Star Trek (1966-69). Part Two: Keep on Trekkin'

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

I've met Leonard Nimoy, when i was small. He was so warm and so gentle. I met Shatner as well, which was like being in the room with a large existence...he didnt have a lot of time, but he was very nice and personal. My favorite memory was when i was small, i got chicken pox. my mother put a makeshift bed in the living room, socks on my hands, and WPIX (channel 11, NYC) ran Star Trek for 3 hours on Saturday night. In a fever, on meds, socks on my hands, i was comforted and relieved. Born a fan, always a fan, but not of the "discovery" junk. Just keep it wholesome

[@gullwingstorm857]

I love this comment.

[@joeblaumer2085]

I’ve watched a bit of Discovery, wasn’t able to get into it. But I enjoy all the others, Classic, STNG, Deep Space, Voyager, and Enterprise.

[@marysheeran519]

I would come home nights while working for my Masters degree and wind down watching Star Trek on good ol' WPIX.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@joeblaumer2085I personally think season 3 is pretty good and 4 is great, but the first 2 were a total mess of a production!

[@peanut1001x]

​@@kaitlyn__L you're the only one whose ever seen season 4, awesome

[@hagerty1952]

You don't know how many times I had to keep backing up the video to hear what I missed while laughing so hard! Thank you.

[@inkermoy]

My brother and I watched TOS in syndication so much our parents would say to us, "haven't you already watched that episode?" telling us to turn the TV off and eat our breakfast or lunch. We could name the episode from seeing the first few moments. Good times! Thanks for another great retrospective, quite enjoy the ones on Doctor Who.

[@Cmdr1962]

I could also name episodes within seconds... and drop in randomly and name a season as soon as I saw Shatner's shirt.

[@thegloriousmoodman2152]

Same. Add that mom would make funny comments about in passing while going about the house.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That uncanny ability to recognise any episode of Star Trek from less than 5 seconds! All of those “out of context” compilations of brief moments have me recognising every single one.

[@justinsullivan1285]

Parts 1&2 retrospectives of TOS is the best ever and I've seen others. Top notch work to the stam fine staff. The lasting legacy of the series is it's optimistic view of the future were poverty, famine, disease, racism and war has been eradicated some would call "utopian" and turned to space exploration. Now, if we could get our act together towards making it a reality.🖖

[@kaitlyn__L]

I especially liked that aspect of it. We need to be ready before we start colonising the solar system, let alone other stars. Star Trek recognised that that endeavour was to come _after_ we’d “solved” (for lack of a better single word) life on Earth.

[@free_gold4467]

Captain's log, "It just won't flush Scotty!"

[@klipkultur2951]

I burst out laughing many, many, many times. Gigantic work. Thank you.

[@niamhryan2973]

Yah me too. Stam is just the best. His reviews are fantastic.

[@daverage4729]

20.40...Scotty's log and that sound of bottles rattling about engineering just had me in stitches. Merry Xmas Stam, you magnificent bastard!

[@rossydv]

Serendipitous. That exact scene came up while reading your comment.

[@richa.s9912]

LOL 😂😂 I'm dying here LOL I have seen Scotty wines collection .

[@rory_pond1701]

Splendid work. I really appreciate the shout-outs to everyone who contributed to the production. Most Trek retrospectives barely scratch the surface, content to mention Roddenberry as the series' creator and leave it at that. Your taking the time to single out the work of Gene Coon, William Ware Theiss, Jerry Finnerman, D.C. Fontana, Robert H. Justman, and John Meredyth Lucas is greatly appreciated, and a testament to the depth and quality of your research. Looking forward to part 3!

[@NiallMor]

“Blood, sweat, and ears.” 😆

[@RedCatHabitat]

love your work, man. just found the channel and can't stop watching. 👏👏👏 Your writing is clever, witty I'd wager.

[@deans_halfbakedproductions]

Much needed relief in these "interesting" times! Can't imagine how much research it must have taken to find the specific, snarky comments to make your narrative point.

[@StamFine]

Thanks!

[@NicholasKaufmann]

Just dropping a note to let you know I really appreciate all the work (and humor!) that you put into these videos!

[@thanksfernuthin]

The classic Star Trek convention sketch with Bill Shatner on Saturday Night Live would have been a great inclusion. A game changer. It let people know Shatner and everyone else was in on the joke. It really made Star Trek a culture wide IP and not just for a select few.

[@StarTrekDoor]

I remember that. 🖖😄

[@marysheeran519]

I love your commentary. But you might be interested to learn that sometime during the early 80s, the New York Times Book Review had a lead article about the fan fiction for Star Trek - and it was a serious essay.

[@itsphilfromtubesday8677]

Another great vid! I have a strange facination with all the failed pilots Roddenbury did after Trek searching for a new hook for a series. Genesis II, Planet, Earth, Spectre and the Questor tapes would all be great fodder for a Stam vid.

[@Cre80s]

19:10 wait a second.... is that Trogdor the Burninator??? 🔥🐉🔥

[@niamhryan9677]

Ah thank you this review is absolutely brilliant. Journey to the center of the floor had me cracked up.

[@monotonehell]

"Blood, sweat and ears." This is your best work. You can retire now.

[@constancepawlik6641]

An awesome trio of Kirk Spock and McCoy!!

[@paullove729]

Brilliant

[@dcsignal5241]

OMG, I totally forgot. I used to have that Enterprise model kit as a kid.

[@permiek]

Just started a rewatch with my son, still holds up.

[@preahko]

Your description of "Scotty's log"...brilliant!!! :)

[@nunyabizness6595]

They made it look easy but getting a quality science fiction show on air is massively difficult.

[@peanut1001x]

everyone burned out

[@doktor_ghul]

Superb two-parter in all aspects. I look forward to your pieces on TNG, DS9, and the movies. Stam Fine Work, indeed.

[@dchegu]

U forgot Leonard nimoy's singing career with his hit song on hobbit?

[@Silver-rx1mh]

I'm sorry, I nearly pissed myself laughing watching this. LOL One of your best imo.

[@powerbad696]

WOW.That was a GREAT retrospective of Star Trek TOS.Well done.I learned a lot,keep'em coming!!! LOL.Star Trek has to be the most well known sci-fi tv series,especially with all the spin-offs.That period of late 80's and mid 90's was Star Trek's most prolific and popular run,in my opinion. SEMPER-FI.

[@michaelfruchter732]

Excellent Job Totally Enjoyable and Informative Thank You Very Much

[@deanrussell2224]

Bloody fabulous again, insightful, funny and well produced- always good day where there is a new Stam fine production to watch

[@carnacthemagnificent2498]

Your use of clips to add a punchline to your jokes is outstanding. I can't imagine how much video you must watch to find just the right clip for a given situation. It really sets your videos apart from the crowd. Great work!

[@kaitlyn__L]

In my experience it’s often far more time-consuming to locate the right clip, after you’ve remembered one that would be perfect for the joke 😅 “where was it… I know it was around the time of this other scene…”

[@Cmdr1962]

I'm really enjoying Stam Fine. You're like a great cover that honors the original and gives me an excuse to watch something for the quasimegaguhwompabilth time.

[@jamespeters2859]

Great stuff bud. Propa lifts one’s spirits. 🔹🔷🔹

[@christophermiller3031]

@13:04 I love your short comedic clips you have farmed... What a great Spock quote.

[@christheghostwriter]

Beautiful job. The writing, editing/production, and the tone are all perfect.

[@vinnycochrane5139]

I laughed so much at your “invented words”. As a student at Oxford, I used to love doing essays with at least one word I had made up, and looking up to see the puzzlement on my tutor’s face. The words were genuine, but weird, from several influences. My best one was in any essay about the growth of Nationalism post WW1 - “Countergermanocentric”.

[@shaggycan]

Great work showing that TOS was the opposite of Gene Roddenberry's vision. The whole 'my vision of a human utopia' Gene Roddenberry didn't exist until TNG. The TOS Roddenberry just wanted to be a big deal TV producer running the hottest casting couch in Hollywood. All the biggest ST ideas came from other, smarter people like DC Fontana, Gene Coon etc...

[@kaitlyn__L]

Fontana and Coon deserve _all_ the credit for how the Federation worked. Then Roddenberry acted like he’d thought it all up by himself once they were out of the picture. Heck, Fontana was also important in crystallising the TNG conception of the Federation too - AND in figuring-out what the Trill should actually be, in early DS9!

[@peanut1001x]

omg TNG was is an unqualified nightmare not a utopia

[@AllanGildea]

Fabulous Christmas treat, thank you!

[@williammay5300]

I'm looking forward to your TNG report...

[@ldavinci3649]

Great work (very funny to). Thanks 👍👍

[@jamespfp]

34:56 -- The best echo-joke yet! *WELL DONE,* an excellent and concise review of the production history meets Romulan distrust. Bewares the Ides of March, yegads!

[@jamespfp]

Mwahahaha, Studio Executives jokes need call-backs, for gawldurn sure. "Not Keen to Leave Money on the Table" should have been a warning label of some kind.

[@TheDukeofMadness]

Another great review. I was never a huge Star Trek fan but you made me feel nostalgia for it.

[@Grim2]

19:51 - It was actually made before War of the Worlds. Bizarrely its first use was in a Bob Hope movie ("My Favorite Spy" at the very end when the barrel explodes).

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Excellent overview of the series. Thanks for the early Christmas gift!

[@robvangessel3766]

As precedence goes, the 1st season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea introduced some very good sci fi in 1964. Same year MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. started. With episodes like The Sky Is Falling and Doomsday, Voyage anticipated shows like TREK, as well as MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Despite the unevenness in quality typical of anything by Irwin Allen (when his shows were good it was in SPITE of him, not BECAUSE of him), Voyage was the first of its kind. (Since I mention Allen I'll also add that I've always loved the 8 earliest episodes of Lost In Space, whose early writers included Shimon Wincelberg and Carey Wilbur, who went on to work on Star Trek's 1st season. Wilbur did Space Seed, with Khan).

[@guymorris6596]

Spock getting ink done. I didn't know that.

[@grumpbert]

"Trekoslovakians" Thank you and Happy Christmas!

[@Ryglado]

This is very good. And a ton of work to put together, no doubt.

[@simonfredkellyyt]

Great stuff. Thank you.

[@rossydv]

Had no idea how top notch your production is. A+++

[@quantumskywalker6888]

Thank you, Stam Fine. And Merry Christmas to you too. 🙂🙂

[@willmfrank]

You missed one of the classic Red Shirt jokes: Their first names were Vic and Tim.

[@PaulGreeve]

All these years of watching Star Trek and I never realised that the baby Phasers were docked into the daddy Phasers. Is my face red!

[@kidstlme8230]

Dude I realized that all the way back in the day day when I washed it as an eight-year-old kid on the first run

[@robvangessel3766]

Alexander Courage's music is so, SO much better than the Star Wars copycat stuff in the Trek movies and tv franchise.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Star Wars copy cat stuff is a horrible take on such fine music.

[@JonathanEzor]

One of the biggest confusions for me early in my Star Trek fandom was the concidencr that there was an actor named DeForest Kelley and a company called Kellam DeForest, but that they were entirely unrelated.

[@wolfhound45]

Been waiting for this episode. Thanks for the great work.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I personally would've LOVED to play a red shirt

[@garylim2]

Top class! And I love the humor.

[@adrianvanleeuwen]

Excellent review. I really like the behind the scenes information of how TOS all came together, but writers and producer info, and the cinematic lighting which was not common for that time period on shows. This was an intelligent production. I would love to see a comparison video on writing storytelling styles of TOS, TNG era series, and the new Trek era with Discovery etc. on how things have changed. Ironic that the studio cancelled the TOS series too soon, not anticipating the massive amount they would make later on toys and syndication. But then we got movies and TNG.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Fate twisted in all our favour, but fate took its time.

[@RighteousBrother]

Well that's my Xmas eve sorted! Thanks!

[@orion45acp]

Love Star Trek

[@Lunchladydoyle]

Really glad I discovered your channel. Your chill, deadpan humor is a nice break from the edge king reaction channels that dominate KZbin these days. Now I’m gorging on past episodes thanks 😊

[@SJKPJR007]

Brilliant review with the customary well informed observations and contextualisation that is the hallmark of this channel's content. Love it! As a side note, I had a friend who tried cocaine Vicks. Cleared his chest no problem but he just couldn't rid of the sniffles for some reason.

[@howardmoses9979]

In 1958-1960, there was an adult science fiction series with an ongoing premise and a continuing character. It was called Men into Space.

[@craigbrowning9448]

I've ever hearing the starship Enterprise door sound effect used for some other reason in an episode of Bewitched. Also some of the scanner so to fix were used in episode of Gilligan's Island when a space probe crashed on the island.

[@djpookie2000]

You deserve way more subscribers. Your videos are so fun to watch.

[@lancebaylis3169]

One thing I notice about the Captain's Logs is that early in the series they are dictated in the past tense -- as though being recorded after the fact, eg "Unknown to us at the time..." kind of deal. After a while they became standardised so as to be contemporaneous to the action. A subtle change.

[@hagerty1952]

1:45 All three of these writers were the main contributors to the original "Twilight Zone" (after Rod Serling, of course).

[@tycannah4271]

very amusing.

[@kawaiwong408]

Great video as always. 👍

[@alvinglenn458]

Now that the movie Logan's Run is mentioned, I loved that movie even more than the Star Trek Movies .. . One of the best plot lines ever in Logan's Run .. .

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I never knew Matheson was involved!

[@bonghunezhou5051]

7:57 J M Lucas DID NOT produce "Bread and Circuses". Neither did he produce "Assignment: Earth". It is worth noting that the episodes were first aired jarringly out of order, but that is no excuse for a clearly sloppy research. Of the 10 or 11 episodes which he did produce, "Journey to Babel" and "The Ultimate Computer" are the best, with the elements of both being carried on in to future iterations.

[@GrymsArchive]

Fred "The Series Killer" Freiberger

[@billsinkins361]

"Gravity is down to point eight!"

[@WallyVHS]

Both parts of your Star Trek retrospective were excellent. I really hope you review TNG.

[@ferociousgumby]

MY words: "Star Trek, my fav-o-rite show It's Star Trek, my fav-o-rite show With Kirk, and Spock, Sulu and Uhura Every week their antics will woo ya"

[@kaitlyn__L]

That’s way better than the lyrics Roddenberry wrote!

[@ferociousgumby]

In the newer re-issues of TOS, Spock actually looks green.

[@nohandlenotme]

It was an indulgence in a new prospect in innovative, show direction as well as a look at the future that was VERY opposed in the minds of network producers.

[@monokai3570]

Missed a spot :D

[@michaelproctor8100]

The only reason Roddenberry later wrote lyrics to the Star Trek theme song was because of the contract he had made with Alexander Courage. In the contract it was made clear that if lyrics were ever written Gene would get 50% of Alexander's royalties. Alexander was not aware of the fine print and never trusted Gene again.

[@chriselson7268]

Has anyone ever mentioned that at the first scene as the Enterprise rockets by the viewer the star field is moving towards the viewer but as we turn to watch the Enterprise pass by, the star field direction doesn't change to a "following" star field, instead remains a "towards the viewer" pattern?

[@zardox78]

4:01 Yeah, he added those lyrics - with 0 intention of ever using them - so that he could screw the composer out of half of his money, not because he was concerned about getting his name in the credits one more superfluous time. You've really got kind of a sacred cow approach to talking about Roddenberry and some of his more underhanded antics.

[@richmcgee434]

40:15 Shatner also had five seasons from 1982 to 1986 as the lead in TJ Hooker, a fairly typical police drama that nonetheless did pretty well in the ratings, got revived at CBS after being cancelled at ABC, and stayed in syndication for ages. You can still see it today on one of the retro cable channels, I think. It was kind of a big deal for Shatner, and it's certainly the role he's best known for outside of Trek.

[@StamFine]

in the video, we talk about what the cast did in the 70s until the eventual movie in 1979, which is why there's no mention of later achievements like TJ Hooker.

[@vebnew]

Keep on Trekkin' yea

[@onlythewise1]

watching star trek made you smarter

[@garymcmahon3981]

It's life Jim but not as we know it😀😀

[@NeptuneRising70]

“And Chekov was embarrassed by his ex.” He sure was.

[@PlumbPitiful]

Fun Fact: In the original script that girl was supposed to be McCoy's daughter

[@robvangessel3766]

While there's no question about Trek's low budget 60's special effects, I'll take the original shots of the Enterprise model over the CGI "adulteration" in the modern remasters, which I think makes the ship look darker and ugly, and many revamped angles ruin the impact of some scenes in the original series (like in Who Mourns For Adonis?). The original series' footage also followed the laws of physics in space more accurately. It's like the guys who did the CGI tried to turn ST: TOS into Star Wars, whereas the original stuck with Newtonian motion, AND stuff like explosions in space were silent.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Agree 100%. The original effects still look more realistic to me. I find the CGI often looks cartoonish and cheap.

[@robvangessel3766]

@@pleasantvalleypickerca7681 They DO! I'm glad they kept the "unadulterated" episodes on dvd as option to the "cartoon" version.

[@gladspooky9455]

Harlan Ellison knew his script could never be filmed. He called for millions of people in crowds and completely mischaracterized the main characters of the show he was writing for. He turned in the script as a passive aggressive move. "Either they'll never be able to film this amazing piece of fiction, or they'll mutilate it and I'll have a chance to whine forever about how my amazing, spectacular sci-fi story was changed against my will."

[@peanut1001x]

vile man awful way overrated episode

[@guymorris6596]

The US Air Force and DARPA are completely responsible for developing the communicator used in Star Trek Original Series to next level. They used it as the foundation for the first commercially available flip phone.

[@robertbruce7497]

... ww2 backpack phone and ww2 boot phone as precedent may have been the source of inspiration (just miniaturize those and what do you have - a communicator perhaps?),... After ww2 the miniaturized radios started to appear - small enough to fit into a shirt pocket - just add a ptt ( push-to-talk button ) - and you have a basic "two way communicator" - basically.

[@ivane5110]

I never thought about how rare it is to have so much information on a show (both its fictional universes and real-world details); as a life long fan of the franchise since just after it originally aired I guess I just take it for granted. Even comic books, which has a incredible amount of behind the scenes details public now, isn't quite comparable because so many of its creators passed away long before the drama and (accurate) details came out. It must be kind of annoying/envious to some who's favorite shows at best get a single sintence write-up on wikipedia. I like to think that some mirror universe out there their show was the Star Trek of its Earth (though not My Mother, the Car; sorry, I can't handle the idea of a coliseum full of Jerry Van Dyke cosplayers fighting over some reboot starring the Rock. Brrrr!)

[@rayvenkman2087]

The only other show of the genre that gets covered in such depth ironically enough would be the original Doctor Who series. The 60’s, 70’s and 80’s eras getting covered aplenty from the cast to even the unmade episodes with a lot of them getting adapted decades later in audio drama forms including the original pre-hiatus Season 23 serials. From the series’ beginnings to it’s cancellation and life after 1989; more than well documented. Though I don’t believe we have a series of books actually covering the behind the scenes of the show season by season like TOS does.

[@michaeldemarco9950]

You haven’t mentioned the duplication of Star Trek music on Mission Impossible.

[@easyivan1976]

Fan fucking Tastic work xx !!!

[@nelidayupanqui1982]

Porqué no transmiten el primer capítulo entero de Star Treck.

[@stevebishop9468]

For me,there will always be only one star trek....the original.

[@DrRotwang]

I liked everything about this video, but nothing so much as the disco version of the theme song at the end.

[@scottstallings5029]

YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL SENSE OF HUMOR! FANTASTIC STUFF!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. LET'S GO BRANDON 🇺🇸

[@CappyLarou]

transporters also got us mr scott in the next generation

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

NETFLIX (or some streaming-service or-other) re-did Lost in Space (not the Will Ferrill movie, but a series a little more serious with Parker Posey), and it was/is decent.