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Captain's log: Stardate 3541.9
The presence of Nomad aboard my ship has
become nightmarish.
Warp 9!
Cut your circuits.
Warp 10, Mr. Scott.
Impossible.
She just won't stop!
Condition Red! Condition Red!
What do we do now? Go up and knock?
## Where the moon ###
Bridge to Captain.
Captain here.
That mechanical beastie is up here.
I felt like music.
What is music?
Keep away from that! Scotty!
He's dead, Jim.
Captain!
------------------------------ Leonard Nimoy (1999) Opening Comments ------------------------------
The late Carl Sagan and other noted scientists argued
that it is possible that any spacecraft or probe
that we send out of our solar system
might someday be encountered by another species.
To that end, they designed a message
in the form of a gold disk
filled with images and sounds from Earth,
which was included with the Voyager 1 and 2 probes.
Those probes, now headed out into deep space,
carried these messages of greeting
in hopes that they will someday be heard by ears
much different from our own.
But what would happen if instead of Voyager meeting another species,
it met with another space probe...
perhaps even an extraterrestrial version of Voyager?
Who knows what might come of such chance meeting?
10 years before Voyager
was even launched from Earth,
'Star Trek' was thinking about such a possibility
in "The Changeling."
End of Opening Comments
Any response from the Melurians, Lieutenant?
Nothing since their original distress call, Sir.
What about The Federation science team working there?
Dr. Manway had a special transmitter.
There's nothing, Sir. I'm scanning all frequencies.
They have to answer.
------------------------------ Star Trek Insights A Mug's Game... ------------------------------
Wasn't there a probe called Nomad
launched in the early 2000s?
If you ask me about the future,
that's a mug's game,
as Bogart used to say.
Kirk: Name- Khan Noonian Singh.
From 1992 through 1996,
absolute ruler of more than 1/4 of your world.
There's a phrase in Latin- spero meliora:
"I hope for better things."
In our century,
we've learned not to fear words.
Woman: But he wasn't predicting anything.
The way Gene explained
his ability
to be able to predict, as he said,
"Just take a simple fact, a simple thing
"that you could put basically your hand,
"and just blow it up as far as it'll go
and say, what's the next step for this?
What's the next step?
"And finally you get to a point where it reaches fantasy,
and at that point, you stop."
You may not understand because you're centuries beyond
anything as crude as television.
I've heard it was...
similar.
End of Insights
"THE CHANGELING"
Shields still holding, Sir.
Good.
Spock: Temporarily, Captain.
Our shields absorbed energy
equivalent to 90 of our photon torpedoes.
90?
Spock: I may add
the energy used repulsing this first attack
reduced our shielding power 20%.
First attack, Sir?
I think we can expect others, Lieutenant.
This is Captain James Kirk of the U. S. S. Enterprise.
We are on a peaceful mission
in this part of the galaxy.
We have no hostile tentions.
We request identity.
[chattering]
Computerized male voice: U. S. S. Enterprise, this is Nomad.
My mission is non hostile.
INSIGHTS The Glass Ceiling...
The women!
Woman:If it had just had...
the guts, for example,
to actually put a woman
in the spot as Number One.
Sorry, Number One.
With little information on this planet
we'll have to leave the ship's most experienced officer
here covering us.
Of course, Sir.
Which Roddenberry did at first
but then under pressure said that
we cannot have a Number One who is a woman.
Women professionals do tend to over compensate.
I had taken for granted
that back in 1964,
if a woman was in command
of a spaceship, she was.
All circuits engaged, Mr. Spock.
Spock: Standing by, Number One.
Roddenberry: I loved the thought, and I loved the idea.
I'm sorry that NBC didn't.
Increase to full power!
They came back with all of the tests that said that the public resented
a female in the position second-in-command of a starship
and felt that it was totally unbelievable.
End of Insights
Sensor readings, Mr. Spock.
Negative, Captain.
It has a protective screen.
He's dead, Jim.
INSIGHTS An inspiration to Guinan...
Progress report?
I'm connecting the bypass circuit now, Sir.
A woman on the bridge,
part of the command crew,
and as an equal.
I'll never forget the story
that Whoopi Goldberg told,
which was why she wanted to be part of 'Star Trek'.
She said-she was 9 years old, I think,
and she turned on television, and she saw this show,
and this little 9-year-old girl with eyes big as saucers
went screaming through the house saying,
"Hurry! Hurry! Come and look! Come and look!
"There's a black lady on television,
and she ain't no maid!"
And that tells the story.
That's the essence of where we were
and where we are today.
We've come a long way, baby.
And we've got a long way to go.
End of Insights
Why did you kill him?
The unit touched my screens.
That...
unit was my chief engineer.
Lieutenant, are you alright?
Sick bay.
Captain, a most curious development on scanner 57.
Let's all take a look at it, Mr. Spock.
Lt. Commander Hikaru Sulu
Captain's Log, stardate 3541.9-
the presence of Nomad aboard my ship has become nightmarish.
Now it apparently means return to Earth.
Once there, it would automatically destroy all life.
Half Time Comments Leonard Nimoy
Working on "The Changeling was, as an actor, very challenging.
You see, while we were filming, Nomad's voice
was simply read off-camera by our script supervisor.
The actual voice would be dubbed in later by Vic Perrin.
The script supervisor would read into a microphone,
which would ca use the lights inside Nomad
to turn on and off in sync with his voice.
It was a challenge for us to play to it
as if were a thinking, functioning computer
instead of a collection of plastic metal parts
hanging by fishing wire. But then I guess that's
why they call it acting.
End of Comments
...handed me a batch of scripts
for the second season
with much more for Lieutenant Sulu to do
a few very interesting things
and a couple of even exciting things
for Sulu to do.
in episodes like "The Trouble with Tribbles"
wonderful things for Sulu to do
and so I took the script with me
and I had my lines memorized
while working on "The Green Berets."
Unfortunately...
we had bad weather and a lot of other difficulties
and the filming of "The Green Berets"
went way beyond
the schedule.
when I was supposed to be back in Hollywood.
to begin the second season of
"Star Trek."
And so I missed out on a whole
hunk of episodes.
George Takei says that
when I came on, he felt it was a bit
intrusion in that I had
usurped him because he was away then
Several of the episodes had literally been written for him.
They had to re-write for me.
So here's this guy who comes in from, you know,
left field
sailing in on pure good luck
He was a little unsettled by that and
he felt, you know, some animosity toward me.
...and steals everything that
I was looking forward to.
I never saw that.
It was either an extremely good actor or he has
exaggerated his venal own behavior.
because I only remember him as being a very nice fellow
It's kind of ironic that
that a relationship that started out in hatred
became a very good friendship.
Report, Mister.
I am only picking up physical impulses from
the three of them!
The Davy Jones thing is quite true.
They were looking for somebody who would
create the same kind of following
that Davy Jones and the Monkees had
I never met him
but I don't think we would look that much alike
or that we would even then
but there was that sense that
I was cut from the same image
which is quite ironic because I
am probably at least 10 years older than he is.
That was the idea and my mail was generally from
people from age 8 to 14 years old,
that's generally the mail that I got.
That was the demographic that they were looking for.
We didn't have any young characters.
in the cast at that time. In other words,
the actors were upwards of 30
on average.
And the Beatles were hot at that point still
of course, they had been hot for a while
Gene Roddenberry decided that we needed
a young character in here to
just add that younger point of view
and give a little freshness and maybe
a little arrogance of youth
into the script.
So he brought in a Russian.
And he became Chekov.
And they cast, and they wound up with Walter Koenig
who I think was wonderful.
Does everybody know about this wheat but me?
Not everyone, Captain...
It's a Russian invention.
Oh.
The Russian that I was playing was not a very controversial Russian
He made jokes about things being invented in Russia
and that was about the only reference we made
And as I say, my mail was mostly in pencil and lined paper
from, you know, very young kids.
I don't remember ever getting any mail
about "why are you doing a *** on your show" or something of that nature
even though that certainly was the period
of the "Cold War."
but I think it speaks to the fact that
the character was not portrayed in a way
that would engender those kinds of reactions.
We were trying to find the place for
him, and yound romance was always popular so we
tried that, but
I think one of the things that was always nice about him
was the fact that he was always coming up with something
Russian that someone Russian had done first.
Any time you'd talk about some significant achievement
or philosophy or whatever
it was always Russian.
Blood sample, Chekov. Marrow sample, Chekov.
Skin sample, Chekov.
If-if I live long enough,
I'm going to run out of samples.
The Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow.
Scotch?
Aye.
It was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad.
Aah!
Chekov!
Aah!
Chekov!
Nimoy: You're watching 'Star Trek' on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Closing Comments Leonard Nimoy
A popular theme in science fiction
has long held that man's own creations
will rise up and destroy him.
From the moment Dr. Frankenstein's monster
first stirred on the table,
right up through The Terminator,
there have been tales of science and technology gone awry,
tales of mankind's folly
in the belief of his own supremacy.
I guess we can assume however,
that as long as we have James T. Kirk to argue the computers to death,
we're safe.
End of closing comments