Piece of the action Ending
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- One of my favorite moments in the TOS series.
Kirk tries to uses logic and Spock's all "Uh no... just no sweetie, but nice try."
Then they double team Bones because they are just that fking adorable.
Season 2 Episode 17 Star Trek TOS
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The moment Kirk and Spock dressed as gangsters, the episode went from amusing to brilliant.
The humor and script were all genius not to mention the incredible sound track.
Is that why it was one of the episodes chosen to be released as a photonovel?
Only in the sixties could an hour long TV show give you the feeling that you've just watched a full length movie.
Especially in "City on The Edge of Forever". That episode felt like you had been watching these people's lives for days!
Because they had lot less ads.
@@omegaman7377 17 minutes and 49 seconds of ad time per primetime hour on national TV in 2019 v less than 10 in 1968
@@johnbernstein7887 Absolutely. 10 minutes *max.*
Because there was real writers then and not lazy people that are feeling entitled .
Little trivia: This is the only episode of the original series to end with a freeze frame.
Every Trekkie worth their salt knows this. But, an excellent observation.
I just said that.. but I think I learned it from you
@@spockvskhan4561 I have watched every TOS episode multiple times and never realized this until reading this comment. 😅
@@spockvskhan4561 I guess I'm not worth my salt.
The premise was pretty silly... but it was meant to be. It was a deliberately comedic episode that worked very well. Nimoy's drollness in the ensuing insanity did much toward making it that way.
Your assessment is quite logical.
Kirk asks Mr. Spock if he is afraid of traveling by automobile. Spock replies, that it's the captain's driving that worries him.
@@TheSuburban15 He said that while he was an excellent captain, he made a lousy taxi driver.
Check
THat last line delivered with such Kirk like confidence and then that musical score to DRIVE IT HOME....pure genius.
Yes. The ending of this episode was the best ending of any of the episodes. The music at the end was the clincher. I’m glad someone else recognized it. 👍🏼
"Aw-right, Bones... In the Language of the planet, What's your Beef?" Coolest and most Awesome lines this episode had...
JoJo Krakow: "I either trust em or they're dead!"
Then looks back at them unsure lol
Spock, holding a Tommy gun: "I would advise you to keep dialing, Oxmyx"
@@PlasmaCoolantLeak "I would advise yas ta keep dialing."
LOL loved that ending. That's what was missing from all subsequent Trek series that sense of comradarie and humor that made this crew relatable. The trinity of Kirk, Spock and McCoy could never be duplicated.
I like Deep space 9
Agreed ... you nailed it
Yes. Just yes.
A decade after you made this comment, I totally agree!!! 👍
Especially Spock’s “not buying the bullshit” face. 😜
I love the way they wind up McCoy and get him really worried ' Do you really think it's that serious!' I do so love this trio.
The way that brass comes screaming in the ending scene is just plain brilliance!
The timing between these actors is incredible. Here it it, decades later, and it still holds up and rings true.
No matter how many times I see this ending scene it is still funny.
OMG yes! Here I am on my 58th birthday back to watch this scene...LOVE IT.
Great ending!!! What chemistry they had then. How much fun they did have making that episode..good lord. That was excellent.
James Kirk treats the Prime Directive like a baby treats a diaper.
Galaxy to Capt. Kirk: "'Prime Directive', you keep saying those words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean...."
@@mkalebornInconceivable!!
When Kirk uses Logic, even Spock is stumped
starfleet command: so you basically you ignored the prime directive and conquered the planet?
Conquer? He ain't looking to conquer sonny he just wants his piece of da action see?
They invited us sir.
Yes, but now we're collecting taxes, so it's cool, right?
@@TheSuburban15 What does Starfleet or the UFP need with taxes in a post-scarcity society?
@@rikk319 0:30
This is one of my favorite endings.
1:02 From Kirk's face to Spock's face...LOL... 😁
A perfectly cut scene and witty to the bone.
Correct- sorely missing from all post TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT Trek
To reiterate, a large part of the "Feel" and reason for the wit and tight editing of TOS was both the professionalism of those involved in production during that era, plus the limitations of fx tech forcing them to rely on excellent production values otherwise, and pacing/editing/scene composition and timing
Classic ending- "a piece of our action"! Chute man, Kirk shoulda been in Broadway... What a Canadian icon
the end music sells the scene imo
Stew782
Agreed
absolutely wonderful...
1:03 I love the look on Spock's face here. And Kirk's reaction. Like "You made that up on the spot, didn't you." ".... yes."
"Star Trek 25th Anniversary" on NES uses McCoy's communicator that he left behind to create the plot for the game. It's not the best game you'll find on that system, but it's one of my personal favorites.
In a comic book adapt in which Kirk was on trial, they did give McCoy's communtator back and intact.
Good thing Kirk didn't ask Spock "what's your beef?". Spock would have said: "I fail to understand your present employment of such a colloquialism, Captain. I am a vegetarian."
The only time I can recall the ships phasers being put on stun, and one of the few times the Enterprise's ability to subdue a planet is underlined for residents of the planet, the episode "A Taste of Armageddon" being the other. I believe the non-canon was that the Iotians had a working duplicate of a Federation Starbase in orbit the next time a starship visited.
If The Imperial Starship Enterprise.. was about to lay waste to a planet.. one assumes the USS Enterprise would have a similar capability
Yeah that was from the licensed but non canon "Worlds of the Federation" book
One of the best episode endings ever...
I think Kirk had a blast He never had su much fun.
It looked like such fun. One of the best episodes for humor.
This has gotta be my most favorite episode if not the best episode of tos
If this isn't the perfect setup for a later episode of STNG or DS9 I don't know what is. I must admit I always wanted to see a followup.
Who knows maybe everyone would be playing Fizzbin at Quarks.
So many of these golden episodes were like that....The writing so good...anything could have been built on foundations like that. The Horta would have been another superb one.
It was considered for the DS9 anniversary episode, before the producers went with the Tribbles/K-7 incident.
No matter WHAT "future" generation's think/say,THIS IS TRUE,GENUINE ,REAL STAR TREK!!
plus TNG
I've only watched The Original Series. William Shatner is Star Trek, and that's all there is to it!
@@PittsburghMarky go correct that error ASAP.
The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Deep Space 9.....that was my watching order
(Yes, I watched the series with Captain Janeway...but I hated her as a captain...her decision making and orders..were mostly BS)
@@leeshackelford7517 Naaaa. Watched enough TV in my life. And Shatner is Trek. That is all.
@@PittsburghMarky If you go your whole life, having only ever watched Star Trek, then you’re still ahead of the game! 🖖😀
I read this is a storyline that the writers never got back to. The story would show how the Iotians were already building sublight crafts that could reach other plants in their solar system. They obviously did take McCoys communicator apart, reverse engineered and built on their knowledge.
Looking for this thanks for posting. McCoy losing the communicator and the "translator" technology always stuck with me lol.
I remember seeing every single episode of Star Trek: The Original Series with Mr William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly as Captain James T Kirk, Mr Spock and Dr McCoy respectfully very much while I was much younger and boy did I enjoy watching it very much.
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OMG!!!!!!!! THIS IS........WITHOUT A DOUBT.........THE FUNNIEST PART........OF ANY STAR TREK EPISODE........EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! The look on Spock's face when Captain Kirk asks him if his solution to the problem is logical is HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!
It's his Marge face - mmmmmm
I say the final scene of Trouble with Tribbles trumps this for humor. Kirk trying to drag the tribble location information out of his officers had me completely busting up for minutes, and Scotty's terrible pun for the final line...🤣🤣🤣
Kirk utters his greatest line in this episode..."Cover me,Spocko"
"I'd advise yaz to keep dialling, Oxmyx." 😃
McCoy's communicator will transform the planet into a Trekkie convention in 100 years' time!
Hey, that's not bad! But I think Futurama covered that theme 😊
Man, TOS is the bomb.
There was a novel about this troublesome communicator, non-canon but a fun read.
Eventually, Captain Picard will get a piece of the action.
Was that the same planet, or a holodeck program that went weird. It's been a long time since I watched TNG
@@TheSuburban15 It was a holodeck malfunction
@@austinsmith5782 So....not the same thing
@@rebeccaquartieri5509 What are you talking about? In TNG's "The Last Goodbye", a Season 1 episode, Picard, Data, and Beverly are trapped in a holodeck simulation of Picard's favorite book series, Dixon Hill, due to a malfunction. I was answering the question of whether or not the gangster thing in TNG was a planet or holodeck thing. Please read more carefully before making a snark comment.
I loved seeing Bones get his karate chop kicks in…
“A criminal organ eye zation.” William Shatner’s Canadian accent coming out.
He pronounced "somber" kinda funny, too. He said it like "soam-burr".
And freeze frame. Hard cut to the Enterprise going off to its next adventure.
I’m meeting Mr Shatner next month and just wanted to be reminded about how much I loved Capt Kirk as a boy.
How did the meeting go? I hope to be able to meet Shatner someday.
Who's interfering? We're taking over. 🤣🤣🤣
then they took this episode and created an entire game around the premise of that they do in fact find the communicator and fuck everything up with the knowledge.
Silly as it may seem the Iotians could imitate the technology of the Federation and could demand a piece of their action. That would have made a great Star Trek movie.
1:04 - is that a SMILE???
We need a follow-up episode where the Iotians are now dressed up the same as the old Federation meeting the new Enterprise D and crew.
The only freeze frame ending in TOS I believe. Love it.
I like the blonde who walks by at the start of this scene to show off her legs... 😍😍😘😘
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One of my favorites!
Classic episode! One of our favorites!
Spock: Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright and imitative people, should take that communicator apart - "
Kirk: "They will, they will and they'll find out how the translator works - "
Spock: The translator is the basis for every important piece of equipment -"
Kirk finishes his sentence with him - "that we have."
I loved this episode!
Love the body language!
one of m favourite episodes!!!
Reminds me- used to listen to this scene often in the late 70s early 80s as a growing Trek geek kid, this exact cut, start/end points
Like many Trek fans in the era before video tape recorders were common or low cost enough for average working families to own (ie TOS run through early 80s), I would record the audio from episodes to cassette tape or reel to reel tape and listen to episodes like a radio show. Worked for early Trek since TOS relied on good writing, dialog and (voice) acting plus emotional soundtrack music, cues and fx, vs excessive or gratuitous visual fx
YEs, you had to check the TV Guide for episodes upcoming to record the ones you were missing ;)
Ahhh the golden age of recording...prior to digital coming in and mucking it all up.
A missed opportunity, in that we never saw the Iotians again. It would have been hilarious for the crew from the Next Generation to visit the planet, only to encounter a world where everyone dresses like the Federation from Kirk’s time.
One of my favourite moments too. Now that it's 45+ years later, maybe they should make a movie about the Iotians coming back to take a piece of the Federation's action! I wouldn't trust Abrams to direct it though.
Actually, cool piece of trivia, the original idea for the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribulations" was going to be going back to Iotia and finding that the whole planet looked like the original Star Trek.
In Abrams Trek, all the Iotians would be lesbian transgenders.
RaisedByCats Maybe the guy who directed The Wrath of Khan, could do it justice.
The problem with Abrams is not his directing, it's his writing. He is a very good director, but an insultingly stupid writer.
@@Scifiotica_presents Lisa, that would be excellent!
One of the best endings, ever!
This one is my second favorite episode; behind City on the Edge of Forever.
Me too, and 'The Deadly Years' -- the one where they age as third. I was a kid, watching these in B&W over 50 years ago now. Wow.
I remember that their was a comic book that dealt with the ramification, where the Enterprise and not sure which one returned to find the Iotians had their own starfleet
IDW one? In a DC comic, Oxmyx returns to speak at a tribunal for Kirk.
I LOVWE KIRK
This was alluded to in Star Trek Enterprise when Lt Reed did the same thing leaving tech behind.
Wonderful stuff
It's amazing how many planets evolved human beings.
Is that really a smile of Spock?! :D
Always liked-"Spock,I'm sick of your half breed interference!!
Spock's expression at 1:00
I don't under stand how they CANT found one piece of Federation Technology from orbit? If its the only piece of Fed Tech on the planet!
Agreed, but one could assume that after the light hearted exchange, Kirk ordered a sensor search for the communicator, prior to leaving orbit. Scenes don't necessarily occur in Realtime as we see them, so minutes/hours could pass before the final dialog and the ship leaving orbit.
@@geraldford6409 All true. But years ago they. Made a comics that reference this episode. It’s said in the comics. Kirk never found the missing federation technology. And the planet looked just like Kirk time.
Favourite episode :-)
kirk said: let's talk it through (as a crew)
A piece of our action!!!
Gawd I miss this show! Special effects were crude but it was all about the acting.
My favorite part of this entire scene is Spock's face at 1:02
So the transtator is the 23rd century's version of a transistor. Cool.
Some say it 'transitions states of energy' too (nerdy lookup)
I think by this time the Prime Directive had been pretty much thrown out the window. Kirk and crew could do whatever they wanted with a planet.
For all its flaws, foibles, shatner's ego, and at times writing that leaves me cringing in horror?
I am still grateful this ran in syndication when I was a kid.
HAHAH KIRK TAKESA CUT
❤❤😂😂😅😊 Kirk give two thumbs up & giving the a piece of the action 👍👍
Time to turn the ship around
Absolutely love the video clip. Not sure I follow you're comment/remark. "just no sweetie" doesn't really fit the Spock character. But thanks for sharing.
Actually Spock was doing something without knowing he was doing it :p
🤣! Thanks for the laughs! Star Trek OS was the best of all of the Star Trek series, in spite of the others all having better special effects. I watched it with my father and older brother when it first aired. My younger brother watched the reruns. He and I are still Trek fans now, although I'm in my mid sixties and he is in his mid fifties. Some things are just timeless. Unfortunately, the later series all gradually went woke, which eventually ruined them. It's a shame really, as they had a great premise to work with. The original series also did a great job dealing with issues like racial and male/female equality. They did all of this while being very entertaining. I also liked that they provided a variety of mood tones from humor to deadly suspense. It is a great old series.
Fun fact: at one place I used to live a local PBS station aired the reruns over the air. Unfortunately, I was living in the mountains, so the reception on my little portable TV wasn't too good. I think the screen was about twice the size of my smartphone's screen. Yeah, it was small, but it was portable, and had a color screen.
Anyway, thanks for the funny post! Laughter is the best medicine.🤖👽👩🚀🚀🛸💉💊😄
One of my favorite episodes.
You have exceptionally good taste.
Shatner was on Broadway
I would like to hear that this world became a member of the ufp.
re an exchange below: William Shatner was born in Canada, in Montreal.
JAMES KIRK was born in Iowa. Before the '09 film, anyway.
In the 2009 film he still claims to be from Iowa despite being born on the Kelvin
Only freeze frame ending in the whole series
Was there a follow up to the Iotians? Any books? I see on Memory-Alpha they built a Starbase.
the Iotian end up making powerful starships that saved the federation in the alpha borg war
Is it just me or does anyone else realize that how Kirk solved the problem was he CONQUERED THE PLANET!
I don't think he conquered them because they are in complete control of the planet, but they have to work together now and merely give the federation a cut.
Kirk in the episode tricked them all with saying the federation was going to conquer the planet if they couldn't get together.
There's a starfleet federation yet the crew of the Enterprise get themselves out of predicaments without help. 🤔
Directed by James Komack.
Which one of you two are volunteering to clean the outside windows?
Kirk says sober and Spock repeats somber...wonder if that was intentional?
Kirk said somber, too.
@@sarahfullerton6894 After listening again, it did sound like somber. Good job,.
1 a year is all you want... ..
Lol.
does it have to be a felony?
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did they ever check up on them?
i wish kirk was still wearing his g rags in this scene
Like huh