Star Trek 2nd season NBC promo 2

[toshalaska]

thanks for this vidz

[websuspect]

Gene Roddenberry shot all the episodes on film rather than Analog TV tapes. So all of the episodes are available in HD color.

[SeniorQuack]

I don't think anyone in the history of Star Trek has left the galaxy.

[theemrpoint123]

@SeniorQuack Um, the Enterprise-D in the first season, episode "Where No Man (or No One, I'm not sure) Has Gone Before" travelled way beyond our galaxy. And Tom Paris in some Voyager episode went warp 10 and travelled trough several galaxies in the blink of an eye (cant remember the episode name). Oh, and the Planet killer from TOS had travelled trough several galaxies. And V'ger from ST:TMP...

[Neville6000]

@chubsoda: FM radio really began in the 1940s.

[XTherisaX]

Poor DeForest Kelley, he does not get his name mentioned lol

[jaymepaulsmema]

Aw, this was gr8, brings back some good childhood memories. Hard to believe the 2nd season was being aired the year I was born!

[l008comm]

HAHAHA the production quality of that clip is SO BAD!

[LeeAnne151]

Many people still had black & white televisions in 1966

[MegaScifigirl]

That was so cool! Just added it to my Star Trek play list.

[ckjedi]

Cool to see and all, but is it REALLY necessary to include the static and empty black in the video? Video cropping isn't that advanced of a technique you know.

[rlbeanman]

@ckjedi Um...yeah, this video was made before widescreen, and YouTube is set to show vids in widescreen, thus the black bars.

[ckjedi]

@rlbeanman @JMarchOHare

Okay, I think you both misunderstood me. I'm not talking about aspect ratios, I'm talking about a solid 30 seconds of nothing but blue static and black nothing that appears before and after the video. Would "trimming" have been a better word? The video runs longer than it needs to because the person who captured it didn't set in and out times properly. I guess I should be grateful that it wasn't someone that set their camcorder in front of their television to capture it.

[JMarchOHare]

@ckjedi: You don't want to crop video, though. It's bad form. You keep it in the original aspect ratio because the creators intended for the whole image to be seen. Pan and scan vs. letterboxing is like dubbing vs. subtitles: the former is for the drooling, ignorant masses who don't know any better; the latter is for the very people you don't want to alienate.

[MiddayLady]

In color, YEAH!! Can't wait! 8DDD

[thechimeralinguist]

Spock's kinda hot in a prison with no shirt, innit . . .

[batman2909]

They left the galaxy?!

[jaymepaulsmema]

@batman2909 LOL!!!

[FridayTN]

@batman2909 - You're showing your youth!

[ElectronHexagon]

I came here because of the posted link on the Star Trek Facebook page.

[xane76]

Muahahahahahaha! That's just too funny.

[parkssteve1]

Awesome. I remember that promo.  Thanks for posting!

[videoholiccollection]

Good stuff!!

[larryn77]

NBC then owned by RCA= making color TVs just got affordable in 65-66-67-68=-ish era. Still expensive tho. The new tech toy thing.

But NBC.RCA plugs their own product! All shows in the changeover would say IN COLOR! NBC was the first to have all shows/live events in color. Why do you think they had the peacock as the logo? ABC was the last.

[Captmiloman]

Today, Nbc still refuses to admit they carried ST.

[MillBelater]

in 2010, 38 promos could fit inside the time used by this one

[ewaf88]

Brings back the atmosphere of when I first saw it back in 1969 when I was 11. The promo makes it look really futuristic and exciting again,

[hulkmeister23]

@ewaf88 wow, u must really be old.

[ewaf88]

@hulkmeister23 Yes I am but hopfully a younger person like you might live to see more of the Star Trek universe come true. For example the Iphone with all it's apps can probably do all the things things the Tri-Corder could. We're a long way away from Warp drives and Transporters - but peope are working on these - and you never know - by the 23rd century.....

[hulkmeister23]

@ewaf88 cool

[bitzofdata]

@ewaf88 we'll all be living in obama's mud huts...

[ewaf88]

@bitzofdata All heated by Anti-matter I hope

[illuminatisos]

@bitzofdata hahah not me.. im irish! i'd hate to be an american nowadays.. cause i wouldnt know anything!

[Gerbiee]

@ewaf88 It's amazing how much inspiration was drawn from this show for many of today's technology. Cell phones, automatic doors, etc.

[ewaf88]

@Gerbiee Indeed but transporters and Warp drive are still a long way away - but not impossible. Grumpy Doctors we have now though :)

[simplecoffee]

@ewaf88 None as awesome as the Space Doc, though. ;)

[gamesDAMNED]

Woah, hey, I'm tripping! I ate some bad shrooms!  Oh, wait, that's just the end of the movie reel, never mind.

[MillBelater]

In this episode of Mythbustertrek, Spock uses salsa and electricity to break out of jail.

[supamart]

In the future, I'm going to be telling young whippersnappers how I played Pandora in my car, using 3G... They'll probably just laugh at me.

[computerexpert3]

awsome show but who cares about color lol

[GuianSWG]

Because the majority of shows back then were broadcast in Black and White.

Not to mention having a color TV back in the mid 60s was a status symbol much like having a 72 inch big screen home theather system is today.

[Meef1701]

In c-c-c-color bitches! Why do you think the bridge & uniforms were so colorful? It was still new in '66!

Thanks too, for the explanation Kimberly, that's really interesting.

[SakakiDash]

@Meef1701 actually they are becaue it worked best for the media of the time and was captured best. ^^

[john6380]

It is so weird to me being a young person how they kept billing it was 'In Color' like it was something very special because today it's in HD.

[DrCru]

In color!

[56BUICKRiviera]

Looks like the Alabama Hills in that last scene

[MMPVideo1981]

It's the Vasquez Rocks north of Hollywood. It's cool, they actually shot pretty much in the parking lot there.

[56BUICKRiviera]

Wow I did not know that. Thanks! I gotta say I like the unremastered version of Star Trek.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

Vasquez Rocks is one of the most famous Hollywood locations for outdoor scenes. You can see that famous cliff in TV shows, movies and music videos.

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

I wonder why someone hasn't put the show's opening theme, of course with the Peacock announcement, here?

[UncleLew]

Shirtless Spock! oh yeah.

[terminattheconqueror]

No wonder Roddenberry had a hard time with money for the show. Not only did it use models, but it was in COLOR!

[michaelwright999]

We got colour Tv I think 1971 Edinburgh I thought it was magic

[RichGilly]

LOL, color back then, is like HD is today.

[fromthesidelines]

NBC began calling itself "The Full Color Network" in the fall of 1965, when 95% of its prime-time schedule was telecast in color, 'planet' {the exceptions that year were "CONVOY" and "I DREAM OF JEANNIE", which became the LAST black & white prime-time show on the network that season}.

[planetiowa]

I think it was the fall of 1968 that NBC became the "full color network." I don't know about their daytime shows. ABC and CBS ran a few black-and-white shows at the time, but stopped shortly.

[handbanana999]

In color?!! How the HELL can they do that?!!

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

NBC was the first network to use the NTSC 'compatible color' system. CBS attempted color TV via a mechanical 'field sequential' system not compatible with existing black-and-white sets, in the late 1940's and early 50's. After much 'pushing' by RCA, the FCC adopted the NTSC system in 1953.

[middyseafort]

Moreover, RCA owned NBC at the time. "Star Trek" was used to promote RCA's color television. "In order to see space adventure like this, you'll need color television from RCA" appeared in print ads. An example of one is in the Solow/Justman book, "Inside Star Trek: The Real Story."

[fromthesidelines]

I believe this promo was shown at the beginning of the third season, around September of 1968 (featuring scenes from the second season), with NBC announcer Bill Wendell at the end. The network was still pushing "color" shows, and trumpted every one of their prime-time series "In Color" in their promos...

[elvisgump]

Star Trek in color. Just think of how noir it would have been in black and white.

[PsWii60pwns]

yeah i was thinking that too what if star trek was telecast in black and white that would of been interesting but i'm so glad it wasn't

[August138]

Many people still had black & white television sets in the 1960s, so a large part of the viewing audience only saw the series in black & white. The various networks screamed, "In Color!" to cajole people into buying color television sets, because they were obviously "missing" something. Akin to the push for HD today.