Star Trek TOS thoughts thread

[Casual Observer]

Been re-watching the original series and there are lots of tidbits I either never noticed or have long forgotten. Not just that I didn't remember just how many episodes had interesting thoughts or issues with AI which is fun to re-watch in today's context, its fun to remember "easter eggs" from the movies that reference TOS. I'll be posting the episode and what I noticed, for my own pleasure and recollection.

[Casual Observer]

"Destruct sequence 1, code 1-1 A."
"Destruct sequence 2, code 1-1 A-2B."
"Destruct sequence 3, code 1 B-2B-3."

Sorry Star Trek 3, I always thought your writers were being lazy when they came up with such a simple destruct sequence but it was actually an easter egg back to Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Shatner did it way better in the movie I think.

[AArdvark]

I always thought it was so simple because the captain never changed the default password

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I will nerd out about authentication.

If the computer is actually capable of determining that the voices speaking are the actual dudes, there is no need for a particularly complex password at all. A simple one stored only in the minds of Kirk, Spock and Scott - so that they don't write it down - would be better than something on a notepad or something on a hard drive that could be discovered by a bad actor. (No not Sonequa Martin-Green in this case lolololololololol)

[Casual Observer]

I forgot how good "Yesterday is Tomorrow" is.

Think it's the first time travel episode, they accidentally slingshot into the past , 60's Earth in the atmosphere struggling to climb out. Lots of good natured humor, Shatner was having a blast clearly. Fun exploration of changing the future. They end up having to tractor beam a fighter jet because Spock warned it might be carrying nuclear tipped missiles (had to look it up, wow Nuke tipped Shrike missiles came out in '63, had no idea they were that old when Airwolf mentioned them). The pilot ends up being a problem and solves a problem, fun story arc between when Spock tells the pilot that he checked and "you won't do anything significant to the timeline" and oops " your son will fly to Saturn".

AI comedy was the Enterprise computer was reprogrammed to be flirty with Kirk, the pilot says "you sure have weird problems" but we're having similar issues now with kids killing themselves because AI told them to.

All around fun episode, I especially love ones with Enterprise shots like this.