🖖Star Trek: The Original Series Extra Eps S01E25 The Devil in the Dark + S01E26 Errand of Mercy Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-06-04 01:31:56 +0000 UTCYou don't have to be sheep. You can be wolves.
2 more episodes! First we learn some important lessons from a very strange creature deep in the mines + then we have a grand showdown with the Klingons and some beings of light - which I personally think are very close to what aliens might actually be like if we met them! Really enjoyed these and looking forward to 2 more next time 🖖 Last 2 episodes will be: S2E10 Journey to Babel + S3E09 The Tholian Web
S01E25 The Devil in the Dark Runtime: 50:27
S01E26 Errand of Mercy Runtime: 50:28
⭐ ⭐ Special thanks to Producers: MattN, Todd Preble, John Walters, JT, Noby, John Gray, Randy Aiken, Barry Hammock, Celeste McAllister, Nick Corning, OrangeLion, Paul Zawicki, Thomas Amann, Cool Beans, Gary Smith, richard burns, Ian Hunter, Sock Puppet, Jason Scade, Carlos Perez, Chad Szatkowski + all who wish to remain uncredited :)
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Gene Coon wrote both of these episodes. He assumed creative control of the series midway through season one when Gene Roddenberry took a step back from those duties due to overwork. While Roddenberry created the premise of the show, Coon contributed a great deal to the lore: he named the United Federation of Planets, created the Prime Directive and the Klingons, and, perhaps most importantly, developed the friendship between Kirk, Spock and McCoy that became the bedrock of the series going forward. He produced the latter half of season one and the first half of season two before he, too, had to withdraw due to the stress of the workload. Sadly, Gene Coon passed away in the 1970s before the advent of the movie series, and never received his share of the credit for Star Trek's success.
Lee
2024-12-03 04:03:33 +0000 UTCThe red-shirts trope was truly solidified in 'The Apple'. Four out of five red-shirts buy it in that one. The fifth was Martha Landon, a Yeoman and love-interest for Chekov. I think it was the first time Chekov was called Pavel too.
MertzRocks
2023-10-01 11:05:19 +0000 UTC"Devil in the Dark is one of my favorite episodes" +1
Grad
2023-09-19 23:46:37 +0000 UTCDevil in the Dark is one of my favorite episodes of Trek - because (like City on the Edge of Forever or The Cloud Minders) it perfectly presents what Star Trek is about - humanistic values, and an optimism that we as a species can improve, can be better - that we have come far, and can go so much farther. Almost every episode has a "moral of the story", a point it makes about ethics. As you've noticed, for many episodes - this included - we might summarize it as: Things that are frightening, threatening, or even actually dangerous do not have to be "evil", do not necessarily need to be fought. We should approach such situations not only with caution, but also with curiosity, empathy, openness - a recognition of the value of all forms of life. Or even shorter - and with a vulcan maxim: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" P.S.: You're watching a remastered version where they re-did all the effects in the 2000s (in a way that doesn't clash too much with the 60s aesthetic). Nothing like the effect of the animal breaking through the rock would have been possible back then.
Michael Bauer
2023-07-24 22:41:27 +0000 UTCJen - your intonation when you sing along is really quite good. Admit it - you're secretly a musician! :)
Michael Bauer
2023-07-24 22:33:23 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, Jen. The SF writer John Scalzi has a novel called "Red Shirts", in which he imagines what it's like to be a member of the part of the starship crew that's always getting killed. I'm pretty sure that The Devil in the Dark (or at least part of it) was the first Trek episode I ever actually saw (I only saw part of it at the time), and I remember that (at age 7) it scared the bejeezus out of me. The "NO KILL I" message especially creeped me out. In one of the Trek tie-in novels (not canon, but nonetheless fun), the Klingons try to break the treaty and kill the Organians, who respond by restricting the Klingons to their home planet for a thousand years. (Not canon, as I say; nothing like that happens in any of the series.)
Ken Schneyer
2023-06-05 03:43:13 +0000 UTCFun Fact Kor returns as old man Kor in full Klingon make up on DS9 and its the same actor.
Desmond King Descepticon
2023-06-05 03:23:24 +0000 UTCStarting with the movies, the Klingon's physical appearance will be a bit different thanks to the bigger movie budget. The appearance does remain moving forward from there. In universe, the difference of appearance is retconned and eventually explained in "Star Trek: Enterprise", but in real life it was all about money and Gene Roddenberry didn't have it for prosthetics.
Dustin Denner
2023-06-04 18:13:53 +0000 UTCIf we think back to our first run-through of episodes there was a brief reference in "The Trouble with Tribbles" to the Organian Peace Treaty. In fact it's why they needed the grain to develop the planet in order to have it be awarded to them by the Organians per the treaty and why the Klingons were there effin' shit up by poisoning the grain. Now we get to see how that came about here in "Errand I'd Mercy". It's in this setting that we get the sort of Cold War dynamic that exists between the Federation and the Klingons throughout the early part of the original universe. If not for the enforced peace by the Organians the Federation and the Klingons would be in a hot war instead of a cold one. It's something that only gets mentioned a couple of times throughout the Original series but some of the ancillary universe, novels and such, have some fun with and and expand upon it. All of this before relationships between the all the different races start to change and evolve as the universe does, into The Next Generation, DS9 etc. For someone like myself who for a time in their younger days very much threw themselves into that expanded universe, especially TOS and TNG, it's a pretty formative episode in understanding how our TOS universe operates politically much like "Balance of Terror" was. You're right to observe that "Devil in the Dark" is a very quintessential Star Trek episode. The whole "alien life so unlike our own as not to be initially recognized as life" trope is one the series leans on often and mostly to good effect. Being presented with a mystery that can't be solved until we realize that there's an intelligence behind it that we at first processed as something else, it's fun, it's Star Trek-y, I love it. And it gave Leonard Nimoy a chance to bust out those acting chops. Vulcans suppress their emotions in part because they are so strong and so whenever we see one of them have to express them, whether their own or subjected to them through telepathy whomever is playing the part needs to bring it and Mr. Nimoy set the bar high early on. Yes, that's absolutely where the Red Shirts trope came lol Always the first ones in the line of fire, man. Really fun as always, can't wait for more Trek LLAP🖖
Absolute0
2023-06-04 03:49:53 +0000 UTCStar Trek TV series, as a general rule. have great music (except for the theme song for Star Trek: Enterprise. That seriously sucked). The actor who played Kor (Klingon commander) not only reprised his role in Star Trek: DS9 in the 1990s, but he was also a main villain (Count Baltar) in the original Battlestar Galactica series, one of the few (not sure if there actually is anyone else, to be honest) to be in both Star Trek: TOS and Battlestar Galactica TOS.
Chris Biebel
2023-06-04 03:48:44 +0000 UTCDevil in the Dark was the first episode of Star Trek I ever watched and I'll never forget it. The year was 1983 and five-year old me was laying on the floor with my head in my hands trying to ignore the epic shouting match between my parents, which was a regular occurrence in my house. This came on TV and my tiny mind blew. I was transported away from that hell and ever since then, this has been my go to happy place. Star Trek was my escape and this episode started my obsession.
Aaron Chandler
2023-06-04 01:40:33 +0000 UTCI love that you're enjoying these episodes 😊 ...I haven't seen this one yet, but the other ones yes 😄
Em McG
2023-06-04 01:38:13 +0000 UTC
