If I have any love left for America, it is based upon my Father (now dead, as of 2/1/12) showing me this on syndication when I was 7. Thank You, Gene Roddenberry
@Xylric The first time I saw this...in about 75 or 76, I was watching school house rock as well. They had the one episode about the shot heard around the world (declaration of independence) and I asked my Dad if Capt Kirk was American. He laughed like crazy, and said no...he was like us, a Canadian that watched too much American TV.
I dnt understand where they got from tht captain kirk tlks like he does in the rap battle??? Someone plz show me wat episode in star trek he does tht cuz I dnt see it -_-
It's amazing how many people had to watch an Epic Rap to know what Will Shatner is famous for. -_- Not that I didn't like the battle, just saying that you don't need to post that you didn't know what millions of people already knew. Just ask Seth McFarland.
I like how Kirk kind of knows he could lose his job, the thing he loves more than himself, doing this and yet he feels it's so important he does it anyway.
@Boppinabe He does not actually strike it. He makes a striking gesture that misses it narrowly. These old docs were written on parchment, not the kind of paper you see today. He does handle it with his bare hands. This is a collapsed society. The document was kept in a trunk. It is the thoughts, the principles behind the words that count. It is those principles living and acting that count. The paper, is valuable yes, but deeds count more than words.
you know, i always liked captain kirk as the greatest captain in the entire star trek legacy. now i know this is for entertainment purposes but i still always wondered why when they go to a new planet, he usuallly beams down himself, his first officer, his cheif engineer, and the only doctor down to an unknown planet...don't the pawns go first in chess?
Hey...it could happen! Interstellar travel makes it possible for the Dec. of Ind. to have made it out to far away star systems. And If you are talking about Will Shatner being a Canadian.....well, he was playing Kirk...and Kirk is from Ohio.
This is a phenomenal scene from one of best and innovative shows ever! Kudos to Gene Roddenberry who was such a visionary. And no offense to Chris Pine who did an admirable job in the recent Star Trek movie, but there is only one James Tiberius Kirk... William Shatner is the man! That reading of the Preamble to the Constitution gives me chills every time I hear it. How can you not like it?
A bit silly, sure, and I'm not even American, but I think the Shat delivers this pretty awesomely. You can see that Kirk really believes in those words.
@OfShadowandSubstance North, eh? Yeah, I remembered that, but Kirk is very much American. Not that it matters in the future, though, since all of mankind is united. Which I think would be pretty great.
See, if Tea Party protestors wanna be taken more seriously then they need to wear mustard-colored velour shirts and overact every word of the Constitution as they recite them.
Then go and beat the shit out of a Klingon. THEN they'd earn the right to govern this country.
Look around you liberal, the TP is in charge and what was started last Nob will be finished next November when the clueless president wannabe is tossed and the left loses the Senate the way they lost the House.
Time for you losers to pack up and go to Europe. They may still be around for about 2-3 years but after that it's anyone's guess. But hey, at least you'll be among your own elite kind and can sink into oblivion together.
Look around you liberal, the TP is in charge and what was started last Nob will be finished next November when the clueless president wannabe is tossed and the left loses the Senate the way they lost the House.
Time for you losers to pack up and go to Europe. They may still be around for about 2-3 years but after that it's anyone's guess. But hey, at least you'll be among your own elite kind and can sink into oblivion together.
@wildhias You don't understand the era, there was only 3 tv series in all the 60's that were taken as good scifi, Star trek, twilight zone and outer limits. When Kirk said this speech guys over 18 were being drafted and killed in Vietnam. Any guy who had long hair was being ridiculed as a girl. People were brainwashed against the commies"coms". no black women in a TV series, no political comments were rarely made in a tv series. So yes I seriously enjoyed this kick butt speech back then.
hahaha this is such an incredibly stupid episode. I'm a huge Trek fan, more of DS9 and TNG though. some of the original series is just hilarious sometimes.
I think the Shat's pronunciation of "tranquility" at 1:06 is his secret way of showing that he won't completely prostitute himself for the sake of showbiz. When he says, "tranquility," I hear, "CANADA FUCK YEAH!"
Who said overacting was necessarily a bad thing? This is delivered in a way so awesome that's impossible to imitate. No way could Chris Pine be able to do this scene with the same intensity. Hell, I'm not even American!
One of the worst episodes of Trek ever, but I love this speech. I'll be thinking of it tomorrow when the new Republican majority goes through their empty ritual of reading a document they hold almost entirely in contempt. I mean, if they understand it at all.
@Keleigh3000 You are such a pathetic loser. It is the scum of the earth who talk about a "living Constitution" that hold it entirely in contempt. The Constitution means what is written, not what five oath-breaking scum decide to "vote" that it means. The Republicans in Congress understand that, even though you do not.
@GregTD42 I'd have been happy to debate these issues with you. I'm always up for a good Constitutional scrap. Who knows, we might have found areas of agreement. For example, I often feel the SCOTUS (whom I assume you mean by "five oath-breaking scum") overreaches, like in 2000 when they decided a disputed election, a power given exclusively to the House of Representatives. But you had to start with the name calling, and that's just not fun. Good day.
@Keleigh3000 given your reply to other statements agree with u...there is always room for discussion concerning the US CONSTITUTION (which I suspect is many of the reasons for Gene's stories---met him at least 2-three times when I lived in OC Calif and was able to talk with him and his intelligent wife---1st time I met him had THE PATTON PAPERS & asked for his autograph--he saw the book and said; "good book" smiled and autographed it--he flew ~86 missions B-17 South Pacific WW 2
@GregTD42 Just came across statements here and since u do not seem to think the US CONSTITUTION is not a "Living Document" then there should be no US AIR FORCE as it is not spelled out with the US CONST but only the Army and Navy----
@Keleigh3000 Was one of the BEST as this along with about 3-4 others were Gene's creation & was to be one used to "sell" ST to the nets---left out of the filmed version was a statement suggesting the two parties had been the descendants of both the US and China during the "early days" of space colonization before "The Federation"---
@rangeclerk That would have made a lot more sense than parallel evolution right down the font and parchment. At least with the gangster planet and the Nazi planet they gave some sort of explanation for how they got that way.
@Keleigh3000 If u go back and listen I think it was McCoy's or Spock line which they say something like this kind of parallel evolution development is even too close for "......"
@rangeclerk It's been a long time since I've seen many of these episodes. Once I've finished DS9 I think it's time to revisit TOS. I've been wanting to check out those remastered DVDs.
@Keleigh3000 The esp where Comodore Decker battles what I call "the sugar cone monster" is really well done and impressed with the updated effects. HOWEVER there are ST FANS who have done those ori esp on You Tube and some are even more impressive than what CBS had done----Overall the remastered ones are visually pleasing.....but can't do much for some of the 'logic holes' in some of the stories...
@justwarren I was in HS when this series 1st aired & had read before he was from Canada---what a wonderful way he had, reading those lines of the United States Constitution!
@ThisIsJefficus Tracy had with the introduction of killing with phasers---however IF they are descendants of Earth then not a violation of Prime Directive----but Tracy still in Deep Shit with Star Fleet!
Cut! Take 2 Captain Kirk, today we have a new script, the Living-constitution preamble:
We the Oligarchy of the US, in Order to form a more perfect Indebted-Central government, establish only criminal Justice, insure controlling Tranquility, provide for the common Redistribution, promote social Welfare, and secure Liberty only to the Oligarchy and their Posterity, do establish this erratic unpublished Living-constitution for the US.
Political banter aside, I find it rather amusing that there would be a "United States" on an alien planet somewhere. I understand that this is a different breed of Star Trek than TNG and Voyager were, though, with different concerns coloring the canvas of the work.
Sounds like we have all forgot the meaning of this ...we need to all remember "we the people" this day in age means nothing but we need to reclaim what we have been founded apon! this clip is nothing better than an example of what we are and what have all forgoton and need to reclaim!!
The Big Blond Boxer Cloud William must have gone to Hand to Hand Combat with Starfleet Captain Ron Tracey who Beat the Crap out Of him in Reverse. That is how the Savage Cloud William ended up in the Jail Cell in the small village where the Enterprise Landing party was being held. Captain Tracey would have used his hand Phaser to stun William and his Girlfriend and had them taken back to the Small Peaceful Village. He had the Savage fighting Captain Kirk in the Jail Cell in mind.
Yes I agree with that person in that possibly this episode is one of the most exceptional and important performances in the history of television by an actor and also that lives may have been changed for the better by this segment.
That whole episode was a metaphor--- Roddenberry was a genius! Yangs/Coms were like Yankees and Communists of those days. The metaphor was how we have taken something we claim to regard so highly and have twisted it beyond recognition. Personally, I think the lesson in this episode still applies to today. Roddenberry's work if FULL of such metaphors!
This was Roddenberry's idea. He was sublimely patriotic, and any of you who lived through that time - Vietnam, the counter-cultural revolution of the 60's, etc - will know why some like him used their venues to reinforce the unchanging basics.
Not a bad idea really....as 'absurd' as the episode premise may have been (no more absurd than an Enterprise with internal gravity), many of us who saw it aired back then really enjoyed and got a boost from it. As we do even today, +40 years later.
@MasterMacLeod because just before this AWESOMELY AWESOME tirade he was in a fight for his life with the guy who doesn't understand the constituation right there. Kirk of course defeated him yeeehaaaa
Fun fact: Shatner is trained as a Shakespearean actor. Thus, in a manner similar to BRIAN BLESSED, his over-the-top-ness is not a result of bad acting, but rather design.
@SilverCyan That and they kept rewriting the lines on him, so he had to pause to remember a line he was just handed 5 minutes ago, then speed up to finish on time
Corporations don't have the US Constitution as their mandate, it is their corporate charter and a duty to its shareholders. Corporations hold no national allegiance (except for those that are nationalized). That is why Coca Cola, GM, IBM and other companies traded with Nazi Germany during WW2.
God Bless Amer'ca
JDFeniello 1 week ago
For some reason, the kerfuffle over Justice Ginsburg in Egypt makes me think of this...
doktorzoom 2 weeks ago
My Bad...they are two different School House Rock Videos...
Meh it has been almost 40 years since I watched them.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ikO6LMxF4
sagman68 3 weeks ago
If I have any love left for America, it is based upon my Father (now dead, as of 2/1/12) showing me this on syndication when I was 7. Thank You, Gene Roddenberry
doglogan 3 weeks ago
you. spaghetti. eating. FUCK!
Ecktoblade292 1 month ago
Amusingly, Shatner is Canadian.
Xylric 1 month ago 4
@Xylric
Holy crap! Really?
....It all makes sense now.....
shadocub 1 month ago
@Xylric The first time I saw this...in about 75 or 76, I was watching school house rock as well. They had the one episode about the shot heard around the world (declaration of independence) and I asked my Dad if Capt Kirk was American. He laughed like crazy, and said no...he was like us, a Canadian that watched too much American TV.
sagman68 3 weeks ago
@Xylric here is a link to the School House Rock I was talking about.
youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4
sagman68 3 weeks ago
Are they really sweating that much? Gosh :|
thatrenaissanceman 1 month ago
I think Captain Kirk needs to have a little chat with Congress and The President.
mldnathai 1 month ago 2
"...No words have said this... thing of importance... in quite this way."
You can say that again.
LongLiveHumour 1 month ago
Those words also apply to enemy combatants. Once Obama signs the NDAA they mean nothing.
satinbarbi 2 months ago
In the future America will be the greatest country of all time.
frother 2 months ago
I'm Jewish and I am offended by the amount of non-kosher ham in this video.
TheGeneralCritic 2 months ago 5
It was a pretty dumb scene but at least Shatner delivered the lines with gusto
X4PP3D 2 months ago
I dnt understand where they got from tht captain kirk tlks like he does in the rap battle??? Someone plz show me wat episode in star trek he does tht cuz I dnt see it -_-
cyborgagent6 4 months ago
@cyborgagent6 they just exaggerated how he talks.. if you listen closely, he talks slow then suddenly it became loud and fast
kheiisan 2 months ago
It's amazing how many people had to watch an Epic Rap to know what Will Shatner is famous for. -_- Not that I didn't like the battle, just saying that you don't need to post that you didn't know what millions of people already knew. Just ask Seth McFarland.
IGNXIII 4 months ago 3
spaghetti eating f^ck
JermaineParisTV 4 months ago
Lol I came here to see if he actually talks like the did in Epic rap battles XD
CakesNGigglez 4 months ago 10
EPIC RAP BATTLE! CAPTAIN KIRK VS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS!!
jays2good 4 months ago 7
@jays2good and i still don't understand in the rap battle why he talks like he is running out of batterys
ThePlank1991 4 months ago 5
Nice Peter is sending us hints!
TheSteelerNation2 4 months ago 4
Like if nicepeter sent you
collinpagel4 4 months ago 4
Nice Peter sent me here.
softballkaty726 4 months ago 3
1:32 The Finger of Democracy!
megamanxoxo 4 months ago
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megamanxoxo 4 months ago
ahhhhh yaaaaah Nice Peter fans here!
zealousSilverr 4 months ago 6
This should be retitled: Captain Kirk visits a TEA Party rally.
bobbydiablo 5 months ago
This episode made me laugh so hard... I don't think it was meant to... ^^'
You have to love William Shatner, right?
FhyrEMS 5 months ago
I like how Kirk kind of knows he could lose his job, the thing he loves more than himself, doing this and yet he feels it's so important he does it anyway.
HenryClayTalleyrand 6 months ago
I can't get over how he's not only handling a FIVE HUNDRED YEAR OLD document with his bare hands, but he STRIKES it with his fist!
Boppinabe 6 months ago 51
@Boppinabe He does not actually strike it. He makes a striking gesture that misses it narrowly. These old docs were written on parchment, not the kind of paper you see today. He does handle it with his bare hands. This is a collapsed society. The document was kept in a trunk. It is the thoughts, the principles behind the words that count. It is those principles living and acting that count. The paper, is valuable yes, but deeds count more than words.
PierreaSweedieCat 3 months ago
@PierreaSweedieCat If you listen carefully over the music at just about 1:20 you will hear the slap of him striking the paper.
Boppinabe 3 months ago
@Boppinabe I know!! It hurts so bad... T_T
SpaceMasterRahel 1 month ago
Kirk is not from Ohio. He is from Iowa.
Conundrum1965 7 months ago
you know, i always liked captain kirk as the greatest captain in the entire star trek legacy. now i know this is for entertainment purposes but i still always wondered why when they go to a new planet, he usuallly beams down himself, his first officer, his cheif engineer, and the only doctor down to an unknown planet...don't the pawns go first in chess?
eishiba10 7 months ago
@eishiba10
The pawns go first in chess. However, if you're the captain, you probably have more control over doing what you want.
Conundrum1965 7 months ago
@Conundrum1965 not if you die first lol
eishiba10 7 months ago
I've just Shatner my pants.
explosiveheart 7 months ago
TRONquility!
Crunkboy415 7 months ago
Hey...it could happen! Interstellar travel makes it possible for the Dec. of Ind. to have made it out to far away star systems. And If you are talking about Will Shatner being a Canadian.....well, he was playing Kirk...and Kirk is from Ohio.
kdm71291 7 months ago
USA USA
Anyhoodle7 7 months ago
It takes an immigrant to recite these words as passionately as the men who wrote them!
jonathoncarterschall 7 months ago
And that's how Captain Kirk taught American History to Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin!
sciencegiant 7 months ago 5
This is a phenomenal scene from one of best and innovative shows ever! Kudos to Gene Roddenberry who was such a visionary. And no offense to Chris Pine who did an admirable job in the recent Star Trek movie, but there is only one James Tiberius Kirk... William Shatner is the man! That reading of the Preamble to the Constitution gives me chills every time I hear it. How can you not like it?
dlajarn 7 months ago 4
A bit silly, sure, and I'm not even American, but I think the Shat delivers this pretty awesomely. You can see that Kirk really believes in those words.
WE the PEE-PLE!!
Larrylarp 8 months ago 3
@Larrylarp The Shat isn't American, either. He's one of our friends to the north. :)
OfShadowandSubstance 7 months ago
@OfShadowandSubstance North, eh? Yeah, I remembered that, but Kirk is very much American. Not that it matters in the future, though, since all of mankind is united. Which I think would be pretty great.
Larrylarp 7 months ago
@Larrylarp True that.
And yes, if the future is as good as it is in Star Trek (most of the time), then I think the human race might be worth something, after all.
OfShadowandSubstance 7 months ago
See, if Tea Party protestors wanna be taken more seriously then they need to wear mustard-colored velour shirts and overact every word of the Constitution as they recite them.
Then go and beat the shit out of a Klingon. THEN they'd earn the right to govern this country.
TheDarthEddie 8 months ago 5
@TheDarthEddie
Look around you liberal, the TP is in charge and what was started last Nob will be finished next November when the clueless president wannabe is tossed and the left loses the Senate the way they lost the House.
Time for you losers to pack up and go to Europe. They may still be around for about 2-3 years but after that it's anyone's guess. But hey, at least you'll be among your own elite kind and can sink into oblivion together.
joev4012 8 months ago
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@TheDarthEddie
Look around you liberal, the TP is in charge and what was started last Nob will be finished next November when the clueless president wannabe is tossed and the left loses the Senate the way they lost the House.
Time for you losers to pack up and go to Europe. They may still be around for about 2-3 years but after that it's anyone's guess. But hey, at least you'll be among your own elite kind and can sink into oblivion together.
joev4012 8 months ago
This is.... bad...
blakesleep 8 months ago
There are ten communists who disliked this.
albatross7677 9 months ago
nation building 4 the win
- was this serious perceived as hilarious back then? - or was it taken seriously?
wildhias 9 months ago
@wildhias no no not nation building captain kirk and company actually left unlike the debacles we've been doing lately
ripwtc91101 8 months ago
@wildhias You don't understand the era, there was only 3 tv series in all the 60's that were taken as good scifi, Star trek, twilight zone and outer limits. When Kirk said this speech guys over 18 were being drafted and killed in Vietnam. Any guy who had long hair was being ridiculed as a girl. People were brainwashed against the commies"coms". no black women in a TV series, no political comments were rarely made in a tv series. So yes I seriously enjoyed this kick butt speech back then.
safffff1000 4 months ago 11
hahaha this is such an incredibly stupid episode. I'm a huge Trek fan, more of DS9 and TNG though. some of the original series is just hilarious sometimes.
FlipmindMusic 9 months ago
HAH! found it, Joe. This is what I was thinking about... Check out the white cavemen. Looks like in this future the Republicans won!
Kuejon 9 months ago
I think the Shat's pronunciation of "tranquility" at 1:06 is his secret way of showing that he won't completely prostitute himself for the sake of showbiz. When he says, "tranquility," I hear, "CANADA FUCK YEAH!"
missdexterity 9 months ago
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missdexterity 9 months ago
Shatner is so good with his speech he doesn't need any words on the paper (0:58)
samuelehatfield 9 months ago
there's nothing silly about the constitution.
shockwave2004 10 months ago
COULD THE MUSIC GET ANY LOUDER.
Mswordx23 11 months ago 3
Oh the delicious hammy performance of W. Shatner. How wonderful it is.
Archzenom 11 months ago 57
Who said overacting was necessarily a bad thing? This is delivered in a way so awesome that's impossible to imitate. No way could Chris Pine be able to do this scene with the same intensity. Hell, I'm not even American!
Larrylarp 11 months ago
Classic Kirk, there will be none better period
ARC1313 11 months ago
overacting at its finest
NYCWOLVERINE 11 months ago 3
@NYCWOLVERINE Indeed!
Archzenom 11 months ago
shatner was pretty dang handsome back then ;p
veronicachic 1 year ago 3
So Germans Love David Hasselhoff for this Large Ham is a Badass.
Archzenom 1 year ago
USA USA USA! ironically he's canadian ah i love shatner <3 forever and ever
Anyhoodle7 1 year ago
I read the video title as "Captain Kirk Creampie"
DSAoftheSS 1 year ago
At 1:06 he clearly says "TRONQUILITY." He is the Shat, his language is his own. Ask him to say "SABOTADGE"!
Clattuc 1 year ago 3
Is this Kirk or is this the Constitutional reading before Congress?????
zghortaman 1 year ago
One of the worst episodes of Trek ever, but I love this speech. I'll be thinking of it tomorrow when the new Republican majority goes through their empty ritual of reading a document they hold almost entirely in contempt. I mean, if they understand it at all.
Keleigh3000 1 year ago
@Keleigh3000 You are such a pathetic loser. It is the scum of the earth who talk about a "living Constitution" that hold it entirely in contempt. The Constitution means what is written, not what five oath-breaking scum decide to "vote" that it means. The Republicans in Congress understand that, even though you do not.
GregTD42 1 year ago
@GregTD42 I'd have been happy to debate these issues with you. I'm always up for a good Constitutional scrap. Who knows, we might have found areas of agreement. For example, I often feel the SCOTUS (whom I assume you mean by "five oath-breaking scum") overreaches, like in 2000 when they decided a disputed election, a power given exclusively to the House of Representatives. But you had to start with the name calling, and that's just not fun. Good day.
Keleigh3000 1 year ago
@Keleigh3000 given your reply to other statements agree with u...there is always room for discussion concerning the US CONSTITUTION (which I suspect is many of the reasons for Gene's stories---met him at least 2-three times when I lived in OC Calif and was able to talk with him and his intelligent wife---1st time I met him had THE PATTON PAPERS & asked for his autograph--he saw the book and said; "good book" smiled and autographed it--he flew ~86 missions B-17 South Pacific WW 2
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@GregTD42 Just came across statements here and since u do not seem to think the US CONSTITUTION is not a "Living Document" then there should be no US AIR FORCE as it is not spelled out with the US CONST but only the Army and Navy----
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@Keleigh3000 Was one of the BEST as this along with about 3-4 others were Gene's creation & was to be one used to "sell" ST to the nets---left out of the filmed version was a statement suggesting the two parties had been the descendants of both the US and China during the "early days" of space colonization before "The Federation"---
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk That would have made a lot more sense than parallel evolution right down the font and parchment. At least with the gangster planet and the Nazi planet they gave some sort of explanation for how they got that way.
Keleigh3000 1 year ago
@Keleigh3000 If u go back and listen I think it was McCoy's or Spock line which they say something like this kind of parallel evolution development is even too close for "......"
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk It's been a long time since I've seen many of these episodes. Once I've finished DS9 I think it's time to revisit TOS. I've been wanting to check out those remastered DVDs.
Keleigh3000 1 year ago
@Keleigh3000 The esp where Comodore Decker battles what I call "the sugar cone monster" is really well done and impressed with the updated effects. HOWEVER there are ST FANS who have done those ori esp on You Tube and some are even more impressive than what CBS had done----Overall the remastered ones are visually pleasing.....but can't do much for some of the 'logic holes' in some of the stories...
rangeclerk 1 year ago
We The BPeople!
mcdesignarts 1 year ago
William Shatner...he was so great! This clip has to be way more than 25 years old. It still stands up to the test of time! Love it!
justwarren 1 year ago
@justwarren I was in HS when this series 1st aired & had read before he was from Canada---what a wonderful way he had, reading those lines of the United States Constitution!
rangeclerk 1 year ago
prime directive violation?
ThisIsJefficus 1 year ago
@ThisIsJefficus Tracy had with the introduction of killing with phasers---however IF they are descendants of Earth then not a violation of Prime Directive----but Tracy still in Deep Shit with Star Fleet!
rangeclerk 1 year ago
"We... the pEEple..."
Yeesha8679 1 year ago
Kirk.
There's a reason he's the captain.
1Doz 1 year ago 2
E Plebnista!
Attila226 1 year ago
10 people are communists.
wookie72 1 year ago
Shatner owns so much...
DarthPraxus27 1 year ago
I love the music . . . it makes half of it! I wish it (specific episodes like this one) were available somewhere!
Superare1 1 year ago
Cut! Take 2 Captain Kirk, today we have a new script, the Living-constitution preamble:
We the Oligarchy of the US, in Order to form a more perfect Indebted-Central government, establish only criminal Justice, insure controlling Tranquility, provide for the common Redistribution, promote social Welfare, and secure Liberty only to the Oligarchy and their Posterity, do establish this erratic unpublished Living-constitution for the US.
Mike10four 1 year ago
yes shatner is a maple leaf, but hell he carnt be blamed for that
captcrane 1 year ago
This is great. LOL.
attguy98 1 year ago
Happy Constitution Day, my fellow Americans. God Bless.
CarcharodonMeg 1 year ago
@CarcharodonMeg
fuck USA
TheSunmanho 1 year ago
@TheSunmanho I see you drivin' round town with the girl I love, and I'm like... ooo-ooo-OOO!!!
CarcharodonMeg 1 year ago
@CarcharodonMeg
I've got a small dick, I admit, but I'm good at cunny lingiz
TheSunmanho 1 year ago
Happy Constitution Day
RayOne1Won 1 year ago
Political banter aside, I find it rather amusing that there would be a "United States" on an alien planet somewhere. I understand that this is a different breed of Star Trek than TNG and Voyager were, though, with different concerns coloring the canvas of the work.
Kelvari7882 1 year ago
WHEEE the PEEE-POLE
Diamondex11 1 year ago 33
acting his ass off
Skukkuk 1 year ago
Sounds like we have all forgot the meaning of this ...we need to all remember "we the people" this day in age means nothing but we need to reclaim what we have been founded apon! this clip is nothing better than an example of what we are and what have all forgoton and need to reclaim!!
Bearkat50 1 year ago
@Bearkat50
utube : Understanding the US Constitution - The Preamble
kdcruz75 1 year ago
Yangs are the teabaggers. Obama needs to be Captain Kirk to explain to the teabagger Yangs that the holy words apply the Kohms as well.
londubh2007 1 year ago
@londubh2007 and someone needs to explain to Obama that the holy words should be obeyed in the first place.
DaniOcean 1 year ago
that's how I memorised the preamble!
sebringf1 1 year ago
kick Obama out and make Cloud William president. That oath of office I believe!!
kimreck 1 year ago
The Big Blond Boxer Cloud William must have gone to Hand to Hand Combat with Starfleet Captain Ron Tracey who Beat the Crap out Of him in Reverse. That is how the Savage Cloud William ended up in the Jail Cell in the small village where the Enterprise Landing party was being held. Captain Tracey would have used his hand Phaser to stun William and his Girlfriend and had them taken back to the Small Peaceful Village. He had the Savage fighting Captain Kirk in the Jail Cell in mind.
Roadracer987654321 1 year ago
What a great episode, it should be required viewing by every person on the planet, ten times a day!
cathytreks 1 year ago
very psychedelic
pfflam 1 year ago
They should play this in schools every morning.
rmorte62 1 year ago
Perfect way to start my 4th of July.
Oh and another thing, "KAAAAAHHHHHHNNNNNN!!!!!"
Just needed to vent. Thanks.
psychicwhoosh 1 year ago
Oh crumbs this episode was bad.
Zebonka 1 year ago
Via Tony. Very cool. Happy 4th of July. America has had some pretty cool ideas, you know.
erikswanson99 1 year ago
If TV characters were superheros...then Kirk would be Superman.
LT1HILLINGHOE 1 year ago
Not only does he read the Constitution, but in the third season in the episode, 'The Savage Curtain' he and Abraham Lincoln help save the ship.
Illusenfan35 1 year ago 3
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Yes I agree with that person in that possibly this episode is one of the most exceptional and important performances in the history of television by an actor and also that lives may have been changed for the better by this segment.
Sophia
DavidHenesy 1 year ago
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One of the most exceptional and important performances in the history of television. Lives were changed by this scene.
hitlerwearsadress 1 year ago
I love how in so many episodes they say they mustn't break the prime directive and then to exactly that later on.
RasrapSmurf 1 year ago 3
This man is Narm incarnate.
cormano64 1 year ago 5
@cormano64 Ham incarnate.*
callmemrtorture 1 year ago
That one was one of my favorites
QUEENLEENO1 1 year ago
Lol at "tronquility," ah, Canada.
Zelli52 1 year ago 3
Right at the end: "There, I fixed your culture. I'm gonna grab a snack."
groupthinker1984 1 year ago 50
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@groupthinker1984 -- Actually, that's: There, I fixed your culture. I'm gonna grab a chick."
Gondring 8 months ago
That whole episode was a metaphor--- Roddenberry was a genius! Yangs/Coms were like Yankees and Communists of those days. The metaphor was how we have taken something we claim to regard so highly and have twisted it beyond recognition. Personally, I think the lesson in this episode still applies to today. Roddenberry's work if FULL of such metaphors!
emmayus 1 year ago 3
This was Roddenberry's idea. He was sublimely patriotic, and any of you who lived through that time - Vietnam, the counter-cultural revolution of the 60's, etc - will know why some like him used their venues to reinforce the unchanging basics.
Not a bad idea really....as 'absurd' as the episode premise may have been (no more absurd than an Enterprise with internal gravity), many of us who saw it aired back then really enjoyed and got a boost from it. As we do even today, +40 years later.
oldcorps76 1 year ago 3
oh great kirk take a centuries old piece of parchment and gets sweat all over them.
Good job capitan
gonats08 1 year ago
Why does Kirk look so trashed?
MasterMacLeod 1 year ago
He always looks like that. >_>
ScottZirpolo 1 year ago
@ScottZirpolo No, his "hair" is messed up and his face has gray dust or something. I've seen TOS lots of times, that look is not very usual.
MasterMacLeod 1 year ago
@MasterMacLeod because just before this AWESOMELY AWESOME tirade he was in a fight for his life with the guy who doesn't understand the constituation right there. Kirk of course defeated him yeeehaaaa
sondano 11 months ago
@sondano "constituation" LOL I can't stop laughing at my own typo
sondano 11 months ago
@sondano I see.
MasterMacLeod 11 months ago
In TOS everybody seems to be sweatin BIG TIME. Suppose it was bad lighting + bad make up.
Freenure 1 year ago
@Freenure You'd sweat, if you were overacting that much.
AkaGenya1 1 year ago
@Freenure Or the strange new worlds are too warm.
MasterMacLeod 11 months ago
Star Trek was written by WWII vets. They fought and saw their friends die for those words. May sound silly to you, but some people believe in them.
free2contemplate 2 years ago 5
Fun fact: Shatner is trained as a Shakespearean actor. Thus, in a manner similar to BRIAN BLESSED, his over-the-top-ness is not a result of bad acting, but rather design.
SilverCyan 2 years ago 33
@SilverCyan That and they kept rewriting the lines on him, so he had to pause to remember a line he was just handed 5 minutes ago, then speed up to finish on time
KairuHakubi 1 year ago 2
I have a theory here.
Shatner so hilariously mocks the constitution, because he is a Canuck, NOT because he is a bad actor.
I might be on to something.
carslayer 2 years ago 7
You might be on crack.
BlkSun865 2 years ago
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davewoodring 1 year ago
Here, take a cookie.
*Cookie*
MasterMacLeod 1 year ago
@carslayer
wow. that is actually VERY plausible...
dogluverdanny 1 year ago
EPIC! fail
Soccaluvr 2 years ago
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masqueradetunes 2 years ago
The Priceline Negociator has spoken.
nuwavevidspud 2 years ago 3
God, Shatner is so awful that it's soooo funny! Long live Capt. Kirk!!
vex28 2 years ago 4
that dude at 0:25 looks like one of the McPoyles.
CarolinaOcelot 2 years ago
HEAR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
theforeverking1 2 years ago 3
Now it's: We the Corporations...
tsarrite 2 years ago
We......the....people of..... lol!
boingokky 2 years ago
Spoken like a true Canadian!
davidjradich 2 years ago 5
@davidjradich
I thought canada was one of our states.
Just kidding
Tex035 1 year ago 3
Shatner is the God of acting!
davidjradich 1 year ago 2
I like when he loses control of the ship, and spock mellows him out.
davewoodring 1 year ago
the corporations don't follow the constitution.
davewoodring 2 years ago
Corporations don't have the US Constitution as their mandate, it is their corporate charter and a duty to its shareholders. Corporations hold no national allegiance (except for those that are nationalized). That is why Coca Cola, GM, IBM and other companies traded with Nazi Germany during WW2.
davidjradich 1 year ago 4
...do ordain and essssTABLISHTHISCONSTITUTION!
LegateShatner 2 years ago
YYYYYYYYYYEAHHHHHHHHHH! xD
CacheTaFace 2 years ago
this.... THING of importance!
lol only Kirk
TheCONVEXION 2 years ago
You tell 'em, Kirk.
FlintIronstag 2 years ago