Star Trek - Bizarre Guests

Kirk and Spock welcome the six bizarre guests they just beamed aboard the Enterprise and are shocked by their apperance (The Way to Eden)

[@caprice6]

The space hippie protest "Herbert, Herbert, Herbert!" is a gag, referring to Trek director Herb Wallerstein and executive producer Herbert F. Solow. (Spock tells Kirk that Herbert is an official in Federation history known for his "rigid patterns of thought")

[@FredPlanatia]

this is what the best of a YT comment can be. Thank you! A wonderful detail in Trek history.

[@celshader]

Shatner is such a Herbert in this episode. Nimoy's radiates oneness as usual.

[@terryjwoodpgh]

"Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy, got a clean bill of health from Doctor McCoy" -- they just don't write dialogue like that anymore.

[@kentshelton3451]

This scene is hilarious! Space hippies enjoying life - as we all should at times.

[@JimmyFranny]

Don’t be a Herbert

[@terryjwood]

@@JimmyFranny "Herbert! Herbert! Herbert! Herbert!"

[@TheSpock23]

Yea, brother

[@terryjwood]

@@TheSpock23 You're not Herbert! We reach!!!

[@Applegoesback]

I love how Spock always comes and settle the situation when Kirk messes up xDD

[@virginiaconnor8350]

Great diplomat skills. Ambassador Soval and Cdr. T'Pol would like him-if they had lived to meet Cdr. Spock.

[@leokimvideo]

I loved the way Star Trek's writers had all sorts of morals in the show. This one was a big warning about Cults. Very close to the bone considering what Star Trek grew into in later years.

[@aaronmicalowe]

If the definition of a cult is any group that blindly follows a charismatic leader with a belief system that demands their loyalty, isn't the US a cult?

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Basically in the original Star Trek series there were about 50 different humanoid looking species in which the only thing different was THE EARS

[@tsartodd]

it sounds like they're calling Kirk "pervert."

[@donseay3220]

2:03 Charles Napier. Lead Signer. Driver of the Winnebago.

[@tomster927]

Napier was a great character actor. He played the judge in "Philadelphia" and a policeman (who dies) in "Silence of the Lambs."

[@zorkmid1083]

Holy cow! I thought he looked familiar!

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Leader of the Good Old Boy's band?

[@christopherthorkon3997]

Spock is so very cool. He is so cool that he is not Herbert. We reach.

[@MrJay197409]

You sure can tell this show was made in the 1960's.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

That bunch would have fit well in Haight Ashbury.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Man, Herbert, you are *stiff!*

[@almostfm]

It seems like every show in the decade had "that one" episode. Dick van Dyke had the "walnuts" episode, TOS had this, Dr. Who had a serial called "The Mind Robber", which is bizarre even by Dr. Who standards-including having a different actor play one of the companions in two episodes of the serial.

[@fornoreason8822]

And not a damn thing wrong with it.

[@juanmonge8]

Spock: Captain. Hold my beer, I got this. Watch and learn.

[@phillipschwoerke8374]

This is my guilty Star Trek pleasure. Love this episode!

[@starguy2718]

For me, I always liked the "Mudd" episodes, for interstellar comic relief.

[@KuDastardly]

It's funny how one of the Sovereign Citizen hippies looks like Quenton Tarrantino.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Young Charles Napier looked liked Tarantino. ok

[@kevhead1525]

​@@curtiskretzer8898before he joined The Good Ol' Boys.

[@melle855]

I like the deviled egg lapels...I wish they'd bring those back.

[@mombaassa]

"Herbert, Herbert, Herbert, Herbert..." They sound like pond full of frogs.

[@edadan]

I've seen quite a few videos of "sovereign citizens" behaving this way when they encounter the police.

[@r.ernestwhite7259]

i just restated that. good to see someone else can

[@Slimjim260]

You got a hard lip Herbert, I seen it a hundred times, and just fell out of chair laughing from this segment. What a great episode!

[@mollecularmorikawa2791]

Is Herbert is like 'Karen' for federation captain? 😂

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

As someone pointed out in the comments, Spock later explained Kirk that "Herbert" is slang for someone with "rigid patterns of thought". It came from the name of a historical Federation official with those characteristics.

[@starguy2718]

"Herbert" was a not-so-subtle reference to Star Trek producer Herb Solow.

[@ShamrockParticle]

ot for rhe anti-hippie Christian Herbert Armstrong?

[@alexmo1941]

It's probably closer to shouting Pig! at a cop.

[@jonearley]

They probably would've gotten under his skin more if they'd called him Dunsel. RIP C. Napier

[@ysengrimus]

The day when Spock encountered a dude with ears cooler than his... One...

[@avernion]

At the end, it almost sound like the keep calling Kirk "pervert pervert pervert" xD "Take us to Eden." "No." "Pervert!"

[@CaptChrispy]

This would actually be the Skyfall of Star Trek. The questioning of whether the Federation was doing everything right and whether they had a right to impose their values on non-Federation worlds, etc. When I originally saw this episode, I thought they were all crazy and why were they fighting with the beloved Kirk. I see it from a completely different angle these days.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

Kirk saved their lives, was following Starfleet orders(which a lot of times he didnt) & the hippies took illegal actions to steer the ship to where they wanted to go so i have ZERO sympathy for them. maybe your angle has changed again in the last 7 years

[@johannpopper1493]

@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 Herbert.

[@AndroidLust7]

damn space hippies...

[@J.TiberiusKirk]

When they ended up on the poison fruit planet some of them solved our problem for us...

[@Humbilly]

"Our" problem, Herbert?

[@thefurrybastard1964]

You have a stiff lip, Herbert.

[@nmg6248]

That was so tragic Herbert

[@srulison]

I guess they told him. Calling him a Herbert. He's probably never been so insulted in all his life.

[@charlesroberts3650]

Unless they knew it was Herbert Hoover that they were referring to, he was one of the causes of The great depression, what a Moron.

[@girlgarde]

@Leo Peridot Kirk wanted to but he couldn't because one of them was the son of an alien diplomat who was negotiating on behalf of his people some sort of treaty with the Federation so if Kirk did what you suggested, it would've pissed off the diplomat and his people, caused an interstellar incident and reek political chaos across known space. To be honest though, if I were the alien diplomat, I'd understand if Kirk stunned my son and his friends and chucked them in the brig for being troublemakers.

[@mikejankowski6321]

Nah, it doesn't compare to being called Captain Dunsel.

[@MrVWQ]

They should have boarded "The Love Boat" instead...

[@bradchristensen5714]

I called my boss "Herbert".

[@charlesroberts3650]

Aw kay now, I'll bite, is that he's real name?

[@jjdillon23]

Probably Herbert.

[@charlesroberts3650]

@@jjdillon23 I met a Balloon Man, his name was Provably Bruce, any relation I wonder?

[@Whatever4690]

Spock "captain i believe we are dealing with space hippies", "logic will not work with these beings".

[@sandal_thong8631]

Hmm. I thought Spock got along with them and respected their goals. The ones he couldn't reach were the aliens filled with race hatred in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" and he didn't think to teach Charlie emotional control in "Charlie X."

[@Whatever4690]

@@sandal_thong8631 Its a joke and its a TV show.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

"That's *Captain James T Herbert* to you!"

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

Skip went from playing a nazi to a hippie--reliable character actor

[@geraldford6409]

Of course he was shipped to Brazil after Patterns of Force, revived an engineers with new memories and ears to hide his Nazi past

[@ogor7349]

LOL.3:38- Sounds like they are chanting "Pervert, Pervert...." at Kirk.

[@malgremor85]

And then Kirk has his ship hijacked yet again. Such lousy security on that ship...

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

I like Chekovs hippy chick.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Just read Chekov was supposed to be the cool young crewmember to appeal to young audience members; but they made him a stiff Herbert in this episode.

[@aMulliganStew]

Spock’s greeting is the episode.

[@truthinbottle99]

Correct! All about the "Eye of Horus" symbol....(back of the one dollar bill)

[@brianarbenz7206]

They must have picked up old broadcasts of WKRP in Cincinnati. That explains why “Herbert” means rigid thinking!

[@sandal_thong8631]

Yeoman Mears from "The Galileo 7" may have left the service and joined this group as the actress Phyllis Douglas played both that role and here the brunette "girl number 2" where she seems much happier.

[@jturner7771]

1:34 Star Trek Discovery should explain why Spock can "reach".

[@curtiskretzer8898]

🔥

[@JENDALL714]

Lost in Space also did a Hippy episode where the music forced you to dance.

[@char1737]

Love the Joseph Magnin Outfits ! so groovy man !

[@fernandorivera2395]

Hippies by the transporter pad 🤣

[@berrypossum]

the doofy song that spock plays on the bike wheel is the pinnacle of camp.

[@rangeclerk]

Gene left ST then not because he had lost "interest" but the net' had changed ST to Friday nights and back then, a TV show on Friday nights was considered "Death" given the polls as no one "was home" watching tv shows then. Had the net' not changed the day and time Gene was going to stay with the series. I know this for a fact because I met him in '72 at the ST con in LA that Fall and asked him about it.

[@danbasta3677]

I very much agree with your written statement, and also the network wanted Gene to make it a space comedy which Gene outrightly refused to do so they did this to both Gene and the show so they had a good excuse to cancel the show because of poor nielson ratings.

[@amaree9732]

Wow, looks like you have to go into the future to revisit the Sixties. Hippies in space.

[@arkady714]

The Manson family in the 23rd century!

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Some1 wrote this came out 6 months b4 the events of Tate/LaBianca homicides

[@adrianlackey5107]

In one year, Charles Napier (The actor playing "Adam") would be in one of the first pickle shots in American Cinema, in Russ Meyer's "Harry, Cherry and Raquel".

[@mierpaul]

Captain Herbert vs the space hippies and their groovey professor. So 60s.

[@hoppercar]

you got a hard lip herbert..... lmao

[@teddymills1]

I think he just dissed the Captain.

[@SoundJudgment]

What a downfall at the time, for those who were named, "Herbert." How Karen of them to be so mean!

[@squirrelbong]

space hippies!! rofl where's the space weed!!?!?

[@cupchamp5]

Charles Napier. I remember him as Digger Jackson from The Duke of Hazzard

[@danielbrissenden2555]

"Are you ONE, Herbert?" LOL

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

My boss (lecturing me at length about something I did wrong at work) Me: I'm bleeding. My boss: If you have an explanation I'm waiting to hear it! Me: You've got a hard lip, Herbert.

[@Rayoscope]

Star Trek's version of "The Great Vegetable Rebellion".

[@DavidLS1]

Exactly! But without the redeeming value of Jonathan Harris in a celery costume.

[@yootoob1001001]

In my head, 'Starface' by White Zombie kicks on after, "I'm not Herbert."

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

Definitely!

[@Naughtybaz]

The ultimate quote Crack my knuckles and jump for joy. got a clean bill of health from Dr McCoy 😂😂🤣

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Captain James Herbert Kirk. Mmmmm a nice ring to that too! 😀

[@alforliniteaching5670]

This was w great show .

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

Several hundred years later, and one constant persists; sovereign citizens. Hundreds of years before, the ancestors of these folks were telling cops they didn't need any license and couldn't be fined.

[@williamjpellas0314]

The infamous Space Hippies episode. Ugghhh.

[@darcymcnabb9259]

It's a egg brooch.

[@CookieDTotR]

Quite seriously-and I first saw this episode many years ago and several times after that-the final chanting in this scene made me think just now of a great many campus protests and confrontations and whatnot in our 21st century days. How very fascinating that we are reliving an odious parody of the "free speech movement at Berkeley," as Admiral Kirk once famously put it. I suspect the radicals of the 1960s were a bit more noble than our current youth: or indeed than the kids in this episode tragically in search of Eden.

[@schleichface]

You would be mistaken.

[@kettch777]

Where do you think modern SJWs came from? It was from people like this who grew up and took over the school system.

[@stormcutter59]

The greatest myth of the 20th century was how "noble" the protestors of the 60s and 70s actually were. They acted almost EXACTLY like the shitty ass generation you see outside with their screaming and hollering. Where do you think these people came from? You think they learned this from nowhere?! No. The hippie generation were the beginning of the downfall of American society. Self hating, nihilistic, paranoid, sensitive, immature, disrespectful, irrational, unreasonable, and destructive to both themselves and others. And since they like to push their idealogy om everyone as some sort of law, I would call them fascists as well. This episode is a great representation of the naivity and destructive immaturity of the brainwashed liberal mob of the late 60s. We are now paying for it today.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Today's activists sound exactly the same.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

The radicals of the 1960 were selfish, spoiled and filthy human beings. Nobility starts will self-discipline.

[@spaceace1006]

Notice Lt. Palmer on Comm.??? Uhura was probably on leave!

[@0AmyK0]

@AndroidLust7 lol. That was my first thought. That, and, I think my dad had a striped vest like that.

[@Homonyma]

>The then-new screen are not snowing the galaxy and what the computer is observing such as the soils of certain planets. Who is in charge of these displays?

[@DavidLS1]

Spock speaks Jive.

[@jah0524]

I, for one, am a proud Herbert!

[@JessieBear33]

Crazy hppie ears looks like the Dad from Juno-

[@TheBackOfTheBoat]

For a second I thought they were chanting "toga toga." 10 years before Animal House.

[@enigmanemo9352]

I was waiting for Dr. Severin to say he was a sovereign citizen.

[@paulsarnik8506]

From Space Nazi to Space hippy...and he had the nerve to criticize Spock's ears🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎🖖🏻

[@paulsarnik8506]

I wonder if Solow ever got the hint?

[@viborgvee8399]

Wasn’t that brunette one of the Galileo Seven as well?

[@flashkellam7395]

Actress Phyllis Douglas portrayed both Yeoman Mears (“The Galileo Seven”) and Girl #2 (“The Way to Eden”).

[@anarkyknight]

The one with the funny ears are showing true anarchy

[@GBuckne]

..no sense in whispering around cauliflower ears, hahaha

[@pmafterdark]

Groovy man, 23rd century hippies.

[@StoneKnivesBearskins]

Bad episode, but MAN, Spock looks BEEU-TIFUL!!!

[@danbasta3677]

Liked this episode.

[@cubbymom]

@AndroidLust7 Trekies are getting younger & younger - they ought to bring the last show back - check out the teen Joanna Lauren singing, "Faith of the Heart" from that Star Trek show - she'd be perfect to sing it again for a new version of the show - someone that generation could relate to - they are calling her the, "Girl with the Pipes" - ! Cute enough to be in a new show! Haha! But with an awesome sounding voice that would generate a lot of interest in the show.

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

1:59 cue the drums from Star face.

[@cluedin]

I think the guy in the long white hair played the oldest kid in another episode

[@sporks811]

@ATENakaATON Interesting. It also looks very similar to the American Sign Language sign for vagina. Which is why whenever people make that hand shape and hold it above their heads (which people do for some reason...I think it's supposed to look like a diamond), Deaf people all laugh.

[@HeartYukitty]

Ah,Nimoy was-is-will always be so hot.

[@wyominglost]

@lghgardner No,that would be fried. Or maybe poached?

[@ezekieloak]

TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

[@mikeh8416]

Ah, the beginnings of Just Stop Oil !!

[@Cola64]

Cauliflower ear aint got nothing on that guy

[@diddlebug7241]

Ok it's time for security to take them to the brig.

[@raymondweaver8526]

An airlock

[@Da_Publick]

You've got a hard lip, Herbert.

[@thinker1056]

They don't recognize hostility yet they ACT in anger and resentment, hypocrisy from the beginning.

[@stephenwright8824]

They're just hippies with a generous budget for makeup.😂

[@soonermodels1173]

Where is Cybok?

[@Thousand_yard_King]

I am one!! We reach..

[@user-xg7iz4ok5z]

Eden is not a planet , it’s a mythical Garden that was on earth!

[@KatriceMetaluna]

If Spock had really reached them he'd have introduced them all to his half-brother.

[@jeffclark1129]

"Jeff, do have a few bucks I can borrow?" ME: "Herbert! Herbert!! Herbert!!!" That'll co fuse the hell out of the next damn beggar who asks for money!

[@jasonrodgers9063]

"Space Hippies". Need more be said?

[@CaptainRon956]

what's a "Herbert"?

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Replace with Karen

[@georgemarsilio5122]

Why herbert?? Why not Fred??

[@Mchand007]

radiation?...hmm, I think kirk meant contamination of another kind... ;)

[@m1dlguk]

Isn't 0:45 Christopher Lloyd?

[@ginnyjollykidd]

No.

[@shanechandler1018]

The captain is a cop 😂

[@shanechandler1018]

Spock is not a cop 😂