My favorite episode. I always got pumped seeing that jet at the start. It was magic thinking they were in my time period. I was a big 12 inch G.I. Joe fan & mine was the action pilot. What a great Christmas that was.
I was 9 and got a 3" refracting telescope that Christmas. Everything was possible. Even breaking the cosmic speed limit and a schism in Time itself. Aw take me back. I'm ready. Lets all go back
I was friends witth a Lockheed test pilot for the F104. He told me some great stories about it. He went on to be an SR71 test pilot. He said he was selected to fly the Blackbird because he had more time in the F104 than anyone else, and that anyone that could fly the F104 could fly the Blackbird.
Of all of the episodes and of all of the series and ST films ever made this was the one that hooked me on Star Trek. To this day, this is still my favorite episode, bar none.
@@cameraman655 Absolutely, did you know it was the basis for the U2? Kelly Johnson figured, "Hey, I could put glider wings on this and..." I believe a privately owned F104 set a sealevel speed record (those are very difficult, fighters can only reach their max speed at altitude.) I think the F15 was something like Mach 1.25 @ sealevel (or something like that.) I don't know what project it was (could hve been the U2) but KJ was supposed to scrap all the tooling for some fighter L manufactured but he decided to save it and ended up using it. Don't remember any other details on that one.
Fondly called the "Missile with a man in it". At the time this episode was made I had one I built hanging from my bedroom ceiling. Coolest jet I ever saw at the time. It would be 1 or 2 more years before I discovered the insane SR-71.
I think the radar operators would be more than confused to see an object of the size of a battleship, flying around in the air zone, I think they would believe the radar is broken.
Scene is very futuristic in how conventional aircraft try I.D. and pursue UFO's except alien response sequence would not be so slow to identify- but instantaneous. Documented cases show pursuit plane is either vaporized, disappears, or crashes.
Documented cases show the pursuit plane capturing the UAP on video for a while, then being unable to keep up with it, with no hostile action by the UAP.
The strap on Capt. Christopher's oxygen mask is the same type of strap used by Buzz Aldrin when he wore his Omega Speedmaster as the first person to ever wear a watch on the Lunar Surface. Neil Armstrong kept his Speedmaster hanging on the LM so he could time the creators as landmarks for timing his flight path. Both were .321 cal Omega Speedmasters. The strap was extra long so that it could be wrapped around the outside of his spacesuit. I'm an Apollo 11 nurd and a Speedmaster owner of a pre-lunar model .861 cal purchased in 1969 before the July landing. The .321 cal was just changed over in Oct. 1968 to the newer .861 cal model. The .321s are hard to come by but the 861s had a higher beat frequency from 18 to 21 kz. But Omega very recently started to remake the .321 cal. with a Platinum case. It's presently selling for about $9.800. U.S. as of Aug. 2019. For anybody who cares. The .861 was redesigned from the .321 Lemania movement used in the Patek Philippe watches back in the day. Although the .321 was more difficult to make, the .861 was easier to produce and was more accurate. But a true Omega Moonwatch was the .321 cal Lemonia movement, not the .861 which was later adapted by NASA for subsequent moon missions. So, the .861 was still considered an original moonwatch. Mine is now 50 years old and it still works. Yes, I had it "tuned up" in 1990 for $300 U.S. Omega gave me a newer watchband and new pushers and rubber seals. But they also returned the original parts to me except the original watch band. Nobody, not even Omega back in the 80s knew the Speedmaster would become such an iconic watch.
I have a relative who got one when he was in the Navy in the mid 60s before Apollo 11 landed. He paid like 75 bucks for it. Still has it, still works fine. It's been serviced two or three times since then. When you got yours serviced did they freshen up the lume paint? After 50+ years it's pretty faded and only glows for a few minutes after being in the sun.
The first airing of this episode, I thought " what happened to my show?" Thinking the tv station substituted a military show. Upon seeing the Enterprise, it was WOW! I didn't know much of any "Vulcan details" about aeronautics, tractor beams, transportors then.
Given that the pace of producing a weekly US TV series in the 60s was very quick, it was impressive that Star Trek managed to do so well in their use of specific stock footage, such as all the filmed F-104 shots in this episode and all the Saturn V shots used in Assignment Earth. The staff paid attention to such details. Unlike some other shows. I recall seeing a sequence in one Six Million $ Man episode where Steve was taking off, flying and landing in a fighter jet, and no less than three very different looking planes were shown.
That was my thought exactly! I was expecting anything Star Trek, and was slightly disappointed when I saw the f-104... But hey I like planes too so I watched and OMG my two favorite subjects put together the same show!
I thought the very same thing in 1974! Star Trek aired every afternoon at 3 or 4 o'clock on one of the local stations that summer. I nearly turned off the set to go back outside for some more bike riding when I heard the first strains of "Star Trek" music at 0:35.
The type of nuclear yield available to a F-104 of the time would be 1.5 kilotons for the nuclear-tipped AIR-2A Genie, an unguided rocket with a range of almost 10 km. The fighter could also carry unguided gravity bombs which could range in yield from 70 kilotons to 1.45 megatons.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter
@@dogsbd Respectfully, I disagree regarding the "operational" aspect of your statement. My understanding from a pilot with over 5,000 hours in the 104 is that a single limited yeild nuke could be mounted under the center hard point. Whether it was and to what extent during training is classified, so he wouldn't divulge that information, but he was stationed at Ramstein AFB in the mid-1970s at the time.
One of my favorite episodes! When I was young and saw this on TV, I had a Gi Joe pilot wearing the same uniform! I would get him out and reenact this scene when this was on! 😂
@@haroldhumerickhouse7904 It was mostly a matter of training. Most early jets were very dangerous to fly by modern standards due to having unusual quirks. That's what happens when you're on the bleeding edge of technology and in experimental territory. Once they figured out how to properly train for the F-104, and installed a better ejection system, the accident and fatality rate dropped dramatically. The F-104 was an excellent aircraft for its role and time; you just can't compare it to stuff that came later after they fully figured out what they were doing.
@@haroldhumerickhouse7904 Many beautiful things are also dangerous. The F-104 was a bleeding edge, ground breaking, high performance fighter, it held speed, altitude, and time to climb records all at once, That said, the F-104 had a better safety record than the F-84 that preceded it. Flying jets was a hazardous profession back then.
"Sir, I don't understand how that crazy thing can even fly with that ridiculous, outlandish otherworldly layout and almost non-existent wings" "Soldier now is not the time to criticize the F-104 program, we have a UFO to catch"
They were great for what they were designed to do. Just tech at that time was moving so fast they really didn't have time to make a name for themselves.
@@1337penguinmanIt's rather shocking how fast we went through new planes back then. We went from the Gloster Meteor in 1944 to F8 Crusaders and F4 Phantoms II in 1957/58. That's less time than my country has had it's F18 fleet.
The voice speaking in the beginning of this segment on the radio talking to "Bluejay 4" is the same actor who played the senior security guard who questioned Capt. Kirk after he and Sulu beamed down to the air force base and were arrested by the air force security team.
I initially thought this would be a mock battle between the air force and CVN-65, my first ship in the Navy, so it was pretty amusing to see the the Star Trek ship come out of the clouds.
Although the F-104 was know as "The widow maker" The Spanish Air Force (Ejercito del Aire) operated 21 F-104s for seven years (1965-1972) without a single loss.
The F104 was designed by Kelly Johnson and the skunk works to be deployed as a high speed high altitude interceptor. The West German Air Force used the plane as a low altitude low speed ground attack weapon, something it was never designed for. This resulted in an unusual high number of crashes.
@@billsanders5067 You know your stuff! In the Luftwaffe, non-combat missions, 269 crashes and 116 pilots killed. Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring Ace of WW II was also Chief of the Luftwaffe at the time. He was totally against the aircraft and there were allegations of some kind of bribes known as the "Lockeed Scandal." He was retired early in 1970.
That's because a Cabal runs the world. Hollywood is apart of it and anything they show you in movies and TV shows, they can already do. Unfortunately it's been hidden in secret black budget programs. Ben Rich from Lockheed Martin said back in 1993. "We have the technology to take ET home."
@@sharko121 Agree with the global cabal and Hollywood as their instrument of mind control. Disagree that humans could build anything remotely similar to Flying Tic-Tacs.
Lol.... the government couldn’t even keep Watergate under wraps or affect a regime change in a third world nation without it becoming a decades long quagmire and you think there is a global cabal? I have ocean front property in Arizona you might be interested in.
@@Bartonovich52 They managed to keep the SR-71 spy plane secret for 30 years. And most people today STILL does not know the real reason why the U.S. got involved in Vietnam. How many decades has it been?
Kirk could have beamed the pilot to the ground and drag the Stafighter to low earth orbit and let it burn up on re-entry. But, then the episode would have only lasted 10 minutes.
that scene with the starfighter 0:30 wasn't taken in the US or was it? with the church in the background it looks more like it was taken in Germany. Perhaps it was in Nörvenich with the church in Alt-Oberbolheim?
a small tidbit about the 104 that isn't widely known...one reason Lockheed was able to get the U2 designed and manufactured and flying so quickly is they basically just took a 104, lengthened the fuselage, repowered it and slapped some really long thin wings on it and whalla, you had a U2.
I've never yet thought that the CGI "enhanced" TOS versions were better, or even as good, as TOS with its original effects and visuals. It just doesn't fit right.
1:06 lol that's like my dad on the riding lawnmower after a few drinks on a hot day, you might get a mowed lawn or a couple of crop circles in the yard😆👍🇩🇰💞🇺🇸
From the shot of the Enterprise below clouds at 2:46, one could assume that the altitude was below 15,000 to 20,000 feet. It would be interesting to hear them explain how the Enterprise was able to achieve the necessary aerodynamics for flying in Earth's atmosphere.
If you can bend the space-time to travel several times faster than light, at warp speed, and you can create artificial gravity on your decks, i think you can offset the Earth gravity It's all about doing "little alterations" in the Riemann's Tensor
@@Trompicavalas The issue isn't manipulating Einstein's general theory. The issue is dealing with mundane forces like wind resistance, lift, and drag for a huge craft that's not obviously aerodynamically designed, particularly at supersonic speeds.
@@danielh3179 Mundane aerodynamic forces are for vessels that cannot manipulate the curvature of spacetime at will. But if you prefer, They can also create an energy shield around her that has an optimal aerodynamic shape. I leave both options for you so you can choose the one you like the most
Back in the at Edwards Air Force Base and 60s we had aircraft armed with nuclear missiles on them they were called hot Birds, and you needed special permission to launch them
@@Dra741 I don't think the F-104 ever carried the Genie nuclear rocket, and I'm sure it never carried the Nuclear Falcon, but certainly many of its contemporaries did, maybe Spock just didn't know for sure what kind of jet it was. If that were an F-106 the USAF may have scored a kill on a Starfleet starship.
Not even close. The only rocket at the time that was nuclear equipped was the AIR-2 GENIE, a fat tub of nothing but a bomb with wings and a solid motor. The fuse was a simple timer; there was no PAL (Permissive Action Link) safety system for the weapon, it was fire then RUN. They played with fitting it to the Starfighter, using a trapeze rig, similar to what the F-102/106 had, but nothing came of it.
Notice the jet makes the whooshing sound atmospheric resistance would cause. But the Enterprise makes no such sound. Yet in the opening theme the Enterprise famously "whooshes" even though it's not in any atmosphere. That may have been an NBC idea to give the opening theme more popular culture pizazz.
Oxnard Air Force Base, now Camarillo Airport. I just went to the airshow, no F-104s flew though. It's just off the 101, so I can see why it appealed as a filming location.
Some of the killjoys forget that the Big E would have a magnetic field around it in the form of the Deflector Field. As for the Starfighter; that was one of the best Century Series fighters ever built, but it needed an Fighter Pilot to handle it. In this period in history, the TAC (Tactical Air Command) would have been using F-102 or -106 Flying Coffins as interceptors, however, as most of the 104's were on other missions or for Export. Most of the front-line Phantoms were in Indochina or on Carrier Duty, if memory serves, during the mid-Sixties. A Phantom could withstand the Big E's deflector shields without breaking a sweat, I'm here to tell you.
My favorite episode. I always got pumped seeing that jet at the start. It was magic thinking they were in my time period. I was a big 12 inch G.I. Joe fan & mine was the action pilot. What a great Christmas that was.
I see you're also a fan of my favorite sci-fi film, Dan.
Did you get the GI Joe with the Mercury Capsule? I had over of those. Hot Wheels Fat Track too.
@@patrickvanrinsvelt4466 I had the GI Joe with the Mercury capsule. It was excellent.
OMG I had the same Gi Joe pilot wearing basically the same uniform! I would get him out reenact the scenes when this was on TV!
I was 9 and got a 3" refracting telescope that Christmas. Everything was possible. Even breaking the cosmic speed limit and a schism in Time itself. Aw take me back. I'm ready. Lets all go back
The tractor beam is breaking it up!!
I havnae turned it on yet Captain.
F104 widowmaker in action.
This was one of my Favourite Episodes as a kidd , also the Saturn five Episode as well, cannot beat the original series
This has gotta be the best Star trek opening ever....simply awesome. 👍👍
People watching it back in the day, probably thought they had the wrong channel... "Where the HELL is Star Trek?"😆
@@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr. I was going to post that.. As a kid this opening really confused me but I thought it was cool
I was friends witth a Lockheed test pilot for the F104. He told me some great stories about it. He went on to be an SR71 test pilot. He said he was selected to fly the Blackbird because he had more time in the F104 than anyone else, and that anyone that could fly the F104 could fly the Blackbird.
Makes sense as both were very unforgiving jets
I never heard that either Tony or Fish ever flew the Blackbird. Who are you talking about?
Of all of the episodes and of all of the series and ST films ever made this was the one that hooked me on Star Trek. To this day, this is still my favorite episode, bar none.
Better than “Journey to Babel”?
Come to think of it, it's a good think he didn't see the top of the saucer section and report that he could read "USS Enterprise"
They will probably assume it's some commie weapon
"What the Hell is an aircraft carrier doing up HERE?!!"
How appropriate Starfighter meets Star trek, 👍😁
Especially if you think at all those UFO -tales :)
Some sweet stock footage of the F104. Back then it was _the_ Bad Ass fighter.
Nofer Trunions Yeah but tough to fly, I believe that it was tagged with the nickname ”Widow Maker” by some pilots.
@@cameraman655 Absolutely, did you know it was the basis for the U2? Kelly Johnson figured, "Hey, I could put glider wings on this and..." I believe a privately owned F104 set a sealevel speed record (those are very difficult, fighters can only reach their max speed at altitude.) I think the F15 was something like Mach 1.25 @ sealevel (or something like that.) I don't know what project it was (could hve been the U2) but KJ was supposed to scrap all the tooling for some fighter L manufactured but he decided to save it and ended up using it. Don't remember any other details on that one.
Nofer Trunions Yep, I am a huge fan of Kelly's flying wonders.
It served several nations including Germany and Japan.
Read the combat reports from India v Pakistan 1965. It was a dead loss.
It's fun that the F-104 just happened to be called the Starfighter.
Behold the legendary lawn dart.
“… type 31 interceptor… “
Aka the *widowmaker.*
Inspired, loosely, by the F104….
@razorburn645 aka the flying pencil
Fondly called the "Missile with a man in it". At the time this episode was made I had one I built hanging from my bedroom ceiling. Coolest jet I ever saw at the time. It would be 1 or 2 more years before I discovered the insane SR-71.
Widowmaker was its other name
I think the radar operators would be more than confused to see an object of the size of a battleship, flying around in the air zone, I think they would believe the radar is broken.
Scene is very futuristic in how conventional aircraft try I.D. and pursue UFO's except alien response sequence would not be so slow to identify- but instantaneous. Documented cases show pursuit plane is either vaporized, disappears, or crashes.
Documented cases show the pursuit plane capturing the UAP on video for a while, then being unable to keep up with it, with no hostile action by the UAP.
Radar in the 60s did not report the size of objects.
@@quazmodic Well but still it would look like a big bloop in the screen, perhaps?
@@animeturnMMD No
How to own a Starfighter:
Buy a piece of land, and wait...
The strap on Capt. Christopher's oxygen mask is the same type of strap used by Buzz Aldrin when he wore his Omega Speedmaster as the first person to ever wear a watch on the Lunar Surface. Neil Armstrong kept his Speedmaster hanging on the LM so he could time the creators as landmarks for timing his flight path. Both were .321 cal Omega Speedmasters. The strap was extra long so that it could be wrapped around the outside of his spacesuit. I'm an Apollo 11 nurd and a Speedmaster owner of a pre-lunar model .861 cal purchased in 1969 before the July landing. The .321 cal was just changed over in Oct. 1968 to the newer .861 cal model. The .321s are hard to come by but the 861s had a higher beat frequency from 18 to 21 kz. But Omega very recently started to remake the .321 cal. with a Platinum case. It's presently selling for about $9.800. U.S. as of Aug. 2019. For anybody who cares. The .861 was redesigned from the .321 Lemania movement used in the Patek Philippe watches back in the day. Although the .321 was more difficult to make, the .861 was easier to produce and was more accurate. But a true Omega Moonwatch was the .321 cal Lemonia movement, not the .861 which was later adapted by NASA for subsequent moon missions. So, the .861 was still considered an original moonwatch. Mine is now 50 years old and it still works. Yes, I had it "tuned up" in 1990 for $300 U.S. Omega gave me a newer watchband and new pushers and rubber seals. But they also returned the original parts to me except the original watch band. Nobody, not even Omega back in the 80s knew the Speedmaster would become such an iconic watch.
I have a relative who got one when he was in the Navy in the mid 60s before Apollo 11 landed. He paid like 75 bucks for it. Still has it, still works fine. It's been serviced two or three times since then. When you got yours serviced did they freshen up the lume paint? After 50+ years it's pretty faded and only glows for a few minutes after being in the sun.
Possibly the dullest comment I've ever seen on CZcams 🤣
I’ve got two of them!
@@jimmytgoose476
I found it interesting !
This would have been Offutt AFB, Nebraska, the former home of SAC (Strategic Air Command - nukes). At the time, very authentic.
The first airing of this episode, I thought " what happened to my show?" Thinking the tv station substituted a military show. Upon seeing the Enterprise, it was WOW! I didn't know much of any "Vulcan details" about aeronautics, tractor beams, transportors then.
Given that the pace of producing a weekly US TV series in the 60s was very quick, it was impressive that Star Trek managed to do so well in their use of specific stock footage, such as all the filmed F-104 shots in this episode and all the Saturn V shots used in Assignment Earth.
The staff paid attention to such details. Unlike some other shows. I recall seeing a sequence in one Six Million $ Man episode where Steve was taking off, flying and landing in a fighter jet, and no less than three very different looking planes were shown.
That was my thought exactly! I was expecting anything Star Trek, and was slightly disappointed when I saw the f-104... But hey I like planes too so I watched and OMG my two favorite subjects put together the same show!
Absolutely right! I was wondering where Star Trek went to...and then I first heard the theme music and saw the Enterprise...very nicely done opening.
I thought the very same thing in 1974! Star Trek aired every afternoon at 3 or 4 o'clock on one of the local stations that summer. I nearly turned off the set to go back outside for some more bike riding when I heard the first strains of "Star Trek" music at 0:35.
OMG i love those F104 starfighters, I have a whole dvd about them which were retired in 1984
The type of nuclear yield available to a F-104 of the time would be 1.5 kilotons for the nuclear-tipped AIR-2A Genie, an unguided rocket with a range of almost 10 km.
The fighter could also carry unguided gravity bombs which could range in yield from 70 kilotons to 1.45 megatons.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter
@reverse thrust Cheers for the correction. I must have skimmed through the article or misread it at the time I posted. Fixed the post :)
The F-104 was tested with the Genie but never made operational with it.
Congratulations. You can Google.
@@dogsbd Respectfully, I disagree regarding the "operational" aspect of your statement. My understanding from a pilot with over 5,000 hours in the 104 is that a single limited yeild nuke could be mounted under the center hard point. Whether it was and to what extent during training is classified, so he wouldn't divulge that information, but he was stationed at Ramstein AFB in the mid-1970s at the time.
@@TimmyBoyAZ The F-104 was operational with free fall nuclear bombs but I was referencing the Genie nuclear air to air missile in my statement.
One of my favorite episodes! When I was young and saw this on TV, I had a Gi Joe pilot wearing the same uniform! I would get him out and reenact this scene when this was on! 😂
The shot of the Enterprise coming up through the clouds @1:47 has been the wallpaper on my laptop for years.
Good taste.
Gotta be one of the most beautiful jet aircraft ever built!
And a very dangerous aircraft to fly. Many pilots died flying the F-104
@@haroldhumerickhouse7904 It was mostly a matter of training. Most early jets were very dangerous to fly by modern standards due to having unusual quirks. That's what happens when you're on the bleeding edge of technology and in experimental territory. Once they figured out how to properly train for the F-104, and installed a better ejection system, the accident and fatality rate dropped dramatically. The F-104 was an excellent aircraft for its role and time; you just can't compare it to stuff that came later after they fully figured out what they were doing.
widowmaker, I saw these aup close in 1972@@haroldhumerickhouse7904
@@haroldhumerickhouse7904 Many beautiful things are also dangerous. The F-104 was a bleeding edge, ground breaking, high performance fighter, it held speed, altitude, and time to climb records all at once, That said, the F-104 had a better safety record than the F-84 that preceded it. Flying jets was a hazardous profession back then.
They were terrifying to pilot. Dangerous widowmakers but all fighters of that era were
I love the way Mr. Spock says "interceptor."
The SENsors have picked up an… interCEPtor. Love the Nimoy phrasing!
Always loved seeing the Enterprise in this episode flying through the blue sky and clouds
The Enterprise, flying in modern earth 🌎.
F-104 Star Fighter a rocket with stubby wings.
Also referred to as "the missile with a man in it", if I recall.
As for rocket power, check out the NF-104A:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_NF-104A
@@bobblum5973 Also called "The Widow Maker"
Two squadrons sent to Vietnam, 14 planes lost in action, zero kills
"Sir, I don't understand how that crazy thing can even fly with that ridiculous, outlandish otherworldly layout and almost non-existent wings" "Soldier now is not the time to criticize the F-104 program, we have a UFO to catch"
Two of my favorite aircraft in one show!
I understand these aircraft were a nightmare but they sure did look cool as hell.
They were great for what they were designed to do. Just tech at that time was moving so fast they really didn't have time to make a name for themselves.
@@1337penguinmanIt's rather shocking how fast we went through new planes back then. We went from the Gloster Meteor in 1944 to F8 Crusaders and F4 Phantoms II in 1957/58. That's less time than my country has had it's F18 fleet.
I always loved this music like you're running out of time..How apt
The voice speaking in the beginning of this segment on the radio talking to "Bluejay 4" is the same actor who played the senior security guard who questioned Capt. Kirk after he and Sulu beamed down to the air force base and were arrested by the air force security team.
One of my faourite episodes!!! Many thanks for sharing!!! :-)
I initially thought this would be a mock battle between the air force and CVN-65, my first ship in the Navy, so it was pretty amusing to see the the Star Trek ship come out of the clouds.
I just randomly got this video recommended thinking the same thing or if it was Star Trek.
Man, that was great!🦇
Another good one is when they jack with a saturn 5 right before launch. Good times, good times.
yeah the one with Gary 7
when this episode first aired our power went out and i missed it and i did not see it for about twenty years
Jerry Solomon: Obviously the work of ALIENS!
or time travelers
Jerry Solomon I kept missing reruns of Tholian Web
Jerry Solomon damn dude that was f***** up but you know a lot of stations all we did a reap are of shows like on the weekends
Do you mean your power was off for 20 years? Running windmills are ya?
For what its worth that is some of the best special effects for its time.
It's not of its time; this is from 2006 ;) They updated footage to take advantage of modern (at the time) techniques.
I never got to see that episode when I was very young I’d love to watch this in full
😂 My Dad used to work on those planes when he was in the Air Force. He was so good he even had a plane named after him.
Although the F-104 was know as "The widow maker" The Spanish Air Force (Ejercito del Aire) operated 21 F-104s for seven years (1965-1972) without a single loss.
The F104 was designed by Kelly Johnson and the skunk works to be deployed as a high speed high altitude interceptor. The West German Air Force used the plane as a low altitude low speed ground attack weapon, something it was never designed for. This resulted in an unusual high number of crashes.
@@billsanders5067 "low altitude low speed ground attack weapon" a CFIT weapon, you say? How intriguing.
@@billsanders5067 You know your stuff! In the Luftwaffe, non-combat missions, 269 crashes and 116 pilots killed. Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring Ace of WW II was also Chief of the Luftwaffe at the time. He was totally against the aircraft and there were allegations of some kind of bribes known as the "Lockeed Scandal."
He was retired early in 1970.
Lembrei da parte da Jornada nas Estrelas, assisti esta parte qd tinha 8 anos de idade em 1978.Ulisses de Campinas São Paulo.
The man in a missile.
104 was an amazing aircraft.
Actually very fast but not very stable.
Mitico cacciatore di stelle con il suo j 79!
This actually happened in 2004 off the coast of California when 2 F-18 fighter jets chased after a "Flying Tic-Tac".
Truth is stranger than fiction.
That's because a Cabal runs the world. Hollywood is apart of it and anything they show you in movies and TV shows, they can already do. Unfortunately it's been hidden in secret black budget programs. Ben Rich from Lockheed Martin said back in 1993. "We have the technology to take ET home."
@@sharko121 Agree with the global cabal and Hollywood as their instrument of mind control.
Disagree that humans could build anything remotely similar to Flying Tic-Tacs.
Lol.... the government couldn’t even keep Watergate under wraps or affect a regime change in a third world nation without it becoming a decades long quagmire and you think there is a global cabal?
I have ocean front property in Arizona you might be interested in.
@@Bartonovich52 time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Yes I do, and this Scandal is going to make Watergate look like ginger beer.
@@Bartonovich52 They managed to keep the SR-71 spy plane secret for 30 years.
And most people today STILL does not know the real reason why the U.S. got involved in Vietnam.
How many decades has it been?
It was called the Starfighter, which is maybe why the writers chose it? I prefer the original special effects, but that's another matter.
Sweet F-104 vs Enterprise
To me still one of the best STAR TREK episodes ever done.
Kirk could have beamed the pilot to the ground and drag the Stafighter to low earth orbit and let it burn up on re-entry. But, then the episode would have only lasted 10 minutes.
Maybe when the Enterprise was flung back in time, might've knocked the transporters off line.
@@rcmorales9014 - So how did they beam the pilot onboard?
@@Fazzel Scotty is a miracle worker.
Then you wouldn't have much of an episode
Me too! I loved both those episodes two!
Great graphics love this episode
I remember this episode fondly.
This also you see the enterprise in the sky for the first time
GREAT special effects for the time. Still holds up.
that scene with the starfighter 0:30 wasn't taken in the US or was it? with the church in the background it looks more like it was taken in Germany. Perhaps it was in Nörvenich with the church in Alt-Oberbolheim?
a small tidbit about the 104 that isn't widely known...one reason Lockheed was able to get the U2 designed and manufactured and flying so quickly is they basically just took a 104, lengthened the fuselage, repowered it and slapped some really long thin wings on it and whalla, you had a U2.
One of my favorite episodes
Man, were those episodes fun!
Fact: Actor who plays the F104 pilot was on Laugh In
Spock should have said, 'It is an F104, colloquially identified as the Starfighter.'
1:47 Wow, love that part.
I've never yet thought that the CGI "enhanced" TOS versions were better, or even as good, as TOS with its original effects and visuals. It just doesn't fit right.
1:06 lol that's like my dad on the riding lawnmower after a few drinks on a hot day, you might get a mowed lawn or a couple of crop circles in the yard😆👍🇩🇰💞🇺🇸
AHAHAHAHA!! That was epic!! Or my Mom would yell because her flowers were "trimmed!"
Love this episode
From the shot of the Enterprise below clouds at 2:46, one could assume that the altitude was below 15,000 to 20,000 feet. It would be interesting to hear them explain how the Enterprise was able to achieve the necessary aerodynamics for flying in Earth's atmosphere.
If you can bend the space-time to travel several times faster than light, at warp speed, and you can create artificial gravity on your decks, i think you can offset the Earth gravity
It's all about doing "little alterations" in the Riemann's Tensor
@@Trompicavalas The issue isn't manipulating Einstein's general theory. The issue is dealing with mundane forces like wind resistance, lift, and drag for a huge craft that's not obviously aerodynamically designed, particularly at supersonic speeds.
@@danielh3179 Mundane aerodynamic forces are for vessels that cannot manipulate the curvature of spacetime at will. But if you prefer, They can also create an energy shield around her that has an optimal aerodynamic shape.
I leave both options for you so you can choose the one you like the most
Easy to explain really "Science Fiction"
It’s got warp engines, jackass!
Great episode
A Starfighter chases a Starship.
Great, now I have to watch the whole episode. 🤣👍
Amazing! You almost can't see the strings 😆
they used wires
The F-104 known as the widow maker.
only in germany. Their variant was awful :(
A faulty design but it's fast
flying coffin
I prefer the original version of this clip. It looked more realistic.
Un mundo muy Primitivo. Con esa tegnologias.
I expect study on F-104 vs CVN-6 but this is a nice suprise
Good thing he wasn't flying a P-39. Enterprise wouldn't stand a chance.
The F-104 was a high altitude interceptor that could touch the edge of space....almost.
This and Gary 7 were my two favorites....
The only time I'd be worried about getting beamed up is when taking a big dump.
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Captain Sir; something’s klingin’ onto the outer hull. Don’t daft yeoman, that’d b a foolish ... enterprise🍳
The heyday of TAC, when the US was churning out all kinds of jet aircraft!
And in the fifties and sixties Pilots were encountering these things and in 1952 they actually over flu Washington
I like it when Spock says yes it's carrying a nuclear missile which could cause some damage to the ship
Back in the at Edwards Air Force Base and 60s we had aircraft armed with nuclear missiles on them they were called hot Birds, and you needed special permission to launch them
@@Dra741 I don't think the F-104 ever carried the Genie nuclear rocket, and I'm sure it never carried the Nuclear Falcon, but certainly many of its contemporaries did, maybe Spock just didn't know for sure what kind of jet it was. If that were an F-106 the USAF may have scored a kill on a Starfleet starship.
Spock, looks seriously concerned the jet has missiles, possibly nuclear. Kirk, ahh screw them. Get me Scotty...
Not even close. The only rocket at the time that was nuclear equipped was the AIR-2 GENIE, a fat tub of nothing but a bomb with wings and a solid motor. The fuse was a simple timer; there was no PAL (Permissive Action Link) safety system for the weapon, it was fire then RUN.
They played with fitting it to the Starfighter, using a trapeze rig, similar to what the F-102/106 had, but nothing came of it.
@@Nighthawke70 Great information. Thanks!
@@Nighthawke70 ...even so, the Genie could damage the Enterprise.
@@Nighthawke70 Also there was the AIM-26 Nuclear Falcon, which was not carried by the F-104.
Notice the jet makes the whooshing sound atmospheric resistance would cause. But the Enterprise makes no such sound. Yet in the opening theme the Enterprise famously "whooshes" even though it's not in any atmosphere. That may have been an NBC idea to give the opening theme more popular culture pizazz.
What season and what episode is this?
With the thin wings can an F-104 G carry a wing camera?
Nope,but they carried one and an infrared sensor just ahead of the windshield.
The 104 would definately out climb the Enterprise , think the Enterprise has the 104 in the turn
though ;)
Going mach 2.0 Sulu:"She's sluggish and slow sir"
Aircraft is to fragile, Kirk as Top Gun : lets transport the dude.
Memories 😊
Awesome!. 👍✈️
This would have been Offutt AFB, Nebraska, the former home of SAC (Strategic Air Command - nukes). At the time, very authentic.
Oxnard Air Force Base, now Camarillo Airport. I just went to the airshow, no F-104s flew though. It's just off the 101, so I can see why it appealed as a filming location.
Like 👍 video...
Lockheed F-104, the original Starfighter!
Sulu, can't you keep this ship steady? Come on, man!
Oh Captain, stop being a Hideous Little B!tch!!
Is this the episode where Gary 7 and the Enterprise
The Enterprise having trouble with crosswinds or what!
how could the pilot be dematerialized "sitting" in the jet and materialized "standing" on the transporter platform?
What is the buzz number of the F-104 that actually takes off to intercept the Enterprise?
An Aviation Safety Network website says Starfighter FG-914/57-0194 crashed in Thailand, ten days before the Star Trek episode aired, in 1967.
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That's sad.
The Zipper (Widow Maker, Phallus Tube), had no chance against Big E.
What episode was this anyone?
Cool!!!!
Który to odcinek?
I wonder if this episode was inspired by the incident with the P-51 that occurred some years earlier.
Does anyone know what episode this is... I'd like to see it in full
@@qed100 Thankyou
Followed a really bright light going up the Colombia river followed it 5 miles then it just disappeared not a trace anywhere
Some of the killjoys forget that the Big E would have a magnetic field around it in the form of the Deflector Field. As for the Starfighter; that was one of the best Century Series fighters ever built, but it needed an Fighter Pilot to handle it. In this period in history, the TAC (Tactical Air Command) would have been using F-102 or -106 Flying Coffins as interceptors, however, as most of the 104's were on other missions or for Export. Most of the front-line Phantoms were in Indochina or on Carrier Duty, if memory serves, during the mid-Sixties. A Phantom could withstand the Big E's deflector shields without breaking a sweat, I'm here to tell you.
Much like the company I work for, make it up as you go along.