@Slow_poke_hiker
I like that the Trial Panel had Black officers on it, and in the 60s at that!
@fluffycritter
Cracking up at the "Eliminate the heartbeat of the transporter chief" joke. Perfect comedic timing as always.
@clairenollet2389
I was born in 1961, and saw this episode when it aired. At the end, I turned to my older brothers and said, "Was Finney going to hide on the Enterprise forever? I mean, was he going to camp out somewhere, like a hobo?"
@Tier1Diabetic
Something that I really miss in the Kelvin post-2009 version of Kirk is exemplified in this episode. He’s not a loose cannon. He’s creative, clever, and daring, but TOS has him mostly be a by the book officer much like Picard in TNG, but with Riker’s youthful action and romantic heart. Descriptions of him by others talk about he was a wunderkind of the Academy and usually what we see of him in the command seat of TOS is an encyclopedic knowledge of both the ship and the regulations that govern Starfleet and the Federation. The Kelvin version is primarily centered on rule breaking, womanizing, and “going with his gut” until Star Trek Beyond, written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, keys into a more mature Kirk that really helps the movie feel more “authentically” Trek.
@DrLilo
The casual "sabotaj" drops made my day
@shawncarnes9471
“Spock pushes a button, and kills that guy.” 😂😂😂
@Kleion_RFB
The computer thing makes sense given the state of computers in the 60s. Computers were basically "instruction machines" that too programs that were on the punchcards or tape or whatever medium they were using, and the computer was basically only interpreting the data being fed into it. So while you could have a bug in a program, if other programs are also misbehaving, then it means that there's something wrong with how the system is processing instructions. There weren't layers upon layers of programs running programs in 1960s computers to point fault in other directions, and there was no way that the writers could have known that this would be how computers evolved in the future. So while it's seems like a really weird, direct leap of logic on Spock's part, it's really an artefact of the technology that was present at the time.
@FailSonOfAnarchy
Tonight on Star Trek: It's JAG officer vs. JAG officer. It's a JAG off!
@kenhallermd8897
Thanks for reminding me of this episode. Two things jump out at me as you reviewed it: First, that Percy Rodriguez was in this episode. It was rare for Black actors in the mid-1960s play to play authority figures, and this is another example of Trek being ahead of its time. Second, the character of Jamie looks just like Gidget!
@renatocorvaro6924
When you made the gag about eliminating the heartbeat of the transporter room crewman, I thought for sure you were gonna make a Miles O'Brien joke.
@John73John
7:07 I like the buttons on Kirk's armrest. He can activate yellow and red alerts, which makes perfect sense. He can activate one hyper-specific function that doesn't come up in any other episode. And there are two other buttons that apparently don't do anything. Because this ship has no other important functions that the Captain might need to activate himself. Nothing to do with weapons, or shields, or the warp core, or even the comm system. But yeah, just in case he needs to jettison that pod, the button is right there.
@MISHKINPUSH
"So Spock pushes a button and kills that guy." I have always had the exact same thought when Kirk tells him to stop the guy's heartbeat. Also, your William Shatner pronunciation of "sabotage" didn't go unnoticed. Great video. Thanks.
@Maniac536
As a nerd I do get a kick out of the fact that Kirk’s lawyer/defender was a paper book guy in an era of computers…and the show had the foresight to understand how unusual that would be in that kind of future
@spikeoramathon
This is one of the first episodes I remember watching, as a little tyke, and being freaked out at the "heartbeat elimination" bit.
@LipServus
"a point of view in search of a character" is such a splendidly succinct way to describe low-caliber writing that can be found in movies and TV shows from across the decades.
@EzekielPrellus
There are moments that make the episode gold. When Kirk stands up to Stone and says: "That's as far as you go Commodore. I'm telling you I was there. I know what I did." and proceeds to demand a court martial. The first season is interesting because Kirk had a real edge to him that comes out occasionally and that was one moment where we see the edge.
@CamMcGinn1981
"They had a Star Trek fight" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@michaelcherry8952
I think Spock's reasoning about the whole "beating the computer at chess" thing, is predicated on the fact that Spock "gave the computer an understanding of chess equal to his own". It wasn't like Spock was playing Battle Chess. He was literally playing against HIMSELF which is why he insists that the only possible outcome should have been stalemate after stalemate. The fact that Spock was able to beat the computer 5 times in a row indicated to him that the MEMORY of the computer had been altered and therefore the recording of Kirk jettisoning the pod BEFORE he called Red Alert was in question. Since only Kirk and Finney (as Records Officer) had authorization to mess with the computer memory, that suggested that Finney could still be alive (the alteration would have to have occurred AFTER the ion storm event). Still pretty tenuous logic, but at least there is a direct connection between the memory of the computer being altered and Spock being able to beat it at chess. Now, of course, he needs to go through the whole tedious business of re-entering his chess knowledge into the computer memory. Damn that Finney anyway!
@WillowTitov
Last I was this early, Klingons hadn't performed Shakespeare yet.
@admanios