EARLY ACCESS - First Time Watching Star Trek's Finale: Does Turnabout Intruder Deliver? (S3E24)
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We should all be glad Star Trek was cancelled after season 3, had it gone on the quality probably would have deteriorated further, season 3 was already pretty bad and one or two more bad seasons might have poisoned the show, instead of being a good show with a below average final season it might have turned into a bad show with an above average first two seasons and that perception could have really hurt it in syndication reruns, there might have never been a call for more Star Trek and no movies or spin-offs.
Phillip Grischa
2023-05-01 15:54:47 +0000 UTCIt is so sweet and sad seeing your faces as your mourn the end of TOS. None of us old trekkies (or mostly none of us old trekies) had that feeling cause we saw ST as we grew up in reruns and didn't realize the significance of it ending before we had seen it all many, many times.
Heather Fain
2023-04-30 08:51:07 +0000 UTCPlanning on one episode per video which should result in shorter videos uploaded more frequently.
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-04-30 00:31:35 +0000 UTCGiven the shorter run time of the Animated Series, will you be doing one at a time, or multiple episodes per video? (just curious!)
tyranusfan
2023-04-29 21:10:07 +0000 UTCI don't wholeheartedly agree. TOS is a pretty singular. While TNG and other shows in Trek have some of the same vibes here and there, TOS is very distinct from the rest of Star Trek. It's the oldest, it came first, it had to establish so much that the other shows basically Xeroxed over and over. I think its fair to mourn its ending, but it's always there. They blazed a trail, and that will never go away.
Steven Johnson
2023-04-29 13:34:15 +0000 UTCtruly outstanding acting from shatner in this episode. uhura was missing due to singing commitments in vegas. shows going off the air back then didnt tie a bow around the whole series like what we have come to consider a finale, they just used the top episode script available. cant wait for you guys to get to star trek 2 (wrath of khan) while tos is still fresh in your minds. there is so much trek left that there's no reason to feel any sadness over tos ending.
larence pond
2023-04-29 06:49:42 +0000 UTCI guess the 7-minute Carol Burnett Star Trek parody is sort of related to the final episode now that I think about it. However, Saturday Night Live did a very famous skit about these events in its very first season in 1976. The guy that plays Sulu has played Sulu in many SNL skits and along with a camera crane operator is one of only two SNL members to work on every season of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0xOgFDXFg
Chtphr Rrr
2023-04-29 02:39:06 +0000 UTCThere is a 1967 1-minute-long Star Trek-related Carol Burnett Show clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKpbaWR2pI and a 7-minute Carol Burnett Star Trek original series parody from 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tAyQAS6JY
Chtphr Rrr
2023-04-29 02:01:23 +0000 UTCWell, this is easily the worst episode to me. There's a youtuber named Lorerunner that has also been going through all the episodes, and I mean ALL the episodes except some of the ones in the last five years or so. However, he does not watch the episodes on camera. He didn't think he was going to hate this episode that much, but he really got visibly angry about this episode. That's how I feel. I HATE the episode for slightly different reasons, but I HATE it. One interesting fact that he mentions is that William Shatner found out that the show was canceled before any of the other actors because -- he was scheduled to direct the next episode for which they had already started pre-production and had most of the script. This unfilmed episode was titled The Joy Machine and was written by Theodore Sturgeon who wrote Shore Leave and Amok Time. The actors and crew found out that the series had been canceled while filming this episode. This episode came out 3 months after All Our Yesterdays as this episode was originally preempted to announce the death of former President Eisenhower. Jeffrey Hunter who played Captain Christopher Pike in the very first Star Trek scene ever filmed actually died one week before the episode Turnabout Intruder actually aired; he was only 42 years old. I don't think that there is any Star Trek stuff between the end of this episode and the animated series. However, you might check for early Star Trek convention-type interviews and stuff like that.
Chtphr Rrr
2023-04-29 01:43:38 +0000 UTCThis will always be in my Bottom 5, and not because I am a woman. If the "misogyny" was the reason I don't like it I wouldn't have been watching the show in the first place because it's in every episode. I hated the premise but I might have liked it if it had been executed better, and the problem there is mostly because of having no real budget in Season 3. It could have worked for me if it had been done earlier in the series. The only remotely interesting things to me are seeing someone else playing Kirk and the crew finally getting around to mutiny, but that isn't enough to save it for me. Right from the first time I watched it it me angry. Now when I watch it it's just...tiresome. I realize a lot of the sexist claims by Janice can be explained away because she's clearly insane and we're getting the claims from her POV so I never took that at face value. Once you get into the other series there are lots of female captains and some of much higher rank. It isn't the bottom of my Bottom Five, which belongs to And the Children Shall Lead, but I will grant it's on the higher end of the Bottom Five.
KatWithAttitude
2023-04-28 21:16:52 +0000 UTCThe throwback at the end 🥹🖤
Dominic
2023-04-28 16:41:52 +0000 UTCOur last moments as 2 people who had never seen Star Trek
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-04-28 16:29:15 +0000 UTCWow, was that the lead-up to Man Trap tacked on the end? Nice touch.
James H
2023-04-28 15:52:02 +0000 UTC
