This was the other of two episodes that were originally banned in Germany. The first, "Amok Time" was banned for its sexual implications, and this one for having Nazis in it. Since then, these restrictions have been eased.
In the 1970s several Star Trek fanzines featured covers of topless Kirk and/or Spock (sometimes being whipped, sometimes not) in cover art based on this episode. (There was a subgenre of BDSM Star Trek erotica that was quite popular back then.) These fanzines were very hot bestsellers at the conventions. Mostly, (but not always!) the ladies snatched these up like crazy at the dealers' tables! Instant kinky collectibles! There were plenty of queer Kirk/Spock stories in these pages! They even overshadowed many of the more staid, mainstream Star Trek fanzines in popularity, Not that I read them, of course...
The scene where Kirk and Spock contacted the Enterprise with their communicator was a "Blooper Reel" fan favorite! Nichelle Nichols' voice--acknowledging their signal--was to be dubbed in later. In the meantime, as the bit was being filmed, this guy with a deep voice said offscreen--"Enterprise! Lieutenant Uhura!" Kirk and Spock/Shatner and Nimoy looked at each other in satisfaction--as they did in the final take--and totally cracked up!
Something similar happened with Jack Benny's father. Jack made the classic black comedy "To Be or Not to Be," where he played the head of a Polish theatrical company that use their thespian skills to outwit the invading Nazis. Jack wore a Nazi uniform in several scenes in the movie. But he and his family were Jewish and he alienated his father by wearing that uniform! (Never mind the fact that his character was a good guy who was wearing the uniform to fool and ultimately humiliate the Nazis!)
Skip Homeier (Melakon) made his first of two appearances in Star Trek with this episode. Curiously, he was otherwise best remembered for playing a treacherous teenage Hitler Youth Nazi (in America!) in the melodrama, "Tomorrow the World" (1944.)
17:38 - "One" "One is the beginning" "If you will state your purpose and your objectives, perhaps we can arrive at a mutual understanding" "If you understand 'ONE' you know our purpose!" - same actor - different episode
@AlexxaReacts I understand Leonard Nimoy’s family is Jewish so it must have been no small task to don that Nazi uniform even as a costume. By the way, Spock’s signature Vulcan hand greeting was adopted by Nimoy from watching a Rabbi perform services. In other words fascinating!
This was also around the same time that another Jewish Guy--Mel Brooks--released his masterpiece, "The Producers" which featured the infamous "Springtime for Hitler" production number spoof. Brooks has always (we are so lucky to still have him with us!) viewed himself as Hitler's archenemy. He's noted that people like Hitler--including our current Orange Menace--hate, just HATE being laughed at (as President Obama quickly learned at that now-infamous White House Correspondents' Dinner.) The best way to get under their skin is to ridicule them. (As noted above, Jack Benny did that, too. So did The Three Stooges--more Jewish guys!)
1. This was interesting. It had me in my middle school history class. 2. Kirk's bloody marks weren't all that convincing. 3. Suspension of belief with the homemade laser (even for a kid) 4. Many of the players had an issue with this episode, particularly Leonard Nimoy, who was Jewish.
9:29 Mark! Oh yeah! I meant to mention before that actor Leonard Nimoy played a secret agent man in the original "Mission: Impossible" series, and so he was used to wearing bad guy costumes! 😊
8:14 Mark! A LASER here, not a PHASER! Children, don't try it at home! 😁 When "MacGyver" came along, they had to omit certain details to prevent imitators from causing problems! 😮
12:13 Mark! Actress Elizabeth Montgomery or "Pandora Spocks"? 😉 If I recall correctly, "I Dream of Jeannie" was on "NBC" while rival series "Bewitched" was on "ABC" and if those are the correct television network match-ups, she wouldn't have been allowed to guest star on a rival network back then. Johnny Carson used to have to say "on a different network" to avoid naming the competition if a guest was in a show on a different network than "NBC"! 🤔 Oddly enough, "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" shared neighborhood sets! 😂 Even more odd than that? The person dreaming about "Jeannie" turned out to be Bill Daly's character in "The Bob Newhart Show" and his character's therapy sessions were about Bill's previous sitcom. Eventually, "Newhart" would be revealed as a dream of Bob's character in "The Bob Newhart Show"! By the way, some series like "Gunsmoke" made the transition from radio to television. Even more shows made the transition from black-and-white to color. "Newhart" on "CBS" began as a videotape show that made the transition to motion picture film! Now we have shows that had to be upgraded to digital standards to still be viable. "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" being two of them! At first, the latter wasn't going to be done because it was made with MPF and then converted to video for editing and such for analog broadcasting. But they found a way to upgrade it, too! 🎉 Oh yeah! Thanks to various stealthy crossover moments and/or events, "Bewitched" & "I Dream of Jeannie" & all of the canon "Star Trek" series and movies co-exist in the shared universe known as.... "The Tommy Westphal Universe"! 😮🎉😊😂😅
With the rising resurgent tide of global fascism we are fighting back today, this episode is still relevant. Here, in America, we are debating several much-needed reforms for our Supreme Court, where the justices are appointed for life, per our 1789 Constitution. (We may need a new Constitutional amendment--or several of them!) One argument I heard recently (in favor of term limits for the justices) is that having that much power for life begins to affect the mind in abnormal ways; subtly at first, but much worse as time passes and power becomes so natural that you forget when you were just an ordinary citizen and it just goes to the head (certain SCOTUS justices being held up as examples of this syndrome.) So, psychologically speaking, unchecked, near-absolute power can be toxic to the human mind. John Gill played with fire--and he knew better. Again, Star Trek comments on one of the darker aspects of the human condition.
7:41 "Same as they did with the Jews." And the Poles. And Soviet POWs. And gay people. The act of identifying a group of people who are prevalent in numbers great enough to be known and different enough from the mainstream to be developed into an "other" and blamed for all of your society's problems is the cornerstone of fascism.
Let me guess, Dr. McCoy had been drinking Saurian brandy all afternoon, then he gets the call to join the landing party. Since his breath still reeked of booze, Kirk went for the most believable cover story, since Bones really was half tanked. The guard could also smell the booze-breathed Bones' stench which is why he instantly agreed that tucking him away in the cloak room was a good idea. (I'm sure DeForest Kelly had some acting method he used to motivate his character. Maybe it wasn't exactly the way I imagine it, but probably similar.)
Fan scuttlebutt has it that both Shatner and Nimoy, being Jewish, absolutely refused to have publicity stills taken for this episode. Neither wanted to explain to their families why the hell they were in SS uniforms with swastikas on them. Guest actor Valora Noland's real name was Valora Baum, and she was told only that she'd be wearing a fascist uniform for the part; she was not happy when she arrived on set and discovered that a swastika was part of the costume. 😕 As far as the story itself goes, the idea that Nazi Germany -- or any totalitarian dictatorship -- was efficient is laughable. The only thing dictatorships do efficiently are embezzlement and labor camps. Everything else, they trip over their own feet. They would take five years to manufacture one pencil, and it wouldn't have any graphite in it when they were done. The Nazis were no different -- they choked on their own paperwork. The ONLY thing they excelled at was mass murder.
Not just mass murder, but they were also efficient military tacticians. They were also light years ahead of the Allies with their rocket technology, and as socialists, they had a direct partnership with their crucial industries, and the foresight to build a highway system.
@@stevejoshua9536 If their rockets had been that good, Britain would no longer exist. The V2 was never used, and they ran some of the greatest intellects in the physical sciences out of the country. You have to be better at merely killing people to be an efficient society. Cholera and Y. pestis were more efficient at wiping people out than the Nazis ever were.
This is one of those episodes that is ruined by them not making the inhabitants of the planet look alien. A planet in another solar system is not going to be inhabited by humans, lol. It still teaches a good lesson about why we should weary of the extreme far right, and yet another example of how Star Trek has been "woke" from day 1. Great video 🙂
29:23 Mark! 644 Views + Mine! 🎉 Thumb Up # 104! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: The blonde, regardless of how her name is spelled, is still not an Earthling, and that helps me accept her name as a girl name. Otherwise, it sounds like another way for Endora to annoy Samantha by saying her husband's name wrong! 😅 War? Well, it did get Ireland and us independence from the same monarchy! It also helped us defeat the original real Nazis. 😉 Bye-bye for now! 🙏
I mean, if Roddenberry and his people ran out of money for wardrobe and set design, they didn't have to just go outside the studio and scrounge together whatever extra stuff Paramount had lying around! They could have just written an episode that took place entire in the Enterprise briefing room, or peppered it with flashbacks.
"Patterns of Force" was likely another budget-conscious episode. Just as "A Piece of the Action" reused sets, props, and costumes from Desilu Studios' "The Untouchables," I suspect that this Star Trek episode reused sets, props, and costumes from another famous Desilu production: "Hogan's Heroes."
FYI enjoy your rections to this old show BTW - some history, Ya history repeats due to the old dying off and the young never living the old history. We see this now in Israel with the Jews acting as Nazi toward the Arabs sadly. History note: both in Japan and German prior to WW2, both nations were Democracies - both had "Separation of powers" and paralements meant to limit the powers of the Executive, but both nations slid into Dictatorships because the men in Parlement were weak in constitution and fearful when things started to change, so instead of standing up and limiting the power of the executive, they rolled over and let themselves become enablers - and the rest is history. sadly. the same has been happening here in america, where the congress is suppose to limit the power of the president, but one side rolls over and instead of limiting the power of Trump, enables out of weak character of the GOP congressmen..............and after several years of this weakness those that had the mindset to challenge and use their position of power within congree to check the president are voted out and replaced with yes men that never had the proper sense of duty to uphold the US Constitution's "separation of powers" i.e. Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney (I'm no Republican - lightyears from - but full respect to those two for their Patriotism and defense of our Constitution and attempt to like tRump's power while he was President - that was their JOB, and they did it well...........a couple of hundred others in Congress just sat on thier hands - so good for them. Of course it cost them re-election in the Senate, and no doubt the replacements will not just be seat warmers for "dear leader" and hope for his return. its not lie the Dems are better - ok they are a little - but not much. I can seen seat warmer Dem congressmen if/when a Dem thug President comes to power too. this tell me only that america is SICK, the not able to uphold our Constittuion's concept of Balence of Powers (that required free agents acting in goodwill within their spheres of influence) -which we no longer have sadly. same for the Supreme court too - sadly - too many (at least 2 in my mind are corrupt as hell have no business on thier bench - Alito and Thomas) - the others I have no problem with - as yet. 2 cents. oh PS - some wars are necessary - 10 percent of so - ww2 was, and I believe Ukraine war too - fully support kicking out Russia from Ukraine by whatever means needed as a deterent for China to think thrice WRT to Taiwan. 3rd cent. signing off ;-)
This was one of the worst ones. 🤢 Shows should be written by writers and producers, not set designers & wardrobe keepers. I don't want to get too far into this issue, but it is ridiculous that the Zeons would look so much more like Earth humans than like Vulcans.
@@dupersuper1938 well, they shouldn't look humans at all, ideally. We will handwave that because humans are playing them, but they're not going to look exactly like humans.
The best Star Trek's makeup budget could afford back then were aliens that were humanoid in appearance but with a few cosmetic differences, like Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons. The more stories about parallel Earths, the better--they saved money! By the time we got to the movies and the multiple spinoff TV series, Star Trek had become a huge cultural icon--second only to Star Wars and perhaps tied with Doctor Who or Marvel. By that time, the franchise had budgets where they could present more sophisticated makeup for the major aliens. And the fans--now spoiled on things like Star Wars and Avatar!--demanded better, realistic-looking aliens who looked like actual aliens, not guys with funny foreheads, beards, eyebrows, and ears.
@@davidgradwell8830 " The more stories about parallel Earths, the better--they saved money! " Agree, but it doesn't make parallel Earth make any more sense. They didn't make any effort to explain why the population of two alien planets, which evolved independently of Earth, look exactly like us. 🙂 All they had to do was figure out that these two populations were brought there by aliens in the past, or something. They didn't have anything like that in the script.
George Takei was shooting the movie THE GREEN BERETS which went behind schedule which delayed his joining the cast for season 2.
This was the other of two episodes that were originally banned in Germany. The first, "Amok Time" was banned for its sexual implications, and this one for having Nazis in it. Since then, these restrictions have been eased.
Wow, excellent bit of trivia. 👍
"Random sentences, strung together."
Still works today. 😬
In the 1970s several Star Trek fanzines featured covers of topless Kirk and/or Spock (sometimes being whipped, sometimes not) in cover art based on this episode. (There was a subgenre of BDSM Star Trek erotica that was quite popular back then.) These fanzines were very hot bestsellers at the conventions. Mostly, (but not always!) the ladies snatched these up like crazy at the dealers' tables! Instant kinky collectibles! There were plenty of queer Kirk/Spock stories in these pages! They even overshadowed many of the more staid, mainstream Star Trek fanzines in popularity,
Not that I read them, of course...
The scene where Kirk and Spock contacted the Enterprise with their communicator was a "Blooper Reel" fan favorite!
Nichelle Nichols' voice--acknowledging their signal--was to be dubbed in later. In the meantime, as the bit was being filmed, this guy with a deep voice said offscreen--"Enterprise! Lieutenant Uhura!" Kirk and Spock/Shatner and Nimoy looked at each other in satisfaction--as they did in the final take--and totally cracked up!
The actress playing Darrus was so upset at having to wear a Nazi arm band she quit acting.
Seems a bit extreme. What's her back story ?
Something similar happened with Jack Benny's father. Jack made the classic black comedy "To Be or Not to Be," where he played the head of a Polish theatrical company that use their thespian skills to outwit the invading Nazis. Jack wore a Nazi uniform in several scenes in the movie.
But he and his family were Jewish and he alienated his father by wearing that uniform! (Never mind the fact that his character was a good guy who was wearing the uniform to fool and ultimately humiliate the Nazis!)
Skip Homeier (Melakon) made his first of two appearances in Star Trek with this episode. Curiously, he was otherwise best remembered for playing a treacherous teenage Hitler Youth Nazi (in America!) in the melodrama, "Tomorrow the World" (1944.)
Tomorrow the World is such a strange little propaganda film.
17:38 -
"One"
"One is the beginning"
"If you will state your purpose and your objectives, perhaps we can arrive at a mutual understanding"
"If you understand 'ONE' you know our purpose!"
- same actor - different episode
@AlexxaReacts I understand Leonard Nimoy’s family is Jewish so it must have been no small task to don that Nazi uniform even as a costume. By the way, Spock’s signature Vulcan hand greeting was adopted by Nimoy from watching a Rabbi perform services. In other words fascinating!
Bill Shatner was also born to a Jewish family. Not sure if he still practices but he was raised Jewish.
This was also around the same time that another Jewish Guy--Mel Brooks--released his masterpiece, "The Producers" which featured the infamous "Springtime for Hitler" production number spoof. Brooks has always (we are so lucky to still have him with us!) viewed himself as Hitler's archenemy. He's noted that people like Hitler--including our current Orange Menace--hate, just HATE being laughed at (as President Obama quickly learned at that now-infamous White House Correspondents' Dinner.) The best way to get under their skin is to ridicule them.
(As noted above, Jack Benny did that, too. So did The Three Stooges--more Jewish guys!)
1. This was interesting. It had me in my middle school history class.
2. Kirk's bloody marks weren't all that convincing.
3. Suspension of belief with the homemade laser (even for a kid)
4. Many of the players had an issue with this episode, particularly Leonard Nimoy, who was Jewish.
I would imagine also Shatner, for the same reason.
Leonard Nimoy was an avid swimmer which may be where he got his "great butt "
Also, the pointed ears helped him glide through the water more easily. 😊
@@scgreek1114 Ah...yeah, whatever.
@@scgreek1114 Actually, Nimoy would have been well-cast in a "Submariner" movie back then.
Watching Spock getting whipped in this episode while he displays no emotion or pain always makes me laugh.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy: two Jewish men who had an interesting few days at work...
PS: I'm unexpectedly caught up here because I don't have access to what follows! 😢😮
9:29 Mark! Oh yeah! I meant to mention before that actor Leonard Nimoy played a secret agent man in the original "Mission: Impossible" series, and so he was used to wearing bad guy costumes! 😊
8:14 Mark! A LASER here, not a PHASER! Children, don't try it at home! 😁 When "MacGyver" came along, they had to omit certain details to prevent imitators from causing problems! 😮
25:22 Mark! Alexxa! Haha! What some may consider to be "spoilers" for that spin-off, I prefer to think of them as "appetizers"! 😎🖖
12:13 Mark! Actress Elizabeth Montgomery or "Pandora Spocks"? 😉 If I recall correctly, "I Dream of Jeannie" was on "NBC" while rival series "Bewitched" was on "ABC" and if those are the correct television network match-ups, she wouldn't have been allowed to guest star on a rival network back then. Johnny Carson used to have to say "on a different network" to avoid naming the competition if a guest was in a show on a different network than "NBC"! 🤔
Oddly enough, "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" shared neighborhood sets! 😂
Even more odd than that? The person dreaming about "Jeannie" turned out to be Bill Daly's character in "The Bob Newhart Show" and his character's therapy sessions were about Bill's previous sitcom. Eventually, "Newhart" would be revealed as a dream of Bob's character in "The Bob Newhart Show"! By the way, some series like "Gunsmoke" made the transition from radio to television. Even more shows made the transition from black-and-white to color. "Newhart" on "CBS" began as a videotape show that made the transition to motion picture film! Now we have shows that had to be upgraded to digital standards to still be viable. "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" being two of them!
At first, the latter wasn't going to be done because it was made with MPF and then converted to video for editing and such for analog broadcasting. But they found a way to upgrade it, too! 🎉
Oh yeah! Thanks to various stealthy crossover moments and/or events, "Bewitched" & "I Dream of Jeannie" & all of the canon "Star Trek" series and movies co-exist in the shared universe known as....
"The Tommy Westphal Universe"! 😮🎉😊😂😅
With the rising resurgent tide of global fascism we are fighting back today, this episode is still relevant.
Here, in America, we are debating several much-needed reforms for our Supreme Court, where the justices are appointed for life, per our 1789 Constitution. (We may need a new Constitutional amendment--or several of them!) One argument I heard recently (in favor of term limits for the justices) is that having that much power for life begins to affect the mind in abnormal ways; subtly at first, but much worse as time passes and power becomes so natural that you forget when you were just an ordinary citizen and it just goes to the head (certain SCOTUS justices being held up as examples of this syndrome.) So, psychologically speaking, unchecked, near-absolute power can be toxic to the human mind.
John Gill played with fire--and he knew better.
Again, Star Trek comments on one of the darker aspects of the human condition.
7:41 "Same as they did with the Jews."
And the Poles. And Soviet POWs. And gay people. The act of identifying a group of people who are prevalent in numbers great enough to be known and different enough from the mainstream to be developed into an "other" and blamed for all of your society's problems is the cornerstone of fascism.
The improvised phaser escape sequence is one of the coolest scenes in Star Trek!!!!!! Pure genius!!!!!
Yep, very cool they had even had aircraft transponders in the 60s, but my guess would be 98% of the civilian population had never heard of the term.
With a dull "bedspring knife"?🙄
BTW, they never actually _said_ the name of the man they rescued from jail, did they?
Let me guess, Dr. McCoy had been drinking Saurian brandy all afternoon, then he gets the call to join the landing party. Since his breath still reeked of booze, Kirk went for the most believable cover story, since Bones really was half tanked. The guard could also smell the booze-breathed Bones' stench which is why he instantly agreed that tucking him away in the cloak room was a good idea. (I'm sure DeForest Kelly had some acting method he used to motivate his character. Maybe it wasn't exactly the way I imagine it, but probably similar.)
DeForest Kelly was a an actor devoted to his craft.
Fan scuttlebutt has it that both Shatner and Nimoy, being Jewish, absolutely refused to have publicity stills taken for this episode. Neither wanted to explain to their families why the hell they were in SS uniforms with swastikas on them. Guest actor Valora Noland's real name was Valora Baum, and she was told only that she'd be wearing a fascist uniform for the part; she was not happy when she arrived on set and discovered that a swastika was part of the costume. 😕
As far as the story itself goes, the idea that Nazi Germany -- or any totalitarian dictatorship -- was efficient is laughable. The only thing dictatorships do efficiently are embezzlement and labor camps. Everything else, they trip over their own feet. They would take five years to manufacture one pencil, and it wouldn't have any graphite in it when they were done. The Nazis were no different -- they choked on their own paperwork. The ONLY thing they excelled at was mass murder.
Not just mass murder, but they were also efficient military tacticians. They were also light years ahead of the Allies with their rocket technology, and as socialists, they had a direct partnership with their crucial industries, and the foresight to build a highway system.
@@stevejoshua9536 If their rockets had been that good, Britain would no longer exist. The V2 was never used, and they ran some of the greatest intellects in the physical sciences out of the country.
You have to be better at merely killing people to be an efficient society. Cholera and Y. pestis were more efficient at wiping people out than the Nazis ever were.
Enjoy show
This is one of those episodes that is ruined by them not making the inhabitants of the planet look alien. A planet in another solar system is not going to be inhabited by humans, lol. It still teaches a good lesson about why we should weary of the extreme far right, and yet another example of how Star Trek has been "woke" from day 1.
Great video 🙂
29:23 Mark! 644 Views + Mine! 🎉 Thumb Up # 104! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊
Notes: The blonde, regardless of how her name is spelled, is still not an Earthling, and that helps me accept her name as a girl name. Otherwise, it sounds like another way for Endora to annoy Samantha by saying her husband's name wrong! 😅
War? Well, it did get Ireland and us independence from the same monarchy! It also helped us defeat the original real Nazis. 😉
Bye-bye for now! 🙏
I mean, if Roddenberry and his people ran out of money for wardrobe and set design, they didn't have to just go outside the studio and scrounge together whatever extra stuff Paramount had lying around!
They could have just written an episode that took place entire in the Enterprise briefing room, or peppered it with flashbacks.
"Patterns of Force" was likely another budget-conscious episode. Just as "A Piece of the Action" reused sets, props, and costumes from Desilu Studios' "The Untouchables," I suspect that this Star Trek episode reused sets, props, and costumes from another famous Desilu production: "Hogan's Heroes."
FYI enjoy your rections to this old show BTW - some history, Ya history repeats due to the old dying off and the young never living the old history. We see this now in Israel with the Jews acting as Nazi toward the Arabs sadly.
History note: both in Japan and German prior to WW2, both nations were Democracies - both had "Separation of powers" and paralements meant to limit the powers of the Executive, but both nations slid into Dictatorships because the men in Parlement were weak in constitution and fearful when things started to change, so instead of standing up and limiting the power of the executive, they rolled over and let themselves become enablers - and the rest is history. sadly.
the same has been happening here in america, where the congress is suppose to limit the power of the president, but one side rolls over and instead of limiting the power of Trump, enables out of weak character of the GOP congressmen..............and after several years of this weakness those that had the mindset to challenge and use their position of power within congree to check the president are voted out and replaced with yes men that never had the proper sense of duty to uphold the US Constitution's "separation of powers" i.e. Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney (I'm no Republican - lightyears from - but full respect to those two for their Patriotism and defense of our Constitution and attempt to like tRump's power while he was President - that was their JOB, and they did it well...........a couple of hundred others in Congress just sat on thier hands - so good for them. Of course it cost them re-election in the Senate, and no doubt the replacements will not just be seat warmers for "dear leader" and hope for his return.
its not lie the Dems are better - ok they are a little - but not much. I can seen seat warmer Dem congressmen if/when a Dem thug President comes to power too.
this tell me only that america is SICK, the not able to uphold our Constittuion's concept of Balence of Powers (that required free agents acting in goodwill within their spheres of influence) -which we no longer have sadly.
same for the Supreme court too - sadly - too many (at least 2 in my mind are corrupt as hell have no business on thier bench - Alito and Thomas) - the others I have no problem with - as yet.
2 cents.
oh PS - some wars are necessary - 10 percent of so - ww2 was, and I believe Ukraine war too - fully support kicking out Russia from Ukraine by whatever means needed as a deterent for China to think thrice WRT to Taiwan.
3rd cent.
signing off ;-)
This was one of the worst ones. 🤢
Shows should be written by writers and producers, not set designers & wardrobe keepers.
I don't want to get too far into this issue, but it is ridiculous that the Zeons would look so much more like Earth humans than like Vulcans.
Why would they look like Vulcans?
@@dupersuper1938 well, they shouldn't look humans at all, ideally. We will handwave that because humans are playing them, but they're not going to look exactly like humans.
The best Star Trek's makeup budget could afford back then were aliens that were humanoid in appearance but with a few cosmetic differences, like Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons. The more stories about parallel Earths, the better--they saved money!
By the time we got to the movies and the multiple spinoff TV series, Star Trek had become a huge cultural icon--second only to Star Wars and perhaps tied with Doctor Who or Marvel. By that time, the franchise had budgets where they could present more sophisticated makeup for the major aliens. And the fans--now spoiled on things like Star Wars and Avatar!--demanded better, realistic-looking aliens who looked like actual aliens, not guys with funny foreheads, beards, eyebrows, and ears.
@@davidgradwell8830
" The more stories about parallel Earths, the better--they saved money! "
Agree, but it doesn't make parallel Earth make any more sense. They didn't make any effort to explain why the population of two alien planets, which evolved independently of Earth, look exactly like us. 🙂
All they had to do was figure out that these two populations were brought there by aliens in the past, or something. They didn't have anything like that in the script.
@@davidgradwell8830 I mean, TOS also had Horta, Medusans, Excalbians, Melkotians, Gorn, Tholians, Organians, Thasians, Metron...