@allmousemedia I know, I'm just being a smart ass. The number of times Gene or whoever else walked around the Paramount lot and went "saaay, you fellas still using all that Roman/ Gangster/ 30s/ Nazi shit?" is pretty amusing. I do tip my cap to them when it worked (City on the Edge of Forever) but more often it was cheesy (Patterns of Force, A Piece of the Action)
You make some good points, but there are a couple that I'll argue with. 1) At this point in Trek history, there's been no indication that the Enterprise has the facilities to fabricate native clothing. It's possible that they had such equipment installed as a result of this adventure, since they did create local clothing two episodes later in "Return of the Archons." 2) In the original series, point-to-point transporting was never done. A person could be beamed to or from the transporter room, but not between two other locations. They could have beamed the pilot into the transporter room and then immediately from there to the ground; though he still would have gotten a glimpse of the inside of the transporter room. That's not as egregious as giving him a tour of the ship, I admit. Also, this is the first recorded instance of time travel in the ST universe (not counting "The Naked Time," but that was only a matter of hours), so there were no established protocols. Kirk clearly acted without thinking it through, but Starfleet temporal protocols were most likely created because of this incident.
Why does no one point out the Elephant in the room or I should say the SPACE SHIP in the Sky. The Enterprise was a Space vehicle so when the Captain and Crew found themselves flying in plain view from the ground why not just fly a few miles higher into Outer Space. Far above any view point from any jet craft to reach or see?!
Hello Zoe. Its the first time any of these problems were made manifest in the Trek universe. Kirk and crew are flying by the seat of their pants. In later Trek there are classes at Starfleet Academy on time travel. Kirk has no touchstone to guide him.
Great analysis. And yes, even as a kid watching this I wondered why Kirk didn't just beam Captain Christopher from his plane right down to earth, making this just another mysterious 1960s UFO sighting. And even though I don't think that using the transporter to move someone from Point A to Point B without needing to have them come directly into the transporter room had been established by this point in TOS, they still could have beamed him into the transporter room and immediately transported him back to earth. And if THAT wouldn't work, Spock could've walked onto the transporter pad and nerve-pinched him with McCoy following up with a longer-lasting sedative. And if ALL THAT wouldn't work, they could've just kept him in the transporter room without saying a word to him till they could figure out what to do. Of course, if they did all that, the episode would've been about 5 minutes long leaving NBC with a lot of dead air. And I do like a lot of the character work in this episode, but even as a 12-year-old, I realized that the premise was deeply flawed. Thank you for stating that so clearly.
Oh yes, and all they really had to do was do the slingshot thing and fly past Earth with their shields up so they would not be observed in the first place. And yes I believe they could have found a way to fly the eagles to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring too.
It was the BEST time-travel, in 1966, when it first imagined, written, and aired. This episode also had an extremely-small budget, with period visual effects. When the show aired, 56 years ago... it was impressive. I'd love to see some of the reviews of this episode, from 1966.
It was still an enjoyable episode if only because of the production values and the humor in the dialogue. "Maybe I'm a little green man from Mars!" But otherwise yeah, it didn't make a lot of sense, and there didn't seem to be much point to the episode.
Remember while this is technically the Second time they have gone Time Travel this is the first time they had to deal with Temproal causality. All Future Time Travel episodes are built on this Episode. Asthe first they were really funbling around in the dark. I like tihs episode. In fact it really borrows allot of plot points from Star Trek 4. Strike that reverse it. The crew of the Enterprise in the past have to infultrate a miltary instulation before they can get back to the future. Mean while one crew member gets caught while the other reaturns. The intrgation and rescue of the captured man.
I loved your review. Your issues with it were all items that never fit quite right with me either. I think you will find “Gary seven” to be similar in the “cute scenes” over “making sense” department!
@@allmousemedia In my video on a partial explanation of the Stardate probem. I first explane why Production order is the proper order. Thge only release that got this right was the first DVD release. Which is also my image/video source.
