Star Trek - The Enterprise Is Taken Over

Bele's powers seize control of the Enterprise (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)

[@jjgrey1488]

Chased for 50,000 years...Loki must be exhausted...and The Riddler...wait till Adam West's Batman hears about this! an exceptional morality play...

[@williamschleyjr7761]

This is why Star Trek was & is STILL great! It tackles real issues from then and takes us 20-40 years to realize it was more than just entertainment. Just like the Law and Order shows. And we haven't learned much since then.

[@wj3186]

Huh?

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Sure we have. There hasn't been institutionalized racism in the USA for half a century. We had a 2-term black president 3 administrations ago. And we have an Indian-Jamacan Woman as VP. What are you talking about? The UK just had its first PM of color!

[@geovaughan8261]

I’m pretty sure the writers and audiences of the time knew how important these issues were even back then.

[@lawrenceallen8096]

@@geovaughan8261 Yep. We did indeed. That's why institutionalized racism was eliminated by the Greatest Generation who were in power at the time. It took the boomers to undo all that during their tenure over the past 30 years.

[@ArthuroGB]

Your naive look on things is cute, but also dangerous and dishonest. if you think having a few persons of colours in high position s means institutional racism is gone you are quite mistaken. Racial profiling, people in power literally still wishing they could linch people(the recent Oklahoma tapes), property rights which still negatively affect the black community, disproportionatel incarceration rates, I could go on and on. Yes it has improved, but we still have a long long way to go.

[@babylon218]

The title should be "The Enterprise is taken over... again".

[@daveroche6522]

Yep - much like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - "Who could have sabotaged the ship, apart from that dodgy senator/ bonkers scientist/slimy Washington guy/bloke hiding in the air ducts?" "No idea Sir". Yeah, right.

[@smacwhinnie]

Didn’t even have to take over Auxiliary Control, usually unguarded

[@johnbockelie3899]

" Riddle me this, ........Captain Kirk". Batman actors on Star Trek.

[@maxbites23]

When your Black and White cookies overpower your entire lunch

[@tomdumb6937]

Love how kirk tries to agree with both at 2:27

[@thundermaxx1273]

"You're dead you half-white!" "I'll take you with me you half-black!" True friendship. LOL!!

[@Einnor084]

Misery, LOVEZZZzzzzzzz company!

[@wj3186]

🤮

[@feonjun]

Fascinating isn't it? It's literally an arbitrary label.

[@firecriss1392]

"Riddle me this Captain!?! What does the Enterprise crew and a bolt nut have in common? They can both be SCREWED!!!! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!!!!"

[@dbsql6238]

Space Riddler: "Riddle me this Captain!?! What does the Enterprise crew and a bolt nut have in common?" Kirk: "Bones?" Bones: "I am a doctor, not a Batman." Kirk: "Spock?" Spock: "Captain, I know the answer. They can both be screwed." Space Riddler: "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!!!!"

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

You think they would think of some kind of over ride button for Kirk as the Enterprise is so easy to be taken over again, it always gets me that they are all shocked yet again that has happened!

[@jorgezarco9269]

Frank Gorshin was cast as The Riddler on the 1960's Batman TV show. He also played a bank robber in That Darn Cat(1965).

[@hasnatsujon]

0:22 You can feel everyone's emotion. Spock: indifferent Kirk: angry Uhura: confused Chekov: afraid

[@charleskuckel3173]

They ALWAYS criticized this episode for being TOO moralistic or TOO heavy handed. I actually liked it in terms of the times and what technologies were available to the TV series. I think TNG blew it because they were STILL alive at the time SO they could've revisited the story and cleaned up some loose ends.

[@SantomPh]

In a novel No Time Like the Past where Seven of Nine meets Kirk and ends up on Cheron with him, she says that in Voyager's time the Federation avoids the planet because of those two still fighting their war (they are literally the last two left). As the planet no longer has warp capable ships or interstellar communication, they are left alone to eternally fight each other. TNG would not really visit this place because Roddenberry liked the open-ended episodes and later so did Moore and other writers. In fact TNG hardly ever revisits locations from TOS when you think about it. Given that they have the same powers and are of the same race and age, no one will truly win this one.

[@kanaric]

They basically didn't want to include aliens like this in TNG. Like even the Andorians only make a cameo. TNG was an era where they were not embracing the TOS at all despite the early seasons being similar.

[@jeffclark1129]

This episode is still relevant today as it was in 1969. Lokai and Bele hate "monocolored trash" (i.e. humans and/or humanoids), a millennial-long chase from one end of the galaxy to another, and both Lokai and Bele finally have confront each other aboard the Enterprise, Bele believes he has won until they both discover Cheron is a dead world because of 50,000 years (perhaps longer than that) of mounting, pent-up hatreds literally exploding into a planetary massacre. Both Lokai and Bele continue their useless battle on Cheron knowing it will end in their deaths. Hatred, rampant and unchecked, will destroy ANY civilization, planetary or Galactic. We humans are trying to AVOID that same path in the 21st-Century, whether or not we will choose unity or division, order over chaos, hope over fear and MOST IMPORTANT, creation over destruction! Also included, freedom over tyranny!!!!😃😃😃👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@SantomPh]

problem is ,when someone called "Jeff" talks about freedom it results in terrorist actions like the storming of the Capitol. Kindly avoid discussing "freedom" if you are white.

[@jeffclark1129]

@@SantomPh Maybe you misunderstood my comment I made regarding "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." I also don't equate the January 6 Capitol riots (a real-life tragic event) to a particular Star Trek episode about the STUPIDITY of racism, which you have so glaringly stated in your senseless response. And I will not be censored by a fool who hates whites because it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!😡

[@JedForge]

@@SantomPh If you can't see that your remark makes you more like Lokai and Bele than most of us Whites then there will never be enough common ground from which to solve our real world problems.

[@ericbrett3095]

2023 and we haven't learned a damn thing.

[@jeffclark1129]

@@ericbrett3095 It certainly appears that way, doesn't it. The generation in their teens and twenties today are speaking up and speaking out against ALL THE SOCIAL ILLS plaguing our Nation and world.

[@vocalist92]

1:27 epic foreshadowing

[@3dartistguy]

THE RIDDLER ON STAR TREK!

[@dwaugh2215]

But which one? The two look look identical to me. No wonder he’s called the riddler

[@Rgoid]

Bele is the Riddler.

[@briandaleske5139]

I would like to see these Black&White faced alien beings, appear on the show series (STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS).

[@mjjones8216]

freeze frame at 1 .35 and you’ll see lieutenant Uhura fascinated by what’s in beals pants 😂

[@leonardo899]

The gray pants sure make men's bulges look good.

[@daveroche6522]

I'm more interested in what's in hers!

[@mjjones8216]

@@daveroche6522You’ll get no argument with me on that matter Nichelle Nichols acting ability was very suspect in the series but her body wasn’t. . she was just looking to see if Gerswin was really jewish 😂

[@mjjones8216]

@@leonardo899 not to a straight guy like me 😂

[@Einnor084]

@@daveroche6522 YUPPERZ!!!! My mom never knew da secret reason, I just had 2 watch STAR TREK, BUTT now u all do. Any chance 2 oogle Uhura, wuz time well spent!

[@magicsinglez]

God, this show was amazing. . . It felt more like they were really in space maybe than TNG

[@DartLuke]

Security protocols are really terrible in Federation. One r2d2 could take control of entire Federation

[@Einnor084]

Welp..... If ur an American, u probably don't even notice, dis ain't George Washingtonz, America, anymo & ain't been SINce @ least 1860. Mayb b4 dat! Anywho, itz morphed, several timez, BUTT MOST peephole don't know dis country has been hijacked. SMH

[@jonearley]

Kirk is the Jawa to R2D2, he would either reprogram it, blow it up, or talk it to death.

[@welcometogreenaquasglen1846]

Yes, not to mention letting two mortal run around the ship completely unguarded.

[@myleelorna6368]

0:05 that dramatic zoom in! 😂

[@alexxbaudwhyn7572]

Great story idea to tackle race, haves and have nots. I used to think the black, white color split would never occur in nature like that, ie a straight line, presumably all the way down their body, but to make it simple, made the actors wear gloves and covered their bodies. ...until I saw cat videos here showing cats with a perfectly straight color division on their face and head, often orange on one side and black on the other, also saw one black, white face split just like Bele. Trek nails it again

[@RSTI191]

Leave it to the Riddler to pull a few tricks..

[@francesjarvis884]

I love Star Trek but it was way to easy for external entities to take the damn ship over!

[@KNByam]

External entities that were more advanced in technology or abilities. Same thing happens here on Earth throughout human history.

[@troyhm6936]

Like how this episode goes deeper than race, with one guy being an authoritarian and the other guy being a revolutionist. Extreme opposites coming full circle and really not being too different.

[@shiindaisuke3159]

Gasp! That fiendish fiend! He burned it out with a technicolor rainbow! lol

[@TheRip72]

Holy electric shock.

[@Tiberius291]

Where's Batman and Robin when you need them.

[@SiXiam]

I like Chekov's line: We are not killers.

[@samrizzardi2213]

Makes you wonder just how powerful this species was before it nuked itself.

[@Franciszek64]

The Riddle!!!!!

[@TheFlyingHeart]

Listen all ya, it’s a deliberate act of sabatAaaahhge.

[@mikestevenson2303]

Were is security?

[@billmalec]

I take it back. I only thought the hippies in space episode was the worst. Seems I was a bit premature.

[@jonearley]

I was One with the hippies, as I'm no Herbert, but Roddenberry should have left this one on the shelf, or at least made it a two part episode to explain it more thoroughly.

[@ChiefSilverWolf]

Oreo had it easy. Black on the outside but white on the inside. Simple without any changes. Both sides integrated for flavor. I think it would be disturbing to see white cookies with dark icing.

[@tyn833]

They were talking about racism they took real situations and made it into a show but they were right even today

[@steveoc64]

As the owner of a pair of Border Collies - I can confirm that this situation is 100% accurate, and a daily occurrence

[@feonjun]

I recently watched this episode, and after these countless years, I discovered many more layers to this episode. The cat and mouse games have been going on for 50,000 of human earth year, which symbolizes humanity struggles throughout our history. I can go on, but I'm sure you guys get the picture.

[@danclark1348]

No one on the bridge to stop him? Bridge is occupied constantly.

[@Death2all546]

How about at 0:20 when it’s just panning across multiple people watching him do it again?

[@gen_xecutioner]

Note to CBS - episode rewrite needed, because Lokai is infallible by virtue of whatever happened 50000 years ago.

[@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

Lore may have had a nasty chip in his shoulder for humans, but he's a freaking saint compared to how vile the Cheron-natives are. Then again, we only know Lokai and Bele. Most likely the species as a whole were not extremists like these two.

[@SantomPh]

in the novel "No Time Like The Past" Kirk and Seven of Nine (yeah, go with it) end up on Cheron in a series of time jumps and it is revealed that Bele's side tried to kill Lokai's side with a eugenic weapon, a virus that would kill Lokai's people- only for Lokai's people to attack first and accidentally release the virus early before it is perfected. Hence all the unburied bodies and empty cities the Enterprise finds. What's worse, Bele and Lokai now live on opposite sides of the planet, scheming ways to kill each other. The Federation in Voyager's (therefore DS9 and TNG) avoids Cheron given how long lived and powerful the last two of their native species are. Hence from the dialog in the episode and the beta canon, we can surmise that Bele's people were just like him, and Lokai's people were also just like him.

[@JnEricsonx]

If their entire people are dead by the episode as it seems....

[@robbhahn8897]

These guys could side hustle as microwave repairmen.

[@garylouderback4338]

How many things did the kirk command to destrroy

[@Kourosh-sayady]

More than 52 years ago i was a child and watching this series . Now i see again of course in color that time there was no color tv 📺. This film proved that German nazi invented computer first

[@stardaddyo9]

How many times was the enterprise hijacked?

[@leonardo899]

The gray tights really acentuate their bulges.

[@WiseSnake]

Sabotăge lol

[@omnientertainment5852]

The racism was real in this episode.

[@flashcloud666]

Why is CBS showing this and not NBC?

[@SantomPh]

lapsed rights. CBS simply picked them up

[@briansammond7801]

@@SantomPh The rights didn't lapse. They were sold. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_corporate_history

[@RJMeta]

Sabatage XD

[@RAJohns]

He said he burned out the self-destruct. Then is was used later. What happened?

[@michaelcombs1853]

I like this but what star trek is it in

[@michaellaplant8659]

The episode : "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" -- from Star Trek - The Original Series.

[@stevenspenneberg7407]

saba-tadge

[@BradiKal61]

Sab-O-Tadge?

[@looseandjanglingproductions]

I say sabo-tazsh

[@topgrain]

Wow. I've stumbled upon a bunch of old Star Trek clips that point to The United States (and the world) today. First, in "The Children Shall Lead," the kids finally recognize that the hateful, murderous "angel" they have been following isn't trying to make things great. And now, Loki and Bele show how humanity leverages the smallest difference into the biggest bigotry and hate. Humanity too seems to be destined for a last battlefield.

[@SantomPh]

the cruelest irony here is that they are of the same race and color ratio on their skin, but consider themselves different due to ideology, and both are radicals of those ideologies. Kirk's statement of "I don't see the difference" is the rest of us thinking "oh my god, these guys are so petty."

[@rdg5233]

That half black dude is a real jerk!

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Which half black dude?

[@steelers6titles]

The half-and-half guys. Shoe polish and clown-white makeup. Low budget!

[@DarkGob]

Sabatage

[@michaellaplant8659]

"Sabatoogy".....as Curly of the Three Stooges would say. 😊

[@ChiefSilverWolf]

Uhura, tie-in the Universal Translator. "Aye, Captain!" Sab-O-tage is captioned on the screen. It always comes down to plain dialect over Standard English. When convenience matters most.

[@steelers6titles]

Episode is pretty simple-minded.

[@rasmur1]

Sounds a lot like the Israelis and Palestinians.

[@stevenspenneberg7407]

conservatives and liberals.

[@SantomPh]

more like the far-right -Bele is literally a Commissioner on Political Terrors versus extreme anarchy represented by Lokai, who leads a violent revolution ala Fidel Castro. conservatives and liberals are lightweights compared to those two.

[@malgremor85]

Capt. Kirk is so overrated. He can't seem to retain control of his ship. It gets taken over every other episode.