Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 2

[BlakeMason2]

I want to commend the foley artists and the musicians who really brought up the back end of the show--all without Lucas sound libraries, samplers, and computers. AWESOME!

[Rosenhopper]

DeForest Kelley <3

[meanwiddlekid]

How ironic some of the comments were. The original Star Trek has virtually disappeared from television now. In the 1970's it was on a local station every night in almost every market even though before cable there were just a few stations. There are 500 channels now and I think it's only on SciFi at 6 AM or thereabouts.

And Walter Koenig accurately noting that he's a virtual nobody in Hollywood while being a big star only at Star Trek conventions.

[happosai27]

is there no startrek channel?? they certainly would have more than enough stuff to show. 11 movies and 5 shows with some hundered episodes

[Neville6000]

That would be as stupid as the all Elvis radio station that existed in the 1980's.

[Neville6000]

No, it hasn't disappeared from local TV- many local stations still show it, mostly the newly remastered episodes. Maybe it's not on in your area.

in any event, the episodes are on DVD for you to rent or buy.

[shicky2001]

Those must have been different times that I missed. Smoking inside a building not to mention on TV. Why are so many people against that now. Does everybody believe what they are told without doing their own research. Oh and Startrek was and is the greatest scifi show every made.

[Syrinx69]

Why are so many people against sitting in a cloud of poison? Hmm.. I can't imagine!

BTW my dad did plenty of research - 30 years of smoking and now his lungs are charcoal, he's permanently attached to an oxygen machine and can't walk more than 10 feet without becoming exhausted.

[DavidYakima]

The show was entertaining...it had a funny side at times...but it did have good serious nature!!!

[zaphodc]

Simpson654 - Not only Doohan's grandchildren watching it - his children (Chris Doohan as a transporter operator) appearing in the remake!

[obsidiansands1]

The odds of Deforest being alive (he'd be 90) are slim anyway- most people of his generation don't make it past 80-85. Noone lives forever...

[Simpson654]

James Doohan made the point clear: even if they didn't get the money from the re-runs, his grandchildren will still be watching it, as a classic. And that was a good foresight from his part. He knew that.

[LonelyVagabond]

Mr Chekhov sounds like a nuclear physicist

[PirateOfTheInternet]

Jesus, look at all the smoke billowing from DeForrest's cigarette!

Damn fool shouldn't have smoked or he'd still be around by now. McCoy would have known better!

[Simpson654]

Pirate, it''s not like McCoy abstained from the "simple pleasures", he is just a simple country doctor, not a nuclear physicist. :-)

[fgldnglbs]

This was one of the earliest scripts, along with "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

Dee hopefully made a good living making the Star Trek films as well as on residuals, but I still think there might have been other roles. What if there were room for another Sugarbaker relative on "Designing Women?"

I think J.J. Abrams is the finest SF producer since Gene Roddenberry, so it's only right that he's the one to reimagine this icon. Can't wait to see how it goes.

[slitheen]

I hope there is a special place in heaven for James and DeForest - people who brought so much light into peoples lives.

...and I hope there is a special place in HELL for the greedy businessmen that haven't paid them properly for their part in making the most successful TV show in the known universe. I hope they suffocate to death under the weight of their greedy TV executive salaries!

[JP5466]

Jimmy makes a good point. Can you imagine the huge salaries these actors would be paid today?

[TheChronicOne]

Awesome.

[otteaux]

This vid makes me want to take a cig break.

[battlestarmarc]

star trek paved the way for star wars and battlestar galactica.

[crmfghtr]

Wow, how did you get ahold of this, did you have a vcr way back in 1976? Very nice, rest in peace, Tom, De and James...

[memoryiotia]

Actually it was a tape I bought off a dealer at a convention back in the early '90s.

[lestube001]

funny to see someone smoking on tv

[clarisd]

The injustice of greed and not paying the very people whom made this the most watched TV program in the world. Is there a hell for that I hope so. Pay these folks....

[clarisd]

Deforest Kelly, miss him so and so happy to see this vid, as it reminds me of the gifted people we shared our lives with and that we now miss so very much... To whom ever posted this Thank you so very much...

[FilmsRreel]

God bless you, Tom!

[FilmsRreel]

GREAT!!!

[RonRizzy]

Ahhh.....the days when the host of a show would smoke right on television...