I really don't think this is at all spoiler-tag worthy.
But here's the gag. Original versions for the win!
One of the very few third season episode to end on a laugh.
They put an advert between the last scene and the end credits in the US broadcast? I never knew that, that's crazy.
Oh during original broadcast they did more than that. They'd recap who the sponsors were ("this portion of Star Trek was brought to you by RCA Victor and Polaroid"), show more ads, then previews for the next week and then the credits.
In syndication, generally, yes, they'd throw more ads between the end and the credits. Sometimes they'd drop the credits altogether.
People really did have a lot more patience back then.
Even in the 90s it would still happen. Commercials are the least bothersome aspect.
How did I never make that connection before? Now I can't unsee it. And Spock says Kirk is a "very dynamic individual."
I don't recall any previews at all when it ran in syndication in New York. And they had the announcer describe the upcoming program over the end credits, music be damned.
Nope not in New York, but WTNH New Haven did. It was the first time I had seen them.
But when I mentioned previews in my post, I was specifically talking about the NBC broadcasdts.
Understood. I was just mentioning some of the things (including cutting previews) that some local stations (in my case WPIX) did during the syndication period. I also understand your referring to the previews during the original NBC broadcasts, which is why I linked to the video with material from the summer 1967 NBC re-broadcast of "Space Seed".
Gotcha. All good. WPIX was my Star Trek station also. I still remember where some of their cuts were. Just random splices in the middle of scenes and sometimes sentences. Where No Man Has Gone Before was really bad. So yeah. they'd never leave the previews.
We had a rotor on our antenna and pulled in Connecticut stations like WTNH and WTXX. Both ran Trek uncut. Only WTNH kept the previews though.
My main issue with SB is that Kirk effectively wiped out a species.
To illustrate this, randomly select 100 modern women from normal technology equipped societies.
Take away their smartphones, crossovers, microwave ovens, and packaged food. Force them to live like cavemen: eating roots, digging in the dirt, cooking over fires, wearing what you can skin or weave.
See how many of them are still standing after one year has passed.
Spoiler alert... it won't be many.
To illustrate this, randomly select 100 modern women from normal technology equipped societies.
Take away their smartphones, crossovers, microwave ovens, and packaged food. Force them to live like cavemen: eating roots, digging in the dirt, cooking over fires, wearing what you can skin or weave.
See how many of them are still standing after one year has passed.
Spoiler alert... it won't be many.
Well, let's assume Kirk was right, the man dudes were like "oh cool let's worth together" and the women were all "sure okay" and everything was fine.My main issue with SB is that Kirk effectively wiped out a species.
To illustrate this, randomly select 100 modern women from normal technology equipped societies.
Take away their smartphones, crossovers, microwave ovens, and packaged food. Force them to live like cavemen: eating roots, digging in the dirt, cooking over fires, wearing what you can skin or weave.
See how many of them are still standing after one year has passed.
Spoiler alert... it won't be many.
I seem to recall that the station generally cut out whole scenes in the 70s. Cutting within the scenes themselves was something done in the official Paramount versions used in the 80s, although my memory is hazy.
Just from memory of Where No Man:
The second captain's log was interrupted by a cut: "Heading back on impulse power only. Main engines burned out--" {SNIP} "Is that Gary Mitchell? The one you used to know?"
The very end:
"Add to official losses...Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. Be it noted she gave her life in performances of her duty--" {SNIP} music, shot of view screen annnnnnd scene!
That was before the 80's Paramount pre-cut versions.
I had that episode on audio cassette tape the longest. Other than The Doomsday Machine.
Can I just take this opportunity to say that I absolutely despise the fact that the TOS episodes with the original visual effects are not available to stream anywhere? At least when Amazon had the rights to TOS, they gave you a choice between the original and remastered. I would much rather watch the original versions of the episodes, but Paramount+ won't even offer it as an option. (Yes, I know you can get it on physical media, and I've heard all the arguments about why we should be buying physical media, but that's not the way I choose to be watching and I think they should be streaming the original versions as well.)
It doesn't have to be those level of episodes for me to disregard a poor presentation of an interesting premise, especially when the show itself had some something somewhat similar without marionette Spock.
You can still get them through Prime, but they're behind an additional paywall.
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