TOS season one moments that exemplify Scotty and Sulu

[tim0122]

Hello. I'm working on a ST video project. As part of it, I'm trying to find short 20-30 second clips that give a viewer a good idea of each character. I have found good ones for each season one main cast member except for Scotty and Sulu. If any of you have some good suggestions for them, I'd be happy to hear them. Sulu is particularly forming a problem. Please keep in mind that the 20-30 ssecond clip has to be from season one. Please and thank you!

 

[Noname Given]

For Scotty in TOS Season 1 - "Devil in the Dark" (He jury rigs a reactor to keep an underground colony life support going) and/or "The Naked Time"

For Sulu - "Shore Leave", "The Naked Time", "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (He's a bit harder as honestly, they reused the same shot of him looking back over his shoulder at Kirk from the helm - there are episodes where he is effectively reused stock footage at times.

 

[Pauln6]

I like Sulu's scene with Rand in the Man Trap as it takes him away from the helm and gives him yet another hobby but she probably owns the scene more than he does. He gets quite a lot of shivering to do in the Enemy Within.

 

[EnsignHarper]

For Scotty, try the scene in A Taste of Armageddon where he has it out with Ambassador Fox - the episode is the first time that he is given command while the captain's away with a landing party, and the scene shows that he is IN command. "The haggis is in the fire for sure...."

 

[The Old Mixer]

For Scotty, his discussions with Spock when he's cutting the bulkhead and with Kirk about cold-starting the engines in "The Naked Time"; Think there's a Jeffries tube scene in that one as well...nothing says Scotty like the Jeffries tube.

Sulu, gotta have the rapier scene(s). Riley talking about Sulu's ever-changing hobbies is cute as well.

 

[telerites]

I'd use a bit from"The Galileo Seven" for Scotty. Suggesting the phasers for power or moreso doing the actual repair. Plus I like the comments he makes when Spock fires the boosters.

And while I would say the saber scene with Sulu and I think Takei even picks that as a favorite, to me it doesn't show who the character really is. I think you need something while he at the helm, which unfortunately, was most of his screen time.

Maybe this from "Star Trek: The Corbomite Maneuver (#1.10)" (1966)
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: Raising my voice back there doesn't mean I was scared or couldn't do my job, it means I happen to have a human thing called an adrenalin gland.
Mr. Spock: That sounds most inconvenient, however. Have you considered having it removed?
Lieutenant Dave Bailey: [sees Sulu quietly laughing at him] Very funny.
Sulu: Try and cross brains with Spock, he'll cut you to pieces every time.

Sulu: Four minutes, thirty seconds.
Scott: You have an annoying fascination for time pieces, Mr. Sulu.
Sulu: If, eh, anyone's interested... 30 seconds.

 

[tomalak301]

I was trying to think of different Scotty scenes and I saw The Galileo Seven last night. Scotty has some good moments in that episode, particularly with Spock in the shuttlecraft.

 

[The Old Mixer]

And while I would say the saber scene with Sulu and I think Takei even picks that as a favorite, to me it doesn't show who the character really is.

I was thinking exactly the opposite. You get more of Sulu as a character in those off-the-bridge scenes than you do when he's pushing buttons at his station. As portrayed in TOS, he isn't really defined by his job as much as some of the other characters.

 

[tim0122]

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I was thinking exactly the opposite. You get more of Sulu as a character in those off-the-bridge scenes than you do when he's pushing buttons at his station. As portrayed in TOS, he isn't really defined by his job as much as some of the other characters.

The problem with the fencing scene is (at least when he's actually running around the ship with the sword) he's essentially drunk. Yes, he's actually interested in fencing, but using a clip from that scene as a representation of who he is makes it look like he regularly runs around the ship with a sword.

 

[Pauln6]

That little scene with Uhura on the bridge is worth keeping for both of them though

 

[The Old Mixer]

But it's also his inner personality being brought out...could be juxtaposed with a more serious Sulu moment...or just the set-up of the scene with Riley in the rec room.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

For Sulu -(He's a bit harder as honestly, they reused the same shot of him looking back over his shoulder at Kirk from the helm - there are episodes where he is effectively reused stock footage at times.

I say just show every time they used that shot in the first season. It really nails Sulu's essential character as "Worried Guy Who Looks Back At The Captain A Lot."

 

[erastus25]

Sulu in the Arboretum in The Man Trap could work.

 

[The Old Mixer]

There's also Sulu with the revolver in "Shore Leave."

 

[FormerLurker]

That one would work. It's the first time he ever says, "I'm delighted." if I'm not mistaken.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'd do a quick montage of his hobbies from the various episodes, with the Riley commentary about them thrown in-between like an intro to each hobby.

 

[tim0122]

There's also Sulu with the revolver in "Shore Leave."

I'm using that scene as a placeholder for the moment. But I may very well change it.

I'd do a quick montage of his hobbies from the various episodes, with the Riley commentary about them thrown in-between like an intro to each hobby.

That's not a bad idea. I am already adding in a sentence about Sulu's ridiculous amount of hobbies in the first season (because I hadn't noticed it until I started this thread). So a short little montage may be a good idea.

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

If you're looking for just 1 short clip, I'd go with "The Naked Time" with the scene in the rec room where Sulu and Riley enter with Sulu explaining about fencing as his hobby and Riley commenting on last week that it was botany. If you have time to fill it out with other scenes clips then, Sulu with the weeper in "Man Trap," collecting specimens with McCoy and shooting the firearm in "Shore Leave."

For Scotty, I'd go with the scene where Scotty is explaining to Spock how to convert the phasers to use as a new fuel source in "Galileo Seven."

 

[Drone]

I liked Sulu's brief explanation of the exponential growth of Mitchell's powers. I'm especially fond of his pronunciation of the work millionaire!!