Very Rare Star Trek Commentary Original TOS Season 1 With James Doohan & George Takei (Part 1 of 3)

If you collected the VHS videos in the UK for the 30th anniversary release, exclusive pre-episode commentary was available on each tape introducing every episode. This video contains every single commentary from season one featuring James Doohan and George Takei.
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[@Juan-ll6sf]

Original Star Trek tv series classic is like good wine. It's more appreciated as it ages. "Live long and prosper." Thanks.

[@daxbradley4346]

Great seeing Doohan again, thanks for sharing

[@1aikane]

I met him once. He was really a nice guy.

[@holycannoli2]

It is so AWESOME to see Uncles James and George sharing their personal stories! As a boy watching them, I had wished they were my uncles! They will always live in my heart and memories.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

I wanted Uhura for a girl friend, hubba, hubba, she was such an attractive woman and as smart as they would allow a woman's character to be in the 60's

[@charlayned]

I have met both Jimmy and George, at different conventions. Our whole group had dinner with George one evening, it was fun. But the one I cherish is the 3 hours I spent sitting on a couch in a quiet hallway at about 3 a.m. Neither of us could sleep, he had had his first heart attack and we talked medical issues, family, and such. was such a kind, funny man. I managed to meet all of the cast but DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy. Such wonderful memories of each.

[@crruan1142]

City on the Edge of Forever is my favorite episode. It really is amazing on so many levels.

[@thystaff742]

Thank you for posting this.

[@lancebaylis3169]

I'm so glad stuff like this gets archived on KZbin by people like yourself. These mini-introductions could be lost media otherwise, as they only appeared on VHS cassettes (and only in PAL territories, at that), and were never imported to DVD or Blu Ray releases.

[@That_AMC_Guy]

It really is a shame we never got the "Captain Sulu" series we deserved. Mr. Takei is such a well-rounded actor, he could have carried a series easily.

[@elizabethjansen2684]

Probably but he was an extremely bitter vengeful person. I know Shatner wasn't an angel but even decade later he was ugh about it. At least nimoy was classier.

[@That_AMC_Guy]

@@elizabethjansen2684 Hmmm, I don't know about that. The whole Shatner-Takei feud didn't start until well into the 2000's. Back in the 80's and 90's.... there wasn't as much bad blood or at the very least - it wasn't reported on. I still think a Captain Sulu series would've been a hit. Even re-write Voyager and putting Sulu in the Captains chair would've been better. I enjoyed Voyager but there was always something "OFF" about it. Like, it was almost CAMP, y'know? It didn't feel real and needed some veteran Star Trek people to nail it down like Worf & O'Brien in DS9.

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍Very cool and thanks for showing this and James Doohan as Scotty was always one of my all time favorite characters as well as George Takei as Sulu in the show and in the movies and as much of all the various other great characters of TOS indeed!👌.

[@SteveBrant55]

This is pure gold! Thank you!

[@neilgodwin6531]

Poignant that this week we remember D Day, 80 years ago. Jimmy Doohan received multiple wounds and lost a finger (always cleverly concealed on film). He was a real life hero. George Takei, of course, is a different, but equally brave man, fighting for LGBTQ rights, reforms and equality in a hostile environment

[@pwc7475]

Who are you? I feel the same way you do! figured we are down a path i don't like. I'm a heterosexual male (to each his own) but believe in the rights of others. Well said!

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

"Gulliver's Travels" was the first real sci-fi novel, long before "Frankenstein" - Laputa; the floating city held aloft by magnetic forces!!

[@thehowlingmisogynist9871]

"Scottie" without the Brigadoon Accent!!

[@tommyswoodpileadventuresan9552]

I thought I had seen everything Star Trek. Bravo. Where'd you find this?

[@tvfilmmedia]

My personal collection, happy to share.

[@artvankampen8993]

So cool! Thank you for sharing this!

[@PCat2385]

This is a nice find! it has been debunked that the reason Majel was not kept on as second in command is because she was a woman and had more to do with her having an affair with Roddenberry

[@leejtam0914]

people: Star Trek is too woke now, Star Trek in the 60s: We had to deal with social issues with aliens because of censorship

[@josephmountaindweller2778]

This is very familiar. Did you get this from the sci fi channels presentation of restored star trek tos episodes that included footage trimmed out to make room for commercials. Every episode they had comments from the original cast. Am i close to being right?

[@tvfilmmedia]

No. Your answer is in the description for the video. Exclusive for the VHS 30th anniversary release in the UK. Never aired.

[@elizabethjansen2684]

He really is a good looking man

[@syrsknight]

Oh my word yes! I have always loved Scotty... He has my heart! R.I.P Jimmy!

[@bobtis]

Loved Jimmy RIP Scotty

[@pwc7475]

Scotty was a Canadian war hero, something people don't know

[@mikeysuzefour]

Why not have the OG stars do more of these 'personal reviews'?

[@thystaff742]

Money. Only a few volunteer their time.

[@pianobypc1031]

Truly brave at that time putting the beautiful African female, Nichelle Nichols, on the bridge of Enterprise! And it was a role that would last a lifetime.

[@Mikeconch]

1966 Gene Roddenberry: “We need a more diverse cast” 2024 Disney: “We ain’t wanna hire white folk no mo”

[@grahamturner1290]

🖖

[@GlennGoryl]

Who knew sulu is one of the most foul-mouthed human beings to ever live.

[@GTP2-zg9tn]

And in three languages too: Japanese, Spanish and English!!!!

[@Bidimus1]

short ver only read James Doohan.. that I would have probably watched.

[@DaveJOHAZ]

Huh?

[@rogerschneider5971]

​@@DaveJOHAZwhy many words when few words work? (The Office reference)

[@giantclam1822]

So odd listening to him without that accent...im getting confused

[@al.g.7125]

These guys had SDS syndrome. Jealous of the lead actor .

[@elizabethjansen2684]

Maybe but shatner wasn't an angel

[@E_y_a_l]

Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare, inherited bone marrow failure, characterized by a low number of white blood cells, I have no idea what you referring to when you say SDS syndrome, but either way, I think it was less of a jealousy and more the desire for their characters to do more than just say "aye captain", in the level of popularity the show got during the 70s reruns they probably thought they deserve and expected to do more in the movies, and they didn't, which led to the tensions between them and the leading cast, in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT the "sidekicks" also had their own episodes and good amount of screen time and that's one of the reasons I think most of these crews got along better, Denise Crosby left the show because of the same reason, she didn't want to just say Yes Sir for 7 years, but from her interviews I think she would be the last person to say something bad about Patrick Stewart or Gene Roddenberry.

[@al.g.7125]

SDS- Meaning Shatner derangement syndrome.

[@TerentiiTaras]

FTR, Scotty's (i.e., Engineering's) insigne had a lightning bolt, not a star.