@@zekeblack7004 Dang blasted man! Don’t you know Romulan Ale is illegal?!? They’ll bust you down to ensign second class and make you wear a red shirt!?!
Great music. Scotty's complaining that it won't work but as always he comes through.. Sulu smirking when he figures out Kirk is going to teach the Klingon's a lesson. What an episode!
Agree, Sulu was a great #2. Always good to see him working with Kirk (and Chekov). Great episode, France Nuyen was terrific in this as the super elitist princess.
When I met Nichelle Nichols at a Comic Con a few years ago, I watched this episode just before then because it has a glimpse of her character’s quarters, and she had a scene in sickbay. The point was her favorite episode was every one where she got to be off the Bridge. She’s a very nice woman too.
This one is indeed awesome. But I think an even better one is the battle sequence in ‘Journey to Babel.’ Kirk was severely injured, and is in immense pain, and still has the tactical fortitude, and command presence, to save his ship.
Except that they had their technology wrong. You can't cut in warp drive and then cut around to fire torpedoes. I know they hadn't worked all of the technology canon out yet (even though this was a third season episode), but you simply can't fire weapons while at warp. And you can't turn on a dime at warp speed. That's why you need to drop out of warp in order to do battle.
@@thekevinkaye You ve got it wrong. All though you did not see it the Enterprise allowed the ship to pass and then pivoted to follow the ship and was right under her. The Kingon ship had here flank exposed and was struck hard by several photon torpedoes. Both ships moving at was speed.
Scotty: "That could blow us up just as effectively as ..." Kirk: "Let me know when it's in place." A real captain doesn't dither. He makes quick decisions.
You said it! Even Third Season "Star Trek" episodes where the show was dying a slow death are a hell of a lot better than anything else around. And that's saying something.
@@movie0007 Hey, I was there in 1966 when TOS premiered! I was 13 years old at the time and was hooked immediately! I concur; TOS, TNG, and DS9 were excellent. Honestly I liked "Voyager" as well but when "Enterprise" came along quite frankly I was "Star Trek'd" out. I've got NO use for the J.J. Adams movies or the new TV shows which I haven't seen much of anyway since I don't do the streaming thing.
She's a thing of absolute beauty. The lines and curves are stunning. The way she glides and turns. I'm overwhelmed with envy. She's a gorgeous work of art. Every shot is expertly framed. The Klingon ship isn't bad either.
And that is a space battle! You don't need Computer graphics and glowing lens flares... just the perfection of story telling and a crew of actors who know how to act.
It was CGI, and awfully amateurish CGI at that. The original effects were better. Paramount spent a lot of time and money remastering the whole series but ultimately produced an inferior product.
This was always one of my favourite episodes of TOS, from when I first saw it in the late sixties. It had it all, a traitor, sexy but feisty girl, angry Klingon commander, battle scenes and Kirk and the crew at their best, kickin Klingon ass. Yeah, love it.
He was holding his breath while waiting for that split-second order to fire. Also, the director told him to breath heavy to show his excitement to the home audience.
It's great that the writers of the show can do that with the characters. Then again, it kinda sucks when they're not paying attention to the dialog. Kirk ordered photon torpedoes, repeatedly. After the direct hits, Sulu says, "Direct hits by photon torpedoes." Well... thank you for reminding us, since he just said it, just seconds after ordering it. Duhhh! I don't get out much.
That’s how a real captain does it…he believes in his crew and their capabilities and pushes everything and everyone to the limit. He’s able to make split second judgements with confidence based his skill and experience. Seriously, Kirk is the Real Thing! And brilliant acting by all and great script writing bring it all to life.
@@jamestcallahanphotographer Kirk would be the only captain I would follow without question to end of the galaxy. He has no fear and would bust a lip with no problem for his ship and crew!
Kirk demanded that McCoy give him the shot of adrenaline serum when he was rapidly aging and going senile. When he wrestled with Garth as the shape shifter, he told Spock, you have to shoot us both. It's the only way you can save the ship!
She's in my top 10 list of "Hottest Guest Actresses In TOS." Along with Yvonne Craig, Sherry Jackson, Mariette Hartley, Nancy Kovac and several others.
The professor was smart. By pretending to be stranded, he got dibs on two hot young gals. Do you think he really wanted to fix the ship or get rescued?
I don't care how hard they try, there will NEVER be a better Star Trek, period. It was as much the era as it was the show. That simply cannot be recreated, reimagined, whatever.
I'd forgotten what a beauty France Nuyen was back then - dark skinned, sultry, exotic. Born in 1939, she's still alive today at age 84. This episode was released near the end of 1968, after the release of The Green Berets a few months earlier, in which she also starred.
3:32 "He's badly damaged Captain. Continuting away at.... reduced speed." I love that pause. They're just sitting there pushing buttons, but they treat it like they are in a battle on the open sea
He lets the Klingon retreat instead of pursuing and finishing him off after badly damaging him, just like how killing unarmed prisoners is not the Jedi way. So Kirk’s actions could possibly be the Federation way.
@@patrickwilson1459 he lets the Klingons retreat so they can eventually begin to understand compassion and it was the 'compassion' of ambassador Spock that led to the first alliance of the Klingons and the federation.
@@tonebonebgky2 No, he lets the Klingons retreat because it's _tactically and strategically idiotic_ to try to pursue an enemy which is no longer a threat to you when you are still heavily damaged, barely have functional shields, and your warp engines could fail at any moment, and if they do _your ship would once again become incapacitated and completely vulnerable,_ plus you have an important interstellar dignitary on board whose safety really should be your top priority anyway.
0:17- Did you see that hard swallow Shatner did when Sulu announced the shield collapse? That, ladies and gentlemen is called, acting. Well done! That’s how it’s done!
The first time I remember seeing that to convey a character is nervous and maybe even a little fearful was when Gary Cooper did it in "High Noon". It conveys a lot without requiring any dialoge
I love those K'tinga-class ,D7, battle cruisers. I had the old model, with the little battery powerd 'grain of wheat' bulbs inside it hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember the box called it 'The demon of the deep space'. I tied red threads from the nacelles making it look like it was blowing holes in an Apollo LEM.😀
The original Star Trek battles are so much better than the shoot-em-up space battles that dominate most films in recent years (decades). This episode, the Balance of Terror, and don't forget the Journey to Babel battle at the end, are all classic television. The Balance of Terror borrowed from The Enemy Below, the classic WW2 Destroyer - Sub battle film, staring the great Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
Something about nothing. The set itself is a labor of love. The bridge is something that a camera could pan ten times and find something that fits the 60's and 2550.
Star trek was liberal brainwashing. Imagine firing a laser from space on to the inhabitants of a planet because they don't vote the same way you do. Shame on the liberal minions and their perverted high tech hero's.
@@tumadoireacht No, he's right. Chess is not a strategy game, it's a tactics game. Strategy includes meta-level, politics, supply chains, taxation -- strategy is the availability of total war -- ... he's saying people don't know the definitions of words or use those words properly and if you confuse them, we lose the ability to talk about higher and more complex ideas without making it even more confusing for new people trying to grow. A strategy is intentionally losing a match to drop into a lower bracket in double-elimination after you've studied the play history from various opponents who are going to face off against each other when you have the records of their wins and loses to eachother in past tournaments... you drop down in bracket in order to avoid fighting someone you know will beat you, but might not beat someone else so you get further along - that way you might be able to get 2nd or 3rd place prize-money. Tactics are what you use on the board to see your strategy realized. Or.. beating someone, and then? Being knocked down a bracket intentionally in your next match so you face them again immediately ... so you can knock them out of the tournament when you face them again, because you know they don't have enough money to be a tournament player if they don't win the prize money -- which may force them out of the brackets forever when they have to move on to get a real job to live. People will do this to opponents they believe are rude, or have off-game behavior they believe is inappropriate ... or who hurl personal insults, etc. Statistically, the use of strategy gets people further ahead than just playing "honestly" the way it's intended: "Try your hardest to win every game." Tactical fuckery to accomplish a 'higher' (or more highly prioritized) objective. Losing a battle to win the war, or cripple your opponents chances of challenging you in the future because you currently have enough resources to risk for an opportunity to destroy them utterly or stop their goals from reaching fruition. The reality is? Skill - even in a game like chess - is not a sliding scale of who is better and worse; it's a 3-dimensional thing.. strengths and weaknesses across a spectrum of abilities, mannerisms, and mentality including the ability to plan around people who play or think "differently" than you are used to - even if you are individually a more skilled opponent. In fencing, it is often harder to fight a left-handed opponent ... even when you're the best, you will statistically lose to lefties more often. Not saying it's right, just saying: That is what "strategy" is - consideration and planning around asymetrical planning and around other people's ability to plan asymetrically. Everything below it is just "tactical" level. See: The Battle of Tukayyid - ua-cam.com/video/QffouI6OA00/v-deo.html "Their opponent had invited them to fight. And it was a fight they had foolishly underbid and lost because their honor demanded it. It was a battle they lost because honor was more important to them than strategic vision - and sadly, it was a battle they lost to a glorified, self-important, fanatical telecommunications company." The battle of Tukayyid was not about the planet, or even "just" stopping the enemy. It was about mangling their chain of command, and damaging their unity. Even if they lost, Commstar never planned to honor their promise because The Clans would have still had no ability left to punish their duplicity after losing so many of their soldiers.
"You are not going to finish him off"? Kirk's stare says it all " Woman Please I'm Taking You To My Quarters And Working All This Tension Out On Your Ass"
Her name is France Nuyen . Not only is She an actress and model, She’s also an award winning psychologist, who was noted in 1989. She was and Still is an Extremely Attractive Woman
3:51- I love the baby doll frame shots of women on the original Star Trek. Elan o T: “I don’t understand. Aren’t you going to finish him off? Kirk: “No. Now just go back to being beautiful and I’ll go back to being valiant and irresistible.”
Can we just admire Captain Kirk's badassery here without feeling the need to sh!t on Captain Picard's command style? They were both amazing, legendary captains with their own styles of leadership. Also the plots of the respective episodes sort of called for their respective styles. The episodes in TNG more often called for Picard's Democratic Centralist style, while many episodes in TOS more often called for Kirk's off the cuff tactical brilliance with iron balls. When an instant decision was needed, Picard could make a command decision without consulting his staff... when the situation allowed more time, Kirk was capable and willing to consult his staff before making a decision.
I totally agree, and these two series were set in two different time periods. In Next Gen, humans are less emotional, more balanced, more complex. Here we have a Wild West shootout(strategy included).
Best line this episode: Kirk: "That's no way to treat someone who's telling you the truth." (knife lands in wall) "Tomorrow's lesson will be about courtesy."
This is one of Captain Kirk’s finest moments, perhaps his most defining moment. William Shatner is such a good actor, he is so in tune with the desperate situation he’s in, that he does something most of us do when we’re nervous - we swallow! Notice Shatner nervously swallowing right after Sulu tells him the number 4 shield just collapsed (00:13). Watch his Adam’s apple fluttering. That nervous swallowing is so subtle it had to be instinctive and unconscious, and it happened because Shatner was fully in the moment, fully feeling the danger he was in. When the character and the actor are one and the same, the emotion is so real that fiction and reality become one, as in this moment, and that’s something only the best actors can achieve!
Quite true, and remember what Bill Shatner was seeing during the filming. WE see the bridge and the bridge crew but what Shatner saw were cameras, sound equipment, technicians of various sorts, production assistants, the director, EVERONE who goes into TV and film production. Quite frankly everything that would "break the spell" if one of the cameras was turned the other way. It makes Shatners and the rest of the casts concentration and professionalism all that more impressive. And you could apply that to any TV and movie cast as well.
Truly, Shatner does not get enough credit for making the little things wholly believable. The moment in Wrath Of Khan when the main viewscreen flickers and then first shows us Khan's face, the sudden shock of recognition on Kirk's face is brilliant!
LOL, shields collapsing, impulse power down to 31%, slow maneuverability, no phasers! No problem! Kirk is the ultimate 3 dimensional combat officer, The best of the best. Kirk is stalling and playing the Klingons.Kirk has already won before the battle started.
Shatner's lines were designed to convey the ideal leader - and its great! Intelligent, decisive, strong, and yet compassionate. Corny for sure but well thought out. For us to recognize those qualities as something desirable, in us, there must be something primordial in those qualities. It is strange that at this day and age, movies and shows no longer feature those qualities. And yet, here I am, watching the video clip and can't help but smile
Kirk used the 'walking stick' ploy that Captain Aubrey used in Master and Commander to lure the Acheron in close. Pretend to be something you're not. Also shades of Sun Tsu, "Be where the enemy does not expect you to be, and do not be where the enemy does expect you to be, then give them a mouth full of photon torpedoes."
Original Star Trek episodes are so good you can enjoy them even just listening to the sound track. Try it some time. The music, the dialog, these episodes would captivate even if done on radio. Seriously. Try just listening, you will see!
At the time dilithium was expensive and valuable. The Spock miraculously came up with a way to regenerate the stuff using plain old radiation from fission reactors. Never occurred to the writers that that would destroy the Federation's and really galactic economy because that would be the same in our would as turning engine exhaust back into petrol and diesel.
"The Deadly Years" was also a great episode. When the Romulans apparenty had the Enterprise in checkmate, the commodor/beauracrat says, "what am I going to do? We have to surrender", and then Chekov looks over his shoulder, and says, "Sir. The Romulans do not TAKE prisoners!" don a don a don a don a... And then Kirk, healed from the aging disease, arrives on the bridge to save the day! Love the original Star Trek!
All I can say is I can't get enough of it I keep replaying that because of the tail end just can't get enough although I wish to tell Lynn did have a little bit of bones coming up to the bridge and saying he found the cure for the captain when spot tells him he found his own care the enterprise he was already married to the ship just like the captain would be
Kirk had a very high reputation among the Klingons. One of the old TOS Klingons that showed up again in DS9, and was by then a Dahar Master, regretted not crossing swords with Kirk the way his friend Kor did. In "The Final Frontier" the Klingon captain of a Bird of Prey said that if he could defeat Kirk, he'd be considered the greatest warrior of the galaxy.
He doesn't let feelings dictate, once the threat was eliminated, proceed with mission, end of story. Now if they were at war, then every attempt to annihilate would be exercized. This is what Nimitz did going after the fourth Japanese carrier at Midway.
You know, considering what we learn about Klingon culture later, it's no wonder Klingons hated Kirk so much. No glorious death in honorable battle against a worthy foe, just sent home tail between their legs.
@@3Rayfire Personally, I think the theft of a Klingon ship was the bigger insult. Klingon captains are supposed to die in battle defending the Empire. Kruge's death was by all accounts honorable by Klingon standards. But to take his ship--property of the Empire WITH a cloaking device--and use that same ship to save the Federation and not give it back? That's a crime against the Klingon people.
I only watched the original series because my older sister watched it. (she still had command of the TV, because she was still bigger than me as that age😂) I attribute my love of sci-fi, and especially Star Wars, to Captain James T Kirk❤
Maybe to throw the Klingons off. From Season 2 "Bread and Circuses", Captain Merik commanded a Space Ship and commented that a Starship is at another level including the crew.
France Nuyen made Elaan one of the most beautifully unforgettable women on Star Trek. This was the second of three occasions that I know of when she was William Shatner’s co-star. The first was The World Of Suzie Wong on Broadway. The third was the TV movie Horror At 37,000 Feet.
No Red Shirts were harmed during the filming of the scene 🖖
🤣🤣🤣
Live long and prosper...you made me shoot romulan ale outta my snout just now...
Old joke:
A Stormtrooper fires his blaster at a Red Shirt,
Stormtrooper MISSES
Red Shirt STILL dies!
😁
@@zekeblack7004 Dang blasted man! Don’t you know Romulan Ale is illegal?!? They’ll bust you down to ensign second class and make you wear a red shirt!?!
@@nurse425 🤭 I'm Stil waiting for someone to do a video like that on UA-cam lol. Cause its just acurated
Everything I really needed to know about Space Combat I learned watching Captain Kirk.
"You did what you had to do, what you always do. You turned death into a fighting chance to live." -Bones
Sulu was down for the fight and Checkov is like, "I got your back!" Great scene!
Great show! They don't make 'em like ST TOS anymore, because they don't know how!
The look on Sulu's face when he realizes they are about to kick some ass
Kirk: "We'll pivot at warp 2!" Sulu: "Oh, my!"
Perhaps in this case not the best metaphor to use.
was that kick some ass or lick some ass
hard to tell with him
@@scotte2815 Anything to do with ass is fine with him!
@@scotte2815 LOL! I was going to say kiss... BUTT you BEAT me to it :-)
Great music. Scotty's complaining that it won't work but as always he comes through.. Sulu smirking when he figures out Kirk is going to teach the Klingon's a lesson. What an episode!
I'm 68 yrs. old I watched this when I was in the 5th. grade.
Same here.
I'm 54, & likely watched it in the 5th grade 15 yrs later (TOS ran reruns for about 25 yrs).
WOW
Now at 73 i watched this with my dear old Dad.
All you old farts are suffering dementia... but okay, close enough! I'm 59 and watched with my Dad in 1969.
How is it that an intelligent script and actors working in a cardboard box make such gripping drama feel so real and memorable?
People used to have natural talent.
@@leifcatt that and we still believe in the magic of our childhood.
As another captain said..
Never give up, never surrender!
😄
Didn't that captain also say "more power!" Lol
Captain Tim the Toolman!! 🤣👊
@@jedironbo Thank God he wasn’t the chief engineer.
Galaxy Quest.
I love when Kirk, Sulu and Chekov work together.
Agree, Sulu was a great #2. Always good to see him working with Kirk (and Chekov). Great episode, France Nuyen was terrific in this as the super elitist princess.
I love the sly grin Sulu gives when Kirk announces his plan
Kirk got the woman
Sulu got the shaft
Eye Captin.
@@jamesdelaney3797And everyone was happy.
This was one of their best fights against the Klingons! This was edge of your seat action, and great strategy by Captain Kirk!
When I met Nichelle Nichols at a Comic Con a few years ago, I watched this episode just before then because it has a glimpse of her character’s quarters, and she had a scene in sickbay. The point was her favorite episode was every one where she got to be off the Bridge. She’s a very nice woman too.
You where so luck to meet Nichelle Nichols in person.
Other episodes had glimpses of her underquarters and red underpants. Very nice ass too. Roddenberry was her hush hush beau.
When I was a kid, I had a crush on her
Who didn't have a crush on Uhura watching these episodes
She was a recruiter for NASA.
1 of 2 of the best star ship battle scenes ever. The music, the suspense without just blasting away. my favs.
I agree. Only the Wrath of Khan beats it for me...
Watch the Expanse. Completely different universe, of course, and much less advanced weapons, but the battle scenes are fantastic.
This one is indeed awesome. But I think an even better one is the battle sequence in ‘Journey to Babel.’ Kirk was severely injured, and is in immense pain, and still has the tactical fortitude, and command presence, to save his ship.
I love the shoulder tap and acknowledgment to Sulu for a job well done at 3:39.
It was years later that Sulu, in his quarters, realized the meaning of Kirk's arm tap and said "oh my" 😋😅
The battle tactics are pretty sophisticated. What a damn good show.
This is one of the worst episodes of Star Trek in the entire history of the franchise. Famously so.
@@Thy_Boss That's your opinion. I myself loved it.
Except that they had their technology wrong. You can't cut in warp drive and then cut around to fire torpedoes. I know they hadn't worked all of the technology canon out yet (even though this was a third season episode), but you simply can't fire weapons while at warp. And you can't turn on a dime at warp speed. That's why you need to drop out of warp in order to do battle.
That is why Kirk will always be better than Picard.
@@thekevinkaye You ve got it wrong. All though you did not see it the Enterprise allowed the ship to pass and then pivoted to follow the ship and was right under her. The Kingon ship had here flank exposed and was struck hard by several photon torpedoes. Both ships moving at was speed.
Scotty: "That could blow us up just as effectively as ..."
Kirk: "Let me know when it's in place."
A real captain doesn't dither. He makes quick decisions.
I cant believe how well these episodes held up! They are more entertaining then the modern TV shows
Honestly modern TV shows and movies are a pretty low standard.
You said it! Even Third Season "Star Trek" episodes where the show was dying a slow death are a hell of a lot better than anything else around. And that's saying something.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 The only quality Trek shows/movies is TOS, TNG and DS9. All original TOS movies and all TNG movies. Everything else is crap.
@@movie0007 Hey, I was there in 1966 when TOS premiered! I was 13 years old at the time and was hooked immediately!
I concur; TOS, TNG, and DS9 were excellent. Honestly I liked "Voyager" as well but when "Enterprise" came along quite frankly I was "Star Trek'd" out.
I've got NO use for the J.J. Adams movies or the new TV shows which I haven't seen much of anyway since I don't do the streaming thing.
I can't believe how well the shields held up!
She's a thing of absolute beauty. The lines and curves are stunning. The way she glides and turns. I'm overwhelmed with envy. She's a gorgeous work of art. Every shot is expertly framed.
The Klingon ship isn't bad either.
I agree the exterior shots of the Enterprise are amazing. She is a beauty indeed.
Are you talking about Elaan?
@@endlesswick Yes
@@garypranzo9334 Yes, her too.
Uhuru
And that is a space battle! You don't need Computer graphics and glowing lens flares... just the perfection of story telling and a crew of actors who know how to act.
That was the remaster. It IS CG.
@@cliffftonI don’t have a problem with today’s FX on the old Star Trek series as long as it fits the timeline of the show.
And you gotta love the music.
It was CGI, and awfully amateurish CGI at that. The original effects were better. Paramount spent a lot of time and money remastering the whole series but ultimately produced an inferior product.
@Kathleen
I totally agree!
This was always one of my favourite episodes of TOS, from when I first saw it in the late sixties. It had it all, a traitor, sexy but feisty girl, angry Klingon commander, battle scenes and Kirk and the crew at their best, kickin Klingon ass. Yeah, love it.
in the immortal words of mr. croce, "don't mess around with jim."
On a star ship he would sing, "...don't spit into the solar wind...."
I love how Chekov is out of breath after pushing 2 buttons.
He was holding his breath while waiting for that split-second order to fire. Also, the director told him to breath heavy to show his excitement to the home audience.
Fear can do that to you.🤔
Wonderful acting work by "the gentleman who played Chekov."
Dude, there was a Klingon warship out there! Shields failing warp power gone and 31% impulse power...I would be terrified.
It's called acting and pretending to be nervous.
Kirk's tactical prowess helped make him a Starfleet legend and has earned him respect from both friend and foe alike.
It's great that the writers of the show can do that with the characters. Then again, it kinda sucks when they're not paying attention to the dialog. Kirk ordered photon torpedoes, repeatedly. After the direct hits, Sulu says, "Direct hits by photon torpedoes." Well... thank you for reminding us, since he just said it, just seconds after ordering it. Duhhh!
I don't get out much.
Until he ran into Khan. 😂
Klingons lose their bowels when they hear the name, Kirk.
Kirk always kicked Klingon ass
. This was one of the episodes that really illustrated Scotty's skills and value !!!
Such a great battle scene! Best lines: "Test it in combat." and " You and Spock get up here". Brilliant.
That’s how a real captain does it…he believes in his crew and their capabilities and pushes everything and everyone to the limit. He’s able to make split second judgements with confidence based his skill and experience. Seriously, Kirk is the Real Thing! And brilliant acting by all and great script writing bring it all to life.
@@jamestcallahanphotographer Kirk would be the only captain I would follow without question to end of the galaxy. He has no fear and would bust a lip with no problem for his ship and crew!
original TOS bridge crew at it's finest - Trek does not get better than this - magnificent - 🛸🖖
The music is better than anything since as well, especially 2:13. I never understood why subsequent series went for elevator music.
The captain's chair is the focus point of the bridge. TNG made it look like a school desk.
Every other bridge crew is 1000x better. I’ll take Sisko over Kirk any day
I love Ben Sisko. However, Kirk spent more time on the bridge@@nevasmile1
@@mattosullivan9687 didn’t stop him from being an absolute unit in the field
Dammit Jim, I am a starship, not a spaceship!
Kirk demanded that McCoy give him the shot of adrenaline serum when he was rapidly aging and going senile. When he wrestled with Garth as the shape shifter, he told Spock, you have to shoot us both. It's the only way you can save the ship!
And your statement relates to what?? @@paulleckner8235
Great original score by Fred Steiner, who started scoring the series very early on, going all the way back to “Mudd’s Women”.
I loved those snare drums and horns.
France Nguyen was one of the most beautiful "women of the episode" actresses to grace Star Trek.
they are also know as "female guest star" "Kirk's woman" "alien love interest" . . . trouble
She's in my top 10 list of "Hottest Guest Actresses In TOS." Along with Yvonne Craig, Sherry Jackson, Mariette Hartley, Nancy Kovac and several others.
Nancy Kovak from Jason and the Argonauts!
@@Tessmage_Tesseraadd Terri Garr and Joan Collin’s.
Diane Muldar made several very attractive guest appearances on TOS.
Note to Lt. Commander Worf (STG): THIS is a full spread of photon torpedoes…
Hahaha. Yup he would fired just one.
Lmao I'm dead
@@Persian-Immortal And he targeted that ship’s primary reactor which quickly destroyed it since its shields were down.
Always nice to get a glimpse at France Nguyen.
If Scotty was on Gilligan's Island, would have made spark plugs from seashells.
Didnt the professor do that?
The professor was smart. By pretending to be stranded, he got dibs on two hot young gals. Do you think he really wanted to fix the ship or get rescued?
No the Professor kept Ginger and Mary Ann there and invented Viagara @@blueskull6789
@@kevinemmers7025 the rumor was he was mrs Brady’s 1st husband
The Klingon warship looks so cool up close. Nice remake.
STOS shows aren't remade. They've been remastered.
@@davidtaylor8002 All right then, remastered. My point was that it was redone. So, nice redo.
I don't care how hard they try, there will NEVER be a better Star Trek, period. It was as much the era as it was the show. That simply cannot be recreated, reimagined, whatever.
I'd forgotten what a beauty France Nuyen was back then - dark skinned, sultry, exotic. Born in 1939, she's still alive today at age 84. This episode was released near the end of 1968, after the release of The Green Berets a few months earlier, in which she also starred.
She was my girlfriend for 2 months, then she dumped me. 😢
@@Peter-976Was this last Thursday?
Sulu was also in the Green Berets. He was the commander of the South Vietnamese special forces.
@@albundy6008 Yes, Cpt Nghiem. He was absent from Star Trek in order to take that role.
3:32 "He's badly damaged Captain. Continuting away at.... reduced speed." I love that pause. They're just sitting there pushing buttons, but they treat it like they are in a battle on the open sea
@@hibbidyjibbidyy ....it was always Koenig, never Shatner that did that.
And Chekov is not a Vulcan or android, so he knows what's relevant to convey instead of going into multiple decimal places
He lets the Klingon retreat instead of pursuing and finishing him off after badly damaging him, just like how killing unarmed prisoners is not the Jedi way. So Kirk’s actions could possibly be the Federation way.
@@patrickwilson1459 he lets the Klingons retreat so they can eventually begin to understand compassion and it was the 'compassion' of ambassador Spock that led to the first alliance of the Klingons and the federation.
@@tonebonebgky2 No, he lets the Klingons retreat because it's _tactically and strategically idiotic_ to try to pursue an enemy which is no longer a threat to you when you are still heavily damaged, barely have functional shields, and your warp engines could fail at any moment, and if they do _your ship would once again become incapacitated and completely vulnerable,_ plus you have an important interstellar dignitary on board whose safety really should be your top priority anyway.
"Test it in combat!" He knows the odds
0:17- Did you see that hard swallow Shatner did when Sulu announced the shield collapse? That, ladies and gentlemen is called, acting. Well done! That’s how it’s done!
Thats called having too much saliva in his throat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Come on now we all know Shatner is a so so “actor” he aint no Captain Picard 😎
The first time I remember seeing that to convey a character is nervous and maybe even a little fearful was when Gary Cooper did it in "High Noon". It conveys a lot without requiring any dialoge
Lots of good acting in this scene. Especially from Takai and the actor playing Elaan.
"You won't pursue and finish him off...?"
"No."
"Then, I shall not finish you off either."
And so she cried on him, to gain control.
I love those K'tinga-class ,D7, battle cruisers. I had the old model, with the little battery powerd 'grain of wheat' bulbs inside it hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember the box called it 'The demon of the deep space'. I tied red threads from the nacelles making it look like it was blowing holes in an Apollo LEM.😀
i have a real D7 cruiser in leading Trojan orbit of Neptune.. your coordinates please... will beam you up
i had the enterprise hanging from my ceiling too,
being chased by a Romulan bird of prey....good times in the 70's
I love flying mine in Star Trek Online. I fly that, the OG Enterprise, and the OG Romulan show from Balance of Terror.
This, along with "Balance of Terror" show Capt. Kirk at his best.
The Klingons and Romulans both underestimated Kirk and Starfleet In general.
The Klingons survived - in shame.
aye
If Kirk had a motto don't fight unless you have to but if you have to, win
I wish Kirk remained like this for all the movies.
The original Star Trek battles are so much better than the shoot-em-up space battles that dominate most films in recent years (decades). This episode, the Balance of Terror, and don't forget the Journey to Babel battle at the end, are all classic television. The Balance of Terror borrowed from The Enemy Below, the classic WW2 Destroyer - Sub battle film, staring the great Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
I love when you can hear the plywood set creaking as Kirk walks delivering his lines.
That was just the diuranium decks buckling as Kirk walked on them bearing his massive balls.
It's SPACE PLYWOOD. Very sophisticated stuff.
titanium was in short supply that week.
It's so easy to forgive creaking plywood and foam boulders when the show is just so damn good.
Something about nothing. The set itself is a labor of love. The bridge is something that a camera could pan ten times and find something that fits the 60's and 2550.
TOS Star Trek was awesome.
Star trek was liberal brainwashing. Imagine firing a laser from space on to the inhabitants of a planet because they don't vote the same way you do. Shame on the liberal minions and their perverted high tech hero's.
I love the music in this scene. I don't believe it is used in any other episode. Pity. It's the most energetic attack music in Star Trek.
One of the BEST tactical pieces of strategy trek has ever produced.
A motif used repeatedly - khaaaaaan et cetera.
Dominion Wars.
Tactics and strategy are different things. Your sentence makes no sense.
@@Argumemnon Dr. Zeus says go troll a Trawler.
@@tumadoireacht No, he's right. Chess is not a strategy game, it's a tactics game. Strategy includes meta-level, politics, supply chains, taxation -- strategy is the availability of total war -- ... he's saying people don't know the definitions of words or use those words properly and if you confuse them, we lose the ability to talk about higher and more complex ideas without making it even more confusing for new people trying to grow.
A strategy is intentionally losing a match to drop into a lower bracket in double-elimination after you've studied the play history from various opponents who are going to face off against each other when you have the records of their wins and loses to eachother in past tournaments... you drop down in bracket in order to avoid fighting someone you know will beat you, but might not beat someone else so you get further along - that way you might be able to get 2nd or 3rd place prize-money.
Tactics are what you use on the board to see your strategy realized.
Or.. beating someone, and then? Being knocked down a bracket intentionally in your next match so you face them again immediately ... so you can knock them out of the tournament when you face them again, because you know they don't have enough money to be a tournament player if they don't win the prize money -- which may force them out of the brackets forever when they have to move on to get a real job to live. People will do this to opponents they believe are rude, or have off-game behavior they believe is inappropriate ... or who hurl personal insults, etc.
Statistically, the use of strategy gets people further ahead than just playing "honestly" the way it's intended: "Try your hardest to win every game." Tactical fuckery to accomplish a 'higher' (or more highly prioritized) objective. Losing a battle to win the war, or cripple your opponents chances of challenging you in the future because you currently have enough resources to risk for an opportunity to destroy them utterly or stop their goals from reaching fruition.
The reality is? Skill - even in a game like chess - is not a sliding scale of who is better and worse; it's a 3-dimensional thing.. strengths and weaknesses across a spectrum of abilities, mannerisms, and mentality including the ability to plan around people who play or think "differently" than you are used to - even if you are individually a more skilled opponent.
In fencing, it is often harder to fight a left-handed opponent ... even when you're the best, you will statistically lose to lefties more often.
Not saying it's right, just saying: That is what "strategy" is - consideration and planning around asymetrical planning and around other people's ability to plan asymetrically. Everything below it is just "tactical" level.
See: The Battle of Tukayyid - ua-cam.com/video/QffouI6OA00/v-deo.html
"Their opponent had invited them to fight. And it was a fight they had foolishly underbid and lost because their honor demanded it. It was a battle they lost because honor was more important to them than strategic vision - and sadly, it was a battle they lost to a glorified, self-important, fanatical telecommunications company."
The battle of Tukayyid was not about the planet, or even "just" stopping the enemy. It was about mangling their chain of command, and damaging their unity. Even if they lost, Commstar never planned to honor their promise because The Clans would have still had no ability left to punish their duplicity after losing so many of their soldiers.
"Elaan of Troyius" - I never got that until I took a Great Book Course
nice
The 'new' cgi looks great for this scene. That, coupled with the battle music makes this one of my all time favorite TOS scenes.
Kirk out of the Captain's Chair is a little overdramatic. Suppose he got knocked to the floor of the Bridge?
Best battle sequence in TOS
Scotty is a miracle worker...Jim knows that
Klingon captain: "You must surrender immediately or be destroyed. No terms!"
Kirk: "Yeeeeah... you haven't heard of me yet, eh?"
Kirk loved the old bait and switch to finish off superior enemy ships
Lol, Kirk loved it too!
Kirk: "You sound like you're new to the sector so I'm going to cut you a break. I won't kill you."
Klingon captain: Why should I have ?
Kirk: "Yeeeeah... I have more plot armor than anybody else.
Denny Crane!
Hell... at that distance, Spock could have thrown a brick through their windshield when they went by
i agree
I think I prefer Scotty saying the shields are "buckling."
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Watched them all back in the 60’s … Now my local station plays them nightly. Life is good. 😇
Thanks 🙏 for the download ❤I was just a kid watching this on my dad’s Zenith bid television set 😅
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25.9K subscribers "No Terms! Surrender must be unconditional and immediate!"
Shades of the wrath of khan reliant surprise attack. They built up this scene tension pretty good.
One of Fred Steiner's best music scores.
The actress who played Elaan had such beautiful eyes!
@D Sullivan uh. That's not what I said or am saying. Where did that come from?
That side view in that dress! 😍😍😍
I always thought she looked a little like Donna Summer.
Yeah I overreacted. I just find that a women's eyes are a very attractive feature
@D Sullivan Because the eyes are the window to the soul hence the term beautiful eyes
"You are not going to finish him off"? Kirk's stare says it all " Woman Please I'm Taking You To My Quarters And Working All This Tension Out On Your Ass"
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@@trevorregay9283 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Hahahahaha
This comment killed me 😂😂😂😂
LOL... at one point in the episode, Kirk actually did threaten to spank her.
Picard, faced with this situation, would have first asked for Riker's opinion, then asked Troi what she was feeling. Kirk just kicked a**.
Troi “Captain, I’m sensing hostility from that Klingon ship”
Guessing 'Picard' has something to do with that comment
@@neneshubby Exactly! Or possibly "Captain, I'm sensing the Klingon commander is hiding something".
@@outermarker5801 if you rewatch TNG you will see Picard is often painfully slow to act when faced with a decision.
@@prion42 Maybe, but he's talking about TNG Picard.
Picard is realistic. People change with advanced age and tough experiences. A lot.
What a great show . . . great actors.
Her name is France Nuyen .
Not only is She an actress and model, She’s also an award winning psychologist, who was noted in 1989.
She was and Still is an Extremely Attractive Woman
3:51- I love the baby doll frame shots of women on the original Star Trek.
Elan o T: “I don’t understand. Aren’t you going to finish him off?
Kirk: “No. Now just go back to being beautiful and I’ll go back to being valiant and irresistible.”
France Nuyen
France Nuyen is still alive age 82
but Kirk is framed the same way . . . .?
Can we just admire Captain Kirk's badassery here without feeling the need to sh!t on Captain Picard's command style? They were both amazing, legendary captains with their own styles of leadership. Also the plots of the respective episodes sort of called for their respective styles. The episodes in TNG more often called for Picard's Democratic Centralist style, while many episodes in TOS more often called for Kirk's off the cuff tactical brilliance with iron balls. When an instant decision was needed, Picard could make a command decision without consulting his staff... when the situation allowed more time, Kirk was capable and willing to consult his staff before making a decision.
So true!!!
Picard was a far better Captain than Kirk!
Yeah but could he save the day with his fists while making out with the green alien chick?@@Trev359
I totally agree, and these two series were set in two different time periods. In Next Gen, humans are less emotional, more balanced, more complex. Here we have a Wild West shootout(strategy included).
This is more Star Trekkie than all the JJ Treks put together.
Best line this episode: Kirk: "That's no way to treat someone who's telling you the truth." (knife lands in wall) "Tomorrow's lesson will be about courtesy."
This is one of Captain Kirk’s finest moments, perhaps his most defining moment. William Shatner is such a good actor, he is so in tune with the desperate situation he’s in, that he does something most of us do when we’re nervous - we swallow! Notice Shatner nervously swallowing right after Sulu tells him the number 4 shield just collapsed (00:13). Watch his Adam’s apple fluttering. That nervous swallowing is so subtle it had to be instinctive and unconscious, and it happened because Shatner was fully in the moment, fully feeling the danger he was in. When the character and the actor are one and the same, the emotion is so real that fiction and reality become one, as in this moment, and that’s something only the best actors can achieve!
Well spotted !
Quite true, and remember what Bill Shatner was seeing during the filming. WE see the bridge and the bridge crew but what Shatner saw were cameras, sound equipment, technicians of various sorts, production assistants, the director, EVERONE who goes into TV and film production. Quite frankly everything that would "break the spell" if one of the cameras was turned the other way.
It makes Shatners and the rest of the casts concentration and professionalism all that more impressive.
And you could apply that to any TV and movie cast as well.
Truly, Shatner does not get enough credit for making the little things wholly believable. The moment in Wrath Of Khan when the main viewscreen flickers and then first shows us Khan's face, the sudden shock of recognition on Kirk's face is brilliant!
LOL, shields collapsing, impulse power down to 31%, slow maneuverability, no phasers! No problem! Kirk is the ultimate 3 dimensional combat officer, The best of the best. Kirk is stalling and playing the Klingons.Kirk has already won before the battle started.
Love the music cues in this one, especially.
Music was exceptionally good in the scene.
The one and only legendary crew.
Scotty made rock salt work as a dilithium substitute!
Then they used it to de ice the na cells.
Shatner's lines were designed to convey the ideal leader - and its great! Intelligent, decisive, strong, and yet compassionate. Corny for sure but well thought out.
For us to recognize those qualities as something desirable, in us, there must be something primordial in those qualities. It is strange that at this day and age, movies and shows no longer feature those qualities. And yet, here I am, watching the video clip and can't help but smile
Other than the obviously modern CGI, I loved seeing this.
Kirk used the 'walking stick' ploy that Captain Aubrey used in Master and Commander to lure the Acheron in close. Pretend to be something you're not. Also shades of Sun Tsu, "Be where the enemy does not expect you to be, and do not be where the enemy does expect you to be, then give them a mouth full of photon torpedoes."
@Davik Delcon That pesky time-flow issue. Can never quite work out which way it’s going from week to week.
"Appear weak where you are strong. Appear strong where you are weak. Appear attractive when you are with alien women."
@Etienne de Vignolles Of course. Sun Tzu's translations are easily lost if you don't use the original Klingon version. 😉
He used the same 'play dead' tactic to defeat the Romulan ship in "Balance of Terror" and the Orion ship in "Journey to Babel".
Sun Tsu was so prescient.
Kirk was the man. But if you follow the Trek universe…you will agree that Sulu was a brass balled, stone cold…OG.
He became a Captain in his own right. Not bad for a helmsman…!
no, he was a whinny want-to-be
@@scotte2815 Takei might be, but Sulu was awesome.
Oh, my!...😘
Sulu really liked the klingons ! Litterally
Original Star Trek episodes are so good you can enjoy them even just listening to the sound track. Try it some time. The music, the dialog, these episodes would captivate even if done on radio. Seriously. Try just listening, you will see!
This has the best battle music of ALL Trek...except maybe TWOK.
It never ceases to amaze me, that they didn't carry spares of something as critical as Dilithium Crystals in a matrix... 🙂
At the time dilithium was expensive and valuable. The Spock miraculously came up with a way to regenerate the stuff using plain old radiation from fission reactors. Never occurred to the writers that that would destroy the Federation's and really galactic economy because that would be the same in our would as turning engine exhaust back into petrol and diesel.
"The Deadly Years" was also a great episode. When the Romulans apparenty had the Enterprise in checkmate, the commodor/beauracrat says, "what am I going to do? We have to surrender", and then Chekov looks over his shoulder, and says, "Sir. The Romulans do not TAKE prisoners!" don a don a don a don a... And then Kirk, healed from the aging disease, arrives on the bridge to save the day! Love the original Star Trek!
All I can say is I can't get enough of it I keep replaying that because of the tail end just can't get enough although I wish to tell Lynn did have a little bit of bones coming up to the bridge and saying he found the cure for the captain when spot tells him he found his own care the enterprise he was already married to the ship just like the captain would be
Kirk let the Klingons live - - but he was sure to let them know that he beat them while being powered by a necklace.
Lol
Kirk had a very high reputation among the Klingons. One of the old TOS Klingons that showed up again in DS9, and was by then a Dahar Master, regretted not crossing swords with Kirk the way his friend Kor did.
In "The Final Frontier" the Klingon captain of a Bird of Prey said that if he could defeat Kirk, he'd be considered the greatest warrior of the galaxy.
@@Warmaker01 Ahh . . What's your favorite Klingon episode (original series)?
@@paulhart2021 hey thanks. :) I try . .
He doesn't let feelings dictate, once the threat was eliminated, proceed with mission, end of story. Now if they were at war, then every attempt to annihilate would be exercized. This is what Nimitz did going after the fourth Japanese carrier at Midway.
Scotty references the Doma of Elas in the TNG episode “Relics”.
Capt. Kirk had an almost Gary Seven look to him.
It wasn't until I was an adult and did a web search that I learned the the Dolmain was the love interest in South Pacific.
such a good show!
This is famously one of the worst episodes of Star Trek in the entire history of the franchise.
That's the sorriest looking Klingon in the history of Star Trek
He looks like Fox News' Tyrus.
That’s what I thought when I watched the original airing of this episode!
Scotty: She won’t steady down!
Kirk - "Meh, we always just wing it and it works out just fine Scotty, MORE POWER."
0:57 lol, imagine if Kirk’s gut instinct was wrong😂
Saber que este cara alcançou o espaço nos dias atuais me enche de alegria!
You know, considering what we learn about Klingon culture later, it's no wonder Klingons hated Kirk so much. No glorious death in honorable battle against a worthy foe, just sent home tail between their legs.
That and the fact he stole one of their ships.
@@coqueslammwell6198 And killed one of their Captains. I'd say one of their best too, I really liked Kruge.
@@3Rayfire Personally, I think the theft of a Klingon ship was the bigger insult. Klingon captains are supposed to die in battle defending the Empire. Kruge's death was by all accounts honorable by Klingon standards. But to take his ship--property of the Empire WITH a cloaking device--and use that same ship to save the Federation and not give it back? That's a crime against the Klingon people.
Kirk really knew how to stick it to those Klingons, didn’t he? 😼🚀
The Klingons were always so brief with their transmissions!
I only watched the original series because my older sister watched it. (she still had command of the TV, because she was still bigger than me as that age😂)
I attribute my love of sci-fi, and especially Star Wars, to Captain James T Kirk❤
"United Space Ship" the Enterprise is a Starship.
Maybe to throw the Klingons off. From Season 2 "Bread and Circuses", Captain Merik commanded a Space Ship and commented that a Starship is at another level including the crew.
Lol, the Klingon Empire is very aware of James T. Kirk and the Enterprise.
Meanwhile on the Klingon D7. "Why won't the human give us an honorable death?"
Dishonored the Klingons by Denying them death in battle. Make them report their failure to Command back on Quo'nos.
Like a Spartan. Defeat in battle was more disgraceful than death. @@whirledpeaz5758
Kirk flew more on the edge a little he had tremendous instincts
I saw “Satan Never Sleeps” with her and William Holden recently. I had to do a search to remember where I’d seen her before.
Gorgeous ladies as always
France Nuyen made Elaan one of the most beautifully unforgettable women on Star Trek. This was the second of three occasions that I know of when she was William Shatner’s co-star. The first was The World Of Suzie Wong on Broadway. The third was the TV movie Horror At 37,000 Feet.
@@mikebasil4832 Unforgettable in I Spy too.
@@antilogism She was married to Robert Culp for 3 years.