Star Trek (1966-69). Part One: Still Trekkin'

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In this first part of our Stam Fine Review of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (1966-69), Or The Original Series (TOS) or Classic Trek, we look at how the show came to be and its cast of iconic characters. Star Trek has spun off more series than almost any TV show in history. Star Trek chronicles the adventures of the Starship Enterprise on its 5 year Mission to explore stuff. Star Trek stars William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr McCoy, James Doohan as Scotty, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, George Takei as Sulu, and Walter Koenig as Chekov.
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Gene Roddenberry's Idea
5:11 The Pilot
8:00 Another Pilot
9:03 Now a Series
10:29 Kirk
11:53 Spock
14:03 McCoy
15:43 "He's Dead, Jim!"
16:22 Scotty
17:40 Uhura
18:33 Mr Sulu
19:34 Yeoman Rand
20:01 Nurse Chapel
21:03 Chekov
22:15 Not always a happy crew.
25:40 In Part Two...
Parts Two and Three are now live. Follow the links at the end of this video

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@NeptuneRising70 2 жыл бұрын

I was 18 when I got into Star Trek. Now I’m in my 50s and it seems there’s always reasons to revisit it.

@SimonLeicester 2 жыл бұрын

Such a timeless series with a brilliant cast and the team behind it.

@TheDukeofMadness 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video. William Shatner has a massive ego but it is near impossible to hate him. The man is just too cool.

@gullwingstorm857 2 жыл бұрын

He's a good man though, and has spent millions of hours raising money for charities. It wasn't his fault that Takei was blinded by jealousy.

@roberttbrockway 2 жыл бұрын

Shatner really matured over the following decades. Check out Free Enterprise to see him poking fun at himself. Fantastic movie.

@trombone7 2 жыл бұрын

I always think of "Don't tell me how to say 'sabo-tadge'. Ahh you sicken me."

@rimaq_ Жыл бұрын

he's a douche, but the only one that will forever be Kirk. Wether that bothers him or not

@bobblowhard8823 6 ай бұрын

And he always got to bed the hot babes, alien babes included.

@chelmrtz Жыл бұрын

I’ve watched 8764456 other channels talking about Star Trek but none have this level of humor and insight. Instant new follow for me!

@DerekNewtonKeswick 2 жыл бұрын

I love your dry wit. The line about “what a man gets up to in his own private Jefferies tube” made me chuckle. Your delivery is very much like Clive James.

@johnmc3862 2 жыл бұрын

Aussie humour.

@daverage4729 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, Nichelle Nicols in a short skirt and knee high boots. One of my first ever crushes. Saucier than a tanker full of ketchup! ;)

@andy6576 2 жыл бұрын

This vid is UNCANNILY timed for me, as I'm just working my way through TOS (for the first time in a few years) and loving it. Great video, mate, this channel is one of the most consistently hilarious on KZfaq.

@madmanmark8387 2 жыл бұрын

This was fun to watch. I began watching Star Trek in reruns in the 1970's on WPIX channel 11 NYC on Saturdays as a boy that my father would watch. It's sad that it ended so soon. The next shows that would follow lasted longer than It's original. Captain Kirk is my favorite character and Arena is my favorite episode.

@kaitlyn__L 4 ай бұрын

Nice "he's dead, Jim" remix there.

@djpookie2000 2 жыл бұрын

I laughed out loud at your Shatner ending credits. He would love it if it were true🤣

@greekpapi 2 жыл бұрын

Been a Star Trek fan since I was a kid, its because of this show I went into science and engineering and have done exceptionally well for myself in my chosen field.

@davidlafleche1142 Жыл бұрын

The Bible says there is no life in outer space. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15, KJV). Thus, Earth is the only world with creatures on it.

@backoffjoe8347 Жыл бұрын

@@davidlafleche1142 interesting, go into the (world). That is the (earth.) According to the definition of world. It does not necessarily mean what you say in my view.

@davidlafleche1142 Жыл бұрын

@@backoffjoe8347 Well, it does mean that. After all, the Lord Jesus Christ never sent missionaries to any other star system, planet or galaxy.

@ldavinci3649 Жыл бұрын

Fan of Star Trek since I saw reruns on tv as a kid

@ldavinci3649 Жыл бұрын

Congrats 🎉👏

@TheTuubster 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it amazing how Star Trek inspires new reviews, analysis, documentaries and retrospectives every week in a year, after all this time? And every time someone discovers something new about this show? This alone underscores the genius of Roddenberry's artistic vision for this show.

@marysheeran519 8 ай бұрын

This is delightful. I was mindlessly roaming and I thought, oh another "about Star Trek" video. Ho hum. But it is lovely - pitch perfect and pretty fair minded. The timing between the narration and the pictures - excellent. Great editing job, too. Well done!!!

@norwegianblue2017 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up on Star Trek reruns in the 1970s. Nothing better than getting home from school and turning on our color 19" TV (no remote) and hearing that iconic score start up. Well, maybe Saturday morning cartoons was better, but this was damn close!

@aliensoup2420 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up watching ST in B/W.

@madmanmark8387 2 жыл бұрын

And don't forget the animated series on Saturday morning as well in the 1970's. I also own the DVD of the animated series.

@tracedehaven2190 Жыл бұрын

I've seen a lot of videos about Star Trek. This one is very well edited, made me laugh at times.

@stephenevans6070 Жыл бұрын

That was great, it was so funny, well done mate.

@mikavirtanen7029 2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully the next installment has some mention of writer/showrunner Gene L. Coon who actually created Klingons, Khan and Prime Directive and officially named United Federation of Planets and Starfleet Command.

@CaminoAir 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. A talented, reliable and hard-working writer who played a very important role in shaping TOS into it's enduring popularity.

@willmfrank 2 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert: it does.

@sparky6086 Жыл бұрын

Desilu had "Hogan's Heroes" too.

@marialanier6155 Жыл бұрын

BRAVO, BRAVO To Gene l. Coon

@bobblowhard8823 6 ай бұрын

Of course, if you watch several episodes after "The Prime Directive" installment, they actually do the opposite of what the directive was intended to do.

@alanrogers7090 2 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Hunter's wife absolutely hated the scenes with VIna, as she thought that the actress, Susan Oliver, was "coming on" to her husband. So when NBC offered Hunter the continuing role as Captain of the Enterprise, SHE, (Mrs. Hunter), came down to the studio to say, "My husband is a movie star. He does not want to make television programs." End of scene. Until, Hunter himself found out about this after a casual run in with a friend on the production. Turns out, he hadn't known of the NBC offer, nor would he have turned it down, as he needed the work. But William Shatner had been hired by then and was in the midst of filming his first episode. So it goes.

@MrScovanx Жыл бұрын

Yikes! Great anecdote. Very sad Hunter did not have long to live at that point, not even outliving the show itself.

@marialanier6155 Жыл бұрын

I 😍 Jeffrey hunter as Captain Pike, he was great in the role.

@WillCamx Жыл бұрын

I like Hunter as an actor but I'm glad Shatner got the part.

@ricardocantoral7672 3 ай бұрын

@@WillCamx Same here. Hunter was terrific but I am glad Shatner got the role.

@robwhitebrook8580 2 жыл бұрын

"...paintball pellet on a tiger tank", I laughed so hard I fell off my chair!

@davidmorse2310 Жыл бұрын

I began watching Star Trek in reruns in the 1970's on WPIX channel 11 NYC on weeknights at 12:00 AM as a boy. With school the next day.

@ElmerCat 2 жыл бұрын

Of the countless videos about the history of Star Trek, somehow this video seems fresh and new - Good job!

@doctoronishispsychosislab1474 2 жыл бұрын

The 100% Shattner end credits made me chuckle ^^

@psychologixselfmastery 2 жыл бұрын

I was raised on Star Trek, this was an epic show. Of course they had the same advantage in sci fi which the Beatles had in music.... being first on a new scene they could explore without expectation and everything which they did set the standard and those shows which came after them would be compared to them and usually badly!

@MattMcIrvin 2 жыл бұрын

This, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits were rare cases of a screen science-fiction property that was actually trying to bring something of the sensibility of decent-quality print science fiction to television. And the other two were wide-ranging anthology shows, rather than an adventure show with continuing characters. So that made Star Trek somewhat unique in American TV--other shows that were playing in that area ("Lost in Space" was the main competition) were much broader and cheesier.

@xx3868 2 жыл бұрын

I still like "Spocks Brain" as stupid as it is, its still enjoyable to watch and does have dramatic moments in it with Dr McCoy and the women of course and society and even the basic sets. Fun.. I think theres good episodes in all 3 season so pretty good given the money they had to work with..

@Shindai 2 жыл бұрын

Spock's Brain is pretty much quinessentially what I thought Star Trek was before I sat down to watch it to enjoy the cheese, ironical like (I enjoy me a so bad it's good movie or show) I fell in love with it for all the reasons one might, but I adore that it still has really silly episodes like Spock's Brain, just to satisfy that initial itch :)

@richardjohnson9543 2 жыл бұрын

Spock's Brain is goofy but fun. And this is the only episode where the main viewscreen is actually functional and not an optical effect. Unfortunately there were too many technical and logistical issues for that to continue, as convincing as it was. In fact, even today it's more trouble than it's worth

@alpha-omega2362 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, it's so bad it's good......like Plan 9 from Outer Space...

@simonleib1992 2 жыл бұрын

It is one of the stinkers but is an enjoyable one.

@rudolphguarnacci197 2 жыл бұрын

Spock's Brain was one of my friends favorite. It's interesting that it was the opening show for the third season as Amok Time opened season two. A testament to the popularity of the Spock character and no doubt upsetting shatner to no end.

@the60skid48 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, love the humorous editing….very subtle and works perfectly. Well done.

@noahbawdy3395 Жыл бұрын

Star Trek reruns were shown on channel 13 Indianapolis after the nightly news. They would end the news cast saying "It's time to beam aboard the Enterprise and do the transporter effect to the news crew fading out and Star Trek starting.

@niamhryan9677 Жыл бұрын

Hey there. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you. I've always loved star trek. I really love it even more so now as it is on TV again. As kids my brothers and I learned word for word that song "Star Trekking across the Universe" it came out in 1987. Dr McCoy's famous líne is in it.

@StamFine Жыл бұрын

now i have that song in my head. "starboard bow, starboard bow"

@niamhryan9677 Жыл бұрын

@@StamFine ha ha yeah scrape em of Jim

@kennybacchus2629 2 жыл бұрын

Love. Star. Trek tv. Show

@d.s.2016 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Shatner has in fact spent time in outer space. Video wins my thumbs up and subscribe for pointing that out.

@alvinglenn458 Жыл бұрын

I have been a Spaceship movie fan since about 6 or 7 over that many Decades ago .. . I used to watch Star Trek with My aunt who I suspect had a Thing for William Shatner .. . When I was about 6 I had small plastic Space Ships I fought each other with, I always Won .. .

@chrisnizer5702 Жыл бұрын

Great show, love the original series! Beaming down in anything other than a yellow (mustard), blue, or red jersey meant certain death for the unfortunate crew member.

@Rome274 Жыл бұрын

This was ground breaking in its day . More clever and original that most. It's withstood the test of time

@SteveSmith-wk9dx 2 жыл бұрын

I got 98% into this video ready to make a Galaxy Quest reference and you made it for me.

@RighteousBrother 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, I cant wait to see the next part!

@brandonb1681 2 жыл бұрын

Before she died, Majel Barrett recorded over 20,000 lines of dialogue and phonemes to be used as the Starfleet computer for future shows. Boeing briefly used her voice for aircraft warnings, "terrain...pull up," though she wasn't the original "Bitching Betty". Boeing thought a female voice would be more authoritarian than a male voice.

@robertstoddard3626 Жыл бұрын

Excellent ✍️ wrighter excellent series

@vebnew Жыл бұрын

Indeed it is, it was and it will be Star Trek

@PhflyDan1 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Witty, and insightful...

@davep8221 Жыл бұрын

I so want to see a ST movie based on what happened to the _Piece of the Action_ planet (Ionians???) and what they did with the tech learned from McCoy's communicator.

@jyesucevitz Жыл бұрын

20:33 thank you for bringing up the nurse Chapel/Spock "love" tease. when i was watching Strange New Worlds i notice the new nurse chapel was heavily flirting with Spock and to me it seemed outta place. i know some new details can be edged in without breaking cannon. which is what i thought they did here. being a TOS fan i cant believe i either missed that early flirting or somehow forgot about it. so thanks again.

@xtheunknown4662 Жыл бұрын

I liked your style of a story I've heard many times.

@bonghunezhou5051 2 жыл бұрын

I recently viewed a retrospective of this series by R J Coleman, but to my pleasant surprise this video delved into areas not covered elsewhere. Looking forward to future installments. 😊⬆

@uniktbrukernavn Ай бұрын

17:56 Never heard dubstep like that before. It...slaps...? 4:51 Barbara Bouchet is so thirsty she forgot they were filming 😄

@scottewing2031 Жыл бұрын

Great vid. Very well put together.

@thestorm99 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! A new Stam Fine review of one of my favorite shows for me to watch while I play the slot machines on my break as a teller at the bank!

@Romartus Жыл бұрын

Very funny commentary.

@sandrasandymanning4354 2 жыл бұрын

@24:21...the running of ALL of the William Shatner credits...LOL!😂

@TearyEyesAnderson 2 жыл бұрын

I like the unknown Star Trek, with the original cast. From the Animated series, and the CD-ROM games which has the majority of the original cast. To the studio make your own adventure, which had clips of the actors playing their parts, as well as the audio books read by the case. Captain Sulu adventures are rather enjoyable.

@TheMrTraynor Жыл бұрын

I have a cd of Shatner's 'The Transformed Man' and Takei's comic 'They Called Us Enemy', so it kinda evens out.

@Neil070 2 жыл бұрын

"More spinoffs than a pair of really competitive silkworms" 🤣🤣👏🏼

@paulclarke7571 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT bit Stam Fine! Your wit is sharper that a Klingon dagger!!!

@aliensoup2420 2 жыл бұрын

Brain and brain, what is BRAIN?!!

@MikeBennettAuthor 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, Stam. Many thanks.

@wolfhound45 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Looking forward to the next episode.

@pablobratcat Жыл бұрын

You do such a fine job sir

@FrostedSeagull 2 жыл бұрын

All I can say is . . . Star Trekking across the Universe Boldy going forward cause We can't find reverse . . . Great work as always. 👌

@jonericus 2 жыл бұрын

"What a man gets up to inside of his own Jeffries tube is his own business..." I lost a mouthful of good coffee over that one! Very entertaining video.

@SaltyPirate71 Жыл бұрын

The only cast member who could compete with Shatner in the narcissism department is George Takei.

@AlphanPeter Жыл бұрын

A great video about classic Star Trek. how about review of Space:1999 series , or Battlestar Galactica 1978 series ?

@thatsjustprime8096 2 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel recently. Awesome content, keep up the good work. Regards from England.

@trevorrandom 2 жыл бұрын

Me too 👍

@esecallum 2 жыл бұрын

watch/listen to Enterprise Incidents with scott. awesome. stuff

@bonghunezhou5051 2 жыл бұрын

Just viewed another video (yes, very recently discovered this channel). Just dig the way these vids provide apparently solid background info _and_ present them with tongue-in-cheek humour! ⬆☺

@garyedwards3269 Жыл бұрын

Nice retrospective. I grew up with Star Trek so most of the information I already knew. Airbrushing Spock's ears was new tho. I like that you included a nod to Galaxy Quest and the Monkees. You touched on the KIRK-SPOCK-MCCOY triumvirate a bit which was good. The TRIUNE BRAIN that we humans utilize is well explained by the relationship between the three iconic characters... MR. SPOCK represents the NEOMAMMALIAN or Neocortex that governs logic and problem solving. DR. MCCOY represents the PALEOMAMMALIAN (or Limbic system) that governs emotional prioritizing. CAPTAIN KIRK represents the REPTILIAN COMPLEX that governs autonomic responses, appetites, sex drive, fight or flight reactions, egotistical line counting, etc. Like the Captain, the Reptilian part of the brain can easily overrule the rest of the brain during a crisis or in extreme situations. Thanks for posting this review. It is the gift of Landru.

@danbreeden5481 2 жыл бұрын

Star trek was and is culture changing

@falconmyst 2 жыл бұрын

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Great job!

@cologne2792 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, as usual.

@johnno7429 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love ST. Did anybody else go to watch them at ANZAC House in Sydney? I use to love Saturday afternoon watching Flash Gordon and Star Trek while buying a cookie at intermission and looking at the market tables

@marialanier6155 Жыл бұрын

Keep on Trekking Baby

@KRAFTWERK2K6 Жыл бұрын

Sir, i have deeply enjoy your video!!!! A LOT! :) The humorous inserts always caught me offguard and are just perfect!!! xD This really is a treat to all of us who love Star Trek and for those who are not fans but are still interested in Star Trek and wanna know more about it. You've earned yourself a new Subscriber ^_^

@davidolden971 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite: Silk Trek: Silk Worm Nine

@jamesw.weissii3795 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you make me laff harder than a newbie @ their first Andrew Dice Clay gig!

@SJKPJR007 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant review with all the hallmarks I've come to associate with the fantastic Stam Fine - informative, entertaining hilarious and professionally presented. It's well documented a "tengenial" atmosphere is instrumental to high performance creative endeavours. It's widely deployed in ballet companies to keep everyone on their toes.

@daveduncan8004 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been watching Star Trek since the 60s main thing about it is the actors fit like a glove and you really thought that Leonard Nimoy was from Vulcan I really enjoy it next generation deep space nine and all the others they were really great and all the movies

@oobrocks 2 жыл бұрын

I adore your channel :)

@michaelproctor8100 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to know about all the dirt associated with Star Trek, like the on-going feud between Nimoy and Shatner you need to read a book called Inside Star Trek - The Real Story written by Herbert F Solow and Robert H Justman who were the producers of the original series. Among the mysteries revealed is what happened to Bill Shatner's missing toupees?

@trombone7 2 жыл бұрын

Dude. Top notch. If your videos were merely informative, they'd be interesting but feel like taking medicine. Your video's are actually fun. Keep it up.

@jimcirile 2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious commentary, as always!

@joshuareynolds6958 2 жыл бұрын

Love the channel:)

@SimonLeicester 2 жыл бұрын

“Red uniforms for sudden death”. Those poor guys

@jeffreymcfadden9403 2 жыл бұрын

At 7:45 is Laurel Goodwin, the last surviving cast member from the Cage. Sure she didn't make it to the series, but she did co-star with ELVIS in Girls,Girls,Girls in 1962.

@esischuber4335 Жыл бұрын

Vulkans don't supress emotions they control them by Logic. This is a great difference.🖖

@DanDeLeoninthefield 2 жыл бұрын

"Brain and brain! What is brain?" 😄 That particular episode was not particularly cerebral. Good use of that clip.

@jasonotoole1822 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Of all the original cast I have only ever met Majel Barrett and she definitely didn't like William Shatner...she refused to sign a picture I had of her and Shatner at a convention...She relented in the end but I really didn't know how much Shatner was disliked by the other cast until that point.

@blueindigo1000 Жыл бұрын

What was that shown very briefly in your piece where, apparently a cowboy was being greeted in the landing bay? I don't remember that.

@user-jn1wm3tb8v 2 жыл бұрын

Your voice is nice so I guess I know lots about Star Trek now.

@lancebaylis3169 2 жыл бұрын

The thing I always appreciated about so many of Starfleet's Constitution Class starships becoming victims of some threat or other is it made it seem like the stakes were pretty high -- there was nothing separating those ships from the Enterprise other than the people serving aboard them. It is widely accepted in the fandom that Kirk and crew returning from their five year mission safely was kind of a big deal, and elevated them to living legend status by the time-frame depicted in the movies. Whereas all starship crews seen on the TV show had their own emblem on the uniform, from the movies onwards all Starfleet personnel wore the Enterprise delta patch, apparently in homage to Kirk and his crew surviving and coming home alive where so many others had perished.

@dereksawle 2 жыл бұрын

11:20 lmao 🤣

@ivane5110 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, man. You had my hopes up for an unknown sci-fi gem being out there; a series "about space life in the Marines". Rewatched that part 2 times before I heard correctly "base". Oh well, for those few minutes an entire show flashed through my noggin; it was pretty good, but they jumped the shark when they went to color at the end of the imaginary season (the change of silvery suits didn't help either).

@jimmybrewer8289 2 жыл бұрын

Star Trek the best movie ever beam me up Scotty 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@Jenjen-qc5eq 2 жыл бұрын

Spock was attractive because he was dark and mysterious.

@markgilbert8091 2 жыл бұрын

Also, when you said that bit about a paintball pellet on a tiger tank, you should have cut to that bit in kelly's heroes when donald sutherland literally accidentally fires a paint shell into a tiger tank. I would have lulz. lol

@Homeschoolsw6 2 жыл бұрын

rad

@monotonehell 2 жыл бұрын

13:55 why does Spock sound like Sean Connery here?

@DerHoschi 2 жыл бұрын

The Kirk/Spock-"problem" sounds like Hannibal/B.A.

@rodhanson7112 Жыл бұрын

i have a LOT OF THE original STAR TREK series on DVD and THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF actors playing captain Kirk in OTHER series But William SHATNER WAS THE BEST captain Kirk...REST in peace LEONARD Nimoy YOU WERE THE BEST Mr SPOCK

@FiveLiver Жыл бұрын

Wasn't 'beam me up Scotty' used in the 1970s cartoon?

@mailjimmygalaxy 2 жыл бұрын

We have to wait a whole month?

@neilmarktaylor4386 2 жыл бұрын

How about doing Boston Legal my favourite William Shatner performance

@andrewblanchard2398 Жыл бұрын

01:17 the MUGATO inspired FLUFFY from CREEPSHOW

@onlythewise1 Жыл бұрын

to me star trek kept us thinking of reality and the future

@bugstomper4670 2 жыл бұрын

@ 16:25 He chose to be a Scotish Engineer, because he said, that the Scotish have the best engineers. IDK if that is still true today, but that's the reason why.