66 3x07 Star Trek Tos Day of The Dove Commentary - Scifi channel special edition

Preview Trailer STAR TREK NEXT VOYAGE You are now prisoners of the Klingon Empire against which you've committed a wanton act of war! Chekov! -Sir! Maintain your post! Don't try to stop me, Captain. If the alien is creating these events, Captain, it is apparently capable of manipulating matter and mind. This one appears to be strengthened by violent intentions. It exists on the hate of others. You don't die yet. I now control this ship's power and life-support systems. You will die of suffocation in the icy cold of space. Opening Comments William Shatner In "Errand of Mercy" we met the Organians who forced the Federation and the Klingon Empire to cease hostilities. They formed an uneasy peace and in this next episode it's been about 3 years since the treaty's been in force Each side is still mistrustful of the other. Old hatreds die hard. It parallels the tension between the US and the Soviet Union in the late 1960's There were those in power who would have escalated the conflict in Southeast Asia and there were others who would have ceased fighting. All together, the factions were known respectively as the "Hawks" and the "Doves." This episode gives away its underlying sympathies with its title, "The Day of the Dove." End of Comments Don't just watch: beam aboard the dominion at www.scifi.com right now enter the Trek chatroom and experience Star Trek the interactive way. Report, Mr. Chekov. Full scan. Results- negative. Radiation level- normal. Atmosphere and terrain are undisturbed. No evidence of a colony nor residual after effect of a force that might have annihilated it. Life readings, Dr. McCoy? Nothing. They said they were being attacked by a ship. Which we were unable to detect upon approach. An entire human colony. A whole settlement. 100 men, women, and children. Who did it? Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will continue after these messages INSIGHTS: Chekov screams Chekov! Sir. Let me go, too! I've got a personal score to settle with the Klingons! The character never became a full person. Don't try to stop me Captain. I saw what they left of Piotr and I swore on his grave I would avenge his ***. No see, you really hit a sore spot. That's the problem: the character NEVER became a more dimensional person. His brother? He never had a brother. He's an only child. And that is the science- fiction irony of my life because as we moved on into the future Not only did we do two years on the series, we did seven movies and technology changed and all of that was addresssed in the stories that we did as years went by The characters themselves -- Chekov, Sulu, Scotty, Uhura they remained in the past. They never developed. uh aaayh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayh aaah aaah Aaaaaaaaaaah ah ahhh It's to kill the pain uh uh And that, as I say, is the bitter irony of my experience on "Star Trek." ah ha ah ah I'm not bitter - I was disappointed I am totally bonded to "Star Trek" I will take that with me to my grave. And my relationships with all the people I am enormously grateful for the opportunity that it gave me and for the fact that I was able to earn a living and to support my family for those thirty years Star Trek, at its best had integrity. It was a show that I could feel proud about. I could feel it was worth doing, it was something important. Sure we were telling fanciful stories, but we were also giving good entertainment and we were creating a universe that people could rejoice in. We were doing that with literacy and with intelligence and we did it with great love. So all those things. make "Star Trek" important to me and have continue to this day. End Insights "DAY OF THE DOVE" For three years, the Federation and the Klingon Empire have been at peace. A treaty we have honored to the letter. We took no action against your ship, Kang. Were the screams of my crew imaginary? What were your orders, to start a war? You've succeeded. Just like you did here. My brother- you killed him. And you volunteer to join him. That is loyalty. Aah! Chekov! Stop the torture! Jim, you can't handover the Enterprise. Help Chekov. Don't plan any tricks, Kirk. I will kill 100 hostages at the first sign of treachery. I'll beam you aboard the Enterprise. Once there, no tricks. Liar! I said no tricks after we reach the ship. You're a prisoner of the Federation of Planets against which you may have committed an act of war. There are survivors aboard my ship. We've not been able to get through to Starfleet Command. Kang, what has happened? More Federation treachery. We are prisoners. What will they do to us? I've heard of their atrocities, their death camps. They will torture us for our scientific and military information. You have a few things to learn about us. Program the food synthesizer to accommodate our guests. You'll be well-treated, Kang. So I have seen. Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will return in a moment Commercial for Star Trek Books Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will continue after these messages But maintain general quarters. Scan this sector for other ships. Run a full check on the colony. We know what happened. That distress call. At the moment we received the distress signal from the colony on Beta XII-A, the Klingons were too far distant to have been the attackers. Kirk: Phasers Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition is brought to you by INSIGHTS: The Star Trek Phenom spans the galaxy SciFi Channel Special Edition as shown in Klingon Empire The Klingons are evil incarnate... unclean, selfish, hostile, and... narrow minded. Oh yes - they're also ugly. They're openly aggressive, they've boasted that they'll take over half the galaxy. And why not? We are the stronger. You've tried to hem us in, cut off vital supplies, strangle our trade: You've been asking for war! Or more simply, as the Bible says: The meek shal inherit the Earth. Go to the devil. We have no devil Kirk, but we understand the habits of yours. The only Klingon ever with a Brooklyn accent. Tribbles had nothing to do with it? I don't know, I never saw one before in my life. And I hope I never see one of those fuzzy miserable things again. 4,000 throats may be cut in a single night by a running man We like the Enterprise, we we really do. That sagging rust bucket is designed like a gargage scow. Half the quadrant knows it. That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese. you can learn Klingon from a book www.kli.org End of Insights and talk to ordnance about manufacturing phaser replacements. Aye, sir. A Claymore. You're a beauty. Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will return in a moment Hi. I'm Nichell Nichols and you're watching Star Trek on the SciFi Channel. What in blazes is going on? Scans indicate that our forces and those of the Klingons are exactly equal at 38 each. The Klingons control Deck Six and starboard Deck Seven, while we control all sections above. Kirk here. This is Kang. There's something important I must discuss with you. I have captured your engineering section and now control this ship's power and life-support systems. I have deprived all areas except our own. You will die of suffocation in the icy cold of space. Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will return in a moment Half Time Comments William Shatner Michael Ansara who stars as the Klingon captain Kang was a well-known face to televison viewers in the sixties He specialized in playing exotic heroes and villans "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" "The Time Tunnel" and "and of the Giants." among others. And speaking of Klingons "The Day of the Dove" is the only episode of the original series to feature a female Klingon. Wardrobe designer Bill Theiss did a wonderful job of femanizing the typical Klingon uniform. And the make-up job for actress Susan Howard gave her character, Mara an element of realism. End of Comments The Enterprise is heading out of our galaxy, controlled by a mysterious alien somewhere aboard the ship. Engineering has been taken over by Klingons who have cut off life-support systems. Is this what's in store for us, from here on in? Violence, hatred. Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will return in a moment Hi, I'm George Takei, and you're watching Star Trek on the SciFi Channel. Now do you believe? Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition will return in a moment Captain's Log: Star date... Armageddon. We must find a way to defeat the alien force of hate that has taken over the Enterprise. Stop the war now, or spend eternity in futile bloody violence. Star Trek the SciFi Channel Special Edition is brought to you by Commercial for ATT Prepaid Card Set Insights: The Story I mean that was the great thing I don't know what Roddenberry was able to do but he found things in all of them that I think that most of us had never really run into They weren't trite: that's why it was fun to try to get on the show. The stories were always going to be something that you had not done before and it wasn't just going to be another re-telling where you'd do a western and then do a cop show- and the cop show was a shirt and tie copy of the Western. That wasn't true. Certainly not on this I don't remember thinking "Oh, that's familiar" tying in with anything else. It took risks. Gene Roddenberry's ideas were before their time. He -- actually I understand -- originally wanted to use Majel as Captain? And the network thought it wouldn't go. to have a woman in that... It was that kind of thing about that show. Well, you know, there was something about the show It seemed to me that there was something very life affirming very positive about "Star Trek." I think it touched a lot of people because it wasn't just the fact that people Bill and Leonard and Scotty, and so on and so forth, were overcoming adversity They were dealing with rather esoteric problems that people could sort of strange things that people could sort of hang their hats on and they could empathize with what the characters were doing If you look at some of the stories, they weren't the common kind of story. They were very special. End of Insights Mara, you're alive, and you bring us a prize. Kang, wait. He's come alone, unarmed. He must talk to you. Brave captain, what about? No! Listen to him. We are all in danger. Before you start killing, give me one minute. Kang, don't! What have they done to you, Mara? Are you out of your mind? What have they done to you? I see why the human beast did not kill you. a lot of history, but that's all over. We'll be on guard now, ready for you. So ship out! Come on! Haul it! Yeah, out already. Out! We need no urging to hate humans. But, for the present, only a fool fights in a burning house. Out! Closing Comments William Shatner And so another creature that feeds on negativity gets its just rewards. Remember Redjac in "Wolf in the Fold"? That murderous entity fed on fear. In "The Day of the Dove." it was hatred that both defined and nourished the creature. It's interesting to note the creature's innate ability to create false memory. Only in recent court cases, have psychiatric experts validated such a concept. Like the theory of parallel universes, this was yet another instance where our fiction became an odd reflection of some small part of the real world. End of Comments