The Lights of Zetar

[MasamunesSong]

It required a massive boost of warp power to the deflectors of my respect for Scotty's professionalism...but alas I find myself realizing that the only real effect of this episode on canon is the idea of memory alpha.

[LincolnLLoyd]

35:43 / Total "Braveheart" moment. Hear it? Anybody? Anybody? "Agh, we don't have to beat them. We just have to fight them." . . . See, he's Scottish, too and . . . Ohhh, never mind.

[frank55944]

Scotty was how old there Thanks

[aangelangel189]

These Delta Airline commercials are super loud. Oh, and Delta sucks, they are the least reliable, tiniest, stinkiest, most uncomfortable planes I have ever flown on. Not that I've flown on many because Delta flights get cancelled ALL the time. But I have been miserable every time I've flown Delta. So, thanks but no thanks Delta. Please don't look out for me, cus you're doing it wrong. :(

[markos824]

this episode is  a potato

[stanfordsan]

28:06 if you look closely, you'll see the enterpirse has a tail light out. hahaha imagaine a ship trying to get the enterprise to pull over and give kirk a fix-it ticket. but that brings the question...........where do you pull over in space? do you go off to the side and stop or do you just stop?

[Fritheby]

Pull down those nylons!

[BBknickers]

1:08 More Star Trek sexism.

[Freefalldreams]

@BBknickers What do you expect in an episode where a lieutenant is repeatedly referred to as "the girl"? ("The lass" doesn't count, because Scotty's in love!) Seriously, this was actually a bad episode, barely redeemed by Scotty's adorable voice and the annoyed-amused look on Kirk's face at the end. It was also a very stupid episode...the idea of using what was basically a gussied-up pressure chamber to kill the "things" was just...awful. Not to mention how it suddenly popped into Kirk's head!

[TheCityISAtWar111]

Kirks face at 14:54 hahahaha.

[islandfunhouse]

Wait just a minute! "Mira Romaine" is also Andy Griffith's distant cousin "Gloria" on an old AG episode! (The episode "A Guest in the House"). Must have been caused by a transporter malfunction, or maybe a time portal.

[EarlPitsII]

Mira is a real cunt. Ah the fault of beautiful women. Insanity.

[stonesundial]

"We may tax Mr. Scott's patience, doctor." Heh. This is a cute episode. Didn't like it the first time around but it's grown on me.

[chicknumero1]

I've been having issues with the player stopping the video before it's over and skipping to the next episode. It's skipped to Requiem for Methuselah about five times now.... Does anyone know what's causing this? The help section said to clear out the internet cache, but that didn't do squat.

[chicknumero1]

37:09 what the heck is the guy in the yellow shirt doing? It looks like he's pantomiming turning a wheel...

[snickersthedramageek]

i love the ending

[HubertHoratio]

writing in this episode is not the best.

[kabooby0]

@HubertHoratio But... but... her legs!

[awhitegmail]

@HubertHoratio Shari Lewis wrote this episode... LAMB CHOPS PLAY-ALONG :D

[DancingSpiderman]

@ 23:42 , Lt Sulu has a purty cool deluxe ViewMaster bolted to his control console.

I wonder what pictures are on his view disks? No Gay Sulu jokes, people.

Any of you Gen Xers even know what a ViewMaster is?!?

This is not my favorite esipode. TOO MUCH UNNECESSARY DRAMA AND OVER-ACTING.

[DancingSpiderman]

DAYng... James Shatner and Scotty McDoogee were so skinny back then...

(staring at my stopwatch) let's see how many seconds it takes for all the nerds to jump my ass on the 2 deliberate typos...

Scotty's Squeeze is a hottie

[Torwyn11]

PLOP! Clohkkkk Clohhhhk! What's that you say, Mira?

[BondFreek]

Warning!!! bealio721 is a left wing troll!!!

[xFriedxCalamarix]

Does anyone else think it sounds like hungry stomachs? The garble-talk, I mean?

[jetav8ter]

Scotty in a love story..."Awkward!"

[AFriendOfJesus1]

Lt. Romaine looks like she's about to cry during the meeting spock, dr. mccoy, and Kirk were having around 28:20-35:00

[AdamEtheredge]

God, Mira Romaine is smokin'!

[piscean60]

it looks like the "Day of the Dove" entity-

hmmm.....

[Zalibaba]

Wow.. if I was that lieutenant I would have smashed Scotty's face in for continually trying to convince me I needed 'space-legs'. Then again, if I was Scotty I would have smashed the writer's face in for giving me such poor dialogue.

[TheTrekkie13]

Remember; WEAR YOUR FOIL HAT OR GLOWING ALIENS WILL TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE

[ringojohnpaulgeorgee]

hahaha. 16:00.

kurk: "spock!" points at the glowing lady

as if spock hadnt seen her already

[Rose10652]

Stare 'em down, Spock!

Yeah. Don't you have something better to do Spock?

I mean, you're just /staring/ at it.

It's not about to go away!

[Blippless]

@16:16 LOL she died of a personality overload!!

[Demithegoddess]

Hmm. Pressure chamber, an interesting new approach to exorcism.

[polysmart]

Space trip... How trippy!

[Jenny11209]

OMG DOOR PHAIL. @ 19:11.

[tlareng]

At 37:10 what is that guy turning on the wall? He is making a twisting motion with both hands, but his hands are empty!

[Pablofilmmaker]

HAHA!! Good catch, sharp eye. What was that extra thinking? Maybe he thought he was off camera. That is really pathetic.

[ringojohnpaulgeorgee]

@tlareng HAAH! i totally didn't catch that.

[timbobos]

Mira's got a wicked cold sore on her lower lip, left side. Be careful with her, Mr. Scott! Gross!

[quinbx]

yes but light does not move faster than the speed of light it only moves at the speed of light

[StewieSwan]

Also lol @ "No natural phenomenon can move faster than the speed of light."

Because we all know light isn't a natural phenomenon or anything.

[earp1673]

**ahem** ..yeh you might want to rethink your position concerning that statement...

:-)

[joshl777]

why would you set up memory Alpha in the middle of nowhere to store all your information? Wouldn't it be better to keep that stuff spread out over the thousands of librarys on earth and in other planets. Hmm let's see, take all of our valuable information, put it in one spot in the middle of nowhere? Sounds like a good use of tax payer money.

[StewieSwan]

1. No taxes, no money

2. It's a complete library of information. Spreading it out defeats the purpose.

3. 99.9999999999% of the galaxy is "the middle of nowhere"

Sorry to go all nerd on you though.

[Pablofilmmaker]

I'd like to agree with you on this but only 86.43271 % of it is accurate.

[BondFreek]

@StewieSwan. Spock never said no taxes.

[StewieSwan]

@BondFreek Yea, the guy I was replying to did. Thanks for nitpicking my 5 month old comment though.

[BondFreek]

@StewieSwan. Sorry. Its this new set up. It confuses me.

[wardenphil]

Let's get Wikipedia on it at once...LOL

[phantomphiddler5]

19:25 omg sulu was temporarily in charge? cool!

[alcaeus]

Scotty's lower teeth gross me out

[bealio721]

Check out Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Tell me what you think then.

[VictoryIsMine08]

Scottie is whipped into stupidity

[guyd00]

20:00

[hansumjoe]

how many magnifications are there?

[worldjustsucks]

lol Good Ep! thanks for sharing!

[Sprcrzymnkyfish]

19:10 the door closes on them!

[HellsOnlyBelle]

Nurse Chapel @ around 9:50 was hilarious.

[StarTronAlpha]

At the beginning 00:44, Scotty gives grand compliments to the beautiful woman Mira, but then calls her "Sir"?

She was very beautiful, though... I can understand Scotty acting like an idiot when he falls in love.

[CzarScizor]

He said "er..." not "sir"

[Sprcrzymnkyfish]

no it was sir but he probly meant er...

[garyeberly916]

Sure you can, what about that "Apollo" episode, they meet Apollo and he has a crush on a chick, etc. Then the Jack the ripper one, couldn't remember if he killed her or not...poor guy has rotten luck

[willowkatt26]

14:12- Beaming down Scott, McCoy, Kirk and Spock...who the HELL is running the ship????

[mymindsincree]

Sulu, I think.

[hhhnhhbk69]

sulu is next in command

[KarateKidX]

@willowkatt26 sulu

[stonesundial]

I have decided I like pointy sideburns.

[101wuzup1]

omg the coping with dis belief thing is hilarious! and i agree! no way gravity exists! lol

[mybrainbrokeow]

16:07 is awesomely freaky

[Xemnashizzo]

"When a man of Scotty's years falls in love, the loneliness of his life is suddenly revealed to him. His whole heart once throbbed only to the ship's engines. He can talk only to the ship. Now he can see nothing but the woman" my my, that's quite romantic

[mjdeslon]

Did anyone else notice at 19:20 the people pushing the doors messed up scotty and his girl almost walked into the doors!

[Callithyia]

gasp! the Proto- Vashta Nerada! :O

[sars0928]

omg, 14:11. "Captains log....the silence is "onimous". Hahahah

[LETHLSS]

hehe, gr8 ending!! =P

[orkutster]

You mean to tell me the pressure that could kill energy did not do anything to Mira?!! I don't get it.

[orkutster]

Scotty is annoying when he's in love.

This episode reminds me of the time they met zeus and he was runningaround making a fool of himself.

[MissionObsessable]

I belive they actually met Applo, but yes, I see your point.

[huskersquaredude]

ahh i beleive it was appolo wasnt it??

but i see your point =]

[johnthunder107]

Apollo.

[orkutster]

29:38

Check out McCoy doing the equivalent of a double-click on the ship's computer sonsole. Or is it a shift-click?! I can't tell.

[orkutster]

What's with this episode?!

It feels like a home movie with a bunch of amateur actors! I don't get it.

[orkutster]

scotty looks cool with that haircut of his.

[orkutster]

00:06

Wow! That's a nice shot of the Enterprise!

[InkSound4]

I think the thing I like least about Mira is her voice. It's quite annoying, even more than her lack of rationality.

[burntfish44]

'dr macoy couldnt cure it anymore than he could cure a cold...'

indicating even in the 23rd century we still cant beat the common cold? hah!

[guinivereXbloodgood]

It's not surprising really. The thing that makes the common cold so difficult to combat is that there are essentially and infinitesimal number of viruses responsible for producing the symptoms of a cold. It is near impossible to track down every one of them.

Forgive me, I took microbiology last semester. :]

[burntfish44]

and on top of that they all constantly mutate , lol

[DedyPhlincke]

Infinitesimal means really small, I believe that wasn't quite the word you were looking for.

[guinivereXbloodgood]

No I believe not. I could have sworn I wrote "infinite." *smacks head* Stupid brain.

[etherpirate]

Kirk is a cock blocker.

[FreakyDeakyMia]

Scotty needs some love. Seriously. How could anybody NOT stick with that guy when he's all romantic like that!?

[guinivereXbloodgood]

Personally, I'd be a little freaked out by his clinginess.

[19pirategirls97]

i like this episode its soo CUTE and ROMANTIC!!!!! at least scotty found a crush!! and they look so purfect together!!!! i nearly cried!!!!

[SeleneMoon]

They sure run into incaporials alot.

[americankid0]

Omg!! They used that "I don't think he's noticed she has a brain" bit before!! I think it was in that episode with Apollo, when Scotty had the hots for the science babe!!!

[SeleneMoon]

Well, I guess he does go for brainy chicks.

[fgnsfgnsfgn]

I've noticed they repeat lines often

[LeBubblesSan]

Aww, Scotty! You shouldn't cheat on the Enterprise like that, Scotty. She won't like it much.

[apeloki]

there was still a great deal of division between the sexes in the sixties. this show was way ahead of its time in the way it portrayed women, equal to men but still feminine.

[apeloki]

Scotty is so cheesy when he's romantic. He reminds me of a virgin.

[DrSebby]

i think this epidosode might be the worst of all 3 seasons.

comical in some ways though...i love the utter lack of professionalism amongst the crew....always whining, backtalking, totally incompetent....a very laid-back 23rd century! haha.

still...they always take the time to remind us just how "cute and useless" them there "womin-folk" is. Whats hilarious is how they seem to love being treated that way. damn...the 60's were another era, eh?

[hanoc101]

one of the problems with the much maligned third season is that a producer named Fred Friedberger took over and began to ignore a lot of the rules and character ideas established in the prior seasons. Some of it was writing but a lot of it was that he believed that ST had to be altered in order to make it more successful commercially which it never was in its original run. That said their are some very good 3rd season eps IMHO.

[Catalina650013]

Just one of the reasons though. Also, Gene Roddenberry practically abandoning the show and script supervising, the loss of some important staff writers, massive budget cuts requiring cutting script content simply for monetary reasons and not for quality, the list goes on.

[drprasad79]

McCoy is an exception to all the Doctors. Doctors are never so arrogant and boisterous.

Spock remains my all time favorite character in this series.

[Catalina650013]

Wait, McCoy arrogant and boisterous?! You take that back! Take it back!

He's the middle ground between Kirk (who I would classify as arrogant and boisterous) and logical, emotionless Spock.

But about the episode, it's hard to believe this piece of chauvinist clap-trap was written by a woman. I love this show, but this is hard to take. "The girl"? C'mon Sherri Lewis AKA Lambchop.

[magicianspirit]

Most women i know would love to be called "girls."

[RabbitDance]

drprasad79 - House.

[drprasad79]

By all doctors- I meant real life docs not some tv character. I just get annoyed when McCoy uses his line 'I am a Doctor and not a .....' OR ' What do you know about........, I am the Doctor on this ship'

I am not so sure if McCoy is a middle ground between Kirk and Spock coz, Doctors are supposed to be more rational like Spock than an emotional wreck like McCoy is potrayed.

Whatever --its my opinion and I still love the show!! and yes Spock rules!!!!!

[Catalina650013]

I'll try to clarify a bit. By middle ground, I mean McCoy is the most recognizably "human" of the Big Three. Spock is a suppression or rationalization of the irrational parts of humanity, and Kirk is the superhero among men in his boldness, courage, and ability to reason. McCoy is the touchstone on Trek for the viewer. We can relate- he's excitable sometimes, he has irrational prejudices, but he has the useful knowledge that comes with life experience which is why Kirk asks his advice so often.

[Catalina650013]

Ergh, stupid character limit in the comments. Anyways, you say McCoy should be more like Spock, rational to a fault instead of emotional wreck. Spock, however, is an alien, and McCoy isn't. Doctor's aren't superior to the common man because of their profession. They are trained to value science and rationality, but why should they have some supernatural ability to rationalize? We've all seen enough batshit doctors in our lifetimes, but McCoy barely applies to even that. He's human.

[jvmiam]

She wasn't as pretty as some of the other Star Trek babes, but Jan Shutan has always been one of my favorites.

[auntyraray]

Pressure pushing down on me

Pressing down on you no man ask for

Under pressure

[auntyraray]

wow event though the woman was dead from brain hemerageing she was breathing

[kblixt]

I love every episode of the TOS equally. Is that weird?

I love every ST series.

[clokverkorange]

Who knew Scotty could be so smooth?

[hanoc101]

Yeah but they finally give Scotty a girl and she turns out to be possessed by aliens.

[PoetsAndTheirPoems]

this is the first full length show I have watched on the internet.... I like it

[mldnathai]

Man, poor Scotty. I hate when that shit happens.

[CalgarSkull]

Great episode. I love the old series. I am glad I got into it as it makes me excited for the new film now.

[Basssinger86]

Yeah me too

[bluewaves29]

folull episodes cool!

[joel1975]

Mira Romaine is hot...

[RodDeBod]

this one was--'out there' even for s t

[honestann]

Somebody has been programmed by the PC gestapo to be disturbed.

[selby06]

How many times is "the girl" mentioned in this episode? Very odd. and somewhat chauvinistic. Even i, as a male, found this disturbing.

[catman351]

Chalk it up to the thinking at the time and leave it in history. In that context, you should be able to overlook this flaw in our recent past and move on.

[msprecious1]

Yeah I found that annoying too.

[darkwraith07]

A BEAUTIFUL opening to this one