Doomsday Machine (part 7 of 7) Star Trek TOS 1966-1968  

Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard! The most suspenseful three minutes in all of TOS. Magnificently superb.

I love how composer Sol Kaplan gave each Starship it's own musical theme. The Enterprise- The avenging hero. The Constellation - a wounded warrior facing one last battle.

Star Trek. The Original Series. Still the best incarnation of Star Trek. 🖖🖖🖖

First aired October 20, 1967, over 50 years ago and still better than most of what you see to day. .

This concept of a 'planet killer' won the author, Norman Spinrad, a science fiction award!

This part was absolutely exciting, especially with the music building to a crescendo and Scotty working like crazy to fix the transporter. You could tell Kirk was starting to get scared, and even Spock was getting anxious. The music totally made the scene! But before that, the scene with Decker making a suicide run in a shuttle down the machine's throat was a masterful bit of acting. It was one of those scenes you love/hate - hate because it was almost painful to watch this poor guilt-ridden captain trying to rectify his perceived mistake and realizing too late that he was going to die, and love because the actor did a fantastic job of conveying the absolute terror as he sees death approaching. You were quite literally on the edge of your seat, digging your nails into the cushion as you watched him approaching his doom. And again the frenetic trumpet music highlighted that desperate, terrified feeling. Funny, I was just thinking of this the other day!

This episodes had it all. It had the remarkable acting, the thrilling and suspense, the action, and the musical score that made this one of the best ever episodes of the original series !!!

I miss Trek when it was still Trek.

Man... this was real Star Trek : very crappy special effect, just pure acting perfection and great soundtrack. Looking at these unedited episodes you can understand how incredibile this serie have been.

Mike you have done a great service to us loyal fans of this great series...You picked a real winner to upload. Thanks!

I used to have a little mini replica of the Enterprise and I used to use an ice cream cone and replicate this scene as a kid 😂 I loved Star Trek , it’s still awesome till this day.

A cracking episode, one of my favourites, nice to see it again. Thanks.

Captain Kirk was beamed from the USS Constellation aboard the USS Enterprise a split second before the Constellation's engines exploded, deactivating the planet-killer forever. Tense, dramatic scene! Awesome on-the-edge-of-your-seat music! Plus the anxious expressions on all the actor's faces, especially William Shatner! Priceless!😊

I wish the remastered version on Netflix didn’t do away with the beautiful old fashioned special effects from the original. Thanks so much for uploading this so I can see how it really looked!

Love this episode!

I like the cleaned up high-definition versions of this great TV show it was like watching a brand new show all over again

TOS, the first and still the best.

Did you know that the model of the old Enterprise is hanging from the ceiling of the Smiththonian museum?

I remember how terrifying that thing was. As a six year old, the music stayed with me forever

My favorite Star Trek episode.

This and Space Seed are my fave episodes.

I do believe Spock was starting to show emotions at 02:00

Just for fun, a friend of mine, her father worked on Star Trek. A couple of sliding doors used on the show are now her sliding closet doors in her bedroom. 😂...this show was before it's time. Still playing thank God on cable.

Thanks for these! A great way to get around the bs of see bs.

The old AMT kit being swallowed by the concrete encrusted weather sock .... Priceless .....

Picard. "we just communicate with this lifeform to see what it wants." Kirk - "let's blow this thing up" Love Kirk

The workers from Magrathea really need to do a better job of not allowing their tools to get lost and exploring the universe.

One of my fav episodes far and away 😁😃😃

Again, I am practically orgasmic Mike Leo for uploaded UNREMASTERED Star Trek.

4:00 love those creaky wooden floors lolol

" BRIDGE WE GOT HIM THROUGH ! "

The only episode that showed a full walk around of the bridge.

Much appreciated. Subbed.

Everybody here of course knows the electrical crackling sound is the same used in the original STAR WARS TRILOGY lightsaber fights, right?? It's arc welding.

Yeah ,yeah,yeah,I know it was my favorite show too....live long and prosper everybody...just remember me when you do...

"The Doomsday Machine" is a great episode from the original "Star Trek" TV series, but it is a shame that they screwed-up the countdown sequence at the end of the episode. From the moment when Kirk pushes the red button on the Constellation's Auxiliary Control Room's control panel to force the U.S.S Constellation's impulse engines to overload to the moment when the Constellation explodes just inside the "Doomsday Machine" is much longer than 30 seconds! The Constellation's impulse engines explode 1minute 24 seconds after Kirk pushes the red button on the Constellation's Auxiliary Control Room board panel. When Spock says, "Mr. Scott 20 seconds to detonation", it is actually only 5 seconds until the expiration of the 30 seconds since Kirk pushed the red button! When Sulu says, "Eight" (seconds) in the countdown, it has actually been a full minute since Kirk pushed the red button! And why didn't Kirk shield his eyes from the bright light inside the "Doomsday Machine" as the Constellation got very close to it, just like Commodore Decker in an earlier scene had to shield his eyes as the shuttlecraft entered the "Doomsday Machine"?

I love Star Trek as well, but this is the most cartoonish-looking episode I know of.

Why were they measuring distance with miles in this episode, when pretty much every other episode they used kilometers?

Spock made this so good. Calm cool and collected. Not HOLY SHIT CAPTAIN HEY YOU WHAT THE F...

Was an awesome episode, though whatever built it could most likely build a bomb/missile to destroy it like federation did.

The 60s series always had a strong morality messaging undercurrent. Here we are warned of the mortal dangers of massive lit space spliffs.

I think this may have been the only time they referred to distances in miles. It was always kilometers or parsecs.

"I found one quite sufficient". Well, now you know how to destroy it. Just load a shuttlecraft up with some anti-matter like you used to kill that gaseous blood-sucking creature, fly it by remote control into the machine and detonate it

The turned sideways ice cream cone just died!

It sounded like a giant spring when it it exploded because it WAS!!!!! lol

1:57 I think is Spocks worried/aggravated voice on TOS lol

BRIDGE WE GOT HIM THROUGH

I prefer this explosion over the remade one. It’s much more effective.

Sad they never addressed where the restroom is on the Enterprise. I would imagine that they simply beam the crap out of the intestine and into space as far away as possible.

If I was Kirk I would have given myself at least one minute 😅

Starfleet reverse engineered that to create a lot of effective weaponry from it

Poor Constellation 😥

It took 1 minute, 32 seconds to blow.

And the Federation gains a great big lump of neutronium to play with.

The original Star Trek was light years better than the Star Trek that followed. I never ever watched any of the captain Picard or whatever his name was. Nothing beat Kirk and Spock et al. They are Star Trek and there is just no denying that!

4:40 season 1 fly by ship 4:44

Perhaps the purpose of the Doomsday Machine was to fight the Borg. It would make sense. An uncrewed killing machine cannot be assimilated.

Any Louie CK fans here? I am quite certain James T Kirk never had to "rub one out"...he had ample WILLING volunteers.

No remote control of ships, like we have today, 300 or so years prior ?

Star Trek, the series that can't decide on KM's or Miles. Lol.

Think it can take on the Death Star or even Starkiller base.

such a great episode

RIP U.S.S. Constellation, even in such a beat-up state, she fought to the end like a trooper. A true testament to the durability of the Constitution-Class.

Still ranked by fans as among one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever made....

Terrific ending. Fifty-plus years after the fact, this episode still rules. I always had the hope that a movie would have the Planet Killer in it, somehow reactivated. That would truly rock!

All the episodes of the Original Star Trek series are excellent, this one is really over the top in suspense. The Original Star Trek series RULES MAN!

The suspenseful musical score alone in this episode is award winning. ⭐️

The music!!! The music, as much as the action, in this episode helped win me over as a 6 year old when I saw it for the first time in the early 70's. Incredible stuff. Easily one of my top 3 episodes in the series, and most likely #1.

Killer music in this episode!

"Mister Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MISTER SCOTT"

Scotty being a badass troubleshooter 👍👍👍

I'll still prefer the original series over any of the later ones. Thanks for the videos my friend, good stuff indeed!

What makes James T. Kirk such a likeable, admirable character is his great nobility and willingness to take great personal risks, including risking his own life, in situations which call for decisive and prompt action. He consistently demonstrates tremendous courage in the face of impending danger where others would shirk away from such danger. We root for him and his gallant crew because he and they always try to do what's right for the better good and benefit of all.

And the Giant Evil Space Joint finally bites it.

Sol Kaplan should have won award for Best Musical Score

You have to love the menacing background music!!!

Scotty inverse phazed the hell out of that Jeffries Tube.

This wonderfully dramatic ending in "The Doomsday Machine" never ever fails to raise the hair on the back of the viewer's neck! Every story writer, film maker and music composer who wants to write stories or music for TV or produce a dramatic story for TV, should watch this classic episode of "Star Trek" to see exactly how you write, film and score a dramatic, "edge of your seat" scene! This episode gets better and better with each viewing!

Sixteee...Fifteee...Forteee! .... Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard.

Sol Kaplan's score is so important to this episode that the composer should be listed as a guest star.

The true irony James T Kirk is that you were able to produce quality entertainment that was light years ahead of its time....This stuff ROCKS!

“Gentlemen, I suggest you beam be aboard.” Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been next week’s adventure 😉

I was 6 years old watching this episode when it originally aired with my brother and father jumping up and down in anxiety during this scene! Lifelong hard core trekkie i have this episode living in my iPhone i can watch it whenever I want to!

they don't make them like that any more.

I always thought this episode was like Jaws in Space!

There’s just something about the TOS uniforms that’s cooler than wearing basically a a jumpsuit on the other series’s 🤔

The music in this episode really elevated the tension. Now compare this to the dull wallpaper music in Berman Trek.

Mr Spock shows some emotion as the Capt returns to the bridge.

Even with the cheesy effects at 1:53, where you can see the obviously toy ship shaking, I still prefer the original over the new CGI effects.

"He gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go." Fitting that Kirk says that, considering his actions at Veridian III.

Maybe one of the best episodes of the series.

One of the first showings of Spoke emotion: "Mr Scot Mr Scot. Mr Scot Mr Scot. Mr Scot." Then the hint of a smile in his "Welcome Aboard." No doubt one happy Vulcan.

Mike Leo, thank you so much for posting all of these. This is one of the greatest episodes of the entire original series.

Definitely my favorite episode, thanks for uploading it. Hadn't seen it in probably 35 years. Still holds up well dramatically!

In my opinion 'The Doomsday Machine' is hands down the #1 best episode of all three seasons of ST TOS!

Thank you for posting. Finally, at last, I can see the original again before they "remastered" it into a cartoon.

This is and will always be my favorite episode of Star Trek. Thanks for sharing this with us! Especially since I can't find my DVD of it. *shrugs*

Say what you want but any storytelling standard this is so full of plot holes it's crazy. But the old charm, excitement and unforgettable characters is all there. So who cares!

GREAT JOB! Love this episode! Thanks for posting!

I see this small clip and it gripped me into it more than any modern series has.😁