10 Star Trek Scenes Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth

858 episodes, 13 films and counting (AToW) - that’s a lot of scenes to impress you with!
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[@hankthepatriot3733]

Thank goodness that the Picard toupee got the boot!!!

[@scottmantooth8785]

*they could have always used a holographic hairpiece projection array (H2PA) but i guess the special effects budget was just not there...such a pity that would have been kinda awesome especially during times when it went all glitchy during stressful moments on the Bridge or while meeting off world dignitaries*

[@lotstodo]

@@scottmantooth8785 holographic hair piece! Like Nelix's lungs.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

Some guys just look better bald.

[@lordhosk]

I think the best behind the scenes thing about 7 and Janeway is that for years afterwords Mulgrew and Ryan wouldn't even appear at conventions together until Garrett Wang broke down on stage once with Ryan and started crying explaining how much it hurt him that two women he respected and loved so much wouldn't even speak to each other because of a obvious misunderstand created by the producers. After which Kate and Jeri had a heart to heart and cleared the air and Kate apologized and have spoken about it at a number of conventions how the Executives created the rift and it damaged both their professional and personal lives.

[@Oniphire]

Seeing that only made me respect Garrett Wang even more. He genuinely cared for them and was hurt.

[@mrgreatbigmoose]

Wang is a very genuine guy.

[@Centauri27]

I'm really glad that both actresses buried the hatchet, however late. But their onscreen performances were fantastic! You would never know there was a rift. And I didn't know that about Garrett! Such a tender and genuine guy.

[@papabear562]

Would love to see a video of that

[@aartadventure]

@@papabear562 I've watched it on KZbin. It is a panel discussion at a convention. It was interesting, but nothing that will rock your world. He just gets a little choked up and cries a bit.

[@catjudo1]

One of my favorite Tribble tidbits involved gaining permission to make the critters. The Tribbles stuck out to one of the copyright checkers and they sought to figure out where the writer came up with them, as it seemed the checker had encountered them before. It was soon determined that the Tribbles were very similar to critters called Flat Cats found in Robert Heinlein's book The Rolling Stones. When contacted for permission to use the Tribbles, Heinlein asked only for a signed copy of the script. He said he was flattered that his creation would find new life on Star Trek, and noted that he had drawn inspiration from an earlier work called Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler.

[@davidbarber7487]

I asked David Gerrold well after the episode if he'd heard of flat cats at the time of writing. I'd known of them myself from Heinlein's story. I was a little naive back then in not suspecting that he hadn't already been asked that questions thousands of times, no doubt. He politely replied that he had not known of them at the time of writing that script.

[@reverendaero]

I did not realize Keating and Trinneer were best friends but it makes sense, they always had such natural chemistry when they had episodes together.

[@OptimusGPrime]

I think it's more accurate to say they became best friends.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

“Keep your shirt on, Lieutenant”

[@madm4tty]

Go watch Shuttlepod Show 👍

[@digitalrex5]

If you ever get the chance to see them together at a con it’s amazing

[@1D991]

Their podcast is great, and they get good guests from the Trek cast and crew

[@larry01902]

You should have mentioned the scene from DS9 with Garak having claustrophobia when the actor playing him suffered from it

[@MrFox-rf3cu]

Garak was always one of my favorite characters on DS9.

[@luvondarox]

It genuinely amuses me how many people claim _not_ to have realized that Seven was brought in literally just as eye candy for the boys to draw them back in. Ryan had such a massive uphill battle to be taken seriously as an actor and not just a skintight pair of legs and boobs, and dang did she deliver.

[@garyfrazier5414]

Not only did Ryan show off her acting chops with Kate Mulgrew, but her chemistry with Robert Picardo was just magical.

[@HalfHeartedFanatic]

I was lukewarm at best about Voyager. Only watched a few episodes of the first three seasons. When I heard/saw that they were bringing on a sexy Borg character, I lost all interest. I'm happy to learn that there was more depth and character development. I'm probably not going back to watch the series.

[@KaleRylan]

@@HalfHeartedFanatic she is legitimately one of the best characters in the franchise which is constantly shocking given that there's no question she was brought on for ratings boosting TnA. This doesn't make voyager more than acceptable comfort food trek but she and the doctor are not why. Two of the best trek characters there are. Janeway is a bit more hit or miss but I do like her. The rest are fine.

[@morgankWyatt]

What amazes me it was assumed just teenage boys watched Star Trek, discounting all the women and girls who watched it. Also not taking in consideration the buying power of those women and girls.

[@drivingmemad7640]

It was a poor set of reasoning for adding the character, but honestly I wouldn't want a Star Trek without Seven in it. The way her character developed has added so much in spite of the production reasons for bringing her in. A lot of that is down to (I think) many of the writers taking the character development seriously, and Ryan's acting in the role and how she played the slow change in her character's personality as her humanity took hold and she discovered her individuality, leaving more and more of the Borg identity behind her. Seven is a gem!

[@TheFloridaStig]

NBC insisted Plato's Stepchildren be filmed with two versions - onee in which Kirk and Uhura kiss and one in which they don't. They filmed the kiss, then Shatner and Nichols intentionally flubbed every take of the non-kiss version so they had to use the kiss one.

[@ShalmendoGlineux]

if you can find them, some of the intentional flubs are HILARIOUS

[@TheFloridaStig]

@@ShalmendoGlineux Did not know. Thanks!

[@KarakTo]

Shatner gets more hate than he deserves.

[@TheBrewjo]

One thing that isn't mentioned often enough about Spock's death in Wrath of Khan. When you really pay attention to the dialog, Spock makes a joke: 'I never took the Kobayashi Maru Test until now... What do you think of my solution?'. Most illogical, most human.

[@marasidhe321]

I noticed it and thought it was perfect.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I really feel for William Shatner. As someone who has had tinnitus for a long time, I know how it gets you down. It makes life an absolute misery, especially if you also have insomnia...

[@JadedMax]

There's a nerve trick that someone found out recently. It's supposed to help with it for a while. There's a few videos on it

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I feel sorry for him suffering. I don’t feel sorry for him being insufferable. The way he treated my ex gf at a Trek con was just unacceptable, same as how he treated other Trek actors.

[@glenjohnson1238]

I have bad tinnitus from the Army. I was infantry in 1978, and a forward observer from 1980 to 1984 in active duty. So many explosions, so much time in armored personnel carriers and so much more. And before they knew much about hearing protection.

[@onesandzeros2u]

I miss hearing morning birds singing, my tinnitus rings in those frequency, and drounds them out. 😔

[@williammitchell4417]

They didn't have much for OSHA standards in the 60's

[@NineWorldsFromDrew]

Yup, Mulgrew and Ryan had a lot of scenes together where they were just trying to out-act one another! It only brought that much more depth and realness, to how they were playing the Captain and Seven in conflict.

[@demantiaseven]

The one episode that always got me was "The Survivors". The actor who played Kevin Uxbridge had actually just lost his wife in real life. I didn't know that when I initially watched the episode and didn't find that fact out until years later. To me it just seemed like top tier acting.

[@xenorac]

Ah, that's horrible. :(

[@Gaeilgeoir]

Wow! Had no idea!

[@jovetj]

And the actress that played his wife in that story died in 2022.

[@marcochimio]

They were played by John Anderson and Anne Haney; each amazing in their role.

[@ehsnils]

The scene of Kirk getting flooded by tribbles is quite memorable. Just his expression says quite a lot. The tribbles has also been declared as the most likely alien species that have appeared on Star Trek.

[@aliengranpa]

You could actually feel the tension between Janeway and 7 on screen. I always thought they were just good actors, but apparently there was much more to it

[@blueredbrick]

Yes it was uneasy to see them together. Never suspected there was anything behind that. I'm team 7/9 she was the better actrice imo and I was too young to be fooled by the cat suit. Btw years later I saw orange is the new black and 'Janeway' was exactly the same, not worse not better.

[@toonezon4836]

the up side to fletcher's laryngitis is that, so long as there was someone around to translate her ASL, she'd still rather easily be able to communicate what shed need on set those days on account of her being fluent in ASL. also now knowing that she was sick and couldnt really speak during filming of that episode, part of me kinda wishes she did the thing in ASL.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

Garak never told a lie, he never told the entire truth, but he's never lied.

[@mvkugler]

One thing you may have missed. In the trouble with Tribbles episode. Scotty is walking in to view holding two armfuls of tribbles. James Doohan worked tirelessly to hide his missing finger on his right hand. If you look carefully at his right hand you can see the missing digit.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Today I learned...... Damn, and I grew up watching ToS :D

[@tiladx]

If it's missing, how could we see it? XP

[@mvkugler]

@@tiladx did you watch the episode and segment mentioned? Not meaning to sound superior. I’ve been a Trek fan since the first episode aired.

[@tiladx]

@@mvkugler r/wooosh

[@jovetj]

That's one of the few instances where his hand with the missing finger is visible but, for all we know, that finger is just bent and dug-in to hang on to the tribbles.

[@djz3milo]

The abbreviation “EXT.” is short for “exterior.” Usually when reading scripts aloud you say the full word for the abbreviation. For example: “Exterior space, night.”

[@dallas1701d]

Thank you for mentioning this. I didn't want to pick nits (that is what us Trekkies do best, though), but these little production errors on videos like this drive me insane so I'll piggyback on your nitpicking. I also noted that she says "Kea-TUN" instead of "Kea-TING" , and then proceeds to say both "Domi-NICK" and "Domi-NIQUE" interchanged during the Shuttlepod One rundown. It almost feels like Brie loaded her voice into a text-to-speech program and let it run. The pauses and intended punctuation are off at times. I know they edit out "dead air" and extended, natural punctuation pauses to keep the video within an intended amount of time (I call it the Charlie Brown editing technique, just listen to some of that CBXmas dialogue, you can tell it was cobbled together and hacked up to fit the character mouths) but this is just poorly proofed before being published. I get it, it's a free video for me to watch while I'm taking a break from some random task during my day, but they really need to screen these things before you hit the "post" button.

[@wkwynn]

Bride Of Chaotica was one of the best and funniest of Voyager, and a top 10 Hijinks episode, but it only happened because the bridge set caught fire and was too damaged during a photo shoot, they needed some time to fix it so BoC was the solution

[@brucemanly]

That first scene is really impressive as well because they built engineering just for it so would actually exist in the show. They weren't previously going to build it.

[@bonusbaby801]

Yep...I was one of those fans that said a new Star Trek without Kirk & Spock would be STUPID!!! I went into it looking for ANYTHING to hate it...& I got hooked🖖

[@mrgreatbigmoose]

This is the kind of stuff I live for. Little factoids I've never heard before. Please give us more of this. Nothing big or world changing but still the best!

[@andylintott9339]

Can we get 10 most awesome moments of acting? It's a difficult topic to cover, there's so much, but it must be done! They portray heroes, and we sit back; they epitomise the entire human condition, and we sit back...NO MORE! Their talents will be recognised Here! This channel, no other! And I will make them proud of what they've done!

[@patrickperot6296]

I mean yeah, but they'd all be from Picard speeches.

[@mcmach1]

Kim in Voyager Timeless. Great stuff

[@initiativeplaytherapy88]

I would have liked to hear you discuss the Picard and Guinan scene from "Measure of a Man." From what I understand, Whoopi Goldberg suggested some of the dialogue for that scene and I think made it all the more powerful because of it.

[@JadedMax]

Seven is awesome. I never noticed as a kid that Seven was supposed to be eye candy. I had no idea until I was older. I just thought Seven was awesome and a Borg in the show made it way more fun. Mind you, my favourites from the various Trek shows are Spock, Worf, Data, Odo, and Seven.... So.... There's a theme.

[@withershin]

Honestly same here. I just thought it was cool to have a Borg on the ship. I think I first heard about the eye-candy thing in the early 2000's.

[@andylintott9339]

Trek always tried to have an "odd one out" character: those you've listed were just such. It's through them (as plot devices) that deeper aspects of humanity were explored (Data being human, Odo finding love, Spock reconciling turbulent Emotions, Kes learning, Seven recovering). Without them, the show couldn't develop as it did - there must be an "alien" for reference

[@MrTomSpencer]

Yeah, I was "of age" when Seven was introduced and yeah, Berman hired her for 'two BIG' reasons

[@leticiagarcia9025]

I didn’t think a catsuit was necessary. She was beautiful on a Starfleet science uniform. Jeri Ryan’s performance was amazing and made her more than just eye candy. IMO

[@severussnap4373]

@@MrTomSpencer somewhere on the internet , there is a seven video i think you would maybe enjoy...wink wink

[@stephenwmsmith]

Data's head being in a crate in Calgary is probably because of the Trekcetera museum having closed down back in 2018. The museum was about an hour from Calgary. I got to see it way back in 2017 I think it was.

[@charlesbeckwith3578]

Except, that’s not Data’s head, it’s Lore’s.

[@crystalheart9]

Spock's death was a real tearjerker for me. It was nice hearing the behind the scene information where the people there were also touched by the scene. It was wonderful to hear Mr. Nimoy had a good experience on the filming and wanted to return.

[@gmnewlook]

One of Geneviève Bujold's earliest roles was in the early 60s as Julie Fourchu in the series Les Belles Histoires des Pays d'en Haut written by Claude-Henri Grignon. She played one of the 13 children of Basile and Scholastique (La Scole) Fourchu. The series was set in the small village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec in the 1880s.

[@yourgodismean4526]

You are so absolutely right and thank you for saying it! Wrath of Khan is still the best ST movie ever made. Tied for 2nd place? ST VI and 1st Contact

[@marasidhe321]

I agree completely!

[@Stefonius]

I would put ST IV in first place, VI in 2nd, and Wrath of Khan in 3rd.

[@DawnDavidson]

@@Stefonius certainly enjoy IV the most! I regularly quote Scotty in that one when my computer isn’t working. 😂 And I agree that VI: Undiscovered Country is better than 1st Contact. For me it’s probably IV followed by a tie between II and VI. :) But if you ask me tomorrow I might have a different answer!

[@ShujinTribble]

Many of my brethern died, willingly, to save the Alpha Quadrant. Respect our sacrifice.

[@Gilhelmi]

Witnessed I have declared myself a witness to the heroic sacrifice that the Tribble people have made. May they storm the gates of Stov-ah-Kor to continue the fight in their next life!

[@ShujinTribble]

@@Gilhelmi When the Military Dictatorship of Tribbledom rises, we will remember you with favor. Your Achilles Tendons will always be protected.

[@jimsteele9261]

My sister still has one of the tribbles Gene's fan service company "Lincoln Enterprises" sold during the TOS era. If you need to repopulate the species..... 🙂

[@ShujinTribble]

@@jimsteele9261 Can't say I've ever had a better matchmaking offer to date! (^_^)

[@jameslitzenberger2923]

Just found this channel about a week ago. It's quickly become my favorite. Love all these lists. Keep up the awesome work!

[@JohnnyWednesday]

It's my favourite Channel too - everybody at TrekCulture deserve a chest of gold-pressed latinum!

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@JohnnyWednesday I'm sure Sean loves to know how much of a fan you are as well.

[@tjeerdtrekkie1030]

First time I experienced star trek was 4 years ago when I was 15 seeing Next Generation. My dad was introduced to star trek at the same age and with next gen as well! He had bought the complete boxset on DVD and told me he wanted to show me something I was defenately going to love. I am now the biggest trek fan in the house 😂😂

[@ryancoulter4797]

When they were casting ST:V there were rumours that Canadian aboriginal actor Tom Jackson would play Chakotay. I can just imagine him and Bujold making it a Canadian centric series (Northwest Passage anyone?). Star Trek: Voyageur.

[@Sarcasticron]

I would watch that!

[@wkwynn]

Don't forget Patrick Stewart was convinced TNG would sink and be cancelled so he never unpacked his bags properly for the first six weeks of his contract

[@daniellclary]

I loved 7, but not because of eye candy. I liked her because she was the Spock or Data of this show. The more alien and logical of characters. Janeway was a well done character too. I like them both for their different reasons.

[@twocvbloke]

Having seen the Bujold-Janeway scenes, I'm glad she stepped down, her performance was "stiff", like she was trying to out-do Picard or something, and as for the tensions betwen Ryan and Mulgrew, I can see why the latter took offense to her being added to the series, I was at the age where, y'know, women were becoming "very noticeable" when they added her, so there was a lot of "phwoarr, look at that!!!" from those of us into Voyager at the time, but overall I was still into the show cos it was Star Trek, which I loved and still do...

[@joermnyc]

Yes, the explosives were placed a little too close to where the actors were going to be in “Arena”, it’s akin to The Who’s appearance on The Smother’s Brothers Show, where Keith Moon put way too many fireworks in his bass drum and permanently deafened Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey in one ear after he set them off.

[@wkwynn]

I remember reading that Frakes wanted to push the envelope and actually cast male actors for all the J'naii but was overruled by producers

[@whiterabbit2786]

My late wife looked exactly like Kate Mulgrew from ST:V. Kate was in her early 40's when she shot the show and my wife was in her early 40's when she passed.

[@christineharris2302]

Actually, the 1st gay kiss on television was in a movie called "That Certain Summer" which was broadcast in 1972. It even featured an apology at the beginning for the content they were about to show.

[@dmed312]

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greatest TV show ever made.

[@SuperLuigiSixty4]

Great list, and special props for pronouncing "Calgary" correctly!

[@nikojnemavakvo]

i think Data gave the best lecture on what are the duties of the first officer :)

[@peterl.104]

After seeing it on KZbin, I wanted to play it for my branch heads.

[@lloydtransom8525]

That was a great list. I liked the behind the scenes information; that was awesome. Live long and prosper.

[@Chuck_Hooks]

No scenes in Trek are more impressive than the ones with the Gorn suit in "Arena." And honorable mention to the scene with Kirk's makeshift cannon full of diamonds that messed up the Gorn's impressive suit.

[@willmfrank]

Remember the "Gorn Cannon" segment on MythBusters? Tore Belleci said, "Any way you look at it this is a BAD idea! I mean, you'd be better off giving the cannon to the Gorn, and let him shoot you."

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

“Data’s head had been sitting in a crate in Calgary.” Been there. 😂

[@Pygar2]

I saw it at Louisville Wonderfest ca. 2000. Pretty neat!

[@billtrombley3434]

These behind-the-scenes tidbits are great. They didn't recreate the prop Data, but found him, after they'd sold him & asked to use it again? Apparently, something similar happened during production of TNG's episode Relics when James Doohan guest stared. The production was able to burrow the tactical / Sulu scope that rises out of the helm console from the Star Trek: Original Series Set Tour-- formerly known as fan production Star Trek: New Voyages, out of Ticonderoga, NY. I was told it was a fragile piece & some special handling was involved, to get it to California. Apparently Star Trek: Original Series Set Tour received a GNDN relay from the DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations episode, which they use in the tour, even though it's not to scale. Also during Relics, Ronald D. Moore stated during an interview or online chat they recreated the TOS bridge without consulting Supervising Producer Bob Justman. Justman, being a Producer on TOS was later shown the recreated bridge set & said something like, "it looks great, except you got the carpet color wrong." Moore was like "Of course, why didn't we ask you about this whole project in the first place!" Justman said the lights & filters used in the 1960s were different, even so he gave his personal endorsement to the recreated set!

[@ryanbaillie11]

It's very funny to me that the anti-gay newspaper article shown at 12:47 is by none other than Piers Morgan. He can show up in the most unlikely of places as a name in a TrekCulture video and even then he's a villain

[@StudioDaVeed]

Every time the 'Outcast' is brought up I have to mention: While it was obviously without intent; everyone seems to miss the fact that it is a liberal, logical, scientific J'naii that imposes these draconian Laws. I mean; they certainly are not 'conservative'. Again; while this was not the intent by Roddenberry at the time; one can't help but feel if left unchecked, 'liberals' today would most certainly gravitate to this 'logical' conclusion of pure inclusion of mandatory genderless compliance that was created, CREATED by them.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

What a pearl-clutching petaQ ol’ Piers is 😂

[@ryanbaillie11]

@@StudioDaVeed Mandatory genderless compliance would not be inclusive of those with preferred genders, so it doesn't take much thought to find the paradox in what you are suggesting there.

[@StudioDaVeed]

@@ryanbaillie11 Most groups professing inclusiveness have hated foe that are not welcome ;)

[@ledartagnan]

"Devil in the Dark" During filming, Shatner's father passed away. Shatner was away when filming the scene where Spock does the mindmeld with the Mother Horta. When Shatner returned, they filmes Kirk's response. Shatner asked Nimoy to redo the lines, to which Nimoy carefully says.. I was like this and said, "Pain,... pain...." Shatner asks him to say the lones EXACTLY the way he said it... Nimoy reluctantly does so, cries out "PAIN... PAIN.." Shatner promptly says: "Quick, get this Vulcan an aspirine!!!"

[@ChipsAndWires]

Andrew Robinson is a damn brilliant weaver of the truth.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

He’s also _extremely_ talented at homing in on twink Starfleet doctors. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@TheFloridaStig]

His role as the villain in Dirty Harry was epic

[@willmfrank]

@@TheFloridaStig "Now I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots? Or only five?' To tell the truth I lost count in all the excitement. But being that this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" He felt lucky. He wasn't.

[@hankthepatriot3733]

Ext= Exterior (in screenwriting) So it would be read: Fade in: EXT. (Exterior) Star-ship

[@GabePuratekuta]

EXT Starship: Red Shirt dies from forgetting to put on EV suit.

[@antonnurwald5700]

This was truly awesome. A lot of this stuff was really new to me. I feel for Shatner, this is bad.

[@brickbunny9686]

Casting Picard as bald. One of Star Treks mos iconic and one of the best choices made.

[@RoguePhysicist]

I'm glad they put an arrow pointing to Data's head in the thumbnail. Otherwise I might not have seen it.

[@HyperactiveNeuron]

Ok I didn't even know tinnitus habituation therapy was a thing until know. I'm already reading up on it. Thanks for bringing it up I've been dealing with tinnitus for a very long time.

[@liamwilliams1794]

Im always really amazed ryan and mugrew hated each other on set, the characters friendship and the way they played the roles is amazing with no hint of any tension at all.

[@Gaeilgeoir]

Uh, did you watch the same show as the rest of us? lol

[@walterscientist]

I actually did notice Seven/Jeri being really tense when alone with Janeway/Kate. At the time I attributed it to Seven feeling that Janeway violated Seven by having her de-borgified.

[@tty23]

Considering how the producers would threaten actresses within the franchise with replacing them with 7, I can completely understand Kate's reaction.

[@dreadcthulhu5]

That's on the producers than and not the actress.

[@tty23]

@@dreadcthulhu5 it wasn't just one but it was the prominent example, and it ways wasn't with 7

[@dreadcthulhu5]

@@tty23 It's still on the ones making the decision and not the actors who just need a job.

[@tty23]

@@dreadcthulhu5 my bad I read your comment wrong. But still you can see why she'd view 7 as a threat. If she crafted her role as being a nonsexual person who should be taken serious as a female captain, imagine the offense if they bring on a overly sexualized character to steal the spotlight?

[@dreadcthulhu5]

@@tty23 My understanding is that a lot of the problem throughout the Star Trek franchise were brought on my Rick Berman and his... troubling treatment of women among other things. Originally it was just supposed to be a regular Borg character to explore the idea of one being a crewmember. It was Berman who decided to make it a sexy female in his words, "Make it a Borg babe." He also demanded that Kate Mulgrew pad her bra, which she protested and won out on. Then on DS9 there were a number of issues with how he treated Terry Farrell. He would also comment on her bra size and suggest padding. She wanted for her own reasons to have less time on the show and he basically gave here an ultimatum to do what he wanted or leave. Seems like if you ask any of the women and even some of the men about him they all have a story about what a controlling and often sketchy guy he is. Pretty much if you have an issue with how a character was written out of one of the shows you can trace it back to him.

[@Bob_just_Bob]

I saw the scene with the Gorn when it first aired when I was a kid in the 60s. I remember it mostly because it was one of the first nightmares I remember ever having. Of course, I had seen it again when a little older, numerous times without the nightmares but then later in life, in 1985 I had moved from the East Coast to take a job based out of a little airport in Aqua Dulce, California. I was on a day off when I thought I had re-entered my nightmare of the Gorn for a moment. I was visiting the nearby Vasquez Rocks park when OMG!!! I recognized it! I'm in the Arena where Kirk and the Gorn had their fight! AAHHH!

[@TheMagpyeTrader]

Great job with the voice over!

[@SSingh-nr8qz]

The messed up part about Jerri and Kate is I suspect we would have NEVER got the incredible performances from these two if they were not trying to outperform each other on scenes.

[@oriondx72]

6:25 100% the truth a master piece and it saved the star trek movie franchise.

[@davidponseigo8811]

Louise Fletcher was also in the movie High School High with Jon Lovitz. It was dumb goofy movie but hilarious and Fletcher was wonderful in it but I'm shocked she would make a movie like that.

[@JohnnyWednesday]

Great list and video! Thank you Brie!

[@jalabi99]

This was the first TrekCulture/WhatCulture video that I've "liked" in many, many, many months. Well done.

[@LightningSt0rm]

12:36 Will and Grace had Will Kiss Jack in 1999 before Dawson's Creek in 2000. Now that one wasn't a romantic kiss between partners but it was before the one mentioned in this video.

[@shoutingstone]

I'd love to be the photographer at the wedding of the guy who puts those stupid gold arrows on these thumbnails, and put them on all his wedding pictures pointing at random guests. See if he still likes them then (yeah ive maybe spent a little too much time thinking about this :) )

[@cesara.borges9698]

👏👏👏 Amazing and Beautifull your Lower Decks persona😍😍😍!!!

[@bryanabbott6169]

At the time of a new Star Trek show was being announced to be in the works (Star Trek: The Next Generation), there wasn't much more known about it at the time. I was more worried that they were going to recast the original crew. When I found out more about the show, such as it being set 80 years in the future, which would allow them to showcase new technology (as in being able to use better SFX than was available in the '60s) and move events forward, I really looked forward to it (Disco went hard in the first two seasons into what I feared what was going to happen with TNG, had it been set in the 23rd Century, rather than the 24th Century).

[@JamesDOConnor1916]

Great video brie I love star trek live long and prosper ✨️ respect 🙏

[@Rozom]

From what I understand, TOS episode The Enterprise Incident was to include a Romulan capital ship that was akin to the design of the bird of prey used in Balance of Terror (and somewhat close to the Warbird in TNG) unfortunately tragedy struck and the model was damaged beyond repair in time for airing nor budget to reproduce. So instead they used the already made Kilingon vessel and scripted lines as to why the Romulans had them too. (Which later became trek lore as to how the Klingons also had cloaking technology in Star Trek III as the Bird of prey there was originally scripted to have Romulans instead)

[@Caninecancersucksrocks]

While I cannot agree with some of his actions & things he’s said over the past 10 years or so, as a fellow tinnitus sufferer I definitely feel for Mr. Shatner & am truly grateful for all he has done for this cause. I first developed mine due to a medication I was having to take at the time - it is a very rare complication though and we had hoped that once I cycled off the medication it would disappear. Sadly, this was not the case - and I can empathize with his feelings of “losing his mind” in the early stages as that’s exactly how I felt as well. It’s basically like having the sound of a hundred thousand mosquitoes being blared at full volume into your head. You can’t think, sleep or even converse with others around you when it’s really bad…all you can hear is the constant, non-stop noise & it truly does make you feel as though you’re going mad.

[@nebula0024]

Well that fully confirms I'm a total nerd. With regards to 7 of 9 being introduced to "sex things up", I totally didn't pick up on that at all. I was nerding out so hard that they not only brought The Borg into Voyager (the show), but also had one living *on the ship* that this blew right over my head. I guess it makes sense in hindsight, but the fact that I completely missed that at the time is a little embarrassing. 🤓

[@JadedMax]

Me too!

[@smith22041]

I attribute my asexuality for the reason I didn't pick up that she was meant to be eye candy when I watching it back then.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*some bits of 7 of 9 were more borgy than others while others designed to be far more distracting...just an observation*

[@brillcrafter7417]

yup, that never came to me as well and judging by the amount of similar comments I would say i am not in the minority

[@livingdeadbtu]

Kate Mulgrew as Minuet on the holodeck... wowzers!

[@jakerazmataz852]

Wow, I'm old and it's nice to hear the backstory on spokespeople. I'm sure so many used the product for a week just to not feel guilty. 10:55 I wasn't a big DS-9 fan, but that's funny. OMG Picard with hair.

[@jflaplaylistchannelunoffic3951]

14:16 Picard's toupet. A classic.

[@countroshculla]

Awesome trivia. These were all mostly new to me except for one.

[@travisjohnson622]

About the Wraith of Kahn: Rumors circulated before the film premiered that Spock would die at the beginning. So when the Kobiyashi concludes and Spock speaks up, Kirk looks over at him and says, "Youre supposed to be dead" It was an inside joke that the crowd in the theater found funny. It has sense been lost to time, but pepperidge farm remembers! lol

[@sasamichan]

If I bought Data's head I would not keep it in a crate in storage. Also I would love to see a video of things more impressive when you know the truth but with in the show's narrative. A video that would look at things like How hard or easy is it to build a weapon from just minerals scattered on a planet or how much food is needed to bread the number of Tribbles we see in the episode etc

[@jackforbes826]

I don't know if this reaches scale of more impressive but City on the edge of forever the script called for runes surrounding the guardian. Somehow the set folks or someone misread it as ruins. One must assume that time and budget did not allow a redo of the set, so we got the ruins. I actually think the mistake made for a better set than what was written.

[@cyberwomble7524]

A special mention should go to all the actors and stuntpeople over the years that have endured horrendous wire-pulls in the name of "unexpected explosions".

[@Smiler_Fangirl619]

You're not wrong about the BEST MOVIE IN THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE!!!! ST:TWOK is still awesome, many, many decades later!

[@annika_panicka]

1:22 "No guest stars" Cut to Dean Stockwell

[@garbo8962]

Side note: back in the late 1960's had a great extremely intelligent electronic shop teacher. He already had a math & electronic degree and was working in two more. The only show he watched on TV was Star track. He told our class that the little communicators that were on the show will be us using portable devices to speak to people anywhere on earth. After getting out of the navy he made big bucks working for RCA on nuclear submarines but told me he rather teach the next generation. Only went back to that school a few times to visit him. Wish I would have stayed in touch with him.

[@kenwheeler3637]

That was some very cool info.

[@MarkTheMorose]

I never knew Patrick Stewart sported a Tribble at any stage.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

My boyfriend has had sexual dysmorphia since he was 4 years old. It was sad that his father didn't know how to deal with his "problems". I do my best. I recall that 'Congeniter' was a somewhat related story to this one. 'Fusions and 'Stigma' dealt with a Vulcan mind-raping Cdr. T'Pol and giving her a fatal disease called Pa'nar Syndrome. T'Pau eventually healed her. It was really about AIDS. There were few stories about disabled persons in "Star Trek" though 'Louder Than A Whisper' was shown and Dr. Erickson in an episode on "Enterprise" was seen in a wheelchair. If T'Pol and Trip's baby had survived in a future season and had still had disabilities due to Paxton's cloning her, I'm sure T'Pol would have done everything she could to help baby Elizabeth. Maybe Dr. Phlox could have healed her on the ship.

[@spike178]

Great, never knew about Williams hearing problems.

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

Janeway wasn't the first female captain, there is one in ST-IV on board the ship 'crippled' by the probe, and the captain of the Enterprise C, Janeway was just one of the few who had a series and not a few minutes of screen time or one episode.

[@silversonic1]

Also canonically there's Captain Hernandez from Enterprise and Captain Philippa Georgiou from Discovery. But let's keep in mind that most fans know these things and the "first female Captain" bit always has a silent "as a main character on a Star Trek series" because people keep thinking it's ok to skip that part since they think it's implied. There have been many non-male Captains in Starfleet. We just haven't heard of them all. Absence of evidence doesn't equal evidence of absence.

[@robertmurphy4836]

Don't forget that Geordi's Mother was a starship Captain.

[@christheghostwriter]

She was the first female captain in a lead role. No one has ever suggested she was the first in-universe female captain in Starfleet.

[@szr8]

@@robertmurphy4836 I was going to say the same thing until I scrolled down and saw your post :)

[@lotstodo]

I must comment on the Gorn's costume. An orange, gold and green halter mini dress and debutant length red gloves. Is anyone else go crazy over this? I love it.

[@danteanise3013]

You may have forgotten to mention, but showed how the Tribbles let everyone see Scott'ys missing finger. I just found your channel and I am glad I did. This the first video of yours I have seen. I am a Trekie from way back. I am very glad you did not mention anything, besides Picard, from Star Trek XI and beyond. IMHO, most of this (much like Star Wars VII - IX) should be ignored.

[@deirdrelewis1454]

The final scene of Voyager! The most impressive and emotional final scene in Trek history.

[@do9138]

Early Star Trek was before CGI and used mainly practical effects. That is much more impressive than writing computer code.

[@JonTanOsb]

EXTERIOR: Space. Much more exciting than INTERIOR: Spaceship. Of course in scripts it's shortened to EXT: but spoken as the whole word. I'm an original Trekkie from the 60s. Jon in rural BC, Canada

[@ianlister7333]

you never expect EastEnders to turn up on these videos, but im pretty sure they just repeated that kiss in the episode, today (as in when this video came out).

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Not surprising that the article was written by serial reactionary snowflake Piers Morgan 😂

[@ianlister7333]

@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated yeah that doesnt shock me. However I should point out that the first kiss was Colin and Gudio. It was Colin and Barry in tonights episode.

[@t0mn8r35]

This was very entertaining and informative. I am a big "Treckie". I have a Tribble on my desk!

[@merk1701]

I did not know shatner had tinnitus, or that he got it from filming an episode of TOS.

[@caseywalton3161]

Tinnitus does suck big time. It's hard to go to sleep some nights because of mine. So yeah shantner suffered for his art on that one

[@robertholtz]

7:12 - False. Spock’s return from death was imagined only after fans insisted they bring Nimoy back. He did not want to return for Star Trek II UNLESS it was to kill the Spock character. Then, well later, with the public outcry and considerable additional compensation, Nimoy returned for subsequent STAR TREK films.

[@christheghostwriter]

Incorrect. He only agreed to return if they killed him off, but Nimoy has noted on multiple occasions that he changed his mind once they started filming, and they began having conversations about how to keep the character alive before filming was completed. Yes, fans did find out about his death in The script, after Roddenberry leaked the original script. But the outcry from the fans had nothing to do with the decision to keep him alive. That doesn't even make sense. Like, if he really didn't want to continue in the role, what would any of the fan outcry have mattered? If you didn't want to do it, he wouldn't have done it.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks.

[@julietpaige5083]

The first gay kiss on British TV was something I didn't know. The timing is really interesting, and kind of a big stand by Eastenders. It's not surprising MP's tried to have it taken off of air! In 1988 a law was passed and it contained something called section 28. For those who don't know it prohibited schools or local authorities from publishing any material that promoted homosexuality. So to put it on prime time TV, in the countries biggest soap opera just a year later was not an accident and pretty ballsy move. Kudos Eastenders!

[@daevydjae]

She didn't include other actors to try out for the role of Janeway, including Susan Gibney whom we know as Leah Brahams. Gibney was closest to getting the role before Mulgrew got it. She was considered "too young" for the role even though she's only 6 years younger than Mulgrew. I would have liked to see that Voyager if she got the role.

[@petepanteraman]

So Bri, this was your best top ten by far. You seem to be getting more comfortable with KZbin videos.