My dad was a huge Star Trek fan! When I growing up we (mom, dad, sister and I) watched it every week. When my dad got sick with cancer, he lived out the last two months in the hospital and managed to watch every episode of Star Trek. This show will always make me think of him.
I had the chance to speak with Jimmy Doohan at a Star Trek convention in the 90s. I told him I was a fan of the work he did on the animated series. He told me that he really enjoyed doing those voice overs because it reminded him of his early care at CBC Radio. He then did the voice of Arex for me, after I said he was my favourite non-original series animated character.
Anything about Classic StarTrek instant click and thumbs up. I've had the great fortune to meet all the Original Cast . Meeting James Doohan was like meeting a friend you haven't seen in years. That said,all the rumors about William Shatner being stand offish,full of himself and arrogant are 100% FALSE!! He's waa warm ,friendly ,seemed genuinely glad to shake your hand ,and make jokes about himself. I like city on the edge of forever ,but as a Kid it was too lovey dovey . My all time favorite is The Doomsday Machine ,it seems to epitomize the unknown dangers of space exploration. And can't forget The Trouble with Tribbles and A piece of the Action.
You know. I’m 58. I don’t like to live in the past, but I do enjoy reminiscing and one thing I have noticed is when you play the old commercial with Leonard Nimoy, his voice and others have a common effect. It seems like yesterday seems so more calmer. Maybe I’m overdoing it a little bit but that’s just the way I feel, it’s like missing Home. I’m enjoying your work thank you for posting these.
I grew up on Star Trek, my favorite episode is the pilot, the Cage, Then The Menagerie part 1& 2 and then, The Doomsday Machine In that order. Thank you for the look back !.
Always Liked The ORIGINAL STAR TREK best!! Like the pilot episode too, BUT "The Doomsday Machine" has always been my absolute fave. There were about 10 others too that rank right up there as well...
That teaser trailer intro isn't one I remember seeing, but I did see a longer promo, "in a spaceship as large as a city…", presented by NBC before the series actually started. We didn't have NBC where we lived in suburban-on-the-edge-of-rural Illinois. I heard about the show from my friends (their moms were big fans) and I actually got to see the show in summer reruns when we vacationed with our grandparents in Florida. Finally, in the summer of 1968 we got a big antenna so we could pull in NBC and ABC stations from nearby towns. I had to stay up late to watch a few of the third season shows. Yes, the popularity of cable TV in the '70s helped educate me. Star Trek was on THREE times a DAY from out-of-town independent stations (the last two airings overlapped by half an hour so we could decide to stick with the first one or bail to the second one. We got to see ALL the episodes four or five times, often edited differently for commercials!
Dave is right. Star Trek Continues is absolutely amazing. It is must watch for Trek fans. The episodes are so authentic. Thanks for the video Dave. Great as always.
I was 10 years old and went in hospital for a range of tests in 1973. I took my Alan Dean Foster and James Blish novelisations, and my trusty Viewmaster with Mister Spock's Time Trek aka Yesteryear. They got me through the scary hospital, especially young Spock who was so brave in spite of his fears and having to put his pet Ichaya to sleep. :'( Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and Trek for helping little me through!
Live blogging the episode: Shatner battled his weight throughout ST TOS. When you mentioned his Twilight Zone credit, I flinched. I didn't remember him. But I looked it up and found he was in the 4th season, the one that was expanded to 60-minute episodes. Normally, those were not included in syndication packages, so most of them are not well-known. The cast received residuals for only the first 5 reruns. They didn't make any real money until the films. In the original run, Shatner made $5K per show (about $50K today), Nimoy about $1K, and the rest had salaries measured in the hundreds of dollars. And again, almost nothing in residuals. "Keyboard. How quaint." The TOS was often humor-filled, and it was great that the 4th movie was as well. I feel that one, along with the Wrath of Khan, truly captured the original series. That Takei PSA was the bomb! After the first season, it was supposed to go into a Monday time slot, but got bumped by Rowan and Martin. So it went to Fridays at 8pm, a horrible slot. That letter-writing campaign after the second season was coordinated by superfan Bjo Trimble. (It's said that a lot of it was, um, in "first person.") The show was saved, but it was sent off to Fridays at 10, which doomed it. Trimble tried another letter-writing campaign after the 3rd season, but it was too little to save it. Star Trek routinely got killed by the competition. Gomer Pyle slayed it week after week. The Animated Series really cut actors to lower the budget. Doohan had to do multiple roles. Koenig wasn't hired. Remember when it cost money to make a phone call? 6 stations? We had 5--and one of them was in SPANISH! We had the 3 networks, plus one local unaffiliated UHF station (Channel 39). Andy Griffith and Star Trek were both produced by Desilu, so they often used the same outdoor lots. Remember, TV resolution was horrible back then, so it was unlikely too many people noticed. (Also, watching the TOS now, you can see in fight scenes when they switch to stunt doubles. The video is just to clear today to get away with that!) During the 3rd year, the budget was cut dramatically. This created huge tensions between the studio and the network. The network wanted shows where the crew beamed down to exotic (and expensive to shoot) locales, while the studio kept pressuring them to do shows contained on the ship (where already-existing sets could be used). Watch episodes from the 3rd season and you'll see what I mean. Even when they beam down to some planet, it's usually barren and contains little footage shot on the lot or on location. This, combined with the departure of both Gene Rodenberry, Dorothy Fontana (who still wrote a couple of episodes) and Gene Coons, meant the show was left to the mercy of the bean-counters. The quality of the 3rd year is dramatically lower than the first two because of these forces. As always, good stuff, Dave!
We would have been good friends in grade school. I used to play similar to you. I went to elementary school in the Sugarhouse area of SLC. When at home we’d climb trees and use them as our star ships, and then beam down to the surface. We had an excellent USS Enterprise, Klingon Warship and Romulan Vessel (different trees with the best being the Enterprise). Yes, those were the days! I’m glad you mentioned it because it reminded me of this!
A friend like you would have been fun to play with. Until the inevitable growing up and the development of a crush. I'm sure you had a few of those fall your way, Becky. 😋
Another connection to The Andy Griffith Show: The boy who played Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver" was Clint Howard...Ron Howard's (Opie's) kid brother.
Dave, you and I are so much alike! I love it! I too grew up on Star Trek, and yes, Star Wars too! To this day I will sometimes say "Beam me up Scotty! There's no intelligent life down here!" What is amazing is that my favorite episode on this show is City on The Edge of Forever!" What an epic episode! I understand why you love it so much! A few years ago, I was able to find all of the series online and watch them all, all over again! That, without question, was a real treat and a great adventure! But none of them would have happened if it had not been for the original Star Trek. The one that I really love is the next one: Star Trek: The Next Generation. It captures all of the drama just like the original series did. They are my two favorites. Dave, thank you so much for bringing back all of these wonderful memories! I really appreciate all that you do!
Man, every time I see the original Star Trek, I always remember when my father introduced me to the old reruns one time in Mexico. I asked him what he was watching and he told me Star Trek. I’m like, where’s Captain Picard at? And he’s like “That’s Captain Kirk!” Man I loved it since then! I quickly noticed the diversity of the characters and how everyone got along. Loved that even more! I then went and got the Nintendo game and fell in love with it as well! Great memories! Also, if I were a kid in your playground in school I would have loved to play Star Trek! That would have been a lot of fun! 😀👍
I was just a really young kid during the original Star Trek TV series, but as I got older, what I came to love most about the series was that Captain Kirk/William Shatner was the FIRST and ORIGINAL galactic man-slut. He had a woman in almost every port/planet. He NEVER missed an opportunity to pick up on a female, of ANY species! Kudos to Captain Kirk!!!!!!!
From the early 70's into the 90's I eventually met all the original cast. I first met Nimoy, it was at a 'Kiddie City' in Philadelphia in 1974. Met DeForest Kelley at his last convention appearance. I bought all the original AMT models and still have them. I carved my own phaser and communicator props out of wood, still have those too. I was 11 when Star Wars was released (1977) and that turned into another obsession.
Some fav eps: 1. Shore Leave - I liked McCoy's romance, and Kirk's fantasy sequences with Finnigan and Rose (hubba, hubba).were great fun. 2. I've forgotten the title but it's the one where Kirk is on trial for jettisoning Finney's pod earlier than necessary. The performances by Finney and Kirk's lawyer were some of the best in the series. 3, The Doomsday Machine - William Windom's turn as Commodore Decker was the best. An aside: you might take at taking one of these character actor guest stars, looking at their episode of Star Trek along with in depth look at other memorable guest turns in earlier aired series. I remember William Windom guest-starring in an episode of Mannix. 4. The Tholian Web: I fondly remember Uhura's seeing Kirk's ghost and trying to convince the rest of the crew she saw it.
I second this request. I loved BSG back then and never missed an episode. I even bought the novelization from the school book catalogue. The book had a special chapter on how they created the models and props for the show.
An excellent montage of your clips and classic commercials, Dave. I remember mentioning the movie "Baffled" from '72 or '73 in comments on your original post of the Nimoy video. I still haven't searched for it on RUclips. It starred Nimoy and Susan Hampshire and was set in England. One of them had ESP, and together they solved a mystery. It was fast paced, exciting and upbeat. Nimoy smiled a lot. Probably trying not to be Spock like. ABC should've picked it up as a series but didn't. Anyway that's my non-Spock memory of Leonard that stands out. Thanks again.
get out of my head DS😄! just a couple of weeks ago I watched the documentary Spock by his son. It was brilliant. i'm gonna check this out later I can't wait!❤️
Lieutenant COMMANDER Montgomery Scott @2:11- My Dad was a USAF pilot (Flew for the Utah National Guard too) so in my early upbringing, I was fascinated with the rank system. Dad made it to Captain and my uncle, a B-17 pilot in WWII, was a Major General in the Nevada Nation Guard. Scotty was THE king of all the Red Shirt cast. He came on strong in season 2, fights a god, killed by Nomad, went to the mirror universe, fought another god, fought the doomsday machine, and spooky aliens who took over his mind in S2E2 to S2E7.
I was part of the letter writing campaign to save Star Trek. We didn't have email back then. I wonder, though, if Star Trek was being canceled in 2024, would email have the same impact as actual, physical letters? My favorite episode was The Trouble with Tribbles. It was so funny.
Well strong writers, who at the time were probably educated in many of the classics of the past, thus they wove those themes into a modern/futuristic play/show/series. It taught young people in the 1970's, when it became a phenomenon, many of the classic themes of literature, the bible, ancient mythology, etc.
There's another connection between TOS and The Andy Griffith Show... They featured child-actors who were brothers. Ron Howard famously played Andy's son Opie. And his younger brother Clint played Balok, a child-like alien in Star Trek S1-E09 "The Corbomite Moneuver". Now, five decades later, Clint is back on another Trek show! You might remember Ron, he grew up to play Richie Cunningham on a little sitcom called, "Happy Days", and he directed a few movies... ;-]
Hey Dave, have you ever thought of collaborating with Adam the Professor of Rock. He is all about music, of course, and overlaps the decades that you like to cover. He is also from a Rocky Mountain state (Idaho if I remember correctly). Just a thought.
While i enjoy the heck out of Next Generation and Voyager, NOTHING tops the OG! Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov are household names and are so iconic that they're known all over the world. Today's Star Trek shows and movies just don't come close to this series. The original's usually the best.
I met James Doohan at a video rental store. He seemed like a down to earth man, what Dad would call a regular guy. He graciously signed the video store catalog and my Star Trek comic book I brought along. I also remember reading, I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy. Also, as revealed on You Tube, George Lindsey was originally considered for Spock. BTW, William Shatner is also from Canada.
I was just in Ticonderoga New York at the Star Trek set museum to see William Shatner and hear him speak. It was absolutely fantastic! Have you ever gone there?
An ispiring filmmaker was on Kids Are People To and said he uses a pin to scratch in the lazers for the lazer guns in his homemade sci-fi movie. I told that to my friends who had the Star Wars novels and they were examining the cover art to see if the lazers were scratched in lol
Another connection between Star Trek and The Andy Griffith Show is that Ron Howard played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and his brother Clint Howard was on one episode of Star Trek playing a character named Balok in Season 1 Episode 10 The Carbomite Maneuver.
Why would the set designer not change / cover over Floyd's Barbershop? I get the wink and nod it provides viewers, but it immediately transports the viewer out of the world of "STAR TREK".
Our little trek crew would trade places. But if you had not seen at least one show you would be given your role. But the girls would come back and get to be any body as well. And noob boys. Same. I was nurse chaple more than once.
The really surprising connection between Mayberry and the Enterprise was that George Lindsey (Goober Pyle) was offered the chance to audition for Spock, but turned it down.
there was more than one star trek episode that was filmed in" MAYBERRY". "MIRI"",PATERNS OF FORCE"."RETURN OF THE ARCONS". there are others, and I will look them up. also "KIRK" never said "BEAM ME UP SCOTTY"!!!!. the mission house(" THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER") was the hardware store in MAYBERRY. one time you can see "OTICE coming out of the basement steps( drunk). this area was owned by "DESILU" at the time, known as the "BACK 40"!!!.
Won't ruin the Andy Griffith connection for those that haven't watched the video yet. If you get the complete series on bluray it gives you the option to episodes with the original special effects or the remastered effects. Also on the bluray and maybe even the DVD you can watch the previews for the episodes.
It's funny, because that segment at 6:50, Scotty was discussing science fiction, transparent aluminum with that business owner, but today it's real.....transparent aluminum is true. I wonder what Scotty would have said. ('What took ya so long', probably) :)
This the Outer Limits and The Twilight zone haunted my childhood. As ridiculous as it sounds in my childhood mind those monster could be real. I watched all this stuff first run so it was extra "alien" to everybody. I hated when my brother would try to use the Spock pinch on me. He swore he could get it right if I'd just hold still😂. I put up with it because he made us cool painted cardboard Tricorders and Phasers . He even made an old L shaped army flashlight into a cardboard cased Phaser cannon! Sometimes we'd fight monsters and aliens with the neighborhood.😊
- Were it not for the 'allegedly egomanical' W - - Shatner, the first officer (Nimoy) and engineering officer (Doohan) would have shared many, many more scenes. - Both characters had the rank of _lieutenant comnander_ at some point during the original run of the series, though surely not _at the same time_ (in the later theatrical films - at least from Wrath of Khan - Scott was 'commander' while Spock was 'captain').
My dad was a huge Star Trek fan! When I growing up we (mom, dad, sister and I) watched it every week. When my dad got sick with cancer, he lived out the last two months in the hospital and managed to watch every episode of Star Trek. This show will always make me think of him.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
My father had cancer and died in the hospital in 1968. I was 8 when he died.
I had the chance to speak with Jimmy Doohan at a Star Trek convention in the 90s. I told him I was a fan of the work he did on the animated series. He told me that he really enjoyed doing those voice overs because it reminded him of his early care at CBC Radio. He then did the voice of Arex for me, after I said he was my favourite non-original series animated character.
Thanks for sharing!
Anything about Classic StarTrek instant click and thumbs up.
I've had the great fortune to meet all the Original Cast . Meeting James Doohan was like meeting a friend you haven't seen in years.
That said,all the rumors about William Shatner being stand offish,full of himself and arrogant are 100% FALSE!! He's waa warm ,friendly ,seemed genuinely glad to shake your hand ,and make jokes about himself.
I like city on the edge of forever ,but as a Kid it was too lovey dovey . My all time favorite is The Doomsday Machine ,it seems to epitomize the unknown dangers of space exploration. And can't forget The Trouble with Tribbles and A piece of the Action.
You know. I’m 58. I don’t like to live in the past, but I do enjoy reminiscing and one thing I have noticed is when you play the old commercial with Leonard Nimoy, his voice and others have a common effect. It seems like yesterday seems so more calmer. Maybe I’m overdoing it a little bit but that’s just the way I feel, it’s like missing Home. I’m enjoying your work thank you for posting these.
I grew up on Star Trek, my favorite episode is the pilot, the Cage, Then The Menagerie part 1& 2 and then, The Doomsday Machine In that order. Thank you for the look back !.
Always Liked The ORIGINAL STAR TREK best!! Like the pilot episode too, BUT "The Doomsday Machine" has always been my absolute fave. There were about 10 others too that rank right up there as well...
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
That teaser trailer intro isn't one I remember seeing, but I did see a longer promo, "in a spaceship as large as a city…", presented by NBC before the series actually started.
We didn't have NBC where we lived in suburban-on-the-edge-of-rural Illinois. I heard about the show from my friends (their moms were big fans) and I actually got to see the show in summer reruns when we vacationed with our grandparents in Florida.
Finally, in the summer of 1968 we got a big antenna so we could pull in NBC and ABC stations from nearby towns. I had to stay up late to watch a few of the third season shows.
Yes, the popularity of cable TV in the '70s helped educate me. Star Trek was on THREE times a DAY from out-of-town independent stations (the last two airings overlapped by half an hour so we could decide to stick with the first one or bail to the second one. We got to see ALL the episodes four or five times, often edited differently for commercials!
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Dave is right. Star Trek Continues is absolutely amazing. It is must watch for Trek fans. The episodes are so authentic.
Thanks for the video Dave. Great as always.
I was 10 years old and went in hospital for a range of tests in 1973. I took my Alan Dean Foster and James Blish novelisations, and my trusty Viewmaster with Mister Spock's Time Trek aka Yesteryear. They got me through the scary hospital, especially young Spock who was so brave in spite of his fears and having to put his pet Ichaya to sleep. :'( Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and Trek for helping little me through!
Thanks for sharing your memories!
As a child I really enjoyed Leonard Nimoy's narration on the show "In Search Of..." Whenever I watched it I pictured Spock talking directly to me.
Star Trek is completely integrated into our culture. At least for us fans!
Met Mr. Doohan at a Sci/Fi convention on Cape Cod about 30 years ago! Got his Autograph on cardboard Enterprise in The Bridge!
How cool is that?!!? Thanks for sharing, Bob...and for all your support!
Live blogging the episode:
Shatner battled his weight throughout ST TOS.
When you mentioned his Twilight Zone credit, I flinched. I didn't remember him. But I looked it up and found he was in the 4th season, the one that was expanded to 60-minute episodes. Normally, those were not included in syndication packages, so most of them are not well-known.
The cast received residuals for only the first 5 reruns. They didn't make any real money until the films. In the original run, Shatner made $5K per show (about $50K today), Nimoy about $1K, and the rest had salaries measured in the hundreds of dollars. And again, almost nothing in residuals.
"Keyboard. How quaint." The TOS was often humor-filled, and it was great that the 4th movie was as well. I feel that one, along with the Wrath of Khan, truly captured the original series.
That Takei PSA was the bomb!
After the first season, it was supposed to go into a Monday time slot, but got bumped by Rowan and Martin. So it went to Fridays at 8pm, a horrible slot. That letter-writing campaign after the second season was coordinated by superfan Bjo Trimble. (It's said that a lot of it was, um, in "first person.") The show was saved, but it was sent off to Fridays at 10, which doomed it. Trimble tried another letter-writing campaign after the 3rd season, but it was too little to save it.
Star Trek routinely got killed by the competition. Gomer Pyle slayed it week after week.
The Animated Series really cut actors to lower the budget. Doohan had to do multiple roles. Koenig wasn't hired.
Remember when it cost money to make a phone call?
6 stations? We had 5--and one of them was in SPANISH! We had the 3 networks, plus one local unaffiliated UHF station (Channel 39).
Andy Griffith and Star Trek were both produced by Desilu, so they often used the same outdoor lots. Remember, TV resolution was horrible back then, so it was unlikely too many people noticed. (Also, watching the TOS now, you can see in fight scenes when they switch to stunt doubles. The video is just to clear today to get away with that!)
During the 3rd year, the budget was cut dramatically. This created huge tensions between the studio and the network. The network wanted shows where the crew beamed down to exotic (and expensive to shoot) locales, while the studio kept pressuring them to do shows contained on the ship (where already-existing sets could be used). Watch episodes from the 3rd season and you'll see what I mean. Even when they beam down to some planet, it's usually barren and contains little footage shot on the lot or on location. This, combined with the departure of both Gene Rodenberry, Dorothy Fontana (who still wrote a couple of episodes) and Gene Coons, meant the show was left to the mercy of the bean-counters. The quality of the 3rd year is dramatically lower than the first two because of these forces.
As always, good stuff, Dave!
Thanks for the live blog!
We would have been good friends in grade school. I used to play similar to you. I went to elementary school in the Sugarhouse area of SLC. When at home we’d climb trees and use them as our star ships, and then beam down to the surface. We had an excellent USS Enterprise, Klingon Warship and Romulan Vessel (different trees with the best being the Enterprise). Yes, those were the days! I’m glad you mentioned it because it reminded me of this!
@rhoward295 Likewise!🏫🌳🛸
A friend like you would have been fun to play with. Until the inevitable growing up and the development of a crush. I'm sure you had a few of those fall your way, Becky. 😋
Trees as ships, beaming down to the ground... how very inventive! Wish my friends had been more like yours! ;-]
Another connection to The Andy Griffith Show:
The boy who played Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver" was Clint Howard...Ron Howard's (Opie's) kid brother.
Dave, you and I are so much alike! I love it! I too grew up on Star Trek, and yes, Star Wars too! To this day I will sometimes say "Beam me up Scotty! There's no intelligent life down here!"
What is amazing is that my favorite episode on this show is City on The Edge of Forever!" What an epic episode! I understand why you love it so much!
A few years ago, I was able to find all of the series online and watch them all, all over again! That, without question, was a real treat and a great adventure!
But none of them would have happened if it had not been for the original Star Trek. The one that I really love is the next one: Star Trek: The Next Generation. It captures all of the drama just like the original series did. They are my two favorites.
Dave, thank you so much for bringing back all of these wonderful memories! I really appreciate all that you do!
Man, every time I see the original Star Trek, I always remember when my father introduced me to the old reruns one time in Mexico. I asked him what he was watching and he told me Star Trek. I’m like, where’s Captain Picard at? And he’s like “That’s Captain Kirk!” Man I loved it since then! I quickly noticed the diversity of the characters and how everyone got along. Loved that even more! I then went and got the Nintendo game and fell in love with it as well! Great memories! Also, if I were a kid in your playground in school I would have loved to play Star Trek! That would have been a lot of fun! 😀👍
I love when Scotty is telling LaForge, in essence, how to be a "miracle worker" when it comes to being the Chief Engineer.
So, how long is it really going to take? You didn't tell him actually how long it'll take?!
I was just a really young kid during the original Star Trek TV series, but as I got older, what I came to love most about the series was that Captain Kirk/William Shatner was the FIRST and ORIGINAL galactic man-slut. He had a woman in almost every port/planet. He NEVER missed an opportunity to pick up on a female, of ANY species! Kudos to Captain Kirk!!!!!!!
From the early 70's into the 90's I eventually met all the original cast. I first met Nimoy, it was at a 'Kiddie City' in Philadelphia in 1974. Met DeForest Kelley at his last convention appearance. I bought all the original AMT models and still have them. I carved my own phaser and communicator props out of wood, still have those too. I was 11 when Star Wars was released (1977) and that turned into another obsession.
Don't demote Scotty. Montgomery Scott was a Lieutenant Commander which is one rank higher than a Lieutenant.
I want to know how LaForge is the Chief Engineer. Department heads need to be at least a Lt Commander, like McCoy and Scotty.
That tv spot at very beginning was very cool Brother!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Eddie.
Lt. Commander Scott
I’m passionate about Star Trek. Thank you for doing this.
Some fav eps: 1. Shore Leave - I liked McCoy's romance, and Kirk's fantasy sequences with Finnigan and Rose (hubba, hubba).were great fun. 2. I've forgotten the title but it's the one where Kirk is on trial for jettisoning Finney's pod earlier than necessary. The performances by Finney and Kirk's lawyer were some of the best in the series. 3, The Doomsday Machine - William Windom's turn as Commodore Decker was the best. An aside: you might take at taking one of these character actor guest stars, looking at their episode of Star Trek along with in depth look at other memorable guest turns in earlier aired series. I remember William Windom guest-starring in an episode of Mannix. 4. The Tholian Web: I fondly remember Uhura's seeing Kirk's ghost and trying to convince the rest of the crew she saw it.
Dave can you take a look at Battlestar Galactica from the 70's, it would be great from the origins of the franchise we know today.
I second this request. I loved BSG back then and never missed an episode. I even bought the novelization from the school book catalogue. The book had a special chapter on how they created the models and props for the show.
An excellent montage of your clips and classic commercials, Dave. I remember mentioning the movie "Baffled" from '72 or '73 in comments on your original post of the Nimoy video. I still haven't searched for it on RUclips. It starred Nimoy and Susan Hampshire and was set in England. One of them had ESP, and together they solved a mystery. It was fast paced, exciting and upbeat. Nimoy smiled a lot. Probably trying not to be Spock like. ABC should've picked it up as a series but didn't.
Anyway that's my non-Spock memory of Leonard that stands out. Thanks again.
I found it! Search Baffled Nimoy. That easy. Sometimes it surprises me how easy it is to find a show, movie, or song here. 👍
Thanks Gera! I’ll check it out this weekend. 🙂
get out of my head DS😄! just a couple of weeks ago I watched the documentary Spock by his son. It was brilliant. i'm gonna check this out later I can't wait!❤️
Those were some great commercials. I really liked the friends circle commercial!
Glad you like them!
What a great channel this is! I really enjoy it!
Thank you so much!
Lieutenant COMMANDER Montgomery Scott @2:11- My Dad was a USAF pilot (Flew for the Utah National Guard too) so in my early upbringing, I was fascinated with the rank system. Dad made it to Captain and my uncle, a B-17 pilot in WWII, was a Major General in the Nevada Nation Guard. Scotty was THE king of all the Red Shirt cast. He came on strong in season 2, fights a god, killed by Nomad, went to the mirror universe, fought another god, fought the doomsday machine, and spooky aliens who took over his mind in S2E2 to S2E7.
Great stuff, Sean! Thanks for sharing...and for all your support.
Such a great series love this show Dave
Good Video. I never knew that James Doohan had a missing finger on one of his hands or that he was in World War II
Thanks Mario!
@@jdsundstrom Thank You.
Yes, the Floyd Barber connection......both shows were Desilu productions. Very cool!
Scotty was a Lt COMMANDER. Not a Lt.
I remembered they used the Andy Griffith set for the "Onlies" episode.
"Miri"
Also, "City on the Edge of Forever."
Chris Columbia was my center manager at MCI in Colorado before he did that commercial. Lol I was so jealous!
Love this! Thank you so much!
You're most welcome, Eric.
I was part of the letter writing campaign to save Star Trek. We didn't have email back then. I wonder, though, if Star Trek was being canceled in 2024, would email have the same impact as actual, physical letters? My favorite episode was The Trouble with Tribbles. It was so funny.
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Haha, can you imagine Barney Fife and Mr Spock switching places for one episode of TAGS and ST?
Well strong writers, who at the time were probably educated in many of the classics of the past, thus they wove those themes into a modern/futuristic play/show/series. It taught young people in the 1970's, when it became a phenomenon, many of the classic themes of literature, the bible, ancient mythology, etc.
There's another connection between TOS and The Andy Griffith Show...
They featured child-actors who were brothers. Ron Howard famously played Andy's son Opie. And his younger brother Clint played Balok, a child-like alien in Star Trek S1-E09 "The Corbomite Moneuver". Now, five decades later, Clint is back on another Trek show!
You might remember Ron, he grew up to play Richie Cunningham on a little sitcom called, "Happy Days", and he directed a few movies... ;-]
Kirk may have been the hero in the series, but James Doohan was a real life hero. Both James Doohan and William Shatner, were both Canadian.
Canada's greatest contributions 😂😂😂
@@j.robertsergertson4513 Shatner was trained in Shakespearian theater acting
@@nimblehealer199 Yes I know .
Hey Dave, have you ever thought of collaborating with Adam the Professor of Rock. He is all about music, of course, and overlaps the decades that you like to cover. He is also from a Rocky Mountain state (Idaho if I remember correctly). Just a thought.
I've talked with him. I had a few questions about sponsors and he was kind enough to respond. He didn't seem all that eager for a collab, however.
While i enjoy the heck out of Next Generation and Voyager, NOTHING tops the OG! Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov are household names and are so iconic that they're known all over the world. Today's Star Trek shows and movies just don't come close to this series. The original's usually the best.
I met James Doohan at a video rental store. He seemed like a down to earth man, what Dad would call a regular guy. He graciously signed the video store catalog and my Star Trek comic book I brought along. I also remember reading, I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy. Also, as revealed on You Tube, George Lindsey was originally considered for Spock. BTW, William Shatner is also from Canada.
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You are most welcome!
My parents and I are researching TOS. Enterprise takes time to get into again
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@@mikesilva3868 I got the all three seasons on Blu-Ray for my dad
I was just in Ticonderoga New York at the Star Trek set museum to see William Shatner and hear him speak. It was absolutely fantastic! Have you ever gone there?
the actor whom played mr scot, used to be on bold and the beautiful. i met him at a star trek convention
Scotty was Lieutenant Commander not Lieutenant
I did find one more star trek episode using "MAYBERRY" and that is ""A PIECE OF THE ACTION"!!!.
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An ispiring filmmaker was on Kids Are People To and said he uses a pin to scratch in the lazers for the lazer guns in his homemade sci-fi movie. I told that to my friends who had the Star Wars novels and they were examining the cover art to see if the lazers were scratched in lol
Thanks for sharing!
They did hide Scotty's hand. In "Wolf in the Fold," they used a hand "stand-in."
Another connection between Star Trek and The Andy Griffith Show is that Ron Howard played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and his brother Clint Howard was on one episode of Star Trek playing a character named Balok in Season 1 Episode 10 The Carbomite Maneuver.
Why would the set designer not change / cover over Floyd's Barbershop? I get the wink and nod it provides viewers, but it immediately transports the viewer out of the world of "STAR TREK".
lenard nimoy was in the remake of invassion of the body snatchers.
I have Leonard Nimoy’s “Warmed by Love” and it is gloriously awful. I love that guy.
I love it! "Gloriously awful" is a wonderful way to describe those things we love that we know aren't very good. 🙂
I know the connection between Star Trek and Mayberry!
😊my favorite episode is the arena😊
Our little trek crew would trade places. But if you had not seen at least one show you would be given your role. But the girls would come back and get to be any body as well. And noob boys. Same.
I was nurse chaple more than once.
Thanks for sharing!
The really surprising connection between Mayberry and the Enterprise was that George Lindsey (Goober Pyle) was offered the chance to audition for Spock, but turned it down.
there was more than one star trek episode that was filmed in" MAYBERRY". "MIRI"",PATERNS OF FORCE"."RETURN OF THE ARCONS". there are others, and I will look them up. also "KIRK" never said "BEAM ME UP SCOTTY"!!!!. the mission house(" THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER") was the hardware store in MAYBERRY. one time you can see "OTICE coming out of the basement steps( drunk). this area was owned by "DESILU" at the time, known as the "BACK 40"!!!.
star trek is best
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I wouldn't be surprised if James Doohan served as a template for Miles O'Brien
Me neither.
Won't ruin the Andy Griffith connection for those that haven't watched the video yet.
If you get the complete series on bluray it gives you the option to episodes with the original special effects or the remastered effects. Also on the bluray and maybe even the DVD you can watch the previews for the episodes.
It's funny, because that segment at 6:50, Scotty was discussing science fiction, transparent aluminum with that business owner, but today it's real.....transparent aluminum is true. I wonder what Scotty would have said. ('What took ya so long', probably) :)
@seaninnes334 YES! Lt COMMANDER Scott, big difference
The best.
martin landoue and barbra bain from space 1999 were in mision impossible.
This the Outer Limits and The Twilight zone haunted my childhood.
As ridiculous as it sounds in my childhood mind those monster could be real. I watched all this stuff first run so it was extra "alien" to everybody.
I hated when my brother would try to use the Spock pinch on me. He swore he could get it right if I'd just hold still😂.
I put up with it because he made us cool painted cardboard Tricorders and Phasers . He even made an old L shaped army flashlight into a cardboard cased Phaser cannon! Sometimes we'd fight monsters and aliens with the neighborhood.😊
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- Were it not for the 'allegedly egomanical' W - - Shatner, the first officer (Nimoy) and engineering officer (Doohan) would have shared many, many more scenes.
- Both characters had the rank of _lieutenant comnander_ at some point during the original run of the series, though surely not _at the same time_ (in the later theatrical films - at least from Wrath of Khan - Scott was 'commander' while Spock was 'captain').
Uh…a Lt. Commander would be addressed as Commander.
Thanks for letting me know.
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Why would you say "beam me up, Scotty?" What a ridiculous thing to say.
Well...I'm a pretty ridiculous guy. 🙂
Lt. Commander Scott not Lt.
Stupid Cox. Ate my comment. Anyway, nice vid, Mr. S.
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"oops, I mean person" -> oh come on!! that's what "man" meant!! it's a synonym for person!! just stop!!!
Lt. Commander Scott