Star Trek - Committed to Hatred

Two survivors of a devastated planet remained committed to destroying one another (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)

[@Sirenhound]

Some people hate what stares back at them in the mirror, but these two would take it to a whole new level.

[@masamune2984]

Underrated comment.

[@Neon-ws8er]

wait yeah thats actually true. thats how he would see himself in the mirror. how would that even work? imagine an old racist redneck seeing a black guy when he looks at the mirror. how could he still be so racist?

[@mstephens44]

When Star Trek is at its best, they hold up a mirror to society and ask the question, “Is this what you want to be?” 50 plus years ago, it seemed as though we were on our way to the 23rd century. Now, I’m not sure.

[@helmethead72]

I'm quite sure we're on our way.....back to the Dark Ages.

[@SaveTheFuture]

I think we're still on our way, we're just stumbling because of politics.

[@astralhaze8936]

The second part is just human nature- it's only natural to think the past is better, regardless of facts. We certainly are progressing

[@DrCuriensapprentice]

Post-atomic horror except warp drive won’t make us civilised

[@TheJeremyKentBGross]

In my observation the media and culture started pushing division after Occupy Wallstreet. Although they clearly have not liked the backlash that they got.

[@eugenemulhern7946]

This episode featured phenomenal work by two of the greatest(and sadly, under appreciated)character actors who ever lived: Frank Gorshin and Lou Antonio

[@TeChNoWC7]

Yeah the level of acting prowess here is nuts, I’m taken aback

[@buddhaspriest7487]

Damnit, we were too committed to hatred to see!

[@charleswest6372]

Yes, Frank was the Riddler in Batman 1966 tv series

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

Antonio was cast as Fredo Corleone. but the terms were so bad, he walked

[@bradisbread_]

51 years later, and this is still as relevent in 2020 as it was in 1969.

[@Khorzho]

Racism will always be used as a tool for power by those who stand to gain from it. On any side.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

Only we can't blow up the Earth to stop it.

[@CharlesUrban]

@@Shanethefilmmaker The worry is that we'll blow up the Earth trying to perpetuate it.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

@@CharlesUrban That's not quite what I mean. Granted that could happen one day. However Kirk threatened to blow up the ship in order to get them to stop. He wasn't bluffing and it paid off even for a short time. He was willing to put his life and the life of his crew on the line to put a stop to pointless racism. The only reason why we as a species keep doing it is because no one has the tech or the guts to use it on a global scale.

[@CharlesUrban]

@@Shanethefilmmaker Ah. Would that gambit work on other humans, though? Some of us are insanely hateful enough to try to call that sort of bluff, or even to raise with explosions of their own. Also, while the loss of one starship to stop pointless prejudice would be both inspiring and tragic to the rest of the Federation, we're talking about blowing up the Earth. Where we are. Right now. And we're nowhere else. As flawed as our current methods of resolving long-standing injustices and hostility between groups of people (if we're even using them) might be, "Explode civilization and start over" wouldn't make for much of an improvement in that regard. We spent the whole Cold War trying to reconcile two different belief systems _without_ sending everyone back to hunter-gatherer status.

[@timrhicks1234]

One of THE BEST ST episodes ever. Pretty blunt and in your face racism that everyone can see and not be taken aback. Excellent story and acting and concept

[@srb9]

+timrhicks1234 True!

[@oliveeisner8964]

Agreed. People can be dense. And especially so when tangled up in pet ideologies.

[@danbasta3677]

Not to crazy over this episode. Matter of fact, it aired on Hero's and Icons tonight. The only highlight of this episode is Spock's explanation of his planet Vulcan and the conflict the planet went through in the many years past. Note, though, when Spock was eavesdropping on Loki you heard Checkov's voice in the lounge, however, you never seen him.

[@paulreynolds8245]

Please don't forget the next gen episode of a single being planet,, single sex, then people find out about what their 'leaders' were doing. A very good Riker episode.

[@gammaechofoundationproductions]

This is one of the best episodes of Star Trek! It was definitely ahead of it's time! :)

[@izzgal7]

Gene Roddenbury was a reader of The Urantia Book, which inspired so many of these stories on Star Trek. Always with a positive message that we are all a part of the ONE.

[@robinlillian9471]

So much understanding of the insanity of both sides, and so little has changed.

[@buddyboy80]

A story about slavery told 100 years after slavery was abolished in the states can hardly be considered ahead of its time. Part of the problem with American entertainment is how much patting ourselves on the back we do for doing the bare minimum. Still a good episode tho.

[@yettiman2817]

They all were and still are . This should be reqd warching in school .

[@thebacons5943]

The best ever dramatization of the fact that race is a social construct

[@andruism7]

I love how the camera angle sometimes shows that when they are facing each other we literally cannot see the other sides of their faces so they literally look identical.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I noticed that, too.

[@darkflame728]

My uncle is an old Trekkie and was around when the show came out. When I ended up getting into the show this is the episode he was most excited about me watching, and I can see why. It was very interesting and I like that there was no "good" or "evil" character, just two people who let their hate for one another consume them until there was nothing left.

[@jesuszamora6949]

Indeed. The both of them had serious grievances, yes, but the real problem was that neither of them could see past their anger. How the hell are people supposed to come together if we can't stop basing our opinions of other groups based entirely off the worst specimens of same?

[@jay-day]

@meow purr "diversity is is best preserved with homogeneity?!?" they are mutually exclusive!

[@krel3358]

@@jesuszamora6949 I think a huge problem with ideas like these is that it ignores the possibility of people who are outright malicious like the (((tribe))) that got kicked out of 109 countries but claims everyone else is the problem. I believe they are fundamentally an evil people because they are not human beings they have high levels of neanderthal DNA to the point they arent even the people from the bible they claim to be. They are masters of identity theft and deception. You cant make peace with people who arent your people. Race matters. You cant make peace with a people who fundamentally psychopathic in their character. History can point to that lesson where the Maori people of New Zealand genocided the Mori Ori people. You cant make peace with enslavers, supremacists, liars who preach peace and tolerance because deception is an act of violence. Sometimes black and white thinking is good when your enemy is objectively evil. Thereby you can see how Star Trek is another aspect of propaganda or naive thinking. Even if you have a good or noble heart you cant project that belief or mindset onto other people because they will take advantage of you and think you are stupid for being trusting.

[@Virjunior01]

Oh no. One was clearly good and heads down a dark path for the right reasons. The other was clearly evil, and performed halfway good deeds for the wrong reasons. The _real_ evil here is contempt, of course, but one brought that element to the other when it need not have. Guess which?

[@jerkjerkington3874]

@@jay-day If you mix everyone together, then it becomes truly homogeneous. If you allow people to separate, then there can be diversity. The funny thing about the scene in this video is that the two guys could just peacefully separate and go do their own things, but instead they have some insane desire to be together and beat each other on the head until only one of them is left.

[@craigalbrechtson5364]

Of course the irony of the whole scene is that the very same hatred they display for each other had already resulted in the utter destruction of their civilization.

[@wardragonprime]

This was one of my favorite Star Trek episodes.

[@philoshaughnessy906]

You're right. With, I think, overtones of The Twilight Zone.

[@NeonPixels81]

What's even more sad about this episode is - there's no resolution. Lokai and Bele discover that their people wiped themselves out in a civil war, but instead of the realization that they're the last of their kind making them reconcile with one another - it just makes them hate each other even more. They teleport down to the planet and continue hating one another and trying to kill each other.

[@Demonizer5134]

I completely forgot just how amazing TOS was. I gotta re-watch some of these episodes.

[@DCM8828]

My favourite episode. Frank Gorshin's acting is just superb.

[@sfdreamgirl1962]

I beg to differ. The way it is presented is perfect. This shows the "sameness" of both Black and White and how rediculous racism really is.

[@truthbetold543]

U are a perfect soul. We reincarnated, and now we need to wake up. Bless u!

[@_shawn3488]

IT IS SPELLED r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s as in ridiculous...not "rediculous"(as you wrote).

[@courtneyc238]

breyduse shawn A ton of people misspell stuff on accident. This is youtube not a college dissertation.

[@_shawn3488]

@@courtneyc238 "grade school dissertation" is what you meant to say. Instructors review the spelling of words in grade school, but rarely in college.

[@courtneyc238]

breyduse shawn they do in college ESPECIALLY when writing a dissertation, I would know and again its not that deep its a youtube comment lol everyone’s done it bc it literally doesnt matter neither do texts to people.

[@1987jock]

Why do people say season 3 is awful? Just because of Spock's brain? The dialogue and acting here is simply superb especially for Star Trek.

[@ellsworthhall9355]

I agree. I feel that the 3rd season had many outstanding episodes like "The Enterprise Incident" (based on The Pueblo Incident), "The Tholian Web," "The Empath," "Is There In Truth No Beauty," Requiem for Methusela," etc.

[@danbasta3677]

@@ellsworthhall9355 Agreed, liked most of the third season episodes except for five of them, which was And The Children Shall Lead, That Which Survives, IS There In Truth No Beauty, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, (this episode which i didn't crack up over), and Turnabout Intruder. The rest were pretty decent.

[@joehansell1331]

Plato's Stepchildren, The Way to Eden, etc. I believe this episode, which is far too heavy handed in its symbolism, in my opinion, was actually a Season 2 entry..

[@1987jock]

@@dennisthemenace3695 It really annoyed me that Vulcans can live extended periods without a brain but in ''Mirror, Mirror" Kirk smashes an ornament over Spocks head and Bones says "He'll die without immediate treatment". Just inconsistent.

[@BTG514]

Spock's Brain is a good episode.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Even as a 6 year old girl I watched this episode and understood. Some of the most powerful television ever filmed.

[@TheTdw2000]

Some of the most powerful propaganda more like.

[@Mailed-Knight]

@@TheTdw2000 What do you think it is propagating?

[@TheTdw2000]

@@Mailed-Knight the silly idea that race is merely a difference of appearance and that there are no demonstrable differences in terms of IQ or behavior between races which stem from genetics.

[@treemu]

​@@TheTdw2000 And how much of that difference can be fully separated from how certain races were treated by the society around them throughout history, something this scene also features?

[@TheTdw2000]

@@treemu IQ is 80% genetic. Behaviors and personality traits are also heritable to a significant degree. Black people commit over 50% of all homicides despite being only about 13% of the population. Not even "socio-economic factors" can explain that kind of discrepancy (even putting aside that poverty doesn't cause crime but rather low IQ causes both poverty and crime).

[@6364LEGACY]

This scene can be taken as an analogy sure, but it also stands on its own two feet in relationship the the story. It makes perfect sense that the characters would say and feel these things. It isn't forced down the audience's throat with prejudice. The message being we're all the same, and should strive for the better of all. Something this current society should learn from.

[@ValensBellator]

Some criticize this one for being too blunt and on the nose with its symbolism and messaging, but it’s one of my favorites regardless. I feel we often put too much emphasis on “subtlety” when sometimes something would be best stated plainly.

[@nathangamble125]

It has to be blunt to get through to the people who need to hear the message the most.

[@78kokka]

The third season of Star Trek is generally considered inferior to the other, but contains some very significant episodes like this. Personally I love it, for its anti-racist message.

[@komradewirelesscaller6716]

The third season had some damm fine episodes!!

[@Ragitsu]

@@vocalist92 " Nowadays progressive thinking is defined as "everyone is equal except white people"" Go peddle your victim-complex crap elsewhere.

[@joecamel6835]

Me too I hate all the anti white crap going on .

[@sandal_thong8631]

Smaller budgets, lesser scripts, and shorter shooting schedule I think. It's interesting to watch some TAS from 1973-4 (in small doses) which may count as a fourth season.

[@ericbrett3095]

This episode showed the final result of racism, a dead planet.

[@leftcoaster67]

Frank Gorshin was so wonderfully over the top. Makes Shatner seem way more tame.

[@DennisSullivan-om3oo]

Alien: Do you know what it's like to experience prejudice, and bigotry? Chekov: We read about it in history. Roddenberry imagined a better time in the future.

[@hanshotfirst1138]

”Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” isn’t subtle and wasn’t meant to be, at a time when “Divided we fall” struck many as a viable social policy. When the Enterprise finally comes upon Cheron, a burned planet undone and destroyed by centuries of racial strife, Roddenberry offers a still timely, altogether chilling reminder of what happens when we miss a message that’s as clear as black and white. TV Guide

[@alexb.2353]

…damn… still relevant after forty years…. At this rate, it doesn't appear that we will ever be asked to join the 'Federation.'

[@vendingdudes]

I'm amazed how often I reference a quote or a scene or share some wisdom from an episode with my teenagers. Absolutely relevant, and with no CGI or twerking to get in the way of the message.

[@thurin84]

now if we could only teach people to be as tolerant of thought as we have taught them to be of skin color.

[@SantomPh]

Can we join the Klingons instead?

[@mattropolis7857]

I love how they show that unforgiveness eats both of these people alive and ultimately destroyed both of their efforts - just like real life.

[@johcafra]

A stagey episode, but credit to all in it. Frank Gorshin manages to sing his lines through gritted teeth; every time I see him in action he looks ready to spring over the audience and into the back row. But give Lou Antonio high marks for very nearly matching Frank at every step. The whole show must have been a tightly coiled shoot.

[@zerobatsu]

“Star Trek has never been Political”

[@bluedotdinosaur]

Take a look at the recent comments here, posted in the age of right wing radicalization. When faced with the literal embodiment of Star Trek as political and activist, they resolutely declare "it's... it's just different! This isn't woke!" This isn't about getting anything right, for these people. It's about having something to be right about. They do not believe in language, only grievance.

[@MrChickennugget360]

@@bluedotdinosaur age of right-wing radicalization? No more than Left Wing radicalization. If you can't see that you are blind. As far as woke this is not woke. Wokeness would assert that the victim is 100% right in holding onto his hate- its clear the point is that both sides are wrong in this conflict.

[@mjjones8216]

Definitely in my top 5 Favourite STARTREK episodes . With one of the best lines ever FILTHY LITTLE PLOTTER OF RUIN 😂 The acting was superb 👍🏻

[@florbfnarb7099]

An excellent episode with an excellent message that's still applicable to this day. If it were new today though, it would receive a lot of anger and feedback, because it paints both Lokai and Bele as wrong. Too many today would demand that Lokai be portrayed as right and Bele as wrong, simply because Bele is the "oppressor" and Lokai the "oppressed." And of course Lokai's people are oppressed, but radicals today will claim that the oppressed have no moral obligations and are free to use any and all means they choose, making them right no matter what they do. In reality, both of them are consumed with hatred, and it cost the people of their world their civilization. Hatred is a poison - an adolescent indulgence under the best of circumstances, if clung to it taints the soul, ultimately rotting it.

[@florbfnarb7099]

@Dr retardo - What part of what I said do you need clarified? My point is pretty obvious.

[@ronwright6119]

Since the point was consisly laided out, what part don't you get?

[@florbfnarb7099]

@@ronwright6119 Where did I say I didn't get a point?

[@florbfnarb7099]

@NotaFascistSlaveX - They're both at fault because they both cling to hate.

[@florbfnarb7099]

@NotaFascistSlaveX - Typical radical; always looking to oversimplify.

[@BobBelson]

You filithy little plotter of ruin, " .you loathsome subverter of all thats decent..oh yiou are coming back'!!! " Gorshin plays this character like a champ.

[@44032]

Gorshin does a great Kirk Douglas.

[@georgehenderson7783]

Gorshin also did a great Joker.

[@44032]

@@georgehenderson7783 He did a great Riddler. Cesar Romero was the Joker.

[@thomasjames6680]

Let This Be Your Last Battlefield is still one of the strongest, and best Star Trek episodes filmed, if any of the series.

[@ericbrett3095]

All these two characters had was their hatred for each other. When they got to Cheron all that was left was a burned out hull of a planet with no one left alive.

[@ZacktheImpaler]

2023 and still scary relevant

[@robertaylor9218]

I loved this about Star Trek. They show humanity beyond this, providing us with a vision of what we can achieve. Then they do things like this, to highlight the troubles of the time. They don’t ignore the problems, and they don’t succumb to the idea of those problems being permanent. I have heard that this is exactly what discovery was crap about.

[@BladeOfLight16]

It's important to realize that neither of these men are good. One is full of disdain and superiority, and the other is filled with violence and resentment. Both of them are equally hateful. Just because one group is oppressed does not justify everything they might do. That's a lesson we need to remember in our modern time.

[@julianmarco4185]

Exactly. Most people would look at this and excuse Lokay's actions as being justified but he killed a lot of people for his ideals and that makes him just as bad. Being oppressed is one thing, using it as justification to excuse hatred and murder is completely different.

[@eisleyrd]

Ah, reverse equivocation. A nuanced "Good people on both sides" declaration. Only problem is that one of those "bad" people is perpetrating (or at the very least ok with) the subjugation and marginalization of an entire people. If there's anything that is NEVER OK, that is it.

[@BladeOfLight16]

@@eisleyrd Your concluding statement is right, but that only supports my argument and demonstrates the flaw in your lead up. Identity politics is bad, regardless of which identities it promotes. Focus on behaviors, not identities.

[@julianmarco4185]

@@eisleyrd We don't know exactly how they are suppressing the others. Maybe in a sense of segregation then that is true. Like if Lokay's people aren't in any position if power in the government then I agree. But Lokay as we see it in the scene where he explains himself to the crew doesn't seek a peaceful way of progress, when Kirk offers him asylum at the end, he could have accepted and maybe started to fix things with Beele, instead he choose to keep fighting and hating now on the ruined remains of his people's planet with whatever is left. I am not going to deny that Beele appears as the worst because of his superiority complex to everyone else. At the same time I can't ignore that Lokay seems to demand only violent revolution and power wherever he goes. Instead of seeing the bigger picture, he seems to just see violent solutions. And I highly doubt that if their roles were reversed, Lokay would do much different.

[@julianmarco4185]

@@eisleyrd As an added bonus I like when the camera has them both in frame facing each other, you see them as the same color for a few frames, proof that they are the same people only they see themselves as opposites or mirror versions. Just like if you removed all light from a room and put every kind of colored person in the world in there, they would not be able to see any color.

[@MegaSteven011]

We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.

[@Valkires1]

How ironic that this pops up now. This pretty much sums up today alt right and far left... even what they are saying hits so close to their talking points.

[@avidfilmbuff7830]

This episode ended up becoming far more relevant today than even during the civil rights era. How sad.

[@guidadiehl9176]

What rubbish.

[@avidfilmbuff7830]

Guida Diehl What’s rubbish?

[@MLK-KAEFENTERPRISES]

WOW...amazing how relevant this story is.

[@bigraviolees]

I like this and the episode of Voyager where the Dr. learns of a people who keep the poor on a lousy level of the hospital as the needy are the rich and prolonging there lives, both these stories are familiar to us

[@alanwhit5429]

Lou Antonio is a very underrated actor ... love him as Koko in Cool Hand Luke; and a director of some note

[@Jimmy-ci7zn]

Looks like we as humans haven’t learned a damn thing since this episode aired 50 years ago

[@sandal_thong8631]

Perhaps 500+ years of racial superiority training and the Discovery doctrine take awhile to overcome. If we ever get a Marshall Plan for Latin America as well as a North American Union with the free movement of people like the European Union then we'll have made some progress. But just looking at how Africans fleeing Ukraine were treated in Poland and elsewhere says we've got a long way to go. I didn't realize Poles were anti-Black; I didn't think they (or Prussia) were a colonial power!

[@Marvcohen]

The Riddler ?

[@AnomalousOne1401]

Marvcohen: Frank Gorshen was a really great actor in his time. Very versatile yet very underappreciated.

[@Chemdawg2009]

Yes! The best Riddler!

[@rwboa22]

@@AnomalousOne1401 the only "Batman" actor to be nominated for an Emmy for his role as The Riddler, and later played comedian George Burns in the one-man play, "Say Goodnight, Gracie", which received a Tony nomination for best play in 2003.

[@philoshaughnessy906]

How would they ever stand looking at themselves in a mirror?

[@sandal_thong8631]

LOL.

[@jhjhjhjhjhjhify]

This is so of its time and yet timeless... at the same time. Seriously though, it's such a great episode. Wish Sci Fi shows could take on politics nowadays with this much insight.

[@fornoreason8822]

This episode is not usually on the Star Trek 'best' lists. People rarely feel comfortable or like to face the realities of oppression.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

I don't care what age, gender, race or religion you are, if you have a disability, you still have more discrimination coming your way than anyone I've ever met. My friend has Cerebral Palsy, has 3 college degrees, drives, is married, and has a 20 yr.old son, but has trouble even getting a decent job while high school kids w/o her education and experience get the jobs she should have gotten. I have 1 degree-I couldn't afford 3-and also had trouble getting hired. I'm on Disability now and retired due to Covid anyway. The invisible sign is still up there-"No Disabled Need Apply. Don't Even Try." We have no Disabled cards and no "free" lawyers to hear our cases while others get "free" everything because we're supposedly "privileged". We're not.

[@DoYouKnowtheWaytoSanJose]

@@virginiaconnor8350 My mother was handicapped and what you wrote is 100% fact. I lived it with her.

[@saebelorn]

This video really brought the freaks into the comments section

[@1middlesbrough]

Yes the third season toward the end they did seem to be just going throught he motions, then this episode pops up from nowhere so to speak.

[@coatlecue]

yeah yeah sure the allegory is obvious and somewhat upfront. the acting between the adversaries is subtle,exquisitely timed,done by actors who actually read the whole scripts. that they put that much chops in the parts may imply they knew what a Legacy they were a part of.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

The Commissioner Beel actor also did the Joker in the Batman tv show.

[@adamtimmons8174]

My favorite episode

[@masamune2984]

Whenever the camera pulls back to show the same color of their faces (even on different sides of their faces) makes this argument/scene that much better and stronger.

[@micahbush5397]

The older I get, and the more I study history, the better I can appreciate this exchange and the portrayal of the characters. On one side is a man from the dominant caste who, behind his façade of culture and fine-sounding words, is little more than a bigot who has made an arbitrary feature a basis of oppression yet fancies himself a benefactor. On the other side is a man of the lower caste who, though legitimate in his grievances, has been consumed by hatred and turned to violence, making him no better than his enemy.

[@josephmanno4514]

This is why Dukat's claim of benevolence and having sheltered the Bajorans from the worst impulses and excesses of his people so infuriated Kira.

[@littleredpony6868]

⁠@@josephmanno4514 with Dukat they were able to flesh his character out more since they had more than one episode to do it with

[@firehorse_44alpha-omega]

We can learn from the original series.... More relevant then ever.....

[@dechha1981]

One of the things I like about the Cheron is that, to THEM, the differences between the 2 races of the same species is obvious and one is clearly superior in every way to the other. To humans, it might honestly take us a moment to remember which race is which.

[@Eazy-ERyder]

So far ahead of its time

[@maltedmilk6888]

We humans will always be a next-generation learning all of the things necessary to be good humans. It never ends

[@whatno5090]

I want a half-moon cookie

[@salbill4484]

As we watch some of the most powerful nations of Earth commit genocide in a "war" this episode springs to mind. There's always some reason the power make up for their horrific actions and then they tell you that you are the wrong one, merely for voicing the truth.

[@taurnguard]

The first time I saw this, the goofy thought in my head was when they start fighting each other facing each other, their black sides will be on the camera side and they'll both go into their Al Jolson impressions. :)

[@4IAMATITOK]

amazing!

[@madlion1988redeemer]

And after the oppressor didn't get his way immediately, the oppressor mentally took control of the ship to force his will over the entire ship. Star Trek was the truth and most people missed the lessons.

[@potaterjim]

I love how despite the clear allegory, they're so similar to each other that it can be hard to remember what the detail is, a clear nod to the foolishness of racism: "You consider these people a different race, when we can barely tell you apart"

[@matthewcrichton7529]

The riddler is back

[@Bazookatone1]

I'd love if Strange New Worlds did a re visit to this episode, imagine who you might get to play Lokai and Bele? I'd have MArc Alaimo play Bele, and Andrew Robinson play Lokai, or even vice versa!

[@thebacons5943]

The best ever dramatization of the fact that race is a social construct

[@jimsilvey5432]

In spite of the differences that these 2 gentlemen harbor, they appear to shop for clothes at the same store.

[@mr.mediocregamer9653]

Well, one shops, the other just walks in with 20 of his bros and puts stuff in a sack and then runs out.

[@TheFlyingHeart]

2:05-2:16 Frank Gorshin doing his Kirk Douglas impression.

[@400KrispyKremes]

This is definitely in my top three Trek episodes. Right behind "Trouble with Tribbles", and the one where Kirk and Spock fight.

[@vendingdudes]

That's funny because Trouble with Tribbles is easily one of my least favorite episodes.

[@danbasta3677]

@@vendingdudes Yeah, agree with you. Everybody cracked up over that episode. It was OK, however not one the very best.

[@danbasta3677]

There were two times the Captain and the First Officer fought, This Side Of Paradise and Amok Time.

[@solomontesfaye5792]

This reminds me of East Africans being prejudice toward west Africans, the color the same but the phenotype is different. People just find reasons to be prejudiced toward each other. It could be color, phenotype, religion, or nationality

[@5roundsrapid263]

It’s like the Japanese subjugating the Chinese and Koreans in WWII, also.

[@nijimasu1]

Really? Someone flagged this as being only appropriate for 18 and above viewers? Because 1970s TV is too controversial for kids of the 2010s? What are we turning into?

[@andrewclark8638]

1960s. Even worse.

[@fiskefyren]

babies apparently

[@WizelBalan]

A bunch of SJW's who just sit safe behind their computer screens and phones and find everything, no matter how small, offensive and complain and complain but never do anything constructive.

[@CzolgoszWorkinMan]

I feel like this Frank Gorshin performance heavily informed Mark Alaimo's performance as Dukat

[@marcusweathers5867]

This reads like today's headlines in 2020 what a trip

[@vinay7397]

this is an example Enoch Powell's dark vision of "rivers of blood".

[@joshuawells835]

This episode serves as the reminder that the original series was aired in the 1960s and the allegory of how hatred only destroys. As a history buff, I hear Lokai and see the history of Blacks in our own timeline and when I hear Bele, I am ashamed.

[@darkflame728]

Why feel ashamed? Everyone's country has some sort of fucked up history.

[@oliveeisner8964]

Agreed. Buck up sad one! Great strides were made in WINNING out over our racist past. We won the big war! Minor skirmishes will always pop up here & there but dont make the mistake of believing the racially charged groupthink being espoused by the msm & some schools. they're wrong.

[@karlhelm875]

i'm white and a sometimes feel like lokai.

[@raebaer8580]

people watching Star Trek in 2022: when did Star Trek get so political? Star Trek in 1969:

[@ralphpal]

Yes all the planets they destroyed for being socialist

[@eq1373]

This wasn't pushing one ideology over another and was very basic.

[@feonjun]

A lot of people missed the part about them playing cat and mouse for 50,000 years.

[@TimberlakeTigerGirl]

That's probably in Earth years. Don't forget time is virtually non existent in space. If you had a set of twins and one of them goes off into space. Let's say the space faring twin is traveling for about 8 light years: 4 years to one destination and the other 4 back to Earth. To that twin he'll of only aged about 8 years. But the twin left on Earth will be long dead and at least a few centuries will of passed.

[@BinkieMcFartnuggets]

The hardest part about living on that planet was waking up every morning and having to painstakingly apply that makeup.

[@sandal_thong8631]

How about green-girl makeup that goes all-over?

[@tamaraclaw]

I haven't seen this episode in years...is it in the syndication package?

[@rhombifer566]

Very realistic makeup 💄

[@vashydana]

How is there a content warning on STAR TREK?!

[@thcollegestudent]

+vashydana Well, that is funny indeed, considering.

[@BuzzKirill3D]

because MUH TRIGGERS

[@oliveeisner8964]

Lord. How infantalized people have become. Demanding to be babied.

[@vocalist92]

People who are calling Lokai the superior race clearly miss the point entirely

[@SantomPh]

Even Lokai does not claim superiority over Bele's race, he only says Bele considered them inferior and pretty much subjected them to apartheid aka Southern voting laws.

[@TheLAGopher]

@@SantomPh Lokai was also drawing an allegory to the Vietnam War draft which some claimed unfairly targeted Blacks for front line infantry assignments. Lokai talked about his people being dragged from their hovels and sent off to fight wars for the oppressor.

[@steveoc64]

As the owner of a pair of Border Collies - I can confirm that this video is 100% accurate

[@nationalist5422]

Relevant.

[@schmoborama]

@bbandmusclefan Yes there is, watch the whole episode - but if you still don't understand, I'll explain

[@johnhunter2294]

The original "Star Trek" was criticized, then and now, for being too preachy and heavy-handed in its treatment of social issues, and this episode was held up as a prime example. That being said, it is brilliantly acted and does drive home the point (maybe with a ten-pound sledge, but still) that racism and hatred are ultimately destructive.

[@stephaniejordan9066]

Nice performances high intelligence how the camera featured a certain color side of their faces to fit the topic of discussions.

[@davidthegreat2987]

I wonder how this story would play out in Star Trek the next generation!

[@Pahoe77]

Leaps and bounds above singing klingons. How a once great franchise has fallen. 😒☹️😕

[@noahpartic7586]

In the end, All Charon is dead. That could be Earth too...but that's a train we'll never see until it's 2ft of Us.

[@kane5000]

this really seems to ring true when recalling the events of Ferguson, it's really sad in 2014 the vicious cycle still continues

[@cabbievonbump]

kane henault Sadly, I must agree. Maybe both sides should be locked into a room and be forced to watch this episode. Together.

[@michaelmormile7669]

nobody does a ‘slow burn’ like Frank Gorshin

[@jamesmaletsky2980]

Why did not Bele ask Kirk to contact Cheron on subspace radio. Found out if Cheron is still around?

[@davidlloyd3116]

Incredible make up!

[@logiciansvlog5800]

The relevancy this has now is scary

[@speedsurfer123]

yep

[@mikestevenson2303]

The Nielsen ratings were no good in 60's. Look at all the classic shows that went off the air and we're cancelled like this one because of supposed bad ratings.

[@sandal_thong8631]

There was something claiming that the actual ratings of Star Trek were better for the key demographics the advertisers wanted. I only heard that in passing, but it may be worth looking up for those interested.

[@dreadfulspiller8766]

I've always wondered if they interbred what their kid would look like.

[@veleriphon]

"I am disinclined to acquis to your demand."

[@mavicobi]

Zetsu is that you ?

[@MissesWitch]

Dedication to paint their faces that much!