UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek TAS ep3 - One of Our Planets Is Missing
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I know you were referring to cloud storage in the computer sense, but it's kind of funny that in that joke you basically predicted a major plot element of The Motion Picture. Aside from the obvious similarities to TMP, the plot elements of them seeing this creature from the inside reminds me a lot of this book I read as a kid called The Magic Schoolbus, which was this kind of educational media franchise where the teacher drives around in this schoolbus could fly or shrink down or do all sorts of stuff like that to go into space or visit places a bus obviously couldn't go, including in the case I'm thinking of inside the human body. Of course this episode predates the start of that franchise by over a decade, but really similar idea. At least it wasn't belligerent in the end, it just didn't understand. OK episode, but nothing special.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-05-14 00:37:54 +0000 UTCStar Trek: Enterprise the TOS and Federation prequel is a short series but introduces multiple species as the first contact ship for Earths space program in its infancy. Many of the species are first contacts and are not in the future shows though they are mentioned now and again. Species like the Klingons, Orions (green species), Andorians (blue species) are introduced for the first time along with visits to their home planet. heavy subjects are introduced on how to treat species who are less developed and/or facing extinction events (later called the Prime Directive). This first ship was sent out into space with exploratory tools only and quickly had to add defensive and offensive weapons to the ship as they meet some hostile entity's It is just a little longer than TOS and digs deeper into origins stories.. Worth watching.
TeenyStudio Flicks
2023-07-10 10:22:38 +0000 UTCWas that The Kobiyashi Alternative?
MntrTodd
2023-06-12 19:59:03 +0000 UTCIn the '80's I played a text based Star Trek computer game where there was an Horta (Devil in the Dark) crew member. I can't imagine how it used the consoles, but it was a text adventure, so it left it to our own imagination.
Edweirdo
2023-06-11 17:54:07 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! Liked the discussion about the alien crew. Starfleet is part of the Federation which is made up of hundreds of different planets, so it would make sense for there to be more alien crew. Unfortunately most of the crews in Star Trek shows are human, probably for practical and budgetary reasons, which makes it interesting to see how much more diverse the crews can be in the animated shows. I think the in-universe explanation for the human majority crews is the fact that Earth was one of the founding members of the Federation, and Federation and Starfleet headquarters are both on Earth. Starfleet was originally an Earth organisation before the creation of the Federation.
Elizabeth N
2023-06-10 14:32:57 +0000 UTCNot a great episode but a fantastic reaction! I had to rewind twice to figure out why Alex's "that was me!" line was so funny...and it was! I didn't catch that! Awesome. Then Josh; "May be he got sober?" I laughed so hard, it just hit me right. Classic.
Gary Leyh
2023-06-10 03:42:50 +0000 UTCWesley was Gene Roddenberry's middle name. That's where the name comes from.
MntrTodd
2023-06-09 20:26:08 +0000 UTCThey kept showing an audio speaker while the cloud was talking, so maybe the computer was somehow translating the creature's thoughts so the bridge crew could hear them (as the universal translator did in "Metamorphosis"). At least that would explain how Kirk knew Spock "was" the cloud, and also why the creature talked like the computer.
James H
2023-06-09 10:37:14 +0000 UTCThere was a moment where I'm pretty sure they borrowed cels from the Superman cartoon of the 60s. To me this is pretty mediocre, there isn't enough time to give people personality and all the dialogue is to give information. The voice acting isn't great either where Spock is concerned.
Ken R
2023-06-09 08:55:25 +0000 UTCAfter the Enterprise stopped the cloud, Kirk should have called Bob and said "Who's the Dunsil now?"
Mike Rogers
2023-06-09 04:58:11 +0000 UTCBob Wesley lead the war games ships in The Ultimate Computer in season 2
Scarpad’s Domain
2023-06-09 04:23:19 +0000 UTCIt’s funny, growing up I always thought TOS wasn’t that diverse because there was “only one alien on the main bridge crew”. I totally took for granted how many ethnicities were represented!
Stuart Arbury
2023-06-09 02:15:13 +0000 UTCYeah, the first two episodes really set the bar high for the show, and this one is another "good" one, but nowhere near the level of awesome that is Yesteryear. As with any TV show the quality will fluctuate up and down. On the whole I think my takeaway from TAS was always "neat." It's neat, a bit of a novelty, to know that Star Trek had an animated show back in the 70s. Of course not its not quite as unique, given we have Lower Decks and Progidy. What I think TAS did more than anything else was demonstrate that Star Trek was very flexible.
Steven Johnson
2023-06-09 02:10:46 +0000 UTCAnd just for confusions sake, before he was Bob Wesley, he played a redshirt in "Devil in the Dark."
Steven Johnson
2023-06-09 02:07:55 +0000 UTCMarc Daniels, who wrote this episode, directed 15 TOS episodes, including "The Man Trap" and "Mirror, Mirror." I believe this is the only episode of Trek he wrote.
Dan Krantz
2023-06-09 00:08:40 +0000 UTCThere's a call back to Kirk's line from TOS saying "I will not kill...today."
Mateo Latosa
2023-06-08 23:03:06 +0000 UTCLol Mark beat me by about two minutes :)
Dion James Pitman
2023-06-08 23:00:51 +0000 UTCFunnily enough Bob Wesley actually was in The Original Series. He was the Commodore in The Ultimate Computer and commanded the USS Lexington in the war games in that episode, that of course went wrong after the M-5 computer took control of the Enterprise. Once control of the Enterprise was taken back from the M-5 computer, Kirk correctly gambled that Wesley wouldn't destroy them if he lowered the Enterprise's shields. This accounts for the familiarity that Kirk has with Wesley in this episode. I do think that most people (including myself - I only found out from a Memory Alpha article!) wouldn't have made the connection, especially since they don't have time on this show to do a quick recap of The Ultimate Computer in order to reintroduce the character.
Dion James Pitman
2023-06-08 22:59:41 +0000 UTCWelp, goes to show how memorable he was there 💀
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-06-08 22:59:16 +0000 UTCBob Wesley was in the original series. He's the officer commanding the attack fleet, who called Kirk, Captain Dunsel in the Ultimate Computer.
Mark Chrisco
2023-06-08 22:57:53 +0000 UTCFIRST!!!!!!!! lol
Michael Nemo
2023-06-08 22:05:26 +0000 UTC
