@@mtbroca Did you actually watch the Enterprise Incident? You got two facts VERY wrong. 1. Kirk and McCoy did not disguise themselves as Romulians. Only Kirk. 2. Spock and Kirk did not fake their deaths. Spock helped Kirk fake his, so he could be beamed back to the Enterprise and surgically altered to resemble a Romulian. You really don't want people fact checking you. Especially Star Trek's fanatical fans. They will rip you a new one. All in all it was an interesting piece.
Star Trek Voyager, second of a two part episode arc, crew members forced to live in a World War 2 holodeck simulation. Jeri Ryan singing and Klingons fighting nazis. Classic.
So many errors regarding your synopsis of _The Enterprise Incident,_ it makes me wonder if you actually _watched_ the episode. _"The Enterprise is just outside of the Romulan neutral zone...when a bunch of Romulan ships show up..."_ Actually, they cross _into_ the neutral zone, and are well inside of it when the Romulans appear. _"...(Kirk) and Spock are taken to a Romulan outpost..."_ They're taken aboard the Romulan flagship. _"Kirk and Spock fake their deaths..."_ Kirk and Spock fake _Kirk's_ death. Only Kirk is presumed dead. _"...and then Kirk and McCoy put on pointy eared disguises..."_ McCoy helps Kirk put on a pointy eared disguise (he surgically alters Kirk's appearance to that of a Romulan). McCoy never actually puts on a disguise himself.
Thank you for your comments, I was about to write this out myself. I agree the person doing this was not a fan of the show and definitely had not watched the Enterprise Incident.
Short skirts were the fashion of the day in the '60s! I know, I, my friends, my sister, etc., wore them very short. And many of the women portrayed on Star Trek TOS were very capable professionals, without husbands or kids, unlike most women on TV at the time.
In "Trials and Tribbilations", when Dax magically wipes out her spots (to pose as a human female, Trills hadn't been introduced into the series and perhaps weren't known in Kirk's day), as she puts on the standard issue uniform of a medical/science enlisted tech, she comments that the hemlines for women's attire were "shorter". Of course, Terri Farrell had the 'gams" to show off!
@@selfdo ..Although nowadays, if Dax would walk around present day Earth city streets, no one would even bat an eye at the spots on her face and neck area because of the popularity of interesting and outrageous tattoos among men and women today anyway. Some ppl have tattoos all over their bodies. So she would fit right in.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Agreed! Even nearly 25 years ago, when the two-parter in Voyager, "Future's End", Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Paris all beam down to Los Angeles at Venice Beach, and they've put one what they think are period-appropriate clothes. Tuvok, seeing the colorful persons milling about, remarks, "We could have worn our Starfleet Uniforms. I doubt anyone would have noticed!" Probably having Dax erase her 'spots' (interesting how easily that's done, with some sort of 'ray applicator', my guess is that she was actually applying some makeup in a matching color, and the device in her hand is some manner of mini-transporter, much like the replicator magically makes a desired dish or drink appear) is so that the appearance of Trills in the Federation doesn't have to be explained. Also, IF indeed Kirk hadn't seen a Trill, and he beheld Dax, he'd want to jump her bones (as if Terri Farrell isn't fetching enough!) so he could have himself a spotted gal! I would surmise that transporter technology is cheap and safe enough that it can be used in a makeup applicator for women, although the consumer economy of the Federation, give that they profess not to be motivated by "material pursuits", and when Kirk and the crew of the "Botany Bay" go back to 1986 San Francisco, he remarks "They still use MONEY" (maybe he meant they still use currency and/or coins, there are other references to some form of money, i.e., Federation "credits"), makes assumptions about consumer habits and the general standard of living (presumably comparable to ours if not BETTER) rather sketchy.
@Cliven Longsight Oh, yeah! Dr. Helen Noel (Marianna Hill, b. 1942, so a 24 y.o. as a "doctor" is a preciously young professional!) is, if not my FAVORITE ST chick, definitely in the Top Five. However, I also liked the relief communications officer, Lt. Palmer (Elizabeth Rogers, 1934-2004). But Kirk not "fraternize"? Yeah, right. However, Jadzia actually fancied Spock, himself a "babe magnet", which wasn't "Logical"...
@Cliven Longsight The show wasn't about "James Tiberius Kirk" gets his rocks off, and it WAS the Sixties...so either he'd have to fall in love with Janice Rand, marry her, knock her up, and have her Earth side (or on some colony planet), or, be "Keptin Kelibate", with Rand gone. That rumors got spread of Grace Lee Whitney's drug and alcohol problems, thanks to the "Great Bird", Gene Roddenberry , he was a real bastard. Once the Janice Rand character just kinda dropped out, ST: TOS went through the "hot chick of the week" phase, with a new Yeoman or Junior Officer, and it was a babe fest! I agree about Noel and her hotness. Would also give honorable mention to Yeomans Barrows, Mears, Ross (hubba, hubba, hubba!), Tamura, Zahra, and Cobb; Lts. Piper, Shaw, McGivers (I'm a sucker for redheads), Palamas, Moreau (both universes!), Palmer (not everyone would agree as to her looks, but SHE would have been IDEAL for Kirk), and Romaine (poor Scotty, lucky with engines, unlucky at love..), and LCDR/Dr. Muhall (whom later on would get plastered and then plowed by Dylan Hunt (John Saxon) in a quest for "balance" in one of Roddenberry's failed pilots). And I''m not even counting civilians or other races, of whom it's implied that Kirk got frisky with at least a few.
So, David, you're saying the Neighborhood Association decided who could keep the apartment by invoking the single-combat-arbitration clause? Happened to my uncle too..
In the Enterprise Incident, the ship was not outside the neutral zone but went straight in to provoke the response. Also- they were not taken to an outpost- they were interrogated on the Romulan Flagship
How they managed to steal the cloaking device and get away would undoubtedly have provoked a huge amount of reprisals from the Tal'Shiar. Sub-Commander Tal is a DEAD man, IF he's lucky. The Romulan Commander (Joanne Linville) would either commit suicide at first opportunity (and Kirk graciously having her escorted by Security to her "quarters" instead of the brig is either a nod to allowing her to kill her self, or he's naively exercising poor security himself) or resign herself to a life in exile from the Empire, she, likewise, having commanded the entire fiasco that was the Romulan response (and that several Romulan capital space craft, including two of the new D7 battlecruisers obtained from the Klingons, magically show up indicate that Section 31 has egregiously "fouled up" , e.g., there's likely a 'mole' that tipped the Romulans off), would likely be targeted for assassination, as she's too valuable a prisoner to the Federation.
It look’s by the first comment,that,Star Trek alway’s wins!Or,I should say,the Enterprise crew does?I also like how the Romulan Commander is given a choice of being relocated to a Starbase,instead of being;a prisoner.I was assuming that either side would’ve killed each other,eventually?But,we know the writer’s wanted a;hopeful future,here?Yes,I agree!This is more logical,and it satisfies the viwer’s wishes!
Just a few simple corrections. Herb Solow and Robert Justman weren't writers for the series. Justman was associate producer and Solow was head of Desilu Studios. They never wrote for Star Trek. There is nothing mentioned (documented) by the production people involved with Star Trek that the sexy ladies in the show were a distraction for the story elements. It was the sci-fi "parable" element that was the distraction (according to Gene Roddenberry) so the network could write it off as nothing more than telling fairly tales (ala Jonathan Swift).
It's funny how people today judge the people of yesterday by today's standards. In some cases, there are things that are eternally repugnant (racism comes to mind), but the strange obsession with applying 3rd generation feminism to critique of material produced during its second generation is strange to me. I came up in the 90s, mind, but I actually paid attention in school. TOS was a product of the late 60s, and they weren't THAT far removed from the 40s and 50s, where revealing any part of a woman's body was "scandalous." Honestly, I find it hilarious that we've largely returned to the "don't show your body" mindset of olden days in the name of misguided "feminism."
@@jesuszamora6949, I consider that to be less 3rd wave feminism, and more of the extremist anti-male kind of feminism (propagated by Andrea Dworkin and her contemporaries) that (IMHO) gained traction because of the Internet.
@@Neville60001 There is the internet too, yes. The absolute worst strains of left and right wing extremism have really found footing they might not have without the megaphone provided by social media.
@@jesuszamora6949 originally Janice and Uhura wore tunics and long pants. Grace Lee Whitney went to GR and complained that she had beautiful long dancer's legs of which she was extraordinarily proud. She was upset that the costume was covering them. Nichelle Nicolls felt the same way. All the female costumes were subsequently changed to ditch the pants. Pretty sure the male viewers were quite happy about it. 😉
I was born from a treky mom and have inherited the treky gene. I just can’t help myself. THERE IS NO CURE And I’m glad! Can’t wait for the new series to come out
This was actually preceded by Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. He had a knack to disguise the contemporary social and political issues in his stories. Got the censors to follow the superficial storyline, while the underlying plot took aim at the actual human condition (which would have been censored).
You described The Enterprise Incident just as if you'd hastily scanned a synopsis on it written by someone who had once had the episode playing in the background while the read a book.
The Enterprise Incident synopsis is completely wrong, whoever wrote this script needs to actually sit down and watch the episode... And we are not just talking one error here, we are talking tons of them. So far the only thing that is correct is that there was Romulans in that episode!
There is one Star Trek episode you missed that parallels Earth history. It was Assignment Earth and it was the one where Gary Seven prevents a global thermonuclear war by the US government's launch of an orbital thermonuclear weapon that goes out of control and is about to land in the Soviet Union. Gary Seven detonates the bomb in time and this leads to a treaty banning the launching thermonuclear weapons in space. No event like this occurred in 1968 but a the 1967 Outer Space Treaty was signed by the US and the USSR banning these weapons.
Spock didn’t fake his death in that episode. He made it look like he “murdered” Jim in self defense and then made his was with the female romulan commander.
Star Trek itself; the voyages of the Enterprise under James Kirk, was inspired by the voyages of the Endeavour under James Cook. The leader of their embarked scientific team was Joseph Banks, inspiring the role of Spock.
In The Ultimate Computer it takes on the subject of automation, the way things are going spaceships will either fly themselves or have a robot crew, which reminds me of another episode, The Measure of a Man.
One misconception I'd like to clear up. Star Trek has never preached "social justice" because what we refer to that as is not anything except Marxist class warfare. What Star Trek preached was morality and ethics. There's a difference and if you can't see that then you're part of the problem.
With regard to "The Enterprise Incident", you missed the key elements that Kirk ordered his ship *into* the Neutral Zone, that they were imprisioned on a Romulan ship on the scene not an outpost and that the entire thing was a deliberately staged Federation operation to steal cloak technology from the Romulans. Some of that is quite relevant to a comparison to the Pueblo incident.
On January 26, 1967, an episode aired in which the Enterprise was in the 1960s and picked up a pilot and then had to return him so his son could be born. In 1968 there was an episode where they went back to the 1960s again. When asked what would be happening, Mr. Spock said there would be an attempted coup, an important assassination, and a missile launch, which was what the episode was about. A week later Dr. King was assassinated, followed 2 months and 1 day later by Sen. R. Kennedy. Reel life before real life.
Major BLOOPER in this Video! ' At the 3 minute & 33 second mark they discuss the Deep Space Nine episode, "Little Green Men." The narrator says the episode tackles the subject of Area 51, and Quark, Rom, Odo & Nog are accidentally sent back in time to Area 51....What?... Nonsense! They were sent back to July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico for what was infamously known as the "Roswell Incident" or "Roswell UFO Crash." Area 51 is at Groom Lake in Nevada which is 689 miles away from Roswell, New Mexico. Now you might say that maybe they took them there after the crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Well, there are two things that don't add up with that statement. First, I remember when the episode aired over 20 years ago, and the commentary around it. All that was mentioned leading up to the episode premiering was it was an alternative explanation as to what happen at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Area 51 was never mentioned at all in the episode nor were there any references to it. There was one hidden reference possibly about there whereabouts which leads to my second point. If the story didn't take place at the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell New Mexico then perhaps in was at Hanger 18 in Dayton, Ohio?. If you notice during the episode there is a number 18 posted inside the hanger (11:57 the General Denning looks at a picture of the Ferengi Shuttle inside the hanger) and outside on the hanger when they are escaping in the shuttle (not in the video).
kwlcom69 - You’re right. The wreckage from the Roswell Incident is generally believed to have been flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, not Groom Lake, NV.
BTW, there was no Klingon Neutral Zone. The Wrath of Khan created one for the Kobayashi Maru test which was initially written to be Romulan ships because they wanted to reuse the shots of Klingon ships from The Motion Picture in order to save money. You'll note that Kirk tells Saavik that Klingons don't take prisoners, when in fact it was Romulans who don't take prisoners (The Deadly Years). Hence Star Trek VI had a Klingon Neutral Zone. Or as Dorothy Fontana once said "Canon was whatever the writers needed it to be."
@@bloodywolf8854 Mafia one was a Piece of the Action and the Hitler/Nazi one was Patterns of Force both in Star Trek: Season 2 of the original series with Kirk & Spock.
Just watched ST a "Wolf in the Fold" a few days ago and it is one of my favorite episodes. I really love the tie in with Jack Ripper as an entity, and by the way Scotty did do the actual killing. And why? Because the "redjac" entity had the ability to move from body to body, but if it wasn't for Kirk and Spock's Keen analysis with the help from the computer to prove that Scotty did not consciously do it it would have been no choice but to blame Scotty. The computer findings led straight to the man who was from argelias mr. Ingus who was incriminating himself by protesting the use of the computer.
Star trek VI - the final line from "Peter Pan ". The whole film was about resistance to change. Pan resisted the ultimate change, from boy to man. Masterful.
Robert Bloch (who wrote "Wolf in the Fold" was also the author of the novel "Psycho" (more or less based on Ed Gein) and the classic short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" since he was a young teenager he had been pen-pal of H. P. Lovecraft and had contributed several short stories to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published in Weird Tales Magazine where Lovecraft published his stories. As did Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian, King Kull, Solomon Kane, etc) and August Derleth who founded the publishing company of Arkham House to preserve Lovecraft's work in hard covers and later that of other alumni from Weird Tales Magazine. Anyway, Bloch's story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" originally presented us with the idea that the Ripper's killings were a dark ritual to make him immortal. A ritual he had tp repeat every twenty years or so. That got him to the 1940s when that story was published and into the far future when he did a sequel for Harlan Ellison's DANGEROUS VISIONS anthology called "A Toy for Juliette" to which Ellison who had written the script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" added a sequel called "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" which illustrates what happens even to a monster like Red Jack when he lives on and on but fails to evolve while humans and society DO. Anyway, in between Yours Truly and Juliette lies Wolf.
TNG season 7, episode 16: "Thine Own Self" seems to be influenced by the real-life Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987, in which radioactive material was unwittingly spread through a city in a similar way as seen in the episode.
You missed one of the most obvious episodes based on true events - "Balance of Terror." The battle between the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird was based on a WWII destroyer/frigate hunting a German U-boat. The Enterprise phaser bursts were modified for the episode to behave like depth charges, and the warbird even discharged damaged ship structures and a body like a U-boat discharging oil and casualties to try and fool their hunter into thinking they had been destroyed.
In Enterprise Incident, they were not "just outside Romulan space" or on an observation mission. They intentionally crossed the neutral zone to lure Romulan vessels in so they could steal a cloaking device.
I was going to add that... In addition Kirk was acting insane so as to give the Federation cover should the mission fail. Spock being the only one who knew the mission besides Kirk. McCoy has no knowledge of the mission until he is asked to make Kirk look like a Romulan and he(McCoy) never disguises himself. Maybe the author should review the episodes before making a video.
He didn’t watch this episode at all. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Spock and Kirk ending up in a trash compactor while McCoy fought the Romulan commander with a phaser sword....
The Enterprise Incident was written by DC FONTANA, and was in relation to the stolen capture of the USS PUEBLO which was in international waters outside and off the cost of north korea.
Yes, his summary of "The Enterprise Incident" is way off. Those interested in his errors, please watch the episode, then come back and rewatch this. Very cringeworthy summary.
This was impressive. I'm aware of all these historical events but didn't make the connection between all of them and ST episodes. The obvious ones like A Private Little War and Wolf in the Fold are obviously connected but the rest are less so. Well done, Grunge.
EC comics didn't quite go out of business. They changed their Mad comic to a magazine format, so it didn't have to follow the Comics Code guidelines, and Mad magazine ran for decades, just ending earlier this year.
"A woman causes an accident that gives Scotty a concussion, so Kirk and McCoy take him to a pleasure planet..." Wait, WHAT? Is that the Prime Directive's normal treatment for concussion then? "Take two paracetamol, and then get yourself some sweet lurve action!"
I think we should add the episode "The Conscience of the King" to this list. The plot was about a fedration individuum who rose to power on a colony during a famine and decided to execute half of the colonists to save the other half because there was not enough food for all! After that he faked his death and disappeared, took on a new identity. This episode was based on the circumstance that several Nazi-warcriminals had evaded capture, lived under false names. 5 years before the episode aired the Eichmann-trial took place. Back in the 60s, only two decades after the Second World War, that was still an actual thing, even if it was overshadowed by the Cold War.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz wasn't written as a dream they changed it into a dream for the 1939 movie also in the original story silver slippers not ruby slippers.
L Frank Baum wrote it as a hallucination caused by psychosis from being around electricity, in the second book which was made into a TV movie in 1984 (Return to Oz) Dorothy is in a Lunatic Asylum . The only reason I know is because my parents had the books.
5:17, it actually has been shown in it's entirity on tv in Ireland, lived here all my life and I've seen it several times on tv including Syfy (or whatever way they're spelling it to try to seem trendy or whatever) & pick which over here are English channels. It's even available on streaming services like netflix.
Yes but in the UK it was banned on the BBC during the run of Next Generation in the original run of the third season circa 1992-93. At that point there were no streaming services as the internet wasn't as well established as today.The BBC didn't start showing Next Generation until about 1990.
Steve Lindstedt hence the invention of the cloaking device, which would mimics a submarine hiding underwater from detection from a ship on the surface. Also, wasn’t there a movie called THE ENEMY BELOW with Robert Mitchum it was based on?
@@jv-lk7bc Indeed. We must remember that, for any government to effectively guard against the hostile intentions of another, some secrecy IS necessary. I doubt we know everything about the Revolution, even.
True, and nuclear testing at "Yucca Flats" (not actually "area 51" itself, but part of the Nevada Test Site) began in 1951. Any above-ground nuclear testing was done in the South Pacific in the post-war era until the NTS was established, like "Crossroads" at Bikini Atoll (where the name of the two-piece swimwear was coined) in 1946. The "big boys", like Ivy Mike in 1952 at Eniwetok and "Castle Bravo" and the rest of the "Castle" series of shots at Bikini, were done in the South Pacific, but, due to the (un)"Lucky Dragon" incident, no further above-ground testing was done in the South Pacific, though a high-altitude test, about 250 miles up from a point near Johnston Atoll was done in 1962, yielding 1.4 Mt ("Starfish Prime").
Oh, but there is! It's called Axanar, and it's in production right now, to be released in July 2020 at SDCC! I'm part of the Axa-fam, so I've been privy to this info. Go to aresstudios.com for the latest info. You will be so happy, I promise!
There is Star Trek like that, today, although it doesn't go by the name of Star Trek. It's hiding under the invisibility cloak of The Orville. :) Honestly, it's straight up Star Trek, just with different names and ship models. I've gotten my wife to fall in love with it, but I'm still working on doing the backwards conversion to get her to watch Star Trek with me. :)
@@c182SkylaneRG oh, yes, The Orville is awesome! Now that it's going to Hulu, Seth will be able to drop all pretense of it not being Star Trek. It's really coming into its own now.
7:30 The Iranian liner was far from the only passenger vessel lost to military fire. History is filled with such examples. It happened more recently in Ukraine , famously with the Lusitania, etc etc.
You mean sci-fi is often thinly veiled under-the-radar political allegories and/or morality tales that explore current or historical socio-political issues!? No, really!? Next you’ll be telling me District 9 and Avatar had something to say about a certain countries imperialism, but that’d be just crazy talk!
I see what they did there at 6:25. I"m guessing there's no deleted scene of Kirk giving the Hawaiian Good Luck sign to the Romulans in "The Enterprise Incident."🙂 Since you referenced Star Trek VI, you forgot the nod to Adlai Stevenson's "Don't wait for the translation."
What happened to the Iran Air flight is pretty well documented. It was a war crime. You cannot mistake a Widebody Passenger Jet for a Fighter plane. The Jet was a scheduled flight, with a properly filed flight plan and proper clearance. It had it's transponder on, it was communicating on the appropriate civil frequencies... The captain of the USS Vincennes, Will Rogers was known to be a loose cannon and too incompetent to captain an AEGIS vessel... oh and he was repeatedly attacking Iranian vessels in Iranian sovereign waters (an act of war). He should have ended in prison for war crimes, mass murder and treason.
In 1996, the governments of the United States and Iran reached a settlement at the International Court of Justice which included the statement "...the United States recognized the aerial incident of 3 July 1988 as a terrible human tragedy and expressed deep regret over the loss of lives caused by the incident..." As part of the settlement, even though the U.S. government did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran, it still agreed to pay US$61.8 million on an ex gratiabasis, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims. Despite the mistakes made in the downing of the plane, the men of USS Vincennes were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for completion of their tours in a combat zone. The air-warfare coordinator on duty received the Navy Commendation Medal,[11] but The Washington Post reported in 1990 that the awards were for his entire tour from 1984 to 1988 and for his actions relating to the surface engagement with Iranian gunboats.[64] In 1990, Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer [...] from April 1987 to May 1989." The award was given for his service as the commanding officer of Vincennes from April 1987 to May 1989. The citation made no mention of the downing of Iran Air 655.
@@johnburns9634 : Well, heinous war crimes are almost always awarded with medals, instead of shackles. In this regard, there is no difference between Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the US, Russia, the UK, Belgium,...
In the UK BBC 2 originally aired the the third season of TNG, but completely banned The High Ground and didn't air it until 2007. Sky One later aired it out of sequence and completely removed the Data and Picard scene.
First, some of ur descriptions of these episodes are really off. with some of the stories, it seems like u didn't watch the episodes before u did a video on this. second, there were some strong female characters in the original show and films! as a girl, I quickly get tired of people belittling women when they look sexy. Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), said it herself many times: 'that was the era where woman wore short miniskirts everywhere even when not on camera, bc that was the era of the miniskirt,'... and being sexy was a form of liberation. women were allowed to be sexy, and that to them was a sort of freedom, bc they got to choose how they looked. on the show 'Doctor Who', in 1970, one of the actresses who played the companion, was angry when other women got to wear sexy miniskirts, while she had to wear clothes that covered her entire body. she hated that she couldn't be sexy, bc sexy was allowed to be cool back then. and in the original show, men often showed skin as well. captain kirk's lovely boobs were shown so very much! and too often female empowerment is reduced to the idea that a woman has to dress like a man to be respectable. isn't that narrowminded?
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Patterns of Force" (Nazi parallel world) and "The Mark of Gideon" (birth control)...or "Balance of Terror" (based on "The Enemy Below" - yes not exactly 'current events but still brings in WWII themes.
Lothar was a superhero from Africa in Mandrake the magician in 1934. He had the powers of Super strength, speed and invulnerability. Hawkmen in Flash Gordon in 1935 were also dark although they lived on another planet.
What!!! Your description of “The Enterprise Incident” shows that none of you have even seen the episode!!! Spock did not fake his death. And McCoy never put on “pointed ears”.
The story of Henry molaison was also the inspiration behind films like groundhog Day, 50 First dates, Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Death Day, and probably a few others.
Maybe next time Grunge wants to do a video like this, the narrator should actually WATCH the episodes. There was so much wrong in his description of "The Enterprise Incident" it is clear he never saw it.
@@jd190d - Chain of Command isn't based on 1984. It's based on prisoners being tortured, which does happen. In fact, I believe Amnesty International had something to do with this episode. Why did you think I was referring to 1984? Did they use the four lights thing too?
@@TodaysDante It's from 1984 when Winston Smith is asked if he sees four fingers when O'Brien is holding up three. The scene and concept is straight from the book. If you want an easier way to see this look for the scene from the movie with William Hurt.
Whoah! I remember that comic and what a shock it was at the end when the earth-man turns out to be Black! I couldn't have been more than 12 or 13, but it was enlightening and has stuck with me ever since.
Scrolled down and found the majority of comments were about the Enterprise Incident. Good, you screwed that one up bad. McCoy never put on a Romulan costume, Spock didn't fake his death, Kirk ordered the Enterprise into Romulan space rather than staying close to it. That was the only epic fail, the rest were interesting.
7:37 If I recall that incident happen because the jetliner was using a military F-14 transponder leading to unfortunate shoot down. Also, some Iranians planted a bomb in the captain’s wife vehicle in San Diego but she escaped unharmed but destroying the vehicle.
Mentioning "Twilight" (ST: E), released in 2003 pretty much ignores the existence of Memento (2000), a film with much the same issue. More than likely, the movie was the basis for the episode. And the movie was based on the medical condition you mention.
he "basis" for the Enterprise Incident. That begins at 10:06. I have no idea what episode he watched but Damn I want to see that one as it sound pretty good.
3:21 "prisoners were allotted 1 roll of toilet paper per month" - watch this in the thick of the Corona Virus epidemic of 2019/2020 where people apparently need more than 1 roll per day...
Regarding "Past Tense" and the "Bell Riots". Sometime around the time this episode aired, then Mayor Reardon of Los Angeles proposed setting up his own "sanctuaries" for the homeless and unemployed. Fortunately, the proposal went nowhere.
Code of Honor was based on alien abduction stories from Africa around ceremony time (hence the ceremonial dress outfits featured in the series) and Amelia Earhart's story on Voyager was based on an Australian (if I remember correctly where she took off from on July 2, 1937) eyewitness account . The rest of the '37s were based on 1937 alien abduction stories (the pickup truck in the episode was itself from 1937, because 1937 was the first year in which Ford put doors on it's pickup trucks) for example the farmer was from Louisiana.
Do more research on the USS Vincennes shoot down. The flight characteristic was of a fighter approach and not a commercial liner. The Iranians were on the scene before the US Navy which has aircraft on standby for just that purpose. How did they know? The Iranians also waved off any help. There is still video of naked bodies in the water...freshly dead passengers (?) who had the pallor of death from days earlier. The US Navy is not in the habit of just shooting down passenger planes. My experience in the Gulf was to wait while Iranian Phantoms approached within yards of my ship to ascertain their intentions. We were not allowed to fire. We called ourselves and our destroyer the duty martyrs.
That the Iranians would load a bunch of bodies from the morgue (and there was a war going on with Iraq, so they'd have a 'fresh' supply), but that they'd sacrifice an airliner...that does seem implausible. Then again, you never know with fanatics.
The Enterprise Incident. You didn't even watch it, did you? While basically you are correct, the fact of the show is, Kirk was acting like he went insane, ordering the ship to enter the neutral zone, ordered the destruction of the enterprise, not just secret equipment, were taken aboard the main commander's ship. Spock did not fake his own death but faked killing Kirk. Only Kirk donned the pointy ears and Romulan uniform to steal their cloaking device. Spock (already had them) stayed on with her trying to buy Kirk time fooling her into thinking he wanted to defect.
In reference to the US Navy ship Vincennes shooting down a Iranian Airliner full of "civillians". A very reliable US Marine on board the Vincennes at the time stated that they fished numerous bodies from the wreckage of the airliner. Each and everyone of the bodies had their hands bound by rope, handcuffs, etc.. All were or had been prisoners in Iranian detention facilities. The airliner was not transmitting an ID signal and were flying routes of hostile intent. Just a little clarification of history.
