Sad that in the 23rd century they are still playing the most boring game in the universe.

That was quite the leap and theatrics in a courts martial generally don't go for theatrics or demands. However I do not think Star Fleet Command wanted the bad press of locking up the captain of the flagship of the fleet. So considering Cogley and Kirk are legendary in the fleet...

There are rights listed in the bible?

The lawyer, some of his best performing

Defines the whole movie. Rick is playing chess against himself, and will never win. Lasslo brings this point up later in the film. Maybe Rick realizes he has to take a side. It's the romantic in me.

I look forward to reading the Statutes of Alpha III 2:31

Love this series and this episode. But, as a chess-player I have to be picky. The fact that Spock programmed the computer to play chess does not mean that the best he could achieve against it would be a draw. All results are still possible.

LCDR Finney is not dead! Nacho is Not 'cho man! Finney never left the ship! He KIDNAPPED HIMSELF! LOL

ELISHA COOK JR is marvelous in this segment. Movie buffs remember him in Shane and the Maltese Falcon. He is a great character actor.

Spock is the best.

And nobody has pointed out Richard Webb (Ben Finney) was Captain Midnight? Sheesh, kids today.

Ahhhh, Percy Rodrigez. Oh, you know him. Think of the 'Jaws' trailer. Yep, it's like that. "There is a terror that lives in the deep".

Human rights in the bible? The Bible: Endorsing slavery, oppression of women, beating children, killing people for being homosexual and many many more atrocious things. Man! It was other times back then who people put a blind eye to the actual content in the bible.

Bible and Hammurabi have human rights??

Mr Cogley (Kirk's lawyer) in this episode is Icepick in Magnum, p.i. Never noticed that before.

Re cut this and leave the music in after he’s done speaking because that’s some of the best soundtrack

Brilliant episode, Shatner had more make up on than his female co stars😂,

The Maltese Falcon, Shane, and Star Trek (this episode) have one thing in common, memorable performances by one actor... guess who. Hint: he plays a lawyer in this Star Trek Episode.

They actually released 3 D chess. I had it. I am not sure anyone ever figured out how to play it 😂

I demand it! 🤣

Cogley also had an inkling of Finney still being alive when Finney's daughter came to his office to try to stop the court martial.

Nearly 60 years ago this episode aired! We fast forward to present day. And the computer age has advanced although we don't have talking computers for the most part we do have robots and AI THAT LEAD TO THE VERY FIRST VALANDTORINN AT UNIVERSITY OF MASS! GIVING THE GRADUATION SPEECH FOR THE CLASS OF 2024. MOST CURIOUS EVENT. WE USE COMPUTERS TO HELP SOLVE PROBLEMS MONEY AND MEDICAL WISE EVEN DOING SURGERY FLYING PLANES DRIVING AUTOS. I BELIEVE WHOLE HEARTY THAT WE AS A NATION AND CITIZENS OF THIS PLANET CALLED EARTH HAVE BECOME LAZY RELYING ALMOST TOTALLY ON LETTING THE COMPUTER DO OUR THINKING PROCESS FOR US NO MORE NEED TO USE THE BEST COMPUTER A PERSON BRAIN TO THINK THINGS THROUGH SOLVE PROBLEMS BUT NOW JUST PUSH A BUTTON TYPE IN ON THE KEYBOARD BING BANG WE GET THE ANSWER MEANWHILE OUR BRAIN POWER SLOWLY BUT SURE TURNING INTO MUSH INSTEAD OF THE COMPUTER BEING A HELP TURNED IT INTO THE MASTER OR A PUPPET MASTER IF YOU LIKE WE ARE NOW ITS DUMMY THINK ABOUT IT. AS YOU SIT DOWN TO THAT KEY BORAD NEXT TIME

Ok ... Ok ... One of the better episode! But before Spock runs in with suspicions of the ship's computers being tampered with ... Mr Cogley is ready to throw his arm up and admit he had "nothing else" to bring to Captain Kirk's defense??? I know that was just the story line ... But that was weak!!! Spock doesn't play chess ... Corporal Kick is working on some freighter now!

Really the best roll of "Cogley" is in "Shane" opposite "Wison" (Jack Palance) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2XUgqeNn72DrJY "Who'd they name you after, If you'd know" (In other words, you don't know who your father is.)

I guess Harlan Crow hasn't gotten does these guys yet

computers can't think.

3:32 "you have elevated that machine above us" prescient words for today

Sweet

A bone with scratches on it

It's kind of foreshadowing of our own time. With the advancement of CGI, at what point does a computer video become unreliable? We're not there, yet, but we will be.

The code of ham-you-robby?

Unreal how far ahead of its time this show is...

Watching this after strange new world trial, this old cardboard show is a song for my ears

Cogley is supposed to be a great lawyer. He knows that the case against Kirk devolves solely on the computer log. Yet he doesn't do anything to suppress, or even question, the computer's evidence until the end of the hearing, until Spock and McCoy tell him what Spock found out about the memory banks. He should have had the computer tested himself, first thing.

3:18 Data be like "bruh!!! what?"

After 29 years of being mathematically retarded I can now do math effectively, thank you

I always wondered what Chess set they used in this scene. Guess we’ll never know, unfortunately.

He couldn't alter the mission logs without impacting the chess program? Those kind of seem like they would be different components of the system.

I have always found it strange that Spock had to program the computer to play Tri-Dimensional chess as popular as the game is in the 23rd century you would think the ships computer would already have it

Mind you if you made a chess program as good as yourself, you could easily beat it unless it was capable of learning as well.

What an awesome lawyer

This is brilliantly done, speaking to the audience with intelligence, but putting story and understanding over the reality of the situation. One of the many, many reasons why this show is among a very small group of brilliance in all forms of television. Like pizza, when it's bad, it's still pretty good. But when Star Trek is good (a premium example right here), it's alchemical, and opens minds.

BLM acolytes must be having apoplexies right now. 'Human Rights' as guaranteed by the USA Constitution.

Why the fcccc cut it there?

who is gunned down by the hired gun Jack Wilson, played to wicked perfection by Jack Palance. One could make a serious argument that Cook Jr was the finest character actor to appear in the Star Trek series. Everything he appeared in was thoroughly enthralling.

Elisha Cook Jr is outstanding in his role as defense attorney. Old time movie buffs remember him for his roles in the classics The Maltese Falcon and Shane. In both films he was a centerpiece, as the obnoxious hired gun Wilmer in Maltese Falcon and Stonewall Torrey the homesteader in Shane. The way Wilmer and Sam Spade, played by the great Humphrey Bogart play off each other in the Maltese Falcon is priceless. Like his contemporary Peter Lorre, Cooks character is the perfect patsy for the uber cool Bogart. His performance as Torrey in Shane is even more noteworthy because he portrays an overly proud southern homesteader

Don’t forget trial by social media

Overacting a bit? Lol

One of the best defence lawyers around. After being given a brief summation from Spock he pulls that impassioned speech out of his ass.

I DEMAND IT!