Can you imagine pitching the idea of James Bond? “He’s the world’s most famous secret agent, who makes a point of not only introducing himself by name but repeating it just in case.” “Sounds like he’d quickly get captured.” “Every time!”
Saving whales from the past is TIGHT!
It never occurred to me that the probe had anyone aboard. It just needed to be an intelligent tape recorder.
My all time favorite Star Trek movie.
Yes it was pet project of Nimoy’s.
They had to get him back, somehow to participate.
The 1986 time frame they’re in always cracks me up.
I quote things from that movie all the time.
I love when Bones says to Scotty at the Transparent Aluminum factory “Don’t get buried in the part”
Which, of course they all were pretty much buried in their Star Trek characters.
I liked Scotty trying to talk to the computer, failing with that, handed the computer mouse and trying to talk into that.
“How quaint!”
Ninja-ed by time traveling video!
I always thought the probe was some sort of advanced form of the Whale. Not a space ship full of whale lovers.
Who knows? Who checked them out? They might’ve just wanted a BIG fish dinner
I loved that joke too, but I think it’s less amusing to modern audiences than it was at the time, since computers can now respond to voice input, while in 1986 that was science fiction.
My all-time favorite bit from all of Trek is Catherine Hicks screaming her head off as she’s being transported.
Oh, so you didn’t like her pink sweater set at the Cetacean Institute? I thought all men loved that!
Couldn’t get past her weird bangs.
I was 19 at the time. I noticed. Not a highlight but I noticed.
Hey! wait a minute. How do we know the probe wasn’t sent back in time to kidnap four whales to save their version of Starfleet Command? And Kirk and crew condemned the probe owners to certain death.
Spock Mind melded with Gracie. She said 2 whales. They got a bonus baby.
Yeah? Well, whales ain’t fish.
I call this- the “Kirk Maneuver”. There was an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where some alien shapechanger seduces the crew, and I was thinking- "see- Kirk would have seduced her. "
It was the 1960s on TV, they arent gonna show that -altho Miramanee, Dr. Carol Marcus and Keller were pretty obvious- but this-
Shows 15 or 16 Kirk romances over more than 70 episodes.
However, note that one whale pair is not enuf to repopulate the ocean.
“Where are de nucleah wessels?”
I’m surprised he got caught at all. Around that same time we would visit a friend at the San Diego base and just drive onto the base with a wave.
Wouldn’t Chekov have been sent to a naval hospital?
Are or were there any naval hospitals in the Bay Area? If not, they’d send him to whatever hospital is local.
Exactly. But, what do probes know about it?
Hmmm. I hadn’t seen that SNW ep, but the synopsis seems to put to bed that “LIttle blonde technician” Gary set Kirk up with being Carol Marcus. The timeline doesnt add up.
That 'love interest article" misses SEVERAL. The woman in Shore Leave. Even if she is an android simulation of a past love. The slave girl he sleeps with in Bread and Circuses. The woman he sleeps with in Wink of an Eye. The girl in The Mark of Gideon I think also may have ‘had sparks’ at least.