Star Trek Original Series And The Children Shall Lead from Season Three Episode 60

This is a video clip from Season Three of the Star Trek Original Series, Episode 60, "And The Children Shall Lead".

[@mnirwin5112]

Watching the children break down at the end is just so heart-wrenching... they now realized what they'd been lured into and what they had lost as a result.

[@markfrost2707]

Isnt she just adorable

[@broann4138]

Interesting fact, the kid who plays Ray Tsing Tao later plays Ensign Peter Lin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Night Terrors".

[@jeffw1267]

Even more important was that he was "Takashi" in "Revenge of the Nerds".

[@charlespeakjr2168]

Fun Fact: Brian Tochi and Pamelyn Ferdin were both in CBS Saturday Morning TV show "Space Command," along with another Sci-Fi legend. Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith) of "Lost In Space."

[@darthdennis6681]

@@charlespeakjr2168 Space Academy...

[@normanberry8071]

Brian Tochi. He was the only Asian child actor steadily working in the 60's thru the 80's. He was in Revenge of the Nerds also. He's still working today

[@williamlacey1981]

Watching the children break down is always heart wrenching and it makes me feel bad for the kids

[@MillerMeteor74]

I watched all this starting in the mid 70s. I'm 60, and I think some of the children must be about 60, or somewhere in their 60s now. I remember this episode well. As with every episode, I enjoyed it. Good to see this clip from it.

[@williamlacey1981]

The crying little girl was actually the voice of Lucy in Charlie Brown

[@tw774]

Fun fact: one of the kids in this episode, (Caesar Belli), is actually the son of Melvin Belli, who played Gorgan.

[@larryol2193]

Best captain ever!

[@r.a.9406]

I love how the innocence of the children destroys the evil!

[@Tuddywutwut]

2:25 That line from Bones had me laughing pretty hard.

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

Evil only has the power we give it.

[@leslielandberg5620]

Came here to say that people are UATING on this episode in other TOS videos calling it the worst ever, cringy, craptacular etc. It’s good to see that some people still find this episode to be worth viewing.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

The girl was in later brady bunch episode lucy walter

[@RicBret]

Best Melvin Belli episode ever!

[@dahawk8574]

His middle name was Mouron. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Belli Born 114 years ago tomorrow.

[@revbryon701]

His name, Belli, is actually pronounced Belly... like the 'i' sound in spaghetti. He changed the pronunciation to sound less ethnic ( Italian). The family was not happy with him for it. I was married to his 2nd cousin in the late 70s early 80s. Her dad, my father in law, was also a lawyer like he was. He seemed like a nice enough guy in person, but I only met him at the wedding.

[@ifyouonlyk6556]

He was Swiss and German. He’s buried here in Sonora Ca., his grandfather was Swiss and grandmother was German. They’re all buried here.

[@chrisschlienger3709]

He "defended" Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. He sent Ruby up the river without a paddle which was probably the mob's plan all along but not what Ruby understood. Ruby probably thought he was going to get a light sentence as the hero being the killer of the killer of JFK, but the mob needed to shut him up so to the electric chair he should go, but cancer got him first.

[@bigwig2881]

I didn't hate this episode. I find it damn creepy. I think the biggest problem with 1 hour television is that there is not enough time to tell the story as the writer envisioned it. If this had been an hour and a half they could have done more with Gorgon, to explain his control of the children, some history to his character and he would have been a much better villain. I would have loved to see him on TNG and let Picard have a go at him.

[@marlonlo9661]

Mr. Pickard!

[@jimclarke8260]

You can have a go at him yourself. This episode is analogous to what is happening in our world today. The globalist, and their minions in the media and big pharma, are essentially the children in the star trek episode, pumping out illusions and lies to frighten people into doing horrible things to other humans, or into just doing nothing at all. I doubt we will be able to appeal to the humanity of Fauci, Bill Gates, Nancy Pelosi, Klaus Schwab, and the other globalists, to break the hold the Gorgon has on them, but at least we can wake up those who have fallen under the spell by revealing the lies, illusions and exaggerations. The climate crisis is a total illusion. COVID19 is an easily overcome bioweapon (Vitamin D, Ivermectin and so on), turned into a global crisis with lies, fear and illusions. The jabs are a complete lie. Most of the worlds problems are lies are exaggerations of minor problems. The Gorgon was defeated by Kirk and Spock overcoming their own fear, seeing reality and then revealing the truth to others. You can do that now, or you can be like Sulu, staring down a tunnel of swords that isn't really there.

[@johnbockelie3899]

" Hail , hail, fire and snow, to the angel we must go. Far away, fore to see, friendly angel come to me." Never forget that rhyme.

[@leslielandberg5620]

Agreed, the treatment they had of him is awkward, to say the least. He comes off as stilted and one dimensional, and ai doubt that’s what they’d hoped for.

[@alastairdaly2417]

The little girl gets really upset,watch her carefully!!! Poor little thing! Listen to all the bawling in the background in last minute LoL!!

[@gordonshaffer5560]

That little girl's name is Pamelyn Ferdin and she was an outstanding young actress perhaps best known as the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in the Peanuts animated films of the late 60's the voice of Fern in Charlotte's Web (1972) and she was an early crush of mine as well. She started very young, in 1964 and the last time I saw her credited on-screen was 2009. She was very much in demand in the latter half of the 60's and all thru the 70's. I believe she became a registered nurse and I hope she is doing well. Everything I remember about her says she was a good human being. She nailed that performance with Bill Shatner.

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

That TV movie 'Daughter of the Mind' also with Ray Milland

[@rddav1]

@@gordonshaffer5560 She was so smitten with Shatner that she followed him everywhere he went when she was shooting. She once asked him if she could marry him. Bill asked when did she want to get married and she said at the beginning of summer, so she could spend all of her free time with him.😁

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@rddav1 Must have been the Starfleet uniform!

[@CyndisKrist]

Did anyone besides me notice that the children never say the chant the same way twice?

[@thunderstruck1392]

Sure looks like Donald!

[@goldenpacificmedia]

Thinks like him also. Sad.

[@thunderstruck1392]

@@goldenpacificmedia I've been thinking of this episode and Donald for years, had to look it up. Surprised it hasn't hit the... gotta go🤣 Thanks for the clip😁

[@PatrickAsti]

Friendly Angel WEF

[@gwenorel2616]

I think I'm the only person who likes this episode.What can I say. I find it terrifying.

[@goldenpacificmedia]

That TOS episode has relevancy today in 2018!

[@danbasta3677]

Not real fond of this episode, however, here are a few trivial facts. The oldest kid there, Tommy, was Kirk's nephew in the first season episode, Operation: Annihilate!, The young girl there became a nurse, and the Asian child there was in one of the Nerd movies. I believe the oldest boy there who was Kirk's nephew, also composed music for one of thd Star Trek movies.

[@wtglb]

Golden Pacific Media even more today, I see that Greta Thunberg and immediately think of this!

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Not a bad thing to have an opinion.

[@jimclarke8260]

You should be terrified, because we are living through it right now. Think of how much you have been made to fear in the last two years. Trump was the new 'Hitler' bent on destroying the world. COVID19 will kill us all unless we cover our faces, destroy our livelihoods, inject poisons into our arms and stay away from everyone. Cops are hunting down innocent black men and killing them for sport. The planet is doomed unless you give up the freedom and wealth that fossil fuels have made possible! The fear-porn out there would make a Gorgon jealous, and like the Gorgon, it is all generated with lies and illusions.

[@foxmccloud7055]

Earlier that day, Wally Schirra, Walt Cunningham and Donn Eisele returned America to space after the Apollo One Fire with the launch of Apollo 7 on a 11-day earth orbit flight to test the Apollo spacecraft before going to the moon.

[@philg4116]

It will probably never be proven that a Gorgon did not cause the Apollo One fire.

[@samslick9000]

I don't remember this episode. It must not be aired often

[@wtglb]

samslick90 I saw it plenty of times on reruns in the 70’s

[@beyourself2444]

Neither do I. I barely remember it...

[@edwardbliss8931]

When I was 12 this was a great episode. As an adult, man...this sucks

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Any episodes do the reverse? Suck as a child but great as an adult?

[@beyourself2444]

People say Spock's brain is bad but the episode with the space hippies and this is worse

[@RoundenBrown]

it's not that bad!

[@Jokie155]

@@beyourself2444 Spock's Brain is bad in a hilarious way. I find it enjoyable because it's ridiculous and campy. Bones is dead serious, Kirk is meandering around, Scotty is on drugs, and Spock just doesn't care. Some of the other infamously bad episodes are boring and drag on forever, that's the key difference to me.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Gotta love those faces full of glycerin tears!

[@65wiseman]

1:32 My gosh! He's transforming into Steve Bannon!

[@francishuxley5928]

Its correct to draw a parallel to politics....but you missed the mark....think Greta Thunberg....and the left wing Marxism in the schools working to develop the Western version of Mao's Red Guard....or Hilter's Youth.....this is actually happening in reality....folks like Bannon are actually fighting this.

[@markfrost2707]

I saw this episode when I was 5 back in the 60s and I have been in love with the little blonde girl ever since. first off--Pamelyn Ferdin, who I just discovered who she really is recently, should have won an emmy for best actress in her crying scene w/ the Cpt. AMAZING child acting. Just unparalleled until Dakota Fanning. I HATE kids on tv and in the movies due to the HORRIBLE acting one is always assured. So I always appriciate good child acting. Lately Ive been watching MeTV for fun and "The Rifleman" and Mark, played by Johnny Crawford is also a KILLER child actor. Anyways...I just saw this episode recently and I fell in love with her all over again. Not in any sort of sexual or weird way...just admire her as an ADORABLE child...but, something..."stronger" I also recently saw her on Bonanza and again I was just IN LOVE with her?? Weird, right?? But it's nothing more than like a grandpa (Im 60 and a grandfather) just LOVING a child. I have always loved children. CHildren and animals. I love their innocence and how they can sense good in a person. But, now I realize what draws me so into Pamelyn. We're just about the same age and even when I was 5, 6, 78..Ive always loved girls. Always had a girlfriend, it seems and she was the "it girl" of boys my age. She was in EVERY dang toy commercial and on EVERY tv show there was. At least the big shows. Ive learned she was probably the most sought after and working child actor in history...at least she was the forerunner. Yes, there was Shirley Temple, but she came up when there wasnt the media saturation of the mid to late 60s where Pam excelled. Could she be ANY more cute and adorable than in the scene with the captain. She's the daughter Ive ALWAYS wanted ( got two boys, who have two boys, :/ lol) She just steals my heart so completely. I just became a friend to her FB fan page that she runs. Im hoping to get a thumbs up or a positive comment from her. Then I will enjoy thinking how if someone told me back in 1968 that some day FIFTY years from now, we will be using all the technology you see on this show and you will be talking to that little girl using a computer...well. Isnt that so cool and something no little boy in the 1960s could ever believe could come true ?? How she wasnt even NOMINATED for an Emmy just shows how the academy and SAG have always looked down their nose at SciFi. Think Steven Spielberg not EVER winning an acadamy award until he did a movie without special effects of revolved around science fiction. (Im going to google who won best guest supporting actors whatever for this year and compare their performance to Pamelyns here)

[@whyyyyou]

Don't know if it's coincidence or intentional but Gorgan is just like The Beast from LORD OF THE FLIES the way he controls the kids and makes them do evil things... He's pretty scary as he gets angrier & angrier at the kids while morphing into his true hideous self. This episode has always creeped me out.

[@elizabethnash7491]

"Whyyyyy you..!" Looks like Donny Trump

[@tedpeterson1156]

Elizabeth nash This actually reminds me of the recent CNN shitshow townhall meeting. They (and others) are using the children. Disgusting. Belli was a strange cat in RL

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@elizabethnash7491 Looks more like you. A lot more. Live a long life.

[@jeffreyg607]

@@elizabethnash7491 A million miles off.

[@markfrost2707]

He (Gorgan) is actually one of the most famous attorneys in American history. Marvin Belli. I dont know how he ended up on Star Trek. Im gonna google it right now

[@StarWarriorCentral]

This episode is mostly bad, but I genuinely feel sad for the children in this scene when they realize the meaning of losing their parents.

[@shanechandler1018]

We are the children and war , money and inequality is the true demon

[@richardgadberry8398]

Kirk vs the Guy who Defended Jack Ruby.

[@denlec_24]

....and the Zodiacs preferred attorney.

[@pip12111]

I wonder if this is the same malevolent entity that was in Star Trek 6 the Undiscovered Country?

[@rowlandbuck2703]

You mean Final Frontier. That one was placed in the barrier by the Q. But i think they are two different entities . Q (captain Picards Q) is responsible for both.

[@emerybayblues]

Melvin Belli the king of tortes.

[@islandboy7432]

The gorgan had trump hair lol 🤣

[@John-wg6xw]

In the future kids will have hideous clothes.

[@patrickwilson1459]

I wonder what those kids had to say or how they felt when they heard this episode was judged as one of the worst episodes in the series? I considered this episode to be second worst episode since The Way to Eden.

[@danbasta3677]

Rather liked The Way To Eden. Adam there is actor Charles Napier who wrote and performed the music you seen in this episode, and was Murdock in one of the Rambo movies. The one hippy girl there is actress Phyllis Douglas who was in the first season episode of Star Trek, The Galileo Seven as yeoman Mears, and Dr. Severn there was actor Skip Homnier who was Melcon in the second season episode of Star Trek, Patterns Of Fource.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@danbasta3677 You just made the connection for me that severin and melcon are the same actor. Thank you.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

I think The Empath is THE absolute, hands down worst. What's with all the BDSM? I won't even watch it.

[@StonexxDemonmaggot]

Tbh, I think The Paradise Syndrome was the worst, this one is a close second.

[@Kable_TV]

Well idk the worst episodes are actually kind of hilarious Like I can show someone the step children of Plato laugh through the whole damn thing and then surprise it’s the first interracial kiss ever on tv this episode was darkly hilarious to the grave stones and the fucking children with tears running down their face is just so sudden and hardcore It’s ridiculous the way this kid just slams his fist in the episode No bad episodes of the original series by my account

[@dkhubbell55]

Crying little girl is William Shatner daughter ❤

[@darthdennis6681]

Sooooo WRONG! Her name is Pam Ferdin. Voice of Lucy in Charlie Brown.

[@tw774]

You are wrong! Pamelyn Ferdin's parents are Kenneth and Wanda (Jacewitz) Ferdin.

[@Akira625]

0:13 Future creator of the Blaster Beam!

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

He certainly redeemed himself with that one! 🙂

[@Aaron-yh1vf]

Was just watching this the other day, I love TOS but god this was such a garbage episode lol I dont think i even finished it. Season 3 had some weird episodes thats for sure

[@parisbeech2180]

You gotta love it

[@martincarman1725]

Sucked, but love all TOS anyway. The little girl, Pamela Ferdin palyed Felix's daughter on The Odd Couple.

[@elisabethcoley6430]

Kids are so special

[@mscarolynnigro]

Gorgan reminds me of George Soros

[@paulcajkasr9600]

He is Soros the friendly Hungarian.

[@pip12111]

@@paulcajkasr9600 and SS Officer

[@johnwclick]

Melvin Belli. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Belli

[@r.k.2322]

Yep. And the mislead innocent are kids like Greta Thunberg 😉

[@rickylarch]

That's really fucking funny because the Federation was basically communist. "Vulcan aliens visit Earth, welcoming them into a galactic federation and delivering replicator technology that would abolish scarcity. Humans soon unify as a species, formally abolishing money and all hierarchies of race, gender and class."

[@damin9913]

This remastered version needs to burn it's not the real original classic version

[@jamesbrice6619]

I grew up on Star Trek. Was 7 years old when the first episode aired and have watched it all my life. The remastered versions are WAY better

[@colliric]

@@jamesbrice6619 Paramount should have the originals available though.

[@colliric]

The Gorgon is a Groomer. He groomed the kids.

[@RoundenBrown]

well, yeah

[@colliric]

@@RoundenBrown honestly I've always considered this and Tholian Web to be the best episodes of season 3. This one is so underrated.

[@Pectabyte]

This is Trump and his followers... my god... They’re children unaware of the damage they’ve done.

[@PabloCruise1]

Trump 2020! How about that!

[@parisbeech2180]

@@PabloCruise1 😂🤣😂🤣👍👍👍👍

[@parisbeech2180]

Oh God 😂😂😂

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@terrencebunce1964 And you are a follower

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

You're so right! You're so smart! Gonna sub your channel so I can breathe your wisdom. Live a long life

[@generic53]

I just read where she admitted she's an atheist.

[@TheScandoman]

You say "admitted" as though it was a crime!

[@jamesarnette1394]

Oh my god!

[@willdodge200]

Was this a MAGA rally?

[@tonin1969]

episodio horroroso de star trek

[@markgunns]

Kommie Kamala being exposed to the lost followers….