Mid-20th century suit, doesn't have the same weaknesses as a human, his planet is hidden, he won't leave without his companion, travels through time, and has a small pen-like device that can emit hypersonic frequencies... If they want to find where he went, they should search the ship for a 20th-century police call box.
Gary Seven was very considerate. He gave each crewman he encountered on his way out a good night rest, unlike Kirk who kept shouting 'I want this, I want that, hurry up', etc. 🙂
Gary Seven lived on an alien planet where they practice genetic engineering without the thorny issue of with great ability comes great ego, aka Kahn Syndrome. It had to be genetically done and also condition out of him so he was genetically engineered to be polite and respectful. What they did not know was Gary Seven was also from the future. How else did he know that Vulcans did not co-mingle with humans in that time period? He knew everything and was just playing along. The one thing he says is I am from this time period and you are not. That suggests he was plucked out of time and sent back. It's also quite possible that Gary Seven lived into the distant future living years past ToS and into a period of TNG. The aliens would have had technology to keep him alive as well as his natural mutant ability to just live longer.
@@joeboxter3635 His last name, Seven, puzzles me. Is it a last name or a numerical designation that doubles as a last name? Does that mean there were six more "Garys" before him? Gary One, Gary Two, Gary Three, Gary Four, Gary Five and Gary Six, like the Weyouns? 🤔
@@MisterMarinInteresting ... Yes. Gene had a thing for aliens who mucked around human history. It's a theme he followed in Questor Tapes. Questor was a series of android models. So, you make a good point. Like Questor, Gary could have been the seventh generation. Oh btw, @1:08 Scotty says he could have come back great distances or he could have even come back in time. As crazy as this sounds you have to wonder if Gene met an alien from the future. Maybe the ST history of earth was the real time line and the aliens stopped it so we did not have WW3. Lol.
@@joeboxter3635 McCoy described his body as a flawless, perfect human body. I'm thinking cloning, but perfected to the point of zero genetic degradation. Or, maybe Teselecta from Doctor Who. I mean, he does have a Sonic Screwdriver anyway. 😛
Really prophetic. Kirk is asking all important personnel to tie into the briefing room and to feel free to "break in" to contribute anything important. Sounds like a Zoom call to me. Or any other app that allows for conference video calling.
I would have liked the spin-series. And apparently Mr. Spock was something of a cat-fancier: “Quite a lovely animal. I found myself strangely drawn to it.”
I like the little details, like how the transporter whines up Also, the cat a little freaked out by all the bodies in the transporter room Probably why they send a sensible cat 🐈
@@WinstonCodesOn If you ask me, I don't think that given what Paramount has become, a series based on the adventures of Gary Seven, the fans should make this happen.
I wonder if the planest Gary 7 is from is the same planet from a TNG episode where they had cloaked their planet but the cloak caused the people to become sterile and they kidnapped some of the children from the Enterprise.
I knew it! The scene shown up above at 2:42 to 2:50 shows that Gary Seven is a Time Lord because Gary Seven used a Sonic Screwdriver in order to escape which is exactly what The Doctor would think to do too.
I liked how the Transporter room door opened JUST A LITTLE BIT so the cat could be thrown through it. . Also, it’s a Sci-fi trope to have a Prisoner behind an INVISIBLE FORCE FIELD DOOR. They could easily have a regular door. But it’s got to be a bug zapper door. Star Wars is the only science fiction where they actually throw you in a cell with a solid door, like Leia’s cell on the Death Star.
A whole James Bond action sequence, in which a prisoner escapes a high tech cell with a computer virus to open the electronic lock, could have been prevented with a $10 pad lock from Home Depot.
2:32. They thew Gary 7 in the brig and never bothered to search him? Starfleet Security probably rewrote their training procedures when The Enterprise returned to the future.
Greg Cox has written several great Star Trek novels incorporating Seven along with other characters from that time period such as Kahn, Jackson Roykirk, & the immortal Flint....he covers the events leading up to the launch of the Botany Bay....
a dark gary 7 miniseries called G7: The Time That Made Us and he's part-borg with an implant that allows him to transport basically anywhere in the galaxy and his companion is more of a body-horror abomination than a sexy cat lady
Three strange things In this clip ; 1- The only time the words “Spock’s Vulcan neck pinch” are spoken. 2- The visual comnicator comes and goes. Often they have to go to a wall and push a white button. Other times , they are walking towards a camera. 3-Why do their prison cells never have doors? Every other room has a door. But not cells. Just the invisible force field which ALWAYS gets turned off.
Failed back door pilot that could have been interesting. As a side note, this was to be Terri Garr's big break. She could have been the female lead in a network TV show. Garr never had anything nice to say about her "Star Trek" experience. In fact, she refused to talk about it all. Rumor has the reason as being Roddenberry's casting couch chicanery. Hound dog Gene was famous for stuff like that. I think he made Garr jump through a lot of hoops and then the series didn't sell. So she was sour on the whole thing.
Shouldn't the guard have been watching Gary Seven? Couldn't they have taken everything away from Gary Seven? Wouldn't Kirk have leaped into a flying tackle to stop Gary? Oh, WE wouldn't have had a Star Trek episode....
He's clearly a Time Lord: He travels through time, his planet is hidden, and he even carries a pen-shaped sonic screwdriver! I suspect that his name means that he is in his seventh regeneration.
@@patwiggins6969 Thank you. I always wondered if our time frame matched with star dates. They had mentioned that their time was like the twenty-fifth century which I took to mean literally in our own future/time frame. Thanks again.
I never liked this episode. At the beginning of the episode, this Gary Seven guy proved that he was hard to overpower. So why didn't Kirk order more security to watch over him. Also, with a simple pat down of Seven, they would have discovered that "magic pen" like object on him and would have foiled his plan of escape. Stupid plot holes.
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Mid-20th century suit, doesn't have the same weaknesses as a human, his planet is hidden, he won't leave without his companion, travels through time, and has a small pen-like device that can emit hypersonic frequencies... If they want to find where he went, they should search the ship for a 20th-century police call box.
Gary Seven didn't time travel, Kirk did.
That cat lives with us now. She is always one step ahead of us, getting into trouble.
Early Edition?
In a parallel universe, "Assignment Earth" was a popular spin-off of Star Trek starting in the sixties
Now Wesley Crusher's one of 'em.
@@spudhead169 Maybe someone at Paramount was hoping that the second time's the charm for a stealth pilot to a spin-off series
@@Technobabylon Maybe, they did flesh out the whole watcher/supervisor thing in Picard.
It would have been the American Doctor Who.
Um... not a parallel
Shoulda confiscated his sonic screwdriver.
Gary Seven, the American Dr. Who
Without a TARDIS.
@@user-lw9ld9ze7p And without time travel.
The Celestial Intervention Agency's Agent
My favorite episode of the Original Series.
@@user-lw9ld9ze7p And without time travel.
By the end of the piece, the security guard looks like a stoned-out-of-his-mind California surfer dude.
Gary Seven was very considerate. He gave each crewman he encountered on his way out a good night rest, unlike Kirk who kept shouting 'I want this, I want that, hurry up', etc. 🙂
Yeah, he stress me out
... I really do need a nice nap
Gary Seven lived on an alien planet where they practice genetic engineering without the thorny issue of with great ability comes great ego, aka Kahn Syndrome. It had to be genetically done and also condition out of him so he was genetically engineered to be polite and respectful.
What they did not know was Gary Seven was also from the future. How else did he know that Vulcans did not co-mingle with humans in that time period? He knew everything and was just playing along.
The one thing he says is I am from this time period and you are not. That suggests he was plucked out of time and sent back. It's also quite possible that Gary Seven lived into the distant future living years past ToS and into a period of TNG. The aliens would have had technology to keep him alive as well as his natural mutant ability to just live longer.
@@joeboxter3635 His last name, Seven, puzzles me. Is it a last name or a numerical designation that doubles as a last name? Does that mean there were six more "Garys" before him? Gary One, Gary Two, Gary Three, Gary Four, Gary Five and Gary Six, like the Weyouns? 🤔
@@MisterMarinInteresting ... Yes. Gene had a thing for aliens who mucked around human history. It's a theme he followed in Questor Tapes. Questor was a series of android models. So, you make a good point. Like Questor, Gary could have been the seventh generation.
Oh btw, @1:08 Scotty says he could have come back great distances or he could have even come back in time.
As crazy as this sounds you have to wonder if Gene met an alien from the future. Maybe the ST history of earth was the real time line and the aliens stopped it so we did not have WW3. Lol.
@@joeboxter3635 McCoy described his body as a flawless, perfect human body. I'm thinking cloning, but perfected to the point of zero genetic degradation. Or, maybe Teselecta from Doctor Who. I mean, he does have a Sonic Screwdriver anyway. 😛
Hey that pen of Gary Seven's was also a Neurolizer! That's where MIB got it from.
Really prophetic. Kirk is asking all important personnel to tie into the briefing room and to feel free to "break in" to contribute anything important. Sounds like a Zoom call to me. Or any other app that allows for conference video calling.
So Gary Seven was like Captain America.... physically perfect....👍👍
A mysterious stranger with a hidden agenda and a small, screwdriver shaped science instrument is traveling around time...
Do you think... 🤔Oh! 😀 No... 😕 YES! 😀 No... 😕
Who are you talking about🤣
@@Temeraire101 He's thinking outside the blue box...
I wonder Who you’re talking about…
Maybe he needs a doctor……..
But who…….
I would have liked the spin-series.
And apparently Mr. Spock was something of a cat-fancier: “Quite a lovely animal. I found myself strangely drawn to it.”
“You’re tIred. Go to sleep.” I still remember their lines after all these years.
Plus: that red shirt was a time traveling Jesse Plemons.😁
I like the little details, like how the transporter whines up
Also, the cat a little freaked out by all the bodies in the transporter room
Probably why they send a sensible cat 🐈
Star Trek invented Zoom meetings.
Gary Seven spin off series would have been interesting. Too bad it never worked out.
Paramount should revisit that idea
@@WinstonCodesOn If you ask me, I don't think that given what Paramount has become, a series based on the adventures of Gary Seven, the fans should make this happen.
@@ericmadsen7470 I agree. It would make a fantastic fan film.
@@WinstonCodesOn You know the Star Trek audiobooks The Eugenics Wars vols 1 and 2 by Greg Cox? Well, the fan series could begin there.
Such a great TOS episode, top 5, imo…
Gary Seven resembles Derek Flint in appearance and the gizmos he uses.
When Spock was pulling the cat that made me so happy
Interesting how the transporter room door opened just enough for the cat.
You beat me to it.
The smiles😊
"Open Channel 'D'"
And yep.. I did think that the first time I saw this episode on the Beeb Beeb Ceeb
I wonder if the planest Gary 7 is from is the same planet from a TNG episode where they had cloaked their planet but the cloak caused the people to become sterile and they kidnapped some of the children from the Enterprise.
I know which planet you’re talking about, I’m trying to remember the name. It started with an A
Nah, it was probably the one where everyone got knocked out except Data and the aliens blackmailed him into lying to everyone about what happened.
@@teleportedbreadfor3days Aldea.
@@tompinkerton8099 Thank you
I betcha it's more likely he came from that planet that the TNG crew encountered in season 4 ep 25, In Theory
Gary 7, an actual Man in Black
Gary looked like Steve McQueen
That was Robert Lansing who played Gary Seven.
Similar gaunt face
He starred in the original 12 O'Clock High tv series too. @@jeannehall6546
So Gary Seven is actually The Doctor!
EX-TERM-INATE!!! 🧂
Call it a hunch but I don’t think that cat was actually making those noises!
So in the previous scene, Spock was trying the Vulcan neck pinch on him and it had absolutely no effect.
Now THAT is ... fascinating.
One of a few good shows from whence.
I knew it!
The scene shown up above at 2:42 to 2:50 shows that Gary Seven is a Time Lord because Gary Seven used a Sonic Screwdriver in order to escape which is exactly what The Doctor would think to do too.
1st zoom call
Security never patted 7 down to remove his sonic screwdriver?
Great episode
So, did Gary Seven get that Sonic Screwdriver from Dr. Who? Are they both Time Lords?
That’s a good theory.
He might be a time Lord. That would explain a lot
@@patwiggins6969 Except no TARDIS.
That guard/redshirt looks like a young Brian Dennehy.
I liked how the Transporter room door opened JUST A LITTLE BIT so the cat could be thrown through it.
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Also, it’s a Sci-fi trope to have a Prisoner behind an INVISIBLE FORCE FIELD DOOR. They could easily have a regular door. But it’s got to be a bug zapper door.
Star Wars is the only science fiction where they actually throw you in a cell with a solid door, like Leia’s cell on the Death Star.
A whole James Bond action sequence, in which a prisoner escapes a high tech cell with a computer virus to open the electronic lock, could have been prevented with a $10 pad lock from Home Depot.
@@krakow95 LPL's like 'uh, no'
That guard looks like a young RON WHITE
2:32. They thew Gary 7 in the brig and never bothered to search him? Starfleet Security probably rewrote their training procedures when The Enterprise returned to the future.
The Who Protocol: Remove any pen- or screwdriver-shaped items from the prisoner, no matter how innocuous they may appear
Great fun this episode. Surprising how little follow up there has been in the themes set out within it.
The Original Series planned a spinoff for Gary Seven, a protector of human history much like Picard's Tallinn and Wesley Crusher.
Yes I know. @DavidLS1
Greg Cox has written several great Star Trek novels incorporating Seven along with other characters from that time period such as Kahn, Jackson Roykirk, & the immortal Flint....he covers the events leading up to the launch of the Botany Bay....
@jeffanon1772 Yes. Assignment Eternity etc yes.
@@davidsmith5523 and "The Rise & Fall of Khan Noonian Singh"....
It’s not too late to bring us a Gary 7 series. As Star Trek has proven - it’s never too late.
a dark gary 7 miniseries called G7: The Time That Made Us and he's part-borg with an implant that allows him to transport basically anywhere in the galaxy and his companion is more of a body-horror abomination than a sexy cat lady
Apparently, humans forget how to search prisoners in the 23rd century.
Gotta get an old school uniform for next con (and a Peleton).
Three strange things In this clip ; 1- The only time the words “Spock’s Vulcan neck pinch” are spoken.
2- The visual comnicator comes and goes. Often they have to go to a wall and push a white button. Other times , they are walking towards a camera. 3-Why do their prison cells never have doors? Every other room has a door. But not cells. Just the invisible force field which ALWAYS gets turned off.
I interesting to see the PCs, two decades before there was any such thing. Remarkably similar looking to current desk top computers, 60 years later.
This is so crazy to me.
"Totally perfect body!"😏
Sloppy security detail let him keep the pen. I do love this episode and Gary Seven.
Gary 7 vs Khan.... who would win?🤔
Gary 7. Khan was strong, but he was arrogant, unskilled and stupid (as far as fighting). Kirk beat him one on one
Read The Eugenics Wars if you want to know the answer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eugenics_Wars:_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Khan_Noonien_Singh
@@jamesbutler8821 Didn't Kirk use a club to beat Khan?
@@DavidLS1 Fair game. It's a street fight.
@@enkibumbu A _space_ street fight.
...and that's why you take away all of a prisoner's personal affects before locking them up.
Gary 7 was based on Thor Valiant
They didn't search him😂😂
Failed back door pilot that could have been interesting. As a side note, this was to be Terri Garr's big break. She could have been the female lead in a network TV show.
Garr never had anything nice to say about her "Star Trek" experience. In fact, she refused to talk about it all. Rumor has the reason as being Roddenberry's casting couch chicanery. Hound dog Gene was famous for stuff like that. I think he made Garr jump through a lot of hoops and then the series didn't sell. So she was sour on the whole thing.
Shouldn't the guard have been watching Gary Seven?
Couldn't they have taken everything away from Gary Seven?
Wouldn't Kirk have leaped into a flying tackle to stop Gary?
Oh, WE wouldn't have had a Star Trek episode....
We never found out much about him and what his organization who sent him either 🤷🏽
He's clearly a Time Lord: He travels through time, his planet is hidden, and he even carries a pen-shaped sonic screwdriver! I suspect that his name means that he is in his seventh regeneration.
@@christiangibbs8534 that’s another franchise though 😂
Captain Kirk is so incompetent 😂. His security people does not strip the prisoners of weapons. 🤣
They didnt frisk that guy? Or no sensor screen devise that time? Huh?
Up yours kirk 😂
He’s obviously from Galiffrey
Who?
@@zaphenath6756 The Doctor
Wait. They hadn't searched him snd taken everything from him?
Dr Who?
Spock has a code in the dose
Why did the door in the transporter room only open about a foot wide for the cat?
Sirius Cybernetics Happy Door Unit fulfilling its role
How do you equate April 5, 2063 to "star date"?
It's complicated lol. I think the equation for stardates kept changing. From week to week in the original series. Just needed to sound cool
@@patwiggins6969 Thank you. I always wondered if our time frame matched with star dates. They had mentioned that their time was like the twenty-fifth century which I took to mean literally in our own future/time frame. Thanks again.
Other powers
Yeah... Except for one tiny detail upon which everyone agrees: There are cheaper and more effective ways of getting the job done.
No one thought to search him and take his pen away? Really sloppy.
Fun fact: You saw this comment first!
Incorrect
Do you think this episode is canon?
The young and talented Terri Garr as the cat
How'd she fit into that suit?
Lol 😂@@margin606
Terri Garr was the secretary, not the shapechanger.
@@rodglen8435 Oh damn, you're right. Thanks 🙀
Hold on a minute. IMDB says the cat was played by Tibbles 😯
I never liked this episode. At the beginning of the episode, this Gary Seven guy proved that he was hard to overpower. So why didn't Kirk order more security to watch over him. Also, with a simple pat down of Seven, they would have discovered that "magic pen" like object on him and would have foiled his plan of escape. Stupid plot holes.
even a good officer can miss a pen during pat down. Tell me it never happens. Just like how did the cat know it was time to escape. Very simple.
He actually had the pen up his ass before he moves it to his jacket pocket.
7 has a sonic pen ? Where have I seen that before 😂😂😂 A rip off from Doctor Who's Sonic Screw Driver.
This was everyone's least favorite episode in re-runs.
I thought this one was great.