#st tos: the doomsday machine

[starberry-cupcake]

that time jim kirk was this close to murdering a superior officer because he endangered his ship, didn't want to give him spock and the only thing that stopped him was that he didn't have to do it himself (and probably that he found out he had also dismissed mccoy from the bridge after it was all over)

[spockeveryday]

[sad-trekkie-life]

One of my fave things about TOS is when some Hugo-nominee episode with some amazing writing and concept is proceeded by the episode which looks like it was written by an 8-year old.

[lambcow]

Spock: random chance seems to have operated in our favor.

Bones: in plain, non-Vulcan English, we’ve been lucky.

Spock: I believe I said that, Doctor.

[trek-tracks]

I will watch at least 7 seasons of Reno & Bones

[theodorebasmanov]

I’ve rewatched “The Doomsday Machine” (Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 6). And it’s a little bit strange… I mean, on the one hand, it’s about a huge thing destroying everything on its way. On the other hand, it’s about a nasty and not very clever commodore which takes the command of the Enterprise and nearly destroyed it. And it seems that the second part is more important. ((Spoilers!) Well, to be honest, we found out that the Commodore wasn’t nasty he just felt very guilty for the death of his crew and then he even commits suicide.)

[gayjimothy]

i can’t believe Jim Kirk invented being in love

[dyspeptiica]

❖

[oriley42]

fave star trek one-off characters 1/?: Commodore Matt Decker 2.06 “The Doomsday Machine”

“The commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well, I should have died with mine.”

[infiniteepisodes]

ST TOS 2X06 The Doomsday Machine

This was the most exciting episode of S2 so far.

There were two main themes: a not so veiled commentary on the Cold War and what happens to a captain when his whole crew dies.

The Cold War and the H-Bomb

I was very surprised when they started talking about  events that were contemporary to the viewers (the episode first aired in 1967), taking for granted that nothing was going to come out of the Cold War and the H-Bomb.

TOS also takes a stance against the Cold War with adding a Russian character to the show, Chekov, but this felt different.

It was so... Optimistic. And reassuring.

I can imagine that the first viewers could only feel hope for the future after such an episode.

The captain is the last one to abandon the ship

I was very impressed by William Windon’s performance as Commodore Matt Decker. The scene when he recounts of how his crew begged, begged for help and he could do nothing but listed!

"Matt, where's your crew?" "On the third planet." "There is no third planet." "Don't you think I know that? There was, but not any more!"

He is such a compelling character. You alternately feel pity and anger for him, as the episode unfolds. Apparently, in a previous draft, he was not meant to die but to talk with Kirk and repent for his sin of overtaking the Enterprise, but in my personal opinion, his story is a tragedy and  his self-sacrifice was the only fitting ending to it.

But, as I watched him (not) coming to terms with the loss of his crew, I could not help thinking about Kirk. What would Kirk do if he were to lose the Enterprise? If he was to become the last man on the ship?

I think that he would not react very differently from how Commodore Decker reacted.

And this made me pity the Commodore even more.

[chronotopes]

spock: [in a small voice] jim,

me: How Dare You Make Me Listen To This

[falconlord92]

The Essential Star Trek Chronology SPOILER WARNING

ST: E Season One: Episodes 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, & 26 (Broken Bow I & II, Unexpected, The Andorian Incident, Cold Front, Sleeping Dogs, Shadows of P’Jem, Shuttlepod One, Fusion, Acquisition, & Shockwave I)

ST: E Season Two: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, & 26 (Shockwave II, Carbon Creek, Minefield, Dead Stop, Cease Fire, Future Tense, Judgement, Cogenitor, Regeneration, First Flight, Bounty, & The Expanse)

ST: E Season Three: Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, & 24 (The Xindi, Anomaly, Rajiin, Impulse, Exile, The Shipment, Twilight, Similitude, Carpenter Street, Proving Ground, Stratagem, Harbinger, Hatchery, Azati Prime, Damage, The Forgotton, E2, The Council, Countdown, & Zero Hour)

ST: E Season Four: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22 (Storm Front I & II, Home, Borderland, Cold Station 12, The Augments, The Forge, Awakening, Kir’Shara, Babel One, United, The Aenar, Affliction, Divergence, Bound, In a Mirror, Darkly I and II, Demons, Terra Prime, & These are the Voyages…)

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: The Original Series

ST: ToS Season One: Episodes 1, 6, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 27, & 28 (Where No Man Has Gone Before, The Naked Time, Balance of Terror, Dagger of the Mind, The Menagerie I & II, The Squire of Gothos, The Return of the Archons, Space Seed, Errand of Mercy, City on the Edge of Forever

ST: ToS Season Two: Episodes 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 13, 15, & 16 (Metamorphosis, Friday's Child, Amok Time, Doomsday Machine, MirrorMirror, The Trouble with Tribbles, Journey to Babel, & A Private Little War)

ST: ToS Season Three: Episodes 4, 9, 11, & 23 (The Enterprise Incident, The Tholian Web, Day of the Dove, & All Our Yesterdays)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

ST: TNG Season One: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 20, 23, 25, & 26 (Encounter at Farpoint, The Naked Now, The Last Outpost, Where No One Has Gone Before, Hide and Q, The Big Goodbye, Datalore, 11001001, Heart Of Glory, Skin of Evil, Conspiracy, & The Neutral Zone)

ST: TNG Season Two: Episodes 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, & 20 (Elementary, Dear Data, The Enemy, A Matter Of Honor, The Measure Of A Man, The Defector, Time Squared, The Icarus Factor, Q Who?, & The Emissary)

ST: TNG Season Three: Episodes 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, & 26 (The Price, Déjà Q, Yesterday’s Enterprise, The Offspring, Sins of the Father, Hollow Pursuits, The Most Toys, Sarek, & The Best Of Both Worlds I)

ST: TNG Season Four: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24, & 26 (The Best Of Both Worlds II, Family, Brothers, Remember Me, Legacy, Reunion, Future Imperfect, Data’s Day, The Wounded, Qpid, The Drumhead, The Host, The Mind’s Eye, & Redemption I)

ST: TNG Season Five: Episodes 1-4, 6-8, 14, 16, 18-19, & 23-26 (Redemption II, Darmok, Ensign Ro, Silicon Avatar, Disaster, Unification Parts I & II, Conundrum, Ethics, Cause And Effect, The First Duty, IBorg, The Inner Light, The Next Phase, & Time’s Arrow I)

ST: TNG Season Six: Episodes 1, 4-8, 10-11, 14-17, 20-21, & 23-26 (Time’s Arrow II, Relics, Schisms, True Q, Rascals, A Fistful of Datas, Chain Of Command I & II, Face Of The Enemy, Tapestry, Birthright I & II, The Chase, Frame of Mind, Rightful Heir, Second Chances, Timescape, & Descent I)

ST: DS9 Season One: Episodes 1-3, 6-8, 11-13, 17, & 19-20 (Emissary, Past Prologue, Captive Pursuit, Q-Less, Dax, The Nagus, Vortex, Battle Lines, The Forsaken, Duet, & In the Hands of the Prophets)

ST: TNG Season Seven: Episodes 1, 4-5, 9-12, 15, 18-22, 24-26, (Descent II, Gambit I & II, Inheritence, Parallels, The Pegasus, Lower Decks, Eye of the Beholder, Genesis, Journey’s End, Firstborn, Bloodlines, Preemptive Strike, & All Good Things…)

ST: DS9 Season Two: Episodes 1-3, 5, 7-8, 12, 14-15, 20-21, 23, & 25-26 (The Homecoming, The Circle, The Siege, Cardassians, Rules of Acquisition, Necessary Evil, The Alternate, Whispers, Paradise, The Maquis I & II, Crossover, Tribunal & The Jem’Hadar)

ST: DS9 Season Three Pt. 1: Episodes 1-3, 5, 9, 11-12, & 16-17 (The Search I & II, the House of Quark, Equilibrium, Second Skin, The Abandoned, Civil Defense, Defiant, Past Tense I & II, Prophet Motive, & Visionary)

ST: Voy Season One Pt. 1: Episodes 1-3, 5, & 7 (Caretaker I & II, Parallax, Phage, & Eye of the Needle)

Star Trek: Generations

ST: DS9 Season Three Pt. 2: Episodes 19-21, & 26 (Through the Looking Glass, Improbable Cause, The Die is Cast, & The Adversary)

ST: Voy Season One Pt. 2: Episodes 11-14 &16 (State of Flux, Heroes and Demons, Cathexis, Faces, & Learning Curve)

ST: DS9 Season Four: Episodes 1-2, 4, 7-8, 10-12, 14-16, 18-20, 23, & 26 (The Way of the Warrior, The Visitor, Hippocratic Oath, Starship Down, Little Green Men, Our Man Bashir, Homefront, Paradise Lost, Return to Grace Sons of Mogh, Rules of Engagement, Hard Time, Shattered Mirror, To the Death, & Broken Link)

ST: Voy Season Two: Episodes 1, 3, 5, 10-11, 16, 18-19, 21, & 26 (The 37’s, Projections, Non Sequitur, Cold Fire, Maneuvers, Meld, Death Wish, Lifesigns, Deadlock, Resolutions, & Basics I)

ST: DS9 Season Five Pt. 1: Episodes 1-4, 6, & 9-12 (Apocalypse Rising, The Ship, Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, Nor the Battle to the Strong, Trials and Tribble-ations, The Ascent, Rapture, The Darkness and the Light, & The Begotton)

ST: Voy Season Three Pt. 1: Episodes 1-2, 4-5, & 8-11 (Basics II, Flashback, The Swarm, False Profits, Future’s End I & II, Warlord, & The Q and the Grey)

Star Trek: First Contact

ST: DS9 Season Five Pt. 2: Episodes 14-16, 19-23, & 26 (In Purgatory’s Shadow, By Inferno’s Light, Doctor Bashir’ I Presume, Ties of Blood and Water, Ferengi Love Songs, Soldiers of the Empire, Children of Time, Blaze of Glory, & Call to Arms)

ST: Voy Season Three Pt. 2: Episodes 17, 21-22, & 25-26 (Unity, Before and After, Real Life, Worst Case Scenario, & Scorpion I)

ST: DS9 Season Six: Episodes 1, 3-7, 9-10, 12-13, 18-19, 21 & 26 (A Time to Stand, Sons and Daughters, Behind the Lines, Favor the Bold, Sacrifice of Angels, You Are Cordially Invited…, Statistical Probabilities, The Magnificent Ferengi, Who Mourns for Morn?, Far Beyond the Stars, Inquisition, In the Pale Moonlight, The Reckoning, & Tears of the Prophets)

ST: Voy Season Four: Episodes 1-4, 6-9, 11-12, 14-16, 18-19, 21, 23, 25, & 26 (Scorpion II, The Gift, Day of Honor, Nemesis, The Raven, Scientific Method, Year of Hell I & II, Concerning Flight, Mortal Coil, Message in a Bottle, Hunters, Prey, The Killing Game I & II, The Omega Detective, Living Witness, One, & Hope and Fear)

ST: DS9 Season Seven: Episodes 1-3, 5-10, 12, & 16-26 (Image in the Sand, Shadows and Symbols, Afterimage, Chrysalis, Treachery, Faith and the Great River, Once More Unto the Breach, The Siege of AR-558, Covenant, It’s Only a Paper Moon, The Emperor’s New Cloak, Inter Arm Enim Silent Leges, Penumbra, ‘Til Death Do Us, Strange Bedfellows, The Changing Face of Evil, When It Rains…, Tacking Into the Wind, Extreme Measures, The Dogs of War, & What You Leave Behind)

ST: Voy Season Five: Episodes 1-2, 4, 6, 10, 15-16, 18, 24, & 26 (Night, Drone, In the Flesh, Timeless, Counterpoint, Dark Frontier I & II, Course: Oblivion, Relativity, & Equinox)

ST: Voy Season Six: Episodes 1-2, 4, 9-10, 12, 16, 24 & 26 (Equinox II, Survival Instinct, Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, The Voyager Conspiracy, Pathfinder, Blink of an Eye, Collective, Life Line, & Unimatrix Zero I)

ST: Voy Season Seven: Episodes 1-6, 9-12, 14, 16-26 (Unimatrix Zero II, Imperfection, Drive, Repression, Critical Care, Inside Man, Body and Soul, Flesh and Blood I & II, Shattered, Lineage, Prophecy, Workforce I & II, Human Error, Q2, Natural Law, Homestead, Renaissance Man, & Endgame)

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: 2009

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek: Beyond

[spockeveryday]

[calliecat93]

So I’m not gonna get to Star Trek until tonight, so my watchthrough post will go up tomorrow morning. But since I did this last time, I’ll list my Top 5 Favorite/Least Favorite Episodes. McCoy’s still my favorite character, so no need to do that again, and didn’t really have a least favorite as far as the main cast goes. So...

Favorite ST TOS S2 Episodes

The Immunity Syndrome

Journey to Babel

The Doomsday Machine

Amok Time

The Trouble With Tribbles

Least Favorite S2 Episodes

Wolf in the Fold

The Omega Glory

Who Mourns the Adonais?

Assignment: Earth

The Deadly Years

Honestly picking the favorites was hard because there were some really good ones. I’ll probably do a Top 10 Favorites/Least Favorites when I’m done with Season 3. One season to go folks and despite knowing its mediocre reputation, I’m ready for it~!

[spockeveryday]

[spockeveryday]