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The director of "Conscience of the King", Gerd Oswald, directed fourteen episodes of The Outer Limits, including very atmospheric episodes like "O.B.I.T." and "The Forms of Things Unknown."
Yes, In Naked Time Riley sang the Irish classic 'Kathleen'.😊😊😊
Wow, how bad would a 'triple' Red Alert be? Or a Quadruple be?😊😊😊😊
At the plays intermission I wonder what the audience was thinking about the loud argument going on behind the curtains.😂😂😂
At the end I think when Kodus said"suicide" he meant to say "genicide"😮
Voice off screen,"Curtain going up.'" WTF. GR again? Isn't anybody else hearing this very loud conversation😂😂
Great reaction yeah I love this episode because it tells backstory. I love backstory about characters when when Captain Kirk was little boy in Iowa, his father captain on starships and back then you didn’t have your family on ship with you so he’d stay in Iowa on the farm with his grandparents and his mother, but she’s a federation scientist. His mother is so she would go off to be. Colony wants to check on them and she took Jim with her cause she’s gonna be gone for a few months so she took him with her this time who is the first time Young Jim Kirk been off planet and wouldn’t you know there’d be a disaster action the first ship to arrive supply ship was captain by his father. I like how it’s captain Kirk is so famous because there’s only 12 ships like that in the fleet. It takes the best of the best to captain them to program himself the enterprise since it’s the flagship of the Federation, the top starship and fleet. He has always favors with all the regular captains of the lesser ships with the freighters and the he’s an important captain buddy. He’s not so big. He still talk to the other captains and it’s even friends of the smaller ships. Technically is not allowed to pick up passengers like that but as Captain, it’s personal, he can do it. Spock knows officially you’re not supposed to and Riley‘s complaining about his job but it’s a very important job to work in engineering during the late night shift with there should be more than one down there that’s exaggerated. I think Captain Kirk did that to use Riley as bait Owen personally I think he’s still getting even with Riley for that stupid song business taking over the ship almost destroying it sure, it’s not his fault but it’s still annoying. by the way the reason I know all this extra stuff is because after the show was over, they put all these scripts and things into book form and it tells you the full story of the episode. That’s how I know the rest of the backstory thanks for the fun until next time.
Very 'Enemy Below' or 'Run Silent, Run Deep'… taking place during WW2 sub movies.
Does the Enterprise have redundant controls? Uhura hails the Romulans from the helm console?🙂
LOVE this episode,like all the extras in this episode too,makes the ship look occupied.The marriage scene was-NICE-also,I wonder what their budget was for each episode.
Star Trek Cruises actually exist. They're like a week long convention on board the ships but the stars who attend mingle with the guests for the most part.
Conscience of the King – the first introduction of true Shakespeare into Trek.
Balance of Terror – yes, Mark Leonard played Sarek but this role came first. He was also the Klingon Captain in The Motion Picture.
This episode is based on the WWII movie: The Enemy Below. A brilliant cat and mouse battle between a warship and a U-Boat.
The actor playing the Romulan commander in Balance of Terror, Mark Lenard, does later play Spock's father Sarek as you have already seen in some of the Star Trek movies. The Romulan commander was Mark Lenard's first role in Star Trek.
Lenard is often credited as being the first ever Romulan to appear in Star Trek; however, by strict order of screen appearance, that honor falls to Lawrence Montaigne as Decius, who appeared seconds before Lenard but was wearing a helmet covering his Romulan ears. Lenard was the first Romulan to be fully seen with Vulcan-type ears.
Lenard and Montaigne were at one point considered as a replacement for Spock had Leonard Nimoy not returned for the second season of TOS if contract negotiations had fallen through.
Lenard also became the first actor to play a Klingon with forehead ridges (and the first to speak the Klingon language) when he appeared as the Klingon Captain of the IKS Amar in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Lenore is like 17 years old and Kirk is 33? eeeew.
Quit reaction I didn’t see there was two episodes at this time but well yeah good Eye styles forgets it was the Vulcan who saved the first alien contact after the third world war they made sure we have plenty of food. Clothing peace on earth put us in the federation have shields fix our whorp drive so all things to the Volcans be a little more grateful next time same actor as Spocks dad but not the same character Vulcan and Romulins are cousins thanks for the fun until next time
Thanos who?
Ok. I know its a long way off but after you're done with TOS are you going to do The Animated Series?
Gene Roddenberry and Dorothy Fontana were actively involved and many people consider it the continuation of the live series 5 year mission.
This is good TV that can go toe to toe with other greats like the original Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
Seems clear what happened to the groom; Spock got pissed off when Stiles gave him crap in Weapons Control, and then the moment Spock leaves the coolant seal blows…what an amazing coincidence. Spock is should have been charged with manslaughter at least…
Two great Star Trek episodes! "Conscience of the King": What more can I say? Shakespeare and a murder mystery in Trek go together like chocolate, peanut butter and ice cream!
"Balance of Terror": you hit the nail right on the head, a battleship adventure in space! Mark Lenard is the same actor who played Spock's father, Sarek, however, of course the Romulan Commander is a completely different character.
There is an interesting explanation as to why Romulans and Vulcans look alike: back when the Vulcans were being persuaded by the philosopher Surak to repress their emotions and seek logic through knowledge, there was a group of rebel insurrectionists who tried to take over their society rather than renounce their passions. These rebels were captured and banished. So, they travelled to the planet Romulus, built their empire and enslaved their neighboring planet of Remus. Hence, becoming the Romulans!
Conscience Of The King: Great story. Even though entrance to the observation lounge is coffin shaped. And McCoy talking about command being like a noose around Kirk's neck. Riley's loneliness feels very true to life. Sailors can feel a sense of loneliness that others seldom do when at sea. Like you and the rest of the crew are the only people on the planet.
Balance Of Terror: The episode is based on two WW2 movies about destroyer versus submarine movies. Barbara Baldavan shows up as different characters later
A lot of the kids watching this in the 60s grew up to be engineers.
Is it any wonder the United States invented stealth aircraft invisible to radar.
(Mostly under the right conditions and if the right range to the radar transmitter is kept. Stealth isn't perfect.)
27:35 McCoy says that they would be responsible for war but it takes two to make peace and only one side to make war. The Romulans are itching for it. Kirk not fighting would not bring peace.
In my head Cannon Kirk officially noted the couple actually being married. That way the widow can get his death benefits and she can claim for a short time that they were indeed husband and wife.
O Riley is here to save us.
William Shatner had some Shakespearean training in his early years as an actor so The Conscience of the King allowed him to show some of it off in that moody stage atmosphere.
Its the Starship,chicks dig the starship.
I really liked how you noticed the … ahem "surging and throbbing" comment, that one is a riot. People said that was the writer's way of trolling the censors and it got by!
If you ever watch 1957 film The Enemy Below (about a battle between a US destroyer and a German U-boat), you will recognise much from Balance of Terror, which essentially used the film as its template.
SCAM! The video shows this device as ONLY a blood oxygen sensor! IT CAN NOT TEST FOR BLOOD SUGAR!
This actor plays Spock's dad throughout the Star Trek universe, but in this episode, he is not Spock's dad but a Romulan
9:35 Nichelle Nichols was a professional singer before she got typecasted as Uhura. She had several records before and after Star Trek. Unfortunately they're very hard to find today. After she did Star Trek the animated series she became a spokesperson for NASA, a position she held until she retired from acting.
11:00 that sentence is more than math. It's an expression. It means if the facts fit than the answer is clear. I wish your kids would have listened to your elders growing up. You would understand many of our expressions if you had bothered to listen.
22:00 It is important to note that there are two neutral zones. The Klingon neutral zone and the Romulan neutral zone.
“Balance of Terror” is my dad’s favorite TOS episode; he’s a first-generation Star Trek fan.
Kirk would've been in his teens during the massacre, Riley a child. Not much backstory detail provided on the ep, but if I remember the novels claimed he was there for some sort of high school science course program.(Been a long time since I read the books.. could be wrong on the type of courses) Running from the soldiers of Kodos, Kirk and Riley were already experiencing action and adventure long before they met again on the Enterprise. Kirk's cleverness kept them alive. The novels aren't on-screen cannon, but they mesh very well with it and the authors were THAT good.
Weird story about Lt. Riley – he wasn't supposed to be a continuing character – Bruce Hyde came in for the casting call – got the part and then they realized he was the same actor from The Naked Time – so they changed the name of the crewman who's family was killed by Kodos to Kevin Riley.
Even more weird – same thing happened with Angela in Balance of Terror.
"What is that helmet?" The prosthetic department wasn't set up for more than 3 or 4 actors in Romulan (or Vulcan for that matter) make-up – they have to bring in more make-up artists – helmet was a cost cutting compromise.
Chill out, Will. There was no spy. It was a reflection of wartime paranoia.
Balance of Terror is a classic submarine movie in space. Indeed, the portion where both ships were silent and shut down to hide from each other was paralleled later in The Hunt for Red October, including some of the Romulan commander's thoughts compared to Captain Ramius'. That was why they were whispering – to prevent the energy in the air from being picked up by sensors. A parallel to sonar detection in water.
Mark Lenard played Spock's father later, but this was his start on the show. He even played a Klingon once, under heavy makeup and prosthetics.
The Conscience of the King is a line from Hamlet, apropos for the earlier story. That episode is heavy on human nature themes, space and starships just providing the setting. Good science fiction being about people more so than technology. Your reaction to this one was quite the REACTION! Very enjoyable – this embodies a lot of what Star Trek was about. And EVERY TIME Uhura sings she enraptures me!