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The only close contender that comes to mind is a car commercial that starred Leonard Nimoy and Zach Quinto. At the end, Leonard drops Quinto with a neck pinch.
Easter egg: the actress is Gillian Dobb, _née_ Wells, (1929-2001), who played recurring character Agatha Chumley on the original _Magnum, PI_ (1980), hence her namedropping.
THIS COMMENT SHOULD BE PINNED! ALL GLORY TO GILLIAN DOBB! May she rest in peace. *Howls to Warn the Dead that a Warrior is about to arrive* ______________WHOOPS!_____________ Edit: Well, this is embarrassing, ...this is NOT Gillian Dobb. Out of Honour for the TRUTH = the woman is in fact an actress from Toronto, named "Razie Brownstone", which makes more sense that they would use local talent where the commercial was filmed. Sorry to spoil the original vibe, but Truth MUST be told.
Honour to House Dobb! The Mother of Klingons shall scold the dishonoured dead with her parental rage! Fek'Lhr will quake before her, and Gre'thor shall burn hotter at her words! Qa'pla Gillian, Qa'pla House Dobb!
My friend Glen played the Klingon and they did around 7 of these commercials. BTW both Glen and his wife dressed up to go to a Star Trek convention with our group of friends and they didn't even get honourable mention for their costumes ... came to find out that the judges thought they were sent from Paramount and didn't even score them in the costume contest!
I've only been a Trekker since 1968, cuz that's when I was born. Actually back then we were called Trekkies, but over half a century later, things have understandably changed. I've never seen this commercial either but i dig it. Especially love how the mother could speak fluent Klingon. Qapla'!
The Space Channel was on Canadian TV so you probably never saw this commercial in the US. Space still plays in Canada but is now called the CTV Sci-Fi Channel. 🍁
@@DanielWright-np3fq 1962 huh, since it was first broadcast on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network, and two days later in the US on September 8, 1966, I have to call B.S on you. And I did watch the original television debut, although I had to see the third season in 1971 when I got back stateside.
@@CharlesSmith-io9fp My mistake Charles, I thought we were doing birth years. You weren't born in 1966? I was in 1962, so I was about 4 when it first came on. That and Batman pretty much thrilled lil' ol' me. Many apologies for the misunderstanding.
I remember seeing a 'meme' where a guy was saying something like: "My father just burst into my room and uttered some long phrase in Klingon. "Should I be upset that he knows Klingon, or that I know he said I'm an "Insult to the Empire" 😂
He's lucky her son wasn't a Borg. "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." *Petition guy, going through the neighborhood later:* "Watch. More. Star. Trek."
Now that’s what you call an actress…..one who will work to get her dialogue down just the way it’s supposed to be. It reminds me of Barbara Billingsley, speaking jive in Airplane.
Oh great! Now you got me remembering the one jive guy in the courtroom scene from Airplane II, where, while he's talking in jive, we see the courtroom stenographer doing a Ray Charles impersonation.
For our US friends... Yes, this was a real, legit ad! "Space" was an actual Canadian Channel out of Toronto and it still exists today. In its current form, it is now known as Bell Sci-Fi. Back in the day, it was also known as "Space: The Imagination Station" It is Canada's version of the old US Sci-Fi channel. Wow, hard to believe it has been 23 years since Enterprise premiered on Space back in 2001. This promo was running just before the launch of the new series premiere.
@@MikeWood Yep, thats what happens when national media chains all over the country decide to destroy and diminish our own Canadian made creations in favour of americanizing all the tv we watch in order to gain just a sliver of american viewership. I get it, they want to make a buck, but at the cost of ruining our identity.
I’ve been a Trekkie fan ever since it first aired with the original series….this is absolutely the best ad….I love this…just what the doctor ordered….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸👍❤️🙏🏼🥰
Well if you don't live in Canada it's not surprising as that was an ad by the Space channel, now CTV Sci-Fi, back when they still had a sense of humour and just enough of a budget for low budget in-house ads.
Been a Trek all my life since as long as I can remember. I'm from the TNG generation. LOL that's ending pretty much sums it up for us Klingons fan base. From the home state of the late Leonard Nimoy LLAP🖖
When WAS the beginning of "Trekker"? When did the trekkies coopt a perfectly good word to cover their inferiority and the expense of general confusion in society? When DID that shit start? And doesn't it kind of expose the "oo we're all a bunch of intelligent geeks" lie?
@@kishascape what? Star Trek: The Clueless Generation was a perfect beginning series. Going out without a clue and worse, leaving spacedock without a tractor beam.
I'm in my seventies and I'm here to tell you, I've watched STAR TREK since it hit the TV. I would stay up late (7:30pm), on a school night, and watch it. Then the network dropped it. I was quite upset. Everytime anything Star Trek related, came on, I would watch it. Later years a "Boxed Set" was made available on VHS and I bought the whole shebang. Then New Generation came on. I watched it. Deep Space 9 came out, but it was lame and I didn't mess with it. Then TOS had the movies, then NG had the movies. They were made available on DVD and so was the TV shows, so I have every episode as well as backstage stuff everything possible. I was such a nut about it, my wife bought me a "Communicator" that looks and sounds like the series prop. Of course we all did the Vulcan salute and I remember, I went trick or treating, with a church group, as Capt. Kirk. My mother could sew anything and her sewing machine did embroidery so she made the Star Fleet V symbol on a gold polished cotton naru shirt and navy blue pants. Lord have mercy, that eas over half a century ago. Memories. Nothing like em! But I still forget what I went after and have to go figure what I was doing to remember what I needed. I have OPD with CRS. That's Old People's Disease with I Can't Remember $#!+. .
I recall reading about some sort of Child abuse report being reported in the news some years ago. It seems after CPS did an investigation, there was one or two toddlers who only language was Klingon. They apparently had a lot trash around the home, and too many cats. According to the news article the parents agreed to clean up the trash and get rid of "7 of 9 cats"
Good Lord! I had never seen this commercial before, but I must admit you nailed it: this is, far and away, the best Star Trek commercial I have ever seen. In fact, it's one of the best commercials -- period -- that I have ever seen. Thank you for uploading it.
Brilliant! Never expected her son was a Klingon though! He must look more like his Dad. I’ve seen every episode of the original and Next Gen, most of Enterprise, all the movies, but not the other shows. I have a life beyond good sci-fi, and have other responsibilities. Not putting those who do though. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
I have read the Klingon dictionary. The Klingonese in the ad was correct, though the translation was a bit loose, e.g. "Q'pla" is translated as "I am victorious" when it really just means "success".
I discovered Star Trek in reruns in 1975. I've been a lifelong fan of all broadcast Star Trek. I think I saw this commercial years ago on RU-vid. Hilarious!!! And Glorious!!!
I've been a Trekker since I was a little girl, but had never seen this commercial. Reading the comments, I see that it's from Canada and I'm in the U.S. Love it!!! 🤣🤣
I slightly disagree; there have been some really funny GEICO commercials, like Maxwell the pig, or Carney Wilson on hold having to listen to a Wilson Phillips song
I love it! LOL. Back in 1989, when I was 17 (and living in my mother's basement), I signed a petition for the local cable company to carry the Sci-Fi Channel in Tallahassee. I remember they had some kind of gathering at FSU to collect signatures, and they were showing video tapes of Star Trek bloopers, behind the scenes footage, etc. It was a lot of fun. My grandfather was the one who first introduced me to Star Trek back in 1978, when I was 6 years old. We would watch it together every week back then. I cherish those memories.
@landonbenford8369 I had no idea-- mind you, where I lived, UPN was on the air only until I was like 11, so I didn't really care then. Funnily enough, though, I was talking about it with my bf the other day and he asked what UPN stood for--I wasn't curious enough to look it up because really, who cares? But seeing this comment with the answer was certainly timely! 😂
In the spring of 2022, there was a seminar for doctors. It was named "STAR-TREC" (also spelled "STARTREC"). This was supposed to be an acronym for "Can We *S*ave the Rectum by Watchful Waiting or *T*rans-*A*nal Microsurgery Following (Chemo)*R*adiotherapy versus *T*otal Mesorectal Excision for Early *R*ectal Cancer?" No joke.
Thanks for the post! I think I came across this promo ad once before on YT. Loved having the son come out done up as a huge Klingon, and speaking Klingon. Having his mom talk to him in Klingon made it even funnier. This time, I made sure to save it in my Humor folder. 😂 I've been a fan since the very beginning. Got to stay up a little later to watch ST:OS with my father and older brother. After my younger brother came along, he became a fan, too. Thanks to the poster who mentioned that the mom had been a recurring character in Magnum, PI. I haven't watched that show that much, but do like it. If my often faulty memory serves me correctly, I think she played the old friend of Higgens, who was in love with him. It was nice to see her again. 😊 Update: This just showed up in my RU-vid feed again, and I enjoyed watching it again. Having the mom actually conversing with her son in Klingon makes it even funnier.😂
I love the Classic Star Trek TV show, my mother and sister love Next Generation, my brother in law loves Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Picard, my bff loves Voyager, my nephew loves Lower Decks, but we never really were fans of Enterprise or even the other newer Star Trek shows.
