These orthodox Trekers are ridiculous. As long as you don't miss episodes and don't skip to a new season in TOS, you are fine. They need to lighten up. Loving your reactions and don't let any idiots ruin your personal journey.🖖
@@kunserndsittizen2655Yup. The only one I'd switch up would maybe be at the very end of season 3. All Our Yesterdays works better as a series finale than Turnabout Intruder.
Kirk DID talk Nomad into destroying itself! What Nomad meant by "sterilize imperfection" is to DESTROY the "imperfection", and because Nomad made three errors, three counts of "imperfections," it self-destructed. That was why they were beaming it off the ship.
My only very minor point of contention with this episode is l think it might have made a little more sense if the creator of Nomad had been given a name much more similar to James T. Kirk. But overall this is actually one of my favorite episodes!
As for the production order / release order issue ... people shouldn't be upset. With the pilot type episodes in the first season, and early character development, I can see where it makes sense to go with production order. As for the rest of it, I would be surprised if it makes much difference to even separate the seasons, except perhaps for noting "Assignment: Earth" was the S2 finale.
A lot of people watched the show out of order and they were fine. The show has been around for so long that they are very entrenched in their opinion. At the end of the day, you’re watching them, and enjoying them, and that’s what matters. Until the day I leave this world, I will always want new fans of the original, and Berman, run.
Due to the nature of network programming in the 60's, every episode had to stand on it's own and resolve itself before it's ending. The network could easily pre-empt or interrupt an episode in progress for breaking news, or could prevent an episode from being aired at all. Don't worry too much about seeing them out of order. Even during Next Generation some episodes were 2 parters, or a muti-part story line over a few episodes. Yet the series tended to stick to stand alone stories. Things changed when Ron Moore began writing for the series.
You can really watch most of the whole series out of order, there are only a very few episodes where previous events or side characters come back for another appearance or are referenced. New crewmen tend to just show up with out an introduction episode and those that leave mostly never get any sort of farewell either.
You're doing absolutely nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned and I don't mind either way, production order or air date. With air date order, once you understand the discrepancies, it's not hard, the episodes are each stand-alone stories for the most part. I just really like and enjoy your reactions in any case.
The only episodes where you see any significant differences between them and the rest of the series are in the first half of the first season (differences like uniform changes, Spock smirking, etc.). But those, aside from "Where No Man" being the third episode aired rather than the first, are easy to ignore. So, a new viewer should perhaps watch "Where No Man" first to avoid any confusion then watch the rest of the episodes in any order they want. Or they can watch "Where No Man" anytime they want.. Makes me no never mind.
No worries, Bunny. You're doing a fantastic job, not only as a reactor, but also as the navigator of Kirk's Enterprise through treacherous Star Trek Fandom.
For frak sake people!!! With as much hassle Paramout and CBS give the reactors that watch any Trek show, be happy Bunny is doing it at all I enjoy these reactions do much I wouldn't mind if she did the backwards. IDIC 🖖
I have to agree that Nomad's act of mass murder was kind of glossed over. Kirk joking around at the end about "my son, the doctor" seems awfully callous in that light (not to mention the members of his own crew who were killed, and unlike Scotty, not miraculously repaired). Still, it's a solid episode with a great, intriguing premise. Always a pleasure to revisit these old familiar stories through your fresh perspective, Bunny! (And anyone who gave you grief over your viewing order needs to take a good, long look at themselves in the mirror and think about their priorities in life. Yeesh.)
I'm sorry you got grief over the viewing order. Unnecessarily hostile gate keepers really grind my gears. I'm just so very grateful that you are reacting to classic _STAR TREK._ And I'm especially appreciative that you continue to share its connection to your father. It touches my heart every time. *EDIT:* Nomad is actually one of the few antagonists that I found truly threatening.
@@christopherconard2831 Well, "purists" aren't a problem... as long as what they insist remain "pure" is what EVERYONE shared... ie, what was actually seen on-screen (or on the page, or on the radio, or...) Where "purists" become a problem is when they expand on that, inside their own minds, and then start insisting that everyone else has to submit to their own set of subjective opinions as if they're "facts." The more fully formed a fictional lore becomes, the more the divide expands. Star Wars is largely dead today for multiple reasons, with most of that being due to vastly decreased quality, granted, but much of that is nevertheless due to the erasure of the Lucasfilm-approved-as-canonical "Expanded Universe" being erased by Disney. Fams had dedicated thousands of hours to reading, watching, listening to, and playing in the " Expanded Universe" and to have all that "erased" by decree from Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy devastated the "hardcore Star Wars fanbase," leaving only the casual fans and the non-fans unaffected. It was a horrible error on Disney's part, and even had Disney Star Wars been top quality (which is far from the case, with only one exception, Rogue One) the fandom's passion was crushed by that single move and could never truly recover. As a result, there are two branches of Star Wars fandom... the "classic fans" and the "new Disney fans." And the two are utterly at odds... classic fans fully decrying the Disney stuff, pretending it "doesn't count," and Disney and their "new fans" fully decrying the earlier stuff and pretending IT "doesn't count." And that's how you destroy a billions-of-dollars franchise. Sadly, that's also what Bad Robot/Secret Hideout have done to Star Trek. But at least those shows are under a different IP license (and yes, despite press to the contrary, they remain separate IPs, legally!) than what Bunny is watching now. So, we can just treat them, legally and continuity-wise, as two separate shows, one merely imitating aspects of the other.
What's hilarious and ironic is most of us grew up watching these in whatever random order we caught them in reruns. Almost nobody saw this show in the "right order." Do it any way that pleases you.
I completely agree. I remember having a list of episodes and trying to see them all. You'd see some episodes a half dozen times, but it literally took me a few years to finally catch that 79th episode.
@@bunnytailsREACTSactually they ran in syndication in PRODUCTION ORDER because I remember it rolling around to the 2nd pilot where Spock had a gold/green shirt and the viewscreen was rounded. Then the next episode was THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER. Then some idiot decided to do AIRDATE ORDER on the DVDs and it’s been that way since.
@@bunnytailsREACTS And not just out of order. For most who saw the show in syndication, many scenes were cut to make room for more commercials. For years, we watched the shows both truncated and with too many commercials. Youre seeing them uncut, remastered, and commercial- free. Youre ahead of the game no matter how you watch.
@@Joe-hh8gd In the 90s, not if you saw them in the 70s and 80s. I remember noticing the difference at one point, not sure exactly when, having seen all episodes several times during the 80s when they were whole.
@@photonicus Actually, I cheated. That was a quote I remembered which was frequently used back when the first Star Trek movie was released in theaters. It was a put-down used to imply that the first movie was just a rehash of the Nomad episode. I just thought it was a great line that I would use this opportunity to reintroduce. 😎👍
I wanted to share what was said at an interview of Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) where she talked about meeting dr. Martin Luther King Jr; he said he was a fan of the show, she expressed her interest in returning to her original love musical theater. Upon hearing this his face dropped, he expressed his understanding but stipulated that while a small part on a small television show, that a woman of color was an equal part of the bridge crew to which made leaps forward in equality for people everywhere. After that, she continued with the show into the movies with a long successful career. Truly inspiring.
First, I'd like to say I'm disappointed you caught grief over the way you watch the episodes. You give your time, and energy and I'm grateful. Speaking of this episode, it's just Kirk being Kirk talking computers into suicide. All Hail Landru haha. I love your hair, and that necklace. As a kid, I never realized how shitty it was they're laughing when 4 crew died.
No one under the age of fifty five saw these in release order unless they first watched the series on DVD. I don't know why anyone would have a bug up their butt about it let alone holla at you. You are doing great
Her son, Kyle Richards, was the lead in "The Learning Tree", the film adaptation of Gordon Parks Sr's novel. Parks, who wrote, produced and directed the film, was the first Black film director to work for an A-list studio (Warner Bros.).
I'm a huge Trek fan to a fault... there is one thing I could care less is trying to satisfy how you watch these episodes. do what's easier for you don't try to make the crazies happy, in the end they will drive you crazy 😂 have fun and enjoy the series.
Hi, Bunny. I'm sorry you've been hassled about episode running orders, etc. When we first got the show here in the UK, the episodes were all over the place & nobody cared. We just enjoyed the episodes as we saw them. It wasn't until books started coming out from the 70's onwards that much more detail (such as episode production order) came out. Yes, there is an argument that viewing in production order shows you growth in characterisation, or production values or whatever - but if the season doesn't have a through-line, all that matters is that you enjoy it. And after all, that's supposed to be why we're all here - because we want you to have a good time & share your insights with us. Please don't upset yourself about it - we can never please everyone & if we try, we are the ones who end up suffering for it. Can't wait to set course for the next reaction (in whatever order) - Warp Eight! :)
@bunnytailREACTS The Changling is probably the best of the Kirk-talks-a-computer-into-destroying-itself episdes. The voice of Nomad scared me as a child. Vic Perrin voiced Nomad, and also had appeared previously as the Metron at the end of the first season episode _Arena_ where Kirk fought the Gorn. I later learned that Vic Perrin also preformed the Control Voice on The Outer Limits and had a very long radio career. What a voice the man had. No wonder he was given the role for Nomad.
Bunny, you are doing nothing wrong. It's your channel and any viewing order you do is just fine. You're the Boss! 👍👍 All those who keep telling you what to do should shut up. Star Trek fanatics can be real DORKS. As William Shatner once said to all the dorks, "Get a life! It's just a TV show!" (Classic SNL episode - Star Trek Convention)
Nomad was voiced by Vic Perrin. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. We are controlling transmission." Oh, how many times I've wished I could sound like him. I don't know if that would make me a chick magnet, but for myself, it would feel very satisfying. OBTW he was in other ST/TOL episodes, and other series.
As someone who was around 9yrs old when Star Trek premiered. I have been a Trekie most of my life I appreciate your critiques and find them refreshing. Keep doing what you do ignore the hater's
If someone gets mad at you for what/when you watch, that is their problem - just remember the words of Garden Party: "You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."
@@technofilejr3401 and for those of us who are old enough to have watched it when it first aired, and then watched it in syndication, we have seen them aired in various orders because back when it came out, none of the networks seemed to care about what order to air things.
This was a revisit of the story of Landru in "Return of the Archons" where Kirk raises a logical absurdity to an AI, and it destroys itself trying to solve it. We'll see variations of this plot device again. Scotty has a way of getting himself killed over women, doesn't he? Drives a man to drink. Most of the cool shots of Nomad were simply done: They put the prop and a camera on cart and wheeled it around. (You can tell by the vibration in the movement, and the closed ceiling.) We imagine it flying because we remember the very first shot of it in the transporter room, where it was suspended by a wire. Other shots showed it clearly sitting on something like a table. Thanks for doing two episodes this week! Your reactions are thoughtful and fun!
Bunny you’re doing fine, look as long as you’re enjoying this fine show which I and multitudes of other enjoyed, whew, I’m happy. Love your reactions and analysis.
I had no idea of the order. I was a year old when the show premiered and grew up watching them in reruns. My local channel had them on late Sunday mornings and I was usually at church so unless I was sick or something I just watched them whenever. Eventually over the years I saw them all.
A message to the bunnytailsREACTS Star Trek commentariat: RELAX! It's enough that she's doing a great job with these reviews/reactions, you're really going to give her a hard time about the order she watches the episodes in? You need to get a handle on your OCD. Geez.
Don't worry about ordering so much, most of us grew up watching them on TV in syndication so order was always a bit of a jumbled mess. Order doesn't matter too much in TOS. It's a lot stronger in DS9 and beyond. However as long as you don't jump seasons you end up getting the same overall effect. (You should do The Animated Series, as so many people skip over it, and its such an important continuation of scripts and things they couldn't manage to make on the show).
In the episode The Devil In The Dark we observed Spock perform a Vulcan mind meld and heard the Horta (through Spock's voice) say the phrases "cry for the children" and "sorrow for the murdered children". Well, here in this episode we should cry for the red shirts and feel sorrow for the murdered red shirts. Nomad murdered four red shirts. Four men. That's one percent of Kirk's entire crew. In addition, this time Scotty himself fell victim to the red shirt curse and was killed. However, in the case of Scotty......
Lt. Uhuru speaks in her native Swahili language in this re-education scene when she becomes frustrated with English, which shows us that her "memory" and "personality" were not erased, just her "education." So, it's not like her mind was destroyed, it was just blocked from retrieving what she already knew. Nurse Chapel was helping her with remembering what NOMAD had forced her to forget.
In the original script, and the James Blish novelization, it's specified that Nomad didn't erase Uhura's memories. Rather, it removed her ability to express herself, either by conventional speech or the "illogic" of music. So, it was possible to re-educate her in that respect.
The "my son, the doctor" bit is a reference to a Jewish cliche, which is funnier if you know that the actor playing Kirk (and the actor playing Spock) are Jewish
Nomad self distrusted when they beamed it out into space, they didn’t blast it. This was why Spock congratulates him on a “fantastic display of logic “ LoL .
Wow, two reactions with a few days, nice Monday surprise. I prefer production order, but not upset either way, though your thinking is chaotic due to your mass of conflicting impulses. Ha, ironic that you made the switch with this episode.... Another great Kirk vs. the computer ending, always liked the "... you have made two errors line... by the way, Nomad did destroy itself. There's a lot of similarities in the first Trek movie to this episode.
"Trying to communicate with math?" What, haven't you ever seen "Contact"? If you haven't, then you should absolutely watch it. It kinda blew my mind when I was growing up.
Not one, not two, but four guys wearing red shirts got iced by Nomad. I think it was this episode that set the Star Trek standard of don't wear a red shirt in front of hostile entities.
Certain episodes build off information from earlier episodes, but even then it doesn't really matter what order you watch them in -- serialized storytelling was extremely rudimentary in television shows until shows like Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, or L.A. Law in the '80s, and didn't really become the norm until Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the prestige shows of HBO or Showtime in the '90s. Even the "serialized" storytelling of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was primarily episodic. So don't fret it... just watch everything and react as you feel like watching and reacting. Don't listen to the gatekeepers.
The parallels in story between this episode and Star Trek the motion picture are numerous. I do think that the motion picture did a better job refining the story.
It's essentially the same story. An early Earth probe is damaged, then repaired by an advanced race that changes its programming. The probe then returns to Earth, threatening destruction of the planet.
Try not to concern yourself with any complaints about the order you are watching Star Trek, Bunny. As long as you are happy, then that's all that matters. I believe the UK showed Star Trek in a random order ( apart from the two part The Menagerie ) and even banned certain episodes, so I wouldn't dream of complaining about how anyone watches Star Trek. :)
Wow! Short turn around! Any Bunny order is fine with me. I like this episode, but a lot of people don't. Spock praising Kirk's logic at the end was epic. I use the "Non Sequitur, your facts are uncoordinated." line from time to time. Doesn't Nomad's characterization of a woman offend women?
First of all, let me comment on your outfit. You look amazing.. Is it the clothing or the person wearing it?🤔. As far as the order of the episodes… watch them anyway you want. You’re the Captain of this journey and we are all onboard. It’s great to relive this series with ya! You also bring a few perspective to the show. Thanks!
I always grin that when Kirk told Nomad to drop his shields for Spock's examination, he essentially tells him to drop his pants, turn his head, and cough.
Your not wrong, but watching the series in production order shows the crews production order. NBC never cared about trek then so they disrespect the series. Any one saying it doesn't matter never grew up with it to see the difference between network and proper order broadcasting. That's how they messed up with space 1999, NBC wanted to cancel star trek at the end of all three seasons. They didn't realize how good it was until it ran in order in syndication.
I remember seeing this episode and it was clarrified what happened to uhura, im wondering if this is an edited version.. IN a line by mccoy, uhura lost her english part of her memories.. not her swahili language memories..unless i am misremembering
Do not let these "fans" try to control you. You can watch them in any order that you want to. This is YOUR show!!!! They have already seen all of the episodes time and time and time again, so why should they care. Here's a nice little trivia bit... when the series was FINALLY released on home video on laserdisc, Beta tape, and VHS tape, it was released and numbered in production order, so us "old guys" remember that and prefer production order. But when Paramount re-released everything on DVD (and later Blu-Ray), it was released and numbered in airdate order. These releases are remembered more by a younger crowd that never bought the tapes. But really, it is just a matter of preference. There is no right or wrong way to do this... watch them as you wish. Heck, you can watch them in reverse if you want... start with the last episode of season 3 and work your way backwards. That will make their heads explode!!!!!
Re-watching the series with you has really gotten into my head. I recently had a medical procedure, during which I was sedated. When finished, they woke me up from a dream. A Star Trek dream! I don't think I've ever had a Star Trek dream. I was a starship captain and we were under attack. I thanked the staff for waking me up. They may have saved my life. BTW, "Non-sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated," is one of my favorite quotes. There are frequent opportunities to utilize it. I also like to say "Error?! Error?!" in my helium voice.
Don't let the nattering nabobs of negativity get to you. Your reactions are intelligent, perceptive, and entertaining. Watch the shows in whatever damn order you want. :)
Yes, Nomad ultimately destroyed itself. I think my favorite line in this is from Spok: "Your logic is impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger." LOL If memory serves, James Doohan ("Scott") also provided the voice for Nomad.
I don’t understand why people have gotten upset. This series was episodic, so you could watch an episode and it would be self-contained. The story arc was not introduced until Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9). You keep doing you.🖖🏻
I was one of the ones who mentioned the watch order previously leading to this but it wasn’t that I was upset. Other people had asked her to watch Season 1 in production order, and there are some advantages of that in the early episodes. But I think those people made her think production order was the best throughout. But Particularly if you are watching a blu ray box set and have to swap out discs constantly to watch in production order, I just wanted her to know that it wasn’t really necessary and that she could watch in whatever order was easiest.
I'm one of the people who pushed you to watch the show in production order, and I think I said something like "at least for the first season", but I didn't warn against doing future seasons the same way (because I honestly don't know that it matters), so you can lay any blame at my feet. Regardless, you can't be expected to act according to things you don't know about. I'd say just stick with the method you've already started using for the season, but I guess you're switching gears, and that's honestly okay too. At the beginning of first season, the show is still developing and figuring out what it is. By the time you've gotten to season two, that's no longer really the case, and the episodes are otherwise fairly self-contained, so... whatever. Don't stress out about it. Even if production order was definitely the way to approach season two, you'd still have people denouncing it, and others just being confused.
I think it was important to view the first season in production order, which was done, to see how the basic premise of the show (an exploratory spacecraft with a large crew) and the main characters developed. After that, things are more stabilized, and the episodes can be taken individually. One new recurring character is introduced in Pavel Chekhov, the impulsive young Russian. The governing authorities are fixed at Starfleet Command and the United Federation of Planets. And certain recurring plot devices--the Enterprise in the clutches of a superior being, the "he's dead, but not really" convention, Kirk falling for babes, etc., are used again and again.
Bunny. You are doing just fine; I enjoy your reactions. You can't please everyone, somebody always has a gripe about the smallest insignificant stuff. I watched these when they aired. Keep doing what you are doing. See you next video. Take care and stay confident. Bye. 😄✌🖖
You would think Starfleet would add two things to a space vessel - seat belts and circuit breakers. But credit where its due, they did secure the chairs to the deck so the chairs don't get hurt.
The episode featured a galactic power called The Other with an emissary that scouts planets. Kind of reminds me of Galactus and the Silver Surfer. I like the shots of Nomad moving, as you commented. The angle of the camera made it look better, given the limited options available given sixties tv special effects, than just a medium shot would. The mind meld was fun. Spock confirmed Kirk's impression that Nomad is "space happy", after Spock saw how badly damaged Nomad's circuits was. Love the lighting and how it accents the colors in your studio 0:02 . Looking forward to seeing your next reacts episode. An attractive photo of Uhura for the title. I think Nichelle Nicoles used every second of screen time to stand out and in this episode she looks fantastic.
Oy. People who complain about free RUclips content suck. Kirk outtalks another computer. And they could have simply not re-materialized Nomad with the transporter.
I don't know if anyone paid attention, but Uhura is singing the same song that she sung to Lt. O'Reilly in "The Conscience of the King." Also, most shows aired on television based upon how quick the post-production of an episode was, if an episode had some controversial content for the networks to hold back until a later airing or if the networks simply decided which episode was best for airing, particularly during certain holidays or special events. When these shows entered into syndication (usually after either their network run ended or they reached the magic number of episodes to go into syndication), they were aired in production order, and Star Trek: The Original Series was no different. They were even put on VHS in production order. This changed sometime in the 1990's, and now most shows air in syndication (or basic cable stations) in airdate order, and are release on DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming services that way. Saved By The Bell is one of the few shows that still air in production order, more or less. My point is: you continue to watch Star Trek: The Original Series the order that you want to watch and show them on both Patreon and RUclips, and if anyone has an issue with it, the tough.
I saw Star Trek through the 70s and 80s in reruns and no station I saw ever aired them in any order at all. You'd get a first season episode followed by a third season episode, back to a first season, then a couple second season episodes, and on and on. It took forever for me to see all the episodes. The last one was a third season episode which I don't want to name because Bunny asked us not to mention any episodes she hasn't reviewed yet, but it opens with a medical log.
You're dead wrong about the syndication order, and for a reason that, once you understand it, will seem obvious to everyone, but isn't to those who grew up in the "digital age." Syndication involved shipping reels of film to the local television stations. After airing them, the film reels were repackaged and shipped back to the syndicator. And they'd then get shipped to another station. So, depending on how many total sets of the series the syndicator gad in their inventory, no two stations might be airing the same episode at the same time, and certainly, no two stations ever had the exact same viewing order. The reels making up a series were all out at different stations, all at once. Once TV stations started transitioning to video tape, the media changed but nit the process. And even then, video tape always looked worse than film did. So, until higher definition video formats hit, film remained the standard. Almost everything aired until the mid-to-late 1980s was on film. But by the mid-late 1990s, it was all being delivered digitally. First on tape, but not "video tape," and later, as streamed downloaded digital files stored on local drives. But when Trek went into syndication, it was 100% "film reels."
I’m afraid because it’s Star Trek, you’re not going to make everybody happy… while we have a collective love of Star Trek in general, there are some heated debates that have been going on since it became a cult classic. So it goes.
Commenters should seriously STOP mentioning how an episode relates to or impacts future episodes or movies!!!! Bunny made it this far in life without help....I'm sure she'll do fine.
Scotty still hasn't learned his lesson about rushing into situations and getting "zapped" for it. We're barely into season 2 and already he's been zapped by both Apollo AND Nomad.
A new reaction on a Monday? That's awesome! 🥳 If I can give you one advice: Better redo your opening monologue before you go for 3-4 cuts in the first 15 seconds, which is super distracting 😅 Or use a script which I think is what a lot of people on YT do. You could use Google Docs voice typing while recording your opening and when you're happy with it, record a second cleaner version with help of the script you recorded. I know it's extra work, but I think it'd be worth it.
The idea of "education tapes" for fast education was very popular in the '60s. Secretary of Defense McNamara claimed he could use educational tapes to educate the mentally deficient and with this excuse he began drafting all those rejected for service due to mental problems... and then sending them straight to the Vietnam front with no additional training where they died in horrific numbers. Yet another dark chapter of eugenics in US history.
Check out the history of McNamara's Morons. Not a nice name, but that's what they became known as. There are a few good videos on RUclips about it. His theory was that low scores on aptitude tests could be overcome with training. Unfortunately there wasn't follow through of that training. Also, people who simply lacking in intelligence were assumed to just need experience. There tends to be a brutal learning curve in a combat zone. This isn't to excuse what the program did. Almost anyone with experience in military training would have known it would end in disaster.
It helps to have a relative order to watch, but this, like most shows were not written in a serial fashion so you could drop in anywhere. Some reactors only watch a select few episodes from each season, so what's the difference? I didn't see them in their original air dates, and we didn't have the ability to do anything but see them when we could.....no DVR, or even a VCR, so don't sweat it. Nomad self-destructed.
You haven't done anything wrong, and it is literally impossible to please everybody. The internet's gonna internet, no matter what you do. Please don't take anything personally. You do you. You're doing great.
I think you're presenting Star Trek TOS just fine. Fyi I had you on my Yamaha surround sound system and there is a low frequency audible hum that is noticeable. I know you said you changed cameras. Sometimes is different with audio too. Thanks for the reactions. Keep up the good work and live long and prosper.🖖
You've done nothing wrong. You can factually watch them in any order: is just that watching them in production order gives some better context into things like Spock's character development. (Or obscure things, like Kirk's decision in _Balance of Terror_ setting up the moral conflict in _Arena_ ) Don't get into that headspace where you're 'wrong' for not pleasing random people on the Internet.
I'm a life-long Star Trek fan. My parents told me I was watching Star Trek TOS before I could talk. Let me be absolutely clear: the order in which you watch the episodes makes NO difference. Maybe not mix and match episodes from different seasons...but even then, it's not that big a deal. Anyone who insists otherwise is just being a jerk because you're not watching them in the order that they would. Star Trek TOS was intentionally written to be episodic, not serial. There are no story arcs to follow, and therefore you can't miss anything by skipping around.
I'm only interested in your watch order in that I might anticipate what you're watching next, and to avoid spoilers. It's your channel; we're just along for the ride.
He talked it into self-destruction. You saw fine examples of two Star Trek tropes in this episode - Kirk can talk any computer into suicide, and redshirts are expendable cannon fodder, handy in any episode where someone needs to die to jack up the dramatic tension.
These orthodox Trekers are ridiculous. As long as you don't miss episodes and don't skip to a new season in TOS, you are fine. They need to lighten up.
Loving your reactions and don't let any idiots ruin your personal journey.🖖
Thank you ♥
Here, here. I think she needs to gently remind them her phaser is set to "kill".
@@bunnytailsREACTSonly the first pilot, 2nd pilot and CORBOMITE MANEUVER needed to be watched in PRODUCTION ORDER
Some Star Trek fans can be a cranky bunch. Until you get to Deep Space Nine the order doesn't really matter that much. Love your videos!
@@kunserndsittizen2655Yup. The only one I'd switch up would maybe be at the very end of season 3. All Our Yesterdays works better as a series finale than Turnabout Intruder.
Kirk DID talk Nomad into destroying itself! What Nomad meant by "sterilize imperfection" is to DESTROY the "imperfection", and because Nomad made three errors, three counts of "imperfections," it self-destructed. That was why they were beaming it off the ship.
Ah! I get it now, thanks!
My only very minor point of contention with this episode is l think it might have made a little more sense if the creator of Nomad had been given a name much more similar to James T. Kirk. But overall this is actually one of my favorite episodes!
Yeah it was three strikes for Nomad and it was out!
@@bunnytailsREACTS "My son the doctor" was a nice hint at Star Trek 2 "David Marcus" since you've seen that already. 😄
@@komradewirelesscaller6716 , yeah, like "Thames Claudius Kirk"!
The great compliment / insult by Spock.
*Spock:* ".. a dazzling display of logic!"
*Kirk:* "You didn't think I had it in me?"
*Spock:* "No sir".
You're not watching them in alphabetical order? WHAT???
OK, that made me laugh. 👍👍
Fun little factoid. The picture of Jackson Roykirk they use in this episode is Marc Daniels, the director.
As for the production order / release order issue ... people shouldn't be upset. With the pilot type episodes in the first season, and early character development, I can see where it makes sense to go with production order. As for the rest of it, I would be surprised if it makes much difference to even separate the seasons, except perhaps for noting "Assignment: Earth" was the S2 finale.
Bunnytails, it's your channel. Do what you feel like doing.
This episode has my favorite quote from TOS. Spock: "Your logic was impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger."
A lot of people watched the show out of order and they were fine. The show has been around for so long that they are very entrenched in their opinion.
At the end of the day, you’re watching them, and enjoying them, and that’s what matters. Until the day I leave this world, I will always want new fans of the original, and Berman, run.
Thanks :)
Due to the nature of network programming in the 60's, every episode had to stand on it's own and resolve itself before it's ending. The network could easily pre-empt or interrupt an episode in progress for breaking news, or could prevent an episode from being aired at all. Don't worry too much about seeing them out of order. Even during Next Generation some episodes were 2 parters, or a muti-part story line over a few episodes. Yet the series tended to stick to stand alone stories. Things changed when Ron Moore began writing for the series.
Berman... 🙄
@@bunnytailsREACTSI would have liked to have seen a story arch that showed Uhura's recovery, but unfortunately story's back then were "One and Done".
You can really watch most of the whole series out of order, there are only a very few episodes where previous events or side characters come back for another appearance or are referenced. New crewmen tend to just show up with out an introduction episode and those that leave mostly never get any sort of farewell either.
You're doing absolutely nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned and I don't mind either way, production order or air date. With air date order, once you understand the discrepancies, it's not hard, the episodes are each stand-alone stories for the most part. I just really like and enjoy your reactions in any case.
The only episodes where you see any significant differences between them and the rest of the series are in the first half of the first season (differences like uniform changes, Spock smirking, etc.). But those, aside from "Where No Man" being the third episode aired rather than the first, are easy to ignore. So, a new viewer should perhaps watch "Where No Man" first to avoid any confusion then watch the rest of the episodes in any order they want. Or they can watch "Where No Man" anytime they want.. Makes me no never mind.
@@kwebb121765 There are some differences in quality between the seasons.
You're safely at the point where production order no longer really matters.
No worries, Bunny. You're doing a fantastic job, not only as a reactor, but also as the navigator of Kirk's Enterprise through treacherous Star Trek Fandom.
@@s.patrickmarino7289 There are bad episodes and good episodes no matter what order you watch them in.
For frak sake people!!! With as much hassle Paramout and CBS give the reactors that watch any Trek show, be happy Bunny is doing it at all I enjoy these reactions do much I wouldn't mind if she did the backwards. IDIC 🖖
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@@bunnytailsREACTSit doesn’t matter now. Only the first few episodes really mattered in PRODUCTION ORDER.
I have to agree that Nomad's act of mass murder was kind of glossed over. Kirk joking around at the end about "my son, the doctor" seems awfully callous in that light (not to mention the members of his own crew who were killed, and unlike Scotty, not miraculously repaired). Still, it's a solid episode with a great, intriguing premise. Always a pleasure to revisit these old familiar stories through your fresh perspective, Bunny!
(And anyone who gave you grief over your viewing order needs to take a good, long look at themselves in the mirror and think about their priorities in life. Yeesh.)
I'm sorry you got grief over the viewing order. Unnecessarily hostile gate keepers really grind my gears. I'm just so very grateful that you are reacting to classic _STAR TREK._ And I'm especially appreciative that you continue to share its connection to your father. It touches my heart every time.
*EDIT:* Nomad is actually one of the few antagonists that I found truly threatening.
Purists are the bane of any fan base. Doubly so with sci-fi/fantasy worlds.
Who else do you find truly threatening?
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Well, "purists" aren't a problem... as long as what they insist remain "pure" is what EVERYONE shared... ie, what was actually seen on-screen (or on the page, or on the radio, or...)
Where "purists" become a problem is when they expand on that, inside their own minds, and then start insisting that everyone else has to submit to their own set of subjective opinions as if they're "facts."
The more fully formed a fictional lore becomes, the more the divide expands.
Star Wars is largely dead today for multiple reasons, with most of that being due to vastly decreased quality, granted, but much of that is nevertheless due to the erasure of the Lucasfilm-approved-as-canonical "Expanded Universe" being erased by Disney. Fams had dedicated thousands of hours to reading, watching, listening to, and playing in the " Expanded Universe" and to have all that "erased" by decree from Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy devastated the "hardcore Star Wars fanbase," leaving only the casual fans and the non-fans unaffected.
It was a horrible error on Disney's part, and even had Disney Star Wars been top quality (which is far from the case, with only one exception, Rogue One) the fandom's passion was crushed by that single move and could never truly recover.
As a result, there are two branches of Star Wars fandom... the "classic fans" and the "new Disney fans." And the two are utterly at odds... classic fans fully decrying the Disney stuff, pretending it "doesn't count," and Disney and their "new fans" fully decrying the earlier stuff and pretending IT "doesn't count."
And that's how you destroy a billions-of-dollars franchise.
Sadly, that's also what Bad Robot/Secret Hideout have done to Star Trek. But at least those shows are under a different IP license (and yes, despite press to the contrary, they remain separate IPs, legally!) than what Bunny is watching now. So, we can just treat them, legally and continuity-wise, as two separate shows, one merely imitating aspects of the other.
Another example of Kirk talking a machine to death. It’s not the first we’ve seen and it won’t be the last. 😄
Listen Norman, I am lying.
@@light9999And EVERY THING I say is a lie!
20th century Earth has to quit sending out probes, seems to be a problem in the 24th century.
Bunny, I'm sorry you're getting grief about such a nit-picky thing as what order to watch these. You're doing a great job on these!!
Thank you!
What's hilarious and ironic is most of us grew up watching these in whatever random order we caught them in reruns. Almost nobody saw this show in the "right order." Do it any way that pleases you.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING!
I completely agree. I remember having a list of episodes and trying to see them all. You'd see some episodes a half dozen times, but it literally took me a few years to finally catch that 79th episode.
@@bunnytailsREACTSactually they ran in syndication in PRODUCTION ORDER because I remember it rolling around to the 2nd pilot where Spock had a gold/green shirt and the viewscreen was rounded. Then the next episode was THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER. Then some idiot decided to do AIRDATE ORDER on the DVDs and it’s been that way since.
@@bunnytailsREACTS And not just out of order. For most who saw the show in syndication, many scenes were cut to make room for more commercials. For years, we watched the shows both truncated and with too many commercials. Youre seeing them uncut, remastered, and commercial- free. Youre ahead of the game no matter how you watch.
@@Joe-hh8gd In the 90s, not if you saw them in the 70s and 80s. I remember noticing the difference at one point, not sure exactly when, having seen all episodes several times during the 80s when they were whole.
"Where NOMAD has gone before! " 😂
Good one! 👏🤣😂
Ok that's new!😄😄
@@photonicus Actually, I cheated. That was a quote I remembered which was frequently used back when the first Star Trek movie was released in theaters. It was a put-down used to imply that the first movie was just a rehash of the Nomad episode. I just thought it was a great line that I would use this opportunity to reintroduce. 😎👍
@@JasonRule-1 Still, thanks for bringing it to our attention🖖
I wanted to share what was said at an interview of Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) where she talked about meeting dr. Martin Luther King Jr; he said he was a fan of the show, she expressed her interest in returning to her original love musical theater. Upon hearing this his face dropped, he expressed his understanding but stipulated that while a small part on a small television show, that a woman of color was an equal part of the bridge crew to which made leaps forward in equality for people everywhere. After that, she continued with the show into the movies with a long successful career. Truly inspiring.
And yet here we are now with woke ideology
She also went to work with NASA recruiting women and people of other ethnicities into the astronaut corps
Yes... isn't it simply awful that people bother to get educated...
First, I'd like to say I'm disappointed you caught grief over the way you watch the episodes. You give your time, and energy and I'm grateful.
Speaking of this episode, it's just Kirk being Kirk talking computers into suicide. All Hail Landru haha. I love your hair, and that necklace.
As a kid, I never realized how shitty it was they're laughing when 4 crew died.
No one under the age of fifty five saw these in release order unless they first watched the series on DVD. I don't know why anyone would have a bug up their butt about it let alone holla at you. You are doing great
Correct. Even on a few channels that I catch this series on does NOT play everything in order, though 1 channel actually tries.
They started that AIRDATE ORDER crap with the DVDs. It only matters in the first 3 episodes.
I never knew what episode belonged to what season.
It just doesn't matter, there is no connection between episodes. Watch in any order you wish. There is no wrong.
Uhura's native language is Swahili, but she speaks perfect, unaccented English. Nichelle Nichols was from Los Angeles.
Her son, Kyle Richards, was the lead in "The Learning Tree", the film adaptation of Gordon Parks Sr's novel. Parks, who wrote, produced and directed the film, was the first Black film director to work for an A-list studio (Warner Bros.).
The Kirk unit excels at driving machines crazy.
I'm a huge Trek fan to a fault... there is one thing I could care less is trying to satisfy how you watch these episodes. do what's easier for you don't try to make the crazies happy, in the end they will drive you crazy 😂 have fun and enjoy the series.
Hi, Bunny. I'm sorry you've been hassled about episode running orders, etc. When we first got the show here in the UK, the episodes were all over the place & nobody cared. We just enjoyed the episodes as we saw them. It wasn't until books started coming out from the 70's onwards that much more detail (such as episode production order) came out. Yes, there is an argument that viewing in production order shows you growth in characterisation, or production values or whatever - but if the season doesn't have a through-line, all that matters is that you enjoy it. And after all, that's supposed to be why we're all here - because we want you to have a good time & share your insights with us. Please don't upset yourself about it - we can never please everyone & if we try, we are the ones who end up suffering for it. Can't wait to set course for the next reaction (in whatever order) - Warp Eight! :)
@bunnytailREACTS The Changling is probably the best of the Kirk-talks-a-computer-into-destroying-itself episdes. The voice of Nomad scared me as a child. Vic Perrin voiced Nomad, and also had appeared previously as the Metron at the end of the first season episode _Arena_ where Kirk fought the Gorn. I later learned that Vic Perrin also preformed the Control Voice on The Outer Limits and had a very long radio career. What a voice the man had. No wonder he was given the role for Nomad.
And he’s that planetary leader in MIRROR MIRROR
Enjoy yourself! Don't worry about everyone and just keep having fun!
I will try!
Bunny, you are doing nothing wrong. It's your channel and any viewing order you do is just fine. You're the Boss! 👍👍
All those who keep telling you what to do should shut up. Star Trek fanatics can be real DORKS.
As William Shatner once said to all the dorks, "Get a life! It's just a TV show!" (Classic SNL episode - Star Trek Convention)
The next episode "Mirror Mirror" has become pivotal in the Star Trek universe.
This episode was pretty pivotal too, ST TMP was loosely based on this story.
For more on V'ger, you should read the Star Trek novel "The Return", it has a surprising revelation about V'ger.@@michaelbruno1666
Nomad was voiced by Vic Perrin. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. We are controlling transmission." Oh, how many times I've wished I could sound like him. I don't know if that would make me a chick magnet, but for myself, it would feel very satisfying. OBTW he was in other ST/TOL episodes, and other series.
Never made The Outer Limits connection ... cool!
He was one of the aliens in the Mirror Mirror episode.
You’re learning in living that, you CAN’T please everybody so, just react to any schedule you want. Everybody loves you bunny.
As someone who was around 9yrs old when Star Trek premiered. I have been a Trekie most of my life I appreciate your critiques and find them refreshing. Keep doing what you do ignore the hater's
If someone gets mad at you for what/when you watch, that is their problem - just remember the words of Garden Party: "You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."
We’ve all watched these episodes so often for the last 55+ years does it really matter?
@@technofilejr3401 and for those of us who are old enough to have watched it when it first aired, and then watched it in syndication, we have seen them aired in various orders because back when it came out, none of the networks seemed to care about what order to air things.
This was a revisit of the story of Landru in "Return of the Archons" where Kirk raises a logical absurdity to an AI, and it destroys itself trying to solve it. We'll see variations of this plot device again.
Scotty has a way of getting himself killed over women, doesn't he? Drives a man to drink.
Most of the cool shots of Nomad were simply done: They put the prop and a camera on cart and wheeled it around. (You can tell by the vibration in the movement, and the closed ceiling.) We imagine it flying because we remember the very first shot of it in the transporter room, where it was suspended by a wire. Other shots showed it clearly sitting on something like a table.
Thanks for doing two episodes this week! Your reactions are thoughtful and fun!
Nomad did destroy itself. That's why there was a rush to beam it into deep space before it would blow up. -OG
Bunny you’re doing fine, look as long as you’re enjoying this fine show which I and multitudes of other enjoyed, whew, I’m happy. Love your reactions and analysis.
Making people happy is like herding cats.... impossible.
You are so right :(
I can attest to that, me being a tiger and all.😎
Still, Catherd is my dream job.
No it is not! You just have to convince all of them to do it your way! Simple!
You’re not doing it wrong. You’re the captain of this ship and I’m just happy to be along for the ride.
I had no idea of the order. I was a year old when the show premiered and grew up watching them in reruns. My local channel had them on late Sunday mornings and I was usually at church so unless I was sick or something I just watched them whenever. Eventually over the years I saw them all.
In the 23rd century, singing can cause brain damage 😢
A message to the bunnytailsREACTS Star Trek commentariat: RELAX! It's enough that she's doing a great job with these reviews/reactions, you're really going to give her a hard time about the order she watches the episodes in? You need to get a handle on your OCD. Geez.
Don't worry about ordering so much, most of us grew up watching them on TV in syndication so order was always a bit of a jumbled mess. Order doesn't matter too much in TOS. It's a lot stronger in DS9 and beyond. However as long as you don't jump seasons you end up getting the same overall effect. (You should do The Animated Series, as so many people skip over it, and its such an important continuation of scripts and things they couldn't manage to make on the show).
In the episode The Devil In The Dark we observed Spock perform a Vulcan mind meld and heard the Horta (through Spock's voice) say the phrases "cry for the children" and "sorrow for the murdered children". Well, here in this episode we should cry for the red shirts and feel sorrow for the murdered red shirts. Nomad murdered four red shirts. Four men. That's one percent of Kirk's entire crew. In addition, this time Scotty himself fell victim to the red shirt curse and was killed. However, in the case of Scotty......
Don't worry about complaints.
What is important is you enjoy it enough to keep going.
The complainer's facts are uncoordinated.
Lt. Uhuru speaks in her native Swahili language in this re-education scene when she becomes frustrated with English, which shows us that her "memory" and "personality" were not erased, just her "education." So, it's not like her mind was destroyed, it was just blocked from retrieving what she already knew. Nurse Chapel was helping her with remembering what NOMAD had forced her to forget.
In the original script, and the James Blish novelization, it's specified that Nomad didn't erase Uhura's memories. Rather, it removed her ability to express herself, either by conventional speech or the "illogic" of music. So, it was possible to re-educate her in that respect.
Nomad vs. The Doomsday Machine. Evil little ashtray vs. the giant Bugle corn chip. Who would win?
The "my son, the doctor" bit is a reference to a Jewish cliche, which is funnier if you know that the actor playing Kirk (and the actor playing Spock) are Jewish
I get it.
After they met V'ger, the crew should have been "This is weird this has happened TWICE!"
At the time, one derisive nickname for that movie was "Where Nomad Has Gone Before."
Nomad self distrusted when they beamed it out into space, they didn’t blast it. This was why Spock congratulates him on a “fantastic display of logic “ LoL .
Wow, two reactions with a few days, nice Monday surprise. I prefer production order, but not upset either way, though your thinking is chaotic due to your mass of conflicting impulses. Ha, ironic that you made the switch with this episode....
Another great Kirk vs. the computer ending, always liked the "... you have made two errors line... by the way, Nomad did destroy itself.
There's a lot of similarities in the first Trek movie to this episode.
Bunny! Make yourself happy! This is your journey, not theirs. Be true to yourself.
"Trying to communicate with math?"
What, haven't you ever seen "Contact"? If you haven't, then you should absolutely watch it. It kinda blew my mind when I was growing up.
Not one, not two, but four guys wearing red shirts got iced by Nomad. I think it was this episode that set the Star Trek standard of don't wear a red shirt in front of hostile entities.
Certain episodes build off information from earlier episodes, but even then it doesn't really matter what order you watch them in -- serialized storytelling was extremely rudimentary in television shows until shows like Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, or L.A. Law in the '80s, and didn't really become the norm until Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the prestige shows of HBO or Showtime in the '90s. Even the "serialized" storytelling of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was primarily episodic. So don't fret it... just watch everything and react as you feel like watching and reacting. Don't listen to the gatekeepers.
Add 1 to the "kill a computer by confusing it" column.
Austin Powers and his MOJO 🤣😂
Nomad did blow itself up - Kirk convinced it that it was imperfect and so it got rid of the imperfect....
The parallels in story between this episode and Star Trek the motion picture are numerous. I do think that the motion picture did a better job refining the story.
It's essentially the same story. An early Earth probe is damaged, then repaired by an advanced race that changes its programming. The probe then returns to Earth, threatening destruction of the planet.
Try not to concern yourself with any complaints about the order you are watching Star Trek, Bunny.
As long as you are happy, then that's all that matters.
I believe the UK showed Star Trek in a random order ( apart from the two part The Menagerie ) and even banned certain episodes, so I wouldn't dream of complaining about how anyone watches Star Trek. :)
Wow! Short turn around! Any Bunny order is fine with me. I like this episode, but a lot of people don't. Spock praising Kirk's logic at the end was epic. I use the "Non Sequitur, your facts are uncoordinated." line from time to time. Doesn't Nomad's characterization of a woman offend women?
First of all, let me comment on your outfit. You look amazing.. Is it the clothing or the person wearing it?🤔. As far as the order of the episodes… watch them anyway you want. You’re the Captain of this journey and we are all onboard. It’s great to relive this series with ya! You also bring a few perspective to the show. Thanks!
I always grin that when Kirk told Nomad to drop his shields for Spock's examination, he essentially tells him to drop his pants, turn his head, and cough.
Clearly you have to do this in Stardate order. lol. It's all fine with me.
LOL Stardate order would be difficult to even guess. Stardates sometimes seem to run backward.
Don't worry about the complaints. These are episodic, very, very rarely affected by previous episodes. Your doing great. Keep exploring Trek 😊
Your not wrong, but watching the series in production order shows the crews production order. NBC never cared about trek then so they disrespect the series. Any one saying it doesn't matter never grew up with it to see the difference between network and proper order broadcasting. That's how they messed up with space 1999, NBC wanted to cancel star trek at the end of all three seasons. They didn't realize how good it was until it ran in order in syndication.
Spock said it was launched from Earth in the early 2000's. Wouldn't it be cool if SpaceX or NASA launched an exploratory probe called Nomad?
Now THAT is a very interesting idea.
Uhura was indeed adorable in this episode.
I remember seeing this episode and it was clarrified what happened to uhura, im wondering if this is an edited version.. IN a line by mccoy, uhura lost her english part of her memories.. not her swahili language memories..unless i am misremembering
There is a known horror movie called The Changeling (1980) starring George C. Scott.
Which is itself a classic and very influential!
Do not let these "fans" try to control you. You can watch them in any order that you want to. This is YOUR show!!!! They have already seen all of the episodes time and time and time again, so why should they care. Here's a nice little trivia bit... when the series was FINALLY released on home video on laserdisc, Beta tape, and VHS tape, it was released and numbered in production order, so us "old guys" remember that and prefer production order. But when Paramount re-released everything on DVD (and later Blu-Ray), it was released and numbered in airdate order. These releases are remembered more by a younger crowd that never bought the tapes. But really, it is just a matter of preference. There is no right or wrong way to do this... watch them as you wish. Heck, you can watch them in reverse if you want... start with the last episode of season 3 and work your way backwards. That will make their heads explode!!!!!
Re-watching the series with you has really gotten into my head. I recently had a medical procedure, during which I was sedated. When finished, they woke me up from a dream. A Star Trek dream! I don't think I've ever had a Star Trek dream. I was a starship captain and we were under attack. I thanked the staff for waking me up. They may have saved my life.
BTW, "Non-sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated," is one of my favorite quotes. There are frequent opportunities to utilize it. I also like to say "Error?! Error?!" in my helium voice.
I’m surprised no one’s trying to get you to watch in Stardate order..😂
Please don't give them any ideas 😄
Man nerds can get entitled sometimes lol. Don't let the whining get to you, you're doing great.
Don't let the nattering nabobs of negativity get to you. Your reactions are intelligent, perceptive, and entertaining. Watch the shows in whatever damn order you want. :)
Anyone getting angry with you for how you run your channel isn't worthy of your attention.
Yes, Nomad ultimately destroyed itself. I think my favorite line in this is from Spok: "Your logic is impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger." LOL If memory serves, James Doohan ("Scott") also provided the voice for Nomad.
I don’t understand why people have gotten upset. This series was episodic, so you could watch an episode and it would be self-contained. The story arc was not introduced until Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9). You keep doing you.🖖🏻
I was one of the ones who mentioned the watch order previously leading to this but it wasn’t that I was upset. Other people had asked her to watch Season 1 in production order, and there are some advantages of that in the early episodes. But I think those people made her think production order was the best throughout. But Particularly if you are watching a blu ray box set and have to swap out discs constantly to watch in production order, I just wanted her to know that it wasn’t really necessary and that she could watch in whatever order was easiest.
Maybe Nomad could aim its antenna thingie at the inside of the Doomsday Machine and blast it before the giant Bugle chip could eat it.
I'm one of the people who pushed you to watch the show in production order, and I think I said something like "at least for the first season", but I didn't warn against doing future seasons the same way (because I honestly don't know that it matters), so you can lay any blame at my feet. Regardless, you can't be expected to act according to things you don't know about. I'd say just stick with the method you've already started using for the season, but I guess you're switching gears, and that's honestly okay too. At the beginning of first season, the show is still developing and figuring out what it is. By the time you've gotten to season two, that's no longer really the case, and the episodes are otherwise fairly self-contained, so... whatever. Don't stress out about it. Even if production order was definitely the way to approach season two, you'd still have people denouncing it, and others just being confused.
I think that Kirk was starting to come up short on security men in this episode. 😂
I think it was important to view the first season in production order, which was done, to see how the basic premise of the show (an exploratory spacecraft with a large crew) and the main characters developed. After that, things are more stabilized, and the episodes can be taken individually. One new recurring character is introduced in Pavel Chekhov, the impulsive young Russian. The governing authorities are fixed at Starfleet Command and the United Federation of Planets. And certain recurring plot devices--the Enterprise in the clutches of a superior being, the "he's dead, but not really" convention, Kirk falling for babes, etc., are used again and again.
Bunny. You are doing just fine; I enjoy your reactions.
You can't please everyone, somebody always has a
gripe about the smallest insignificant stuff. I watched
these when they aired. Keep doing what you are doing.
See you next video. Take care and stay confident. Bye. 😄✌🖖
You would think Starfleet would add two things to a space vessel - seat belts and circuit breakers. But credit where its due, they did secure the chairs to the deck so the chairs don't get hurt.
"my son...the doctor" ...the delivery ALWAYS makes me laugh :)
The episode featured a galactic power called The Other with an emissary that scouts planets. Kind of reminds me of Galactus and the Silver Surfer.
I like the shots of Nomad moving, as you commented. The angle of the camera made it look better, given the limited options available given sixties tv special effects, than just a medium shot would.
The mind meld was fun. Spock confirmed Kirk's impression that Nomad is "space happy", after Spock saw how badly damaged Nomad's circuits was.
Love the lighting and how it accents the colors in your studio 0:02 . Looking forward to seeing your next reacts episode. An attractive photo of Uhura for the title. I think Nichelle Nicoles used every second of screen time to stand out and in this episode she looks fantastic.
Oy. People who complain about free RUclips content suck.
Kirk outtalks another computer.
And they could have simply not re-materialized Nomad with the transporter.
I don't know if anyone paid attention, but Uhura is singing the same song that she sung to Lt. O'Reilly in "The Conscience of the King." Also, most shows aired on television based upon how quick the post-production of an episode was, if an episode had some controversial content for the networks to hold back until a later airing or if the networks simply decided which episode was best for airing, particularly during certain holidays or special events. When these shows entered into syndication (usually after either their network run ended or they reached the magic number of episodes to go into syndication), they were aired in production order, and Star Trek: The Original Series was no different. They were even put on VHS in production order. This changed sometime in the 1990's, and now most shows air in syndication (or basic cable stations) in airdate order, and are release on DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming services that way. Saved By The Bell is one of the few shows that still air in production order, more or less. My point is: you continue to watch Star Trek: The Original Series the order that you want to watch and show them on both Patreon and RUclips, and if anyone has an issue with it, the tough.
I saw Star Trek through the 70s and 80s in reruns and no station I saw ever aired them in any order at all. You'd get a first season episode followed by a third season episode, back to a first season, then a couple second season episodes, and on and on. It took forever for me to see all the episodes. The last one was a third season episode which I don't want to name because Bunny asked us not to mention any episodes she hasn't reviewed yet, but it opens with a medical log.
You're dead wrong about the syndication order, and for a reason that, once you understand it, will seem obvious to everyone, but isn't to those who grew up in the "digital age."
Syndication involved shipping reels of film to the local television stations. After airing them, the film reels were repackaged and shipped back to the syndicator. And they'd then get shipped to another station.
So, depending on how many total sets of the series the syndicator gad in their inventory, no two stations might be airing the same episode at the same time, and certainly, no two stations ever had the exact same viewing order. The reels making up a series were all out at different stations, all at once.
Once TV stations started transitioning to video tape, the media changed but nit the process. And even then, video tape always looked worse than film did. So, until higher definition video formats hit, film remained the standard. Almost everything aired until the mid-to-late 1980s was on film. But by the mid-late 1990s, it was all being delivered digitally. First on tape, but not "video tape," and later, as streamed downloaded digital files stored on local drives.
But when Trek went into syndication, it was 100% "film reels."
I’m afraid because it’s Star Trek, you’re not going to make everybody happy… while we have a collective love of Star Trek in general, there are some heated debates that have been going on since it became a cult classic. So it goes.
Commenters should seriously STOP mentioning how an episode relates to or impacts future episodes or movies!!!! Bunny made it this far in life without help....I'm sure she'll do fine.
I already gave up. You're shouting into the void, sadly. 😔
@@bunnytailsREACTS - OK, got it. Keep up the great, insightful...and FUN work!, of course!
Scotty still hasn't learned his lesson about rushing into situations and getting "zapped" for it. We're barely into season 2 and already he's been zapped by both Apollo AND Nomad.
A new reaction on a Monday? That's awesome! 🥳
If I can give you one advice: Better redo your opening monologue before you go for 3-4 cuts in the first 15 seconds, which is super distracting 😅 Or use a script which I think is what a lot of people on YT do. You could use Google Docs voice typing while recording your opening and when you're happy with it, record a second cleaner version with help of the script you recorded. I know it's extra work, but I think it'd be worth it.
The idea of "education tapes" for fast education was very popular in the '60s. Secretary of Defense McNamara claimed he could use educational tapes to educate the mentally deficient and with this excuse he began drafting all those rejected for service due to mental problems... and then sending them straight to the Vietnam front with no additional training where they died in horrific numbers. Yet another dark chapter of eugenics in US history.
Check out the history of McNamara's Morons. Not a nice name, but that's what they became known as. There are a few good videos on RUclips about it.
His theory was that low scores on aptitude tests could be overcome with training. Unfortunately there wasn't follow through of that training. Also, people who simply lacking in intelligence were assumed to just need experience. There tends to be a brutal learning curve in a combat zone.
This isn't to excuse what the program did. Almost anyone with experience in military training would have known it would end in disaster.
I didn't know that. Thank you for the information. I will definitely look into that.
@@christopherconard2831 McNamara was famous for bad ideas.
It helps to have a relative order to watch, but this, like most shows were not written in a serial fashion so you could drop in anywhere. Some reactors only watch a select few episodes from each season, so what's the difference? I didn't see them in their original air dates, and we didn't have the ability to do anything but see them when we could.....no DVR, or even a VCR, so don't sweat it. Nomad self-destructed.
You haven't done anything wrong, and it is literally impossible to please everybody. The internet's gonna internet, no matter what you do. Please don't take anything personally. You do you. You're doing great.
I think you're presenting Star Trek TOS just fine. Fyi I had you on my Yamaha surround sound system and there is a low frequency audible hum that is noticeable. I know you said you changed cameras. Sometimes is different with audio too. Thanks for the reactions. Keep up the good work and live long and prosper.🖖
You've done nothing wrong. You can factually watch them in any order: is just that watching them in production order gives some better context into things like Spock's character development. (Or obscure things, like Kirk's decision in _Balance of Terror_ setting up the moral conflict in _Arena_ )
Don't get into that headspace where you're 'wrong' for not pleasing random people on the Internet.
Nomad is a kin to Veger from Star Trek the motion picture 😂🤣
For more on V'ger, you should read the Star Trek novel "The Return", it has a surprising revelation about V'ger.
I'm a life-long Star Trek fan. My parents told me I was watching Star Trek TOS before I could talk. Let me be absolutely clear: the order in which you watch the episodes makes NO difference. Maybe not mix and match episodes from different seasons...but even then, it's not that big a deal. Anyone who insists otherwise is just being a jerk because you're not watching them in the order that they would. Star Trek TOS was intentionally written to be episodic, not serial. There are no story arcs to follow, and therefore you can't miss anything by skipping around.
Wake up, honey, another Bunnytail Star trek vid dropped.
I'm only interested in your watch order in that I might anticipate what you're watching next, and to avoid spoilers. It's your channel; we're just along for the ride.
He talked it into self-destruction. You saw fine examples of two Star Trek tropes in this episode - Kirk can talk any computer into suicide, and redshirts are expendable cannon fodder, handy in any episode where someone needs to die to jack up the dramatic tension.