Undiscovered Country is my favorite Star Trek movie. It's so well done and perfectly timed. "oh, now be honest, Captain, Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast My pleasure and reading about the production and finding out how much fun Christopher Plummer had playing Chang is just the cherry on top.
I agree , I watched five of the 6 film in the cinema and then the star trek generation was it 3 films. Kahn is a close second , because of the enterprise fighting scene in both ,3 ,4,5 was about climate change.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I concur, Although I enjoyed Enterprise I would have also enjoyed Excelsior, which could have introduce a new cast of characters with Sulu in the Chair
This final movie spoke eloquently to my generation, and I’m not ashamed to admit there were moments that moved me to tears, and Plummer as Chang was pure joy. A masterpiece! ❤
If the content of a channel is good enough, I can give an AI voice a pass. This guy does his homework Plus a lot of newer creators have distracting speech problems or accents...so they get criticism either way. For some reason, I have an intuitive feeling this guy had another channel or videos where both were getting him flack in the comments. AI might be his only way of clearly presenting the material without having to pay an expensive VO person. I'm glad it's there for him. And yes, there are some awful channels with AI voices that just read boring articles. This person offers a lot more perspective than those.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Actually, I was just selft conscious and insecure. Check out my Star Wars video. It's just me talking. I'm curious and interested to hear your opinion.
@@jimjam51075 I disagree; there are so many mispronunciations and oversights that I get stuck thinking, "What did it just say..?!" It seems to me the script writer just became aware of Star Trek a week or two ago.
William Shatner, and Christopher Plummer were actors at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, who Shatner was Plummer's Understudy. Denny Martin Flinn, wanted Kirk to hand over the Enterprise, to Picard, but learned that, The Next Generation happend over 70 years later. It was also established that Spock's ancestor was, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mary Jo Slater, who was the casting director, as well as mother to, Christian Slater, who was a crewman on the Excelsior, who woke up Captain Sulu. Nicholas Meyer hired Cliff Eidelman as the composer, for the soundtrack. René Auberjonois portrayed Colonel West, and the disguised Klingon assassin, before his role as, Odo in Deep Space Nine. Brock Peters, who portrayed Admiral Cartwright in The Voyage Home, would reprise his role in The Undiscovered Country, and loathed the racial undertones of his lines, but understood what Meyers was going for, however had to make several takes in doing so. He later portrayed Captain Benjamin Sisco's father, Joseph Sisco, in Deep Space Nine. Original Klingons were more thought to be Mongol like, and John Colicos, as Kor thought his character more like Genghis Khan. Great as usual, and I don't mind the AI, it helped the video. Take care, and all the best.
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast Much of those facts are from the commentary track of the two disc DVD, and from what I have read. May the Force be with you!
The robot mispronunciation is beyond tedious... "RURAL penthé". Kim "KOE trell"... George "TALLKAY"... Also the script writer seems to be unaware that's the cave entrance famously used in the Batman TV series from the 60s.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcastBronson Cave has been featured in so many movies and TV shows, I don't have room to list them here. I suggest checking out James Rolfe's video on it.
In the prison fight scene, my father played the bald blue alien in the background. So I got to see this film many times when it came out at the drive in.
yeah, it has been done too many times but entirely done to death. it was a neat when it was part of the story of the blue brothers but the way they did was stretched. after that, they sort of copies that approach with a more shrunk down in time. it can be done when it done right. I'll admit, it would have been a nice idea to see Kirk and Carel together. Lenard Nimoy not wanting to direct another Star Trek movie to avoid pissing off Bill is interesting. I guess, he wanted Bill's ego to remain in check because jealousy is a bitch that bring unwanted drama.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcastKirk and Spock walk into a bar: "McCoy, we're putting the band back together. We need you and Scotty. We're On A Mission From God."
There were a few moments that addressed the "what have they been doing for the last few years" question in ST TMP. It was basically just expository dialogue for Kirk and McCoy. But Spock had a rather interesting scene where he attempted and failed to complete the Kolinahr. Spock has so many great moments in Star Trek but he is essentially a tragic character. In "Unification" (ST TNG) he spent 80 years believing he was part of an underground movement working to achieve peace between the Vulcans and Romulans. Then he learned that his most trusted ally, Pardek, had been deceiving him the whole time. Spock is always the alien, whether he's on Earth, Vulcan, or any place else. He has a home of sorts with Starfleet and the Federation, but he has very few friends. It's quite ironic. Considering all the qualities Spock has, who would be a better friend?
Really nice job with the Star Trek series. I’d seen other “making of” for these movies, but I learned something new and interesting from all of yours. I’d love to see you continue with the Next Gen and Abrams films.
I ask this question from the viewpoint of someone who grew up on Star Trek:TOS on TV. When they started producing the feature films, I couldn't have been more excited. I loved the first film when it came out, but in retrospect, the flaws are quite jarring, even though I'll still watch it once in a while. When _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn_ was released, this was the one that really made the promise of feature film Trek come true. It was a thrill to see the film pick up from the TV show. _Space Seed_ was one of the best episodes and made for a terrific jumping off point for the film series. _The Undiscovered Country_ was a brilliant film and served well as the finale for the original cast. I love them both, but for different reasons. One as the beginning (considering _Star Trek I_ as more of a proof-of-concept project) and the other as the end.
While the racism theme may have been controversial, bigotry has always existed in Star Trek even among humans. In Balance Of Terror, the helmsman had to be reprmanded by Kirk with “Keep your bigotry in your quarters. I will not have it on my bridge” when he was claiming that Spock was just like the Romulans they were in combat with when they saw for the first time the Vulcans and Romulans both look alike.
Well, in the noveliztion of Star Trek II, Sulu was actually promoted to the rank of Captian, even if he didn't have a ship yet. I can't imagine anything more insulting than making him a cab driver.
In my perfect world, the Excelsior series would have run five seasons but included a past version of Janeway as first officer. Enterprise would have run six seasons after that. Seasons 3 and 4 proved its worth. Voyager would have never happened. I failed to ever see a purpose in its existence, especially since it abandoned most of its entire premise for tired TNG plot retreads. Mulgrew was 80% of what made the show tick. It still works out to 11 seasons.
I actually don't think Star Trek V was BAD it just wasn't up to the standards of some of the others. Shatner got screwed on the effects team because they were unavailable. The movie was also much more in line with what Gene would have wanted.(Thank God he didn't always get what he wanted).
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast Pretty sure I read this in Empire magazine at the time; Cattral visited the sets with a friend in the wee hours and had photos taken wearing only her vulcan ears. Nimoy found out about it the next day and threw a fit - Star Trek being a family show, etc - and gave her a serious dressing down, ultimately confiscating & destroying the camera film
The Playmates TNG action figures were released in the Fall of 1992. The Klingon Warrior Worf action figure wasn't released until 1993. Perhaps they used small toy scaled Klingon figures in the trail scene but it was not the Worf action figure you showed.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I was obsessed with those toys! The first line in 87 were very lackluster so use 12 yr old nerds were obsessed! LOL Loving your channel! These videos are clearly painstaking with a lot of love put into them. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'll keep making them and putting in the work as long as amazing people like yourself continue to watch and show their appreciation. Again, Thank you so much!
I assure you, none of the images in my videos are auto-gnerated. They are carefully and painstakingly chosen by me, and it takes me quite some time and a lot of effort to make these videos. However, I'm only himan and occasionally I make poor choices and worse, sometimes I make stupid human mistakes. For the CSI photo, I googled "Klingon Language Institute " and that was one of the images that came up. I don't watch CSI so to be honest, I had no idea until your comment that the photo wasn't of the Klingon Language Institute. 🤣🤣 Still, thanks for the feedback and the comment.
You are so right! Unfortunately, I've been reading the same thing. He loved "rewriting" people's work and then charging a rewriting fee and then putting his name on the credits. Roddenberry was such a great man but he was also very... complicated.
Yet another reason to hate Rick Berman - he gave us ST: Enterprise instead of Excelsior. I do recognize that my opinion is relative to me and that I may have missed good things about Enterprise - the actors were all professionals and I did like a few of the episodes. There are choices Berman made over several series that left me shaking my head and I am do not want my criticisms of him to be conflated with professional actors or crew who worked hard on that show and I don’t want to disparage any fans of Enterprise who saw good things that I missed.
I also had a tough time with Enterprise. The first 2 seasons were lackluster. The 3rd season with the one long arc was okay but got a little long. I really thought the 4th season was excellent. That's when they decided to consciously make it a prequel to Star Trek TOS and TNG and it really worked for me.
I really appreciated the content here, too many of these videos over-intellectualize the content or draw it out. You hit the key points and move on. On a note of the script and content, even when I watched this film for the first time in theaters I thought the over stressing the "racism" theme was out of character for the series. I think they could've written the struggle of Kirk with the death of David without making the crew look so shallow.
I agree! The Klingons were definitely the Russians in the Original Series, but Leonard Nimoy put more Japanese Samurai in them for Star Trek 3, and I think it resonated with the fans. The Klingons in Next Generation and beyond are pure Samurai!
I have never owned a copy of Star Trek 5. I just skip from 4 to 6, pretending that 6 is part 5. I see no reason whatsoever to have a copy of part 5 or even to consider it canon. The story actually flows nicely from 4 to 6 without having part 5 messing things up.
Wait a minute. Gene Roddenberry was born in 1896 and died in 1969? Is that supposed to be his tombstone at 8:50? How could he be a creative consultant on this movie when he died over 20 years before this movie was made?
No. That my friend, is known as a big error. It's amazing, no matter how many times I edit or go over something, I always miss a few things. This one was a particularly bad error. But great catch!
Um, Shatner was the one who acted in classics. V was not a disaster, although some people get some fun writing that. I've seen several good reviews at its opening. It has also picked up positive critical reaction over the years, since it's about the manic following of one man's ambition. But of course, that couldn't happen in real life.
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast simply using images of them would have been enough, not shitty AI images that bear a passing resemblance to the actors. You are a new channel, instead of being a smart ass, take the criticisms and use them to shape your videos. We don't need an image of George Takei as a taxi driver, because your voice over already tells us that, so simply use a picture of him to go with the voice over.
Why? I spent days looking for a picture of George Takei as a taxi cab driver or Nichelle Nicholes as a radio host or Checov playing chess or Mcoy at a posh dinner drinking alcohol. I tried but couldn't find it. I was stuck! Then realized I could use ai.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast it's ironic that a creator is defending the use of AI generated images on a Star Trek story. At best, these images are weird and off-putting. At worst, they are made from stolen images. Just my 2 cents worth.
Info was good, lots of interesting facts. The AI voice and constant mispronounced names are very distracting and annoying to no end. The only way fans and viewers are going to change this is to thumbs down videos that lazy content providers persistent in using AI voices.
I don't know where to begin here. This is among the WORST of all the terrible videos on RUclips that features the ridiculous voice synthesized voice over. If you are too lazy or too cheap to get a proper narration done, at the very least you must then write the copy very carefully, taking into account the fact that a computer can't put accents on the right syllables and words in a sentence. Just one example of this poor writing is at about the 10:45 mark, it is said that "....actually translated the entire play of Hamlet into the Klingon language and published it through pocketbooks." What the Hell does that mean??? Published it through pocket books??? The other important fact I would like to point out here is this; Nicholas Meyer has never felt guilty about anything in his life. The video DEFINITELY could have done without that little piece of drivel.
I liked the Final Frontier above the Voyage Home! I already know that Whales needed to be saved in 1980; I didn't need my fav SF show to tell me what I already knew! No space battle. Very little time in space. Kirk not even getting the girl. ST5, despite its production, budget, and Trekkie details problems was still a far better story for me.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast an explosion of that magnitude and they are able to survive because of their "sheilds" and just sail on through as if nothing happened? give me a break.
Undiscovered Country is my favorite Star Trek movie. It's so well done and perfectly timed. "oh, now be honest, Captain, Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
I love this movie as well. Such a great line. Christopher Plummer made such an amazing Klingon General. Thank you for your comment!
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast My pleasure and reading about the production and finding out how much fun Christopher Plummer had playing Chang is just the cherry on top.
Tagh pah, tagh peh 😊
@@GlenDevan1970 "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”
I agree , I watched five of the 6 film in the cinema and then the star trek generation was it 3 films. Kahn is a close second , because of the enterprise fighting scene in both ,3 ,4,5 was about climate change.
VI ended the TOS on a Positive Note. My favorite Line in the Movie was said by Sulu, "Fly her apart then" the Delivery of that Line was Perfect...
Yes! I agree. And I loved Captain Sulu. How I would have loved to have had an Excelsior TV series.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I concur, Although I enjoyed Enterprise I would have also enjoyed Excelsior, which could have introduce a new cast of characters with Sulu in the Chair
Star Trek Excelsior was the seven season show that premiered in 1998 and ran to 2005, in the good universe.
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Never heard of it
This final movie spoke eloquently to my generation, and I’m not ashamed to admit there were moments that moved me to tears, and Plummer as Chang was pure joy.
A masterpiece! ❤
It was indeed such a heart-warming and emotional experience seeing this movie on screen. 😊 Thank you for your post.
the ai stuff is weird
If the content of a channel is good enough, I can give an AI voice a pass. This guy does his homework
Plus a lot of newer creators have distracting speech problems or accents...so they get criticism either way. For some reason, I have an intuitive feeling this guy had another channel or videos where both were getting him flack in the comments.
AI might be his only way of clearly presenting the material without having to pay an expensive VO person. I'm glad it's there for him.
And yes, there are some awful channels with AI voices that just read boring articles. This person offers a lot more perspective than those.
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Thank you so much for the kind words. Actually, I was just selft conscious and insecure. Check out my Star Wars video. It's just me talking. I'm curious and interested to hear your opinion.
@@jimjam51075 I disagree; there are so many mispronunciations and oversights that I get stuck thinking, "What did it just say..?!"
It seems to me the script writer just became aware of Star Trek a week or two ago.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I will. There are two showing. Which one? It sounds like the same voice.
William Shatner, and Christopher Plummer were actors at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, who Shatner was Plummer's Understudy.
Denny Martin Flinn, wanted Kirk to hand over the Enterprise, to Picard, but learned that, The Next Generation happend over 70 years later.
It was also established that Spock's ancestor was, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Mary Jo Slater, who was the casting director, as well as mother to, Christian Slater, who was a crewman on the Excelsior, who woke up Captain Sulu.
Nicholas Meyer hired Cliff Eidelman as the composer, for the soundtrack.
René Auberjonois portrayed Colonel West, and the disguised Klingon assassin, before his role as, Odo in Deep Space Nine.
Brock Peters, who portrayed Admiral Cartwright in The Voyage Home, would reprise his role in The Undiscovered Country, and loathed the racial undertones of his lines, but understood what Meyers was going for, however had to make several takes in doing so. He later portrayed Captain Benjamin Sisco's father, Joseph Sisco, in Deep Space Nine.
Original Klingons were more thought to be Mongol like, and John Colicos, as Kor thought his character more like Genghis Khan.
Great as usual, and I don't mind the AI, it helped the video.
Take care, and all the best.
Wow! Thank you for some more amazing facts! 😀 You know your Star Trek! Always appreciated!
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast Much of those facts are from the commentary track of the two disc DVD, and from what I have read.
May the Force be with you!
@@christophersnyder1532 Live long, and prosper!! lol
Loved The Undiscovered Country - was lucky that my mom was a big Star Trek fan and took me to see it in theaters.
That's great! 😄 I love ST 6 as well!
Well done on all the ST movie makings. Great details.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm thinking of making a video of the Original Series TV show next.
I love those dramatic video clips that shadow the script!
Thank you so much. 🙂
My favorite of the TOS Trek movies.
Great choice! 😊
The robot mispronunciation is beyond tedious... "RURAL penthé".
Kim "KOE trell"... George "TALLKAY"... Also the script writer seems to be unaware that's the cave entrance famously used in the Batman TV series from the 60s.
Ha! You got it! It was intentionally put in there! You know your Batman!
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcastBronson Cave has been featured in so many movies and TV shows, I don't have room to list them here. I suggest checking out James Rolfe's video on it.
In the prison fight scene, my father played the bald blue alien in the background. So I got to see this film many times when it came out at the drive in.
Wow! That's incredible! Im going to watch that scene again! Thank you so much for this comment. 😀
George Takei wasn't going to do the movie unless "they make me a captain".
That was such a great moment seeing him as Captain of the Excelsior.
I wouldn't blaim him for turning it down if they asked him to start off playing a cab driver.
@@laurentecrivain6944 I didn't know about the "cab driver" script.
@@BTC909- It was in the video.
@@laurentecrivain6944 Timestamp?
I'm glad they bailed on that "washed-up-get-the-band-back-together" opening shtick... it's such a typical hollywood trope.
Haha! It's such an intriguing idea, but too expensive for something that went nowhere. And you're right. It's sort of cliche.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast If memory serves, it was used in Ghostbusters II, and Mighty Ducks II. ;P
yeah, it has been done too many times but entirely done to death. it was a neat when it was part of the story of the blue brothers but the way they did was stretched. after that, they sort of copies that approach with a more shrunk down in time. it can be done when it done right. I'll admit, it would have been a nice idea to see Kirk and Carel together.
Lenard Nimoy not wanting to direct another Star Trek movie to avoid pissing off Bill is interesting. I guess, he wanted Bill's ego to remain in check because jealousy is a bitch that bring unwanted drama.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcastKirk and Spock walk into a bar: "McCoy, we're putting the band back together. We need you and Scotty. We're On A Mission From God."
There were a few moments that addressed the "what have they been doing for the last few years" question in ST TMP. It was basically just expository dialogue for Kirk and McCoy. But Spock had a rather interesting scene where he attempted and failed to complete the Kolinahr.
Spock has so many great moments in Star Trek but he is essentially a tragic character. In "Unification" (ST TNG) he spent 80 years believing he was part of an underground movement working to achieve peace between the Vulcans and Romulans. Then he learned that his most trusted ally, Pardek, had been deceiving him the whole time.
Spock is always the alien, whether he's on Earth, Vulcan, or any place else. He has a home of sorts with Starfleet and the Federation, but he has very few friends. It's quite ironic. Considering all the qualities Spock has, who would be a better friend?
I read that Leonard Nimoy arranged the $1 million payment for Dee Kelly…as Nimoy stood up for me.
Yes. That was total class of Nimoy!
I hate the AI art.
Sorry. 🤥
I agree. It’s disturbing and detracts from the spoken content.
Really nice job with the Star Trek series. I’d seen other “making of” for these movies, but I learned something new and interesting from all of yours. I’d love to see you continue with the Next Gen and Abrams films.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Yes, I am planning on going all the way up to Star Trek Beyond. Please keep watching and tell me what you think.
I still cant make up my mind which ST movie I like better, ST-II or ST-VI.........
Two really good movies. For me, I'll give it to Star Trek II but 6 is so good. Thank you for your comment.
I ask myself this a lot, VI wins out for me, but only cause it was a bigger part of my childhood than II.
VI is my favorite, but it would not have happened without II
I ask this question from the viewpoint of someone who grew up on Star Trek:TOS on TV. When they started producing the feature films, I couldn't have been more excited. I loved the first film when it came out, but in retrospect, the flaws are quite jarring, even though I'll still watch it once in a while. When _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn_ was released, this was the one that really made the promise of feature film Trek come true. It was a thrill to see the film pick up from the TV show. _Space Seed_ was one of the best episodes and made for a terrific jumping off point for the film series. _The Undiscovered Country_ was a brilliant film and served well as the finale for the original cast. I love them both, but for different reasons. One as the beginning (considering _Star Trek I_ as more of a proof-of-concept project) and the other as the end.
I think the Ai pictures are fine .helps to see what might have been.its good hypothetical
Thank you. Personally, I really like them. I'm surprised that a few people are really hatjng on them! Thank you for your support!
While the racism theme may have been controversial, bigotry has always existed in Star Trek even among humans. In Balance Of Terror, the helmsman had to be reprmanded by Kirk with “Keep your bigotry in your quarters. I will not have it on my bridge” when he was claiming that Spock was just like the Romulans they were in combat with when they saw for the first time the Vulcans and Romulans both look alike.
So true! It's funny. I just saw Balance of Terror again yesterday. Such a great classic episode!
Im loving your Star Trek videos! The undiscovered country was the first movie I got to see the Enterprise on the Big Screen.
Thank you for the kind words. I hope you keep watching. I have more videos planned.
Edit this again and get rid of those horrible AI images. The rest of it is fine.
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And don’t use a photo of the wrong headstone next time! 😆
Came for the Star Trek making of's... stayed for the rest...
Keep it up! Greetings from Germany 😊
Thank you so much! It's great to have you here! 😀 I hope you continue to watch my videos and let me know what you think! Have a great day!
i cant believe its over 30 years since i enjoyed this movie in the movie theatre a couple of times
I know! It doesn't seem that long ago. 33 years!
Get a narrator.. AI...zzzzz
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Well, in the noveliztion of Star Trek II, Sulu was actually promoted to the rank of Captian, even if he didn't have a ship yet. I can't imagine anything more insulting than making him a cab driver.
I know! That would have been so terrible. Especially considering how awesome it was that he was Captain of the Excelsior!
Too bad we didn't get an Excelsior series - that could have been a lot of fun.
An Excelsior series would have been so epic!
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was excellent!
It sure was! 😀
really impressive. knew stuff i didnt know
Thank you for the kind words. Welcome to my channel! 🙂
I was one of the fans wanting an Excelsior series starring George Takei. I was disappointed when that didn't work out.
It would have been so amazing. Especially with George Takei in his prime in 1991.
I watched this so many times during my teens. I think it's second only to Jurassic Park in terms of how many times I've watched a movie.
That's great! 🙂 It's such a great time!
In my perfect world, the Excelsior series would have run five seasons but included a past version of Janeway as first officer. Enterprise would have run six seasons after that. Seasons 3 and 4 proved its worth.
Voyager would have never happened. I failed to ever see a purpose in its existence, especially since it abandoned most of its entire premise for tired TNG plot retreads. Mulgrew was 80% of what made the show tick.
It still works out to 11 seasons.
Oh my gosh! That would have been so epic. I would have loved to see an Excelsior show.
Yes, I liked Enterprise a lot.
I actually don't think Star Trek V was BAD it just wasn't up to the standards of some of the others. Shatner got screwed on the effects team because they were unavailable. The movie was also much more in line with what Gene would have wanted.(Thank God he didn't always get what he wanted).
There is something very fun and very rewatchable about Star Trek V. I have a soft spot in my heart for it.
I remember a story about conflict between Nimoy and Cattral after she did a late-night visit to the sets....
Really? Please tell... 🙂
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast Pretty sure I read this in Empire magazine at the time; Cattral visited the sets with a friend in the wee hours and had photos taken wearing only her vulcan ears. Nimoy found out about it the next day and threw a fit - Star Trek being a family show, etc - and gave her a serious dressing down, ultimately confiscating & destroying the camera film
That's an amazing story! Thank you!
@@Torquemada70 Oh,my.
The Playmates TNG action figures were released in the Fall of 1992. The Klingon Warrior Worf action figure wasn't released until 1993. Perhaps they used small toy scaled Klingon figures in the trail scene but it was not the Worf action figure you showed.
Yes, that was likely the case. You sure know your Star Trek toys.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I was obsessed with those toys! The first line in 87 were very lackluster so use 12 yr old nerds were obsessed! LOL Loving your channel! These videos are clearly painstaking with a lot of love put into them. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'll keep making them and putting in the work as long as amazing people like yourself continue to watch and show their appreciation. Again, Thank you so much!
I wish they would have made that Excelsior series instead of Enterprise 😥
I do love Enterprise, especially that last season, but I agree with you, an Excelsior series would have been so epic!
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast I agree with you on Enterprise specially the 2-part episodes"mirror so darkly " except for that Gorn 😆
OK.... I get that some of this is auto-generated content... but what's up with the rando shot of the OG cast of CSI at 10:35?
I assure you, none of the images in my videos are auto-gnerated. They are carefully and painstakingly chosen by me, and it takes me quite some time and a lot of effort to make these videos. However, I'm only himan and occasionally I make poor choices and worse, sometimes I make stupid human mistakes. For the CSI photo, I googled "Klingon Language Institute " and that was one of the images that came up. I don't watch CSI so to be honest, I had no idea until your comment that the photo wasn't of the Klingon Language Institute. 🤣🤣 Still, thanks for the feedback and the comment.
From what i've read over the years, Gene Roddenberry objected to a lot of of things.. unless he wrote them
You are so right! Unfortunately, I've been reading the same thing. He loved "rewriting" people's work and then charging a rewriting fee and then putting his name on the credits. Roddenberry was such a great man but he was also very... complicated.
Yet another reason to hate Rick Berman - he gave us ST: Enterprise instead of Excelsior. I do recognize that my opinion is relative to me and that I may have missed good things about Enterprise - the actors were all professionals and I did like a few of the episodes. There are choices Berman made over several series that left me shaking my head and I am do not want my criticisms of him to be conflated with professional actors or crew who worked hard on that show and I don’t want to disparage any fans of Enterprise who saw good things that I missed.
I also had a tough time with Enterprise. The first 2 seasons were lackluster. The 3rd season with the one long arc was okay but got a little long. I really thought the 4th season was excellent. That's when they decided to consciously make it a prequel to Star Trek TOS and TNG and it really worked for me.
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Thank you!
I really appreciated the content here, too many of these videos over-intellectualize the content or draw it out. You hit the key points and move on.
On a note of the script and content, even when I watched this film for the first time in theaters I thought the over stressing the "racism" theme was out of character for the series. I think they could've written the struggle of Kirk with the death of David without making the crew look so shallow.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I hope you keep watching and commenting! 🙂
Why do people use computer voices instead of just talking?
Do you want the long answer or the short answer?
At 8:48 that’s very obviously no the right headstone. Gene didn’t die in 1969
That was definitely an error on my part. Giod catch!
Now I really wish they were called Klinguns. Missed opportunity.
Haha! My stupid mispronunciation becomes Star Trek canon! 🤣 That's hilarious.
I always saw the Romulans as the Russians and the Klingons as the Japanese.
I agree! The Klingons were definitely the Russians in the Original Series, but Leonard Nimoy put more Japanese Samurai in them for Star Trek 3, and I think it resonated with the fans. The Klingons in Next Generation and beyond are pure Samurai!
Uhura was the one who had the idea for the gasious anomaly. Get it write holmes
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Is it also true the shape-shifter made it into this movie because that species was so popular in the books?
I hadn't heard that, but it's possible.
in Reality, the Excelesior would have been destroyed by the wave ring explosion dispite its sheilds.
Really? How do we know that? 🙂
I have never owned a copy of Star Trek 5. I just skip from 4 to 6, pretending that 6 is part 5. I see no reason whatsoever to have a copy of part 5 or even to consider it canon. The story actually flows nicely from 4 to 6 without having part 5 messing things up.
True. 6 fits in perfectly right after 4. Personally, I always include Star Trek 5 in my rewatch. I have a soft spot in my heart for it.
I hope you get Elon Musk for your interview. Looking forward to seeing your project complete.
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De Forest Kelly is annoying AI voice nonsense. It Sounds like the name of a logging company
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My gripe is, that several common names should have been properly pronounced : /
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Apparently that glacier doesn't exist anymore.
Really? Was it global warming?
Wait a minute. Gene Roddenberry was born in 1896 and died in 1969? Is that supposed to be his tombstone at 8:50? How could he be a creative consultant on this movie when he died over 20 years before this movie was made?
No. That my friend, is known as a big error. It's amazing, no matter how many times I edit or go over something, I always miss a few things. This one was a particularly bad error. But great catch!
I'm guessing the tombstone is for Gene's father. Gene's middle name was Wesley.
Sentimental and sweet report, the AI pictures are giving me eye-cancer, tho.
Thank you. And thank you for the feedback on the ai art. People really didn't like it.
Rodenberry was wrong it should have been Savek
It would have been interesting if it were Saavik. Especially if played by Kirstie Alley.
I’ve been a Trekkie for almost 50 years and have never heard anyone say “Bones McCoy” 😣
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That’s how we referred to him in our house growing up, so it’s not unheard of. No idea how common it is.
Thank you! That's how we referred to him in college. I had no idea some people would think it was odd.
found the channel via the more recent 007 videos. Looks like you realized that ppl are not liking the overuse of AI images ...
Yup. People hated them so I stopped. 🙂
Kim who?
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Um, Shatner was the one who acted in classics. V was not a disaster, although some people get some fun writing that. I've seen several good reviews at its opening. It has also picked up positive critical reaction over the years, since it's about the manic following of one man's ambition. But of course, that couldn't happen in real life.
Thank you!
Its Kim CAtrell not COtrell, and can we cut out the AI images? Its not like there is a shortage of pictures of the cast!!
Oh man. I cpuldnt find images of George Takei as a cab driver or Nichole Nicoles as a radio host, or Chechov playing chess.
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast simply using images of them would have been enough, not shitty AI images that bear a passing resemblance to the actors.
You are a new channel, instead of being a smart ass, take the criticisms and use them to shape your videos.
We don't need an image of George Takei as a taxi driver, because your voice over already tells us that, so simply use a picture of him to go with the voice over.
@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast ah, so you're deleting replies you don't like.
What thin skin you have.
I'm out
8:48 Wrong grave stone
Yup. I screwed up!
Harve Bennett's version would've been better if really good casting
It was better when they did it in 2009. 😅
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast no, stupid repetitive stories
Captain Sulu would be great...sadly they choose Enterprise instead, because...
You're so right. It would have been so epic.
Romulan ale 😂 err no its either beer lager ot a soft drink 😂
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Robot voices have gotten worse
What do you think of my real voice?
So instead of. The Excelsior TV series. We got a video game instead.
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It certainly was a "Diaster".
It certainly was. 🙂
Kim Cotrell? Mannekwin? Klingans?
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They were considering making Sulu a taxi driver?! Geez... was that Shatner's idea? 😉
I know. That would have been terrible. Making him a Captain was such an inspired idea. I remember seeing this in the theater and audiences cheered!
"back door pilot" omg the irony
I see what you did there.
Who the hell is Kim Coh-trell?...
Yeah. I screwed up. 😝
Real movie buffs know that Star Trek 2 takes place in San Francisco.
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@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast you must be a Timhead 😂
After all the hard work on editing, why ruin it with lousy AI narration ?
Good question.
Good informational content ruined by poor robotic narration...
Yeah. It's gotta go!
Whats with that tombstone???
That my friend, is what you call a total f-up. Sometimes mistakes just happen. Yikes.
Roddenberry did not die in 1969 as that grave marker shows. BS
That was definitely a stupid error that slipped through and it's too late to fix. Sorry about that folks!
What happened to using a human narrator?
This recording was already in the can. So is Star Trek Generations.
10:37 random CSI why?
Csi?
The image at 10:37 is Worf actor Michael Dorn selling a Klingon language course.
Ai art. Why?
Why? I spent days looking for a picture of George Takei as a taxi cab driver or Nichelle Nicholes as a radio host or Checov playing chess or Mcoy at a posh dinner drinking alcohol. I tried but couldn't find it. I was stuck! Then realized I could use ai.
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast it's ironic that a creator is defending the use of AI generated images on a Star Trek story. At best, these images are weird and off-putting. At worst, they are made from stolen images. Just my 2 cents worth.
Have to agree the AI artwork is distracting and hurts the credibility of the video.
Good feedback.
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Star Trek 5 was 🤪
It certainly was. But it was a lot of fun!
bullshit
. Worf was not the great grandfather that was worf the original from the next generation to be.
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Nope... it was ALWAYS stated that this was (our) Worf's grandfather or great-grandfather.
A.I. narration sucks. As long as a human is available to do this (and do it correctly) there’s no need for A.I.
Check out my Star Wars video where I just talk and tell me what you think.
About the transition I can only say this: of all the ST films in all the galaxies I have visited this one is the most..boring.
Repeat after me...Kim CAttrell, George TAkEI. KlingON, KlingOn. No such thing as klingen's. Good lord..............
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Info was good, lots of interesting facts. The AI voice and constant mispronounced names are very distracting and annoying to no end. The only way fans and viewers are going to change this is to thumbs down videos that lazy content providers persistent in using AI voices.
Thank you for kind words on the info. Im transitioning to just talking. What did you think of my voice for the rankings?
Aaaagh! A.I images. Dump them, please.
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Another clunky AI narration. Bring back humans. Please join me in down-voting every AI-narrated video.
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The AI images are awful.
People seem to hate the AI images. I think I'll have to stop using them.
enough of the deformed AI please
Check out my Star Trek TOS and Vger videos. It's just me talking. Tell me what uou think.
I really didn't like the Chernobyl and Russian dynamic. I would have preferred a story more removed from the current events of the day.
Interesting. Thank you for your comment.
FAKE. Leanard Nimoy supported JJ's 2009 Star Trek. And the movie ST Undiscovered County was made well over a decade before the remake.
Uh... may I ask what the heck you are talking about?
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So tired of the AI picture fillers permeating RUclips.Its lazy production for views only. Done with this channel.
Sorry.
I don't know where to begin here. This is among the WORST of all the terrible videos on RUclips that features the ridiculous voice synthesized voice over. If you are too lazy or too cheap to get a proper narration done, at the very least you must then write the copy very carefully, taking into account the fact that a computer can't put accents on the right syllables and words in a sentence. Just one example of this poor writing is at about the 10:45 mark, it is said that "....actually translated the entire play of Hamlet into the Klingon language and published it through pocketbooks." What the Hell does that mean??? Published it through pocket books???
The other important fact I would like to point out here is this; Nicholas Meyer has never felt guilty about anything in his life. The video DEFINITELY could have done without that little piece of drivel.
Sorry you feel that way. Thank you for your comment.
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I liked the Final Frontier above the Voyage Home! I already know that Whales needed to be saved in 1980; I didn't need my fav SF show to tell me what I already knew! No space battle. Very little time in space. Kirk not even getting the girl. ST5, despite its production, budget, and Trekkie details problems was still a far better story for me.
Really? 🙂 That's a very interesting take. Thank you for your comment.
in Reality, the Excelesior would have been destroyed by the wave ring explosion dispite its sheilds.
Really? How do we know that? 🙂
@@TotallyAwesomeFilmsPodcast an explosion of that magnitude and they are able to survive because of their "sheilds" and just sail on through as if nothing happened? give me a break.