Your Favorite Scene

[Spock's Barber]

From all TOS episodes, choose just one brief scene that fascinates, amuses, inspires, haunts, confuses or irritates you.

I’ll start with this scene from That Which Survives...

For some reason, this transporter room scene fascinates me because Kirk and landing party are unable to intervene when Losira attacks Ensign Wyatt.

 

[Galileo7]

inspirational

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[johnnybear]

Yes that scene is interesting because it's the one Trek episode where the crew are actually moving while being caught in the transporter beam!
JB

 

[Sareesataka]

The 2 earliest memories I have of Star Trek are from The Savage Curtain and Who Mourns for Adonais,
The scenes which are most vivid to me are Abraham Lincoln floating in space, and when Apollo grew into a giant, dwarfing the crew, along with the giant green hand grabbing the Enterprise. As absurd as all these events are, nonetheless, these scenes made me think how the impossible can be made possible through the power of writing, and the imagination.

 

[Commishsleer]

I love the scene in "Amok Time" when Kirk goes to the bridge after Spock has changed course. Kirk just standing there exuding his command charisma with the ominous music. The camera angle and perspectives. I almost gasp at the
Mister Spock, Come With Me'. You can tell Spock is in big big trouble. but Kirk doesn't embarrass him in front of the crew.

 

[Herbert]

Kirk telling Decker what's what. "Not with my ship, you don't!" Love it

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[johnnybear]

And Decker's reply to Spock's threat with "You wouldn't dare!"
JB

 

[f14peter]

This has always been one of my favorite TOS moments ...

Balance of Terror: Some may disagree, but I've always viewed this as one of those "The Loneliness of Command" moments. Kirk has just finished consoling the almost-bride Martine, but Kirk has suffered loss too and for the umpteenth time. However, there's no one to console him and he moves down the corridor, surrounded by his crew but in lonely isolation.

 

[Galileo7]

This has always been one of my favorite TOS moments ...

Balance of Terror: Some may disagree, but I've always viewed this as one of those "The Loneliness of Command" moments. Kirk has just finished consoling the almost-bride Martine, but Kirk has suffered loss too and for the umpteenth time. However, there's no one to console him and he moves down the corridor, surrounded by his crew but in lonely isolation.

Absolutely agree. This scene is impressive for all the reasons you have stated and I think is one of the greatest scenes of TOS along with the "Risk is our business" scene.

 

[Admiral2]

Kirk telling Decker what's what. "Not with my ship, you don't!" Love it

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Thank you for posting this! Saves me the trouble...

 

[Delta Vega]

Charlie X dissipating in mid sentence on the Bridge
His lonely existence, and future, captured in a small snippet of time
Very sad

 

[Jayson1]

The risk scene is my favorite. That's already mentioned so I will list the next one and that would be this one.

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Jason

 

[Spock's Barber]

Yes that scene is interesting because it's the one Trek episode where the crew are actually moving while being caught in the transporter beam!
JB

Yes. It could be interpreted as either they are too shocked to react or, as Kalo said in Piece of the Action, “They can’t do nothing till they’re through sparkling.”

 

[CorporalCaptain]

They can't do nothing till they're through sparkling.

 

[Spock's Barber]

They can't do nothing till they're through sparkling.

It’s a good thing that the sparkling was almost done when the Roman guards tried to ventilate our heroes in Bread and Circuses.

 

[Phaser Two]

The risk scene is my favorite. That's already mentioned so I will list the next one and that would be this one.

Yeah, kudos for that choice. That is an outstanding (mostly) monologue.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Yeah, kudos for that choice. That is an outstanding (mostly) monologue.

Yes, some critics slam Shatner for overacting at times, but that scene was near perfect.

 

[Phaser Two]

Yes, some critics slam Shatner for overacting at times, but that scene was near perfect.

I was just thinking that when watching that scene, that some would mock that way he says "today" the second time, with the exaggerated elevation of his tone, and thinking that the answer to much of his "overacting" was that he was projecting just as he did on stage in the theater, and the directors liked it because it was different and it made Kirk seem (even) larger than life.

 

[Tosk]

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[johnnybear]

I've always wondered why the films and the later TV shows always had such a flashy light show when beaming down? The original had the best transporter effect by far, just a fizz and then vanishing what else did it need? Certainly not that big sun-beam explosion for sure!
JB