2:41 Mark! Alexxa, greetings! 🖖 Thanks for unlocking it so that we can view it! 😊 Yay! 🎉 Lest anyone to doubt that this is the DR version. That's the improved version of the Starship Exeter rather than the usage of an expertly put together "AMT" model kit combined with stock footage of the Starship Enterprise! 😎👍
16:15 Mark! He's been in Westerns and pulled gun triggers, and in the cop shows too, I think, but there are no joke outtakes in which they make PHASER sounds! 😂😅
3:57 Mark! One aspect about his "Star Trek" appearances that I like is that it gave him a break from appearing in Westerns and Poilce shows. 😊 I'm not sure if I've seen him in a Comedy. 🤔
10:28 Mark! What do I have in common with actress Sarah Michelle Gellar and actor William Shatner? Taekwondo, that's what! But they are belt levels above me! In 1978, I read the issue of "Starlog Magazine" with him on the cover. His school has a color that "Brothers Taekwondo" doesn't have. He had that belt color! Later on in, I think it was "Black Belt Magazine" it said that he had advanced to that status. The point is that the Taekwondo method involves using thumbs on pressure points somewhere in the same area that Spock grabs and pinches. 😊 Hehe! Actor Billy Crystal as his "Soap" character in one episode, in a fit of desperation, tries the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on a much bigger guy, and when it works he shouts at the ceiling, "Thank you, Mister Spock!" 😂 By the way, if I recall correctly about SMG, when she began playing "Buffy Anne Summers" she was a Blue Belt who became a Black Belt by series end! 🥋
Thank you for doing this one. I had forgotten the powerful messages that are blending into the story and I so agree that the villain here was portrayed so well. Star Trek The original Series often created a story around planets that mirrored our own and even at times when it might feel a bit ridiculous. But Gene Roddenberry wanted to present these stories so as not to be censored by the Network executives at the time. And yes, he did fight them hard. Some stories he wanted to go much deeper and in some episodes he wished could have been a 2-part story to develop the idea further. Gene held the feeling that all life on Earth was connected and that each person, regardless of race or religion or country were all connected as well. The collective humanity, exploring space together to bring unity to all. This episode was good one with the mistaken understanding of the virus that killed the first ship's crew. So well written.
This was actually one of Roddenberry's episodes from the first season that wasn't actually made until years later. Features one of Kirk's most epic speeches. At the time I first heard it, had no idea Shat was actually Canadian. I still thought he was an all American boy. Yes, you do know Galloway. Good eye. As it happens, although he got vaporized in this episode, he turns up perfectly fine in a later show or two. McCoy's human body water percentage is way too high, but we are in fact, mostly water, walking around, thinking, loving, fighting, and so on and so forth. The dessication virus turns up in a rather good novel, but it's tied into a later series you haven't begun to watch so I'll say no spoilers. Actually the story wasn't entirely well executed. It would have made more sense if the two factions had been kidnapped from Earth in the 1990s (Tos-verse version). It's beyond belief that an entirely different culture came up with exactly the same wording as was written on Earth for the "document" Kirk recites from. Oh and they just happened to come up with an identical flag. And the same Pledge of Allegiance. Hell no. Anyway, Cheers, Alexa! PS. It's USS X-It-ter. Probably named after HMS EXETER of the British Navy. There was also a USS HOOD named after HMS HOOD.
FUN FACT: During season two, George Taki was cast in a supporting role in the John Wayne film The Green Berets, so he was temporarily unavailable to be in Star Trek for ten weeks, which meant Walter Koenig benefited from George's absence. Sulu's roles for both The Trouble With Tribbles & The Games of Triskelion were rewritten for Walter. Great reaction today! I look forward to your future reactions! ❤️
27:29 Mark! 😂 Which option is the funnier visual? That the rescue party arrived on horses? Or in 🏀 uniforms? 🤔 😅 Or those church robes worn by the "Calvary Baptist Church" if I recall correctly? 🤔 😅
Looks like Capt. Tracey will be sent to the Tantalus colony for rehabilitation, by Dr. Van Gelder. That should be a fun introduction, eh? Omega IV: Better than Omega-3 for your health, until you either turn to powder or go crazy. This was one of several scripts proposed to be made as the second original series pilot episode. Obviously, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" prevailed. There is a short (two episode) fan series called "Starship Exeter". It is a very early effort that set the standard for later fan productions. Some say that its episode "The Savage Empire" is better than some actual Trek episodes. It pre-dates the "New Voyages" fan series, which is also quite good.
30:05 Mark! 418 Views + Mine! 🎉 Thumb Up #74! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: Another jolly good review! However, I was a bit distracted by seeing that someone decorated your wall with a black boot print! 😮 It was to your right shoulder. Kevin, in the original "Wonder Years" on "ABC" he watched "Star Trek" too. His family was Caucasian. The new version set in the same time but within a Black neighborhood. I didn't get to see many episodes before we lost our ability to watch television. So I don't know if he watched "Star Trek" as well, or not. But one special episode with Kevin had him fantasizing about the episode "Spock's Brain" as I recall. It reflects his fears or concerns about asking Winnie out! Wait! That's Grandma's name. Ugh. Maybe her name started with a "W" but I know it wasn't "Wendy" or "Wanda". He was afraid to ask her out. 🤔 This episode's fight scenes have been talked about, but not reenacted! 😅 Bye-bye for now! 🙏
8:40 Mark! Not allowed in the 1960s! I blame "America's Funniest Home Videos" from "ABC" for making it a commonplace thing allowed on "family friendly television" when such attacks used to be found only in "adult entertainment"! Like "Breast Fights" still are. Busty babes, instead of using big bellies as the Sumo wrestlers who inspired them do, use their busts to push each other around! Or the Boxing version in which only hits to breasts count! Ditto with slap fights! 😁
Some people like it, some don't. By this point i had come to accept "Earth parallel stories" as part of their world. It might be more palatable for some if this were an alternate universe? At any rate, I liked seeing Morgan Woodward again and the intensity he brings!
The infamous Star Trek Blooper Reel featured that shot of Ron Tracey's hand, holding the phaser, and firing it--but the sound effect was a BANG!--as in a gunshot!
1. Here we go with the vaunted "Prime Directive" trope. 2. The best part of this episode is the patented "hot girl" that I never tire of.😈 3. Mini flashback to "This Side of Paradise" and why we're stranded on this planet. 4. How deep did they have to dig for that CHEESE?🙄
9:05 Mark! Ahem. I'm not one of those to ever say that something is so bad that it's good! I either enjoy it and like it or I don't! If I like it, then it is "good"! But some episodes I like more than others because of the factors involved. Sure, seeing a different ship appeals to me. Sure, a good story, theme, or plot appeals to me. Sure, I enjoy a good brawl, fight, or ship combat. But since going through puberty and adolescence, the sex appeal factor of the females has been at the top! 😅 This guest blonde appeals to me. But she's not Teri Garr! "Roberta Lincoln" isn't wearing fur for one. "BAN FUR" as we say! Also, she gets to speak, so she's more than "eye candy" as they say. ❤
One episode out of 3 seasons (five if you also count TAS) that does a little healthy flag-waving and there are still people to this very day who are moved to crap on it for precisely that reason alone. They probably have no idea what the words to The Star Spangled Banner are even all about since their teachers purposefully left that out of their curriculum. This video, while dramatized for effect, fills in that gap: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YaxGNQE5ZLA.html
While the coincidence of a duplicate world with our similar history is impossible, I love Kirk's explanation of the constitution. It brought my politics into focus. It's why I firmly believe in the right to vote for everyone. Its bad for pur democracy that %40 of eligible citizens don't vote.
Ah, this ending. This goofy goofy ending. Up there with Bread & Circuses. Season 3 does at least have an episode that explains all of these random extremely Earth-like civilisations.
This has always been on the list of worst Star Trek episodes. People thought it was jingoistic but I always liked it. It also shows how once again these starship commanders go bat shit crazy when they lose their entire crews. BTW, Morgan Woodward, who played Captain Tracy also played Dr. Simon Van Gelder in “dagger of the mind” he was an excellent character actor who was on seemingly every TV show of the 60s and 70s.
There is an online archive called, "American Rhetoric," featuring the greatest American speeches. It has a Star Trek subsection, featuring a clip of the "We the People" scene from this episode!
This episode was OK until the last 10 minutes. It could have been the 2nd pilot, but WNMHGB was selected. We didn't need another parallel Earth ep. It was similar to Miri that way.
it's funny when a Canadian preach to Americans about their constitution, you cut the funny scene at the end when they talked about Spock begin the devil
Yeah,okay….so,this was one of the worst episodes of all time.I think,this episode of;The omega Glory is still good,even if some people don’t think 🤔 so?And,I agree!The costitution mean’s:”all the people”.Or,as Captain Kirk say’s these words;unless these words mean something,than it mean’s nothing unless it mean’s:”all the people,do you understand?After all the fighting is over,and thing’s have calmed down,than these people understand how to enjoy their freedom,which they all deserve!I wonder,too,what the James Blish story would say,here?I’ll have to check that out if I find the said story!Again,I thought this episode:’meant something!’And,our real America 🇺🇸 is a great country,and we have lot’s of great people here,who enjoy America as well!I can still hear my mom saying;it’s a good thing that they made this show a long,time,ago,because,most of these actor’s are no longer with us,now!Yes,I must agree with her here on that!She’s no longer here,but,some of these memories of her come back to me.Okay,on with another show!Yeeha!😊
This is one of those episodes that's a good story but has some major plotholes. We're hundreds of light-years from Earth, but the planet is populated by aliens who look exactly like humans? And where did they get the US Constitution and US Flag? Makes no sense as shown. Somebody said there's a deleted scene that explains they came from Earth, but that should not have been deleted, because it doesn't make sense without it. Plus they have to explain why people have there at least 1000 years, when man has only had Faster than Light travel for less than 400 years. lol 🙂 But, it's still a good story, and I loved the video 🙂
???? You think "The Alternative Factor" was worse than _this?_ Worse than the one where they met those telepathic Ancient Greeks that made them sing and dance around, and forced Kirk to make out with Uhura? What about the one where they jumped back in time as if they did so routinely to discover how humanity survived the nuclear age, for the sake of promoting another Gene Roddenberry show on N.B.C? She hasn't seen this one yet, but what about the one called "Spectre of The Gun"? Or the one with ... Or the episode where the Enterprise was sent to retrieve an early deep space probe, but dropped out of Warp too late, and crashed into it, damaging the ship and stranding them falling into a living black hole? 🤔 Or maybe that was another show.
In the comments you mean? I do. But I have had to take some time off from responding to comments while I concentrated on my recovery after my injury. Since my health is progressing, I will be back at it soon! Thanks for understanding! 💛
Ron Tracey is another Starfleet bad apple. There will be more rogue captains and flag officers ahead. This theme of evil captains becomes a trend throughout Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry and Harlan Ellison once had that epic battle over Harlan's character, Beckwith, in his original script for "The City on the Edge of Forever." Beckwith was a drug dealer and a murderer who was the original catalyst that entered Earth's past and changed the course of history. Roddenberry wanted no bad apples on the Enterprise, so the script was rewritten to make McCoy the catalyst; accidentally overdosing on Cordrazine, entering a crazed state, and leaping through the portal, affecting history. This conflict drove a wedge between the two men for the rest of their lives. The thing is that here in "Omega Glory," this quarrel has come full circle! Now, Gene Roddenberry is OK with the idea that Starfleet has some bad apples, implicitly agreeing with Ellison.
Really?This is the worst Star ⭐️ Trek episode?Hmm…..I’ve watched this episode of;The Omega Glory several time’s!Well,I guess,that’s how the cookie 🍪 crumbles in this story?Never the less,I still like Star ⭐️ Trek!😊❤
Well,okay….than,I guess,I have my;”full answer’to this Omega Glory episode,here!Well,too….since Star ⭐️ Trek was made over fifty(wow,I can’t believe it was that many year’s,ago!)year’s ago,one can’t change what’s already happened here!I mean,it started as a serie’s in the fall of 1964.And,the series “lives on’in those James Blish book’s as well.Too,you can’t win 🥇 them all in a show!Now a days,I just watch Mystery on channel eleven,or Masterpiece Theater.🎭
Some people at my apartment complex like soap 🧼 opera’s as well.My mom 👩 couldn’t understand why people liked them.Because,she thought the storie’s were rather,I guess you could say….mixed up?⬆️ There aren’t too many soap 🧼 opera’s on,anymore!We had ton’s of them in my day,back in the late ⏰ 1960”s!Dark Shadow’s is one that come’s to mind.
