Star Trek Doomsday Machine (part 6 of 7) TOS 1966-1968)

[@neneshubby]

One of the things I liked about the original series is that they talked in plain English. Can you imagine Captain Picard asking Commander Laforge to rig a 30 second detonation device? Picard: “Commander Laforge! I want you to rig a 30 second detonation device a set it so I can blow it from here” Laforge: “Captain, there’s no way to set the Heisenberg compensators without reversing the polarity. Also, the phaser differential sustainer is causing a sub-generational rift in the space/time continuum. An interphase shift could result in sub atomic particles in the warp core. We’ll need a multi phase temporal convergence and a level one diagnostic which should take a least 9 hours sir”

[@Dawnlighter]

And they act more like flawed real people than near-perfect automatons.

[@Cybrsk8r]

I've also noted that the TNG Enterprise seems way more fragile that the TOS Enterprise. I mean, it seems like very time someone farts on TNG ship, a plasma conduit or power coupling or some other shit gets damaged.

[@wardoc0435]

Lol. Bonus! You nailed it.

[@johnw2026]

Keith green you'd make a good Starfleet engineer, lol!

[@Silenced23]

Why do you think when Laforge brought Scotty back he tells Geordie, you have to act like a miracle worker, and if something takes an hour, you tell the captain it'll take you 30 minutes. That really pissed off Geordie and I've noticed he gets butt hurt a lot on TNG.

[@CircHistory]

"From the shape this thing's in its hard to keep it from blowing" One of my favorite Mr. Scott lines 😂😂

[@billstrauch1705]

The Doomsday Machine is my absolute favorite Star Trek episode hands down !!!

[@bodieofci5418]

Definitely my fave episode of the series. William Windom was great in it.

[@oobrocks]

Ought to have gotten the Emmy

[@ArthurHILL-xp8bv]

Star trek original season 2 the doomsday machine. When the captain Jim Kirk was planning to destroy the doomsday machine. Now when the Spock says Jim when Spock was worried.

[@queensapphire7717]

This “Devil in the Dark” and “The Galileo 7” are my favorites.

[@manjsher3094]

Never bad to have a Scotty on board.

[@supercaptainbatdoggy]

Hey, Imma Scotty...I shoulda been there 😂

[@toddgreen2782]

For being in the 60's this is pretty darn good!

[@michaelramsey82]

IMO, this is one of the best episodes o the original series, if not the absolute best. The writing, the performances, the visual design of the planet killer, the music - especially the music - are all just spectacular. My only qualm with this episode was that Uhura wasn't in it, replaced by Lt. Palmer (presumably because Nichelle Nichols couldn't make it to the set that day for whatever reason).

[@nigelsmith7717]

notice how spock kept saying captain to kirk during the conversation but the moment kirk said " i'm gonna jam the ship right down its throat" ...spock went from saying captain to "jim" ( it got personal for spock because his best friend might die ) in a way thats actual some emotion in his vulcan weird way.

[@dataquester]

Good catch!!

[@PRHILL9696]

spock had more emotion than the humans it seemed a lot

[@thomasparnell1025]

His human side came out, if only momentarily.

[@paularose8430]

The doomsday machine was a wonderful episode. Willliam Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were fantastic in this episode. But credit goes definitely to William Shatner . A wonderful performance and actor

[@christopherwilson3085]

Faulty Transporters always bring the TOS episodes to a new height of tension

[@robertengland8769]

Trek at its best! I never get tired of this episode!

[@juanitapatterson2094]

Yes I do remember the star trek the original series I was in the 2nd grade. I enjoyed every episode and I do think that "The Doomsday Machine "was the best episode, and I also think that "Mirror Mirror was a good one too. Live Long and Prosper and RIP to all the crew members who have passed away. "

[@baberRuth]

#4, by many.

[@jangtheconqueror]

I like how Jim says 97 megatons and then Spock feels the need to correct him by saying 97.835 megatons. The difference is big but probably not too relevant in the situation, they just need as big a boom as they can get.

[@blockmasterscott]

I like how Spock actually knew the exact amount lol!

[@jamesgleeson1050]

This series is by far the best series in television history. And while The Doomsday Machine is one of the best episodes of the series, the music track played while Matt Decker was being drawn into the planet killer is the best of the entire series. No fan of this series can argue with that.

[@Sutterjack]

I always love the fact that they could have set up a remote control device in the Enterprise to activate the timer on the Constellation but wouldn't have the drama of Kirk barely making it out alive.

[@Lee-zw5km]

Waysss before the time ❤️ amazing scene from the 60s. Seen all relevant scenes.

[@rwarren58]

Notice how Scotty is like..."Transporters are AFU? You want me to go? Okay, no problem I'm outta here, whew!!"

[@OneEyedLion]

The music was fantastic. It was like an important character. The same character that was missing from the spinoffs.

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

'Press this one 30 seconds later POOOOFFF!' that's one way of putting it.

[@Phantom_gtx]

2:50 captain, you getting dangerously close to the planet killer

[@joestupid2571]

Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry, an LA police officer. It took him a good while to get someone to produce it. And the rest is history...

[@lnoft97]

Lucille Ball OK'd it.

[@dieselyeti]

Scotty got lucky. A transporter malfunction usually ends up with the person materializing in a horrific blob as in the first ST movie.

[@Primitarian]

Unfortunately, Captain Kirk did not really understand. Mr. Scott rigged the self-destruct device to detonate upon the elapse of 30 seconds. As you will see in the next scene, the time it took for Captain Kirk to make his escape after pressing the button was 1 minute 26 seconds.

[@zhongwa]

If they feel compelled to re-make an episode into a feature movie, they should definitely do this one. With the improvements in special FX, etc., they could create a kickass doomsday machine.

[@johnnorwood2239]

Chris Pine 2009 movie IS basically a recreation of this episode -- planet wrecking machine that is stopped by the explosion of a star ship engines inside it.

[@zhongwa]

@@johnnorwood2239Thanks. Actually I saw that movie in the theater -- didn't remember this. I just wasn't that impressed by any of the recent ST movies I guess.

[@darrylgonzalez5251]

See Star Trek: New Voyages episode "In Harm's Way", while technically not a remake, gives a nice variation on a theme. It combines elements of this episode, "The Menagerie", and " The City on the Edge of Forever", with a nod or two to "Obsession" and ST: TMP. Also see the cameos of Barbara Luna and William Windom reprising his role of Commodore Decker.

[@zhongwa]

@@darrylgonzalez5251Thanks I'll have to check that out.

[@supercaptainbatdoggy]

I dont see why not. They already made one from Space Seed, called The Wrath of Khan.

[@donwendling4743]

Great performance as Matt commodore!!

[@jaimhaas5170]

Set em to overload? Oh HELL YES CAPTAIN!

[@lisanidog8178]

Scotty lost his accent for a few seconds explaining how to blow the ship up. 🤭

[@michaelbarlow6610]

I just spotted an error in this scene from the Star Trek episode, "The Doomsday Machine" that I never noticed before and that I have never heard any other Star Trek fan mention. When Kirk asks Scotty to rig up a 30-second delay detonation device to overload the Constellation's impulse engines, Scotty is talking to Kirk on his communicator, but Kirk talks to Scotty using the Constellation's Auxiliary Control Room intercom system on the desk panel! Then when Spock calls Kirk to let Kirk know that the Enterprise's sensors cannot penetrate the Doomsday Machine's inner core to determine if an impulse engine explosion would be sufficiently powerful to destroy the Doomsday Machine, Kirk flips open his communicator to respond to Spock. Either Shatner or Doohan or the scriptwriter Norman Spinrad made an error because either Scotty should have used the engineering section's intercom to talk to Kirk or Kirk should have used his communicator to talk to Scotty!

[@bcask61]

You think Scotty couldn’t cross-circuit Kirk’s communicator and a ship’s intercom? This is friggin’ Scotty you’re talking about. This is guy who invented transparent aluminum!

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@@bcask61 . First, it would be not only inefficient but also a total waste of Scotty's time to adjust the Constellation's circuitry so that Kirk could use the Constellation's Auxillary Control Room intercom desk panel so that Kirk doesn't have to use his communicator to talk to Scotty! Scotty has much more important work to do - get the Constellation's impulse engines working!!!! Second, you got it wrong - Scotty did NOT invent transparent aluminium! In "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home" he clearly says to McCoy in reference to Dr. Nichols, "How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" ( i.e., transparent aluminum) - so Scotty clearly indicated by his response to McCoy's concern about violating the Prime Directive (by giving Dr. Nichols the formula for transparent aluminum), that Scotty did not invent it!

[@ssosmcin]

@@michaelbarlow6610 eh Scotty wasn't next to an intercom he was on he way to rigging the impulse engines and routed his calls before he left the room.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

3:48 Scottie loses his created accent for a moment

[@vicmal2112]

I heard the Canadian in him.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

@@vicmal2112 yep i've seen him in normal accent on Twilight Zone & Voyage to Bottom of the Sea episodes

[@JM-ot8ux]

@@vicmal2112 lay-turr.

[@CharlesGates-v6n]

Nice catch.

[@christiane.g.4142]

"That thing out there! That horrible THING! I think it must be one of Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers!"

[@bryansikes6443]

This Is One Of My Favorite Episodes🖖

[@arguspanoptes9510]

Madness. Kirk and Scotty supposed to be rescued from death from being blown up, by having their body smashed to smithereens at the atomic level and resurrected by being reassembled at the other end in the Enterprise transporter. Better off being blown up. I'm with Dr McCoy on this one. Shuttlecraft every time.

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Suicidecraft is more appropriate!

[@chrismc410]

Likely no time to launch one. Escape pods are also an option, but tractor beam probably was out too.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Scotty was the man in this episode!!! 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jnichols3]

They finally get a shuttlecraft that doesn't crash on its own, and damn if someone doesn't steal it and destroys it intentionally. Seriously, half the time a shuttlecraft was launched there would be casualties.

[@mikeleo1]

especially if they had red shirts ....

[@woodystorey]

RED SHIRTS ARE LIKE BEING ON DEATH ROW!...

[@thomassmcdade6305]

That’s because it is nearly the same size as the Enterprise, as seen when they are both in front of the doomsday machine

[@Cybrsk8r]

"It's armed now. Press this one and 30 seconds later, POOF!" (click) Ooops!

[@mikeysuzefour]

The Constellation as a floating space mine to blow up Doomsday Machine from within = Brilliant!

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

if you listen carefully Scotty forgot his accent for that brief moment

[@patricksaxon3983]

I do not like most of the episodes of Star Trek, but is one of the best ones.

[@patricksaxon3983]

Marko Jotic I agree with you, the city of the edge of forever was a wonderful masterpiece!

[@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser492]

Mirror Mirror, Devil In the Dark, Journey To Babel Doomsday Machine, Balance Of Terror,City on the edge of forever my top 6....

[@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser492]

@Marko Jotic Whom Gods Destroy...YIKES!

[@Cybrsk8r]

@Marko Jotic "The Man Trap" with the salt-sucking monster. I also didn't like "And the Children Shall Lead" with a n entity that looked like "The Skipper" in a moo-mo.

[@jnichols3]

That was actually attorney Melvin Belli. No joke. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Belli

[@alvinrodriguez6998]

I always love battle seens

[@marchess286]

Kirk: "Scotty, turn off the light shinning in my face".

[@johnmoldoch3127]

I'd rather go down like this, than deal with the guilt.

[@alessandrapirelli7040]

I've always wondered what Sulu saw in that Mattel Viewfinder thing...

[@lisanidog8178]

Nice to see a Red shirt beaten up instead of killed.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

3:48 James Doohan forgot his "fake" accent for a couple of seconds

[@oobrocks]

This episode is greatly improved by the new VFX

[@ericsmith8373]

I think Scotty could walk into the transporter room, smell a fart from the transporter operator, and diagnose exactly what's wrong with the transporter.

[@elizabethjordan5755]

😄😄😂😂😂

[@ericsmith8373]

"It's armed now. Press this one and 30 seconds ... oops!"

[@AndieBlack13]

"97.835 Megatons"...that really is a large yield of energy, considering the Tsar bomb detonated by the Soviet Union was half that...

[@tracyshipman5728]

Yes Mr.Spock did say that '97.835 Megatons"... that really is appreciate a large yield of energy, considering the Tsar 💣 bomb 💣 detonated by the Soviet union (the U.S.S. Constutlion ) was half of that... and then Captain James T. Kirk told Mr Spock to beam Mr Scott back on the U.S.S Enterprise and then Captain James T. Kirk headed to the Doomsday Machine and then set a 30 second detonation on the U.S.S Constutlion and then blew it up inside of it and that's the End of the U.S.S Constutlion?

[@Tiberius291]

Nichelle Nichols must've been out sick during the filming of this episode, someone else is sitting in her chair. 🖖

[@marcusjustice6165]

Lieutenant Elizabeth Palmer Relief Communication Officer.

[@teach-learn4078]

Scotty replaces a fuse, omg!

[@nothingheremovealong6751]

@3:48 the control switches are mounted in wood with a metal screw showing...

[@KikoBean]

"Spock you don't know?!"

[@stewartmcminn7773]

All this trouble!!

[@jamesricker3997]

To quote 7 of 9 , that should not have worked, it must have been damaged

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Yes...

[@randolphhicks8208]

3:00 Spock Human side was on tears he doesn’t want to lost his Friend

[@ronaldbaldwin4505]

When he changed up from calling him captain to calling him Jim it was a lot of emotion for spock.

[@mits_6131]

Scotty! You're fired! Not again.

[@mikeysuzefour]

Wait Scotty, I cheated death again...You're unfired!

[@dataquester]

Only on da 🍎.

[@highlander723]

I always wondered if you combine old Star Trek lore with new Star Trek lore wouldn't photons torpedoes down that thing's throat be enough to destroy it?

[@jenniferbrooks2540]

spock there for kirk emotionally. as usual on Deckers death.

[@ryanb7649]

Where did the music cue go at 3:00 when Spock says, "You'll be killed Jim, just like Decker" ??

[@ssosmcin]

This is from the first DVD release back in 2000 ish (2 episodes per volume in orange cases). The cue was dropped accidentally. It was restored for the the DVD season sets a couple of years later.

[@Hobert-v4s]

Beem up device today?not yet!!

[@contessa.adella]

Um....and what happened to the ‘damage control team’ that accompanied Scotty to the Constellation?

[@johnnorwood2239]

2:18

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ Contessa Stella. When Kirk decided to try to destroy the Doomsday Machine he ordered Spock to beam the damage control team back to the Enterprise while he and Scotty remained on the Constellation. After Kirk gave that order to Spock, Scotty told Kirk that the damage control team just beamed back to the Enterprise.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ Contessa Adella. I made a typing error when I typed your screen name at the beginning of my previous comment to you responding to your question about the damage control team in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine". I mistyped your screen name as "Contessa Stella". Sorry about the typing error.

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

2:59 music missing???????????????????

[@stewartmcminn7773]

Good catch

[@ssosmcin]

This is from the first DVD release back in 2000 ish (2 episodes per volume in orange cases). The cue was dropped accidentally. It was restored for the the DVD season sets a couple of years later.

[@wn8022]

Scotty was the best. 😂

[@Cybrsk8r]

OK. How do you make a weapon out of neutronium? You can't blast it, you can't cut it. So, how do you use it as a building material? Now, leaving the sci-fi world and going into real science for a minute, neutronium does actually exist in the universe, in the center of neutron stars where the gravity and pressure is so great that atoms are crushed inward, and protons and electrons merge to form an ultra-dense material consisting only of neutrons. But if you could somehow remove that material from the high density core of a neutron star, I suspect that it would immediately decompose into normal matter. Maybe that's a good question for Neils DeGrasse Tyson.

[@saturnsongs]

it's a hypothetical substance composed purely neutrons. But if it were real, a thimble full of its mass would weigh 500 tons.

[@mlirwin8572]

Just noticed ... where's Uhura in this episode?

[@KevanRice]

Metal still not discovered spaces fire it up men

[@jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser492]

"Your chances of survival,are NOT promising"....lol

[@Cybrsk8r]

Kind of surprising that Spock didn't give him the exact odds. Like 23.537 to 1.

[@mychal4895]

so it just takes two switches thats close together ,that's out in the open in engineering to blow up a starship?

[@SpiritBear12]

No, Scotty had to rig up some wiring and such elsewhere first.

[@SpiritBear12]

No, Scotty had to rig up some other things first else where in order to do it.

[@phx4closureman]

2:59 *WHERE'S THE DRAMATIC MUSIC????*

[@CharlesGates-v6n]

97.835 megatons!

[@eddieboggs8306]

Looks like a Cornucopia.

[@nathanielhellerstein5871]

Those ships are flying bombs? 97.835 megaton bombs?!

[@joshjames4552]

Lol no big deal just flying 100 times the speed of light on high powered explosives

[@johnnorwood2239]

Think what would happen if CVN-65 denotated its nuclear engines to stop a larger fleet of ships.... Same idea

[@andreabindolini7452]

In Star Trek, impulse engines are basically nuclear fusion rocket engines. They are extremely powerful, so is perfectly logical that overloading them you can obtain a big nuclear blast. And those are only the "secondary" engines of starships. The blast from the matter-antimatter warp engine would be FAR bigger than that. But the Constellation's warp engines are destroyed and unusable, and moreover the planet killer has the ability of "deactivate" antimatter (as stated earlier in the episode), so the warp core would be, in any case, inert and useless for this purpose. That "antimatter deactivation" could be also an explanation of why Enterprise and Constellation uses only phasers and not photon torpedoes (that have antimatter warheads) during the battle. Also interesting that the refit enterprise from the movies, and more recent starships, would be helpless against the planet killer, because in later models the phaser energy is channeled through the main warp core (as stated in Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and when the core is malfunctioning (as into the "antimatter dampening field" of the planet killer), the phasers are automatically turned off for safety reasons. A case in which older technology is better.

[@Eltonlaleham]

Matt Decker sadly did himself in a shame

[@sixwest]

Longest 4 seconds in TV hisory...!

[@alanlinnell6817]

It's pure neutronium.

[@makomenos2921]

But..... what about using photon torpedoes?

[@dataquester]

Yeah right down it's thoat....

[@chrismc410]

@@dataquester not enough power or the amount wasn't enough to do much even between two Constitution-class ships

[@stewartmcminn7773]

It would've eaten it before it exploded

[@danclark1348]

I hear that every 7 years, every body cell is replaced. So every 7 years we are replicated, or at least altered during growth- physically, mentally. Our former selves no longer exist. So, the transporter greatly shortens that time of " reassembly".

[@GeorgeMonet]

You are confusing two different processes and failing to understand the MASSIVE difference between them. Also, not every cell in the human body replicates and gets replaced. It's like the difference between having your car make its own replacement windshield wipers by having the windshield wipers renew themselves along their own pattern without moving or shifting and taking your entire car apart and then making a new car from completely different parts and calling it the same car.

[@garethwiseman4320]

"What's the matter with that thing"?

[@dataquester]

N da mirror mirror world Mr Kyle would get da agonizer treatment.....

[@SadhuBiochemist]

No robots?

[@starflakmyriad5394]

Why didn't they transport Dekhard out lol

[@KevanRice]

Titanium to nutronium

[@marcus9434]

1:49.....I really despise people like this - usually snively little males. I get that in the megaton range, 0.835 MT is probably still significant, but FFS Spock, Kirk was just giving a rough estimate. No wonder T'Pring didn't want his ass.

[@Wildwood56]

Enterprise arives and the atomic energy accidentally shoots into the maw and me kyies! Kiereis Dad it has jumped from 30 to 200% me crude 😳 keep firing on the armor not maw kyies Yes sir

[@Cybrsk8r]

Spock. Am I correct that a fusion explosion of 98 megatons will result if Donald Trump's hair catches fire?

[@tenthdimension9836]

CUTS OFF AT THE LAST 45 SECONDS. BOOOOO 👎