🖖Star Trek: The Original Series TOP 10: S1E28 City on the Edge of Forever + S2E01 Amok Time Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-04-30 20:48:34 +0000 UTCYour vessel, your beginning, all that you knew is gone.
Cool episodes! It was crazy to see Kirk, Spock and McCoy stuck in old timey Earth -- especially SPOCK WEARING JEANS!! Also crazy to see Kirk and Spock fight "to the death"! Not sure if you guys found the horny Spock plot as amusing as I did lol but very cool we went to Vulcan! 🖖 Looking forward to the next 2 eps: Mirror Mirror and The Doomsday Machine!
S1E28 City on the Edge of Forever Runtime: 50:26
S2E01 Amok Time Runtime: 50:29
⭐ Special thanks to Producers: MattN, Todd Preble, Incognito, John Walters, JT, Noby, SwimintheRain, John Gray, Randy Aiken, Barry Hammock, Celeste McAllister, Nick Corning, OrangeLion, Philip Mercier, Paul Zawicki, Jeb Manning, Thomas Amann, Cool Beans, Gary Smith, Kevin Whitted, richard burns, Ian Hunter, Sock Puppet, Jason Scade, Carlos Perez + those who wish to remain uncredited :)
Comments
I totally missed that. After reading your comment I went back and , without using my own copy, found the spot pretty easily (I figured it was in Spock's quarters) even with the blurring. LOL Jen, you ROCK!
MertzRocks
2023-09-30 19:43:28 +0000 UTCNothing compared to the novellas I write as comments. I'm a newb to Jen's channel so haven't done one of those yet. Soon enough... lol
MertzRocks
2023-09-30 19:19:16 +0000 UTCI know this is an older reaction but the Vulcan never pinch that Spock uses was actually invented by the actor Leonard Nemoy who played the character. He was actually asked about it in an interview and apparently he came up with the idea when the script called for him knocking someone out by physically striking them with his gun. He thought the future should be more sophisticated than that. Here's the interview: https://youtu.be/ak4JfSjLdZE?t=22
Sarkkoth
2023-07-24 02:46:14 +0000 UTCSpock, "We are driven by forces we cannot control..." Jen, "... in your pants." This is why I will never unsubscribe.
Thomas Yanez
2023-05-07 00:53:01 +0000 UTCBTW, I'm not sure if you recognized her, but Nurse Chapel was played by the same actress as "Number One" in The Menagerie. She eventually became Mrs. Roddenberry. Also, Edith Keeler was played by the very famous actress Joan Collins (most famous for her role on the TV show Dynasty, but with a long distinguished film career from the 1950s until today).
Chris Biebel
2023-05-01 18:30:14 +0000 UTCCity on the Edge of Forever won an award for the best TV episode Drama And help launch our British actress Joan Collins into the American media, she had a famous novelist sister called Jackie who wrote bestselling romance novels that Joan starred in most. One could say this was a pre cursor to the idea of the show Stargate SG1..
RebRox65
2023-05-01 17:10:51 +0000 UTCWell done Jen, your intelligence and music knowledge is awesome!
Allen Bond
2023-05-01 10:49:05 +0000 UTCThanks Jenny,good job..next week if the 'Doomsday Machine' theme sounds like the theme from 'Jaws' there's an explanation for that,gotta stop there,no spoilers ♡
Celeste McAllister
2023-05-01 05:54:04 +0000 UTCYup I read that script too, and I agree that Rodddenberry would think it went against his vision of Trek but it's weird that some of the ideas in that script (drug abuse, immoral Star Fleet Officers,etc) wound up in later Trek anyway. Hard to find good story ideas for conflict in a Utopia, it would seem...
Christopher Boscarino
2023-05-01 03:33:11 +0000 UTCIndeed, Ellison wrote and published an entire *book* detailing everything he thought Roddenberry (and Shatner) had done to him in this episode. I've read the early script, and I have to agree with Dorothy Fontana -- it would have been good science fiction, and good television, but it wouldn't have been good Trek. It's apparent from that draft that Ellison simply didn't buy or like some of the key premises in Trek, and pushed as hard against them as he could.
Ken Schneyer
2023-05-01 03:13:56 +0000 UTCNice reactions, both of them! Thank you. We are supposed to believe that Kirk has really fallen in love with Edith, so that the pain of his decision hits him as hard as it possibly can. (Interestingly, in Harlan Ellison's first draft of this script, Kirk is *unable* to bring himself to let Edith die, and someone else (Spock, I think) intervenes to make it happen. Ellison thought this was a more "human" way for Kirk to behave -- but while Ellison had served in the Army, it was only during peacetime, and so never had to make the sorts of decisions that Gene Roddenberry had to make in WW2. I think, to Roddenberry, it was entirely believable that a man would sacrifice someone he loved for the greater good.) During the first season, there were at least two references to the fact that Spock's mother is human -- so yes, the audience would already have known it. I saw this episode when it first came out, at age seven. Remember that this was the *first* episode of the new season, and so it was entirely plausible that the writers would actually kill off Kirk and replace him with someone else. So I totally bought it. Possibly I bought it more easily, as a kid, than an adult viewer would have, but my heart was in my mouth. (It was also just after we bought our first color television, and the red sky of Vulcan blew my mind.)
Ken Schneyer
2023-05-01 03:03:36 +0000 UTCit's gonna be interesting to see jen's take on mirror, mirror ... 😅
ArsTropica
2023-05-01 02:53:40 +0000 UTCSpock is half human in both the original series and the reboot. Spock and T'Pring's, relationship is expanded on in the latest Star Trek series on Paramount+, ST:Strange New Worlds (still in production).
Christopher Boscarino
2023-05-01 00:36:09 +0000 UTCIf you want to know more about Spock's parentage, 'Journey to Babel' is a good episode to watch. I'm surprised it did not make your top 10 list. That, and 'Errand of Mercy' are probably the two most important episodes that didn't make your list as far as Star Trek lore is concerned.....
Chris Gronau
2023-05-01 00:15:24 +0000 UTCThere is SOOO much time travel in Star Trek. Too much, sometimes. :) but I won't spoil any of it for you. Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison wrote the original version of "City on the Edge of Forever", but Roddenberry didn't like parts of it. Hr adapted it, but Ellison was furious and as far as I know, had a grudge against Star Trek until he died. Too bad, because this story usually ranks near the top of "Best of" lists.
Christopher Boscarino
2023-04-30 23:24:35 +0000 UTCJen, loved your reactions to both. Great, iconic episodes! I esp. enjoy your callouts on the music and the different instrumentations and arrangements. If you haven't see Jim Carrey's, The Cable Guy, you might get a special kick out of it now. On another note, at this point in the show (2.01), it's only known that Spock is half-Human, half-Vulcan. If possible, it might be nice to add Episode 2.10 to the mix (Journey to Babel).
Ron
2023-04-30 23:04:33 +0000 UTC"You? At his side. As if you've always been there and always will." Oof, right in the feels💕 If that doesn't sum up Kirk and Spock's friendship I don't know what does. It was a phaser that the homeless man took off of a McCoy, a weapon that he accidentally set to overload and vaporized himself😬🙁 It's called a Vulcan nerve pinch🫳😴 *Commercial Break!* Amok Time is legitimately one of my favourite episodes in the Star Trek universe. The fight/marriage scene is so intense, heck the whole episode is very intense and puts you on edge the entire time. The music and camera work is great. The stuff between Spock and Miss Chapel, the friendship between Kirk, Spock and McCoy culminating in Spock's giant grin is all so heartwarming, I love it. Yes we know at this point that Spock is half human, half Vulcan with a human mother and a Vulcan father. That was T'Pau's comment about his Vulcan blood being "thin," basically calling into question Spock's "Vulcan-ess" and whether he could make the hard choices necessary in the ceremony. She also makes reference to him having chosen a Vulcan way of life. On one hand he's very highly regarded as the first Vulcan in Starfleet, very accomplished and the best of the best in terms of his scientific mind, but at the same time they also kind of look at him sideways because of his mixed heritage. His comment about Stonn not necessarily wanting T'Pring now that he could actually have her shows that maybe he's a bit more in touch with how people react than someone who is fully Vulcan, "It is not logical, but it is often true." Fun fact, this was the first time we see the Vulcan salute in the show🖖 Phew, bit of a rant there lol Great reaction, see you in the next one 🖖 Edit: Yes they changed up the theme music a little bit between seasons 1 and 2
Absolute0
2023-04-30 22:01:06 +0000 UTCWatching these with you now! The pinch is called the "Vulcan Nerve Pinch". Nimoy came up with that as a way to avoid having to choreograph fight scenes. Also, the Vulcan hand greeting was something he came up with too. 🖖 Here's what Google has to say: Leonard Nimoy first saw what became the famous Vulcan salute, “live long and prosper,” as a child, long before “Star Trek” even existed. The placement of the hands comes from a childhood memory, of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue service in Boston.
Todd Preble
2023-04-30 21:46:06 +0000 UTCAlways so looking forward to theses!! 🥸and omg Yes you should absolutely watch the Marx Bros I have been a lifelong fan of the brothers of Groucho. A day at the races, and A night at the Opera take your pick to start off with them! I promise you will love them!
Lord Jeremy
2023-04-30 20:53:52 +0000 UTCNice!! City in the Edge of Forever is a classic!
Carlos Perez
2023-04-30 20:53:42 +0000 UTC
