πStar Trek: The Original Series TOP 10: S2E04 Mirror Mirror + S2E06 The Doomsday Machine Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-05-07 04:55:11 +0000 UTCYou worry about your miracles, Scotty. I'll worry about mine.
2 more eps with our crew on The Enterprise! These eps were good-- Spock with a goatee is something I didn't know I needed to see + Doomsday had me on the edge of my seat (see thumbnail lol)!! Can't wait to see the next 2 eps: The Trouble with Tribbles and The Enterprise Incident. Also lookout, I believe I dropped an f-bomb in the second ep lol ππ
**Don't forget to VOTE for a few more eps before we watch the movies!!**
S2E04 Mirror Mirror Runtime: 50:31
S2E06 The Doomsday Machine Runtime: 50:32
β β 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, Mark Thacker + all who wish to remain uncredited :)
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I keep thinking about the whole "Top Ten" concept. Yeah, I'm late to the party so my two cents doesn't mean much here and now. But if I ever run across this again with another creator, here's how I think it should be / have been: Poll the top ten for just season 1 and separately poll for the top ten of seasons 2 and 3 combined. Yes, that skews the total results toward season 1 but doing just top ten of the entire show it was the same. This at least gives a few more S3 eps a chance, and there were more good eps there than a lot of fans give credit for today (certainly not all or even most - I said "a lot"). Jen, maybe do four more, just to round it out to twenty? Poll for one of the remaining eps from each season, adding a "wild card" - the highest vote-getter of 2nd-place episodes.
MertzRocks
2023-09-30 19:59:02 +0000 UTCKirk's green tunic is a result of a production issue early in the show's run. The original command division tunics were actually green, and Kirk's wraparound variant was intended as a captains-only option in the same colour. However, due to a combination of the fabric used, the studio lights, the film in the cameras and the lack of available colour-correction technology, the standard command tunics came out looking more yellow - if you watch some of the earliest episodes, the tunics have a greenish tinge to them. The fabric was also a bit fragile, so the tunics needed to be replaced fairly frequently, and as yellow had already become firmly associated with command the production team decided to just go with it and make the replacement tunics in a more vibrant yellow, setting the red/yellow/blue uniforms that have dominated Trek ever since. Kirk's wraparound tunic had always shown up clearly green, so the colour was retained.
TOGFather
2023-09-19 00:42:07 +0000 UTCGreat reaction. π I enjoyed 'Mirror Mirror' very much, have still to see the next one in this paired upload. There is very funny UK sci-fi sitcom called 'Red Dwarf' that is much loved and has a huge following. It's a kinda anti-Star Trek, the skeleton crew the ship has consists of a slob, a petty pedantic bureaucrat, a narcissistic feline lifeform and a simpering, people-pleasing android. You'll probably love the latter two characters. The four of them have haphazard, dangerous and very poorly organized adventures/missions/task. So many laughs! When you finish Star Trek, I hope you'd consider a selected episode from Red Dwarf. I think you would find it hilarious (post Trek). 20:52 The Agony Booth. That's what I used to call an ex's karaoke station. π 36:52 Really? π
Jason Scade
2023-05-10 00:27:57 +0000 UTCI'd forgotten that they had Galactus in a FF movie... he was just a big cloud, right? If the MCU ever brings him in, hopefully they will just pretend that version didn't happen.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-09 17:32:39 +0000 UTCThe Doomsday Machine I remember reading a book about the original series and Gene Rodenberry who wrote this script / story borrowed heavily the premise of this story from Stan Lees story from the Fantastic Four comic about a giant comic entity called Galactus who consumes planets to sustain his life force, and was featured in the second Fantastic Four movie and the silver surfer.
RebRox65
2023-05-09 00:22:46 +0000 UTCYou can find the Borg on the toy aisle at the Walmart nearest to you..this isn't exactly classified material. :)
Celeste McAllister
2023-05-08 23:26:23 +0000 UTCEveryone is stuck on the theatrical release and how many minutes were wasted on those beautiful-but-boring long shots of the Enterprise in Spacedock getting closer...closer...closer...closer... then a single reveal, then close-ups on all the changes since the series, then the Enterprise moving through space...etc... The film is solid and does a really good job as a bridge from "James T. Kirk of the Television Show" to "James T. Kirk of the Films". Watching "The Director's Edition" is a must (especially the newer 4K UltraHD), and ensures that while the film does still move slowly, it doesn't DRAAAGGGG...
Sean Novack
2023-05-08 19:40:48 +0000 UTCGreat post. It always amazes me how things that you mention, such as the ethical responsibilities inherent in time travel, had already been so thoroughly explored before Star Trek, and Roddenberry's vision encompassed that, but then we had decades of really, really crappy SCI-FI TV shows and movies involving these topics.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-08 18:26:00 +0000 UTCWell, you named The Borg, which she hasn't had any exposure to yet. But, as I said, it probably doesn't matter in this context. That'll be taken care of when we get to the polls on ST:TNG episodes and later movies. And you gave away info about the device and its relation to The Borg that isn't revealed yet. But, since it is external to the TV/movies, and I doubt she's going to start working through the 800+ Star Trek novels, that is also why I said it doesn't matter in this context (Jen's Star Trek journey). Regardless, both issues are, by definition, spoilers. This isn't rocket science.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-08 18:18:46 +0000 UTCCool! I never made that connection. Here's hoping she does watch the first one... still lots of people lobbying against it.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-08 18:11:59 +0000 UTCYou'll be introduced to the son of Commodore Matthew Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Sean Novack
2023-05-08 06:04:21 +0000 UTCOh, that is some cool, claustrophobic, psychedelic, Big Brother, 60s spy stuff that series. I visited Portmeirion for a holiday once, where the series was filmed - parts of it still looked that same as in the show. Number 6's "house" was now a tourist shop called "Number 6's". It was a fab trip. Be seeing you. π
Jason Scade
2023-05-08 01:14:57 +0000 UTCThe 60's Prisoner is excellent and pretty weird and amazing..its pretty much James Bond stuck on an Island as a prisoner but doesn't know which side runs it and they try to break him down..psychologically etc.
Alberto Blanco
2023-05-07 22:09:04 +0000 UTCI kept it as vague as possible,no hint of when or where..what's so technical about it? :)
Celeste McAllister
2023-05-07 21:53:00 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, Jen, as usual. The Doomsday Machine is essentially a character piece. They didn't actually have the name PTSD in those days, but this is clearly what Decker is suffering. He is put in a position where he can take command before he has had time to process his grief, guilt, and shock, and so (as you pointed out) he is willing to expend *another* ship to try to undo his failure from before. William Windom was a brilliant actor, and he was "chewing the scenery" in this one. The "mirror universe" arises in other Trek series, specifically DS9, Enterprise, and Discovery. But this is "the episode that started it all." You are correct that Star Trek was the first television series to display some of the tropes we've seen here, such as parallel universes, the ethical responsibility of time travel, etc. Other series, films, etc. have riffed off of it ever since then. However, in *fiction*, especially short fiction, those tropes had appeared before in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. So the TV audience was seeing them for the first time, but the science-fiction readers who were the show's most devoted early fans had seen many of them before.
Ken Schneyer
2023-05-07 21:40:24 +0000 UTCIf you want a Sci-Fi show that was really influential and thought provoking, you should check out the old Twilight Zones. On the plus side, they're mostly 1/2 hour episodes, but it went to 5 seasons and there are a total of 156 of them, so 10-20 episodes would only scratch the surface, especially if you want a large enough sample of episodes to really get the feel of the series and get most of the ones that are famous.
Chris Biebel
2023-05-07 20:59:51 +0000 UTCProbably doesn't matter in this context, but technically this is what we call "spoilers"... since that info hasn't been presented in the series, but comes later in the franchise.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-07 20:51:54 +0000 UTCThe frightening space joint didn't come from another galaxy,it was built in the Delta quadrant of the Milky Way..the Doomsday 420's purpose was to rampage it's way across the galaxy to take out the BORG home world..I liked the Spock with a mouth mullet he did look like a space pirate.πif the DM theme sounds like the theme from 'Jaws',a young John Williams once wrote music for DESILU studios,he may have helped write scores for a number of 60's TV shows,including 'Lost in Space'..
Celeste McAllister
2023-05-07 08:09:18 +0000 UTCThank you Jen for the great reactions! I love both episodes, but The Doomsday Machine is special to me because it was the first episode I ever saw. It was during the summer after 3rd grade (I was 10 at the time I think in the mid '70s.) After watching the episode, I remember running outside to try to explain to my friends the amazing thing I had just seen on TV. I've been a fan ever since.
Ron
2023-05-07 07:17:30 +0000 UTCAh, the evil Van Dyke. Such a popularised clichΓ© we've come to know and love all over pop culture.... If only Hans Ramoray had one, then Erika Ford wouldn't have gotten them mixed up. "Yo evil twin!" π€£π€£π€£π€£ Onto the next episode!
Daryl
2023-05-07 07:10:53 +0000 UTCBrings back memories of waiting at the babysitters (my mother's boyfriend) for my mother to get off work. We would always watch Star Trek, and my brother and sister always made fun of me calling it Star Track. :D
Vwlss Nvwls
2023-05-07 05:18:43 +0000 UTC
