The Return Of The Archons Star Trek Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition Extras

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About 10 years ago, the Sci-Fi Channel acquired syndication rights for the original Star Trek television series. For years, the shows had been cut down to fit the amount of commercial time needed for current day programs (there was less commercial time during the original 60's run). Sci-Fi fixed this problem by making the time slot a full hour and a half. Dubbed "Star Trek The Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition", the episodes would be supplemented with original interviews with the cast and crew discussing each episode. The interviews and extra bits were especially entertaining since it featured more than just the standard cast but also highlighted guest actors, writers, etc.
I taped each and every episode as they aired (even though sometimes I hit record a little late and missed a minute or two). The interviews and extras really are neat, and since I've never seen them on youtube, I decided to dig out the tapes and start grabbing out all of the extra bits. I've found probably 75% of the tapes so far, and I hope to find the rest eventually. I hope it's okay with Sci-Fi if I post these. I'm just trying to get them out there for those who may have missed these years ago....
These are the extra bits from the episode "The Return Of The Archons". Enjoy, and be sure to subscribe to catch them all. Oh, and if you have time, check out my daily blog on all things Trek: www.apieceofthe...

[@YorkshireFoxy]

that background music is so soothing

[@paulsarnik8506]

I watched and taped theses episodes as they aired as well. Time snd circumstances (as well as no more VHS's) intervened so Im glad someone else has kept these "historical records" for posterity. (Best Galaxy Quest alien laugh!) 🤓😎🖖🏻

[@robertengland8769]

Collective consciousness? Parallel to the Borg episodes.

[@allencarlson6128]

This is in my top 5 favorite ToS episodes.

[@mattalbrecht7471]

James was really starting to sound his age when this was recorded

[@warpmine1761]

And now we have this exact thing today in 2023

[@tomada36]

I love Takei's story about meeting Roddenberry.

[@paulpeterson4216]

You mean Rosenberry?

[@patrickwilson1459]

I like his story about how his relationship with Koenig began which is explained in the insights for Episode 32 Friday's Child.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

Blew just his name ?

[@gaycausesoneisparentalnegl309]

See my channel.

[@johntabler349]

I once heard him tell the story of his childhood in the Internment camps during WW2 and it moved me to tears but not sad tears hopeful proud optimistic ones

[@acm4147]

These episodes aired late 90's. The interviews and back-stories were good to watch.

[@tieroneasset678]

The original Star Trek was bigger than life and has forever positively influenced the World

[@johntabler349]

This episode is the perfect example of why I love the Original Series and range between like and tolerate to the others. Individual liberty individual rights, individual creativity and potential, freedom is worth fighting for, sacrificing for, even dieing for that to be a part of a collective however blissful is to be as dead. All these principles are not only implied but stated emphatically and drive the motivation of the plot. How much better than the vegetarian space socialists who are always right.

[@fenrislyulf8861]

DC Fontana was a secretary? Who subsequently became one of the most prolific authors of Star Trek stories.

[@mattalbrecht7471]

Cool

[@DaveDeWave]

As a field service engineer, just once I'd like to hear Scotty tell the Captain Kirk "Not now captain - I'm tr-r-roublshootin'"

[@frankcabanski9409]

Kirk: "Very well, Mr. Scott. What's your assessment?" Scotty: "We're in trouble!"

[@mdimascio]

Excellent into by Bill.

[@symbolt]

I started watching TOS because I loved the newer series and wanted to do my homework. This was the first episode (after like 15) about which I thought - hey, this is actually great!

[@fredklein3829]

This video speaks in strange whispers yet it doesn't tell us much about Return of the Archons, now does it?

[@JAMESLEVEE]

Actually, if all those computers had been really smart, and not just operating from programming, Kirk could have negotiated his way out without violating the Prime Directive. He could have offered Landru withdrawal from Beta III and a quarantine of the planet from further Federation visits in exchange for turning off the microwave beams and allowing the landing party to beam up (as well as de-absorbing, if it was possible, O'Neill and Sulu). Same with Vaal. I just don't believe those respective computers were capable of making such bargains, any more than Nomad could be talked out of its prime function.

[@JamesRoyceDawson]

Shatner's intro here is pretty funny to think about now given how An-Com Star Trek got with Next-Gen

[@markenriquez1486]

"Already, I'm blowing the producer's name, and later I'd blow the producer."

[@ussling]

Could the Borg be based on Landru's absorbing (assimilation)?

[@johnbockelie3899]

The Red hour, one of the landru's ways for his people to vent their emotions every day ( The people would beat on each other for an hour each day. Then return to normal.)

[@00bikeboy]

Good observation! Hadn't thought of that.

[@kevinemmers7025]

@@johnbockelie3899Unimatrix Zero was essentially the same thing in Borg world, minus the violence. But, it was a reprieve from the daily routine of being a drone.

[@CookieDTotR]

How bizarre that this vignette begins and ends with some brief remarks about the actual episode and yet for the vast majority of time in between merely gives broad cultural boilerplate and quaint anecdotes that have nothing to do with _The Return of the Archons_. Well, perhaps that's not entirely true. One wonders indeed whether George Takei was still under the spell of Landru during his remarks.

[@TheMastermind729]

hahaha

[@frankcabanski9409]

Oh my!

[@emitlevart7155]

interesting Saturn symbolism while talking about archons...Hmm :)

[@genemaguire]

James Doohan (Scotty), DeForest Kelley ( Bones) RIP, your work is done...

[@Nrgheal]

"Of the Body" -= Cult relegion ...obvious reference to Christianity in it's most narrow minded form, but which began quite differently, 'Archoms' itself is an ancient relegious concept - look it up on Wiki! One of my very favorite episodes.

[@lisasilvas5914]

andyrauf Logical assumption - or perhaps a Cult of Atheism where the state is the body! A soulless society run in machine like fashion by the central planning of a lifeless computer where the state is all - either way group dynamics overwhelm individual freedom. ARCHONS are the Hidden Rulers according to ancient Gnosticism - they control our world by keeping us in perpetual conflicts and chaos! I've always wondered why the brief mention about Archons at the beginning of this episode - a subtle clue by the writer? Hmmm.

[@erentheca]

It's far broader and more interesting than a myopic critique of Christianity.

[@dinahwhite3929]

the archons are in fact the real demons that secretly control humans in the material world the gnostics were resistance fighters of monks followed by LUCIFER OF LIGHT KNOWLEDGE and god of abraham and of muhammad is an EVIL DICTATOR THAT RULES OVER US THE DENIER OF KNOWLEDGE TO ADAM AND EVE LUCIFER WAS THE SERPENT OF WISDOM AND GODDESS SOPHIA IS HIS MOTHER THAT BETRAYED HER HUSBAND GOD THE FATHER THE CATHOLIC TRINITY WAS A LIE THE REAL TRINITY TODAY IS THIS THE FATHER LUCIFER THE SON THE HOLY MOTHER JESUS SOPHIA NOW WHY DID I PLACE LUCIFER AS THE REAL FATHER OF JESUS? THE ANSWER IS IN REVELATION 22:16 "I AM THE DESCENDENT OF KING DAVID OF THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR [lucifer]" KING DAVID AND JESUS CHRIST ARE THE LIVING DESCENDENTS......OF LUCIFER. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS NEW REVELATION THAT I CRACKED WILL BRING THE LIES OF THE CHURCH DOWN THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM IS ALSO RELEVANT TO THE SYMBOLISM OF LUCIFER BECAUSE HE WAS THE REAL FATHER AND IMPREGNATED MARY WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS HE WAS PLACED IN THE TOMB HE WAS RESSURECTED BY REBIRTH IN THE LITERAL WOMB OF SOPHIA THE MOTHER OF LUCIFER TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION REMEMBER LUCIFER WAS A LOVER OF HUMANITY AND A FREEDOM FIGHTER NOT THE DEVIL I BELIEVE IN HIM AS FOR JESUS AND GODDESS SOPHIA

[@TairnKA]

These excerpts have too many animations between scenes.

[@MAFion]

It was time filler so they could stretch an hour show to 90 minutes on the scifi channel to sell more ads.

[@BodaciousWench]

So much for the Prime Directive

[@charlesvan13]

I'd like to see Kirk destroy my computer by giving it a contradiction.

[@danwat1234]

Just run AIDA64 + Furmark at the same time for 10 minutes, same thing will happen.

[@futuremath08]

I have never really heard a good explanation of what happened in the absorption chamber. Did they fire some kind of beam at the person's head?

[@parrotshootist3004]

You die and are replaced by an automaton and everyone pretends that 'only the good remains' because living things feel fear and insecurity.

[@c0t0d0s7]

Paradise... Paradise...

[@6Fiona6_P_6]

Oh how disappointed was when I discovered *Scotty* or should I say James Doohan wasn't in fact Scottish. But it is a testimony of how well he played the character. You know I really Really believed he was Scottish. I guess as a youngish fan I just didn't want reality to intrude on the fantasy........ ☮️⚛️

[@erielighthousetheater5395]

I remember seeing him at a converntion. He could speak in a wide variety of accents. He played Scotty in at least a half-dozen different accents. Very entertaining.

[@jstrahan2]

Landru then. Read Biden/Harris now.

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

michael was good actor.

[@randybarnett2308]

Maybe SKYNET should go after Kirk!

[@mal723]

this appears to have been produced over a free weekend, Shatner seems to be thinking "what have I gotten myself into here? all seems thrown together, disjointed...

[@Emulous79]

Ta-Kay, then. Ha!

[@anthonyjaswinski5732]

My ears perked up. Um hmm. Lol. Sulluuuuuuu

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

"The Return of the Democrats"

[@sixtythreekraft2608]

1:15 Most boring story ever.

[@AlbertEinsteinSpock]

One of the best ever.

[@shanechandler1018]

@@AlbertEinsteinSpock are you of the body ?

[@shanechandler1018]

A spiritual body anyway 😂