Well 'fair' meant 'light skinned' and 'maiden' meant 'damsel in distress'. At least that's how Uhura heard it. And it's clear in her mind that she is not Not Fair and Not a Maiden in distress hence her proclamation "Sorry, neither..." Great line Remember she is from the future United States of 'Africa' and her first language is Swahili. You can hear her inflection every so often. It's very clear when she complains after her panel shorts out in Charlie X.
@@dq405 god I can't believe I forgot virginal was also implied when using the term 'maiden'. I don't think Uhura was was saying she's not a virgin...she's saying she's a strong independent woman who don't need no man.😉
@@LesterManley-s9n Generational difference. For me, "fair" never had anything to do with her skin tone but "fair" could mean a "gentle", "soft". Like she wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, or to play rough. Those of us who grew up in the 80s weren't as obsessed with race as younger generations. Disappointing how we've regressed.
Without Joey's incompetence with his hazmat glove, events wouldn't have lead to them creating a time warp. It'd still be just theoretical. Thanks Joey!
@@photonicus dude, the isolation suit lacks one very important feature -isolation. Okay he takes off his glove but the hood is loose where he could inhale all kinds of airborne particles. Also no air supply it seems. The writers of Prometheus must have been fans of this episode.
Those bio hazard suits were actually made out of shower curtains. I saw them on display back in the day at the star trek expo in Washington DC at the National Air & Space Museum where the original enterprise model was and is still displayed....
I love seeing the classic Desilu Productions logo, at the end of Classic Star Trek episodes. Desilu was the production company set up by actress Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. In fact, it was Lucille Ball who overruled the board of her own production company ( when they decided NOT to greenlight Star Trek after the first pilot ) and invested her own money into the second pilot for Classic Star Trek, to ensure its success.
The phaser cutting the wall was meant to have a phaser beam effect added, but they ran out of time. It's the sort of thing the new CGI effects fix (just sayin').
The original airing of the series was in regular production time slots, which occurred in the evenings. When people say they went home from school to watch, they are referring to syndicated reruns which would have started apparently in '69. Star Trek had a following during the original run, but it really became hugely popular in America as well as England in syndication.
A couple comments on what you said at the end: Spock was intended very nearly from inception to be half human, so that was not a retcon. By the time Leonard Nimoy was contacted and Roddenberry was trying to convince him to take the part, a big selling point for Nimoy was the half human element of the character. Spock's "one of my ancestor's married an earth female" line from Where No Man Has Gone Before was him being so annoyed that he's distancing himself from the more "emotional" side of his genetic makeup. The Naked Time was originally intended to be a two-part episode, and the time travel was going to lead in to what was intended to be the next part. That particular element was scrapped, but they kept the time travel element at the end anyway. Now to fun episode trivia: This is the favorite episode of George Takei (Sulu) and one of the favorite episodes of Leonard Nimoy, for fairly obvious reasons. The original concept was for Sulu to be running up and down hallways with a Samurai sword, but Takei said that he grew up reading Robin Hood and obsessed with Errol Flynn, so why would an Asian man 200 years in the future be obsessed with something even he doesn't particularly care for. They asked if he could fence, and Takei said that of course he could! It's his favorite hobby! Totally knows all of the ins and outs of fencing... before immediately turning around and booking a class for that weekend because he knew nothing about it. And thus, one of Sulu's most iconic moments was born. The scene with Spock was originally extremely different. The original concept was that the crewman painting on the walls was going to run up to Spock, paint a mustache on his face, and then run off again. Spock would then burst into tears and continue down the hallway sobbing. Nimoy got the script and while he thought the scene was very funny and inventive, he felt that a lot more could be done with the character. So he approached John D. F. Black (who wrote the episode) and Black basically told him to just do what was written. So Nimoy, who felt extremely strongly about this, went to Roddenberry and pitched his idea. Roddenberry then interceded and asked Black to hear Nimoy out, which Black did. Nimoy said that the scene should be an exploration of his human and Vulcan halves - logic vs emotion, love vs pi r squared. Black listened, and turned around and wrote the beautiful scene we ended up getting. When it came time to shoot the scene Marc Daniels basically gave the camera to Nimoy and said "this is your scene. How do you want it done?" Now the typical way to shoot a scene like this would be a wide shot when Spock enters the room, a closeup as he walks over to the table, and then a medium shot as he sits down and cries. It's very simple, very easy to light, and very fast to shoot. But Nimoy felt that would chop the entire scene up and destroy what made it special. So he said that the camera should start on a wide shot, and then move closer and closer in to Spock as he loses more and more control, which is what we got. The problem occurred just before they were to shoot the scene. See the scene as Nimoy wanted it called for an extremely complicated lighting setup as well as a fairly complicated camera setup, and they were running out of time. TPTB came in and were arguing for the "chopped up" version of the scene because that would allow them to do multiple takes. In the end, Nimoy got his way, and he had to perform that scene perfectly on the first try because there was not going to be a second take, and he knocked it out of the park. Up to that point, he'd been getting "standard" amounts of fanmail for a regular on a TV show. When that episode aired, the fanmail started coming by the truckload. And that's also when TPTB, who originally were very against the idea of having Spock on the show (they worried he was "too satanic" and that nobody would identify with such an alien character) changed their tune about Spock and started asking for him to have more screentime, not less. This episode also really showcases Kirk's lifelong character arc of only being able to be happy on his ship, but also how much of a burden that is for him. He loves his ship more than he loves just about anything else in the universe, but he is intently aware of what that love asks of him. She is his iron mistress - never permitting him love or a family, always demanding that he sacrifice those things for her sake. And yet he loves her and will willingly put aside his own desires, his own heartbreak, his own happiness if it means he gets to be sitting in that center chair looking forward into the stars. Also Christine Chapel (the nurse who is in love with Spock) is played by Majel Barrett (later Barrett-Roddenberry) who is lovingly referred to as the First Lady of Star Trek. She plays more characters in Star Trek than any other woman, and has been in more episodes than any other person in the history of the show.
When George Takei scheduled his fencing lesson, it was by coincidence with Ralph Faulkner, who was Errol Flynn's fencing coach and stunt double for "The Adventures of Robin Hood". Training with the teacher of his childhood idol was a big deal for him.
Nice review Miranda. A little Trivia for you... the guy who played Riley, Taught Theater at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Thanks for viewing these with the original special effects. They hold up fine and don't look as fakey as the newer effects that were redone. This is a really good early episode. It does an excellent job of establishing characters. I enjoy your reviews.
Stuff like the original Doomsday Machine. The original to me looks so much more terrifying than the re-mastered one.....Can't wait till she gets to that one in season 2!
Fun fact, (and only a little spoiler.): as originally conceived, this episode was supposed to lead into the later this season episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". During production, they changed it. Also, the title refers to stripping the characters naked, seeing who they really are. Though I have few memories of it, I did get to see this when it first aired. I was very young, but I was allowed to stay up late to see it. As I got older, yes indeed, I ran home from school every day to catch the reruns.
@@craigfuller1532 when I was a kid and had quite a bit of growing up to do....get this... I thought kirk's " No beach to walk on..." Meant Earth's surface in the 23rd century was devoid of Beaches.😆😆😆😆
One more. In season 2's Bread and Circuses apon hearing Kirk mention Merik, Flavious reacts with "Merikus....Merikus is first citizen....butcher.." As a kid I thought this meant he ran a very successful Butcher Shop and on this planet that was a much envied position. Ah....to be 7 years old...
@@craigfuller1532 I'm sure they existed. Just very overcrowded. Do they sleep standing up. What about Waste Management? No privacy when scr**ing? The more you look at Mark of Geddion the less sense it makes.
It's OK. Redskirts had a much better survival rate than redshirts -- and somebody sat down and did the math and figured out that redshirts didn't do as bad at it seems, either.
At 13:04 Sulu threatens two crewmen. The one on the left in the red shirt was in many episodes but never had a line, wasn't in SAG, and never had credit. He wasn't identified for forty years and we still aren't sure who he was.
The prop that Spock was using at 17:38 was an actual device; a circular slide rule. Slide rules were still commonly used up till about this time. Circular ones were less common.Circular flight computer slide rules that looked like what Spock held were still in use until relatively recently. I couldn't see it clearly, but the prop was likely one of these.
Star Trek 3 was actually my entry to the franchise in the early 90s. I was young enough that I didn’t think TV could be turned into films. I actually remember when I found out the show existed. A creative nuke went off in my mind as I now knew there were several more hours of stories with these characters I had yet to see. G4 started airing the show and I saw it for the first time through basic cable.
You do a great Spock eyebrow raise!! It's nice to find a smart and articulate reactor! I look forward to watching more of your videos. When I was a kid, my sister and I had seen the episodes so many times we used to compete to see who could identify each episode the quickest. Like name that tune. I could usually do it in like the first second when it came on. You're noticing things on your first watch that I never did! Although, to be fair, I was just a kid and you're a savvy filmmaker 😃
The new nurse is Majel Barrett, she also voiced the ship's computer in the original series and through the 2009 reboot, computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. Barrett was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. And if that's not enough of a resume to impress you, she played other roles in the franchise, including first officer in the original pilot and and Lwaxana Troi in TNG
Yes, but how did she get all those opportunities? She started out as Gene Roddenberry's mistress. She got the role of Number One on the original pilot because of that relationship, not because she auditioned and won the part. The studio didn't like her characer, knew she was Roddenberry's mistress, and wanted her out for the second pilot. They also thought Spock was too Satanic-looking and wanted him gone too. Roddenberry knew he could only fight for one, and knew he needed Spock, so Majel did not return. But by the time the series hit the air Roddenberry had her dye her hair blonde and gave her the role of nurse Chapel (along with the computer voice), as if the network and studio brass wouldn't notice. Well after the show had been on the air Roddenberry left his wife and the two were indeed married. He continued to put her in the Sar Trek sequels. I have nothing against Ms. Barrett, and I liked her characters on the various shows. But it was her illicit dalliance with Roddenberry that go her on the show and gave her all those opportunities. Not exactly a "resume that impresses" me.
The 1st season was 1966 and as a 12 year old I was allowed to go the once a week to Mrs. Dools house and watch Star Trek on her color TV sitting on her leather recliner from 8:30 to 9:30. She would leave the room and I had the Star Trek world to my self. With much love RIP Mrs. Dool.
True story. I was in line for a Co Vid test in 2020. The pharmacy tech was in full scrubs, gloves, mask and face shield. As I waited my turn she reached under her face shield to scratch her nose and this episode immediately came to mind. This episode gives us a quick introduction to a couple of characters. We get insight into Joe and Kevin Riley. Not much, but enough to give us a sense of them. This is what I meant last week about how good Star Trek is at introducing characters. I like that the time travel isn't a reset button. The crew remember what has happened and will have to live with their inner selves being exposed. Also Joe Tormolen is still dead in the end. Lesser shows would have reset to the beginning with only a vague sense of what's going to happen next and avoid the contamination in the first place.
According to the show, "warp speed" is where the engine actually warps space and moves space past the ship. Each warp factor is several times faster than the speed of light. Most of us just have to accept the inconsistency and enjoy the idea. Watching it from the perspective of the era it was first aired, easy for me as I watched it from the first airing.
Another fun analyses of the show. It’s cool to see you picking up all the cool things we all know about the show. This was a favorite episode amongst many of the cast because it explored the characters. The later Next Generation Trek had a semi sequel episode called the Naked Now which had even riskier things happen to the crew after they get infected with the same disease.
I just love how Sulu, portrayed by a Japanese American actor, takes on a French musketeer persona, but dons a British accent. (It almost makes as much sense as J.L.P.'s accent.)
Picard's accent makes perfect sense. France and England are neighboring countries. If you learn English in France, you're going to learn it the English way. And the "prefect" accent would be the English accent. No different from if you're going to learn Spanish in the United States, you're going to learn to speak it with a Mexican accent, not a Spanish accent.
The story goes (I think) that Sulu was originally going to use a katana sword, but George Takei didn't want to use it. Not because of stereotypes, but because when George Takei was a boy, he was a fan of Errol Flynn films and wanted to play the swashbuckler, so it made sense to him to use a rapier.
Great reaction Miranda! I was one of those kids that made Star Trek such a huge phenomenon in the early seventies. I went home from school and at 5 or 6 pm it would run on local TV. we did not yet have cable tv either. We had a directional tv aerial which was mounted on top of our house. It was BIG! About seven feet long and it was connected to an electric motor so the aerial could be rotated to point in the direction of the city you were trying to receive. Very analog! Star Trek was a huge part of my childhood and when rumors began to circulate about a new tv series we were excited at the prospect. I read tv mags and the entertainment news to hear about what was happening. I am a subscriber to your channel and look forward to more. Live long and prosper! 🖖🏻
I think you're right. The title must be a combination of the phrase "The Naked Truth", because in their impaired state, the truth comes out, and the "time crunch" they are under as a direct result of the cause of their "Naked Truth". I'm so glad you're choosing to watch this in original air date order and with the original special effects. You really are experiencing this like we did. As you mentioned that many have already told you, I too saw the show in reruns growing up as an elementary school kid in the 70s and just DRANK this whole show IN with utter fascination. It really captured our imaginations back then and introduced us to SO many real-life scientific concepts. FUN Fact: The producers were contacted by department store owners who wanted the automatic door openers used on the show for their stores. Upon being told it was just stagehands behind the scenes pulling the door open with ropes, the owners decided to work on TRUE automatic doors and that's why we have them today. The first ones from the late 60s (I recall them from the 70s at like K-Mart and such) used rubber pressure-sensitive pads that when you stepped on them, the doors opened. This quickly was replaced by the infrared beams still in use today.
I imagine the "Naked" of the title was for stripping the character's personae bare. And the "traveled back in time" was intended to lead into a loose part 2 that wasn't ready to be shot, that became the episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday." The spoiler-light explanation is that they were intended to travel back more than three days. 😉
I too like that Miranda is watching the episodes in air date order, but I have mixed feelings about her watching with the original special effects. You say that she's experiencing the show "like we did", but I think there's a case to be made for that not being true. Given that the original special effects seemed state-of-the-futurististic-art to us at the time, and that there's no way it can seem that way to her in this day and age, I think she's experiencing it "as we did" only in the most literalistic sense. In terms of her more current sensibilities, one could argue that she's NOT experiencing it the way we did. Which is why I think watching the remastered version serves as a very useful compensation that actually enables a person of the current generation to be impressed in the same way we were back in the late 60's. IMHO.
@@brianmulholland1474 I like the remastered versions. It's fun to see how it can be improved, but some of the new stuff isn't quite as good. The Doomsday Machine for one doesn't look as menacing. There are other examples too. But also, to me, the original effects quite often didn't look state of the art when I first saw them and I thought they could have looked better, even as a child, before Star Wars. And sometimes, in the remastered ones, Enterprise looks too skinny and occasionally ... a little flat where you can tell it's not really physical. So, it's good that she can experience what we had to work with back then, especially with her background in film.
I didn't have to rush home. When I was growing up in Northern New Jersey (not far from DC Fontana's home town) STAR TREK was being shown every weeknight on WPIX channel 11 from 6-7. Little did I know the ratings it was getting in the NYC area helped the studio to decide to make the movies.
"Fascinating. A pattern is developing". One of my favorite Spock lines! 😂 also the " Jefferies tube," that Scotty was in ,also known as a service crawlway or service duct was a type of access tunnel or internal maintenance conduit that was used to provide crew access to various ship's systems. It was named after the legendary Matt Jefferies who was chief set designer for the series....You will be in it and see it's entrance point in the corridors many times in future episodes.
Great reaction today! You are correct. It is a combination of refering to breaking the time barrier and a play on the phrase, the naked truth. Iook forward to your future reactions! ❤
The Naked Time refers to people showing their unguarded feelings and emotions. The reason Spock and to some degree Kirk were able to pull out of the effects is because they helped each other overcome their emotions in the conference room. Kirk giving Spock the intermix problem to solve helped him focus his mind.
The relationship between Captain Kirk and Yeoman Rand was very professional and progressive for its time. Captain Kirk never used his position and the power dynamic to harass or exploit women crew members on the ship. In addition, I'm certain that workplace harassment would not be permissible by Starfleet ethics and code of conduct, even in 1966.
@@Auria51 Undoubtedly sexual harassment in the workplace has always been endemic and even countenanced in the workplace and more blatant in past, so much so the behavior would subtly bleed into the literature and art as all culture does. However, Star Trek was created by Roddenberry to represent a possible future where not only technology had progressed immensely, but human behavior, morals, and ethics as well.
@@David-l6c3w Like all art it's a product of its time. Look at Forbidden Planet(1956) Morbius totally tolerated all the males constantly hitting up on his daughter, Altera. It's the only thing that dates the other wise classic sci-fi movie. It would have been better if a younger less experienced officer struck up a friendship, to put it kindly, with the daughter. but the captain, come on. Still Forbidden Planet rocks. Also had a Robot so cool they included him in the opening credits. Robby hasn't aged a day in all these years. He still looks good but then again he's a Robot. Gotta total react to FP. Asap so you can see how it influenced Star Trek almost 10 years later... Who seconds the motion?
@@LesterManley-s9n Forbidden Planet is a favorite of mine and required viewing for all Sci-Fi folks. But YES I always cringe at those scenes between Altera and the crew, which are very chauvinistic, sexist, and borderline misogynistic, and YES show how the culture of the time can reflect itself in the art, literature and movies, even if they're supposed be taking place in the far future.
Costume department used shower curtains to make several outfits on the show. Some of the ladie's costumes were clearly shower curtains held together with hot glue.
"I'll protect you, fair maiden!" "Sorry, neither!" That response was an ad-lib from Nichelle Nichols. And yes, warp speed is faster than light speed. Only way to get to other solar systems. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before" when the warp engines got knocked out Kirk commented that places that had only been days away would take years to reach under impulse power.
It wouldn’t be a matter of traveling faster than light to cause them to time travel backwards. The engines are warping the fabric of spacetime. It would be fun to figure out what the solution actually was. Kirk mentions a “controlled implosion” related to mixing matter and antimatter. Real science has observed that mixing these two violently will generate high energy photons. The engines apply this energy to warping spacetime. Spock refers to a theoretical relationship between time and antimatter. There actually is one. Someone proposed decades ago that matter is actually antimatter in reverse time flow, as I recall. Antimatter is actually going backwards in time.
28:30 A quick breakdown of Warp Factors- Warp (Factor) One- the speed of light Warp Two- 8 times the speed of light Warp Three- 27 times the speed of light -- Warp Eight- 512 times the speed of light Now, Warp Speeds in the Original Series were a bit all over the place going as high as Warp 15 (or Warp 36 in the Animated Series). It wasn't until the Star Trek: The Next Generation reset the Warp Factor chart from 1 to 10 with 10 being completely unattainable. So the highest you could travel is Warp 9.999999 etc but at 10 you would be moving so infinitely fast you would occupy all points in the Universe simultaneously.
Also, full impulse power is equal to 1/4 light speed according to the Voyager tech manual. On TOS the maximum safe speed was Warp Six. They could go faster than that (up to Warp 8) but it was increasingly dangerous the faster they went
Our first episode penned by the legendary Dorothy Fontana (credited under her pen name DC Fontana). She's also the story editor of the first two seasons. Definitely one of the shows key creative forces. And keep this ending in mind....we'll come back to it later 😊
I'm so sorry I stand corrected, her first story was Charlie X (don't know why I thought it was this one ...bad trekkie). The writer her is John D. F. Black. They both did write for this and The Next Generation series though.
13:15: For this episode, they asked George Takei if he wanted a rapier or katana for the sword interest. He picked the rapier, to be less stereotypical. 17:16: "Ooh, what part of the ship are you in?" They're called Jeffries Tubes, in honor of production designer on TOS Matt Jeffries. Your basic air duct/engineering crawlspace/maintenance access. They became increasingly prominent in later shows, with larger set budgets, as places for the main characters to crawl around in when they needed to get places and not use the corridors. Here, they're mostly to show things are really bad because Scotty actually needs to get into the guts of _Enterprise_ to get at the problem. 22:00: This is SUCH a powerful scene from Leonard Nimoy. Just. . . there are no words. Brilliant doesn't even cover it. 26:57: "They must have loved tearing open those velour shirts." Not really. Just that the budget was so low the costumes were made so flimsily they were really easy to tear. It's become a meme that Kirk's shirt is lost or damaged nearly every episode. 28:31: The warp drive is one of the hypothetical principles that might get around that pesky general relativity that makes traveling faster than the speed of light impossible. You don't actually travel faster than the speed of light, but instead bend the fabric of space-time in front of you, compressing it, so you're traveling a shorter distance. That takes an insane amount of power, hence using matter-antimatter reactions to fuel the ship. 33:30: Well, this was well before continuity in TV shows was a thing. They weren't really picturing setting anything up to pay off later, because there was no way to know if someone catching one episode would be watching another. But don't worry. . . Star Trek becomes positively littered with time travel in short order. Four time travel episodes in TOS alone, I believe, not counting this one.
1970's, Montreal, Sunday morning at 10, right after a televised sermon that we often caught the tail end of just to make sure that we didn't miss it. It was in syndication for years in that lovely time slot.
I have always thought that the title referred to a time when the characters were psychologically naked. "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has a take-off of this episode called "The Naked Now."
Sulu gets to freak out, which he did several times during the series. Other crew members later went over the handlebars, as well. It was standard for the series.
The area of the ship Scotty was in is called The Jeffries Tube, named for the lead Set/Prop Designer, Matt Jeffries. ST:TOS was probably the first TV series that eventually developed a "Writer's Bible" that described the available technology, the characters and their backgrounds, etc. This episode was still early before a lot of that was developed.
I was always glued to the TV when Star Trek came on, which was (I think) Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM for the first season. The second season was at 8:30, and the third got switched to Friday nights at 10, so I then had to do battle with my parents to be allowed to stay up late enough to watch the show!
I heard the network moved Star Trek to a better time slot for summer re-runs after All our yesterdays and the ratings did improve but NBC had already decided to cancel the show.
The way warp drive works is that the matter or space between the point of origin and the destination is compressed (or warped) shortening the distance thereby not having to worry about time slowing down by traveling faster than the speed of light.
PS: FUN FACT: This story was originally written as a two part episode, with the cliffhanger being the Enterprise being flung into the 20th century. The network objected to the idea of a two part episode at the time (That attitude against two part episodes would change later on in the season, with THE MENAGERIE.), so the two-parter would be wewritten as two stand-alone episodes. (The original conclusion was later produced as the episode TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY.) Eagerly awaiting your next episode reaction! ❤
Being a huge fan of Star Trek, I've been enjoying your reactions tremendously so first and foremost Thank you for that. In my opinion, Gene Roddenberry used the same formula in the series he would later use in the movies, that being grab the audience first with special effects, then with a combination of special effects and character growth, finally ending with a lot of character growth. Again thank you and have fun.
Spock as a Vulcan is far more mentally disciplined, that why he was able to combat the effects of it quicker than others, after being prompted by Kirk's goading.
Enjoy your reactions, funny and aware yet treating it with the joy they were at the time. I think if you are looking for a movie - "The Forbidden Planet" would be a good one for you to react to as it has for it's time ground breaking sci-fi in story and effects.
I grew up in the 80s, and first watched this show in about 1990 when i was 10. I watched with m mum, she had loved it since she was a kid. During that run in the UK this was on at 6pm on a Wednesday, so after my Australian soaps had ended (Home And Away and Neighbours), and before the British one that day (Coronation Street).
The problems poor Grace Lee Whitney went through almost bring me to tears but in the end lived a very long life. Here's a kicker. For the longest time I thought Rand was WAY younger then Kirk but in reality they were both roughly the same age at the time. Mid 30s.
@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm Yes, I thought they were very close in age. But It's a good example of the difference between the character and the age of the actors. Walter Keonig (Chekov) is another example. Brought in to attract the younger audience and in real life he's only several years younger then Shatner.
Fun episode. Sulu's reaction is my favorite. I think I can recall 5 or 6 people Kirk has slapped throughout the series, including himself. But I wish they spent more on the set and props. They repeat the theme in Next Generation.
The possible time travel at the end left them with a choice if they wanted to include time travel in a future episode. Kirk and Janice were a will they/won't they thing briefly. The behind the scenes story of all the challenges Grace faced while she was on her is a pretty sad tale.
This and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" were origially going to be a 2 part episode, however Roddenberry didn't really like 2 parters so they (D.C Fontana) figured out a different way to time travel in that one.
Star Trek: The Next Generation made a (kind of) sequel to this where the Enterprise D crew gets infected. Was called "The Naked Now," where we get to learn something interesting about Data.
@@MirandaLikestoWatch Unless you've forgotten about this episode by then, there's no chance you won't recognize it. "The Naked Now" is a carbon copy of this episode with the TNG cast slotted in.
Well, not a carbon copy exactly. It is a bit watered down in TNG as there is no Joe Tormolen character. Miranda do you even know what carbon copy means?
It's amazing that even now, 60 years later, we are still watching these shows because the writing, acting and music is so good. The sets, props, and costumes may look cheap and a bit silly at times, but the stories are timeless, and the actors SELL IT. The sets don't matter if the actors make you believe it's real.
Hi Miranda I just wanted to say I enjoy watching your commentary on Star Trek the original series. I’m very big fan of the original series. And Mr Spock is my favorite character. And The Naked Time is one of my favorite episodes. And also have few favorite Mr. Spock episodes I like from TOS. I enjoy watching your commentary on Star Trek I look forward to seeing more of thanks for sharing 🖖🏻.
Great reaction I think the episodes called that because they’re their mental shield are stripped away all their fades that they have during every day with their military precision and their training. It’s all ripped away from them from the sickness and their inner dogs come through then they’re naked to the world you know who they are in real life inside And it’s very painful for Vulcans to feel emotions. They suppress them. They still have them, but they suppress them with mental shield, but with an illness, he can’t control. He feels more than any other because he’s the first Volcan hybrid ever I won’t spoil anything for you you’ve done a great job. Thanks for the fun until next time
The time travel part dos feel tacked on, and that's because this was supposed to be a 2 part episode that was later separated into distinct episodes... you'll know the second one when you see it because of the way it begins. One of my favorite TOS stories involves this episode... because of budget/time constraints the Spock soliloquy scene was cut from the filming schedule, but Nimoy fought hard to get it put back and only won after he agreed to do the whole thing in one take. So the final product you see was his one and only chance to get it right.
In addition to the acting, the camera work was unusually tricky. The camera changes location, and it pans through about 270 degrees, and it closes in on Spock.
Loving your reaction vids to the all time greatest sci fi milestone, Miranda! Regarding the Time Travel tag at the end, I agree it was a tremendous game changer for man but it was at the cost of a quite an extraordinary risk and a heavy event that they went through to arrive to that discovery. I think part of that scene's message is commenting on how some of man's discoveries are through taking forced risks and accidentally just discovering something, and other times it's survival or necessity that is the mother of invention. So that option of Time travel IS indeed again relied on when you get to the movies (and if I'm not mistaken one or two times more in this show) but it's not an everyday thing like a car wash, it's more of a thing that they CAN do but it's a super risk, kinda like every time we nowadays would try to go to the moon, we're always nervous about it because it could go wrong. @21:28 your reaction here was kind of hilarious to me, cuz I agree that dude is messin with the ship and Kirk looked like he was walkin with purpose; the purpose of clockin Riley to the moon lol. I recall when I was a kid and I first saw that scene of Spock breaking down that I was slightly disappointed in Spock and cringed a lot yet at the same time I was also impressed by Nimoy's acting performance. For me, he was a strong hero and hero's rarely show such "weak" form, but it's cool. Works excellent for the story. Thnx for being a pretty girl who is digging Star Trek, looking forward to more!
12:00 Saw this episode when it aired on tv, I was around 7yrs old. My mom n dad loved this kind of entertainment so they always made sure we all watched. This episode I think spawned a little known movie back in 1984 called "Impulse". A small little town started having folks act out on their first thoughts instead of reasoning first off. Thanks to an earthquake that leaked chemicals into the water/well system effecting even cows milk. People were doing crazy things.
These reactions are fun. Interesting that Miranda knows the word "Starfleet" (31:25 mark) when it won't be used for the first time until much later in Season 1. That's why I enjoy watching in production order. It's interesting to see how the series evolved.
Good observation. In cutting into the wall to the control room, the post-production people forgot to put in the ray from the phaser to the wall. This is obviously the original episode, before remastering.
She already said when beginning this series that she was going to watch the original versions so she could experience the show the same way they did in the sixties
Star Trek: The Next Generation has their own version of this episode, titled "The Naked Now" in the first season. The computer onboard even references the incident with Kirk's Enterprise.
Shower curtains tend to make very ineffective anti-contamination suits.
As an old man who grew up watching these, I enjoy watching you watch and appreciate these for what they are.
The 'disease' strips away inhibitions, and leaves people's innermost feelings bare - so they are, so to speak, 'naked'. Hence the "Naked Time".
Uhura: "Sorry, neither!" That line went right over my head when I was eight years old....
Well 'fair' meant 'light skinned' and 'maiden' meant 'damsel in distress'. At least that's how Uhura heard it.
And it's clear in her mind that she is not Not Fair and Not a Maiden in distress hence her proclamation "Sorry, neither..." Great line
Remember she is from the future United States of 'Africa' and her first language is Swahili. You can hear her inflection every so often. It's very clear when she complains after her panel shorts out in Charlie X.
@@LesterManley-s9n -- Uhura's neither light-skinned nor a virgin. That's what makes it a great line.
@@dq405 god I can't believe I forgot virginal was also implied when using the term 'maiden'. I don't think Uhura was was saying she's not a virgin...she's saying she's a strong independent woman who don't need no man.😉
@@LesterManley-s9n Uhura was very much saying she wasn't fair-skinned or a virgin. That's why it had to be snuck in to get past the censors.
@@LesterManley-s9n Generational difference. For me, "fair" never had anything to do with her skin tone but "fair" could mean a "gentle", "soft". Like she wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, or to play rough. Those of us who grew up in the 80s weren't as obsessed with race as younger generations. Disappointing how we've regressed.
Without Joey's incompetence with his hazmat glove, events wouldn't have lead to them creating a time warp. It'd still be just theoretical. Thanks Joey!
@@photonicus dude, the isolation suit lacks one very important feature -isolation. Okay he takes off his glove but the hood is loose where he could inhale all kinds of airborne particles. Also no air supply it seems.
The writers of Prometheus must have been fans of this episode.
Those bio hazard suits were actually made out of shower curtains. I saw them on display back in the day at the star trek expo in Washington DC at the National Air & Space Museum where the original enterprise model was and is still displayed....
I love seeing the classic Desilu Productions logo, at the end of Classic Star Trek episodes.
Desilu was the production company set up by actress Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz.
In fact, it was Lucille Ball who overruled the board of her own production company ( when they decided NOT to greenlight Star Trek after the first pilot ) and invested her own money into the second pilot for Classic Star Trek, to ensure its success.
Yes, Lucy deserves an enormous amount of credit for supporting the show.
I see Miranda likes to wear her hair loosely about her shoulders😉
This is one of my favorite episodes of the season, as it lets many of the actors really act to their full range.
The phaser cutting the wall was meant to have a phaser beam effect added, but they ran out of time. It's the sort of thing the new CGI effects fix (just sayin').
The original airing of the series was in regular production time slots, which occurred in the evenings. When people say they went home from school to watch, they are referring to syndicated reruns which would have started apparently in '69. Star Trek had a following during the original run, but it really became hugely popular in America as well as England in syndication.
A couple comments on what you said at the end:
Spock was intended very nearly from inception to be half human, so that was not a retcon. By the time Leonard Nimoy was contacted and Roddenberry was trying to convince him to take the part, a big selling point for Nimoy was the half human element of the character. Spock's "one of my ancestor's married an earth female" line from Where No Man Has Gone Before was him being so annoyed that he's distancing himself from the more "emotional" side of his genetic makeup.
The Naked Time was originally intended to be a two-part episode, and the time travel was going to lead in to what was intended to be the next part. That particular element was scrapped, but they kept the time travel element at the end anyway.
Now to fun episode trivia:
This is the favorite episode of George Takei (Sulu) and one of the favorite episodes of Leonard Nimoy, for fairly obvious reasons. The original concept was for Sulu to be running up and down hallways with a Samurai sword, but Takei said that he grew up reading Robin Hood and obsessed with Errol Flynn, so why would an Asian man 200 years in the future be obsessed with something even he doesn't particularly care for. They asked if he could fence, and Takei said that of course he could! It's his favorite hobby! Totally knows all of the ins and outs of fencing... before immediately turning around and booking a class for that weekend because he knew nothing about it. And thus, one of Sulu's most iconic moments was born.
The scene with Spock was originally extremely different. The original concept was that the crewman painting on the walls was going to run up to Spock, paint a mustache on his face, and then run off again. Spock would then burst into tears and continue down the hallway sobbing. Nimoy got the script and while he thought the scene was very funny and inventive, he felt that a lot more could be done with the character. So he approached John D. F. Black (who wrote the episode) and Black basically told him to just do what was written. So Nimoy, who felt extremely strongly about this, went to Roddenberry and pitched his idea. Roddenberry then interceded and asked Black to hear Nimoy out, which Black did. Nimoy said that the scene should be an exploration of his human and Vulcan halves - logic vs emotion, love vs pi r squared. Black listened, and turned around and wrote the beautiful scene we ended up getting.
When it came time to shoot the scene Marc Daniels basically gave the camera to Nimoy and said "this is your scene. How do you want it done?" Now the typical way to shoot a scene like this would be a wide shot when Spock enters the room, a closeup as he walks over to the table, and then a medium shot as he sits down and cries. It's very simple, very easy to light, and very fast to shoot. But Nimoy felt that would chop the entire scene up and destroy what made it special. So he said that the camera should start on a wide shot, and then move closer and closer in to Spock as he loses more and more control, which is what we got. The problem occurred just before they were to shoot the scene. See the scene as Nimoy wanted it called for an extremely complicated lighting setup as well as a fairly complicated camera setup, and they were running out of time. TPTB came in and were arguing for the "chopped up" version of the scene because that would allow them to do multiple takes. In the end, Nimoy got his way, and he had to perform that scene perfectly on the first try because there was not going to be a second take, and he knocked it out of the park.
Up to that point, he'd been getting "standard" amounts of fanmail for a regular on a TV show. When that episode aired, the fanmail started coming by the truckload. And that's also when TPTB, who originally were very against the idea of having Spock on the show (they worried he was "too satanic" and that nobody would identify with such an alien character) changed their tune about Spock and started asking for him to have more screentime, not less.
This episode also really showcases Kirk's lifelong character arc of only being able to be happy on his ship, but also how much of a burden that is for him. He loves his ship more than he loves just about anything else in the universe, but he is intently aware of what that love asks of him. She is his iron mistress - never permitting him love or a family, always demanding that he sacrifice those things for her sake. And yet he loves her and will willingly put aside his own desires, his own heartbreak, his own happiness if it means he gets to be sitting in that center chair looking forward into the stars.
Also Christine Chapel (the nurse who is in love with Spock) is played by Majel Barrett (later Barrett-Roddenberry) who is lovingly referred to as the First Lady of Star Trek. She plays more characters in Star Trek than any other woman, and has been in more episodes than any other person in the history of the show.
When George Takei scheduled his fencing lesson, it was by coincidence with Ralph Faulkner, who was Errol Flynn's fencing coach and stunt double for "The Adventures of Robin Hood". Training with the teacher of his childhood idol was a big deal for him.
Nice review Miranda. A little Trivia for you... the guy who played Riley, Taught Theater at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Thanks for viewing these with the original special effects. They hold up fine and don't look as fakey as the newer effects that were redone. This is a really good early episode. It does an excellent job of establishing characters. I enjoy your reviews.
Stuff like the original Doomsday Machine. The original to me looks so much more terrifying than the re-mastered one.....Can't wait till she gets to that one in season 2!
I agree.
Fun fact, (and only a little spoiler.): as originally conceived, this episode was supposed to lead into the later this season episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". During production, they changed it. Also, the title refers to stripping the characters naked, seeing who they really are.
Though I have few memories of it, I did get to see this when it first aired. I was very young, but I was allowed to stay up late to see it. As I got older, yes indeed, I ran home from school every day to catch the reruns.
I like to watch "Miranda Likes to Watch" Star Trek. 🖖😉
"No beach to walk on".
I guess they'll eventually fix this problem when they invent The Holodeck.
Oh, it was a metaphor?
@@craigfuller1532 when I was a kid and had quite a bit of growing up to do....get this...
I thought kirk's " No beach to walk on..." Meant Earth's surface in the 23rd century was devoid of Beaches.😆😆😆😆
One more. In season 2's Bread and Circuses apon hearing Kirk mention Merik, Flavious reacts with
"Merikus....Merikus is first citizen....butcher.."
As a kid I thought this meant he ran a very successful Butcher Shop and on this planet that was a much envied position. Ah....to be 7 years old...
@@LesterManley-s9n remember that episode where there was a planet was so full of people that there were no beaches left?
@@craigfuller1532 I'm sure they existed. Just very overcrowded. Do they sleep standing up. What about Waste Management? No privacy when scr**ing?
The more you look at Mark of Geddion the less sense it makes.
7:54 "Uh-oh, he got infected with activism." Reaction video comment of the year.
Totally came here to say that! 👏👏👏
Iv'e been watching this series since 1 year old in 1966 I'm told and I never looked at it like that,until now. lol.
Space activism!
We're not supposed to mention activism😂❤
Thanks for your reaction. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
"He got infected with activism". Coffee through my nose when I heard that one.
Ha! Same!
It was their first encounter with 'The Woke Mind Virus 😉
@@LesterManley-s9n Naturally, they came out of it smarter.
I love that the ship has a bowling alley. 👍
That's 3-dimensional bowling.
Also a small theater, for both plays and movies.
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Miranda, I don’t know if you want to wear that red when you watch Star Trek.
It's OK. Redskirts had a much better survival rate than redshirts -- and somebody sat down and did the math and figured out that redshirts didn't do as bad at it seems, either.
At 13:04 Sulu threatens two crewmen. The one on the left in the red shirt was in many episodes but never had a line, wasn't in SAG, and never had credit. He wasn't identified for forty years and we still aren't sure who he was.
The prop that Spock was using at 17:38 was an actual device; a circular slide rule. Slide rules were still commonly used up till about this time. Circular ones were less common.Circular flight computer slide rules that looked like what Spock held were still in use until relatively recently. I couldn't see it clearly, but the prop was likely one of these.
Star Trek 3 was actually my entry to the franchise in the early 90s. I was young enough that I didn’t think TV could be turned into films. I actually remember when I found out the show existed. A creative nuke went off in my mind as I now knew there were several more hours of stories with these characters I had yet to see. G4 started airing the show and I saw it for the first time through basic cable.
Enjoyed the movie. Glad you're back to a ST episode.🖖
Nice job. See you next episode.
You do a great Spock eyebrow raise!!
It's nice to find a smart and articulate reactor! I look forward to watching more of your videos.
When I was a kid, my sister and I had seen the episodes so many times we used to compete to see who could identify each episode the quickest. Like name that tune. I could usually do it in like the first second when it came on.
You're noticing things on your first watch that I never did! Although, to be fair, I was just a kid and you're a savvy filmmaker 😃
Great reactions from Miranda, to this amazing and famous episode of Classic Star Trek!
And SO many spoilers! :)
The new nurse is Majel Barrett, she also voiced the ship's computer in the original series and through the 2009 reboot, computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. Barrett was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. And if that's not enough of a resume to impress you, she played other roles in the franchise, including first officer in the original pilot and and Lwaxana Troi in TNG
Yes, but how did she get all those opportunities? She started out as Gene Roddenberry's mistress. She got the role of Number One on the original pilot because of that relationship, not because she auditioned and won the part. The studio didn't like her characer, knew she was Roddenberry's mistress, and wanted her out for the second pilot. They also thought Spock was too Satanic-looking and wanted him gone too. Roddenberry knew he could only fight for one, and knew he needed Spock, so Majel did not return. But by the time the series hit the air Roddenberry had her dye her hair blonde and gave her the role of nurse Chapel (along with the computer voice), as if the network and studio brass wouldn't notice. Well after the show had been on the air Roddenberry left his wife and the two were indeed married. He continued to put her in the Sar Trek sequels. I have nothing against Ms. Barrett, and I liked her characters on the various shows. But it was her illicit dalliance with Roddenberry that go her on the show and gave her all those opportunities. Not exactly a "resume that impresses" me.
@@MarkMay-cr6bv Let's give a hand to Deforest Kelley who stayed married to his first wife until the day he died.
@@MarkMay-cr6bv point? That was 60 years ago
The 1st season was 1966 and as a 12 year old I was allowed to go the once a week to Mrs. Dools house and watch Star Trek on her color TV sitting on her leather recliner from 8:30 to 9:30. She would leave the room and I had the Star Trek world to my self. With much love RIP Mrs. Dool.
True story. I was in line for a Co Vid test in 2020. The pharmacy tech was in full scrubs, gloves, mask and face shield. As I waited my turn she reached under her face shield to scratch her nose and this episode immediately came to mind.
This episode gives us a quick introduction to a couple of characters. We get insight into Joe and Kevin Riley. Not much, but enough to give us a sense of them. This is what I meant last week about how good Star Trek is at introducing characters.
I like that the time travel isn't a reset button. The crew remember what has happened and will have to live with their inner selves being exposed. Also Joe Tormolen is still dead in the end. Lesser shows would have reset to the beginning with only a vague sense of what's going to happen next and avoid the contamination in the first place.
According to the show, "warp speed" is where the engine actually warps space and moves space past the ship. Each warp factor is several times faster than the speed of light. Most of us just have to accept the inconsistency and enjoy the idea. Watching it from the perspective of the era it was first aired, easy for me as I watched it from the first airing.
I am loving these videos. This was a great episode. I am enjoying your first watch reaction
Thank you =)
Another fun analyses of the show. It’s cool to see you picking up all the cool things we all know about the show. This was a favorite episode amongst many of the cast because it explored the characters. The later Next Generation Trek had a semi sequel episode called the Naked Now which had even riskier things happen to the crew after they get infected with the same disease.
I just love how Sulu, portrayed by a Japanese American actor, takes on a French musketeer persona, but dons a British accent. (It almost makes as much sense as J.L.P.'s accent.)
Picard's accent makes perfect sense. France and England are neighboring countries. If you learn English in France, you're going to learn it the English way. And the "prefect" accent would be the English accent. No different from if you're going to learn Spanish in the United States, you're going to learn to speak it with a Mexican accent, not a Spanish accent.
The story goes (I think) that Sulu was originally going to use a katana sword, but George Takei didn't want to use it. Not because of stereotypes, but because when George Takei was a boy, he was a fan of Errol Flynn films and wanted to play the swashbuckler, so it made sense to him to use a rapier.
@@snafu313Don't worry folks. He gets 'woke' and will sport the proper Katana or Samurai Sword in season 3's Day of the Dove.
Great reaction Miranda! I was one of those kids that made Star Trek such a huge phenomenon in the early seventies. I went home from school and at 5 or 6 pm it would run on local TV. we did not yet have cable tv either. We had a directional tv aerial which was mounted on top of our house. It was BIG! About seven feet long and it was connected to an electric motor so the aerial could be rotated to point in the direction of the city you were trying to receive. Very analog! Star Trek was a huge part of my childhood and when rumors began to circulate about a new tv series we were excited at the prospect. I read tv mags and the entertainment news to hear about what was happening. I am a subscriber to your channel and look forward to more. Live long and prosper! 🖖🏻
Same deal here. My dad and uncle were huge in the local HAM radio community, so we had access to the REALLY big antennas.
"Please not again." 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant episode.
I think you're right. The title must be a combination of the phrase "The Naked Truth", because in their impaired state, the truth comes out, and the "time crunch" they are under as a direct result of the cause of their "Naked Truth". I'm so glad you're choosing to watch this in original air date order and with the original special effects. You really are experiencing this like we did. As you mentioned that many have already told you, I too saw the show in reruns growing up as an elementary school kid in the 70s and just DRANK this whole show IN with utter fascination. It really captured our imaginations back then and introduced us to SO many real-life scientific concepts.
FUN Fact: The producers were contacted by department store owners who wanted the automatic door openers used on the show for their stores. Upon being told it was just stagehands behind the scenes pulling the door open with ropes, the owners decided to work on TRUE automatic doors and that's why we have them today. The first ones from the late 60s (I recall them from the 70s at like K-Mart and such) used rubber pressure-sensitive pads that when you stepped on them, the doors opened. This quickly was replaced by the infrared beams still in use today.
I imagine the "Naked" of the title was for stripping the character's personae bare.
And the "traveled back in time" was intended to lead into a loose part 2 that wasn't ready to be shot, that became the episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday." The spoiler-light explanation is that they were intended to travel back more than three days. 😉
I too like that Miranda is watching the episodes in air date order, but I have mixed feelings about her watching with the original special effects. You say that she's experiencing the show "like we did", but I think there's a case to be made for that not being true. Given that the original special effects seemed state-of-the-futurististic-art to us at the time, and that there's no way it can seem that way to her in this day and age, I think she's experiencing it "as we did" only in the most literalistic sense. In terms of her more current sensibilities, one could argue that she's NOT experiencing it the way we did. Which is why I think watching the remastered version serves as a very useful compensation that actually enables a person of the current generation to be impressed in the same way we were back in the late 60's. IMHO.
@@brianmulholland1474 I like the remastered versions. It's fun to see how it can be improved, but some of the new stuff isn't quite as good. The Doomsday Machine for one doesn't look as menacing. There are other examples too. But also, to me, the original effects quite often didn't look state of the art when I first saw them and I thought they could have looked better, even as a child, before Star Wars. And sometimes, in the remastered ones, Enterprise looks too skinny and occasionally ... a little flat where you can tell it's not really physical. So, it's good that she can experience what we had to work with back then, especially with her background in film.
I didn't have to rush home. When I was growing up in Northern New Jersey (not far from DC Fontana's home town) STAR TREK was being shown every weeknight on WPIX channel 11 from 6-7. Little did I know the ratings it was getting in the NYC area helped the studio to decide to make the movies.
Gotta love how cleverly TOS used their tiny budget each episode. Salt shakers for medical instruments, shower curtains for futuristic space suits.
co2 cartridge attached to the oxygen mask. You could never make anything out in detail on tv sets back in the day....
"Fascinating. A pattern is developing". One of my favorite Spock lines! 😂 also the " Jefferies tube," that Scotty was in ,also known as a service crawlway or service duct was a type of access tunnel or internal maintenance conduit that was used to provide crew access to various ship's systems. It was named after the legendary Matt Jefferies who was chief set designer for the series....You will be in it and see it's entrance point in the corridors many times in future episodes.
Great reaction today! You are correct. It is a combination of refering to breaking the time barrier and a play on the phrase, the naked truth. Iook forward to your future reactions! ❤
The Naked Time refers to people showing their unguarded feelings and emotions.
The reason Spock and to some degree Kirk were able to pull out of the effects is because they helped each other overcome their emotions in the conference room.
Kirk giving Spock the intermix problem to solve helped him focus his mind.
@JaguarDave54, Not unlike how Kirk and Spock came out of their altered state in This Side of Paradise.
Great reaction Miranda! This is my second favourite episode of TOS. (My favourite is in Season 2).
The relationship between Captain Kirk and Yeoman Rand was very professional and progressive for its time. Captain Kirk never used his position and the power dynamic to harass or exploit women crew members on the ship. In addition, I'm certain that workplace harassment would not be permissible by Starfleet ethics and code of conduct, even in 1966.
I am not sure if this is sarcasm. But, if not, there are Star Trek Blooper scenes on line. The sexual harassment on set was epic!!!
@@Auria51That may have been behind the scenes, but the comment was in regards to Star Fleet regulations & ethics, not to mention television censors.
@@Auria51 Undoubtedly sexual harassment in the workplace has always been endemic and even countenanced in the workplace and more blatant in past, so much so the behavior would subtly bleed into the literature and art as all culture does. However, Star Trek was created by Roddenberry to represent a possible future where not only technology had progressed immensely, but human behavior, morals, and ethics as well.
@@David-l6c3w Like all art it's a product of its time.
Look at Forbidden Planet(1956)
Morbius totally tolerated all the males constantly hitting up on his daughter, Altera.
It's the only thing that dates the other wise classic sci-fi movie.
It would have been better if a younger less experienced officer struck up a friendship, to put it kindly, with the daughter. but the captain, come on.
Still Forbidden Planet rocks.
Also had a Robot so cool they included him in the opening credits.
Robby hasn't aged a day in all these years. He still looks good but then again he's a Robot.
Gotta total react to FP. Asap so you can see how it influenced Star Trek almost 10 years later...
Who seconds the motion?
@@LesterManley-s9n Forbidden Planet is a favorite of mine and required viewing for all Sci-Fi folks. But YES I always cringe at those scenes between Altera and the crew, which are very chauvinistic, sexist, and borderline misogynistic, and YES show how the culture of the time can reflect itself in the art, literature and movies, even if they're supposed be taking place in the far future.
Costume department used shower curtains to make several outfits on the show. Some of the ladie's costumes were clearly shower curtains held together with hot glue.
A bunch of the females' costumes were held together by hot glue, or held on by double-stick tape. Or both.
You can tell, the characters are still coming.....into their characters.😁
Kepp 'em coming, ma'am.
"I'll protect you, fair maiden!"
"Sorry, neither!"
That response was an ad-lib from Nichelle Nichols.
And yes, warp speed is faster than light speed. Only way to get to other solar systems. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before" when the warp engines got knocked out Kirk commented that places that had only been days away would take years to reach under impulse power.
It wouldn’t be a matter of traveling faster than light to cause them to time travel backwards. The engines are warping the fabric of spacetime. It would be fun to figure out what the solution actually was.
Kirk mentions a “controlled implosion” related to mixing matter and antimatter. Real science has observed that mixing these two violently will generate high energy photons. The engines apply this energy to warping spacetime.
Spock refers to a theoretical relationship between time and antimatter. There actually is one. Someone proposed decades ago that matter is actually antimatter in reverse time flow, as I recall. Antimatter is actually going backwards in time.
Leonard Nimoy did a fantastic job of expressing the inner turmoil of his human and vulcan halves struggling for control.
Show originally aired on NBC in prime-time on Thursday nights. It was beaten badly in the ratings by CBS's popular, long-running My Three Sons.
Excellent reaction as always. You will see a similar episode in the next generation. Set course for the next reaction. You have the bridge number one.
6:08 I.D.I.C. Vulcan motto
infinite diversity in infinite combinations
28:30 A quick breakdown of Warp Factors-
Warp (Factor) One- the speed of light
Warp Two- 8 times the speed of light
Warp Three- 27 times the speed of light
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Warp Eight- 512 times the speed of light
Now, Warp Speeds in the Original Series were a bit all over the place going as high as Warp 15 (or Warp 36 in the Animated Series).
It wasn't until the Star Trek: The Next Generation reset the Warp Factor chart from 1 to 10 with 10 being completely unattainable. So the highest you could travel is Warp 9.999999 etc but at 10 you would be moving so infinitely fast you would occupy all points in the Universe simultaneously.
Also, full impulse power is equal to 1/4 light speed according to the Voyager tech manual. On TOS the maximum safe speed was Warp Six. They could go faster than that (up to Warp 8) but it was increasingly dangerous the faster they went
This episode gave us the “implode the engines” meme; that is, a desperate solution to an urgent technical problem.
Gotta admit, Sulu look pretty badass with the sword.
The guy had like 0% body fat
Right? Very chiseled!
Our first episode penned by the legendary Dorothy Fontana (credited under her pen name DC Fontana). She's also the story editor of the first two seasons. Definitely one of the shows key creative forces. And keep this ending in mind....we'll come back to it later 😊
Apparently George Takei was doing pushups whenever he could to get in shape for this episode.
I'm so sorry I stand corrected, her first story was Charlie X (don't know why I thought it was this one ...bad trekkie). The writer her is John D. F. Black. They both did write for this and The Next Generation series though.
@@RadioFanBoy She also wrote for the animated series and did some of the novels and comics.
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" was written in 1875 by Thomas Paine Westendorf. Elvis recorded it.
I think the title refers to the inner emotions of the crew being rendered naked to the world at this time. Nothing more profound than that.
The black underlying uniform T-shirts are shown for the first, and I think only, time in the series.
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Thank you!
13:15: For this episode, they asked George Takei if he wanted a rapier or katana for the sword interest. He picked the rapier, to be less stereotypical.
17:16: "Ooh, what part of the ship are you in?"
They're called Jeffries Tubes, in honor of production designer on TOS Matt Jeffries. Your basic air duct/engineering crawlspace/maintenance access. They became increasingly prominent in later shows, with larger set budgets, as places for the main characters to crawl around in when they needed to get places and not use the corridors. Here, they're mostly to show things are really bad because Scotty actually needs to get into the guts of _Enterprise_ to get at the problem.
22:00: This is SUCH a powerful scene from Leonard Nimoy. Just. . . there are no words. Brilliant doesn't even cover it.
26:57: "They must have loved tearing open those velour shirts."
Not really. Just that the budget was so low the costumes were made so flimsily they were really easy to tear. It's become a meme that Kirk's shirt is lost or damaged nearly every episode.
28:31: The warp drive is one of the hypothetical principles that might get around that pesky general relativity that makes traveling faster than the speed of light impossible. You don't actually travel faster than the speed of light, but instead bend the fabric of space-time in front of you, compressing it, so you're traveling a shorter distance. That takes an insane amount of power, hence using matter-antimatter reactions to fuel the ship.
33:30: Well, this was well before continuity in TV shows was a thing. They weren't really picturing setting anything up to pay off later, because there was no way to know if someone catching one episode would be watching another. But don't worry. . . Star Trek becomes positively littered with time travel in short order. Four time travel episodes in TOS alone, I believe, not counting this one.
Good analysis. As you mentioned the show was still figuring the characters out. Looking forward to yr next episode.
4 pm, every day, after school.
1970's, Montreal, Sunday morning at 10, right after a televised sermon that we often caught the tail end of just to make sure that we didn't miss it. It was in syndication for years in that lovely time slot.
I have always thought that the title referred to a time when the characters were psychologically naked. "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has a take-off of this episode called "The Naked Now."
I remember watching Star Trek Back in the 70’s. Used to be my highlight of the week when it aired.
Sulu gets to freak out, which he did several times during the series. Other crew members later went over the handlebars, as well. It was standard for the series.
The area of the ship Scotty was in is called The Jeffries Tube, named for the lead Set/Prop Designer, Matt Jeffries.
ST:TOS was probably the first TV series that eventually developed a "Writer's Bible" that described the available technology, the characters and their backgrounds, etc. This episode was still early before a lot of that was developed.
Great reaction Miranda! I Luv these classic Star Trek episodes! Keep em coming! Very cool to see these early shows again! Thanks Miranda! 😁❤
Good point about Uhura not being contaminated. Not the last plot hole in a Star Trek episode.
Yeah, they messed that up. She was in bodily contact with a shirtless and very sweaty Sulu. She should have been infected immediately
I was always glued to the TV when Star Trek came on, which was (I think) Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM for the first season. The second season was at 8:30, and the third got switched to Friday nights at 10, so I then had to do battle with my parents to be allowed to stay up late enough to watch the show!
Did you win?!?!? Don't leave us hanging dude.
I heard the network moved Star Trek to a better time slot for summer re-runs after All our yesterdays and the ratings did improve but NBC had already decided to cancel the show.
@@LesterManley-s9n LOL. Yeah.
The way warp drive works is that the matter or space between the point of origin and the destination is compressed (or warped) shortening the distance thereby not having to worry about time slowing down by traveling faster than the speed of light.
PS: FUN FACT: This story was originally written as a two part episode, with the cliffhanger being the Enterprise being flung into the 20th century. The network objected to the idea of a two part episode at the time (That attitude against two part episodes would change later on in the season, with THE MENAGERIE.), so the two-parter would be wewritten as two stand-alone episodes. (The original conclusion was later produced as the episode TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY.) Eagerly awaiting your next episode reaction! ❤
Being a huge fan of Star Trek, I've been enjoying your reactions tremendously so first and foremost Thank you for that. In my opinion, Gene Roddenberry used the same formula in the series he would later use in the movies, that being grab the audience first with special effects, then with a combination of special effects and character growth, finally ending with a lot of character growth. Again thank you and have fun.
Spock as a Vulcan is far more mentally disciplined, that why he was able to combat the effects of it quicker than others, after being prompted by Kirk's goading.
Enjoy your reactions, funny and aware yet treating it with the joy they were at the time. I think if you are looking for a movie - "The Forbidden Planet" would be a good one for you to react to as it has for it's time ground breaking sci-fi in story and effects.
I grew up in the 80s, and first watched this show in about 1990 when i was 10. I watched with m mum, she had loved it since she was a kid. During that run in the UK this was on at 6pm on a Wednesday, so after my Australian soaps had ended (Home And Away and Neighbours), and before the British one that day (Coronation Street).
The problems poor Grace Lee Whitney went through almost bring me to tears but in the end lived a very long life.
Here's a kicker.
For the longest time I thought Rand was WAY younger then Kirk but in reality they were both roughly the same age at the time. Mid 30s.
Grace was actually older than Bill Shatner.
Grace was born in 1930 (died 2015 RIP) Shatner was born in 1931. The characters were however 10 years apart. Kirk was 34 and Rand was 24.
@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm Yes, I thought they were very close in age. But It's a good example of the difference between the character and the age of the actors.
Walter Keonig (Chekov) is another example. Brought in to attract the younger audience and in real life he's only several years younger then Shatner.
Fun episode. Sulu's reaction is my favorite. I think I can recall 5 or 6 people Kirk has slapped throughout the series, including himself. But I wish they spent more on the set and props. They repeat the theme in Next Generation.
The possible time travel at the end left them with a choice if they wanted to include time travel in a future episode.
Kirk and Janice were a will they/won't they thing briefly.
The behind the scenes story of all the challenges Grace faced while she was on her is a pretty sad tale.
This and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" were origially going to be a 2 part episode, however Roddenberry didn't really like 2 parters so they (D.C Fontana) figured out a different way to time travel in that one.
Star Trek: The Next Generation made a (kind of) sequel to this where the Enterprise D crew gets infected. Was called "The Naked Now," where we get to learn something interesting about Data.
Oh cool. I wonder if I'll recognize it when I get to TNG.
@@MirandaLikestoWatch Unless you've forgotten about this episode by then, there's no chance you won't recognize it. "The Naked Now" is a carbon copy of this episode with the TNG cast slotted in.
Well, not a carbon copy exactly. It is a bit watered down in TNG as there is no Joe Tormolen character. Miranda do you even know what carbon copy means?
@@indetigersscifireview4360 It isn't exact, but the plot follows the original quite closely.
@@indetigersscifireview4360 I know what "carbon copy" means. And I still have "whiteout" on my hands from all of my typos. 🙂
It's amazing that even now, 60 years later, we are still watching these shows because the writing, acting and music is so good. The sets, props, and costumes may look cheap and a bit silly at times, but the stories are timeless, and the actors SELL IT. The sets don't matter if the actors make you believe it's real.
Hi Miranda
I just wanted to say I enjoy watching your commentary on Star Trek the original series. I’m very big fan of the original series. And Mr Spock is my favorite character. And The Naked Time is one of my favorite episodes. And also have few favorite Mr. Spock episodes I like from TOS. I enjoy watching your commentary on Star Trek I look forward to seeing more of thanks for sharing 🖖🏻.
Great reaction I think the episodes called that because they’re their mental shield are stripped away all their fades that they have during every day with their military precision and their training. It’s all ripped away from them from the sickness and their inner dogs come through then they’re naked to the world you know who they are in real life inside And it’s very painful for Vulcans to feel emotions. They suppress them. They still have them, but they suppress them with mental shield, but with an illness, he can’t control. He feels more than any other because he’s the first Volcan hybrid ever I won’t spoil anything for you you’ve done a great job. Thanks for the fun until next time
"Sorry, neither" 🤣❤
I watch other first time watch streamers. You and one other streamer I watch are involved in film. So it's nice to hear you perspectives that way.
P.s. Miranda was the name of Prospero's daughter in the Shakespeare play The Temptest which Forbidden Planet was loosely based on.
the infection lowers inhibitions, which you could compare to alcohol. 'The Naked Time' I think, is a reference to baring your inner, hidden self.
The time travel part dos feel tacked on, and that's because this was supposed to be a 2 part episode that was later separated into distinct episodes... you'll know the second one when you see it because of the way it begins.
One of my favorite TOS stories involves this episode... because of budget/time constraints the Spock soliloquy scene was cut from the filming schedule, but Nimoy fought hard to get it put back and only won after he agreed to do the whole thing in one take. So the final product you see was his one and only chance to get it right.
In addition to the acting, the camera work was unusually tricky. The camera changes location, and it pans through about 270 degrees, and it closes in on Spock.
Loving your reaction vids to the all time greatest sci fi milestone, Miranda! Regarding the Time Travel tag at the end, I agree it was a tremendous game changer for man but it was at the cost of a quite an extraordinary risk and a heavy event that they went through to arrive to that discovery. I think part of that scene's message is commenting on how some of man's discoveries are through taking forced risks and accidentally just discovering something, and other times it's survival or necessity that is the mother of invention. So that option of Time travel IS indeed again relied on when you get to the movies (and if I'm not mistaken one or two times more in this show) but it's not an everyday thing like a car wash, it's more of a thing that they CAN do but it's a super risk, kinda like every time we nowadays would try to go to the moon, we're always nervous about it because it could go wrong.
@21:28 your reaction here was kind of hilarious to me, cuz I agree that dude is messin with the ship and Kirk looked like he was walkin with purpose; the purpose of clockin Riley to the moon lol.
I recall when I was a kid and I first saw that scene of Spock breaking down that I was slightly disappointed in Spock and cringed a lot yet at the same time I was also impressed by Nimoy's acting performance. For me, he was a strong hero and hero's rarely show such "weak" form, but it's cool. Works excellent for the story. Thnx for being a pretty girl who is digging Star Trek, looking forward to more!
So many different kinds of time travel in the Trek franchise.
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Saw this episode when it aired on tv, I was around 7yrs old. My mom n dad loved this kind of entertainment so they always made sure we all watched.
This episode I think spawned a little known movie back in 1984 called "Impulse".
A small little town started having folks act out on their first thoughts instead of reasoning first off.
Thanks to an earthquake that leaked chemicals into the water/well system effecting even cows milk.
People were doing crazy things.
City on the Edge of Forever.
I am really enjoying your reaction videos. They remind me of my youth in the 1960s, when I watched Star Trek for the first time. 🙂
These reactions are fun. Interesting that Miranda knows the word "Starfleet" (31:25 mark) when it won't be used for the first time until much later in Season 1. That's why I enjoy watching in production order. It's interesting to see how the series evolved.
Glad you're reacting to this classic series. Be careful and try to avoid comments that might have spoilers in them. Great job!
Keep going with these episodes!
"new nurse" became the future Mrs Majel-Barrett Roddenberry and voice of the ship computer and mother to Deana Troi in TNG.
Good observation. In cutting into the wall to the control room, the post-production people forgot to put in the ray from the phaser to the wall. This is obviously the original episode, before remastering.
I just took it as an invisible beam in the torch setting
She already said when beginning this series that she was going to watch the original versions so she could experience the show the same way they did in the sixties
You can keep it together, Spock. Spock starts breaking down 🖖
Star Trek: The Next Generation has their own version of this episode, titled "The Naked Now" in the first season. The computer onboard even references the incident with Kirk's Enterprise.