@@icecreamdf5259 well sometimes they grin like excited little kids, but that’s _exclusively_ reserved for times when they find plants with jingly blue leaves.
Despite the awkward "early installment weirdness", I do love this clip so much. It's not quite what Trek will be yet (costumes, continuity, ect), but you can still see some of the most important elements of original Trek in it.
Kirk pretends to not even be paying attention to the game, defeats him, then taunts him about having human blood after losing to a human 😂 Talk about trolling 🙄
I guess "My father's the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, and I have a half brother and an adopted human sister" was too much of an info dump for such an early chapter in the series...
Out of all the weirdness of this clip - the tan uniforms, the set, Spock's wonky 45 degree eyebrows, etc - and the one thing that bugs me is that Kirk doesn't have his pointy sideburns yet. :)
Kirk and McCoy both nailed their characters from the very beginning. Spock was certainly great but did have to work on the character and develop it over time and as we all know he perfected it. But Kirk, bones and even Scotty really nailed their characters from the get go.
@@sarahfullerton6894 well, according to Leonard Nimoy, it was he himself who drove that character. He was playing off the first captain in a different way than he played off Shatner. So it was Leonard who develop that character on his own, according to him.
Kirk and Bones were long standing archetypes. Shatner and Kelly could pull from a long line of influences. Spock was a very new kind of character. Nimoy and Roddenberry had to figure it out and develop him under the pressure of making the shows.
In this second pilot episode, Spock now wears command gold, rather than ship's sciences blue. He had worn blue in "The Cage", the first pilot episode. There was no continuity regarding uniform colors at this point. I believe this was the only episode in which Spock wore gold.
I see a lot of comments on Spock's appearance -- specifically the eyebrows. They're different because this episode had a different makeup artist. Robert Dawn filled in for Fred Phillips, who had done Nimoy's makeup for the first pilot, and would go on to do it for the regular series episodes. Phillips' makeup was just qualitatively better; he had a more artistic eye, and could appreciate how much even fairly subtle variations could make a difference.
Notice how Spock rolls his eyes when Kirk expresses his concern when he hasn't heard from the bridge and then smiles when he says "Ah yes, one of your Earth emotions." Funny inconsistentcy.
"One of my ancestors married a human female"--Spock's "back story" hadn't been worked out as yet--this is from the second pilot episode. The "ancestor" turned out to be Sarek, of course. Spock's father married Amanda; they produced Spock. Spock is fully half-human, with more than remote traces of humanity in him.
i headcanon that early season 1 spock was still getting used to being himself around humans so he acted more human, like smiled more and such, and then eventually realised he didnt need to pretend to be 100% human because he wasnt
That doesn’t make sense though. Even before SNW came out, The Cage and The Menagerie established that he had been serving on the Enterprise under Pike for over a decade.
Wow, some stuff seriously got retconned after this. I wouldn't normally refer to your father as a "ancestor", to say nothing of his small smile after hearing the word "irritating", etc.
I spilled a load of instant barista coffee powder on the counter earlier, but I was running late so I had to leave it. When I got back home, I went to clear it up only to find that because the counter was slightly damp, the coffee powder had congealed. It had then dried out leaving a solid mass I was able to literally pull of the counter in one lump with a spatula. Not wanting to waste it, I broke it into bits and made a cup with some of these bits. It tasted like cack; well even more like cack than instant coffee usually does. So don't do this people, just throw it away.
Note: It wasn't just Spock whose early command shirt had a zipper. Kirk's had one, too. These were eliminated in the collarless later uniforms, which also had black undershirts, if I'm correct. The heavy fabric collars were gone.
@@rod6722 The best computers now beat the best human players without any real problems. Pure logic and the ability to work out so many different combinations wins out over some kind of 'flair' which doesn't count for a hell of a lot in chess. I think some people think you could probably confuse another player by playing the type of move nobody else would play. There is a computer which does this now but it is part of an overall strategy which itself requires a great degree of analysis. The kind of inspired moment Kirk has in these games isn't entirely absent from human vs human games, but against someone who works on pure logic such as Spock, it would simply be irrelevant.
I don't think that's correct Kirk would occasionally defeat Spock at 3D chess not all the time. Pretty sure it gets mentioned somewhere later in the series
0.35 Those two women in the background are definitely *not* wearing uniforms. I wonder if TOS was originally supposed to have families aboard, same as TNG did?
Seriously, Spock? You deal with humans all the time and have done it for years, but you have to think about the meaning of "irritation"? No wonder people say you are irritating.
Right off the bat, Captain Kirk as a character of depth is established with a game of chess. Just one short scene. Something STD in 2 seasons is incapable of doing with Michael Burnham.
