@@mtbroca Did you actually watch the Enterprise Incident? You got two facts VERY wrong. 1. Kirk and McCoy did not disguise themselves as Romulians. Only Kirk. 2. Spock and Kirk did not fake their deaths. Spock helped Kirk fake his, so he could be beamed back to the Enterprise and surgically altered to resemble a Romulian. You really don't want people fact checking you. Especially Star Trek's fanatical fans. They will rip you a new one. All in all it was an interesting piece.
Star Trek Voyager, second of a two part episode arc, crew members forced to live in a World War 2 holodeck simulation. Jeri Ryan singing and Klingons fighting nazis. Classic.
So many errors regarding your synopsis of _The Enterprise Incident,_ it makes me wonder if you actually _watched_ the episode. _"The Enterprise is just outside of the Romulan neutral zone...when a bunch of Romulan ships show up..."_ Actually, they cross _into_ the neutral zone, and are well inside of it when the Romulans appear. _"...(Kirk) and Spock are taken to a Romulan outpost..."_ They're taken aboard the Romulan flagship. _"Kirk and Spock fake their deaths..."_ Kirk and Spock fake _Kirk's_ death. Only Kirk is presumed dead. _"...and then Kirk and McCoy put on pointy eared disguises..."_ McCoy helps Kirk put on a pointy eared disguise (he surgically alters Kirk's appearance to that of a Romulan). McCoy never actually puts on a disguise himself.
Thank you for your comments, I was about to write this out myself. I agree the person doing this was not a fan of the show and definitely had not watched the Enterprise Incident.
So, David, you're saying the Neighborhood Association decided who could keep the apartment by invoking the single-combat-arbitration clause? Happened to my uncle too..
Short skirts were the fashion of the day in the '60s! I know, I, my friends, my sister, etc., wore them very short. And many of the women portrayed on Star Trek TOS were very capable professionals, without husbands or kids, unlike most women on TV at the time.
In "Trials and Tribbilations", when Dax magically wipes out her spots (to pose as a human female, Trills hadn't been introduced into the series and perhaps weren't known in Kirk's day), as she puts on the standard issue uniform of a medical/science enlisted tech, she comments that the hemlines for women's attire were "shorter". Of course, Terri Farrell had the 'gams" to show off!
@@selfdo ..Although nowadays, if Dax would walk around present day Earth city streets, no one would even bat an eye at the spots on her face and neck area because of the popularity of interesting and outrageous tattoos among men and women today anyway. Some ppl have tattoos all over their bodies. So she would fit right in.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Agreed! Even nearly 25 years ago, when the two-parter in Voyager, "Future's End", Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Paris all beam down to Los Angeles at Venice Beach, and they've put one what they think are period-appropriate clothes. Tuvok, seeing the colorful persons milling about, remarks, "We could have worn our Starfleet Uniforms. I doubt anyone would have noticed!" Probably having Dax erase her 'spots' (interesting how easily that's done, with some sort of 'ray applicator', my guess is that she was actually applying some makeup in a matching color, and the device in her hand is some manner of mini-transporter, much like the replicator magically makes a desired dish or drink appear) is so that the appearance of Trills in the Federation doesn't have to be explained. Also, IF indeed Kirk hadn't seen a Trill, and he beheld Dax, he'd want to jump her bones (as if Terri Farrell isn't fetching enough!) so he could have himself a spotted gal! I would surmise that transporter technology is cheap and safe enough that it can be used in a makeup applicator for women, although the consumer economy of the Federation, give that they profess not to be motivated by "material pursuits", and when Kirk and the crew of the "Botany Bay" go back to 1986 San Francisco, he remarks "They still use MONEY" (maybe he meant they still use currency and/or coins, there are other references to some form of money, i.e., Federation "credits"), makes assumptions about consumer habits and the general standard of living (presumably comparable to ours if not BETTER) rather sketchy.
@Cliven Longsight Oh, yeah! Dr. Helen Noel (Marianna Hill, b. 1942, so a 24 y.o. as a "doctor" is a preciously young professional!) is, if not my FAVORITE ST chick, definitely in the Top Five. However, I also liked the relief communications officer, Lt. Palmer (Elizabeth Rogers, 1934-2004). But Kirk not "fraternize"? Yeah, right. However, Jadzia actually fancied Spock, himself a "babe magnet", which wasn't "Logical"...
@Cliven Longsight The show wasn't about "James Tiberius Kirk" gets his rocks off, and it WAS the Sixties...so either he'd have to fall in love with Janice Rand, marry her, knock her up, and have her Earth side (or on some colony planet), or, be "Keptin Kelibate", with Rand gone. That rumors got spread of Grace Lee Whitney's drug and alcohol problems, thanks to the "Great Bird", Gene Roddenberry , he was a real bastard. Once the Janice Rand character just kinda dropped out, ST: TOS went through the "hot chick of the week" phase, with a new Yeoman or Junior Officer, and it was a babe fest! I agree about Noel and her hotness. Would also give honorable mention to Yeomans Barrows, Mears, Ross (hubba, hubba, hubba!), Tamura, Zahra, and Cobb; Lts. Piper, Shaw, McGivers (I'm a sucker for redheads), Palamas, Moreau (both universes!), Palmer (not everyone would agree as to her looks, but SHE would have been IDEAL for Kirk), and Romaine (poor Scotty, lucky with engines, unlucky at love..), and LCDR/Dr. Muhall (whom later on would get plastered and then plowed by Dylan Hunt (John Saxon) in a quest for "balance" in one of Roddenberry's failed pilots). And I''m not even counting civilians or other races, of whom it's implied that Kirk got frisky with at least a few.
It's funny how people today judge the people of yesterday by today's standards. In some cases, there are things that are eternally repugnant (racism comes to mind), but the strange obsession with applying 3rd generation feminism to critique of material produced during its second generation is strange to me. I came up in the 90s, mind, but I actually paid attention in school. TOS was a product of the late 60s, and they weren't THAT far removed from the 40s and 50s, where revealing any part of a woman's body was "scandalous." Honestly, I find it hilarious that we've largely returned to the "don't show your body" mindset of olden days in the name of misguided "feminism."
@@jesuszamora6949, I consider that to be less 3rd wave feminism, and more of the extremist anti-male kind of feminism (propagated by Andrea Dworkin and her contemporaries) that (IMHO) gained traction because of the Internet.
@@Neville60001 There is the internet too, yes. The absolute worst strains of left and right wing extremism have really found footing they might not have without the megaphone provided by social media.
@@jesuszamora6949 originally Janice and Uhura wore tunics and long pants. Grace Lee Whitney went to GR and complained that she had beautiful long dancer's legs of which she was extraordinarily proud. She was upset that the costume was covering them. Nichelle Nicolls felt the same way. All the female costumes were subsequently changed to ditch the pants. Pretty sure the male viewers were quite happy about it. 😉
The Enterprise Incident synopsis is completely wrong, whoever wrote this script needs to actually sit down and watch the episode... And we are not just talking one error here, we are talking tons of them. So far the only thing that is correct is that there was Romulans in that episode!
In the Enterprise Incident, the ship was not outside the neutral zone but went straight in to provoke the response. Also- they were not taken to an outpost- they were interrogated on the Romulan Flagship
How they managed to steal the cloaking device and get away would undoubtedly have provoked a huge amount of reprisals from the Tal'Shiar. Sub-Commander Tal is a DEAD man, IF he's lucky. The Romulan Commander (Joanne Linville) would either commit suicide at first opportunity (and Kirk graciously having her escorted by Security to her "quarters" instead of the brig is either a nod to allowing her to kill her self, or he's naively exercising poor security himself) or resign herself to a life in exile from the Empire, she, likewise, having commanded the entire fiasco that was the Romulan response (and that several Romulan capital space craft, including two of the new D7 battlecruisers obtained from the Klingons, magically show up indicate that Section 31 has egregiously "fouled up" , e.g., there's likely a 'mole' that tipped the Romulans off), would likely be targeted for assassination, as she's too valuable a prisoner to the Federation.
It look’s by the first comment,that,Star Trek alway’s wins!Or,I should say,the Enterprise crew does?I also like how the Romulan Commander is given a choice of being relocated to a Starbase,instead of being;a prisoner.I was assuming that either side would’ve killed each other,eventually?But,we know the writer’s wanted a;hopeful future,here?Yes,I agree!This is more logical,and it satisfies the viwer’s wishes!
Major BLOOPER in this Video! ' At the 3 minute & 33 second mark they discuss the Deep Space Nine episode, "Little Green Men." The narrator says the episode tackles the subject of Area 51, and Quark, Rom, Odo & Nog are accidentally sent back in time to Area 51....What?... Nonsense! They were sent back to July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico for what was infamously known as the "Roswell Incident" or "Roswell UFO Crash." Area 51 is at Groom Lake in Nevada which is 689 miles away from Roswell, New Mexico. Now you might say that maybe they took them there after the crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Well, there are two things that don't add up with that statement. First, I remember when the episode aired over 20 years ago, and the commentary around it. All that was mentioned leading up to the episode premiering was it was an alternative explanation as to what happen at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Area 51 was never mentioned at all in the episode nor were there any references to it. There was one hidden reference possibly about there whereabouts which leads to my second point. If the story didn't take place at the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell New Mexico then perhaps in was at Hanger 18 in Dayton, Ohio?. If you notice during the episode there is a number 18 posted inside the hanger (11:57 the General Denning looks at a picture of the Ferengi Shuttle inside the hanger) and outside on the hanger when they are escaping in the shuttle (not in the video).
kwlcom69 - You’re right. The wreckage from the Roswell Incident is generally believed to have been flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, not Groom Lake, NV.
Spock didn’t fake his death in that episode. He made it look like he “murdered” Jim in self defense and then made his was with the female romulan commander.
Just a few simple corrections. Herb Solow and Robert Justman weren't writers for the series. Justman was associate producer and Solow was head of Desilu Studios. They never wrote for Star Trek. There is nothing mentioned (documented) by the production people involved with Star Trek that the sexy ladies in the show were a distraction for the story elements. It was the sci-fi "parable" element that was the distraction (according to Gene Roddenberry) so the network could write it off as nothing more than telling fairly tales (ala Jonathan Swift).
One misconception I'd like to clear up. Star Trek has never preached "social justice" because what we refer to that as is not anything except Marxist class warfare. What Star Trek preached was morality and ethics. There's a difference and if you can't see that then you're part of the problem.
I was born from a treky mom and have inherited the treky gene. I just can’t help myself. THERE IS NO CURE And I’m glad! Can’t wait for the new series to come out
This was actually preceded by Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. He had a knack to disguise the contemporary social and political issues in his stories. Got the censors to follow the superficial storyline, while the underlying plot took aim at the actual human condition (which would have been censored).
You described The Enterprise Incident just as if you'd hastily scanned a synopsis on it written by someone who had once had the episode playing in the background while the read a book.
First, some of ur descriptions of these episodes are really off. with some of the stories, it seems like u didn't watch the episodes before u did a video on this. second, there were some strong female characters in the original show and films! as a girl, I quickly get tired of people belittling women when they look sexy. Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), said it herself many times: 'that was the era where woman wore short miniskirts everywhere even when not on camera, bc that was the era of the miniskirt,'... and being sexy was a form of liberation. women were allowed to be sexy, and that to them was a sort of freedom, bc they got to choose how they looked. on the show 'Doctor Who', in 1970, one of the actresses who played the companion, was angry when other women got to wear sexy miniskirts, while she had to wear clothes that covered her entire body. she hated that she couldn't be sexy, bc sexy was allowed to be cool back then. and in the original show, men often showed skin as well. captain kirk's lovely boobs were shown so very much! and too often female empowerment is reduced to the idea that a woman has to dress like a man to be respectable. isn't that narrowminded?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz wasn't written as a dream they changed it into a dream for the 1939 movie also in the original story silver slippers not ruby slippers.
L Frank Baum wrote it as a hallucination caused by psychosis from being around electricity, in the second book which was made into a TV movie in 1984 (Return to Oz) Dorothy is in a Lunatic Asylum . The only reason I know is because my parents had the books.
You mean sci-fi is often thinly veiled under-the-radar political allegories and/or morality tales that explore current or historical socio-political issues!? No, really!? Next you’ll be telling me District 9 and Avatar had something to say about a certain countries imperialism, but that’d be just crazy talk!
In The Ultimate Computer it takes on the subject of automation, the way things are going spaceships will either fly themselves or have a robot crew, which reminds me of another episode, The Measure of a Man.
You missed one of the most obvious episodes based on true events - "Balance of Terror." The battle between the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird was based on a WWII destroyer/frigate hunting a German U-boat. The Enterprise phaser bursts were modified for the episode to behave like depth charges, and the warbird even discharged damaged ship structures and a body like a U-boat discharging oil and casualties to try and fool their hunter into thinking they had been destroyed.
@@bloodywolf8854 Mafia one was a Piece of the Action and the Hitler/Nazi one was Patterns of Force both in Star Trek: Season 2 of the original series with Kirk & Spock.
There is one Star Trek episode you missed that parallels Earth history. It was Assignment Earth and it was the one where Gary Seven prevents a global thermonuclear war by the US government's launch of an orbital thermonuclear weapon that goes out of control and is about to land in the Soviet Union. Gary Seven detonates the bomb in time and this leads to a treaty banning the launching thermonuclear weapons in space. No event like this occurred in 1968 but a the 1967 Outer Space Treaty was signed by the US and the USSR banning these weapons.
Star Trek itself; the voyages of the Enterprise under James Kirk, was inspired by the voyages of the Endeavour under James Cook. The leader of their embarked scientific team was Joseph Banks, inspiring the role of Spock.
With regard to "The Enterprise Incident", you missed the key elements that Kirk ordered his ship *into* the Neutral Zone, that they were imprisioned on a Romulan ship on the scene not an outpost and that the entire thing was a deliberately staged Federation operation to steal cloak technology from the Romulans. Some of that is quite relevant to a comparison to the Pueblo incident.
TNG season 7, episode 16: "Thine Own Self" seems to be influenced by the real-life Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987, in which radioactive material was unwittingly spread through a city in a similar way as seen in the episode.
What!!! Your description of “The Enterprise Incident” shows that none of you have even seen the episode!!! Spock did not fake his death. And McCoy never put on “pointed ears”.
On January 26, 1967, an episode aired in which the Enterprise was in the 1960s and picked up a pilot and then had to return him so his son could be born. In 1968 there was an episode where they went back to the 1960s again. When asked what would be happening, Mr. Spock said there would be an attempted coup, an important assassination, and a missile launch, which was what the episode was about. A week later Dr. King was assassinated, followed 2 months and 1 day later by Sen. R. Kennedy. Reel life before real life.
@@jd190d - Chain of Command isn't based on 1984. It's based on prisoners being tortured, which does happen. In fact, I believe Amnesty International had something to do with this episode. Why did you think I was referring to 1984? Did they use the four lights thing too?
@@TodaysDante It's from 1984 when Winston Smith is asked if he sees four fingers when O'Brien is holding up three. The scene and concept is straight from the book. If you want an easier way to see this look for the scene from the movie with William Hurt.
@@jv-lk7bc Indeed. We must remember that, for any government to effectively guard against the hostile intentions of another, some secrecy IS necessary. I doubt we know everything about the Revolution, even.
What happened to the Iran Air flight is pretty well documented. It was a war crime. You cannot mistake a Widebody Passenger Jet for a Fighter plane. The Jet was a scheduled flight, with a properly filed flight plan and proper clearance. It had it's transponder on, it was communicating on the appropriate civil frequencies... The captain of the USS Vincennes, Will Rogers was known to be a loose cannon and too incompetent to captain an AEGIS vessel... oh and he was repeatedly attacking Iranian vessels in Iranian sovereign waters (an act of war). He should have ended in prison for war crimes, mass murder and treason.
In 1996, the governments of the United States and Iran reached a settlement at the International Court of Justice which included the statement "...the United States recognized the aerial incident of 3 July 1988 as a terrible human tragedy and expressed deep regret over the loss of lives caused by the incident..." As part of the settlement, even though the U.S. government did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran, it still agreed to pay US$61.8 million on an ex gratiabasis, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims. Despite the mistakes made in the downing of the plane, the men of USS Vincennes were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for completion of their tours in a combat zone. The air-warfare coordinator on duty received the Navy Commendation Medal,[11] but The Washington Post reported in 1990 that the awards were for his entire tour from 1984 to 1988 and for his actions relating to the surface engagement with Iranian gunboats.[64] In 1990, Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer [...] from April 1987 to May 1989." The award was given for his service as the commanding officer of Vincennes from April 1987 to May 1989. The citation made no mention of the downing of Iran Air 655.
@@johnburns9634 : Well, heinous war crimes are almost always awarded with medals, instead of shackles. In this regard, there is no difference between Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the US, Russia, the UK, Belgium,...
5:17, it actually has been shown in it's entirity on tv in Ireland, lived here all my life and I've seen it several times on tv including Syfy (or whatever way they're spelling it to try to seem trendy or whatever) & pick which over here are English channels. It's even available on streaming services like netflix.
Yes but in the UK it was banned on the BBC during the run of Next Generation in the original run of the third season circa 1992-93. At that point there were no streaming services as the internet wasn't as well established as today.The BBC didn't start showing Next Generation until about 1990.
True, and nuclear testing at "Yucca Flats" (not actually "area 51" itself, but part of the Nevada Test Site) began in 1951. Any above-ground nuclear testing was done in the South Pacific in the post-war era until the NTS was established, like "Crossroads" at Bikini Atoll (where the name of the two-piece swimwear was coined) in 1946. The "big boys", like Ivy Mike in 1952 at Eniwetok and "Castle Bravo" and the rest of the "Castle" series of shots at Bikini, were done in the South Pacific, but, due to the (un)"Lucky Dragon" incident, no further above-ground testing was done in the South Pacific, though a high-altitude test, about 250 miles up from a point near Johnston Atoll was done in 1962, yielding 1.4 Mt ("Starfish Prime").
Just watched ST a "Wolf in the Fold" a few days ago and it is one of my favorite episodes. I really love the tie in with Jack Ripper as an entity, and by the way Scotty did do the actual killing. And why? Because the "redjac" entity had the ability to move from body to body, but if it wasn't for Kirk and Spock's Keen analysis with the help from the computer to prove that Scotty did not consciously do it it would have been no choice but to blame Scotty. The computer findings led straight to the man who was from argelias mr. Ingus who was incriminating himself by protesting the use of the computer.
EC comics didn't quite go out of business. They changed their Mad comic to a magazine format, so it didn't have to follow the Comics Code guidelines, and Mad magazine ran for decades, just ending earlier this year.
"A woman causes an accident that gives Scotty a concussion, so Kirk and McCoy take him to a pleasure planet..." Wait, WHAT? Is that the Prime Directive's normal treatment for concussion then? "Take two paracetamol, and then get yourself some sweet lurve action!"
BTW, there was no Klingon Neutral Zone. The Wrath of Khan created one for the Kobayashi Maru test which was initially written to be Romulan ships because they wanted to reuse the shots of Klingon ships from The Motion Picture in order to save money. You'll note that Kirk tells Saavik that Klingons don't take prisoners, when in fact it was Romulans who don't take prisoners (The Deadly Years). Hence Star Trek VI had a Klingon Neutral Zone. Or as Dorothy Fontana once said "Canon was whatever the writers needed it to be."
I think we should add the episode "The Conscience of the King" to this list. The plot was about a fedration individuum who rose to power on a colony during a famine and decided to execute half of the colonists to save the other half because there was not enough food for all! After that he faked his death and disappeared, took on a new identity. This episode was based on the circumstance that several Nazi-warcriminals had evaded capture, lived under false names. 5 years before the episode aired the Eichmann-trial took place. Back in the 60s, only two decades after the Second World War, that was still an actual thing, even if it was overshadowed by the Cold War.
Please get your facts straight before offering opinions. The mini skirt in the sixties was a feminist statement about women's empowerment - invented by a woman; it was not sexist, despite how it has been retrofitted to be so by modern "feminists". The women who wore the short skirt in Star Trek were very rarely ditzy; most of the yeomen from seasons one and two were feisty and self-reliant, getting stuck into the action as much as the men. Very rarely were women in Star Trek portrayed as helpless. Unlike you (apparently) I've watched every single episode for review purposes and written several articles about the things people get wrong about the show. Feel free to check out my fanzine PAST PERFECT for a show-by-show review of the original series. And I'm not slavishly fannish about it either; but I do remember it from when it was first shown and review it in context, not with distorted 21st century hindsight.
This is TRUE. ST was actually breaking new ground in a lot of ways, even with Kirk and Uhura's "forced" kiss (C'mom, Jimmie Boy, yew know yew want some of that "brown sugar"). At the time, the show's producers felt that NBC affiliates in the South would refuse to air the episode, but not only didn't that happen, one fan from the South wrote that though he was opposed to interracial dating, that Kirk, being a "red-blooded American" (Bill Shatner is actually Canadian), being placed in the face of a 'beautiful negress' like Uhura, wouldn't fight it.
Oh, but there is! It's called Axanar, and it's in production right now, to be released in July 2020 at SDCC! I'm part of the Axa-fam, so I've been privy to this info. Go to aresstudios.com for the latest info. You will be so happy, I promise!
There is Star Trek like that, today, although it doesn't go by the name of Star Trek. It's hiding under the invisibility cloak of The Orville. :) Honestly, it's straight up Star Trek, just with different names and ship models. I've gotten my wife to fall in love with it, but I'm still working on doing the backwards conversion to get her to watch Star Trek with me. :)
@@c182SkylaneRG oh, yes, The Orville is awesome! Now that it's going to Hulu, Seth will be able to drop all pretense of it not being Star Trek. It's really coming into its own now.
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Patterns of Force" (Nazi parallel world) and "The Mark of Gideon" (birth control)...or "Balance of Terror" (based on "The Enemy Below" - yes not exactly 'current events but still brings in WWII themes.
In Enterprise Incident, they were not "just outside Romulan space" or on an observation mission. They intentionally crossed the neutral zone to lure Romulan vessels in so they could steal a cloaking device.
I was going to add that... In addition Kirk was acting insane so as to give the Federation cover should the mission fail. Spock being the only one who knew the mission besides Kirk. McCoy has no knowledge of the mission until he is asked to make Kirk look like a Romulan and he(McCoy) never disguises himself. Maybe the author should review the episodes before making a video.
He didn’t watch this episode at all. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Spock and Kirk ending up in a trash compactor while McCoy fought the Romulan commander with a phaser sword....
The Enterprise Incident was written by DC FONTANA, and was in relation to the stolen capture of the USS PUEBLO which was in international waters outside and off the cost of north korea.
Yes, his summary of "The Enterprise Incident" is way off. Those interested in his errors, please watch the episode, then come back and rewatch this. Very cringeworthy summary.
Star trek VI - the final line from "Peter Pan ". The whole film was about resistance to change. Pan resisted the ultimate change, from boy to man. Masterful.
Robert Bloch (who wrote "Wolf in the Fold" was also the author of the novel "Psycho" (more or less based on Ed Gein) and the classic short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" since he was a young teenager he had been pen-pal of H. P. Lovecraft and had contributed several short stories to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published in Weird Tales Magazine where Lovecraft published his stories. As did Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian, King Kull, Solomon Kane, etc) and August Derleth who founded the publishing company of Arkham House to preserve Lovecraft's work in hard covers and later that of other alumni from Weird Tales Magazine. Anyway, Bloch's story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" originally presented us with the idea that the Ripper's killings were a dark ritual to make him immortal. A ritual he had tp repeat every twenty years or so. That got him to the 1940s when that story was published and into the far future when he did a sequel for Harlan Ellison's DANGEROUS VISIONS anthology called "A Toy for Juliette" to which Ellison who had written the script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" added a sequel called "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" which illustrates what happens even to a monster like Red Jack when he lives on and on but fails to evolve while humans and society DO. Anyway, in between Yours Truly and Juliette lies Wolf.
Do more research on the USS Vincennes shoot down. The flight characteristic was of a fighter approach and not a commercial liner. The Iranians were on the scene before the US Navy which has aircraft on standby for just that purpose. How did they know? The Iranians also waved off any help. There is still video of naked bodies in the water...freshly dead passengers (?) who had the pallor of death from days earlier. The US Navy is not in the habit of just shooting down passenger planes. My experience in the Gulf was to wait while Iranian Phantoms approached within yards of my ship to ascertain their intentions. We were not allowed to fire. We called ourselves and our destroyer the duty martyrs.
That the Iranians would load a bunch of bodies from the morgue (and there was a war going on with Iraq, so they'd have a 'fresh' supply), but that they'd sacrifice an airliner...that does seem implausible. Then again, you never know with fanatics.
I see what they did there at 6:25. I"m guessing there's no deleted scene of Kirk giving the Hawaiian Good Luck sign to the Romulans in "The Enterprise Incident."🙂 Since you referenced Star Trek VI, you forgot the nod to Adlai Stevenson's "Don't wait for the translation."
The lies of propaganda over hundreds of years that paint Voyages as a warship. The Doctor is the living witness because a backup emitter was found among the Voyages artifacts. The Doctor refutes all the conclusions. It's on Amazon Prime if you want to check it out.
7:30 The Iranian liner was far from the only passenger vessel lost to military fire. History is filled with such examples. It happened more recently in Ukraine , famously with the Lusitania, etc etc.
Steve Lindstedt hence the invention of the cloaking device, which would mimics a submarine hiding underwater from detection from a ship on the surface. Also, wasn’t there a movie called THE ENEMY BELOW with Robert Mitchum it was based on?
Regarding its long track record of ditsy women and impossibly short skirts, I read that that is not what Gene Roddenberry wanted. It was just so that it could be more accepted at that time. The Star Treks of Gene Roddenberry would be The Cage and the first two seasons of TNG.
Lothar was a superhero from Africa in Mandrake the magician in 1934. He had the powers of Super strength, speed and invulnerability. Hawkmen in Flash Gordon in 1935 were also dark although they lived on another planet.
It looks much worse. I don't remember seeing needles or human excrement in that two parter but it was a city of only super rich and very poor, which certainly is happening in SF today.
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 the very poor and the very rich coexist from the dawn of time and this goes on until the end of time, the thing is that is the political metality, sna francisco los angeles , chicago, baltimore , all shitholes all in demonrats control
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 Maybe in the wake of COVID-19 some common-sense sanitation measures will have been implemented by 2024, or likely the homeless get isolated in a "sanctuary" due to being blamed for the disease's transmittal.
3:21 "prisoners were allotted 1 roll of toilet paper per month" - watch this in the thick of the Corona Virus epidemic of 2019/2020 where people apparently need more than 1 roll per day...
I enjoyed them for what they were. Why feed on all the conspiracy theories. Either just enjoy them as SCI Fi entertainment or go by books by authors who sell them to people who feed on that crap.
I disagree with the author's conclusion that this episode was inspired by the Attica Riots--rather it discussed the problem of homelessness, unemployment, and lack of opportunity. Shortly either shortly before or after the airing of this episode, then Mayor Reardon of Los Angeles, California had proposed sticking the homeless into areas that strangely resembled the sanctuaries of this episode.
Mentioning "Twilight" (ST: E), released in 2003 pretty much ignores the existence of Memento (2000), a film with much the same issue. More than likely, the movie was the basis for the episode. And the movie was based on the medical condition you mention.
Why is it that some of these " Did You Know " videos are seldom Hosted by a person who knows Little to Nothing of Star Trek tos and proves it buy not checking the facts or watching an episode . I'm sort of impressed that this was a fairly good video but I'm sure that there's more than one screw ups that will be caught in a later time .
The incident that you mention, the Iranian commercial plane was shot down. Did you know that it took the press from Iran, an extremely short time to get there? Which led American officials to determine that the Iranian government used the civilians killed as sacrificial lambs to make the Americans look bad.
So many classic Star Trek episodes. Which one is the best of all time?
Kahn .... Cptn Kirk: KAaaaaaaahn !
@@mtbroca Did you actually watch the Enterprise Incident? You got two facts VERY wrong. 1. Kirk and McCoy did not disguise themselves as Romulians. Only Kirk. 2. Spock and Kirk did not fake their deaths. Spock helped Kirk fake his, so he could be beamed back to the Enterprise and surgically altered to resemble a Romulian. You really don't want people fact checking you. Especially Star Trek's fanatical fans. They will rip you a new one. All in all it was an interesting piece.
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Fanatical fans, is like saying rice pilaf, or pizza pie. Pilaf means rice, and pizza means pie. Don't make me fact check you. Ha!
Balance of Terror
Star Trek Voyager, second of a two part episode arc, crew members forced to live in a World War 2 holodeck simulation. Jeri Ryan singing and Klingons fighting nazis. Classic.
So many errors regarding your synopsis of _The Enterprise Incident,_ it makes me wonder if you actually _watched_ the episode.
_"The Enterprise is just outside of the Romulan neutral zone...when a bunch of Romulan ships show up..."_
Actually, they cross _into_ the neutral zone, and are well inside of it when the Romulans appear.
_"...(Kirk) and Spock are taken to a Romulan outpost..."_
They're taken aboard the Romulan flagship.
_"Kirk and Spock fake their deaths..."_
Kirk and Spock fake _Kirk's_ death. Only Kirk is presumed dead.
_"...and then Kirk and McCoy put on pointy eared disguises..."_
McCoy helps Kirk put on a pointy eared disguise (he surgically alters Kirk's appearance to that of a Romulan). McCoy never actually puts on a disguise himself.
I'm also pretty sure that the Commander's intention was for Spock to torture her...
Yes, you are right on all counts. Plus Kirk planned the whole mission and his supposed insanity, so he could steal the cloaking device.
Thank you for your comments, I was about to write this out myself. I agree the person doing this was not a fan of the show and definitely had not watched the Enterprise Incident.
@@timoates9592 Yes, it was a ploy to steal the cloaking device, but Kirk and Spock were under orders from Starfleet, Kirk didn't do it all on his own.
Not denying that, WmTRiker, just affirming that I agreed with you and gave a few more details.
Like when kirk fought that Gorn creature. That was based on me and the wife.
Which is which
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@@hackman669 thats easy: which one can't move their head?
So, David, you're saying the Neighborhood Association decided who could keep the apartment by invoking the single-combat-arbitration clause? Happened to my uncle too..
Har har har... Then you let her have it wit gunpowder right? Mouthy chick
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Short skirts were the fashion of the day in the '60s! I know, I, my friends, my sister, etc., wore them very short. And many of the women portrayed on Star Trek TOS were very capable professionals, without husbands or kids, unlike most women on TV at the time.
In "Trials and Tribbilations", when Dax magically wipes out her spots (to pose as a human female, Trills hadn't been introduced into the series and perhaps weren't known in Kirk's day), as she puts on the standard issue uniform of a medical/science enlisted tech, she comments that the hemlines for women's attire were "shorter". Of course, Terri Farrell had the 'gams" to show off!
@@selfdo ..Although nowadays, if Dax would walk around present day Earth city streets, no one would even bat an eye at the spots on her face and neck area because of the popularity of interesting and outrageous tattoos among men and women today anyway. Some ppl have tattoos all over their bodies. So she would fit right in.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Agreed! Even nearly 25 years ago, when the two-parter in Voyager, "Future's End", Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Paris all beam down to Los Angeles at Venice Beach, and they've put one what they think are period-appropriate clothes. Tuvok, seeing the colorful persons milling about, remarks, "We could have worn our Starfleet Uniforms. I doubt anyone would have noticed!"
Probably having Dax erase her 'spots' (interesting how easily that's done, with some sort of 'ray applicator', my guess is that she was actually applying some makeup in a matching color, and the device in her hand is some manner of mini-transporter, much like the replicator magically makes a desired dish or drink appear) is so that the appearance of Trills in the Federation doesn't have to be explained. Also, IF indeed Kirk hadn't seen a Trill, and he beheld Dax, he'd want to jump her bones (as if Terri Farrell isn't fetching enough!) so he could have himself a spotted gal! I would surmise that transporter technology is cheap and safe enough that it can be used in a makeup applicator for women, although the consumer economy of the Federation, give that they profess not to be motivated by "material pursuits", and when Kirk and the crew of the "Botany Bay" go back to 1986 San Francisco, he remarks "They still use MONEY" (maybe he meant they still use currency and/or coins, there are other references to some form of money, i.e., Federation "credits"), makes assumptions about consumer habits and the general standard of living (presumably comparable to ours if not BETTER) rather sketchy.
@Cliven Longsight Oh, yeah! Dr. Helen Noel (Marianna Hill, b. 1942, so a 24 y.o. as a "doctor" is a preciously young professional!) is, if not my FAVORITE ST chick, definitely in the Top Five. However, I also liked the relief communications officer, Lt. Palmer (Elizabeth Rogers, 1934-2004). But Kirk not "fraternize"? Yeah, right. However, Jadzia actually fancied Spock, himself a "babe magnet", which wasn't "Logical"...
@Cliven Longsight The show wasn't about "James Tiberius Kirk" gets his rocks off, and it WAS the Sixties...so either he'd have to fall in love with Janice Rand, marry her, knock her up, and have her Earth side (or on some colony planet), or, be "Keptin Kelibate", with Rand gone. That rumors got spread of Grace Lee Whitney's drug and alcohol problems, thanks to the "Great Bird", Gene Roddenberry , he was a real bastard.
Once the Janice Rand character just kinda dropped out, ST: TOS went through the "hot chick of the week" phase, with a new Yeoman or Junior Officer, and it was a babe fest! I agree about Noel and her hotness. Would also give honorable mention to Yeomans Barrows, Mears, Ross (hubba, hubba, hubba!), Tamura, Zahra, and Cobb; Lts. Piper, Shaw, McGivers (I'm a sucker for redheads), Palamas, Moreau (both universes!), Palmer (not everyone would agree as to her looks, but SHE would have been IDEAL for Kirk), and Romaine (poor Scotty, lucky with engines, unlucky at love..), and LCDR/Dr. Muhall (whom later on would get plastered and then plowed by Dylan Hunt (John Saxon) in a quest for "balance" in one of Roddenberry's failed pilots). And I''m not even counting civilians or other races, of whom it's implied that Kirk got frisky with at least a few.
Many of the women on TOS weren't ditzy and short skirts at the time were considered a symbol of women's liberation. I know, I grew up at that time.
It's funny how people today judge the people of yesterday by today's standards. In some cases, there are things that are eternally repugnant (racism comes to mind), but the strange obsession with applying 3rd generation feminism to critique of material produced during its second generation is strange to me.
I came up in the 90s, mind, but I actually paid attention in school. TOS was a product of the late 60s, and they weren't THAT far removed from the 40s and 50s, where revealing any part of a woman's body was "scandalous."
Honestly, I find it hilarious that we've largely returned to the "don't show your body" mindset of olden days in the name of misguided "feminism."
@@jesuszamora6949, I consider that to be less 3rd wave feminism, and more of the extremist anti-male kind of feminism (propagated by Andrea Dworkin and her contemporaries) that (IMHO) gained traction because of the Internet.
@@Neville60001 There is the internet too, yes. The absolute worst strains of left and right wing extremism have really found footing they might not have without the megaphone provided by social media.
@@jesuszamora6949 originally Janice and Uhura wore tunics and long pants. Grace Lee Whitney went to GR and complained that she had beautiful long dancer's legs of which she was extraordinarily proud. She was upset that the costume was covering them. Nichelle Nicolls felt the same way. All the female costumes were subsequently changed to ditch the pants. Pretty sure the male viewers were quite happy about it. 😉
Bottom line: Better have the facts straight because Trekkers know every detail.
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The Enterprise Incident synopsis is completely wrong, whoever wrote this script needs to actually sit down and watch the episode... And we are not just talking one error here, we are talking tons of them. So far the only thing that is correct is that there was Romulans in that episode!
In the Enterprise Incident, the ship was not outside the neutral zone but went straight in to provoke the response. Also- they were not taken to an outpost- they were interrogated on the Romulan Flagship
How they managed to steal the cloaking device and get away would undoubtedly have provoked a huge amount of reprisals from the Tal'Shiar. Sub-Commander Tal is a DEAD man, IF he's lucky. The Romulan Commander (Joanne Linville) would either commit suicide at first opportunity (and Kirk graciously having her escorted by Security to her "quarters" instead of the brig is either a nod to allowing her to kill her self, or he's naively exercising poor security himself) or resign herself to a life in exile from the Empire, she, likewise, having commanded the entire fiasco that was the Romulan response (and that several Romulan capital space craft, including two of the new D7 battlecruisers obtained from the Klingons, magically show up indicate that Section 31 has egregiously "fouled up" , e.g., there's likely a 'mole' that tipped the Romulans off), would likely be targeted for assassination, as she's too valuable a prisoner to the Federation.
...and McCoy did NOT Don pointed ears. What a bunch of dweebs. Got everything wrong.
@@phyllisdicks9830 wait the dweebs are the ones who got the granular detrails wrong? ;)
It look’s by the first comment,that,Star Trek alway’s wins!Or,I should say,the Enterprise crew does?I also like how the Romulan Commander is given a choice of being relocated to a Starbase,instead of being;a prisoner.I was assuming that either side would’ve killed each other,eventually?But,we know the writer’s wanted a;hopeful future,here?Yes,I agree!This is more logical,and it satisfies the viwer’s wishes!
Major BLOOPER in this Video! '
At the 3 minute & 33 second mark they discuss the Deep Space Nine episode, "Little Green Men." The narrator says the episode tackles the subject of Area 51, and Quark, Rom, Odo & Nog are accidentally sent back in time to Area 51....What?... Nonsense! They were sent back to July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico for what was infamously known as the "Roswell Incident" or "Roswell UFO Crash."
Area 51 is at Groom Lake in Nevada which is 689 miles away from Roswell, New Mexico. Now you might say that maybe they took them there after the crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Well, there are two things that don't add up with that statement. First, I remember when the episode aired over 20 years ago, and the commentary around it. All that was mentioned leading up to the episode premiering was it was an alternative explanation as to what happen at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Area 51 was never mentioned at all in the episode nor were there any references to it. There was one hidden reference possibly about there whereabouts which leads to my second point. If the story didn't take place at the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell New Mexico then perhaps in was at Hanger 18 in Dayton, Ohio?. If you notice during the episode there is a number 18 posted inside the hanger (11:57 the General Denning looks at a picture of the Ferengi Shuttle inside the hanger) and outside on the hanger when they are escaping in the shuttle (not in the video).
kwlcom69 - You’re right. The wreckage from the Roswell Incident is generally believed to have been flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, not Groom Lake, NV.
I think this entire video was just an ad farm he put 6 ads in 11-minute video.
Spock didn’t fake his death in that episode. He made it look like he “murdered” Jim in self defense and then made his was with the female romulan commander.
Yeah, he murdered that one episode. Otherwise, good video
And Kirk ordered the ship into _Romulan_ space and faked his illness in order to steal the Romulans' cloaking technology.
Like when kirk fought that Gorn creature. That was based on me and the wife.
Just a few simple corrections. Herb Solow and Robert Justman weren't writers for the series. Justman was associate producer and Solow was head of Desilu Studios. They never wrote for Star Trek. There is nothing mentioned (documented) by the production people involved with Star Trek that the sexy ladies in the show were a distraction for the story elements. It was the sci-fi "parable" element that was the distraction (according to Gene Roddenberry) so the network could write it off as nothing more than telling fairly tales (ala Jonathan Swift).
So glad I'm not the only one who caught the mistakes from The Enterprise Incident.
One misconception I'd like to clear up. Star Trek has never preached "social justice" because what we refer to that as is not anything except Marxist class warfare. What Star Trek preached was morality and ethics. There's a difference and if you can't see that then you're part of the problem.
That's certainly one way to look at it.
I don't disagree, really.
I was born from a treky mom and have inherited the treky gene. I just can’t help myself. THERE IS NO CURE And I’m glad! Can’t wait for the new series to come out
Ve Vee same! I was/am hooked on Voyager and 00’s enterprise series my mom is a fan of the original
nate hector yea I can’t wait till the new series comes out. I’ve been enjoying the other series on Netflix
Every time I think about the new show coming out, I wet myself a little. Oops I did it again
It isn't trekkie ,at least not anymore as star trek fans refer to themselves as trekkers and IF you were a fan you should know that.
@@seanbrown525 I knew that. But, I prefer trekie. It's cuter!
This was actually preceded by Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. He had a knack to disguise the contemporary social and political issues in his stories. Got the censors to follow the superficial storyline, while the underlying plot took aim at the actual human condition (which would have been censored).
“Partially clothed”
Why did they have to mention that? Are they implying women should be forced to cover up?
It is obvious that you didn't watch the Enterprise Incident from the comments you made.
You described The Enterprise Incident just as if you'd hastily scanned a synopsis on it written by someone who had once had the episode playing in the background while the read a book.
@Barrett Haynes What in the actual? What are you on about?
First, some of ur descriptions of these episodes are really off. with some of the stories, it seems like u didn't watch the episodes before u did a video on this.
second, there were some strong female characters in the original show and films! as a girl, I quickly get tired of people belittling women when they look sexy. Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), said it herself many times: 'that was the era where woman wore short miniskirts everywhere even when not on camera, bc that was the era of the miniskirt,'... and being sexy was a form of liberation. women were allowed to be sexy, and that to them was a sort of freedom, bc they got to choose how they looked. on the show 'Doctor Who', in 1970, one of the actresses who played the companion, was angry when other women got to wear sexy miniskirts, while she had to wear clothes that covered her entire body. she hated that she couldn't be sexy, bc sexy was allowed to be cool back then. and in the original show, men often showed skin as well. captain kirk's lovely boobs were shown so very much! and too often female empowerment is reduced to the idea that a woman has to dress like a man to be respectable. isn't that narrowminded?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz wasn't written as a dream they changed it into a dream for the 1939 movie also in the original story silver slippers not ruby slippers.
Yup. Ruby slippers were in the film because they were better for showing off Technicolor.
L Frank Baum wrote it as a hallucination caused by psychosis from being around electricity, in the second book which was made into a TV movie in 1984 (Return to Oz) Dorothy is in a Lunatic Asylum . The only reason I know is because my parents had the books.
You mean sci-fi is often thinly veiled under-the-radar political allegories and/or morality tales that explore current or historical socio-political issues!? No, really!? Next you’ll be telling me District 9 and Avatar had something to say about a certain countries imperialism, but that’d be just crazy talk!
You forgot about DS9’s “Duet”. It’s based on the Nazi death camps.
Exactly ... not including that episode is a huge (and possibly unforgivable) mistake.
@@nispelsm WTF? This whole video was a mistake.
@@phyllisdicks9830 Most of it. I think I will not watch any more by this loser.
In The Ultimate Computer it takes on the subject of automation, the way things are going spaceships will either fly themselves or have a robot crew, which reminds me of another episode, The Measure of a Man.
You missed one of the most obvious episodes based on true events - "Balance of Terror." The battle between the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird was based on a WWII destroyer/frigate hunting a German U-boat.
The Enterprise phaser bursts were modified for the episode to behave like depth charges, and the warbird even discharged damaged ship structures and a body like a U-boat discharging oil and casualties to try and fool their hunter into thinking they had been destroyed.
"Balance of Terror" was a retelling of a World War II movie, "The Enemy Below," which was a war novel, not real events. Still a movie worth watching.
What about the "Shootout at the OK Corral" episode? That was the best one.
MJM804 and the ones with the mafia and hitler? (Almost halfway through video sorry)
Spectre of the Gun.
@@bloodywolf8854 Mafia one was a Piece of the Action and the Hitler/Nazi one was Patterns of Force both in Star Trek: Season 2 of the original series with Kirk & Spock.
Good point.
That episode you're referencing is titled "Spectre of The Gun"
There is one Star Trek episode you missed that parallels Earth history. It was Assignment Earth and it was the one where Gary Seven prevents a global thermonuclear war by the US government's launch of an orbital thermonuclear weapon that goes out of control and is about to land in the Soviet Union. Gary Seven detonates the bomb in time and this leads to a treaty banning the launching thermonuclear weapons in space. No event like this occurred in 1968 but a the 1967 Outer Space Treaty was signed by the US and the USSR banning these weapons.
Star Trek itself; the voyages of the Enterprise under James Kirk, was inspired by the voyages of the Endeavour under James Cook. The leader of their embarked scientific team was Joseph Banks, inspiring the role of Spock.
The Synopsis of The Enterprise Incident is SO wrong. Please find a real Trekker to do these....
With regard to "The Enterprise Incident", you missed the key elements that Kirk ordered his ship *into* the Neutral Zone, that they were imprisioned on a Romulan ship on the scene not an outpost and that the entire thing was a deliberately staged Federation operation to steal cloak technology from the Romulans.
Some of that is quite relevant to a comparison to the Pueblo incident.
True. I imagine just getting intel on the reclusive DPRK was valuable, even then.
TNG season 7, episode 16: "Thine Own Self" seems to be influenced by the real-life Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987, in which radioactive material was unwittingly spread through a city in a similar way as seen in the episode.
What!!! Your description of “The Enterprise Incident” shows that none of you have even seen the episode!!! Spock did not fake his death. And McCoy never put on “pointed ears”.
You got many details about "The Enterprise Incident" completely wrong.
You never watched any of these episodes before you did this video, did you?
On January 26, 1967, an episode aired in which the Enterprise was in the 1960s and picked up a pilot and then had to return him so his son could be born.
In 1968 there was an episode where they went back to the 1960s again. When asked what would be happening, Mr. Spock said there would be an attempted coup, an important assassination, and a missile launch, which was what the episode was about. A week later Dr. King was assassinated, followed 2 months and 1 day later by Sen. R. Kennedy.
Reel life before real life.
I forgot to mention that on January 27, 1967, the next day, that 3 astronauts named Grissom, White, and Chafee, were killed in a fire at Cape Kennedy.
I can't help but notice that automation putting people out of jobs hasn't been solved yet. It gets my vote.
How could you not include TNG - Chain of Command???
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!!!
The book "1984" is not an actual event.
@@jd190d - Chain of Command isn't based on 1984. It's based on prisoners being tortured, which does happen. In fact, I believe Amnesty International had something to do with this episode. Why did you think I was referring to 1984? Did they use the four lights thing too?
@@TodaysDante The four lights is from 1984 when Winston Smith is tortured than asked if he sees four fingers. It's lifted straight from the book.
@@TodaysDante It's from 1984 when Winston Smith is asked if he sees four fingers when O'Brien is holding up three. The scene and concept is straight from the book. If you want an easier way to see this look for the scene from the movie with William Hurt.
@@jd190d - DID NOT know that! Thanks!
"We probably won't ever know what happened" is an apt commentary on almost everything the U.S. government has done over the past 40 years.
why just the last 40 years? When has any government been particularly transparent?
@@jv-lk7bc Indeed. We must remember that, for any government to effectively guard against the hostile intentions of another, some secrecy IS necessary. I doubt we know everything about the Revolution, even.
What turned Tyree from hippie to killer breaks my heart to this day, damn good storytelling.
But Val had said that "it was a thing to do...".
I’m a man. Why would I find sexy women who defer to men unappealing? What I find offensive is the hosts bold and cavalier sexism directed at men.
What happened to the Iran Air flight is pretty well documented. It was a war crime. You cannot mistake a Widebody Passenger Jet for a Fighter plane. The Jet was a scheduled flight, with a properly filed flight plan and proper clearance. It had it's transponder on, it was communicating on the appropriate civil frequencies... The captain of the USS Vincennes, Will Rogers was known to be a loose cannon and too incompetent to captain an AEGIS vessel... oh and he was repeatedly attacking Iranian vessels in Iranian sovereign waters (an act of war). He should have ended in prison for war crimes, mass murder and treason.
In 1996, the governments of the United States and Iran reached a settlement at the International Court of Justice which included the statement "...the United States recognized the aerial incident of 3 July 1988 as a terrible human tragedy and expressed deep regret over the loss of lives caused by the incident..." As part of the settlement, even though the U.S. government did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran, it still agreed to pay US$61.8 million on an ex gratiabasis, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims.
Despite the mistakes made in the downing of the plane, the men of USS Vincennes were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for completion of their tours in a combat zone. The air-warfare coordinator on duty received the Navy Commendation Medal,[11] but The Washington Post reported in 1990 that the awards were for his entire tour from 1984 to 1988 and for his actions relating to the surface engagement with Iranian gunboats.[64] In 1990, Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer [...] from April 1987 to May 1989." The award was given for his service as the commanding officer of Vincennes from April 1987 to May 1989. The citation made no mention of the downing of Iran Air 655.
@@johnburns9634 : Well, heinous war crimes are almost always awarded with medals, instead of shackles. In this regard, there is no difference between Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the US, Russia, the UK, Belgium,...
@@bikkiikun No argument here.
Rather sloppy research on the details of the episodes.
5:17, it actually has been shown in it's entirity on tv in Ireland, lived here all my life and I've seen it several times on tv including Syfy (or whatever way they're spelling it to try to seem trendy or whatever) & pick which over here are English channels. It's even available on streaming services like netflix.
Yes but in the UK it was banned on the BBC during the run of Next Generation in the original run of the third season circa 1992-93. At that point there were no streaming services as the internet wasn't as well established as today.The BBC didn't start showing Next Generation until about 1990.
@@seanbrown525 Well, the video did say that they'd never been aired "to this day."
2:45 they arrived in Roswell NM, nowhere near Area 51, which is in Nevada north of Las Vegas. Allegedly.
True, and nuclear testing at "Yucca Flats" (not actually "area 51" itself, but part of the Nevada Test Site) began in 1951. Any above-ground nuclear testing was done in the South Pacific in the post-war era until the NTS was established, like "Crossroads" at Bikini Atoll (where the name of the two-piece swimwear was coined) in 1946. The "big boys", like Ivy Mike in 1952 at Eniwetok and "Castle Bravo" and the rest of the "Castle" series of shots at Bikini, were done in the South Pacific, but, due to the (un)"Lucky Dragon" incident, no further above-ground testing was done in the South Pacific, though a high-altitude test, about 250 miles up from a point near Johnston Atoll was done in 1962, yielding 1.4 Mt ("Starfish Prime").
Just watched ST a "Wolf in the Fold" a few days ago and it is one of my favorite episodes. I really love the tie in with Jack Ripper as an entity, and by the way Scotty did do the actual killing. And why? Because the "redjac" entity had the ability to move from body to body, but if it wasn't for Kirk and Spock's Keen analysis with the help from the computer to prove that Scotty did not consciously do it it would have been no choice but to blame Scotty. The computer findings led straight to the man who was from argelias mr. Ingus who was incriminating himself by protesting the use of the computer.
Actually I've always quoted this episode when I talked about the TV series "Twin Peaks"
Sooooo many similarities in that
EC comics didn't quite go out of business. They changed their Mad comic to a magazine format, so it didn't have to follow the Comics Code guidelines, and Mad magazine ran for decades, just ending earlier this year.
Your description of the Enterprise Incident is TOTALLY WRONG. Kirk Ordered the Enterprise INTO the Neutral Zone.
He was under orders to do it, and Spock was in on it all along. Another example of Section 31 pulling strings behind the scenes.
"A woman causes an accident that gives Scotty a concussion, so Kirk and McCoy take him to a pleasure planet..." Wait, WHAT? Is that the Prime Directive's normal treatment for concussion then? "Take two paracetamol, and then get yourself some sweet lurve action!"
I don't think that's the plot line.
It's in McCoy's medical bag, along with a right cross for pregnant women.
This whole vid needs to be pulled and redone.....
@@vinniemorciglio4632 Now why do you say that?
Sure, why not? We all assume that McCoy thoroughly treated Scotty's injuries, so what's wrong with a little shore leave?
DS9's By the Pale Moonlight. The way Sisko tells his log entry to the computer. Classic!
BTW, there was no Klingon Neutral Zone. The Wrath of Khan created one for the Kobayashi Maru test which was initially written to be Romulan ships because they wanted to reuse the shots of Klingon ships from The Motion Picture in order to save money. You'll note that Kirk tells Saavik that Klingons don't take prisoners, when in fact it was Romulans who don't take prisoners (The Deadly Years). Hence Star Trek VI had a Klingon Neutral Zone.
Or as Dorothy Fontana once said "Canon was whatever the writers needed it to be."
I think we should add the episode "The Conscience of the King" to this list. The plot was about a fedration individuum who rose to power on a colony during a famine and decided to execute half of the colonists to save the other half because there was not enough food for all! After that he faked his death and disappeared, took on a new identity. This episode was based on the circumstance that several Nazi-warcriminals had evaded capture, lived under false names. 5 years before the episode aired the Eichmann-trial took place. Back in the 60s, only two decades after the Second World War, that was still an actual thing, even if it was overshadowed by the Cold War.
Please get your facts straight before offering opinions. The mini skirt in the sixties was a feminist statement about women's empowerment - invented by a woman; it was not sexist, despite how it has been retrofitted to be so by modern "feminists". The women who wore the short skirt in Star Trek were very rarely ditzy; most of the yeomen from seasons one and two were feisty and self-reliant, getting stuck into the action as much as the men. Very rarely were women in Star Trek portrayed as helpless. Unlike you (apparently) I've watched every single episode for review purposes and written several articles about the things people get wrong about the show. Feel free to check out my fanzine PAST PERFECT for a show-by-show review of the original series. And I'm not slavishly fannish about it either; but I do remember it from when it was first shown and review it in context, not with distorted 21st century hindsight.
This is TRUE. ST was actually breaking new ground in a lot of ways, even with Kirk and Uhura's "forced" kiss (C'mom, Jimmie Boy, yew know yew want some of that "brown sugar"). At the time, the show's producers felt that NBC affiliates in the South would refuse to air the episode, but not only didn't that happen, one fan from the South wrote that though he was opposed to interracial dating, that Kirk, being a "red-blooded American" (Bill Shatner is actually Canadian), being placed in the face of a 'beautiful negress' like Uhura, wouldn't fight it.
@10:30, Kirk and Spock were NOT taken to a Romulan outpost. They were taken to the Romulan commander's ship.
Star Trek with substance, ah how refreshing. Too bad there's no Star Trek like that today.
Oh, but there is! It's called Axanar, and it's in production right now, to be released in July 2020 at SDCC! I'm part of the Axa-fam, so I've been privy to this info. Go to aresstudios.com for the latest info. You will be so happy, I promise!
@@ecclestonsangel yeah, unfortunately, thanks to the greedy Hollywo... I mean Ferengi, it is only going to be "Axanar-lite"
@@FildasKirk but it's still real Star Trek, and that's all that matters! GreedBS be damned!
There is Star Trek like that, today, although it doesn't go by the name of Star Trek. It's hiding under the invisibility cloak of The Orville. :) Honestly, it's straight up Star Trek, just with different names and ship models. I've gotten my wife to fall in love with it, but I'm still working on doing the backwards conversion to get her to watch Star Trek with me. :)
@@c182SkylaneRG oh, yes, The Orville is awesome! Now that it's going to Hulu, Seth will be able to drop all pretense of it not being Star Trek. It's really coming into its own now.
Your information on the Enterprise incident is incorrect
Yes , Gene took on everything .
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Patterns of Force" (Nazi parallel world) and "The Mark of Gideon" (birth control)...or "Balance of Terror" (based on "The Enemy Below" - yes not exactly 'current events but still brings in WWII themes.
In Enterprise Incident, they were not "just outside Romulan space" or on an observation mission. They intentionally crossed the neutral zone to lure Romulan vessels in so they could steal a cloaking device.
I was going to add that...
In addition Kirk was acting insane so as to give the Federation cover should the mission fail. Spock being the only one who knew the mission besides Kirk.
McCoy has no knowledge of the mission until he is asked to make Kirk look like a Romulan and he(McCoy) never disguises himself.
Maybe the author should review the episodes before making a video.
He didn’t watch this episode at all. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Spock and Kirk ending up in a trash compactor while McCoy fought the Romulan commander with a phaser sword....
The Enterprise Incident was written by DC FONTANA, and was in relation to the stolen capture of the USS PUEBLO which was in international waters outside and off the cost of north korea.
Yes, his summary of "The Enterprise Incident" is way off. Those interested in his errors, please watch the episode, then come back and rewatch this. Very cringeworthy summary.
These are all very brief and not so well told stories of what and why Star Trek writers did these Related true stories.
Difficult to tell a story that took years to occur and cram it into a 45 minute show!
Star trek VI - the final line from "Peter Pan ". The whole film was about resistance to change. Pan resisted the ultimate change, from boy to man.
Masterful.
Robert Bloch (who wrote "Wolf in the Fold" was also the author of the novel "Psycho" (more or less based on Ed Gein) and the classic short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" since he was a young teenager he had been pen-pal of H. P. Lovecraft and had contributed several short stories to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published in Weird Tales Magazine where Lovecraft published his stories. As did Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian, King Kull, Solomon Kane, etc) and August Derleth who founded the publishing company of Arkham House to preserve Lovecraft's work in hard covers and later that of other alumni from Weird Tales Magazine.
Anyway, Bloch's story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" originally presented us with the idea that the Ripper's killings were a dark ritual to make him immortal. A ritual he had tp repeat every twenty years or so. That got him to the 1940s when that story was published and into the far future when he did a sequel for Harlan Ellison's DANGEROUS VISIONS anthology called "A Toy for Juliette" to which Ellison who had written the script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" added a sequel called "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" which illustrates what happens even to a monster like Red Jack when he lives on and on but fails to evolve while humans and society DO.
Anyway, in between Yours Truly and Juliette lies Wolf.
Wrong - the episode with Picard and Data talking about the IRA has indeed been shown in the UK in the full context
Only on Sky 1 and edited.
It has never been shown on BBC. Far too controversial to openly validate the actions of the Provisional IRA.
You lost me at "high altitude balloon".
Do more research on the USS Vincennes shoot down. The flight characteristic was of a fighter approach and not a commercial liner. The Iranians were on the scene before the US Navy which has aircraft on standby for just that purpose. How did they know? The Iranians also waved off any help. There is still video of naked bodies in the water...freshly dead passengers (?) who had the pallor of death from days earlier. The US Navy is not in the habit of just shooting down passenger planes. My experience in the Gulf was to wait while Iranian Phantoms approached within yards of my ship to ascertain their intentions. We were not allowed to fire. We called ourselves and our destroyer the duty martyrs.
That the Iranians would load a bunch of bodies from the morgue (and there was a war going on with Iraq, so they'd have a 'fresh' supply), but that they'd sacrifice an airliner...that does seem implausible. Then again, you never know with fanatics.
6 ads for an 11-minute video real f****** professional.
Wow! Never in my life did think I'd here the phrase "...and culminated in the 2019 raid on area 51"
Women in impossibly short skirts....why would I find that annoying?...lol
The Ultimate Computer is among my top favorites.
Thought I'd throw that out there as I didn't see it mentioned.
I see what they did there at 6:25. I"m guessing there's no deleted scene of Kirk giving the Hawaiian Good Luck sign to the Romulans in "The Enterprise Incident."🙂
Since you referenced Star Trek VI, you forgot the nod to Adlai Stevenson's "Don't wait for the translation."
Using Fear, just like Communism (Fear, Envy and Greed).
Using Fear, just like ___________________ (enter your favorite -ism here)
Can’t say that scantily clad babes, and non-self reliant one’s at that, have ever annoyed me.
kukuri007 ok
Yeah, Scotty waa The Ripper. He got away scott-free.
Scot free!
'cmmon *gorkon sound similar as gorbatjov* lmao
RUclips removed a Voyager episode called "living witness".....I know why.
Why?
The lies of propaganda over hundreds of years that paint Voyages as a warship. The Doctor is the living witness because a backup emitter was found among the Voyages artifacts. The Doctor refutes all the conclusions. It's on Amazon Prime if you want to check it out.
7:30 The Iranian liner was far from the only passenger vessel lost to military fire. History is filled with such examples. It happened more recently in Ukraine , famously with the Lusitania, etc etc.
"Balance Of Terror"...was basically a submarine movie script, set in outer space.
Steve Lindstedt hence the invention of the cloaking device, which would mimics a submarine hiding underwater from detection from a ship on the surface.
Also, wasn’t there a movie called THE ENEMY BELOW with Robert Mitchum it was based on?
....and the 'silent' sequence....and the random phaser blasts....just like depth charge salvo's.
Correct. In turn based on a battle between USS Borie (DD-215) and U-405 on 31 October 1943.
Captain Dunsel reporting for duty
Regarding its long track record of ditsy women and impossibly short skirts, I read that that is not what Gene Roddenberry wanted. It was just so that it could be more accepted at that time. The Star Treks of Gene Roddenberry would be The Cage and the first two seasons of TNG.
Aquarius1011 Roddenberry had very little to do with TNG.
@@djackson4657 I know that!
He did still have SOMETHING to do with it.
3:50 Well, we sure did have riots in 2020 so “ding-ding-ding-ding” for accuracy.
9:24) Was from "Bladerunner 2049". Luv was her name.
I was talking about the TNG episode " High Ground".
ENT Episode "Twilight" = 50 First Dates?
M5 = Skynet
Lothar was a superhero from Africa in Mandrake the magician in 1934. He had the powers of Super strength, speed and invulnerability. Hawkmen in Flash Gordon in 1935 were also dark although they lived on another planet.
It was shown on the REAL Emerald Isle of Ireland..England isn't the Emerald Isle....
I could watch only a minute of this video due to the obnoxious background music/noise.
weel San Francisco of today is very much like sanfrancisco of that DS9 episode
It looks much worse. I don't remember seeing needles or human excrement in that two parter but it was a city of only super rich and very poor, which certainly is happening in SF today.
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 the very poor and the very rich coexist from the dawn of time and this goes on until the end of time, the thing is that is the political metality, sna francisco los angeles , chicago, baltimore , all shitholes all in demonrats control
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 Maybe in the wake of COVID-19 some common-sense sanitation measures will have been implemented by 2024, or likely the homeless get isolated in a "sanctuary" due to being blamed for the disease's transmittal.
You forgot the episode that mirrored the Mantell UFO incident...
The opening scene of "Tomorrow is Yesterday."
3:21 "prisoners were allotted 1 roll of toilet paper per month" - watch this in the thick of the Corona Virus epidemic of 2019/2020 where people apparently need more than 1 roll per day...
BALANCE OF TERROR was based on the WW2 movie the ENEMY BELOW where a US destroyer fights a German U-bout. Why didn't you mention that one?
When I first saw the title and thumbnail of this video, I thought it was just of TOS.
So did a lot of people I bet.
Thank you for this excellent video. Yes, Gene Roddenberry gave his take on social issues. It all began with the casting.
It began with the premise, well before the casting.
every one knows that there are no little green men at area 51, they are in hangar 17 WPAFB, Dayton,Ohio.
Shhhhh, that's still classified! Lol 😉
That's just because they were moved from Area 51 so the gubment could honestly say there were no aliens at 51 (i.e. "not _now_ there aren't...").
Rubbish they are living underground near the Dulce base
Some people think they are grey. Someone else claimed they were deformed children from the soviet union.
I enjoyed them for what they were. Why feed on all the conspiracy theories. Either just enjoy them as SCI Fi entertainment or go by books by authors who sell them to people who feed on that crap.
The victims in the Persian Gulf incident, they were dead long before the shoot down. Many were found with their hands still bound.
Really? Is there documentation of this?
@@robn1116 It was in the news for a couple of weeks after the incident, then disappeared. I was active Navy at the time
I disagree with the author's conclusion that this episode was inspired by the Attica Riots--rather it discussed the problem of homelessness, unemployment, and lack of opportunity. Shortly either shortly before or after the airing of this episode, then Mayor Reardon of Los Angeles, California had proposed sticking the homeless into areas that strangely resembled the sanctuaries of this episode.
Great to see the RIDDLER from the original BATMAN series
@frank RUDE!!
@frank grow tf UP
And Cat Woman is in another episode.
Piglet is in the Jack the Ripper themed episode, also.
Think editors only occur in Ireland 🇮🇪? Think again.
Mentioning "Twilight" (ST: E), released in 2003 pretty much ignores the existence of Memento (2000), a film with much the same issue. More than likely, the movie was the basis for the episode. And the movie was based on the medical condition you mention.
Why is it that some of these " Did You Know " videos are seldom Hosted by a person who knows Little to Nothing of Star Trek tos and proves it buy not checking the facts or watching an episode .
I'm sort of impressed that this was a fairly good video but I'm sure that there's more than one screw ups that will be caught in a later time .
The incident that you mention, the Iranian commercial plane was shot down. Did you know that it took the press from Iran, an extremely short time to get there? Which led American officials to determine that the Iranian government used the civilians killed as sacrificial lambs to make the Americans look bad.
Um you missed a biggie in Voyager Amelia Earhart and her copilot being abducted by aliens was inspired by the conspiracy theory about the same.