kid too... seeing people I knew in negative like that !
Uh-oh. Folks, she's in _red._ Bunny, whatever you do, don't volunteer for any _landing_ parties.
After the first season, women were ALWAYS in red. Can’t fault the decision.
@@mikeg2306 🤔Well... no. Nurse Chapel remained in blue.
Quite right.
Not a favourite episode, however watching it again through your reaction it actually makes it seem better as you’re trying to figure out who’s who and what’s happening ...oh and you make a fine starship officer lieutenant Bunny.
Thanks!
Same here, and can't wait till she gets to certain episodes.
@Tessmage_Tessera
He made that episode!
This isn't real science. This was written by Television writers in the 1960s. You kinda just have to pretend it makes sense.
I agree. This one was a stinker. As was the Roman Empire one, the Nazi one, the 1930's Chicago mob one, the Yangs and Combs. I still love the series but many of them are unwatchable now.
Being a Red Shirt is a brave choice but you survived the episode so good on you!
Well Uhura wore the same dress uniform and she lived...lmbo
She is not part of a time . New characters that go planet side have a very low survival rate but Bunny beat the odds. Go Bunny.
@@shawnbridges8703 What female red dress did they ever kill off?
she's not a "red shirt" .... she's a red skirt ... it's the blue skirts that are usually offed, mirroring their red shirt counter parts.
@@dpsamu2000 There was one late in the second season.
As known to many, Robert Brown who played Lazarus was a last-minute replacement for the original actor, John Drew Barrymore, (father of Drew Barrymore) - who failed to show up for filming. Brown did a great job but one can imagine Barrymore would have been incredible.
The Barrymore’s had such a massive multi-generational history with impressive actors and actresses since the late-1800’s. Unfortunately they also have had a very long history of alcoholism and mental issues. John Drew’s father and grandfather both drank heavily and unfortunately at this time John Drew Barrymore was heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol. Hollywood had been giving him second chances for most of the 1960’s. The Star Trek incident was kind of the final indication that he had given up fully and totally stopped doing any jobs what so ever by the 1970’s. Drew Barrymore was the youngest of his children and she spent most of her early life taking care of her father and supporting him through her acting till his death.
Luckily Drew Barrymore seeing her dad join in her family’s fate was able to break her own addiction to drugs and alcohol.
@@LogicalNiko Drew Barrymore made a film called Irreconcilable Differences, where she plays a child who divorces her negligent parents
For Spock, good Lazarus' sacrifice was a matter of pure logic. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. No emotional response required.
Although he came aboard at the eleventh hour for the episode, Robert Brown turns in a compelling performance as an obsessed fanatic, and keeps you watching. He chews a lot of scenery, however, making William Shatner look restrained, by contrast, which is saying something.
I vote you the number one Star Trek Channel OG! I've watch your channel for awhile watching the original series and give you props for going through them and very impressed with your understanding of them. Definitely support you all the way, Keep up the Great Work!
My favorite part of this episode is the beard continuity.
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PS, a little pointless trivia: Robert Brown was one of the first choices to play Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five O, but that role ultimately went to Jack Lord.
Jack Lord was one of the first choices to play Captain Kirk, that role going to Shatner. 😉
BTW, back in the sixties I don't believe that science/scientist had described the theory of a multiverse or parallel universes. It might have been written about by fiction writers at the time; hence, Star Trek stories like this where anything is possible. But, not in real theoretical physics. It is interesting though. That's what's so fun about this. Thanks.😊
I like this actor. He plays both sides of the wacko role very well.
Impressive considering he was cast at the last minute when the original choice didn't turn up.
@@BlameThandeYes, John Barrymore.
He starred in his own series in the late 60s called "Here Come The Brides" with Trek alumni Mark Lenard and David Soul.
@@porflepopnecker4376 I was always I impressed by the fact that it was Brown in the lead role. He looked as though he hit the gym for the role, just seemed more robust and athletic appearing.
I'm old enough to have watched the original Trek in first-run, and also Here Come the Brides. I remember a not-very-good episode of the latter show featuring a guest appearance by Bruce Lee. It was the one and only role of his entire adult acting career that didn't involve his fighting skills.
4:00--4:20, Translation: This show does not have the budget to make multiple studio models of other starships for large fleet shots. We COULD fill up space with model kits of the Enterprise, but the deal with AMT was just finalized and the models have not been manufactured as of the production of this episode.
Nope, it's just cheaper to have a massive plot contrivance to leave the Enterprise crew on their own instead of introduce the rest of the fleet.
This episode aired on March 30, 1967. A few month later on December 27, 1967 the CBS series Lost in Space aired the episode, The Antimatter Man. That episode dealt evil opposites in an antimatter universe trying to replace the "good" Robinson family father and Jupiter 2 pilot Major Don West. It ended with a battle between the good John Robinson and the evil antimatter John Robinson.
Lookin’ hella outta this world more & more Bunny! 🤩 🐰🚀🌙 *LOGICAL* choice of dress! 🖖
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John Drew Barrymore, the Lazrus who quit the show, was sued for thousands of dollars by Star Trek and suspended from the Screen Actor's guild for 6 months. The guy who took over , Robert Brown is also a Canadian like Shatner, they went to drama school together. They almost got cast in a TV series about King Arthur that wasn't picked up by the network. Brown got his own series, as lead Jaxon Bold in the TV western Here Come the Brides....a year later. That show went 3 seasons. Many Star Trek actors found parts on that show too.
No, Robert Brown was not Canadian. He was born in Elizabeth, NJ. His parents were British (father) and Scottish (mother). Shatner and Robert Brown knew each other from their stage acting days in NY. Never heard that they were in a TV pilot about King Arthur. They were in a TV pilot called Colossus in 1963. You can find it here on UA-cam. Robert Brown was Jason Bolt in Here Come the Brides, it lasted 2 seasons.
Yeah you can tell in this episode it is the same area or set he fought the "Gorn." from the "Arena." episode.
Vasquez Rocks, in Agua Dulce, CA. I live very near to there.
When these shows first aired I was 6, 7 and 8 years old so many of the concepts in them went over my head except for this one and "The Menagerie". In The Alternative Factor I ignored the sci-fi element because I saw Lazarus as a man tormented by the bad things he had done in his life and I felt for him. When he crossed over into the psychedelic world with the wild colors I saw that as himself fighting his own conscience, trying to keep his bad self buried while trying to keep control. Being almost 7 when this episode first aired I look back and wonder where that came from, it finally occurred to me that it was an extrapolation of what happened to a classmate the first few weeks I was in school. There was a kid who would randomly get violent for no reason, it got so bad that he had to be removed from school. I asked his brother a few weeks later what happened to him and he said he was locked away, fighting himself in his own mind, in my mind this is just what happened to Lazarus. In The Menagerie the Keeper telling Pike that his punishment was from a fable he had heard as a child really stuck to me and I remember Granny and my teacher getting really mad when I asked about it, I wasn't allowed to watch anything on TV for a month after that.
It's nice to relive these original episodes through the lens of someone who is seeing them for the first time. I've probably seen each episode multiple times and know where it's heading. Thanks for sharing your very first reactions. I'm living vicariously through you once again. That's something I can't recreate when watching reruns.
Seeing them for the first time AND taking them seriously, as opposed to some reactors who snicker at how "dated" they are.
Dilithium crystals channel the vast energy created by matter-antimatter reactions into the warp drive engines.
The warp drive engines create a space-time warp, in which the ship travels at incredible speeds.
The higher the warp, the more energy is drawn from the crystals.
That is why traveling at high warp for prolonged periods of time is not recommended and even dangerous.
I choked back tears in 1967 when I realized that the ‘good’ Lazarus was sacrificing himself for all eternity to save our existence. It happened again as I saw you react to that scene. It still hits hard! A few years ago the same story came up in another show. Two warring factions intent on annihilating each other put aside generations of hatred, as they realize that invaders from another dimension was coming to destroy all life. They joined forces and entered the ‘corridor’ to grapple with the common enemy and hold them at bay for eternity. Elders tell children that they are still fighting together holding the enemy at bay. Every now and then their eternal struggles leak out as earthquakes, tidal waves and eruptions. When it calms down, they are still there protecting existence.
This is what I need in my life, a beautiful thinking star trek fan like Bunny but they are so hard to find 😊
One of the most horrifying endings to any Star Trek. An ultimate sacrifice. Forever is a long time...
They were swapping universes. Lazarus positive and Lazarus negative each got to mix with the crew of the Enterprise. It's why McCoy was puzzled as to why Lazarus would have a cut in one scene but not in another.
The exchange seems to happen when they are at each other's necks. When one throws the other off, that one seems to win entering our universe. That's what I gather from it. -OG
There was a scene that was cut from the episode where Spock interacts with the Lazarus that isn't crazy in the rect room and that's how he ultimately figures out that might be two of him.
This episode gets a lot of flak, but for me it's one of the most "science fictiony" in all of TOS.
If you think about it, the resolution is heartbreaking.
Yes, I approve of the uniform. Bunny, you look great in it. Please continue to enjoy the episodes. Great reactions and you are very aware of the plot points. 🖖 😊
I loved this episode for many reasons. It also gave the term "cliffhangers" a new meaning.
Definitely one of my favorites. Learning the truth at the end is just overwhelming. The fact that Lazarus, and we still don't know which is really ours. We assume because he seems on our side. We really don't know.
Great episode and your reasoning and need to re-watch it says everything.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
You are watching the episodes in the order they were filmed. This episode was originally broadcast much later in the season, precisely because they had to wait for effects to be completed.
They filmed an extra day to create that calm cordial expository diablgue between the Good Lazrus and Kirk. The director figured out that everyone had no clue what the story was about so they took a time out to get the whole story straight for the audience. You man notice that all the other scenes on the planet were filmed outside on location except for that one.
Robert Brown was also in "Here Come The Brides", along with Mark Lenard. Brown played Jason Bolt, the oldest Bolt brother.
When you said the 'planet' looked familiar - you were right. That rocky area is known as 'Vasquez Rocks' in real life and is in a public area that tourists can still visit. In the Gorn episode "Arena" you could see a certain rock outcropping that has since become so famous that most science fiction fans recognize it. Later "Star Trek" shows in the 1980s, 1990s, and movies often film at Vasquez Rocks as a tribute to the original show. The 2009 movie had the CGI guys duplicate the outcropping as a ridge pattern and placed it near Spock's birth home. - the Music Loving Klingon
Life long Star Trek fan who has just found your Chanel. As a kid growing up in the 80s i would rush home from school to watch G.I. Joe Transformers and reruns of Star Trek TOS. I have subed and will be watching more of your reactions.
Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy your stay!
I love the forward looking shot of the phaser down onto the time ship on the planet ! Great optical special effect !
Love the TOS uniform. You honor the uniform of Yeoman Janice Rand & Lt. Uhura.
Got to love that mini flying-saucer prop.
Star trek has lessons to learn, things to discover, and adventures to go on. I love how you appreciate the show, and seriously try to figure out each episode. You would also be the best looking tribble..... I mean bunny, on the ship.
Bunny looks great in that uniform and so does Uhura.
Very,very true.
One thing I wondered is when the Enterprise destroyed Lazarus' ship was there a duplicate Enterprise in the alternate universe simultaneously destroying the other Lazarus' ship?
No, I think the once the crazy Lazuras's ship went that effectively closed the door as it's like a worm hole you need two ends open destroy one and the other end is useless. Just my take.
Bunny!! Look at you in your red Star Fleet uniform. Magnificent. You made it. You became a full blown Trekkie for sure by this point, as much so as any of the rest of us. Well done, Bunny!!!
"Am I on drugs?" LOL!
Spock, who’s that new yeoman I saw talking to Uhura. Captain, that’s yeoman Bunny. Bunny! Yes Captain.😂
12:01 "I am _really_ struggling with this episode, guys. I have no _idea_ what's going on."
Oh, sure. _Star Trek_ _often_ deals with material in which the _rational_ understanding and the _intuitive_ understanding are at odds.
Especially TOS era as many things are either fleshed out better or decades later we kinda go well that's nonsense
The thing about trapping both Lazurus in the corridor is the assumption that they could survive there without food or water for all eternity, which seems like quite the leap. Also, what prevented Kirk from arresting the evil Lazurus and putting him in an institution somewhere, thereby preventing any chance of the two Lazurus meeting and destroying the fabric of the universe? Just poorly thought out.
Good points
Given how nuts Lazarus is I doubt they'd be able to keep him locked up forever. Half dead at times and he's still looking for the other version of himself. So it's either the kill him or lock him between universes.
Your numerous “WTF?” facial expressions sum up this episode nicely.
Hahaha
Uniform colors means stuff.
Red = Engineers, security; Blue = Sciences, medicine, Gold Command
Except in this episode, where the female engineer is wearing blue. One of the minor things wrong with this episode.
After the first season pretty much ALL women wore red because it was the most attractive. Can’t fault the logic. Take a look at the early episodes with Uhura in gold and you’ll see what I mean.
Fun Fact: the "gold" uniforms weren't actually gold. They were green! Red blue and green were meant to reflect the phosphors in color tvs and encourage people to buy them. For some reason though that shade of green didn't read correctly on camera, so we've always seen them as gold.
You mentioned in a previous reaction video that you like books. Cool. Plus you like to look back and watch episodes again. Back when Star Trek was new, there were novels written by James Blish and published by Bantam Books starting in 1966. Back then we could not watch episodes again after second repeat. And then not until it went into syndication when it was shown in a cycle on UHF TV stations. So we relied on the novels to fill us in and do what books could while TV could not. Some of the episodes might have been better novels or short stories rather than on TV. I am in the second group of Star Trek fans who had some memories of the show when it was new but really did not start watching it seriously until it went to syndication. I did make a first friend because of Star Trek in fact in 1973. Then my family moved from CA to WI in 1974, disrupting everything. But I still enjoyed Star Trek.
3:02 I hadn't noticed before, but isn't that the "Wilhelm Scream"?
I think it might be lol
Not quite but it's close because this episode predates Star Wars
@donovanbradford8231 "The scream first appeared in the 1951 movie Distant Drums".
And so the sheer bizarre wonder of Star Trek continues!
Very cool that it had you enthralled, despite it being one of the least popular episodes. It has fans :)
Obviously there are a lot of people who consider this one of the worst, but I don't.
I don't seek it out, but I don't think it is bottom-of-the-barrel.
Maybe I'm being forgiving due to me being interested in the heroic end with the sane-Lazarus, and not being overly annoyed with the rest of the episode.
(I do agree with BT when she questioned why Lazarus didn't have a few security officers supervising him while on the Enterprise. And why Spock and the other guards were sitting back and eating popcorn while Kirk was wrestling with the insane-Lazarus.)
Yes, I always sort of liked it. Never loved it, just sort of liked it.
The thing that disappoints me is that the matter universe (our universe) is the crazy man. The implication is that Lazarus saw his double in the atni-matter universe and went NUTS!
What’s the 1960s, and Gene Roddenberry was a liberal. He had to make “our” guy the bad guy.
Yeah this was a Top 10 Star Trek episode for me. The negative effect always freaked me out as a kid. My mom was an amateur photographer and worked briefly with arial plates before she started her family so I was exposed to photographic negatives all my life and they FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT !... pictures of people I knew in negative... just scared me.
This is the "heaviest" episode thus far, introducing the concept of matter versus anti-matter, and daring to suggest that all things in two universes could be obliterated. The music and special effects are very effective in conveying a portentous atmosphere.
Great reactions from Bunny, for this thought provoking episode of Classic Trek.
You rock that Uniform. !Can’t wait to see You in a Moon Base uniform from the series , UFO (. from Gerry Anderson) 1969/70
😳Bunny in a purple wig?
I have a purple wig, though I have yet to do a photoshoot with the outfit I bought it for. But you should be able to see it someday :D
I really enjoyed your reaction today,. You really seemed to get into the episode and tried figuring it out long before the end. Don't worry, because I struggled as well, the first time I watched this episode. So you're not alone in finding this a little confusing . I was happy to see that you eventually made your way to plot. ALSo, I like your Star Fleet uniform ( not in a creepy way) , you look like you belong in it. Does this mean you are going to take over for Yeoman Rand??
Thanks! I could never replace Janice but I'll still do my best!
I like your outfit in a creepy way! He, he, heh.... 😈
1960s. Writers were experimenting with a lot of things, not limited to crazy story ideas like this one. They had a concept, and didn’t know quite how to bring it all together. Nonetheless, we episode makes more sense to me now than it did before. Thank you.
I love how happy Bunny is when she figures stuff out. :)
5:49-5:51 extra extra read all about it, man walks between space time dimensions! LOL
There's an episode in Season 2 called "Mirror, Mirror" that, while not directly connected to this story, serves as a bit of a companion piece to this. You'll understand when you see it. It deals with parallel universes. VERY entertaining.
I loved how giddy you got when Lazarus claimed to be a time traveler (even though he was lying about it).
He was LYING!? Ugh lol
@@bunnytailsREACTS *laughs and laughs and laughs*
@@bunnytailsREACTS No, Lazarus wasn't lying. If one listens to the dialogue, they have been fighting for many years. It was long ago that Sane Lazarus & Insane Lazarus first met. The "destruction" of their civilization, as I have always interpreted it, came with the passage of time during their chase, encounter, chase battle.
The obsessive need to chase "The Other" and thus not being able to live a normal life with his people while they still existed fueled the insanity of unstable Lazarus.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the two.
Yay! You made my day wearing that Uniform. You look great! Great reaction. Hope these videos are getting enough views for you to keep posting them. Watching you from Chicago.
I agree, and I am watching from Los Angeles, California.
This episode is so underrated I like it allot.
It's in my Top 10...
Another Vasquez Rocks episode! That's my neighborhood! I've been hanging out there since I was a kid! It never ceases to amaze me how much Star Trek manages to make it look like some far-off distant planet a million light years away, but they're within sight of the 14 Freeway the whole time!
Excellent writing and acting in this episode,thanks again and you wear it beautifully!
Security has never been reliable on the Enterprise. Do they even have a security chief. Smart of you to point it out.
Other than Devil in the Dark yeah Security is the worst area of the ship.
The over simplified explanation of the engines is.. The glowing red domes on the front of the engines suck up interstellar gas and dust (matter) like giant vacuums. Some of that gas/debris is put thru a machine that turns large amounts of matter into a small amount of antimatter. The explosive energy created by combining that antimatter with yet more regular matter is focused thru the dilithium crystals (a fictitious material strong enough to contain that much energy) and converted into usable energy to power the ship in general and the warp engines specifically.
Your Trekkie uniform is fantastic and looks great on you! This episode used to scare me when I was a kid, some of the music is like a horror movie. I miss hearing you say "Where no bunny has gone before", it always made me smile.
The dilithium crystal's are used to control the immense energy coming from the antimatter reactor.
In earlier episodes they refer to lithium, which references a real-life proposal for a kind of fusion engine that would use lithium as fuel. However, the showrunners realised it would be best not to be tied to a real-life element with known properties, rather than one where they could make them up as they went along! Dilithium is actually a real term in chemistry, but it just means two lithium atoms joined together, whereas here it's meant to be its own substance.
LOL, like how you recognized Vasquez Rocks straight away. Get used to that vista.
There's a lot of theoretical science in this series. That's one of the things that makes Star Trek so enduring, it makes you think.
Hi Bunny, this episode without a doubt has the most convoluted script, storyline and sci-fi conundrums imposed on the viewers and fans of the series. The concept of a matter and antimatter universe or a parallel universe is one of the best sources for sci-fi shows, movies and books.This episode was unfortunately put together quickly without much cohesive integrity so we get some curious interchange between Lazurus A (madman) and Lazurus B (saneman) without any hint of what triggers their transposition between the two universes. The conversation with Kirk and Spock helps explain what is happening plus the peaceful Lazurus gives us a bit more to the storyline. It's possible that the insane Lazurus is partially being truthful about being a timetraveler and his experiment had a side effect that caused a rip in the universe as he traveled to his planets future. The shock of a parallel universe including himself existing drove him insane and created the delusion that his other self was a hideous monster that killed his civilization. The performance by Robert Brown as Lazurus was commendable and well performed considering that he was a last minute replacement for John Drew Barrymore who was notorious for disappearing right I'm the middle of productions of a TV show or movie.
“Am I on drugs?” ha😅ha ha. You happened to have your new uniform during a strange episode.
That single solid ribbon on your sleeve indicates you are a lieutenant.
BunnyTails - alot of Star Trek episodes were Filmed @ Vasques rocks in CA, as well as the Pinnacles park.
The fact that you're doing old star trek is amazing, yellow would look great on you just saying 🤣
I really like how you really try to understand things. I remember when I was young I tried to follow it and just shook my head at some point and thought well I'll just wait until next week's episode.
One of my favorites, seems both lazs were experimenting at the sametime both yoyoing back and forth.
Love your costume and you fill it in to make Nichelle Nichols proud. Your patience for AF is commendable; that you would consider watching it twice remarkable. I've been watching it 50 years and still don't love it, however, I think there was a good premise there and plan to write a reworked story.
Lots of potential, messy execution of ideas.
@@bunnytailsREACTS Exactly! The concept itself was **really** ambitious from a SciFi point of view... Back in the day there was space opera sci fi, speculative sci fi (most of Trek is speculative), and then this really wild out-there sci fi, whose name I can't quite remember. Deeply abstract.
Glad you enjoyed the episode, I think your reaction mirrors how I felt when I saw it. Personally, I`ve always preferred the TOS uniforms, as I grew up in the `60`s when the mini-skirt ruled fashion, thanks to Mary Quant. I think you looked very fetching in the uniform. Merry Xmas to you, your family & all the other commentators & viewers of your channel. :)
The effects used when they clash in the dimensional portal remind me of when I got really, really stoned back in the day.
Bunny, I grew up watching this episode and I never could figure it out, either. According to the history of Star Trek's production, this was a story put together pretty fast. I don't think things were all that well fleshed out in The Alternative Factor. Not to say there weren't good moments --- especially that haunting ending. But, hey! Even on a so-so episode, there are those great characters! Always something to enjoy! Oh, and terrific costume, Bunny! Did you make it?
Not only was the writing rushed I think they had to rewrite the episode, cut a few things out, and the original actor cast as Lazarus went on a bender so they scrambled to get the one who pops up in this one. End ofvthe day the fact the episode got made was a miracle.
In all the years, I've only ever seen the last 15 minutes of this episode. The wavering starfield photo at the beginning, however, revealed what the episode was.
Imagine a puppy dog with floppy ears slowly tilting his head to one side and making an “arooo?” noise.
That’s my reaction to this episode every time I watch it, and that’s been a few times. You’re not alone. First time I saw it when I was a kid, I honestly wondered if I liked this show at all. Fortunately, I saw other episodes that made it into my ten year old brain and got me.
I can count on one hand the number of episodes I don't care for. This is one of them.
Really enjoying your videos, they are always something I look forward to. Thanks
I always called this one the Trifid Nebula episode as that is the object in the picture they used when Lazarus switches universes.
This is one of the episodes that isn’t very popular that I’ve always been a big fan of. I remember as a kid in the 80’s it making me think about things I’d never thought of before. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in my enjoyment of it! Very nice reaction Lieutenant! 🖖🏻
Due to the unpredictability of rerun schedule back in the day, this episode is one of the last ones I caught after seeing almost every other episode numerous times. I just saw some pictures in magazines and paperbacks. It was a strange one for sure and has not made any more sense all these decades later.
If it makes you feel better ... I had the DVDs and maybe only watched this one 2-3 times max!
@@royroblox VHS was still a couple decades away.
Good lord you're rockin' that Star Trek outfit like no other can. Damn. Now I have to re-focus and start the video again :) Hah
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Robert Brown as Lazarus was a plus for me.
Wow. I love your red ST tunic! You wear it perfectly.
Lazarus' ship was the means to get into the magnetic corridor that would lead to the antimatter universe.
Lazarus was the man who JC resurrected in Bethany. He did this before he was crucified and before JC himself was resurrected.
Yes, this episode definitely kept you guessing. This one dealt with the existence of an alternate universe but made of antimatter instead of matter. This episode was one of the first that dealt with this topic. Back in the 1960s, we didn't know that much about antimatter. Today, we know much more about it.
This episode aired in early 1967. Later that year, they aired an episode of Lost In Space called The Antimatter Man which also dealt with matter and antimatter and antimatter worlds. In the Marvel comics back in the 1960s, they had The Negative Zone which was a negative and very hostile universe. In the Negative Zone, there was the Zone of Antimatter, a place you would NOT want to be caught in. Villains like Blastarr and Annihilus lived in the Negative Zone. In Space 1999 which aired in the mid-1970s, they had an episode where people met their antimatter counterparts.
Yes, the security in engineering was very poor indeed, how easy it was for people to steal their dilithium crystals. Yes, that admiral dumped all of the responsibility and danger onto Kirk.
There was one other TV show back in the late 1960s that dealt with things like time travel and alternate realities - the gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows. That show had Barnabas Collins, a vampire with a soul 30 years before Angel on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Yes, they filmed this episode at the Vasquez Rocks just north of LA, there they also filmed Arena.
Anothr show from the 60's era ws 'Time Tunnel'; not sure that show dealt with any Matter/Anti-Matter worlds but would have been something to see if they did.
@@openfor45 I don't recall that show dealing with antimatter.
@@scottbridge9391 nor me as well. thought i'd run it by ya. thanks for replying
The Enterprise uses Deuterium, a form of hydrogen as the matter, and antimatter, to generate huge amounts of clean power. There is a bit of hand-waving over the precise nature of dilithium, but it does not fully exist within our physical world, a property that allows it to focus and direct the most of the energy from the matter/antimatter reaction to form it into high-energy plasma, without being harmed. This plasma is routed up the pylons to the warp nacelles to power them. Some of the energy is routed to the ship's unternal electrical systrems. There is some inconsistency in that in some instances the reaction wears down the crystals, eventually consuming them.
There is also inconsistency in whether the warp drive can operate without the crystals or not, but the most consistent answer seems to warp travel is possible, but the speed would be limited to Warp 2, maybe 3.
Kirk indicates the loss of crystals cuts the ship's power. This implies that even though the matter/antimstter reaction still operates, the resulting energy cannot be converted to power the ship's systems. Kind of like a car engine if one ir more cylunders are not firing. The engine may operate, but will lose power output.
I love your uniform! This episode might have benefited from a Vulcan mind meld with Lazarus (either of them), that technique we first saw back in the mental institution episode, Dagger of the Mind. Notice also the business once more of a double with a wound, like the bad Kirk in The Enemy Within. You can see the effect they were going for -- Kirk wondering "But what of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?" -- but the story needed a better way to tell it, rather than the Enterprise getting endlessly monopolized by an annoying stranger. Don't beat yourself up too much over this one -- you're being kinder to it than a lot of us veteran fans feel. Luckily, we have many smoother, stronger episodes ahead. Thanks, Bun.
Yes, you do look great in that dress! Great reaction. Looking forward to more reactions.
Thanks!