Just to be 100% accurate, when spock was affected by the spores on Omicron Ceti 3 he didn't hook up with a "native" of that planet but rather a member of a federation colony that had been established on that planet. I hate to be a stickler trek nerd but the word "facts" does appear in the title of your video. Carry on.
Seven of Nine was indeed eye candy, written into the show around season five when the ratings were declining. It's no coincidence that the new crew member was built like a Vegas showgirl and consistently wore a form-fitting body stocking. It was a cynical move on the part of the producers, and it worked. The target audience of young males (18-25 years old) enthusiastically returned and never left. Fortunately, Jeri Ryan was a competent actress and the writers were able to flesh out her character quite well. T&A got her through the door, but it was strong performances that kept her there. 😌
Yeah they really lucked out when they cast her. Her performance and the writing combined to make her one of the most compelling characters to ever appear on the small screen IMO. "Drone" Season 5, Episode 2 hit me in a way almost nothing else has. "You are hurting me."
These are a bit vanilla. Let's clear up some real misconceptions that are even repeated in official documentaries. 1. NBC wasn't against a female First Officer on Star Trek, they just didn't want Roddenberry's mistress in that role. The only general memo about women aboard the ship by the network was the request to have more female crew members! 2. Lucille Ball didn't put her personal money into the producion of either Star Trek pilot, and she wasn't responsible for the second chance NBC gave the show. She also wasn't the only person on the board of directors at Desilu who wanted to do the show. 3. Desilu didn't struggle financially because of Star Trek. During the whole production of Star Trek Desilu was profitable. Lucille Ball sold the studio to Paramount because she didn't like being a studio executive. 4. Star Trek wasn't the first show to get a second pilot when the first one didn't fully convince a network. 5. Star Trek wasn't as revolutionary and progressive as many think nowadays. The views of Star Trek in the 60s were pretty much mainstream among the younger population of the US. 6. Oh, and about the interracial kiss: The real kicker is that all of the worries of the network were completely unfounded. There wasn't a single complaint about this kiss in the South - apart from criticism by viewers and reviewers who asked why Kirk would even struggle to kiss a beautiful woman like Uhura.
The reason there were not any protests about the Kirk/Uhura kiss is that the kind of people who would raise hell about seeing such a thing on television weren't watching _Star Trek_ in the first place. _Star Trek_ was not a highly rated show when it aired.
Most of us kids when ST:TOS was originally aired, knew that the "the woman" in Kirk's life was the Enterprise. Yes, ladies drifted through his life and were appreciated, but his ship was his life, it was his home, his love and his constant companion. Oh my goodness ... I can hear him echoing another Captain: Come give me that horizon.
He doesn't have an actual romance until 'The City on the Edge of Forever', Season 2, episode 7, with Edith Keeler. A few visits from old girlfriends, but nothing except for Edith and Miramanee (whom he married). Pike had more action in the first season of SNW than Kirk did in the entire original series.
The Studio only wanted to bring Shatner, Nimoy & Kelley back for the animated series. But, Nimoy held out, and said that if the other crew members didn't return to voice their characters, he was out. Integrity to the end.
You began with “Beam me up, Scotty,” a phrase no real fan thinks was ever uttered on the show. I didn’t have to watch anymore after that. You weren’t going to tell me anything I didn’t already know.
'Beam me up, Scotty' is like 'Luke I am your father' a lot of people think it is said, but never was. The money issue... Ferengi are mostly the ones still using money. Credits is more a trade in services or holodeck time not actual money.
The thing is, people say "Beam me up, Scotty" or "Luke, I am your father" or "Elementary, my dear Watson" because they're including their names, so you know which show is being quoted. If they said "no, I am your father" or just "it's elementary", then you don't know they're quoting a show. But if you say "Luke, I am your father" then, you know, what other major movie or TV show has a main character called "Luke" who discovers who his father is? Exactly, by including "Luke", even though that's not in the original script, you're immediately saying what movie / show you're quoting. Similarly, you add "Scotty" and "Watson" to those other quotes for the same reason. Once you say "Scotty", you know you're talking Star Trek, and the same with "Watson" for Sherlock Holmes. The quotes add in the character's names because that helps to identify the show you're quoting. But, yes, in reality, people rarely actually say the names of the people they're talking to - because, like, those people already know their own names. You use people's names when you want to catch their attention or to be explicit about who you're addressing when there's lots of people. But, talking one to one, people don't say each other's names, do they? I don't consider these to be misquoted. Rather people are paraphrasing... to make it more obvious which show you're taking the quote from, by including the characters' names.
@@klaxoncow Joe Friday on Dragnet never said, "Just the facts, mam." That was from a Stan Freberg comedy record satirizing Dragnet, where he as Friday said, "We're just here for the facts, mam."
Vulcans DO NOT suppress emotions or bury them; they master their emotions, the Vulcan word C'thia explains their use of logic, emotional mastery and pacifists nature.
Actually according to tuvok Vulcans suppress their emotions because their own natural emotions are erratic and chaotic, if they don't control their emotions it will control them
@@Soul-cry1 Y'all do realize that you last clause actually negates your first one? Suppression and control are two differing concepts and control is more what Vulcan's do a la Sarek's comment that marrying Spock's human mother was "the logical thing to do".
Actually, TAS wasn't the first intended sequel/spinoff. "Assignment:Earth" was intended to be the pilot for a Star Trek related show. And as far as Phase II is concerned, many of the scripts were reworked for TNG.
It was to be a backdoor pilot but no one knew till years later but tas is officially the 2nd spin-off st ph2 was never shot so tng is the 3rd official spin-off of tos
5:34 Star Trek was not the first American TV show to feature an interracial kiss. This is a myth that somehow persists, in spite of being repeatedly debunked. In fact, there's a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to the First interracial kiss on television, with a number of legitimate contenders that preceded Star Trek by about a decade.
Latinum is used by the Federation in instances when currency is required, like when dealing with the Ferengi, for example. Officers are given small amounts of latinum to use as currency where it's required
A couple of interesting facts regarding the clips you showed....the Starfleet officer (Admiral Satie) who accuses Picard of breaking the Prime Directive 9 times was played by legendary 1940s & 50s movie star Jean Simmons who was the guest star in the season 4 story The Drumhead. And the girl with the green hair and silver bikini thing that Kirk kisses at 10:55 was from the series 2 episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion. She was played by actress Angelique Pettyjohn. Acting jobs dried up for her as she crept into her early 30s and she dropped off the radar. In the early 1980s, as she was approaching 40 she appeared in a handful of hardcore porn films. She passed away from cancer aged 48. Also, don't the Ferrengi refer to "gold plated latinum" as a kind of currency, even if it isn't necessarily an official one. And finally in TOS first season story 'Mudd's women', I seem to recall Kirk says he is authorized to buy dilithium crystals from the miners.
I am terribly ashamed to admit I am such a nerd that I knew every one of these as well as the errors presented. Seven Of Nine was soooo tasty but Mariana Hill (Dr Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind") stole my eight-year-old heart, and still has it.
Technically Picard did not violate the Prime Directive when he allowed Data to save his friend. The entire episode was about wrestling with that until Data forced his captain’s hand. This channel got a lot of these wrong.
Here is the problem with the whole interracial kiss. Are Cubans or other latinos white? Many whites in the US do not think so. Well Lucy and Dezi were married and kissed several times on their show 10 years earlier.
Another interracial kiss, on network television, that predated Star Trek occurred on the TV show Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges, the Star of the show, kissed a Japanese woman. I suppose a Caucasian/Asian kiss wasn’t as controversial, but it is an interracial kiss.
Latinos can be just about anything as far as race goes. Latino isn't a race, it's an ethnicity. So yes, Cubans or other latinos can be white, no matter what those idiot whites in the US think.
One of my favourite memories about Christmas and Star Trek is tuning in to watch a back to back ST-TAS episodes just before watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special along with a few Rankin-Bass specials on CBS and seeing that spinning SPECIAL logo, while decorating the Christmas tree when I was 6 or 7 years old in 1973 or 74
In the TOS episode, "The Doomsday Machine" (my personal favorite) Scotty gets the Constellation moving again, and Kirk says "Now If I only had some phasers..." To which Scotty replies, "Phasers! You got 'em... I have ONE bank recharged" to which Kirk then exclaims: "Scotty, You've just earned your pay for the week!!" Just wanted to add that one to the "no money in the future" violation examples!!!
Years before Star Trek, "Mike Nelson" of 'Sea Hunt' had the first interracial kiss on television that I'm aware of. The woman he kissed was of Asian, not African, ancestry, but that's still interracial.
I remember an episode of Next Gen where Riker was on a planet ran by women. When he was propositioned by the head woman and he asked her "Will you respect me in the morning"?
After studying thousands of hours of ST episodes from the OST, TNG, DS9 and Voyager I came to the conclusion that all the absolute worst episodes focus on either children or ghosts.
7 of 9 went from T&A to the most well developed character in the show. She got more character development in 3 seasons than the rest of the cast did in 7.
They always had 1 emotionless being on every series and movie as a main character. Every series had a Vulcan except for TNG. TNG had Data as the emotionless main character.
In my favorite episode, The Menagerie, shortly after Spock beams down from the Enterprise (captained by Christopher Pike) to the planet Talos IV he touches the leaves of a local plant and breaks out into a big smile. It's hilariously out of his later character, but that footage is from the original pilot (The Cage).
TNG season 4 “ The Drumhead” was one of the best episodes of all of the Star Trek’s episodes. Picard shines his brightest when he is on the witness stand.
Well the thing was, it wasn't always Mr Scott who'd beam you up, Mr Kyle was also often seen in the Transporter Room. When it comes to the "first Interracial Kiss", even if it was, it's hardly a good example when it's FORCED on the characters.
Plato's Stepchildren is often cited as presenting the first interracial kiss on network TV, but, according to Trek canon, that happened in 1x24 - This Side of Paradise when Spock Kissed Leila Kalomi. Even in Plato's Stepchildren, Spock kissed Nurse Chapel before Kirk kissed Uhura. Who says Vulcan's can't party? One example of interracial kisses that occurred on broadcast TV before this include a british ITV show in 1962 called "In Your Small Corner", which included a kiss between Lloyd Reckford and Elizabeth MacLennan. If you want one in the U.S.A. then try the Dec. 11, 1967 Nancy Sinatra musical special wherein Nancy kisses Sammy Davis Jr. at the end of their number "What'd I Say." Don't take my word for it. It's right here: ua-cam.com/video/3cvDVSIVhN0/v-deo.html
The studio and the cast were concerned to make it very clear that Kirk's resistance to kissing Uhura was because he was being forced to, and so was she, and that he was in no way resistant because of her appearance. Relatively sure Shatner tanked the other takes to make sure that he got to kiss Nicholls. Let's face it, who wouldn't want to? Nicholls was rather beautiful.
When I heard that Picard had broken the prime directive nine times I expected a flashback to Ferris Bueller‘s Day Off when his mother asks on the phone, “Nine times?“
Wanna minute!!!!! This voice is so familiar. Years ago one of my first subscriptions was to a channel called Dash Star. The guy was Australian who moved to the states for work. He used to open every video saying, “My name is Dash”. Then a lightsaber would would play. I’m 99% sure this is him!
Okay, these "facts" may be unknown by casual viewers, but these are so basic, most of them I've known since I was 12 years old in the 1970s (except for the ones about TNG and VOY of course). Trek fans can probably list 50 of these kind of misconceptions, but they are only misconceptions to people who are NOT actual fans (how many times I've cringed when someone says Dr. Spock :( :(, or the Star Trek Enterprise! ) I guess I thought maybe there might be some new information that I hadn't already heard decades ago, but I guess not. Maybe the title should be "False Facts About Star Trek that People who never watch Star Trek thought were true."
People often talk about that interracial kiss as being between “consenting adults”. That was hardly the case - it’s just another example of people throwing words around without thinking about what they mean.
I would argue that the aliens who wanted to kill Wesley were not less advanced in the sense that their "god" was much more powerful than the Enterprise and crew. And besides, they invited the crew to their world; so, they were already negotiating and influencing each other. Simply leaving with Wesley does not violate the prime directive, in my opinion.
If Vulcans had no emotions, they'd be no more interesting than robots. It's that they have very strong emotions, but go to great lengths to suppress it, that makes them interesting, as a race.
The phrase "false facts" is an oxymoron. It cannot exist any more than "falling upward" can. If you have facts, which are---BY DEFINITION---true, then they cannot be false. If you have ideas that are false, they are never going to be facts. You could have said, "Things about _Star Trek_ you Always Thought Were True," or "Ideas, "Thoughts" or just plain "Concepts." Thumbs down from me for people who cannot do simple grammar checks.
It's not fair to dismiss Jennifer Lien's original casting as eye candy. Though she was like 18 when she was cast, Lien was cast because she was beautiful, just like everyone else on the show, and that includes Janeway, who much as people like to ignore the fact because Kate Mulgrew tried to, is also relatively stunning.
If you read the notes for Phase 2, it's amazing how many points line up with The Next Generation. Especially, Decker - Riker and the tela - empath he's in love with. 😉
Didn't know about an interracial TV kiss predating the one in "Star Trek," but I do recall that "Ellen" is falsely credited with the first woman-woman kiss on TV when Xena and Gabrielle had already kissed on "Xena: Warrior Princess."
If you want to push the envelope, Kirk kissed Marlena (Barbar Luna) the season before Plato's Stephildren in the mirror universe. The actress is often considered Hispanic. And while the kiss with Ellaan is three episodes after Plato's Stepchildren, it is a full one desirable kiss. Not like with Uhura, which the network required to be forced against their will. The Ellaan actress, France Nuyen, is Asian.
What the deal with Vulcans is that they are emotional creatures. In fact, that's what got them into trouble so they learned to suppress them and focus on logic. Even Sarek got angry on occasion. But the Kolinahr is the purging of emotions. Spock was going to do it before feeling V'Ger and setting off to rejoin Starfleet.
They said money didn't exist or something similar because they were in an enormous navy and took basic survival for granted but did possess a form of money like it was just for fun
The only facts that I thought to be true were the fifth and the last one. I really wish video creators would stop naming their videos in a style of "things you thought" or "facts you didn't know" when it's OBVIOUSLY NOT TRUE!
I think you're mistaken about Kirk and women. Kirk bagged plenty of women in the original series. We don't even need to count Edith Keeler in The City on the Edge of Forever - that was more a real love affair. But in Bread and Circuses he bedded the Proconsul's slave girl without batting an eye. In Where No Man Has Gone Before it was revealed that Gary Mitchell had, years before, lined Kirk up with a fellow cadet at the Academy. There's even speculation that was Carol Markus, but I think that's really just a fan thing. But obviously he'd been with Carol too. So, I don't think this is one we get to shoot down.
You might want to add *Wink of an Eye* to the list. Plus *The Paradise Syndrome* and *Requiem for Methuselah* for "real" love stories. I'm sure there are more which I can't think of right now.
@@Spielkalb-von-Sparta I don't know that I think there had really been time for love in Requiem for Methuselah, but wow, Louise Sorel was certainly one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in that episode. Just incredible. I'm sure you're right, though - I wasn't actually trying to think of all of them. Edith Keeler always struck me as the most legit, because in that case there was time - it was implied they were around her place for a while waiting for McCoy.
@@KipIngram In a*Wink of an Eye* there's definitely a scene after a cut in her guest room showing Kirk sitting on the bed putting his boots back on. That's quite explicit. In *The Paradise Syndrome* his love interest even was pregnant from him. And I don't think it matters if they had time for the act in every case, it's enough that Kirk is after the ladies.
@@Spielkalb-von-Sparta Ah, you're right. I remembered Kirk pulling his boots on in SOME episode, but wouldn't have been able to tell you which one. I wasn't really trying to make a complete list - I just generally kind of disagree with the idea that Kirk didn't do his fair share of womanizing. I think it was a fairly overt part of the series, and is quite likely one of the reasons Trek was so popular within my peer group as a teenager. All of us young guys secretly fancied getting to BE Kirk. It wasn't based ONLY on his success with women, but that was surely a significant part of it.
Humans are weird, no qualms cross-spices kissing cats, dogs, rabbits - even tonguing them, but kissing one another interracialy can be a thing of stigma.
FYI - Star Trek TAS was on air long before Netflix. In the Trekiverse, the UFP use a credit system. It is different from carrying cash. Check your facts.
In one episode Kirk married a woman from the alien planet. Of course just after he finds out he's gonna be a daddy, she gets killed. 😭 In another Kirk was floating aound in space, when he is finally brought back onboard the ENTERPRISE, Spock is SOOOOOOO HAPPY. I don't rememner exactly WHAT he said but Dr. McCoy said something the effect of,YOU HAD AN EMOTIONAL REACTION, THAT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN. This is AFTER Spock regains control of his emotions and very calmly states what ever he says, more like himself.
Similar to Spock's emotional reaction to seeing that he hadn't killed his captain and friend on Vulcan. Spock tried to brush it off, but McCoy didn't buy it. "In a pig's eye."
Within the Federation which is assembled not only by faster-than-light travel but by the post-scarcity mentioned here brought by replicators (along with other tech), the use of money is only for interaction with non-Federation cultures. That's why Quark's (and indeed all Ferengi) use money, for example. Of course, they're not the only ones given this framework.
Yeah, the no money thing was something that they tried to shoehorn in later, but unfortunately that ship had already sailed. You just can't argue with the Cyrano Joans bits. And it's easy enough to interpret Kirk's line in The Voyage Home as meaning that they didn't use physical cash, coins, or anything like that - not that there was no medium of exchange whatsoever. It makes all the sense in the world that it would have simply become digital. But there will always be the people who want to turn Trek into a poster child for their dream world. They'll never be right, but they won't stop trying either.
I originally assumed that was what Kirk meant in TVH, but several episodes of TNG literalised the "no money" rule. Ronald D. Moore thought that was pretty dumb, and wished that Roddenberry had never introduced it. He tried to retcon it out, and was at least partly successful with Quark et al. Even in Picard (2020-2023) there are clues that some form of exchange is being made.
@@jonathanmarkoff4469 Well, it's a fictional series and not the real world, so you can't really expect consistency on things like that. I do think that as the franchise evolved it fell into the hands of people who wanted to push a particular social message. And since it's not a real world, you can't necessarily expect that message to be one that would even work in the real world. If you really do want to be strict about interpreting the things we've seen on screen, then there is just absolutely no denying that Cyrano Jones was talking about MONEY. Whether it had tangible physical representation or was just numbers in a computer system we can't say, but commerce was being discussed. There's just no other way to interpret that. If you want to take the position that money of any form was gone in TNG, then you'd have to chalk that up to systemic changes that happened between the two eras. There was like a century of history in there, so it's not necessary to insist that things were the same in the two cases. Honestly I've more or less ignored this aspect of Trek - it's not germane to the particular stories being told, and since it is fiction it really is entirely irrelevant to any "real world philosophizing." Having the world of Trek be a socialist society that has wildly succeeded says absolutely nothing about the prospect of socialism in the real world having positive results.
@@KipIngram I am pretty sure the "no money" thing came out of nowhere in The Voyage Home. Trek has never been big on making every single episode consistent with all others, and most of the time it doesn't need to be. Then Discovery screwed up practically everything about the canon timeline.
*1)* - I already new. *2)* - dito. *3)* - dito. *4)* - dito. *5)* - dito. *6)* - dito. *7)* - dito. *8)* - That's new to me. *9)* - I already new. But it's more complicated than how it's told here. In my understanding the growth of 7o9's character only developed over time, her original introduction was indeed partly as an eye candy. *10)* Well, of course Kirk was a "ladies" man. To say hewas it only in 25% of all episodes seems a little silly to me…
Nice collection and ideas... However, I have to disagree with your comment, the idea that Star Trek did not have the first interracial kiss. Your mention of Sammy Davis Jr. and Nancy Sinatra was about Sammy Davis "giving" a kiss ...on the cheek. But in Star Trek it was an actual full on kiss between the two. Giving a kiss on the check and kissing are two different things. :O)
Big mistake on this video. Deanna Troi was always empathic. What's the scene in Zorn's office in the pilot Encounter at Farpoint. "I'm only half betazoid Groppler. I can only sense strong emotions."
And the emotions she could sense were so brazenly obvious that it didn't take an empath. She was always stating the obvious. Picard: I'm sure we can come to a peaceful resolution here. Opposing ship's captain: Picard, I'm going to grease up a photon torpedo and fire it _right up your ass!_ Troi: I sense hostility, Captain! Picard: Romulan commander, you presence in the Neutral Zone is a treaty violation. Explain yourself. Romulan commander: We.. um... well we... um... we had a navigation issue. Yeah, a navigation issue! Before we even knew what was happening, we ended up three light years inside the Neutral Zone. Yeah, that's it! Troi: I sense deception, Captain!
The animated series is not sequel. It was continuation of the live series. A kiss on the cheek doesn't count. You do that with your mom/auntie/sister/ etc. Kirk and Uhura kissed 'for real' on the lips. Money, as in official currency, doesn't exist, but other forms of payment do - like the mentioned 'credits'. Kirk was, indeed, a ladies man. He was always flirting. Since the series was about a group exploring space, of course Kirk didn't hook up every episode. Just because they don't show him bedding women (it's was the 1960's) doesn't mean he didn't do it. Kirk's ego matched that of the person who portrayed him. I love Shatner, but the man has an enormous ego.
It's true, Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson".
It's also true, Watson never said,
"No shit, Sherlock".
I bet he was thinking it though.
@@KevinBenecke The Elementary line is from stage and film adaptations of SH.
@@KevinBenecke Why you steal my a joke?!
I could swear he did. Dangit.
I think the world would be a better place if that line was written in any s.h stories
Just to be 100% accurate, when spock was affected by the spores on Omicron Ceti 3 he didn't hook up with a "native" of that planet but rather a member of a federation colony that had been established on that planet. I hate to be a stickler trek nerd but the word "facts" does appear in the title of your video. Carry on.
yeah and their 'facts' are badly off, I gave up in disgust
The channel is called "Media Buzz". Nuff said.
They also knew each other already, before she left for the colony.
Also, she was apparently an old girl friend. They talk about how they knew each other prior to being on Omicron Ceti 3.
Great call
Seven of Nine was indeed eye candy, written into the show around season five when the ratings were declining.
It's no coincidence that the new crew member was built like a Vegas showgirl and consistently wore a form-fitting body stocking. It was a cynical move on the part of the producers, and it worked. The target audience of young males (18-25 years old) enthusiastically returned and never left.
Fortunately, Jeri Ryan was a competent actress and the writers were able to flesh out her character quite well.
T&A got her through the door, but it was strong performances that kept her there. 😌
Yeah they really lucked out when they cast her. Her performance and the writing combined to make her one of the most compelling characters to ever appear on the small screen IMO. "Drone" Season 5, Episode 2 hit me in a way almost nothing else has.
"You are hurting me."
Seven of Tits 😁
End of season 3, not season 5.
Jeri Ryan is a great actor!
Resistance is futile...
These are a bit vanilla. Let's clear up some real misconceptions that are even repeated in official documentaries.
1. NBC wasn't against a female First Officer on Star Trek, they just didn't want Roddenberry's mistress in that role. The only general memo about women aboard the ship by the network was the request to have more female crew members!
2. Lucille Ball didn't put her personal money into the producion of either Star Trek pilot, and she wasn't responsible for the second chance NBC gave the show. She also wasn't the only person on the board of directors at Desilu who wanted to do the show.
3. Desilu didn't struggle financially because of Star Trek. During the whole production of Star Trek Desilu was profitable. Lucille Ball sold the studio to Paramount because she didn't like being a studio executive.
4. Star Trek wasn't the first show to get a second pilot when the first one didn't fully convince a network.
5. Star Trek wasn't as revolutionary and progressive as many think nowadays. The views of Star Trek in the 60s were pretty much mainstream among the younger population of the US.
6. Oh, and about the interracial kiss: The real kicker is that all of the worries of the network were completely unfounded. There wasn't a single complaint about this kiss in the South - apart from criticism by viewers and reviewers who asked why Kirk would even struggle to kiss a beautiful woman like Uhura.
The reason there were not any protests about the Kirk/Uhura kiss is that the kind of people who would raise hell about seeing such a thing on television weren't watching _Star Trek_ in the first place. _Star Trek_ was not a highly rated show when it aired.
Lucille Ball did want original programs on DesiLu. So I'm grateful for that.
Most of us kids when ST:TOS was originally aired, knew that the "the woman" in Kirk's life was the Enterprise. Yes, ladies drifted through his life and were appreciated, but his ship was his life, it was his home, his love and his constant companion. Oh my goodness ... I can hear him echoing another Captain: Come give me that horizon.
Kirk said this emphatically after his encounter with Elaan of Troyius.
Yeah. He was a ladies man - always on the make and never settling down because his only 'love' was his ship.
He doesn't have an actual romance until 'The City on the Edge of Forever', Season
2, episode 7, with Edith Keeler. A few visits from old girlfriends, but nothing except for Edith and Miramanee (whom he married). Pike had more action in the first season of SNW than Kirk did in the entire original series.
The Studio only wanted to bring Shatner, Nimoy & Kelley back for the animated series.
But, Nimoy held out, and said that if the other crew members didn't return to voice their characters, he was out.
Integrity to the end.
Having Jimmy Doohan's voices in the animated filled out the characters. He often did 2 or 3 each episode.
Spock is the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz.he acts like he has no emotions, but yet his emotions define the character.
hear hear
That's a great comparison 👍 Both rise to the occasion when their friends need them most
You began with “Beam me up, Scotty,” a phrase no real fan thinks was ever uttered on the show. I didn’t have to watch anymore after that. You weren’t going to tell me anything I didn’t already know.
The green woman who Kirk did react (Marta) with was the late, and most beautiful Yvonne Craig, who also played Batgirl in the 1966 "Batman" TV show.
I met Marina Sirtis. AKA Troi about 20 yrs ago. Goodness, she took my breath away. What a beauty.
I had a pretty good conversation with her. She's a hell of a lady. Her husband Michael, God rest him, was a good guy as well. Sad that he passed.
I always found Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) sexy as well. ❤
The money thing is easy to explain, most species use currency so the Federation would have it in some sort of thing to trade
2:42 There's no debate about who the best captain was. It was Sisko.
I once made a shirt that had a photo of sisko on that said “don’t make me go sisko on your ass!
Blech.
@katehalleron4688 you need Wormhole Jesus in your life
'Beam me up, Scotty' is like 'Luke I am your father' a lot of people think it is said, but never was.
The money issue... Ferengi are mostly the ones still using money. Credits is more a trade in services or holodeck time not actual money.
The thing is, people say "Beam me up, Scotty" or "Luke, I am your father" or "Elementary, my dear Watson" because they're including their names, so you know which show is being quoted.
If they said "no, I am your father" or just "it's elementary", then you don't know they're quoting a show.
But if you say "Luke, I am your father" then, you know, what other major movie or TV show has a main character called "Luke" who discovers who his father is?
Exactly, by including "Luke", even though that's not in the original script, you're immediately saying what movie / show you're quoting.
Similarly, you add "Scotty" and "Watson" to those other quotes for the same reason. Once you say "Scotty", you know you're talking Star Trek, and the same with "Watson" for Sherlock Holmes.
The quotes add in the character's names because that helps to identify the show you're quoting. But, yes, in reality, people rarely actually say the names of the people they're talking to - because, like, those people already know their own names. You use people's names when you want to catch their attention or to be explicit about who you're addressing when there's lots of people. But, talking one to one, people don't say each other's names, do they?
I don't consider these to be misquoted. Rather people are paraphrasing... to make it more obvious which show you're taking the quote from, by including the characters' names.
@@klaxoncow basically yes.
@@klaxoncow Joe Friday on Dragnet never said, "Just the facts, mam." That was from a Stan Freberg comedy record satirizing Dragnet, where he as Friday said, "We're just here for the facts, mam."
Vulcans DO NOT suppress emotions or bury them; they master their emotions, the Vulcan word C'thia explains their use of logic, emotional mastery and pacifists nature.
Actually according to tuvok Vulcans suppress their emotions because their own natural emotions are erratic and chaotic, if they don't control their emotions it will control them
@@Soul-cry1 Y'all do realize that you last clause actually negates your first one? Suppression and control are two differing concepts and control is more what Vulcan's do a la Sarek's comment that marrying Spock's human mother was "the logical thing to do".
@scloftin8861 I have no idea what you just said 🤔
@Soul-cry1 read the novel Spock's World and you will.
Thank you, Doctor Spock. 😅
In undiscovered country Scotty said I just bought a boat.
Actually, TAS wasn't the first intended sequel/spinoff. "Assignment:Earth" was intended to be the pilot for a Star Trek related show. And as far as Phase II is concerned, many of the scripts were reworked for TNG.
It was to be a backdoor pilot but no one knew till years later but tas is officially the 2nd spin-off st ph2 was never shot so tng is the 3rd official spin-off of tos
5:34 Star Trek was not the first American TV show to feature an interracial kiss. This is a myth that somehow persists, in spite of being repeatedly debunked. In fact, there's a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to the First interracial kiss on television, with a number of legitimate contenders that preceded Star Trek by about a decade.
Let's not forget that 7 of 9 eventually became the captain of the Enterprise even if it took 25 years
That Nancy Sinatra / Sammy Davis Jr. kiss was a CHEEK KISS. That is not the same at all and does not trump the Trek event.
Latinum is used by the Federation in instances when currency is required, like when dealing with the Ferengi, for example. Officers are given small amounts of latinum to use as currency where it's required
A couple of interesting facts regarding the clips you showed....the Starfleet officer (Admiral Satie) who accuses Picard of breaking the Prime Directive 9 times was played by legendary 1940s & 50s movie star Jean Simmons who was the guest star in the season 4 story The Drumhead. And the girl with the green hair and silver bikini thing that Kirk kisses at 10:55 was from the series 2 episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion. She was played by actress Angelique Pettyjohn. Acting jobs dried up for her as she crept into her early 30s and she dropped off the radar. In the early 1980s, as she was approaching 40 she appeared in a handful of hardcore porn films. She passed away from cancer aged 48. Also, don't the Ferrengi refer to "gold plated latinum" as a kind of currency, even if it isn't necessarily an official one. And finally in TOS first season story 'Mudd's women', I seem to recall Kirk says he is authorized to buy dilithium crystals from the miners.
Fun Fact: Angelique Pettyjohn was considered for the role of Nova in The Planet of the Apes.
Gold-pressed latinum
I am terribly ashamed to admit I am such a nerd that I knew every one of these as well as the errors presented.
Seven Of Nine was soooo tasty but Mariana Hill (Dr Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind") stole my eight-year-old heart, and still has it.
I dig.
One of my favorites, the woman actually got to do something!
Technically Picard did not violate the Prime Directive when he allowed Data to save his friend. The entire episode was about wrestling with that until Data forced his captain’s hand.
This channel got a lot of these wrong.
Saving Wes was hardly affecting change to their society. They had contact. And only their sense of justice was affected.
Here is the problem with the whole interracial kiss. Are Cubans or other latinos white? Many whites in the US do not think so. Well Lucy and Dezi were married and kissed several times on their show 10 years earlier.
The ONLY reason the producers allowed that was because they were married.
I believe the issue was Black and White. Negro kissing and Caucasian. Which was a revolutionary during the time.
Another interracial kiss, on network television, that predated Star Trek occurred on the TV show Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges, the Star of the show, kissed a Japanese woman. I suppose a Caucasian/Asian kiss wasn’t as controversial, but it is an interracial kiss.
@ I’m sure that there are many other examples. It happened and it is history. Life moves on.
Latinos can be just about anything as far as race goes. Latino isn't a race, it's an ethnicity. So yes, Cubans or other latinos can be white, no matter what those idiot whites in the US think.
One of my favourite memories about Christmas and Star Trek is tuning in to watch a back to back ST-TAS episodes just before watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special along with a few Rankin-Bass specials on CBS and seeing that spinning SPECIAL logo, while decorating the Christmas tree when I was 6 or 7 years old in 1973 or 74
In the TOS episode, "The Doomsday Machine" (my personal favorite) Scotty gets the Constellation moving again, and Kirk says "Now If I only had some phasers..." To which Scotty replies, "Phasers! You got 'em... I have ONE bank recharged" to which Kirk then exclaims: "Scotty, You've just earned your pay for the week!!" Just wanted to add that one to the "no money in the future" violation examples!!!
Years before Star Trek, "Mike Nelson" of 'Sea Hunt' had the first interracial kiss on television that I'm aware of. The woman he kissed was of Asian, not African, ancestry, but that's still interracial.
I remember an episode of Next Gen where Riker was on a planet ran by women. When he was propositioned by the head woman and he asked her "Will you respect me in the morning"?
Fun fact, one of my college theatre professors was the lead in that episode that saw Westley have to get saved from crashing into the greenhouse.
William wasn't supposed to kiss Uhura, another character was. Bill had some pull. He demanded to be the one.
Last scene Riker's thoughts "Nah, neither one are Troy."
After studying thousands of hours of ST episodes from the OST, TNG, DS9 and Voyager I came to the conclusion that all the absolute worst episodes focus on either children or ghosts.
I think almost all of us know by now that "Beam me up, Scotty" was never precisely said.
"Beam me up, Scotty" was created at a later point to generate a catchphrase for Trekkies.
7 of 9 went from T&A to the most well developed character in the show. She got more character development in 3 seasons than the rest of the cast did in 7.
No one would beam Kirk anywhere without a strategically placed math book.
They always had 1 emotionless being on every series and movie as a main character. Every series had a Vulcan except for TNG. TNG had Data as the emotionless main character.
Then they completely ruined his entire character with the ridiculously useless emotions chip.😢
@@michaelmappin4425 But we got great acting from Brent Spiner!
An allegedly emotionless character. Even Data had emotions, albeit rather subtle ones.
@@clancykohl It's really hard to imagine a living being without ANY emotions. Even plants exhibit emotional reactions.
Trust me, fans NEVER forgot the animated series.
In Star Trek IV, Kirk says "Scotty beam me up" sooo... close
In my favorite episode, The Menagerie, shortly after Spock beams down from the Enterprise (captained by Christopher Pike) to the planet Talos IV he touches the leaves of a local plant and breaks out into a big smile. It's hilariously out of his later character, but that footage is from the original pilot (The Cage).
TNG season 4 “ The Drumhead” was one of the best episodes of all of the Star Trek’s episodes. Picard shines his brightest when he is on the witness stand.
At no time did I ever believe any of these "misconceptions". And as for eye candy, that was Leeta's job.
"I'm too sexy for my star ship, too sexy for my uniform, too sexy for my warp drive, too sexy for....?"
The BORG!
Well the thing was, it wasn't always Mr Scott who'd beam you up, Mr Kyle was also often seen in the Transporter Room.
When it comes to the "first Interracial Kiss", even if it was, it's hardly a good example when it's FORCED on the characters.
The Prime Directive tends to be more a suggestion than an actual rule in Star Trek.
Plato's Stepchildren is often cited as presenting the first interracial kiss on network TV, but, according to Trek canon, that happened in 1x24 - This Side of Paradise when Spock Kissed Leila Kalomi. Even in Plato's Stepchildren, Spock kissed Nurse Chapel before Kirk kissed Uhura. Who says Vulcan's can't party? One example of interracial kisses that occurred on broadcast TV before this include a british ITV show in 1962 called "In Your Small Corner", which included a kiss between Lloyd Reckford and Elizabeth MacLennan. If you want one in the U.S.A. then try the Dec. 11, 1967 Nancy Sinatra musical special wherein Nancy kisses Sammy Davis Jr. at the end of their number "What'd I Say." Don't take my word for it. It's right here: ua-cam.com/video/3cvDVSIVhN0/v-deo.html
Really? Starting with "Beam me up Scotty"? Isn't that one of the most well known 'false facts' about Star Trek? It's been done to death.
Indeed.
"I've brought down bigger men than you, Picard": Jean Merilyn vs. Jean Luc, legends
Scotty beam us up was the closet
"Scotty, beam me up" - Kirk in Golden Gate Park, Star Trek IV
@cologne2792 that's the line I was thinking of
I have read (in only one place) that the line "Beam me up, Scotty" was used by Robert Culp in "I Spy".
The studio and the cast were concerned to make it very clear that Kirk's resistance to kissing Uhura was because he was being forced to, and so was she, and that he was in no way resistant because of her appearance. Relatively sure Shatner tanked the other takes to make sure that he got to kiss Nicholls. Let's face it, who wouldn't want to? Nicholls was rather beautiful.
When I heard that Picard had broken the prime directive nine times I expected a flashback to Ferris Bueller‘s Day Off when his mother asks on the phone, “Nine times?“
There's no such thing as "false facts."
But there certainly are false “facts.”
@DawnDavidson No. A fact is the truth. A false fact is impossible.
@@kathleenstoin671 “facts” in this case being things people claim are true but they aren’t.
Wanna minute!!!!! This voice is so familiar. Years ago one of my first subscriptions was to a channel called Dash Star. The guy was Australian who moved to the states for work. He used to open every video saying, “My name is Dash”. Then a lightsaber would would play. I’m 99% sure this is him!
"False facts" are like "dry water."
Okay, these "facts" may be unknown by casual viewers, but these are so basic, most of them I've known since I was 12 years old in the 1970s (except for the ones about TNG and VOY of course). Trek fans can probably list 50 of these kind of misconceptions, but they are only misconceptions to people who are NOT actual fans (how many times I've cringed when someone says Dr. Spock :( :(, or the Star Trek Enterprise! ) I guess I thought maybe there might be some new information that I hadn't already heard decades ago, but I guess not. Maybe the title should be "False Facts About Star Trek that People who never watch Star Trek thought were true."
I love how people use the "they never said it 'exactly' " line to support dumb arguments.
I dont think any Trekkie thinks that beam me up, scotty was actually said.
People often talk about that interracial kiss as being between “consenting adults”. That was hardly the case - it’s just another example of people throwing words around without thinking about what they mean.
Seven was a much better character than Kes.
I would argue that the aliens who wanted to kill Wesley were not less advanced in the sense that their "god" was much more powerful than the Enterprise and crew. And besides, they invited the crew to their world; so, they were already negotiating and influencing each other. Simply leaving with Wesley does not violate the prime directive, in my opinion.
If Vulcans had no emotions, they'd be no more interesting than robots. It's that they have very strong emotions, but go to great lengths to suppress it, that makes them interesting, as a race.
It was the first interracial kiss on American TV, but the first on UK TV was 1962.
No Star Trek fan ever thought that Vina, the Orion Slave Girl, was Kirk's conquest. This is another waste of 12 minutes for any Star Trek fan.
The phrase "false facts" is an oxymoron. It cannot exist any more than "falling upward" can. If you have facts, which are---BY DEFINITION---true, then they cannot be false. If you have ideas that are false, they are never going to be facts. You could have said, "Things about _Star Trek_ you Always Thought Were True," or "Ideas, "Thoughts" or just plain "Concepts." Thumbs down from me for people who cannot do simple grammar checks.
It's not fair to dismiss Jennifer Lien's original casting as eye candy. Though she was like 18 when she was cast, Lien was cast because she was beautiful, just like everyone else on the show, and that includes Janeway, who much as people like to ignore the fact because Kate Mulgrew tried to, is also relatively stunning.
If you read the notes for Phase 2, it's amazing how many points line up with The Next Generation. Especially, Decker - Riker and the tela - empath he's in love with. 😉
There is no debate. Kirk by a country mile. And then Archer second. Then Picard.
Didn't know about an interracial TV kiss predating the one in "Star Trek," but I do recall that "Ellen" is falsely credited with the first woman-woman kiss on TV when Xena and Gabrielle had already kissed on "Xena: Warrior Princess."
I think the first *network* show (Xena was syndicated, not network) to have a woman-woman kiss was actually 'Roseanne'
If you want to push the envelope, Kirk kissed Marlena (Barbar Luna) the season before Plato's Stephildren in the mirror universe. The actress is often considered Hispanic. And while the kiss with Ellaan is three episodes after Plato's Stepchildren, it is a full one desirable kiss. Not like with Uhura, which the network required to be forced against their will. The Ellaan actress, France Nuyen, is Asian.
Um... there are people who think Spock has no emotions? 🤨
"Beam me up, Scotty" was actually said once in the animated series.
What the deal with Vulcans is that they are emotional creatures. In fact, that's what got them into trouble so they learned to suppress them and focus on logic. Even Sarek got angry on occasion. But the Kolinahr is the purging of emotions. Spock was going to do it before feeling V'Ger and setting off to rejoin Starfleet.
The Holodeck first appeared in the Animated series. It was called the “recreation room”.
There is no such thing as FALSE FACTS
The proper term would be "alternative facts" or lies or, in the context of this video more likely, misconceptions.
@hansvandermeulen5515 LOL i don't use that Kellyanne Conway term "alternative facts" either!
LOL. Very good.
@@hansvandermeulen5515 There is also no such thing as "alternative facts," Kelly Anne Conway to the contrary.
@RobertEWaters those "alternative facts" are lies.
No Kirk said Beam me up Scotty in a. Animated episode. Check it out my BF made me comment this to you! ❤❤❤❤
this video was more fun than I anticipated
They said money didn't exist or something similar because they were in an enormous navy and took basic survival for granted but did possess a form of money like it was just for fun
The only facts that I thought to be true were the fifth and the last one. I really wish video creators would stop naming their videos in a style of "things you thought" or "facts you didn't know" when it's OBVIOUSLY NOT TRUE!
And he's wrong with the 10th "fact", Kirk is clearly a lady's man. Not in every episode, but there are plenty of them.
Beam me up Scotty was 100% in the Star Trek cartoon.
Which episode?
I grin each time I remember "Very funny Scotty. Now beam up my clothes." Never spoken on screen, makes a great bumper sticker.✌🖖
The original series and the cartoon completed the five year mission.
The Animate series was for a LONG time NOT considered canon at all. It was first later (with Lower Desks and Prodigy) That some of it was recononized.
I think you're mistaken about Kirk and women. Kirk bagged plenty of women in the original series. We don't even need to count Edith Keeler in The City on the Edge of Forever - that was more a real love affair. But in Bread and Circuses he bedded the Proconsul's slave girl without batting an eye. In Where No Man Has Gone Before it was revealed that Gary Mitchell had, years before, lined Kirk up with a fellow cadet at the Academy. There's even speculation that was Carol Markus, but I think that's really just a fan thing. But obviously he'd been with Carol too. So, I don't think this is one we get to shoot down.
You might want to add *Wink of an Eye* to the list. Plus *The Paradise Syndrome* and *Requiem for Methuselah* for "real" love stories.
I'm sure there are more which I can't think of right now.
@@Spielkalb-von-Sparta I don't know that I think there had really been time for love in Requiem for Methuselah, but wow, Louise Sorel was certainly one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in that episode. Just incredible.
I'm sure you're right, though - I wasn't actually trying to think of all of them. Edith Keeler always struck me as the most legit, because in that case there was time - it was implied they were around her place for a while waiting for McCoy.
@@KipIngram In a*Wink of an Eye* there's definitely a scene after a cut in her guest room showing Kirk sitting on the bed putting his boots back on. That's quite explicit.
In *The Paradise Syndrome* his love interest even was pregnant from him.
And I don't think it matters if they had time for the act in every case, it's enough that Kirk is after the ladies.
@@Spielkalb-von-Sparta Ah, you're right. I remembered Kirk pulling his boots on in SOME episode, but wouldn't have been able to tell you which one. I wasn't really trying to make a complete list - I just generally kind of disagree with the idea that Kirk didn't do his fair share of womanizing. I think it was a fairly overt part of the series, and is quite likely one of the reasons Trek was so popular within my peer group as a teenager. All of us young guys secretly fancied getting to BE Kirk. It wasn't based ONLY on his success with women, but that was surely a significant part of it.
Humans are weird, no qualms cross-spices kissing cats, dogs, rabbits - even tonguing them, but kissing one another interracialy can be a thing of stigma.
I never forgot about the ST The Animated Series, but it didn't get much TV showing in reruns.
this video contains no facts I always believed were true.
FYI - Star Trek TAS was on air long before Netflix. In the Trekiverse, the UFP use a credit system. It is different from carrying cash. Check your facts.
In one episode Kirk married a woman from the alien planet. Of course just after he finds out he's gonna be a daddy, she gets killed. 😭 In another Kirk was floating aound in space, when he is finally brought back onboard the ENTERPRISE, Spock is SOOOOOOO HAPPY. I don't rememner exactly WHAT he said but Dr. McCoy said something the effect of,YOU HAD AN EMOTIONAL REACTION, THAT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN. This is AFTER Spock regains control of his emotions and very calmly states what ever he says, more like himself.
Similar to Spock's emotional reaction to seeing that he hadn't killed his captain and friend on Vulcan. Spock tried to brush it off, but McCoy didn't buy it. "In a pig's eye."
Within the Federation which is assembled not only by faster-than-light travel but by the post-scarcity mentioned here brought by replicators (along with other tech), the use of money is only for interaction with non-Federation cultures. That's why Quark's (and indeed all Ferengi) use money, for example. Of course, they're not the only ones given this framework.
Kirk said Beam me up Scotty in The Animated Series.
Which episode?
A "fact", by definition, can't be false.
By definition fact's can't be true or false. Only statements about them or conclusions can. Sorry for nitpicking. 😉
Yeah, the no money thing was something that they tried to shoehorn in later, but unfortunately that ship had already sailed. You just can't argue with the Cyrano Joans bits. And it's easy enough to interpret Kirk's line in The Voyage Home as meaning that they didn't use physical cash, coins, or anything like that - not that there was no medium of exchange whatsoever. It makes all the sense in the world that it would have simply become digital.
But there will always be the people who want to turn Trek into a poster child for their dream world. They'll never be right, but they won't stop trying either.
I originally assumed that was what Kirk meant in TVH, but several episodes of TNG literalised the "no money" rule. Ronald D. Moore thought that was pretty dumb, and wished that Roddenberry had never introduced it. He tried to retcon it out, and was at least partly successful with Quark et al. Even in Picard (2020-2023) there are clues that some form of exchange is being made.
@@jonathanmarkoff4469 Well, it's a fictional series and not the real world, so you can't really expect consistency on things like that. I do think that as the franchise evolved it fell into the hands of people who wanted to push a particular social message. And since it's not a real world, you can't necessarily expect that message to be one that would even work in the real world.
If you really do want to be strict about interpreting the things we've seen on screen, then there is just absolutely no denying that Cyrano Jones was talking about MONEY. Whether it had tangible physical representation or was just numbers in a computer system we can't say, but commerce was being discussed. There's just no other way to interpret that.
If you want to take the position that money of any form was gone in TNG, then you'd have to chalk that up to systemic changes that happened between the two eras. There was like a century of history in there, so it's not necessary to insist that things were the same in the two cases.
Honestly I've more or less ignored this aspect of Trek - it's not germane to the particular stories being told, and since it is fiction it really is entirely irrelevant to any "real world philosophizing." Having the world of Trek be a socialist society that has wildly succeeded says absolutely nothing about the prospect of socialism in the real world having positive results.
@@KipIngram I am pretty sure the "no money" thing came out of nowhere in The Voyage Home.
Trek has never been big on making every single episode consistent with all others, and most of the time it doesn't need to be. Then Discovery screwed up practically everything about the canon timeline.
Beam me Up Scotty was used in the Star Trek Cartoon.
*1)* - I already new.
*2)* - dito.
*3)* - dito.
*4)* - dito.
*5)* - dito.
*6)* - dito.
*7)* - dito.
*8)* - That's new to me.
*9)* - I already new. But it's more complicated than how it's told here. In my understanding the growth of 7o9's character only developed over time, her original introduction was indeed partly as an eye candy.
*10)* Well, of course Kirk was a "ladies" man. To say hewas it only in 25% of all episodes seems a little silly to me…
*knew *ditto
@@TheMacKosh Thanks, in German it's with one "t".
Nice collection and ideas... However, I have to disagree with your comment, the idea that Star Trek did not have the first interracial kiss. Your mention of Sammy Davis Jr. and Nancy Sinatra was about Sammy Davis "giving" a kiss ...on the cheek. But in Star Trek it was an actual full on kiss between the two. Giving a kiss on the check and kissing are two different things. :O)
Big mistake on this video.
Deanna Troi was always empathic. What's the scene in Zorn's office in the pilot Encounter at Farpoint.
"I'm only half betazoid Groppler. I can only sense strong emotions."
And the emotions she could sense were so brazenly obvious that it didn't take an empath. She was always stating the obvious.
Picard: I'm sure we can come to a peaceful resolution here.
Opposing ship's captain: Picard, I'm going to grease up a photon torpedo and fire it _right up your ass!_
Troi: I sense hostility, Captain!
Picard: Romulan commander, you presence in the Neutral Zone is a treaty violation. Explain yourself.
Romulan commander: We.. um... well we... um... we had a navigation issue. Yeah, a navigation issue! Before we even knew what was happening, we ended up three light years inside the Neutral Zone. Yeah, that's it!
Troi: I sense deception, Captain!
The animated series is not sequel. It was continuation of the live series. A kiss on the cheek doesn't count. You do that with your mom/auntie/sister/ etc. Kirk and Uhura kissed 'for real' on the lips. Money, as in official currency, doesn't exist, but other forms of payment do - like the mentioned 'credits'. Kirk was, indeed, a ladies man. He was always flirting. Since the series was about a group exploring space, of course Kirk didn't hook up every episode. Just because they don't show him bedding women (it's was the 1960's) doesn't mean he didn't do it. Kirk's ego matched that of the person who portrayed him. I love Shatner, but the man has an enormous ego.
Yes, you have to add "scotty" so peopke get the reference
_"Please restrain your leaps of illogic."_
Kirk kissed Dr Pulaski? Wow!