What famous fictional space vessel would you want to own and operate?

@JamesTTierce

4 жыл бұрын

USS BandWagon. It'd be used to haul your channel around

@singinginthedark2786

4 жыл бұрын

Gunstar 1

@mrScififan2

4 жыл бұрын

The Liberator on Blake’s 7

@Herb-bu7wz

4 жыл бұрын

The Jupiter 2 from the movie. It’s more of a size I could handle... much cozier than a giant starship. Or even the original TV Jupiter 2; always thought that was a pretty cool for its day.

@purefoldnz3070

4 жыл бұрын

''They went instead for JJ Abrams and the opposite of darkness .. lens flares.' THE NEXT FILM WAS LITERALLY CALLED INTO DARKNESS.

WOW...a full-sized ‘Star Ship Enterprise’ would have been wonderful to see.

@redshirtveteran5688

4 жыл бұрын

I'm having Mark of Gideon flashbacks.

@randallulrich

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but parking that thing on The Strip in Vegas would have been a real bitch.

@Ken19700

4 жыл бұрын

I remember when they were talking about that. It actually gotten me to go to Vegas.

@kathleenohanlon6127

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ken19700 Check out The Neutral Zone, in southern Georgia--They have several to-scale sets you can tour.

@nomorerepublicans825

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, as much as I love the enterprise, if I had a spare billion dollars laying about, I'd absolutely have a full scale space battleship yamato built for myself

"Assignment: Earth" is a great Stat Trek episode! One of my favorites.

@frankenzion0001

4 жыл бұрын

I always felt that episode seemed out of place for some reason. Now I know why. It would've been interesting to see how that series would've worked out, had they gone ahead with it.

@nosuchthing8

4 жыл бұрын

Assignment earth was very interesting!!!

@blackrazer22

4 жыл бұрын

There is a comic books series based on it.

Assignment Earth was a great episode.

@johnplooster2292

4 жыл бұрын

They should have continued after assignment Earth, would have been a great spinoff

Personally I don't know anyone who didn't like "Assignment Earth" you're pretty much the first person I've heard call it a lame episode.

@robertholtz

4 жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right. Assignment Earth was a fan favorite. This guy is full of misinformation and opinions presented as facts.

@mabel8179

4 жыл бұрын

It was one of the best!

@archlittle6067

4 жыл бұрын

And Gary Seven was from that time period. His predecessors had been taken generations before (7?) and he was trained to operate back on Earth.

@jaelge

4 жыл бұрын

And Terri Garr was a real cutie pie.

@frankberst9849

4 жыл бұрын

I don't count it as one of my favorites or even one of the best TOS episodes, but it sure beats the living hell out of anything spewed out by the pathetic TNG.

Wow! I remember watching "Assignment Earth" episode as a kid in 1967 and loved it.

"Assignment Earth" could have been a good show.

@assignmentearth2899

4 жыл бұрын

Sure could have.

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I always regretted that it never happened.

@mabel8179

4 жыл бұрын

I think it would've been great. Gary Seven was an interesting character, the cat was cute and the secretary was amusing.

@musicman201047

4 жыл бұрын

It came across to me as a pilot episode for a spin-off series that never happened,but should have,had elements of The Fugitive in it.

I loved the "Assignment Earth" episode and I think it would have been a great series.

@rperlberg

4 жыл бұрын

It would have been worth seeing for Teri Garr alone. What a waste of talent.

@LibraGamesUnlimited

4 жыл бұрын

I always liked it, even seeing it years later and without context, you could tell it was supposed to be a backdoor pilot for a new show. It would be well worth revisiting if they can keep it out of the hands of the people currently ruining "Star Trek". I can only imagine what they would do with it.

@louf7178

4 жыл бұрын

My first impression of "Gary Seven" is a spin off of Bond 007.

@LibraGamesUnlimited

4 жыл бұрын

@@louf7178 Probably the inspiration. I know "Doctor Who" kind of did that when he was banished to Earth.

@sandrastreifel6452

4 жыл бұрын

My sisters and I loved the cat!

Paramount didn't decide to make a movie "out of nowhere". I'm sure a little movie called 'Star Wars', helped the decision.

@sonnyburnett8725

4 жыл бұрын

Star Wars that Summer and in Dec. 77 Close Encounters by who else, Spielberg.

@thewizzard3150

4 жыл бұрын

A star trek series vs big film debate had been raging since 74. it was the success of sf films in the late 70's vs short run sf series in the 70's that won the debate.

@ronchasr6656

4 жыл бұрын

It's the other way around...a little TV show called star trek helped the decision to make star wars!

@MoondancerRec

4 жыл бұрын

And...George Lucas, who was inspired by Star Trek, helped Star Trek The Motion Picture via Industrial Lights and Magic.

@BobDeCaprio

3 жыл бұрын

crazy old bar wars.............

Gary Seven was awesome 👌🏻

"Assignment: Earth" is actually one of my favourite TOS episodes, and Greg Cox did a wonderful job completing Seven, Roberta and Isis' story line in his novel series: Assignment: Eternity The Eugenics Wars 1 &2 To Reign in Hell I warmly recommend those books to any Trek fan. Cox expertly interweaves elements of Bond and Doctor Who, while firmly keeping Seven and his team in the Star Trek universe.

I would have liked to see "Assignment Earth" as a series.

@robertthomas5196

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that was the plan at NBC.

@peg202xo7

4 жыл бұрын

That episode is one of my top ten. The idea would have made a great series!

@yarsivad000.5

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect casting.

@circuitsandcigars1278

4 жыл бұрын

I wrote a rough script to incorporate Assignment Earth into the events of Star Trek 2009

@thorgrootsweetrabbit2244

4 жыл бұрын

@@yarsivad000.5 k

"Out of nowhere"? They decided to make Star Trek: The Motion Picture because Star Wars a hit in theatres.....

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

That's the quality of insight we get from an infotainment grindhouse like this. While not total drek, this and channels like Looper and WatchMojo etc. all churn out this fan bait too fast to have researched their content much with any serious set of fans. No doubt their business model perceives their own gaffs and omissions as simply fodder for more views ($$), as knowledgeable viewer-fans point them out.

@rodferguson3515

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Hewitt That is very true and unfortunately the writing including direction by Robert Wise (who brilliantly created the original The day the Earth stood still 1951) did not pan out to TOS script standards that almost mothballed any hope of a second film ( aka The wrath of Khan and so on) because they took development money from phase II has us all wondering what COULD have been. Instead of the motion picture

@JamesTTierce

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenGeekDad You just need to stop interpreting words as if each one has Mike Tyson behind throwing it unless that is the intent. These videos are quite casual so most words or phrases should not put on full emphasis. I think the issue might be younger folks/generations talking to older ones. "That is crazy" is a good example. To an older dude that means "that is mentally insane/unstable." to a younger person? It means "that is intense but im just saying that because idk what else to say after you finish sharing something but are still talking." lol

The Assignment Earth concept was way ahead of its time, eventually in the 90's we got Sliders and Star Gate SG1 which proved the AE concept was viable.

There was also the idea to give Hikaru Sulu his own show, with the Excelsior! A backdoor pilot was shown in VOYAGER! Too bad that this never happened! I had liked it to see the equipment of the first ST movies in a daily show and to explore the galaxy after Khitomer!

I loved that Assignment Earth episode. A young Teri Garr!

That black cat fell in love with Robert Lansing and followed him everywhere on set. What, you thought the cat was following the script? He was lying in front of a green screen when the cat climbed up on him to see what he was doing. He ad libbed the rest.

@joelellis7035

4 жыл бұрын

Well, if true, I give kudos to the crew for not bursting out laughing during the take.

@IamThePedestrian

4 жыл бұрын

I had a king-sized crush on Robert Lansing. I would have followed him everywhere too! =^..^=

Assignment Earth, one of my favorite Star Trek episodes. Would have liked to see it become a series.

@jasonhagar1758

4 жыл бұрын

It was one of the best episodes

@BuckFutterd

4 жыл бұрын

Loved that episode.

@thedevilsadvocate5210

4 жыл бұрын

What did you like about it?

@virginiaconnor8350

4 жыл бұрын

It did morph into the idea of the temporal accord and Crewman Daniels in "Enterprise" and fans hated it. I kinda liked the idea.

@virginiaconnor8350

4 жыл бұрын

@@BuckFutterd But I read that Terri Garr didn't. I guess she wasn't much of a "Star Trek" fan anyway.

Assignment earth is one of my favorite episodes

I take offense to you calling "Assignment: Earth" lame

@ChristopherWanha

4 жыл бұрын

I take offense to people not having my same opinions.

@assignmentearth2899

4 жыл бұрын

As do I. It's a great episode with great "what if" possibilities.

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

I always thought "Assignment Earth" was indeed one of the fun and interesting episodes. The core idea seemed very promising -- look how much fodder it's given Dr. Who and Quantum Leap, among others. And the cast was appealing. I really liked the Spockishness of the time agent. More of young Teri Garr would have been an absolute gift. And even as a little kid, that shape-shifting cat lady was primally fascinating (the concept alone, but also that waistline at 2:26).

@QuarrellaDeVil

4 жыл бұрын

I take offense to people who take offense, and don't take too kindly to people who don't take too kindly around here. Frankly, I would have loved to have seen more of Robert Lansing and Teri Garr together for this show. Among the tons of elements from Star Trek: Phase II that were adopted by ST:TNG included Xon's character becoming Data, Ilia's character becoming Troi, and Decker's character becoming Riker. The away team thing? Production expected that since they couldn't get Leonard Nimoy, they might have trouble with William Shatner at some point. So, Captain Kirk's role would be reduced a bit, and Decker -- Kirk's protégé who looked up to him -- could potentially take over as captain if they had to write Shatner out of the show. Then that Star Wars thing happened and rendered the whole point moot, although Star Trek is overdue to answer the question as to what happened to the Decker-Ilia-V'Ger entity from the end of the first movie. Yeah, something happened, for those who fell asleep during all the special effects. 🙂

@assignmentearth2899

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've got a bit of a dog in this fight.

Assignment Earth would have been a great series spinoff. Shame that opportunity passed when Terri Garr and Robert Lansing could have done it. They could still make it if they did a thorough casting search and found two charismatic leads.

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed: those two would have carried the show for me, alone. Although I'd hope for a little depth to develop over time, like, say, a Jeri Ryan or Robert Picardo.

@warrenpierce5542

4 жыл бұрын

X-Files kind of owes something to Star Trek, especially Assignment Earth.

assignment Earth could have been a really great show and this was back in the late sixties when you had secret agent type of movies such as the James Bond movies and our Man Flint type of movies were in vogue so I think in many ways this could have worked very well you know Gary seven could have been like a double 0 seven in an intergalactic sort of way

Assignment Earth wasn't lame it would have been great, a heartbreaking missed opportunity.

@rookmaster7502

4 жыл бұрын

Sci-fi fans would have loved it.

@masonallen3961

4 жыл бұрын

The concept reminds me a little of Quantum Leap which coincidentally started Scott Bakula who would later be on Star Trek Enterprise.

@rperlberg

4 жыл бұрын

@@masonallen3961 - Uh oh! Time loop!

Gary Seven wasn't a time traveler. He was a descendant of people taken by aliens ages ago who were trained and sent back to Earth when it faced a crisis.

@Pygar2

4 жыл бұрын

"Humans with a Vulcan. You're from the future, Captain." How would a 1968 era being know this?

@warrenpierce5542

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pygar2 in his time, his handlers knew the Vulcans and Terrans had not met up yet. Could also mean that Gary Seven handlers were infiltrating Vulcan culture as well.

@redshirtveteran5688

4 жыл бұрын

He's shown to travel through time in the comics and books.

@saber3315

4 жыл бұрын

You got it. Mentioned once during the show and yea it was a great episode! Who didn't love Teri Garr?

@patrickmcshane7658

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't teleporting those distances, doesn't time dilation occur?

I miss Terri Garr's sweet sense of humor. Hope she heals.

@warrenpierce5542

4 жыл бұрын

Terri Gar's sister hosts Coast to Coast AM on Saturdays occasionally.

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she always been hard not to love.

I still have to meet a Trekkie who didn't love "Assignment Earth". Star Trek Frontier sounded really interesting. Would have loved to see that instead of STD and Abrams AU TOS version.

@ESP1138

4 жыл бұрын

STD. That is how you abbreviate Star Trek: Discovery? That is sad.

@generalstaal7075

4 жыл бұрын

@@ESP1138 Have you seen the new Klingons?

@ESP1138

4 жыл бұрын

@@generalstaal7075 I have seen them. They do not match the TOS augmentation of Klingons seen. Obviously they are not following the prime timeline; it is a J.J. Abrams timeline.

I really like Assignment Earth, and once Enterprise came along later with it's Temporal Cold War along with some other plots on TNG & DS9 they rather complemented the whole thing rather than distracted from it. Also I think the barely ages for the next several decades Terri Gar is cute so that doesn't hurt. Heck there is even a forshadowing of late Doctor Who idea of turning your companion into a Weapon as she gets trained up to be nearly as dangerous as Gary is. There is also a really good reference or two to the episode in some of the Novels that are a really good laugh too - My favorite one being when The Immortal Flint gets his hand on Gary Seven's Alien AI super computer. Also Spock and the Cat Lady is bizarre but cute too.

Assignment Earth is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes. Terri Garr's reactions were priceless. Such a cutie. :)

Red shirted before they hit the airwaves😂😂😂 I like what you did there🖖

Star Trek movies "came out of the blue?" May be they had to come up a competitor with Star Wars?

@agriperma

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah given the success of Star Wars which came out just recently in 1977. i can see where their motivation came from for the movies. I am glad they did. although some people found the 1st movie a bit boring, I liked it. movies do not have to be all laser beams and explosions, to be good SciFi.

@andytay5507

4 жыл бұрын

he's an opinionated idiot, WITH NO basis for that comment. Movies were PLANNED!

@TheSorrel

4 жыл бұрын

Leonard Nimoy said in an interview that he went to see Star Wars and when he saw how many people where there to watch it, he thought to himself: "I might get a call from Paramount in a few days."

Gary Seven was a great character. It was a good episode. I think that a show based on this character could work right now.

2:27 Now that is my kind of cat.

The Hilton had a great Star Trek experience , it was really neat and even had the borg which kind of freaked me out. They had a quarks which was a restaurant. I’m really glad I got to go to it before it was removed.

Dude, you dont know what you are talking about. I love the Assignment Earth episode. They should have done the spin off.

@rodferguson3515

4 жыл бұрын

Marcus Witt absolutely they should have made it a spin off it would have been great.

@marcusrex77

4 жыл бұрын

@@rodferguson3515 ...yes, that would be nice. Maybe they can still make the show. I hope that they do.. it would be nice.

I wish Gary Seven had become a show. Loved that episode.

Assignment Earth would had been a wonderful series! I really loved that episode and the characters of Gary 7 and the shape shifting cat were spot on. There is still opportunity to launch this series with a more modern twist.

Personally, as a big casual fan of "Star Trek," I would have LOVED to see a kind of reboot of the "Assignment: Earth" episode concept from the "The Original Series" and have a new cast and new setting as a continuation of where the story by creator Gene Roddenberry and writer Art Wallace left off. It would have been an exciting adventure for "Star Trek" fans everywhere.

@HoldenNY22

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. I thought that Gary 7- Assignment:Earth was was a great episode and would have made a great TV Series. I think they used the idea for another Science Fiction Series not by Gene Roddenberry. I forgot the name of the Sereis, but I think it had as a Featured player the actor who played Charles Manson in the Original "Helter Skelter" on TV.

@robertpolanco1973

4 жыл бұрын

@@HoldenNY22 - Well, that is somewhat interesting. I think that the "Assignment: Earth" concept was kind of a missed opportunity for bringing the very best of science fiction to television. I just hope that it would be considered something of a matter of importance for sci-fi TV writers today.

@gadgetsage

4 жыл бұрын

There is that Voyager episode where they kinda reprised it...

@HoldenNY22

4 жыл бұрын

@@gadgetsage What Episode was that?

@gadgetsage

4 жыл бұрын

Iunno

There was a Star Trek attraction in Las Vegas at the Hilton. It was fantastic. You would"beam" into a shuttle and it would drop out of warp in the middle of a battle. I think Wolf 359. It was a giant set like a NASA simulator. There was also a Star Trek museum and all the people working there wore uniforms from the series.

@silvermanemilard

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Quark's!

I would have LOVED a series with Gary Seven, Teri Garr, and that hottie cat woman. Oh yes, maybe someone can still make that?

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe at least as one of those siloed series that exist to lure us to streaming subscriptions like an CBS All Access, Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc.

@kurtsnyder4752

4 жыл бұрын

Gary, the Kirk of Assignment; sexcretary Teri Garr, companion cat April Tanto and real life wife Ann Jefferies. Beauties all.

Gotta say that I expected better when JJ Abrams made the reboot.

@lynnhayes2363

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, all the character development was dumped for action footage. Way too much saving the galaxy, not enough living life.

I wanted to see Star Trek Excelsior, with Captain Sulu.

@davidwuhrer6704

4 жыл бұрын

And what about Hopeship?

Gary Seven (Assignment Earth) would have been very cool - someone should still do it as retro sci-fi (i.e., do a sci-fi show as set int the 1960s timeframe - instead of contemporary)

@davidwuhrer6704

4 жыл бұрын

It does sound interesting, but most of the mind-boggingly futuristic sci-fi concepts back then have become mundane reality in the meantime. If done right, this could be used to make it even better. But I'm afraid it would be too easy to make it ridiculous by accident. The cutting edge technology and the hopes and fears of that time would need to be treated with respect, even as we carry more machine computing power than the entire planet had in our ears. And that is the least of it. Recording devices are compact and versatile today, but were just as capable and more open to tinkering back then. But hiding one in plain sight would still have been an impressive magic trick back then. One of the bigger topics were androids and robots. Nowadays we don't waste a thought about synthetic humans, they are just humans. Back then it was serious blasphemy to think such a thing possible. And robots are nothing like humans, just like electronic brains are nothing like human brains, despite both their and the human nervous system being electric, and capable of thought. But we now have aeroplanes that are robots, and the M5 computer doesn't seem like a scary thought at all anymore. The really ever-present thing looming in the background and overshadowing everything would of course be the Cold War, the world being literally divided into halves that know nothing about each other, with one half perennually afraid of imminent destruction.

I think of Gary 7 as the original MIB. He even has the flashy thingy.

I may be mistaken, but I don't think Gary Seven was a time traveler even though the Enterprise crew thought he might be one due to the advanced technology. He was a human taken by an advanced alien culture to prepare him to return to Earth to save it in its hour of need. According to Memory Alpha, Gary was abducted in 4000 BCE, though I don't know if that date is considered canon. He was technologically advanced, and recognized the Enterprise crew as from the future, but that's not the same as a time traveler.

From the comments below, I think your opinion of Assignment: Earth was a bit off. I, too, enjoyed it. Also, as someone stated below, STTMP was a reaction to Star Wars hitting the big screen and not some randomness.

Phase II was going to anchor a Paramount Network that ended up being cancelled. Eventually Paramount went forward with a network that was anchored with Voyager on UPN.

I had always wondered about the "Assignment Earth" episode, it certainly had the feel of something they had hope to continue in one form or another. Pity it never took off, I think the idea had a lot of potential if it stuck with Robert Lansing and Teri Garr, and the shape shifting cat would have been a fun character.

I have hypothesis: that ST: Picard and ST: Lower Decks are being feed from the failed ST: Final Frontier Webshow. And that this Omega Particle disaster is what caused the "Burn" in S3 of ST: Discovery.

Another couple of movies that never got made were a project I suggested to George Takei, who liked the idea and directed me to Paramount. They said no no no, they weren't gonna back-track on the timeline (mine had sent the Enterprise crew after the Romulans, who'd gone back in time to ensure the victory of NS Germany and nip Star Fleet in the bud before it ever got started.) Based around the "Captain Sulu" character, would've been pretty cool, but no go. So what did they do next? Enterprise, a cool show that went back in the time line. Oh well.

Terri Garr was epic in her role in Assignment:Earth!

The name of the spin-off series with Gary Seven, Miss Lincoln, and Isis (his shape-shifting cat) was "The Winds of Space" (As David Gerrold wrote in his book, "The World of Star Trek" [First Edition]).

They made a comic book about Assignment Earth, 10 or 15 years ago...

Although just a couple of episode plots from Phase II were retooled into Next Generation, the characters themselves owed a lot to it. The empathic lady reused in ST The Motion Picture was also revised into Deanna Troi, the full-blooded new Vulcan they had planned turned into our favorite android, and so on. Isn't that wild?

Gary seven didn’t travel in time... he was an alien with a cat... and advanced tech... at least in the aired episode...

@stevejoshua9536

4 жыл бұрын

He wasn't an alien. He was human from human ancestors, who had been previously taken from earth. At least that's as far as the explanation went.

The Star Trek Experience at the Hilton in Vegas was really good. I wish it was still there. Being on the bridge and in the transporter room were very well done and dumping you out into a bar ran by a Ferengi with Klingons among the patrons was a nice touch.

5:28 "Each of you now owes me 100 Romulan scalps. And I WANT my scalps."

"Star Trek: The Experience" was at the Las Vegas Hilton, at least it was when I went to it in the early 2000's. Damn good entertainment if I may say so.

1:32 The original Assignment Earth / Gary Seven concept was eventually made into "Quantum Leap", starring Scott Bakula, who later starred in "Star Trek: Enterprise". What goes around comes around!

@stevejoshua9536

4 жыл бұрын

How did you come up with that ? It sounds more like your stream of logic has taken a quantum leap (?)

@andytay5507

4 жыл бұрын

that's NOT true.

Roddenberry revived the concept of "Assignment Earth" in a pilot that resulted in a television movie called "The Questor Tapes." In that show the protagonist was an android played by Steve Forrest. Mike Farrell played a human counterpart helping him understand humanity, and Dana Wynter played a mysterious woman. "Questor" was a predecessor to "Data" on "The Next Generation." It was a fun and interesting concept. Roddenberry also did a supernatural pilot that was only released as a television movie.

Assignment Earth obviously became Men In Black.

I liked the idea of the time traveler with the cat. Looked interesting. Btw, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", was a result of "Star Wars and "Battlestar Galactica's" popularity. It wasn't just an after thought.

@andytay5507

4 жыл бұрын

no. Star Trek The Motion Pic was planned long before Star Wars, and was mainly a result if fans wanting it. kind of an outfall from the letter writing campaign many years earlier.

@andytay5507

2 жыл бұрын

@UCRYm7qBpcj3xDa7iu0hxhFw Thank you. I've followed ST since its beginning in 1966. I understand that.

The "Star Trek Experience" in Vegas was great! I wish they'd bring it back!

"Audacious" is correctly pronounced "aw DAY shuss", not "aw DASH uss"

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I always notice crap like that too, and tend to think, "Gee, if you're going to spout off about your knowledge, you ought to at least know how to pronounce the 8th grade vocab word you're sprinkling in."

@livinginvancouverbc2247

4 жыл бұрын

Tourists in Hawaii... "Excuse me, sir. Is it pronounced Ha-WHY-ee or Ha-VIE-ee?" "Ha-VIE-ee." "Thank you." "You're velcome."

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

Failed English, OR the 'narrator' is actually a BOT! They aren't 100% accurate!

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

@@DMSProduktions The narrator does not sound like any BOT I think anyone has tech for to date. I've heard plenty of KZread narrator BOTs, and they all sound painfully obvious. I think language just morphs over time, not least reason of which being that some folks only ever read a word, and then just take their best guess for pronouncing it, ... and then become the source for others learning this new (/"wrong") pronunciation.

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenGeekDad Well, English ISN'T every1's 1st language! As to the bots, I beg to differ. I have audio files I did over 20 years ago, using the various speech bots Bell Labs were developing in the late 90's, & trust me, they were totally natural sounding, with accurate accents from different backgrounds. I am sure they are even BETTER now! I've been here a LOT longer than you probably have!

If "Assignment Earth" had been turned into a series, it would not have survived prime time television in the 1960's. Back in those days, finding the best time slot for a series to succeed was extremely difficult. The best time slot was just as important as the quality of the program. This was especially true for any science fiction series. In fact, as good as the original "Star Trek" was, it never ranked in the top 30 during its entire 3 year run. It was not until it was cancelled and entered into syndication, that the original "Star Trek" truly found a global audience. When freed form the constraints of 1960's prime time scheduling, "Star Trek" finally became appreciated for how good it really was !

Yeah, what a stupid way to launch a new show: put the characters and story into another show! Wait, isn’t that what NCIS and CSI and their spin offs did?

@christopheralthouse6378

4 жыл бұрын

Yep...and, NCIS is itself a spin-off of JAG which itself was introduced in this manner... I guess the idea does work sometimes...😅

@thorgrootsweetrabbit2244

4 жыл бұрын

So did CSI, Law & Order etc. even XFiles introduced Millennium, The Lone Gunmen, this guy seems to know nothing about TV.

@TommygunNG

4 жыл бұрын

"Backdoor pilots": "Happy Days" was a story on "Love: American Style." It in turn gave us "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork and Mindy." And "Blaskey's Beauties," "Joannie Loves Chachi," and (sorta) "Out of the Blue." "All in the Family" gave us "The Jeffersons," "Maude," "Gloria," and the carry-on, "Archie Bunker's Place." Maybe the guy was trying to be facetious... Or maybe he indeed just doesn't know what he's talking about.

@artembentsionov

4 жыл бұрын

Stargate SG1 spun off into Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. Granted, Universe wasn’t the same as the others, and they really should’ve focused on the space Cold War, but still

@ZenGeekDad

4 жыл бұрын

@@TommygunNG So well said. Good job! I think you're being kind (a rare thing on the internet): these churned out fan-bait formula vids are not written by folks with much depth of familiarity with their subjects. I'm not remotely neck-beard level in my fandom on many topics, and yet even I routinely catch these channels talking slapped-together nonsense.

The series Enterprise planned to show the Romulan war, the event which led to the creation of the United Federation of Planets, but unfortunately the show was cancelled just as things were getting started.

@marccolten9801

4 жыл бұрын

They wasted too much time on the temporal cold war arc.

@martinhanke1670

4 жыл бұрын

@@marccolten9801 they ran that to death. they were low on ideas, boom, let's do yet another episode on the temporal war.

@ThreadBomb

4 жыл бұрын

The problem with the temporal war thing is that this was done when continuous arc TV was still new. The Star Trek producers were trying to fit that with their old stand-alone episode approach - so they never had a plan! Still, some good things did come out of it. I liked the Suliban and the Xindi, I liked the episode "Detained", and they did manage to wrap the story up in "Storm Front".

@artembentsionov

4 жыл бұрын

The war was described in follow-up books. They even managed to tie in the origins of the Borg into it (time travel was involved, naturally).

Ahhhhh, Teri Garr in her younger days. I'll be in my bunk.

@virginiaconnor8350

4 жыл бұрын

Read she didn't like "Star Trek". Was she treated badly on the set or what? She has MS? I hope for the best for her. Squiggy (rather the guy who played him on "Laverne & Shirley") and Montel Wms.have it too I believe so Terri's not alone. Annette Funnicello had it too, but died.

@joelellis7035

4 жыл бұрын

The man they call "Jayne".

@imtoooldforthisstuff

4 жыл бұрын

@@virginiaconnor8350 She does have MS but she does still answer fan mail. Or, did. I have a pen and paper letter and an autographed picture from her I got in 2012.

@virginiaconnor8350

4 жыл бұрын

@@joelellis7035 Sorry. I don't get it. Who's "Jayne" anyway?

@joelellis7035

4 жыл бұрын

@@virginiaconnor8350 You're not a true Sci-Fi fan if you have to ask who Jayne is. American Motorsports Gaming gets it.

Turning Phase II into a movie wasn't out of nowhere. It was done because of the success of Star Wars.

There was a book about parallel earths in which a tv series called Assignment Earth about a guy named Gary 7.

@assignmentearth2899

4 жыл бұрын

There's a website about it too. Or at least one that references the "what ifs" of it all. Look up Supervisor 194 dot com.

I LOVED Assignment: Earth because it was so unique compared to the other TOS episodes (though I of course loved those too)! As a kid I neither knew nor cared why, but later on I really wished we had got to see that proposed show. Much later I became a fan of Doctor Who, and saw the similarities immediately. That made me love the episode even more, because it so resembled the Doctor Who / Star Trek crossover I wished had been a reality. Do you know if the similarities were coincidental, or if Roddenberry knew of the concept of Doctor Who and "borrowed" it? Also, the decision to make the first Star Trek film didn't come out of the blue. The idea had been around for a while, but the massive success of Star Wars and Close Encounters convinced the producers that Trek could make more money on the big screen.

That cartoon version sounded great to bad it didn't come to fruit, great job guys

Assignment:Earth is a good episode. And Kirk and Spock are in it plenty. BTW - try to cut down on the snark in your voice. I'm sure you don't want to come off like a hipster doofus. 😉

@andytay5507

4 жыл бұрын

he clearly thinks he's the brightest bulb! but he's only in a 2 pack.

I would love to see a Star Trek Series which takes place between "First Contact" and "Enterprise."

What about Jim Kirk’s Fizbin Casino on the Vegas Strip? Wouldn’t that be great? And Captain Kirk could change the rules for Fizbin anytime he felt like it, too.

@reesaserik3759

4 жыл бұрын

"... he who cheats, wins …"

I've always wanted to see a full size 'Voyager' as maybe a hotel and in a theme park, or better still, MY HOME!

Always wanted to see a live-action depiction of the Federation/Romulan War. I was so pissed off when I paid to see the Star Trek 2009 film. Originally,the storyline was based on the war. Can't believe everything you read online.

Paramount did not cancel Phase 2 "out of nowhere". The success of Star Wars made them realize they had a hot property on their hands & would do better as a movie. Incidentally the Vulcan shown (can't remember the actors name) was seen as the commander of the Episilon station destroyed by V'ger at the beginning of Star Trek TMP.

0:44 If I was Mr. Bloomberg I would retire and use all that money to build Romulan war ship and the Enterprise from TNG series. I would include the photons as the view screen would be for VR multiplayer. Fixes I would make would be: Include more than one bathroom. The engineering room would be for the dance clubs. 10 forward (would have 2 of them) 1 for just adults and the other for family friendly needs. The various rooms for crew quarters would be for the hotel. The Transporter room would really be for a wet slide into pool below. Docking bay would have minimum 3 shuttle crafts same for the romulan docking bay this way they can be hooked up for 6 player war games. Other decks with big rooms can be for formal meetings/weddings or trek conventions. All devices inside the ships would have RFID not just for loss prevention but if you take anything to keep then you will be billed for it.

2:52 Now I know where did Mass Effect Jack character idea came from.

You have some interesting information there. None of what you mentioned was about the original Star Trek mission "...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before". It's a pity. My Star Trek fan films are all about exploration and seeking out new life, etc.

@ThreadBomb

4 жыл бұрын

Funny, there's almost none of that in TNG or the movies.

Gary Seven was not a time traveler he was from that time his ancestors were taken from earth thousands of years ago by an unknown species and trained as special agents of sorts he was just another in the line......

@ulrichenevoldsen8371

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched the series, but how can he be from" that time thousands of years ago" and not be a time traveller?

@mterry4428

4 жыл бұрын

Hes from another planet same time period

@ulrichenevoldsen8371

4 жыл бұрын

@@mterry4428 ah ok.

"Lame crossover"? "Paramount decided out of nowhere"? Out of Star Wars huge success, 1977!

And,....it wasn't Star Trek meets Doctor Who. It's never been that to me. You had Wild Wild West, Man from UNCLE, Get Smart, Our Man Flint, Matt Helm and others. This was simply a new and clever twist. He's James Bond from outerspace. Isn't that obvious?

@joelellis7035

4 жыл бұрын

With a sexy space catwoman familiar.

I had lunch at Quark's at the MGM Grand "Star Trek Experience". My waiter was a Klingon.

@martyklestadt6766

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it was the Hilton. I'm still disappointed that I never had a chance to experience that.

HEY... THE GARY 7 EPISODE WASN'T LAME. IT WAS AWESOME. As a matter of fact the Gary 7 character became a central figure in the Rise of Khan Noonien Singh novels.

The reason Paramount did not go through with Phase 2 was because of Star Wars and how popular it became, this is why Star Trek the motion picture was made

As a die-hard TOS fan growing up, I was very disappointed with "Star Trek the Motion Picture". I thought it was so bad that I almost walked out of the theater! I think I was 11-years-old and went to my last Star Trek convention in Oakland that year where I got to listen to William Shatner talk about his tai chi experiences. I think he was running out of things to talk about at the Star Trek conventions. "Let...me...tell...you........about......tai chi.....". lol I liked the JJ Abrams version of Star Trek as it added some visceral grittiness and darkness to the genre.

I remember "The Star Trek Experience" that was in the Hilton. I cried when they closed it.

The Tardis obviously. It's virtually indestructible, powered by the energy of a permanently collapsing star and it can take you to anywhere and to any time you want to go in the blink of an eye. Plus it bigger on the inside than it is on the outside which is always cool.

The Star Trek Experience - that - was in Vegas was still pretty good. I still have my souvenir glass from the restaurant and Borg alcove photo.

I always wonder what the song intro to these vids is.

Did Gene Roddenberry ever see "Raumschiff Orion" (Spaceship Orion) in Germany? There are very many parallels between them. The main difference being budget. Some of the gadgets in Raumschiff Orion were household items used, quite comically, very unconventionally.

In "The Trouble With Tribbles" episode I was, and continue to be when I see it in reruns, amused at the interaction between "Captain Kirk" and "General Kirk".....Yeah, General Kirk....Look him up in TV SciFi history....Where they "related"?....Maybe....

We details I saw of the full scale Enterprise was a movie version of the ship, not a TV version. Personally, I always thought it would work better as something that floated underwater. Then guests could rent "spacesuits" and poke around the interior of the space station. Granted, that would probably be even more expensive.

Cheers for Teri Garr

ST: NewVoyages turns up as fan made. Better than anything from CBS

@ 1:43 would that be the precursor to the Doctor's slightly psychic piece of paper?

I'd watch assignment earth. It would have been a great episode if it wasn't a season finale. I never realized that was a back door pilot, but suddenly it makes sense why the episode begins with just exposition that the enterprise went back in time- usually an event big enough to warrant sequence and backstory. This episode made it completely mundane.

Hi and thank you very much.

There are no "proton torpedoes" in star trek

@ohgary

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like “photon”...

@Spartacus547

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was confused thinking he was talking about Captain proton

@willmfrank

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spartacus547 Maybe Captain Proton's rocketship carries torpedoes...!