Doctor McKoy eats the food and drinks the booze while they're held hostage by Trelane. His disloyalty to his shipmates is quite shocking, and if you study his character throughout the original series he's similarly disloyal to most of the crew, Kirk most of all. He openly expresses contempt towards people who exert authority, usually for petty reasons but later in the movies his character developed a moral authority that is not evident in this episode.
@est060709 Right on, brother. Or sister. (...*glares at previous comment* What the hell? Why did I spell her name with two As? I must have been high that day.)
@brendanrobertson123 *gasp* but I am a blue shirt! jk,jk.. but me and my little sister chose colors, and i'm a science officer, and she's engineering. :-) poor red-shirt.
I love that they're drinking on the bridge. They use futuristic styrafoam cups painted blue. Everything bad always happens when Spock looks in his science visor. The guy with the laser beacon has a black fingernail.
great symbolism in the mirror being his only power, but really when kirk destroys it at 32:00 the slide whistle sound effects just ruin an awesome moment. in the episode.
At 21:02 Can someone explain to me how Sulu, De Salle and Jaeger can exit the Bridge Elevator, and be followed by Kirk, Spock and McCoy a mere 2 seconds later?
I know Q and Trelane are not the same, but Trelane DOES act like a younger version of Q... right down to the more powerful force coming in and reprimanding him about messing with less powerful beings. Although, the Q continuum's punishment was just a little less G rated...
Trelane is a creepy & wierd dude. I've never seen him in anything other than this episode of Trek but he could have been a good preson to cast in many things just cuz he was an interesting looking and acting guy. He just kinda creeps me out, lol.
@ItsMrFloyd .The actor who played Trelane also played Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles". I’m sure he did lots of other shows, I just can't think of them now.
This has nothing to do with "Q". "Q" was invented as a time filler. Roddenberry had to change his one hour story to a 2 hour TV movie. In the original Story concept the enterprise crew figured out what "Far Point" was with out help.
Yes this episode had to be at least partially the inspiration for the first next generation episode. Trelane the model for Q. And having a trial for Kirk etc.
anyone else have a problem with it going to commercial then saying the video is over? the only way to restore it is to refresh the page and then skip forward (after watching like 3 commercials)
I'm just annoyed that Uhura is always the background chick when there's a blonde crewmember around. All the aliens want the Helen of Troy's instead of our Cleopatra. Yeah, I know it was the 60's. Does it piss me off any less?
@Elfinesmom I can understand your concern, but I think the point of Uhura was that the part could have been played by anyone, black or white, man or woman. There are plenty of men who fade into the background when the camera focuses on a blonde too. So in that respect, Uhura is given a more equal status as crew than the temporary blonde.
Trelane is not Q's son. That idea comes from a none canon book. Q would never admit that humans are superior life forms. PS. Paramount wanted a movie to kick off the new "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series. So, Gene Rodenberry came up with Q to extend the "Encounter At Far Point" story. Originally Picard and crew figured out what was happening on their own.
Q have many differences in opinion about a great many things. Most of the episodes with Q were not written or directly inspired by Rodenberry and yet he created both of these beings. I don't recall any interview where Gene claimed they were separate and so it's not "forbidden" to draw the conclusion they were the same, especially with a novel licensed by Star Trek that says they were, canon or not. Besides, w/ AV neither exist anymore anyway leading me to conclude that it all might not be real.
Paul Schneider created Trelane, not Gene Roddenberry. The Q are not the only omnipotent beings in the universe. See (STO) "Charley X", "Arena", "The Savage Curtain" and "And The Children Shall Lead". (STAS) "Bem", "The Magic of Magus II" and "How Sharper Then A Serpents Tooth". Just to name a few episodes with omnipotent beings.
"AV neither exist anymore anyway leading me to conclude that it all might not be real" As far as a real true Treker is concerned the new movie is not canon. Real Star Trek is about what makes up the human condition. The new movie never touches that. It's in one eye out the other Garbage.
@BondFreek Wow...I say with all serious humility that I'm seldom one-upped by anyone when it comes to Star Trek trivia, but here we are. I stand corrected. I was seriously upset about the new Star Trek but I felt it was just one of those things that would be whether I liked it or not and nothing new was really on the horizon so I just resigned myself to it.
@soupatwork. Regarding the new Star Trek: The Putrid Picture, there are no more canon Star Treks Paramount made sure of that. Plus, they are trying to force old fans to continue watching by eradicating the first 4 series. I say SCREW Paramount, I'm watching Star Trek: New Voyages AKA Star Trek: Phase II. Even that awful "Star Trek Phase II: Blood and Fire" is more Star Trek then that horrible movie.
PS Im looking forward to "Star Trek Phase II Enemy Starfleet".
@soupatwork. And you call your self a fan. I will never resign to anything that is not true to the original this includes but not limeted to Mission Imposable, Battlestar Galatica and The A Team. I say "if it's not broke don't fix it".
@BondFreek Nope, gotta stop you there. The new Battlestar rocked. The 70's version (which I loved then) just isn't transferable to this century in its old form. It had to be reimagined to be relevant. Caped uniforms, a cute kid and a daggit just doesn't buy what it used to.
@soupatwork. So you like soap-opera actors, lazy prop personnel, old cliché lines & stories stolen from Japanese movies over realistic attitudes in a war situation. The problem with people who like the new Battlestar is that when thinking of the original they only focus on Boxy and his Daget. They forget the drama and the characters. Not to mention the hard work that went into props and special FX. Re watch "The Living Legend" or any of the other episodes that DO NOT have Boxy in it.
@BondFreek I've watched all the old ones, repeatedly. Anyone can claim stories are borrowed. Even all real life stories have all been lived and told before just with different names, no matter how unique we feel they are. It's difficult to compare modern day FX with 70's. Budgets are different, audiences are different and the technology is different. Have you actually watched this show you claim to hate? It's not like a movie where you know it all or most in 2 hours. Where is your info from?
@soupatwork. I watched the first three episodes. I saw real to real players, 8 track tape players, old 60's radios used for the announcements, old microphones and the set of "Air Force one". The characters were flat typically troubled families and totally uninteresting. The new Battlestar did not show who people truly react in war time.
@BondFreek I was disappointed with some of the character development myself, but I just don't think 3 episodes fairly summarizes the character arc of the series. The President was mind numbingly irritating and some of the character development was ... shoddy... but it was good overall for interesting characters. As for the Terminator 2 reference...yeah, but I agree with the point they were making and it's hard not to make a cylon with no comparable qualities to terminators.
@soupatwork The original Battlestar Galatica is still remembered today because of the characters and plot. The new one was just plain lazy. Lazy writing lazy prop master, lazy acting, the only people who ere not lazy were the FX artists.
@BondFreek Interesting you bring up Galactica. Baltar (spelling may be off) the traitorous human and later a commander of a Cylon Base Station, was also in Star Trek, as Kur (spelling again), Military Gov. of Organia. He later was in an episode of DS-9. If you have the Galactica series on disk, watch the outtakes, the cast and crew try purposely to make him crack up during a closing shot, and they are all laughing and joking, but hes just sitting there stone faced. What an actor!
@soupatwork The stories are identical to "Armitage the Third", "Terminator 2", "Akera" and "Ghost in the Machine". This was not accidental, they copied these movies deliberately. In the original Battlestar Galatica the only things that was similar to other movies was the Cylons looking a bit like Darth Vader.
@BondFreek Put Noah's ark, Star wars (star destroyers, x-wing fighters, etc) and Star Trek (See also: Odd alien races in a long deep space mission) and psychotic machines (2001) along with a couple of good thoughts over lunch together, and you end up with the original BattleStar Galactica.
I came to the same conclusion, but I think compared to the most dangerous game it was rather lame and didn't bring up nearly as manny ethical issues as the story did.
there is a follow up on the novel Q-Squared. Trelane is in fact a young Q. (nice explanation of how Gene Roddenberry borrowed Trelane 's god-power abilitys for Encounter at Farpoint)
I love how at 24:42 Spock is giving his speech of defiance and Kirk has this proud and adoring look on his face. Kinda like "Spock, I love that rebellious side in you!"
Spock's description of a desert is false. Deserts are areas with little precipitation, but not all are wastelands. I live in a desert in southern New Mexico, and we have an ecosystem with a diverse variety of plant and animal life.
@Trainian Actually, he's basically Q borrowing godlike powers from his parents. I think it should just be taken as a Q who's more imaginative in naming himself than the entire rest of the Q continuum.
The voice was Barbara Babcock's. She was in Plato's Stepchildren and A Taste of Armegeddon. Google Star Trek Memory Alpha Wiki for all the triva from each episode. There are lots of surprises.
@pirodirty Me too....I am in love with Spock. Young Leonard Nimoy was SOOOO HOTTTT! I have a plush of Spock that I cuddle with every night :) He's my baby and I wuv the plush to death <3
I agree, one of the my favorite and IMHOP best of episode of all. Though, shouldn't the approach be less adverserial and more diplomatic. The gains in knowledge and technology, let alone the crew has a duty to develope relations with alien life forms.
I want to say that: I watch all the epissodes and this is the best, notice the creature dissected in the entrance is the same creature from the first episode, this guy have a castle with all the objects of human history so? Somehow they thought it should be here, or they want to give some use to an old but good costume. I came back from the end to say this. And I watched from the end to the beginning.
Ok. I want Spock as my stage manager. Any show he runs would go off without a hitch. Or if something does go wrong he always has a way to correct the hell out of it!
The horrific reality is the way Kirk and crew are constantly looking for ways to defeat and conquer this "child" would be LOST with today's concept of accepting and embracing diversity w/o question. In other words, the effeminate idea of "let's all love one another no matter" would have the crew playing along with Trelane to their own destruction, in the interest of embracing new life forms, and tolerance w/o standard. Kirk had discernment enough to be militant; an idea lost in Generation Y
But you gotta blame Generation X who are as the late great Bernie Mac put it, "some punk-ass parents!" They are responsible for being their child's friends & not their child's parents.
VERY true! Gen X(my generation) is overindulgent, overly approving, and yes, friends instead of parents; Boomers started this(hippie culture, plus guilt due to , and Gen X made it into an art form.
Dude, it's just a conversation/opinion of real life situations that just so happened to be based on the plot of this episode. I don't know if you're aware of this fact, but fiction often reflects reality, and sometimes analogies can be made, such as the vampire in the movie reminding you of the way that one guy at work can really suck the life out of the room. Do you think maybe you can understand that...??
Now go play with your Legos; grown ups are talking.
Before you go off saying remarks as if i dont understand or saying "Go back to playing with your Legos, grown ups are talking" make sure you know who your talking to. i'm not some 12 year old kid going around on youtube trolling. Your remark on me playing with Legos, as if its "bad" is just mean, i would like to see you attempt the kind of videos i create using Legos as a resource. If your so grown up why did you resort to saying "do you think you can understand?" sounds childish to say that.
I think Trelane made the mistake. It seems a child of a superior set of beings is much like a child today; though an informed student, a child still needs direction, correction, and discipline; sometimes positive(enlightenment, redirection), or negative(punitive, restricting). This child, though learned enough to reconstruct a scene with great accuracy, is confused in the details; mixing 18th century with 14th, like a 7th grade student might think WW1 involved atomic capability.
Even Kirk meet a Q even tho they didn't call him that..but you learn in one Star Trek Book that Kirk was the first to meet the Q.....in this episode the Squire of Gothos.
lol, nice life support system guys. I doubt that'd get u thru a foggy day in london. I wonder, were raincoats and brollys abollished in the 24Th centuary
...and get that freakin' coffe cup OFF THE CONSOLE!... I will not tell you AGAIN!!!
glasstronic 1 year ago
Shatner/Kirk's satire towards Spock at the end of the episode is absolutely incredible!
DOHC2L 1 year ago
Doctor McKoy eats the food and drinks the booze while they're held hostage by Trelane. His disloyalty to his shipmates is quite shocking, and if you study his character throughout the original series he's similarly disloyal to most of the crew, Kirk most of all. He openly expresses contempt towards people who exert authority, usually for petty reasons but later in the movies his character developed a moral authority that is not evident in this episode.
DOHC2L 1 year ago
31:00 I think Tralane came within an inch of a Vulcan ass whoopin' right there.
Demithegoddess 1 year ago
He's like a very immature Q from TGN and Voyager
jaws2003 1 year ago
KIrk might be jealous that the other guy was dancing with a pretty girl of his crew. Thats his job!!!
utscuba 1 year ago
Trelane needs to shut the fuck up.
DJandManaphy 1 year ago 4
omg is that a changeling from an earlier ep at 9:00??
TheWatchGoesTick 1 year ago
I adore all of the satire here.
Nikanaiko 1 year ago
that black chick is hot. why no one ever told me this. I should slap you trek nerds for not saying anything.
willhancock2008 1 year ago
@willhancock2008 She is, friend. Uhara is hot. The woman who plays her in the new movie doesn't even come close.
Nikanaiko 1 year ago
@Nikanaiko The new Uhura is practically a man she's so ugly compared to Nichelle <3
est060709 1 year ago
@est060709 Right on, brother. Or sister. (...*glares at previous comment* What the hell? Why did I spell her name with two As? I must have been high that day.)
Nikanaiko 1 year ago
@Nikanaiko Lulz, sister. :) and no problem, being high is a great excuse
est060709 1 year ago
it should be country crap instead of crock.
paveltul 1 year ago
This is a really great episode. One of the best.
Gamble711 1 year ago
does blue mean science ,gold officers and red enlisted because thats my guest
brendanrobertson123 1 year ago
@brendanrobertson123 gold means command/bridge, red is security/engineering, and blue is science/medical.
IDigFatCats 1 year ago
@IDigFatCats so I was pretty close.....I guess it doesnt take a blue shirt to figure it our hahaha
brendanrobertson123 1 year ago
@brendanrobertson123 *gasp* but I am a blue shirt! jk,jk.. but me and my little sister chose colors, and i'm a science officer, and she's engineering. :-) poor red-shirt.
IDigFatCats 1 year ago
@IDigFatCats *my little sister and I.... oops
IDigFatCats 1 year ago
@brendanrobertson123 Blue is science, red is ops, gold is command.
bandgeek8986 1 year ago
Why does Trelane look related to Scotty.....?
Th3EminemSh0w 1 year ago
I like the fact that Trelane threatened to hurt Spock when trying to get Kirk to do what he wanted. Much better than if he'd threatened the yeoman.
OneDreamery 1 year ago 2
Jeez, I've missed Spock, McCoy, and Kirk. It's so good to see them, I don't even mind all the annoying commercials.
8088samjam 1 year ago 4
Oh gosh! No red shirts in the landing party!!
FangedFashionista 1 year ago 2
Dude always a good episode when Jager is involved, lol
annewrite 1 year ago
Agree that Uhura is smoking hot in this episode. Pup tent city.
Also, there's another hot blond in black pantyhose. Can't wrong wrong there.
Masturbov 1 year ago
I love that they're drinking on the bridge. They use futuristic styrafoam cups painted blue. Everything bad always happens when Spock looks in his science visor. The guy with the laser beacon has a black fingernail.
1desiretaco 1 year ago
I guess we know where holodecks and replicators come from
jdskinny212 1 year ago
great symbolism in the mirror being his only power, but really when kirk destroys it at 32:00 the slide whistle sound effects just ruin an awesome moment. in the episode.
greendayfan234 1 year ago
i dont want to experience your stupid degree deoderant...god damnit
jsmustang64 1 year ago 2
I like Sulu's quick response to the question of taste: 'No'
kerevon 1 year ago
It's funny how he finds out that he's been looking at Earth 900 years in the past and yet is fascinated by Napoleon.
Zwei4815 1 year ago
48:52, Spock's best WTF face EVAR!!!!!!!!! XD
sebringf1 1 year ago
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MortimerBeckett 1 year ago
his german is horrible.
adrianascitip 1 year ago
How did he get all else of Earth's substance wrong, but not the atmosphere? /nitpick
PhotriusPyrelus 1 year ago
@PhotriusPyrelus because it is possible to tell the composition of substances from light waves?
egreen1989 1 year ago
yes the salt-sucker
benmillerintx 1 year ago
45:07 LOL love the bitchslap
kataisa3 1 year ago
At 21:02 Can someone explain to me how Sulu, De Salle and Jaeger can exit the Bridge Elevator, and be followed by Kirk, Spock and McCoy a mere 2 seconds later?
AceOfHeart2012 1 year ago
they were really running out of ideas in this series, huh
skaterjay0012 1 year ago
@skaterjay0012 Yes, and only 17 episodes in =)
waffleownage 1 year ago
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jimmyboy131 1 year ago
I know Q and Trelane are not the same, but Trelane DOES act like a younger version of Q... right down to the more powerful force coming in and reprimanding him about messing with less powerful beings. Although, the Q continuum's punishment was just a little less G rated...
MsNbdy 1 year ago
Trelane is a creepy & wierd dude. I've never seen him in anything other than this episode of Trek but he could have been a good preson to cast in many things just cuz he was an interesting looking and acting guy. He just kinda creeps me out, lol.
ItsMrFloyd 1 year ago
@ItsMrFloyd .The actor who played Trelane also played Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles". I’m sure he did lots of other shows, I just can't think of them now.
BondFreek 1 year ago
This has nothing to do with "Q". "Q" was invented as a time filler. Roddenberry had to change his one hour story to a 2 hour TV movie. In the original Story concept the enterprise crew figured out what "Far Point" was with out help.
BondFreek 1 year ago
The ads are getting longer and longer....
WhatTheTwinky 1 year ago
@WhatTheTwinky Get AdBlocker+ if you have Firefox or Chrome
SweetHomeTexas1972 1 year ago
I love the part where Kirk grabs Trelane's sword and broke it in half. Trelane is so furious and throws a tantrum.
"You broke it...you broke my sword! I'll fix you for that!!!"
So powerful but so childishly spoiled. lol!!!
clgreene100 1 year ago
I found this episode by typing "Star Trek Liberace" into Google.
jarvisel 1 year ago
Yes this episode had to be at least partially the inspiration for the first next generation episode. Trelane the model for Q. And having a trial for Kirk etc.
ghost2171 1 year ago
The original Q.
jaybird321 1 year ago
"I believe it's pronounced Tallyho!"
SuDokuMaster 1 year ago 4
anyone else have a problem with it going to commercial then saying the video is over? the only way to restore it is to refresh the page and then skip forward (after watching like 3 commercials)
alexmcduffmiller 1 year ago 3
Trelane... what an annoying irritating sack of s***
silvanski 1 year ago 2
Why are the commercials soo loud?
INVENT70 1 year ago 6
I know that commercials help to pay for these free episode BUT If I have to hear about a "Foxy Line" one more time...
spiderdavetheent 1 year ago
I'm just annoyed that Uhura is always the background chick when there's a blonde crewmember around. All the aliens want the Helen of Troy's instead of our Cleopatra. Yeah, I know it was the 60's. Does it piss me off any less?
Elfinesmom 1 year ago
@Elfinesmom I can understand your concern, but I think the point of Uhura was that the part could have been played by anyone, black or white, man or woman. There are plenty of men who fade into the background when the camera focuses on a blonde too. So in that respect, Uhura is given a more equal status as crew than the temporary blonde.
LNMagic 1 year ago 3
@Elfinesmom Cleopatra was greek, but you're right about the bias.
diomedes39 1 year ago
This is my favorite episode for the simple reason that you can tell that William Campbell had a blast with this role.
Orlor 1 year ago
This show takes on a whole different atmosphere when you realize that Trelane is supposed to be Q's son.
InfinityxShark 1 year ago
Trelane is not Q's son. That idea comes from a none canon book. Q would never admit that humans are superior life forms. PS. Paramount wanted a movie to kick off the new "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series. So, Gene Rodenberry came up with Q to extend the "Encounter At Far Point" story. Originally Picard and crew figured out what was happening on their own.
BondFreek 1 year ago
Q have many differences in opinion about a great many things. Most of the episodes with Q were not written or directly inspired by Rodenberry and yet he created both of these beings. I don't recall any interview where Gene claimed they were separate and so it's not "forbidden" to draw the conclusion they were the same, especially with a novel licensed by Star Trek that says they were, canon or not. Besides, w/ AV neither exist anymore anyway leading me to conclude that it all might not be real.
soupatwork 1 year ago
Paul Schneider created Trelane, not Gene Roddenberry. The Q are not the only omnipotent beings in the universe. See (STO) "Charley X", "Arena", "The Savage Curtain" and "And The Children Shall Lead". (STAS) "Bem", "The Magic of Magus II" and "How Sharper Then A Serpents Tooth". Just to name a few episodes with omnipotent beings.
BondFreek 1 year ago
"AV neither exist anymore anyway leading me to conclude that it all might not be real" As far as a real true Treker is concerned the new movie is not canon. Real Star Trek is about what makes up the human condition. The new movie never touches that. It's in one eye out the other Garbage.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek Wow...I say with all serious humility that I'm seldom one-upped by anyone when it comes to Star Trek trivia, but here we are. I stand corrected. I was seriously upset about the new Star Trek but I felt it was just one of those things that would be whether I liked it or not and nothing new was really on the horizon so I just resigned myself to it.
soupatwork 1 year ago
@soupatwork. Regarding the new Star Trek: The Putrid Picture, there are no more canon Star Treks Paramount made sure of that. Plus, they are trying to force old fans to continue watching by eradicating the first 4 series. I say SCREW Paramount, I'm watching Star Trek: New Voyages AKA Star Trek: Phase II. Even that awful "Star Trek Phase II: Blood and Fire" is more Star Trek then that horrible movie.
PS Im looking forward to "Star Trek Phase II Enemy Starfleet".
BondFreek 1 year ago
@soupatwork. And you call your self a fan. I will never resign to anything that is not true to the original this includes but not limeted to Mission Imposable, Battlestar Galatica and The A Team. I say "if it's not broke don't fix it".
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek Nope, gotta stop you there. The new Battlestar rocked. The 70's version (which I loved then) just isn't transferable to this century in its old form. It had to be reimagined to be relevant. Caped uniforms, a cute kid and a daggit just doesn't buy what it used to.
soupatwork 1 year ago
@soupatwork. So you like soap-opera actors, lazy prop personnel, old cliché lines & stories stolen from Japanese movies over realistic attitudes in a war situation. The problem with people who like the new Battlestar is that when thinking of the original they only focus on Boxy and his Daget. They forget the drama and the characters. Not to mention the hard work that went into props and special FX. Re watch "The Living Legend" or any of the other episodes that DO NOT have Boxy in it.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek I've watched all the old ones, repeatedly. Anyone can claim stories are borrowed. Even all real life stories have all been lived and told before just with different names, no matter how unique we feel they are. It's difficult to compare modern day FX with 70's. Budgets are different, audiences are different and the technology is different. Have you actually watched this show you claim to hate? It's not like a movie where you know it all or most in 2 hours. Where is your info from?
soupatwork 1 year ago
@soupatwork. I watched the first three episodes. I saw real to real players, 8 track tape players, old 60's radios used for the announcements, old microphones and the set of "Air Force one". The characters were flat typically troubled families and totally uninteresting. The new Battlestar did not show who people truly react in war time.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek I was disappointed with some of the character development myself, but I just don't think 3 episodes fairly summarizes the character arc of the series. The President was mind numbingly irritating and some of the character development was ... shoddy... but it was good overall for interesting characters. As for the Terminator 2 reference...yeah, but I agree with the point they were making and it's hard not to make a cylon with no comparable qualities to terminators.
soupatwork 1 year ago
@soupatwork The original Battlestar Galatica is still remembered today because of the characters and plot. The new one was just plain lazy. Lazy writing lazy prop master, lazy acting, the only people who ere not lazy were the FX artists.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek Oh fine :)
soupatwork 1 year ago
@BondFreek Interesting you bring up Galactica. Baltar (spelling may be off) the traitorous human and later a commander of a Cylon Base Station, was also in Star Trek, as Kur (spelling again), Military Gov. of Organia. He later was in an episode of DS-9. If you have the Galactica series on disk, watch the outtakes, the cast and crew try purposely to make him crack up during a closing shot, and they are all laughing and joking, but hes just sitting there stone faced. What an actor!
Sodiumreactor 1 year ago
@Sodiumreactor I don't hold spelling against anyone. Yes he is one of my favorites.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@soupatwork The stories are identical to "Armitage the Third", "Terminator 2", "Akera" and "Ghost in the Machine". This was not accidental, they copied these movies deliberately. In the original Battlestar Galatica the only things that was similar to other movies was the Cylons looking a bit like Darth Vader.
BondFreek 1 year ago
@BondFreek Put Noah's ark, Star wars (star destroyers, x-wing fighters, etc) and Star Trek (See also: Odd alien races in a long deep space mission) and psychotic machines (2001) along with a couple of good thoughts over lunch together, and you end up with the original BattleStar Galactica.
soupatwork 1 year ago
I love when Spock's all, "I believe it's pronounced, Tally-Ho." ^_^
LuvDownOnBway 1 year ago 3
33:55 Yeoman Ross is adorable. And the way she says "Gladly, Captain" reminds of Kaylee Frye.
stonesundial 1 year ago
Isn't it dangerous to have all of those drinks near the electronics? Especially sitting the cups ON the electronics. It only takes one spill hahaha.
honeydenison 1 year ago
OMG it's a baby Q!
whippetgirl1 1 year ago 4
at the end kirk said "Dipping little girl's curls in ink wells."
??? this is WAY in the future. why would anyone be using an ink well?
:P
emiwright 2 years ago
He was teasing Spock. Of corse there are no ink wells in school any more.
BondFreek 1 year ago 3
Favorite line in whole episode: "I would've! I would've! I would've! I would've! I would've!...."
I'm going to spend the rest of the day saying that and annoying my parents to death. :D
CabinBoyMeatball 2 years ago 6
I love how the whole episode is reminiscent of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Ray Bradbury
awesomeskates101 2 years ago 10
Oh it IS!!
orchdork65 2 years ago
@awesomeskates101
I came to the same conclusion, but I think compared to the most dangerous game it was rather lame and didn't bring up nearly as manny ethical issues as the story did.
Still it was a nice episode.
SerenityRox99 1 year ago
@awesomeskates101
Also, it was written by Richard Connell, not Bradbury.
Their writing styles are very different.
SerenityRox99 1 year ago
@awesomeskates101
I love that short story. I had to read it in school Freshman year.
niraha 1 year ago
The yeoman is smokin!
AndrewPonti 2 years ago
Dude, they so reused the dummy at 9:00 from the first episode AKA "The Map Trap"
anomniaparatis 2 years ago 5
...you mean "The Man Trap"?
OTEP1234567891011 2 years ago 5
Lol my bad :P
anomniaparatis 2 years ago
We all know what anomnia meant. Don't be a booger. I accidently called Nichelle Nichols Michelle once. It happens. You cool, anomnia.
Elfinesmom 1 year ago
@anomniaparatis
I noticed that too :D
niraha 1 year ago
xD I love 5:00
kikioshia 2 years ago 2
I had a constant smile on my face the whole length of the episode.
PawPants 2 years ago 2
...Even throughout those damn Iams commercials?
ElectronicAether 2 years ago 2
Ahh, yes the first appearance in the star trek mythos of a Q being.
dmaleod66 2 years ago 3
I don't know, Charlie X had Q-like powers.
amrit914 2 years ago 2
there is a follow up on the novel Q-Squared. Trelane is in fact a young Q. (nice explanation of how Gene Roddenberry borrowed Trelane 's god-power abilitys for Encounter at Farpoint)
TheBlueCoyote 2 years ago
Uhura is so adorable in this episode. She has such a sweet face.
random6711 2 years ago 20
I love how Trelane won't let anything dampen his mood and is actually pleased with the captain when he tries to plot escape.
AuroraStarW 2 years ago
I love how at 24:42 Spock is giving his speech of defiance and Kirk has this proud and adoring look on his face. Kinda like "Spock, I love that rebellious side in you!"
arelimoon29 2 years ago 13
@ 25:29 Sulu's like "Bull shit! I should be dancing with him!" ;D
Opiatist 2 years ago 6
Spock's description of a desert is false. Deserts are areas with little precipitation, but not all are wastelands. I live in a desert in southern New Mexico, and we have an ecosystem with a diverse variety of plant and animal life.
craigman5000 2 years ago
maybe they changed the definition in the 23rd century
or maybe Gene Roddenberry just screwed up ;)
naguleader 2 years ago
9:05, isn't that the salt craving creature from the episode "The Man Trap?"
Salger12 2 years ago 4
@Salger12 yes it is.
pinklisa 2 years ago
That totally was because it still freaked me out now.
MagicHead3 2 years ago
yep.
gotta love that low budget
AuroraStarW 2 years ago
That is!
Good Catch!
I caught that one too.
anglimited 1 year ago
Trelane raided Austin Powers wardrobe.
ghost2171 2 years ago 4
lolmaorofl !!! XD
Zaz7y 2 years ago
I love Spock's expression at about 49:08 :P
snickersthedramageek 2 years ago 3
I love how Kirk bitchily snatches the hat off of Yeoman Barbie's head before ineffectually slapping Trelane across the face.
CrazyLikeAFox610 2 years ago 7
9:07 anyone notice that that weird alien bust was the salt-loving creature from episode 1?
serfky01 2 years ago 30
@serfky01 Whoops, I commented saying the same thing, before reading your comment. Guess great minds think alike.
Salger12 2 years ago
I did!
anglimited 1 year ago
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@serfky01 yes the salt-sucker
benmillerintx 1 year ago
So this clown is basically Q without the godlike powers?
Trainian 2 years ago 13
one of the Star Trek books retconned it and said this clown was actually a Q, the machine was used because he was so young, to increase his powers
russell8472 2 years ago
@Trainian Actually, he's basically Q borrowing godlike powers from his parents. I think it should just be taken as a Q who's more imaginative in naming himself than the entire rest of the Q continuum.
kerevon 1 year ago
@Trainian Also, you'll notice that he DOES have godlike powers anyhow. For some reason, he just felt like using the machine like that.
kerevon 1 year ago
The actor who plays Trelane reminds me of Liberace.
Also, I believe that the voice of Trelane's mother was done by June Lockhart.
trwent 2 years ago 6
The voice was Barbara Babcock's. She was in Plato's Stepchildren and A Taste of Armegeddon. Google Star Trek Memory Alpha Wiki for all the triva from each episode. There are lots of surprises.
SeeTimeRun391 2 years ago
Spock's eyebrow-raise at the end is just BEGGING to be made into a .gif.
PrudenceNumberNine 2 years ago 24
This episode just makes me smile. A smashing romp.
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AceOfHeart2012 2 years ago
it makes my panties wet whenever spock takes command like that
pirodirty 2 years ago 14
@pirodirty Me too....I am in love with Spock. Young Leonard Nimoy was SOOOO HOTTTT! I have a plush of Spock that I cuddle with every night :) He's my baby and I wuv the plush to death <3
DJandManaphy 1 year ago
Those loud commercials make me want to consider suicide.
ashenvale1 2 years ago 14
I love how at 23:57 Uhura is all like "nigga, please!"
SuperMarinaB 2 years ago 9
27:29 paranoid kirk
jp3827 2 years ago 2
"You broke it. YOU BROKE MY SWORD!"
emflei 2 years ago 4
I agree, one of the my favorite and IMHOP best of episode of all. Though, shouldn't the approach be less adverserial and more diplomatic. The gains in knowledge and technology, let alone the crew has a duty to develope relations with alien life forms.
me2igloo 2 years ago
I want to say that: I watch all the epissodes and this is the best, notice the creature dissected in the entrance is the same creature from the first episode, this guy have a castle with all the objects of human history so? Somehow they thought it should be here, or they want to give some use to an old but good costume. I came back from the end to say this. And I watched from the end to the beginning.
mashvideo 2 years ago
the "hunt" at the end is just like the story The Most Dangerous Game. they probably got the idea from it.
emiwright 2 years ago
Trelane= the Q of the Original Series
emmettluvr27 2 years ago 6
I have a strong inclination to grow my eyelashes..hhmmm.
Spencerianism 2 years ago
I need to brush my teeth with Brooke Sheilds....
finnboy1967 2 years ago 3
You better check with her "go to" people first.
Michael55443 2 years ago 5
AWesome.. haha this is the episode that futurama episode was based off of anyone seen it???? hahahahaaa!
caffeineaddicted1 2 years ago
yeah that was an awesome episode
DeathTillThrash 2 years ago
right show wrong episode the futurama was a spof of city on the edge of forever remember they used the gaurdian
roderickpass 2 years ago
Lol, it sucks how they get kidnapped every two seconds...
CountessUndead 2 years ago 5
Ok. I want Spock as my stage manager. Any show he runs would go off without a hitch. Or if something does go wrong he always has a way to correct the hell out of it!
swordphish007 2 years ago 6
the final few seconds....the look on Spocks face while trying to logically figure out childish behavior/ pranks.... Hillarious.... LOL
poodleman78 2 years ago 7
The horrific reality is the way Kirk and crew are constantly looking for ways to defeat and conquer this "child" would be LOST with today's concept of accepting and embracing diversity w/o question. In other words, the effeminate idea of "let's all love one another no matter" would have the crew playing along with Trelane to their own destruction, in the interest of embracing new life forms, and tolerance w/o standard. Kirk had discernment enough to be militant; an idea lost in Generation Y
earp1673 2 years ago
OMG... you're right!
But you gotta blame Generation X who are as the late great Bernie Mac put it, "some punk-ass parents!" They are responsible for being their child's friends & not their child's parents.
crazycoolone 2 years ago 3
VERY true! Gen X(my generation) is overindulgent, overly approving, and yes, friends instead of parents; Boomers started this(hippie culture, plus guilt due to , and Gen X made it into an art form.
earp1673 2 years ago
Oops typo --guilt due to divorce---
earp1673 2 years ago
dude, its just a tv show
indianacheckers 2 years ago
Dude, it's just a conversation/opinion of real life situations that just so happened to be based on the plot of this episode. I don't know if you're aware of this fact, but fiction often reflects reality, and sometimes analogies can be made, such as the vampire in the movie reminding you of the way that one guy at work can really suck the life out of the room. Do you think maybe you can understand that...??
Now go play with your Legos; grown ups are talking.
earp1673 2 years ago
Before you go off saying remarks as if i dont understand or saying "Go back to playing with your Legos, grown ups are talking" make sure you know who your talking to. i'm not some 12 year old kid going around on youtube trolling. Your remark on me playing with Legos, as if its "bad" is just mean, i would like to see you attempt the kind of videos i create using Legos as a resource. If your so grown up why did you resort to saying "do you think you can understand?" sounds childish to say that.
indianacheckers 2 years ago
Here's what a comment from a committed Socialist: You're a dipshit, shut the fuck up and watch the show.
AdrianAnansi 2 years ago
Most intelligent comment I have read. There is danger in accepting all diversity.
paulclothier 2 years ago
Some interesting concepts here.
Trelane didn't realize that he was keeping them prisoner even tho he wouldn't let them go.
But then Trelane correctly said that we're one of the few predator species that preys even on itself.
And, "You don't understand something, so you become fearful".
But they did make a mistake. Even tho Trelane was supposedly observing 14th Century Earth, he knew about Napoleon.
blueskunk12 2 years ago 2
I think Trelane made the mistake. It seems a child of a superior set of beings is much like a child today; though an informed student, a child still needs direction, correction, and discipline; sometimes positive(enlightenment, redirection), or negative(punitive, restricting). This child, though learned enough to reconstruct a scene with great accuracy, is confused in the details; mixing 18th century with 14th, like a 7th grade student might think WW1 involved atomic capability.
earp1673 2 years ago 3
i guess we can add stealing cars to captain kirk's list of childish pranks. ..
Nexgod2 2 years ago
Even Kirk meet a Q even tho they didn't call him that..but you learn in one Star Trek Book that Kirk was the first to meet the Q.....in this episode the Squire of Gothos.
Astraldragon1 2 years ago
lol, nice life support system guys. I doubt that'd get u thru a foggy day in london. I wonder, were raincoats and brollys abollished in the 24Th centuary
p3eta 2 years ago
trelane, honey, pick a fricking time period....
casomess 2 years ago 3
Aha that why he got punished in the end i was just starting to get a bit impatient with his nonscience.
Takifun 2 years ago
My favorite episode xD I love that girl's Empire dress!
p3rdyp1nkr0ses 2 years ago
Visit fluoride action alert.
NotOfThisGalaxy 2 years ago
I'm 17 minutes in...so far this Squire seems like an evil Time Lord...
doctorkazoo 2 years ago 3
ilu, trelane. come cuddle.
DowJonesss 2 years ago
is the guy that plays Trelane the same guy that plays the Klingon commander in "The Trouble with Tribbles" ?
BustaCapps89 2 years ago 3
yep
he was much better as Trelane than he was as a Klingon imo
kagetoh 2 years ago
"you're not to dance with him, i don't like it" lol