I liked it when Spock was turning himself in for court-martial for killing his captain, when Kirk announced he had to have HIS permission to do it and Spock showed a high emotional spirit of gratitude, then found out Doc McCoy had given Kirk a Mickey shot. THAT WAS A GOOD EPISODE. Spock told his betrothed's boyfriend, "You will find that Having is not as rewarding as WANTING ! It's not Logical, but often true."
Disagree. The most iconic fight was between Kirk and the Android "Finnegan" in the first season episode "Shore Leave." It was a good ol' fashioned fistfight. The fight between Kirk, Scotty, McCoy, and Uhura vs. Mirror Spock in the second season's "Mirror, Mirror" is a close second in my book.
Celia Lovsky was once married to Peter Lorre, an actor who acted in horror films. He once told the comedian, Spike Jones "You do to music what I do to people." One of my friends said ,"She probably laughed." I used to wonder what T'Pau was like when she was younger. The young actress who played T'Pau on "Enterprise" ('Awakening' and 'Kir Shara') answered my question.
Oh, this is up there. You've got the music, the slash through the captain's shirt, the red "sky"... I also like the fight with Finnegan in "Shore Leave" and, of course, the fight with the Gorn.
To this very day, as it was when this was first aired on television, I still cry by the end of the scene. The acting, writing, and action are all some of the very best in television history. Well done EVERYONE in this scene!
"Live long and prosper." "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain and my friend." Spock knows that a court martial and execution awaits him. He voluntarily goes back to the ship to meet his destiny.
The "cable guy" version was iconic.. I love this episode tho.. My little brother and I mimicked this fight for years after watching it...Ahh the memories (and the scars) are priceless!
Also one of the most memorable iconic music scores! The original series rocked on so many levels that nothing after the series to do with Star Trek has ever been able to match!
In ST TOS lore it doesn't get better than this. After so many times I still sit on the edge of my chair immersed. It's about writing skills every time. 😊
Yeah, I love all those but i also like the fight from The Gamesters of Triskellion. Oh, and that fight with the fake Andorian in Journey to Babel! It was short but truly iconic!
It's hard to believe a Vulcan, member of a longer-advanced society than Earth's albeit one encrusted with Greco-Roman levels of religious and tribal state ceremonial, would say "the air is the air, what can be done?" Sounds like someone from a pre-technological society that had never heard of medicine or biochemistry. Still, it was and remains one of my favourite moments. Celia Lovsky as T'Pau so masters the idea of being aristocratic and dismissive that it would have been a privilege to be insulted and dismissed by her.
I thought this video's title was total click-bait until I recognized the thumbnail. I clicked through just to say I agree 100%. Not only was this the best fight scene, it's arguably one of the dramatic high points of the whole original series!
Just another of dozens of scenes from dozens of episodes that clearly show the original series to be vastly superior to anything "Trek" that came after it. Music score, acting, writing... just incredible. I am so blessed to be one of those who was in front of the old black and white Tv in the late 60's watching this series. Thank GOD for the reruns.
i am a big fan of star trek have been since i first saw it as a child so many years ago. but i have to disagree with you about TOS being vastly superior to the shows that came after. ST TNG was not great at first but it got much better. and honestly ST DS9 was a fantastic show. voyager and enterprise were fair at best. but that is my opinion.
Fun fact. The actor playing T’Pau was Celia Lovesky (apologies for misspelling?) who was at one time married to actor Peter Lorre. They had to flee Nazi Germany just before WW2.
It's great, Kirk vs Captain Tracy is also excellent since Tracy clearly had Kirk overmatched, but I think the bar room brawl with the Klingons is way up there on the iconic scale too
@@johntabler349 oh yes the Klingon brawl in the Tribbles episode is also classic. " I didn't mean to say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage I meant to say it should be hauled away AS GARBAGE!"
Partially agree. For me it includes the part that follows-the conversation between Spock and T’Pring. It includes the best quote ever. ‘Stonn she is yours….’ you know the rest
Funny. I'm having trouble even remembering the Kirk front kick. But the Spock elbow was sweet and well timed but certainly not ICONIC.. And will never stand the test of time as that scene has stood. Thanks for sharing!
1' kirks H2'H beef with finnigan , 2' his beef with khan , 3' the all out brawl on SS/K7' kirks boys beefing with the Klingon bruisers and 4' even though it wasn't unarmed H2'H the day of the dove episode all sword fighting was pretty damn good episode
Star Trek had a lot of interesting moments that in spite of the clunky props and obvious stunt doubles, often gave it a surprising taste of realism. Like at 0:18 when Kirk reacts to Spock's advance upon him.
Celia Lovsky's part replete with great lines, including to Spock, "It iss said, thy Wulcan bloodd isss thinnn." Sorry- best way I could think of to represent her almost sinister delivery.
Kirk vs Finnegan = #1. The fight with Khan in Space Seed was #2. This was #3, just above Kirk fighting Ron Tracy (#4). Most Star Trek fights were short and sweet.
It's an entertaining fight sequence and well choreagraphed; no doubt about that. I hate inconsistencies in not just Star Trek but in many movies and TV shows of the time. Spock is supposed to be at least three times the strength of an average human, yet there are this and several other episodes where Spock and other human characters are evenly matched.
Spock was physically weakened at this point to where McCoy didn't think he could take Stonn who wasn't exactly a Vulcan macho man but even in a great show plot convenience sometimes wins over consistency
@johntabler349 There was two other episodes; again was "evenly" matched . . The one where they're in a modern day Rome and the one where McCoy gets married.
@@williamphillips6049 Yolanda when the landing party is ambushed? I believe he is taken by multiple armed men who get the drop on him. In the Roman episode he easily defeats two trained gladiators when his attempts at reason fail. I can see the argument on the first one but not really the second
I have long wondered what Kirk would've done if he knew it was a death match before he accepted. I'd say Kirk v Kang in "Day of the Dove", I'm always up for a little swordplay.
Exactly. Darn the Vulcan 's...T'pau did "warn" him that he could decline 'with no harm to thyself", which a Vulcan would have gotten- but she should have known & Spock even told her Kirk has no clue. But I guess if you believe Vulcan 's are non-violent, you wouldn't expect a death match!
@@suzanneroberge494 Kirk said it himself, if he got into trouble he'd quit and honor would be satisfied. That's what I thought right up until T'Pau said, "This fight, is to de detht." Five year old me made Mum laugh when I said, "Hold the phone, Roger!"
‘Hello darkness my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left it’s seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision, that was planted in my brain, still remains, within the sound, of silence. In restless dreams I walked alone. Narrow streets of cobblestone. ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp. When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, that split the night, and touched the sounds, of silence. And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people maybe more. People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs, that voices never share. And no one dared, disturb the sounds, of silence. “Fools” said I “You do not know, silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you”. But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed, in the wells, of silence. And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls. And whispered, in the sounds, of silence.” ~ Paul Simon
I dunno....as a kid I really really liked the battles on the planet Triskellion. Of course it might have had something to do with those tinfoil bikinis
The subsequent scene when Spock learns Kirk is alive is more iconic.
Iconic moment, but not a fight scene.
This and the Gorn fight of course. Kroika!
And the recent Kirk-Gorn fight in that hilarious commercial.
@Shaun-e9yYea, how the mighty have fallen.
The most iconic fight scene is when Kirk had to take down Khan. First hand to hand and then ship to ship later on… 👍🏾!
@marcussimmons2708 Thanks for sharing!
The Gorn is the best worst fight scene of all time.
The music is iconic! Someone actually wrote it and hired to perform it with an orchestra!
The music that comes in when Spock realizes what (he thinks) he has done! Amazing!
The air is the air! Love that line!😊😊😊
Also the casual way Lovsky says "This combat is to the death", as if explaining to a small child.
I liked it when Spock was turning himself in for court-martial for killing his captain, when Kirk announced he had to have HIS permission to do it and Spock showed a high emotional spirit of gratitude, then found out Doc McCoy had given Kirk a Mickey shot. THAT WAS A GOOD EPISODE.
Spock told his betrothed's boyfriend, "You will find that Having is not as rewarding as WANTING ! It's not Logical, but often true."
Disagree. The most iconic fight was between Kirk and the Android "Finnegan" in the first season episode "Shore Leave." It was a good ol' fashioned fistfight. The fight between Kirk, Scotty, McCoy, and Uhura vs. Mirror Spock in the second season's "Mirror, Mirror" is a close second in my book.
@@huskerjpg Thanks for your awesome input!
ABSOLUTELY
Celia Lovsky was once married to Peter Lorre, an actor who acted in horror films. He once told the comedian, Spike Jones "You do to music what I do to people." One of my friends said ,"She probably laughed." I used to wonder what T'Pau was like when she was younger. The young actress who played T'Pau on "Enterprise" ('Awakening' and 'Kir Shara') answered my question.
Good point, but none of those involved a fight to the death.
@GrandManor absolutely. Thanks for your intuitive insight.
As a very young child, I was scared and cried. 57 years later not much of a change, but I know the rest of the story.
Play that funky fight-music, white boy!
LOL!!!
Kirk and Finnegan in Shore Leave was tremendous.
My brothers and I invented the game "Tie-um Finneganum Up-um" while play fighting outside.
That was my first thought. Star Fleet cadet James Kirk the plebe finally got closure on his bully tormentor upper classmen at Star Fleet Academy!
Certainly the most musical fight.
If I'm not mistaken this is the first time we here the fight music that is now so famous and familiar.
Even with the sound off, I can totally hear the music. Lol
Spock had that seven year jones.
@@juanmonge7418 Lol!
🤣😅🤣😅
umm,seven year itch? 😂
@@hellshade2 To pomfar or not to pomfar. That. Is the question. 🖖
The best part of this episode is when Spock actually smiles and says, 'Jim' ! Kinda puts a lump in your throat.
@@viking670 It sure does. Thanks
YEAH!! 😅 💯🎉🎈🎊
Haven’t seen in years or decades.
I remember Bones giving Spock a hard time for his emotional outburst when he saw Jim was alive.
Never gets old for me. Everything about the scene is so well done. Thank you.
And thank you for sharing!
Oh, this is up there. You've got the music, the slash through the captain's shirt, the red "sky"...
I also like the fight with Finnegan in "Shore Leave" and, of course, the fight with the Gorn.
the fight with the gorn was to unrealistic due to the gorn costume.the gorn on the enterpise shows mirror mirror episode was much better.
@hellshade2 agreed! Thanks for sharing!
The music itself is iconic!🎶
This music beats all challengers. 🖖
Kirk and Gary Mitchell was also tremendous.
Yep. I forgot about that one.
@@huskerjpg Kirk's first!
@@PeterBrown-mz4nv Right, this is when Kirk killed a god
To this very day, as it was when this was first aired on television, I still cry by the end of the scene. The acting, writing, and action are all some of the very best in television history. Well done EVERYONE in this scene!
"Live long and prosper." "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain and my friend." Spock knows that a court martial and execution awaits him. He voluntarily goes back to the ship to meet his destiny.
@paulleckner8235 Thanks for sharing!
@@RobertAllenH Thank you for noticing. Right back at you!
Maybe not the first, but definitely not the last, time McCoy slipped someone a Mickey Finn.
Greatest battle music of all time. I used to have as a ringtone
The "cable guy" version was iconic.. I love this episode tho.. My little brother and I mimicked this fight for years after watching it...Ahh the memories (and the scars) are priceless!
T'pau was played by Celia Lovsky, the German Jewish actress and ex-wife of Peter Lorre.
And she was perfect! What a talented actress!
By itself an iconic performance. That absolutely fulfilled the expectations created by how important T'Pau was supposed to be. She made us believe it.
Interesting.
I wonder if the studio saved all Captain Kirk’s torn shirts.
Also one of the most memorable iconic music scores! The original series rocked on so many levels that nothing after the series to do with Star Trek has ever been able to match!
My favorite Original Star Trek fight scene was Kirk's fight with Finnegan! Classic!
@@moebettermann1154 Also a great scene . Thanks!
That is what I was going to say. GMTA.
My favorite fight was in the bar, during the Tribbles episode. But I like this one too. Especially when Spock complimented T"Pring on her logic.
In ST TOS lore it doesn't get better than this. After so many times I still sit on the edge of my chair immersed. It's about writing skills every time. 😊
The music was great.
It's the music that truly sets this fight scene apart from all the other excellent fights mentioned
@@richardlane835 Thanks for sharing!
I loved this show.
Me TOO. Live Long and Prosper
Spuk....Arrrrre ourrrrr cerrrremonies forrrr outworrrrlderrrrs?
2:49 I like the look on Kirk's face after they hand him the ahn-woon ... like "WTF is this supposed to be??"
Lol. Thanks for sharing!
Yes!! Best friends fighting to the death!!
Yeah, I love all those but i also like the fight from The Gamesters of Triskellion. Oh, and that fight with the fake Andorian in Journey to Babel! It was short but truly iconic!
It's hard to believe a Vulcan, member of a longer-advanced society than Earth's albeit one encrusted with Greco-Roman levels of religious and tribal state ceremonial, would say "the air is the air, what can be done?" Sounds like someone from a pre-technological society that had never heard of medicine or biochemistry. Still, it was and remains one of my favourite moments. Celia Lovsky as T'Pau so masters the idea of being aristocratic and dismissive that it would have been a privilege to be insulted and dismissed by her.
Truly a wonderfully intimidating soul.
Thanks for sharing!
I haven't watched yet, but I swear, if the music doesn't go: "Dah da daaaa da dadidaa dididaaaa....." imma throw this phone out the window.
Classic fight scene with iconic music.
@@voiceofreason9238 Thanks for sharing!
This is a great fight, but nobody beats Kirk vs Gorn
I thought this video's title was total click-bait until I recognized the thumbnail. I clicked through just to say I agree 100%. Not only was this the best fight scene, it's arguably one of the dramatic high points of the whole original series!
My thoughts exactly! Thanks for sharing!
the music almost followed the fight...ha...and the gorn fight...epic...thanks...
You're very welcome! Thanks for sharing!
Close second to the Gorn..
Spock was in mating mode! That must be some good stuff up on planet Vulcan!
Some high grade pomfar baby.
Thanks for sharing!
Just another of dozens of scenes from dozens of episodes that clearly show the original series to be vastly superior to anything "Trek" that came after it. Music score, acting, writing... just incredible. I am so blessed to be one of those who was in front of the old black and white Tv in the late 60's watching this series. Thank GOD for the reruns.
i am a big fan of star trek have been since i first saw it as a child so many years ago. but i have to disagree with you about TOS being vastly superior to the shows that came after. ST TNG was not great at first but it got much better. and honestly ST DS9 was a fantastic show. voyager and enterprise were fair at best.
but that is my opinion.
A very good opinion as well.
I love DS9 myself.
Thanks for sharing!
A valued opinion.
Thanks for sharing!
FLAVIUS: At least defend yourself.
MCCOY: I am defending myself!
FLAVIUS: Not like that, you fool!
@@menacelurkingyet8345 I love that scene! Ya know Sharner plays McCoy's stunt double in that fight. Lol
Thanks for sharing!
Fun fact. The actor playing T’Pau was Celia Lovesky (apologies for misspelling?) who was at one time married to actor Peter Lorre. They had to flee Nazi Germany just before WW2.
She was in a Twilight Zone episode. "Queen of the Nile".
It's great, Kirk vs Captain Tracy is also excellent since Tracy clearly had Kirk overmatched, but I think the bar room brawl with the Klingons is way up there on the iconic scale too
I agree whole heartedly! Thanks!!
"They called the Enterprise a GARBAGE SCOW!"
@@randomobserver8168 loyalty to a commanding officer is one thing love for a vessel that's something entirely on another level
@@johntabler349 oh yes the Klingon brawl in the Tribbles episode is also classic. " I didn't mean to say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage I meant to say it should be hauled away AS GARBAGE!"
@richardlane835 Lovrethat one! Thanks for sharing!
Two men enter, one man leaves.
@fitsodafun LOL. Battling for the affection of Tapringirosa!!
@fitsodafun woops
Kirk vs Shahna, the babe in the silver two-piece
Partially agree. For me it includes the part that follows-the conversation between Spock and T’Pring. It includes the best quote ever. ‘Stonn she is yours….’ you know the rest
I should have made the clip a little longer.
Thanks for sharing!
Captain Kirk and those sideburns? Man, they're out of this world!
The fight in cable guy was pretty epic
This was so iconic they even recreated it replete with music on SNW.
Chris Pine as Kirk using a Front Kick in Star Trek 2009 was "ICONIC"; the KIRK FRONT KICK. Spock's eyebrow thing is iconic.
Who the heck is FLINNERAN?
Funny. I'm having trouble even remembering the Kirk front kick. But the Spock elbow was sweet and well timed but certainly not ICONIC.. And will never stand the test of time as that scene has stood.
Thanks for sharing!
1' kirks H2'H beef with finnigan , 2' his beef with khan , 3' the all out brawl on SS/K7' kirks boys beefing with the Klingon bruisers and 4' even though it wasn't unarmed H2'H the day of the dove episode all sword fighting was pretty damn good episode
Thanks for sharing!
Good times
@@user-uw1pp2pi8j Thanks for sharing!
That other Vulcan bystander, Stonn almost played Spock during a $$$$ dispute
Thanks for sharing
Star Trek had a lot of interesting moments that in spite of the clunky props and obvious stunt doubles, often gave it a surprising taste of realism. Like at 0:18 when Kirk reacts to Spock's advance upon him.
@@lynnpoint6395 Thanks for sharing!
Celia Lovsky's part replete with great lines, including to Spock, "It iss said, thy Wulcan bloodd isss thinnn." Sorry- best way I could think of to represent her almost sinister delivery.
Are the Wulcan Orr are the Human!
Excellent!
@@jeffalanvasconcellos3039 Thanks for sharing!
it's ok but the fight with the Gorn captain is iconic. I still use the line "I will be merceeful and Quiiick" today.
Thanks for sharing!
Kroika is Vulcan for Crikey
CiXi in outer space
This is THE fight scene!!
I concur. Thanks for sharing!
Even in The Simson they repeat this scene with the same music 😄
I loved when they did that. Lol
Thanks for sharing!
@@RobertAllenHAnd on “FUTURAMA” and “Get a Life.” Even if you don’t know TOS all that well, it’s a Boomer touchstone.
@@kallyfest I believe this music was also used in cable guy with Jim Carrey during the medieval Festival
When the vulcan is half hearted
Lucky.
Definitely one of the best. Finnegan is another.
i was thinking the same episode before i played your video
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Bones: He's dead! Jim!
Thanks for sharing!
This optimises Star Trek, poor scripts, poor scenery, poor acting. I loved it
Yes. It was great indeed.
Thanks for sharing!
Kirk and the Gorn, best fight scene!
Cable guy
The Russian accent always worked for Unearthly species 🤣😅
Thanks for sharing!
Fighting for Tepring!
Thanks for sharing!
You should see the MEGO addition! 😮😮😮
This was good but the fight on the space port in the Tribble episode was better, especially the aftermath.
@@oogiev2 An excellent observation indeed. Thank you for sharing!
T'pring fire tho
Iconic, yes. But I always thought the fight in the hallway against the "Andorian" was the greatest Kirk fight of all time!
Ah yes. His patented butt strike that gets him stabed. Interesting.
Thanks for sharing!
More of a flying hip check from hockey 😊
Kirk vs Finnegan = #1. The fight with Khan in Space Seed was #2. This was #3, just above Kirk fighting Ron Tracy (#4). Most Star Trek fights were short and sweet.
Thanks for sharing!
Gorn
Hands down
Yup
Kirk and the Gorn is the most iconic and ridiculous scene ever
Thanks for sharing!
Many a playground was full of this scene
This was an incredible fight but no fight can be epic without the iconic lock fisted Captain Kirk punch!! 😅
😆 Thanks for sharing!
The most iconic fight? I dunno. The fight with the Gorn had those great styrofoam rocks! ^_^
Lol!!
It's an entertaining fight sequence and well choreagraphed; no doubt about that.
I hate inconsistencies in not just Star Trek but in many movies and TV shows of the time.
Spock is supposed to be at least three times the strength of an average human, yet there are this and several other episodes where Spock and other human characters are evenly matched.
Spock was physically weakened at this point to where McCoy didn't think he could take Stonn who wasn't exactly a Vulcan macho man but even in a great show plot convenience sometimes wins over consistency
@johntabler349 indeed. Thanks
@johntabler349 There was two other episodes; again was "evenly" matched . .
The one where they're in a modern day Rome and the one where McCoy gets married.
@@williamphillips6049 Yolanda when the landing party is ambushed? I believe he is taken by multiple armed men who get the drop on him. In the Roman episode he easily defeats two trained gladiators when his attempts at reason fail. I can see the argument on the first one but not really the second
@johntabler349 Thanks for sharing!
What about the Gorn, for crying out loud?!
Vulcan boleadoras!
It was better in The Cable Guy.
A couple other good ones, maybe not the most epic occurred in the engineering room. Kirk vs. Khan and Kirk vs. Comm. Finney.
I always liked the Kirk vs. Gary Mitchell fight too. Maybe my favorite "non-spock" Kirk tussle.
@suzanneroberge494 An excellent fight scene! Thanks for sharing!
I have long wondered what Kirk would've done if he knew it was a death match before he accepted.
I'd say Kirk v Kang in "Day of the Dove", I'm always up for a little swordplay.
Exactly. Darn the Vulcan 's...T'pau did "warn" him that he could decline 'with no harm to thyself", which a Vulcan would have gotten- but she should have known & Spock even told her Kirk has no clue. But I guess if you believe Vulcan 's are non-violent, you wouldn't expect a death match!
@@suzanneroberge494 Kirk said it himself, if he got into trouble he'd quit and honor would be satisfied.
That's what I thought right up until T'Pau said, "This fight, is to de detht."
Five year old me made Mum laugh when I said, "Hold the phone, Roger!"
Shatner vs Chuck Norris ? We all know he’d beat John Wick, Bruce Lee and Steven Segal ….. Norris would be a close fight
‘Hello darkness my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left it’s seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision, that was planted in my brain, still remains, within the sound, of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone. Narrow streets of cobblestone. ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp. When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, that split the night, and touched the sounds, of silence.
And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people maybe more. People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs, that voices never share. And no one dared, disturb the sounds, of silence.
“Fools” said I “You do not know, silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you”. But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed, in the wells, of silence.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls. And whispered, in the sounds, of silence.” ~ Paul Simon
Bravo Sir! Bravo!
Thanks for sharing!
Now that's truly Iconic!!
Someone should have been selling popcorn or sausages on a stick.
And the gongs on Vulcan were always those cheap imports.
@@agustingonzalez3878 Thanks for sharing!
Nope. The lizard man...
Yeah even Jim Carrey recreates this fight, i think in the Cable Guy.
@@orangewarm1 oh yes. Hilarious!
Loved Shatner, dislike nimoy.
Guess which one supported APART HEID is rael?
I dunno....as a kid I really really liked the battles on the planet Triskellion. Of course it might have had something to do with those tinfoil bikinis
Also a great episode. Thanks for sharing!
Pee wee Herman, music.