The only Matt Decker clips from "The Doomsday Machine" that you will ever need!

[@waynecoulter6761]

William Windom gave an amazing performance in this episode... you could feel his helplessness... the horror at dooming his crew...

[@MrSH1982]

I know ... I'm kind of making light of it here, but he really was a joy to watch.

[@waynecoulter6761]

@@MrSH1982 One of my favorite Star Trek memes had a picture of William Windom holding the Doomsday Machine like a joint... the meme says, "I used to smoke giant space blunts, but not anymore!"

[@MrSH1982]

@@waynecoulter6761 😂

[@angelainamarie9656]

When I was first watching this I was six years old and the terrible special effect of the Doomsday Machine did not stop me from being absolutely sold on this man's performance and scared to death of whatever had scared him so badly. I had nightmares about that thing for weeks

[@ThomasHaberkorn]

lives on with this performance

[@desa415]

"They say there's no Devil Jim, but there is....right out of hell! I saw it." Amazing performance!

[@felinefinetessaslegacy]

Thank you for the memories William. #tessaslegacy.

[@esteban1487]

Probably my favorite TOS episode.

[@KJTV67]

Well written, well-acted!

[@chiasmsandmorealpersohn5258]

I was just a boy when I saw that episode and it is after nearly 60 years still etched in my memory ... Windom and Shatner .... so good

[@JAMESLEVEE]

"A captain is responsible for the lives of his crew...and for their deaths. Well, I should've died with mine."

[@AbrasiousProductions]

as someone who's deeply religious there's something so powerful about seeing a presumed atheist broken down to absolute terror believing he saw the devil itself.

[@MIKEPSYCHE]

Don't you think I know this is the only Matt Decker clip I'll ever need. It's absolutely pure!

[@thomasb1889]

Sadly this is one of the few Matt Decker clips in the star trek universe.

[@festalongreyhawkshorts4sho645]

LMFAO!" There was other clips, but not any more! "

[@nicksmith5374]

Absolutely brilliant acting

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

And then there's Spock addressing him in the blooper reel: ""If you do not veer off, I shall… blow my brains out."

[@MuzixMaker]

Windom should have gotten an Emmy.

[@alexanderscott9001]

Cool thing is he's supposed to be the father of Decker in star trek the motion picture

[@pepperVenge]

They would often write other Starfleet captains in the show to either appear very weak/traumatized (Decker), incompetent (Stocker), or completely insane (Garth), so that Captain Kirk would stand out more and appear to be the better captain.

[@MrSH1982]

Why do I have the feeling Shatner had something to do with that policy? :)

[@festalongreyhawkshorts4sho645]

Spock: " Vulcans never bluff ". Decker: "No.........no I don't suppose they do.......the bridge is yours Mr. Spock."

[@MrSH1982]

the Matt Decker archivist's work is never done!

[@Marco-fi6gv]

@@MrSH1982 😁

[@Marco-fi6gv]

Classic

[@JAMESLEVEE]

You left out "very well".

[@JAMESLEVEE]

Actually, IIRC, it's "very well, Mr. Spock. The bridge is yours."

[@johngorno4552]

*Don't you understand?! It will never be enough!*

[@Harry-fe9ec]

This is the best acting in the entire series by anyone. Windom said he hammed it up a bit and didnt take the part that serious but my god was this totally believable and frightening at the same time.

[@joebush1663]

Yeah, competing with a total ham like Shatner, Windom would have to go full ham-nuclear lol.

[@Akm72]

@@joebush1663 Nothing wrong with a little ham in the right time and place.

[@danjohnston9037]

This role got him at least one other role about ten years later he is in a " Barney Miller " episode as a really stressed out guy with a bomb so sort of type-casting in a way

[@MrSH1982]

I remember it now! Totally forgot it until you mentioned it. My parents loved Barney Miller, I used to watch it with them when I was 10, 11 years old. I just looked up the episode in imdb -- the title is "Doomsday!"

[@JAMESLEVEE]

"They called me, they begged me for help!!! Four hundred of them!!! I couldn't...I couldn't..." You cut that a little early.

[@DirtMulden]

.... sorry ...

[@esteban1487]

So they roll up on the Doomdsay Machine chopping up planets and he decides to beam his crew down to one of the planets. You'd think one of the crew might say "Uh, sir, with all due respect, are you fugging KIDDING ME?????"

[@josephlobosco3647]

"Don't You think I know that? There was but not anymore!!" It's the funniest line in the entire episode!

[@stevekillgore9272]

Nothing funny about it, soul-searingly tragic.

[@fredWaxBeans11111]

@@stevekillgore9272 He's just being pure anti-Proton lol

[@nishihundan1257]

@@stevekillgore9272 LOL, it's hilarious--the way he says "But not anymore!" like some clown.

[@DirtMulden]

I say that out loud, for one reason or another, at least once a week.

[@rickmays797]

This was and always be William Windom's best ever acting!!!!! He did this part so wwpell!!!!!

[@victorpradha9946]

Dude...where's the cool Matt Decker fight scene where he overpowers the Red Shirt with that awesome martial arts stuff.

[@MrSH1982]

I guess I have more work to do!

[@victorpradha9946]

@@MrSH1982 Nah...it's just that it was such hilarious ST OS scene. Decker overpowering the security personnel.

[@buxeessingh2571]

This is the first time that an American TV series used "hell" as in "opposite of Heaven" in a non-religious context. "The City on the Edge of Forever" was the first time "hell" was used as an expletive on American TV.

[@davidyoung3288]

"absolutely pure"

[@davidyoung3288]

No ..original script reads: absolutely pure energy;

[@LancetFencing]

fucking amazing performance

[@davidyoung3288]

the booster element was picard: Measure of man; if he meets your 3rd condition is he sentient? do you know he is? do you? do you? do you know what is pure energy?

[@davidyoung3288]

oh .. from 1973 to 2021 took me almost 50 yrs to get it right;