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Published Sep 29, 2016

"The Naked Time"... 50 Years Later

" The Naked Time ," the sixth episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , premiered on September 29, 1966 -- or 50 years ago today. The episode, written by John D.F. Black and directed by Marc Daniels, ranks as a fan favorite thanks in large part to the indelible images of a shirtless Sulu rampaging through the decks of the Enterprise, wielding a foil, Riley "singing" the tune "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," Kirk revealing his love/hate (but mostly love) for the Enterprise, Spock crying and and Chapel professing her love to Spock.

Some fun fact, figures, quotes and anecdotes about "The Naked Time"

"The Naked Time" was, in 1967, nominated for a Hugo Award as "Best Dramatic Presentation."

One of our favorite lines, uttered by Riley: "Have no fear, O'Riley's here... and one Irishman is worth 10,000 of you."

Eddie Paskey speaks his first line of dialogue as Leslie in this hour, Bruce Hyde makes the first of his two appearances as Hyde, and the episode also marks Majel Barrett's debut as Chapel. Actually, ""The Naked Time" is the one and only episode of TOS in which Uhura, Rand and Chapel appeared together.

Those environmental suits that Spock and Tormolen (Stewart Moss) wear? They were crafted out of -- are you ready? -- shower curtains!

Speaking of Stewart Moss, StarTrek.com interviewed the actor last year. He recounted his last scene in the episode, noting that, "emotionally unglued, I have dialogue that is off the wall, questioning our mission in space, building to a self-hatred that ends in a struggle with two other crew members over a butter knife which I fall on, wounding myself and eventually dying. Worried that I’d go over the top, I asked Marc to make sure I wasn’t too big. He told me not to worry, what I was doing was believable. This was just another part in just another television show, nothing extraordinary about it. Little did I know. After the show aired I got a note in the mail from John D. F. Black, the writer and an associate producer on the show, thanking me for making him look good. Much appreciated." Go HERE to read the full interview.

More than a few fans noticed that, in this episode, McCoy tore Kirk's uniform in order to inject him with the hypo, but that in later episodes, hypos were administered straight through any clothing.

An Enterprise bowling alley? Yes, Riley makes mention of it.

Hyde died on October 13, 2015, succumbing to throat cancer, which he'd previously beaten into remission. StarTrek.com had spoken to Hyde in 2014, and of "The Naked Time" he said, "The singing part is what is still most vivid to me. I feel a certain affinity to that song, 'I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen.' It was, for a long time, for me like 'Over the Rainbow' was to Judy Garland. I used to be asked to sing that song at every convention I attended." Read the full interview HERE .

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The Naked Time Stardate: 1704.2 Original Airdate: 29 Sep, 1966

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Season: 1 Episode: 5 Clip duration: 29 seconds Views: 36 Timestamp in movie: 00h 48m 44s Uploaded: 26 August, 2023 Genres: action , adventure , sci-fi Summary: In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.

TOS: S1 – E4: The Naked Time

STARDATE: 1704.2

This may be one of the most famous episodes from the Original Series. Throughout, most of the cast are sweaty after contracting the strange disease, which we’ll learn about in a second. But this is the episode where Sulu chases his own crewmates around the ship with a fencing foil. This would inspire a scene in the Kelvin-timeline Star Trek (2009) film and many references and even a Christmas ornament.

The story had the crew of the Enterprise exploring a planet (PSI 2000) which Captain Kirk described as an “ancient world, now a frozen wasteland.” The Enterprise was tasked to pick up a team of scientists who had been studying the planet and then observe the planet’s destruction.

One thing that will strike the modern viewer immediately is the silly red biosuits that Spock and his companion, crewman Joe Toromlen wore to inspect the planet. The headpieces were not even attached to the shoulders of the suit itself. Spock wouldn’t be protected from someone else’s sneezes, let alone a freezing atmosphere or hazardous site. Oh well.

Mr. Scott and Mr. Spock working to figure out a solution to the Enterprise’s latest problem. Courtesy of CBS / Paramount

After Spock and Joe returned to the ship, Kirk asked if there was anything that would cause the ship to be in danger while observing the planet’s collapse. Scotty said that unless the crew were “taking showers while dressed” then the ship would be fine.

Later, in Rec Room, Area 3-9, Sulu and Crewman Kevin Riley tangled with Toromlen, who accidentally stabbed himself. The effects of the mysterious, yet undiagnosed disease was causing Joe to act erratically. As they wrestled with Toromlen, Riley and Sulu became infected as well.

A cool thing would happen as the infected crewmembers rubbed their hands together… almost a rattlesnake-like sound. This lets the viewer know that the person was being affected by the disease. Fun!

While the planet started to contract in size, Kirk asked Scotty to tie the controls from the bridge directly to engineering. Meanwhile, Toromlen died in surgery… McCoy cannot explain why this happened, saying that he must not have wanted to live. Kirk then supposes that something must have been missed in the decontamination scans when Joe and Spock have beamed aboard.

Spock sends Riley to sickbay, Lt. Uhura takes over his station. Next, Riley gives the disease to Nurse Chappel and Sulu starts running wild in the corridors of the ship with his sword.

Suddenly, the helm stopped responding, and Kirk was unable to raise anyone in engineering. Just as he was about to enter the turbolift, Sulu burst onto the bridge yelling “Richelieu, at last!” Richelieu is the name of a character in the Three Musketeers. Kirk and Uhura tussle with Sulu, and Spock subdues him with a Vulcan neck pinch. So for trivia’s sake, Sulu became one of the very first characters in Star Trek lore to be neck-pinched.

Somehow, Kirk and Uhura were able not to catch the infection while wrestling with Sulu, even though they make direct skin contact with the helmsman … uhh, swordsman. Hmm.

Scotty uses the phaser to try to cut through the wall in order to access the controls for the engineering door. Courtesy of CBS / Paramount

Scotty tries to burn through the walls to engineering with a phaser. Spock tells him that he’s going too slow. But then McCoy synthesizes an antidote to disease. But not before Nurse Chappel tells Spock that she loves him. Spock then is infected by Chappel. Spock then starts wandering the ship as he whimpers and struggles to control his emotions. 

McCoy gives the antidote to Sulu, who is completely cured. McCoy realizes that the disease is spread through sweat.

Kirk finds Spock feeling sorry for himself, but Kirk explains that if they don’t move quickly, the ship will be destroyed. Spock starts talking about love for his mother and Vulcan customs, then Kirk slaps Spock 2-3 times. It must have been one helluva slap because Spock then came to. Spock then slapped Kirk so hard that he flipped backward over a table.

While Kirk is infected, he starts talking about his love to the Enterprise , as if the ship were a human female. Hmm! As soon as Kirk steps back aboard the bridge, McCoy rips a hole in his uniform to vaccinate the captain from the effects of the disease.

Just as the ship is about to burn in the atmosphere of the planet, Kirk orders a recovered Sulu to point the ship back to where they came from. Spock and Scotty engage the new way to start the ship’s engines (after Riley turned them off while in engineering).

A strange noise affected the crew (and their ears), and caused suffering pain. This experimental formula that Spock and Scotty used to break free from the atmosphere caused the ship to surge back in time — three days in the past. This would be the same formula that would be used later in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The crew realizes that they are going backward in time after their engines “imploded.”

Spock announces that they are back to standard time, but three days in the past. Spock and Kirk then decide that they’ll “risk” going back in time if need be.

It seemed that this ending was a bit strange as if it did not fit the rest of the episode. There was no mention from the captain on how they would log the outbreak of the disease or how it might be treated in the future across other ships. No quarantine announcement. Just time travel and an abrupt ending.

TREK REPORT SUPPLEMENTAL:

This was an excellent entry, featuring a great plot and an exciting finale. Fans got to see almost the complete “original” cast in action, except for Chekov, whose character has yet to be introduced into the show. This, to many, is the episode where Sulu runs wild on the ship — and that’s it. But don’t let this summary fool you, nor the image of a sweaty George Takei. This was a good one — not some cliché, and worthy of some of the very best praise for an Original Series episode.

RATING: 3.5 out of 5

Directed by: Marc Daniels Written by: John D. F. Black Produced by: Gene Roddenberry Associate Producers: Robert H. Justman, John D. F. Black Director of Photography: Jerry Finnerman Production Designer: Walter M. Jefferies Music composed and conducted by: Alexander Courage

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Stewart Moss as Tormolen Majel Barrett as Christine Bruce Hyde as Riley

DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand

George Takei as Sulu James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura William Knight as Amorous Crewman John Bellah as Laughing Crewman

Art Director … Rolland M. Brooks Film Editor … Bruce Schoengarth Assistant Director … Greg Peters Set Decorator … Carl F. Biddiscombe Costumes created by … William Theiss Post Production Executive … Bill Heath Music Editor … Robert H. Raff Sound Editor … Joseph G. Sorokin Sound Mixer … Jack F. Lilly Photographic Effects … Howard Anderson Co. Script Supervisor … George A. Rutter Music Consultant … Wilbur Hatch Music Coordinator … Julian Davidson Special Effects … Jim Rugg Property Master … Irving A. Fenberg Gaffer … George H. Merhoff Head Grip … George Rader Production Supervisor … Bernard A. Windin Makeup Artist … Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A. Hair Styles by … Virginia Darcy, C.H.S. Wardrobe Mistress … Margaret Makau Casting … Joseph D’Agosta Sound … Glen Glenn Sound Co.

Executive in Charge of Production … Herbert F. Solow

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"I'll never lose you. Never." — Kirk , revealing his... fondness ... for the Enterprise

Original air date: September 29, 1966

The Enterprise has arrived at the ice planet Psi 2000 to document its impending collapse. Spock and a red shirt beam down in environmental suits to investigate why a laboratory on the planet shows no life signs: turns out, everybody froze to death because someone shut down the environmental control system and nobody cared enough to correct that. While Spock is investigating the corpses, his companion unwisely removes his glove to scratch his nose, allowing a strange red fluid to drip onto his hand.

Back on board the Enterprise, the Red Shirt starts acting strangely, in turns belligerent and depressed. He gets into a fight with Sulu and a guy named Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley, brandishes a dinner knife at them, and mildly injures himself. However, when McCoy operates on him, he dies, seemingly losing his will to live. McCoy is perplexed, as the victim was in good health and was previously known as a strong-willed individual. The reason for his odd behavior soon becomes apparent: he carried a disease that removes inhibitions (and makes one extremely sweaty, incidentally).

Chaos engulfs the ship as the disease spreads: crew members act carelessly, laughing maniacs run around the halls painting creepy messages in red paint, Sulu menaces passersby with a fencing sword, and Spock enters a crippling depression. Worst of all, Riley has locked himself in the engine room, hijacking the PA system to make bizarre announcements and advise women on hair and makeup styles, stranding the ship just as the planet is breaking up, threatening the Enterprise. Kirk and Scotty try to break into the engine room while McCoy cooks up an antidote. However, by the time Scotty gets the door open, it's revealed that the engines were stopped completely and that restarting them would take more time than they have. Desperate, Kirk orders Scotty to... do something involving matter/antimatter annihilation to get the Enterprise out of the way. Scotty cries that it only has a 1-in-10,000 chance of not blowing them to smithereens (so, naturally, it will work perfectly), but he needs Spock's help. Kirk tries to slap Spock out of his funk , but Spock only recovers when Kirk empathizes with him under the disease's influence and reveals the heavy burden of being Captain of the Enterprise —contrary to popular belief, you can never get laid , at least not with crew members. McCoy cures the crew and the ship escapes, but with a strange side-effect: it travels about three days backwards in time, in the series' first instance of time travel.

TNG ripped off simply revisited this scenario in " The Naked Now ." ... just revisited.

The Naked Tropes:

• Anguished Declaration of Love Chapel: I'm in love with you, Mister Spock! (Spock turns to stare at her) You, the human Mister Spock...the Vulcan Mister Spock... Spock: Nurse, you should— Chapel: Christine, please. I see things, how honest you are. ( takes his hands in hers ) I know how you feel. You hide it, but you do have feeling. (Spock turns his head away but doesn't let go of her hands) Oh, how we must hurt you, torture you... Spock: I'm in control of my emotions. Chapel: The others believe that, but I don't. ( puts her hands on Spock's face ) I love you. I don't know why, but I love you. I do love you just as you are. Oh, I love you. ( I Kiss Your Hand ) Spock: I'm sorry...I am sorry.
• Artistic License – Space : Why would a planet break up due to its sun going dark? Also, the universe isn't old enough for white dwarves or any other star to go dark, either, if it is meant that the star turned into a black dwarf. However, a 'dark star' was an early name for a black hole, so it's possible that's what they're referring to, with the planet breaking up and then compressing as it falls into the black hole's gravity well.
• Bizarre Alien Biology : McCoy : Mister Spock? Your pulse is 242, your blood pressure is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood . Spock: The readings are perfectly normal for me, Doctor, thank you, and as for my anatomy being different from yours, I am delighted.
• Bottle Episode : This episode is considered a bottle show, as it contains no villain and mostly regular characters, and takes place almost entirely aboard the Enterprise .
• Broken Tears : Spock loses all control over his emotions.
• The Chains of Commanding : There's a gorgeous blonde right under Kirk's nose but The Captain can't get involved with a subordinate, and he vents over how he just wants a few days of Me Time on a beach with her.
• Interestingly, it kind of looks like it was accidental. McCoy seems to only lightly tug at Kirk's collar and suddenly the entire sleeve comes off. Likely a good example of the low costume budget.
• Curtain Clothing : The environmental suits were made from Art Deco shower curtains.
• Cute, but Cacophonic : Lt. Riley. "I'll take you hoooome Kathleeeeeeen!"
• Deadpan Snarker : Spock, of all people, gets in one when he tells two bridge crewmen to "Take D'Artagnan here to Sickbay."
• Death by Despair : A Red Shirt tries to commit suicide, is stopped before he seriously hurts himself, then dies anyway because he can't summon the will to fight off the minor infection of the wound.
• Decontamination Chamber : The transporter room is shown to have the ability to decontaminate the outside of isolation suits with some sort(s) of radiation. Of course the sort of radiation that would do that would also, at the least, damage the skin of the people in the suits unless the suits blocked the rays...and unfortunately the idiot who beamed down with Spock had taken off a glove, been contaminated, and then put the glove back on— thereby making sure the rays would do nothing (not that they'd have done anything against an infection within someone's body anyway).
• Denied Food as Punishment : Riley tells Uhura she can't have ice cream because she interrupted his song.
• Driven to Suicide : Joe Tormolen, who laments that humanity doesn't belong in space, stabs himself, and then despite receiving prompt medical attention, loses the will to live.
• Drunken Song : Riley sings an "ancient Irish favorite."
• Lampshaded . Lt. Riley claims that Sulu's interest in botany in "The Man Trap" was one of his Fleeting Passionate Hobbies . This week it's fencing.
• They're still working through Spock's mannerisms by this time. When he nerve pinches Sulu, he says to the security guards, "Take D'Artagnan here to Sickbay."
• The opening Captain's Log doesn't include a Stardate, though the subsequent log after the opening credits does.
• Tormolen's rant about how "we don't belong out here" and "we're polluting space" seems to suggest that the sort of long-range space travel they've been doing is relatively new, and still has its critics. Later episodes and series would show Starfleet having been around for over a century already, and warp drive having existed in some form since the late 21st Century. It would be sort of akin to someone in the 21st century thinking of the telephone as a new and dangerous device.
• The End Is Nigh : Kirk enters the bridge turbolift, off to carry out a thousand-to-one chance that will save the ship or get them all killed, and sees the laughing graffiti artist has painted SINNER REPENT on the turbolift doors.
• After removing his glove, Tormolen fails to look where he's placing his hand and gets infected by a bloodstain.
• No-one on the Bridge notices that the helmsman has wandered off until an alarm sounds because the Enterprise is falling towards the planet below.

• Fanservice : Sulu naked to the waist and covered in sweat.
• First-Name Basis : Spock calling Kirk "Jim", not only when he's under the influence, but after they've both been given the antidote Spock enters the Bridge and asks, "Are you alright, Jim?"
• Foreshadowing : When Spock says they've accidentally invented Time Travel , Kirk muses that they may risk it again someday .
• A Friend in Need : An infected Spock talks of the shame he feels whenever he feels friendship towards Kirk. When Kirk himself starts to break down and pleads for help, it's only then that Spock pulls himself together.
• FTL Test Blunder : "The Naked Time" has Spock and Scotty performing a Dangerous Forbidden Technique to restart the Enterprise's warp engines after they'd been shut down. It was an untried technique, with the possible consequence of blowing up the ship, but not doing it would guarantee crashing on a collapsing planet. Fortunately, the only consequence of the forced restart was that the Enterprise was flung three days back in time, introducing the idea of using the warp drive for time travel to the series, which would feature in other episodes and the franchise as a whole.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man : Kirk attempts to slap Spock back into a steady state of mind. All it does is get Spock mad enough to slap him back, with enough force that he goes flying across the table.
• Graceful Loser : Riley has made a number of announcements over the ship's PA system, including a formal dance in the ship's bowling alley. After going through considerable effort to force their way into Engineering, Kirk leads the charge with Scotty and a pair of Security crewmen. Riley looks up from the chair and dryly observes, "No dance tonight."
• Gravity Sucks : The gravity appears to surge at unpredictable times as the planet breaks up.
• He's Dead, Jim : Though Tormolen is on a biobed that monitors his lifesigns at the time. Chapel: He's dead, Doctor.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf : Kirk might not mind Riley's singing so much if it had somewhat less enthusiasm and a little more musical talent.
• The Hyena : The disease turns a few people into this.
• Inelegant Blubbering : Spock breaks into sobs when he gets affected.
• Incoming Ham : A naked-to-the-waist Sulu charging out of the turbolift door, wielding an epee and reenacting The Three Musketeers .
• Internalized Categorism Spock: I respected my father, our customs... I was ashamed of my Earth blood... ( Kirk slaps him ) Jim, when I feel friendship for you, I'm ashamed!
• Intoxication Ensues : A disease makes everyone get progressively drunker.
• The only way to cold start the warp engines is through a theoretical method of combining matter/antimatter to create an implosion instead of an explosion. Spock: It's never been done. Kirk: Don't tell me that again, Science Officer! It's a theory. It's possible. We may go up into the biggest ball of fire since the last sun in these parts exploded, but we've got to take that one in ten thousand chance!
• When Scotty tells Spock they still need four minutes to get things right, Spock tells Kirk that they're ready because they've run out of time and will just have to risk it.
• Katanas Are Just Better : Averted Trope ; Sulu was originally supposed to go on his rampage with a samurai sword, but at Takei's request to do something less stereotypical, it was switched to an epee.
• Knife Struggle : When Tormolen goes to stab himself with a dinner knife, Sulu and Riley wrestle the knife off him, only to find he's been stabbed anyway in the struggle. Worse, Sulu and Riley are themselves infected in the process.
• Laughing Mad : Spock encounters a crewman laughing maniacally after painting LOVE MANKIND on the wall.
• Loss of Inhibitions : The crew begins experiencing strange feelings and behaviors after being the search team for a mysterious disaster. Dr. McCoy ultimately realizes the water on the planet had mutated, causing it to affect the brain like alcohol. While some effects more resemble delusions (e.g. Sulu calling Kirk " Richelieu "), a lot of them (Sulu leaving his station early to fence at the gym, Christine Chapel making an Anguished Declaration of Love to Spock, Spock crying and Kirk confessing how stressed he feels because of his position) fall under the lack of inhibitions that alcohol typically causes.
• Spock had to hide his love for his mother, who was the sole human on an alien world where the expression of love was disdained. While he refers to it more specifically as "friendship", his affection for Kirk likewise messes up his efforts to act as a reputable Vulcan.
• Kirk vents about how his love for the Enterprise is All Take and No Give .
• Love Is in the Air : The disease makes people lose their inhibitions, so many of the afflicted find themselves acting more amorous than usual.
• Madness Mantra : Spock tries to ward off the effects of the disease by repeating "I am in control of my emotions!" and reciting multiplication tables.
• Magic Antidote : Sulu is shown screaming as Bones injects him, then is abruptly restored to normal , confused as to why he's not on the Bridge .
• Meaningful Echo : Kirk angsts that he can't act on his feelings towards Yeoman Rand, asking only for a few days with a real woman to touch, a beach to walk on, and no braid on his shoulders. Later on the Bridge he's giving Rand a Longing Look and reaches out to touch her, only to pull his hand back. Kirk: No beach to walk on... Rand: Sir? Kirk turns his head away.
• Million to One Chance : Scotty gives the odds of successfully cold-starting the engines without blowing themselves up as 1 in 10,000— and that's with a supercomputer and weeks to calculate the formula. Fortunately, Spock is better than a supercomputer, if they can get him to stop crying long enough to focus.
• Mundane Utility : Scotty's tool of choice for cutting through a bulkhead is a standard phaser.
• Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer : McCoy calls the Captain to Sickbay when Tormolen dies. Justified as he wouldn't want to announce that news to all and sundry.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging : Chapel tells Spock that "the men from Vulcan treat their women strangely. At least, people say that, but you're part human too. I know you don't... you couldn't hurt me, would you?" Her words clearly affect Spock, not only because he's become infected but because they strike a chord— he's later shown crying over how he could never express affection for his human mother because he was ashamed of his human side and wanted to show he respected the Vulcan traditions of his father .
• Kirk's reaction to Lt. Riley's announcement that he is going to sing another rendition of "I'll Take You Home Kathleen." Riley: And now, crew, I will render "Kathleen"... ooonnne moooore tiiiimme! Kirk: [muttered] Please, not again.
• When Spock tells Kirk that they've travelled back in time three days that they'll have to relive, Kirk has the same reaction. (While it does not mean the same events, the idea is still troubling.)
• Oireland : Riley goes über-Irish while drunk. Riley. You know what Joe's mistake was? He wasn't born an Irishman.
• "Open!" Says Me : Downplayed; Scotty has to burn through the bulkhead next to the door, a slow task if you don't want to cut the wrong circuit.
• The Plague : The disease is apparently non-fatal, but is highly contagious and, in both episodes, adversely affects the crew in the midst of a disaster which could destroy the ship.
• Plot Hole : Dr. McCoy , a front-line medical worker, never succumbs to the disease— pretty impressive considering that it manages to afflict much of his medical staff. Though, given that the stuff affects human physiology "just like alcohol", maybe he can just hold his liquor better than most of the crew.
• Race Against the Clock : Starting from twenty minutes to impact and counting down. When they're eight minutes from crashing, they're suddenly confronted with having to restart the engines, an operation that would normally take half an hour.
• Red Alert : Alert Condition Baker Two puts the ship into Lock Down . Or it would if Riley hadn't taken over the Engine Room where he can override any command.
• Readings Are Off the Scale : And when Sulu does check the readings for elapsed time, he finds out why.
• Running Away to Cry : Spock locks himself away when the disease breaks down his emotional control.
• Schmuck Bait : What exactly did Kirk expect to happen when he touched the end of Sulu's sword?. (There are no euphemisms in the previous sentence, but don't let that stop your imagination.) To be fair, foils used in sport fencing have dull tips for safety.

• Scotty says he can't cut through the bulkhead any faster, not without compromising safety. Spock replies that If My Calculations Are Correct he'll be a minute and a half too late, whereupon safety will be a moot point.
• Screen Shake : Which gets worse as the Enterprise's orbit decays. Bones actually calls the Bridge demanding they hold her steady as he's trying to treat Sulu.
• Sequel Hook : Spock accidentally invents time travel, with Kirk noting that it could be pretty interesting to try again some day. The original plan was for this episode to lead directly into Tomorrow is Yesterday , but scheduling didn't work out.
• Nurse Chapel gives an Anguished Declaration of Love to Spock.
• Captain Kirk and Yeoman Rand Kirk: I have a beautiful yeoman. Have you noticed her, Mister Spock? You're allowed to notice her. The Captain's not permitted...
• Shirtless Scene : Sulu gets one. Oh, my!
• Snipe Hunt : Riley tells the Engineering personnel that the Captain wants them urgently on the Bridge, then locks himself inside.
• Space Madness : Downplayed, as Spock points out that space madness would still have to be caused by something specific.
• Stock Footage : A closeup of Kirk at the beginning of Act One is a recycled shot from " The Man Trap ".
• Technobabble : Noticeably averted when Spock just refers to a 'formula' that will fix the problem. Pity later spin-offs didn't learn from this.
• Scotty assures Kirk that their warp engines can get them away from the disintegrating planet in an instant.
• When Kirk does order a Hyperspeed Escape , he's asked for a direction and replies, "Back the way we came."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich : Averted when Riley sculls his coffee on being called to the Bridge. Tormolen never starts his meal, however, what with being stabbed with his own knife .
• Too Dumb to Live : Joe Tormolen, the Red Shirt who accompanied Spock down to the planet. He takes his protective glove off, puts his hand down on the surface of a planet where six people have died with no explanation, and scratches his nose with the same hand. Before he stabbed himself, he claimed that humanity didn't belong in space. Given his horrific failure to follow basic hazmat procedures on a space station where everyone has died for no evident cause, perhaps it was just that he did not belong in space.
• The Triple : Riley asks Sulu why he's learning fencing. "Self-defense, mayhem, shish kebab?"
• Tuneless Song of Madness : Kevin Riley, having been affected by the problem of the week, holes up in engineering, pronouncing himself the captain. As further evidence of his loopiness, he drives the crew nuts with his continual and badly sung renditions of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen."
• Unknown Phenomenon : When Kirk calls Spock to ask what happened, Spock replies, "Unknown, Captain. It's like nothing we've dealt with before." He later points out to Scotty that the fact that their sensors couldn't find a cause means nothing, because the possibilities where No Man Has Gone Before are infinite.
• Wham Line : Kirk and Scotty cut their way into the Engine Room and hand Riley over to Security. Just then, Uhura calls to let them know the Enterprise has entered the upper atmosphere of the planet. Scott: Captain. Kirk: What is it? Scott: He's turned the engines off. Completely cold. It will take thirty minutes to regenerate them. Uhura: [on comm] Ship's outer skin is beginning to heat, Captain. Orbit plot shows we have about eight minutes left. Kirk: Scotty! Scott: I can't change the laws of physics. I've-got-to-have-thirty minutes.
• World of Ham : Everybody under the influence of the disease starts gobbling up the scenery, nobody better than Riley, though.
• Zeerust : Spock appears to be using a circular slide rule for his calculations on Exact Time to Failure .
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A beach was a geologic formation where a body of water and a landmass met, and was typically composed of loose sand . While infected with polywater intoxication , Captain Kirk lamented that there was "no beach to walk on," euphemistically referring to the isolation his position as commanding officer demanded that he keep from much of his crew, including any feelings he may have felt for Yeoman Janice Rand . [1] While introducing Ensign D'Vana Tendi to the U.S.S. Cerritos NCC-75567 , Ensigns Boimler and Mariner demonstrated the capability of the ship's holodeck with a simulation of a beach in Hawaii on Earth . [2]

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• ↑ Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer). "The Naked Time" . Star Trek , season 1, episode 4 (Production number 07). Directed by Marc Daniels . Written by John D.F. Black . Desilu Productions . 29 September 1966 .
• ↑ McMahan, Mike et al (Executive Producers). "Second Contact" . Star Trek: Lower Decks , season 1, episode 1 (Production number 01). Directed by Barry J. Kelly . Written by Mike McMahan . Based upon Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry . Created by Mike McMahan . CBS Entertainment . 6 August 2020 .
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Fans Can Enter to Win Walk-On Role in ‘Star Trek Beyond’

“Star Trek” fans, prepare for the opportunity of a lifetime.

&#151; -- “Star Trek” fans, prepare to boldly go where no fan has gone before.

With the upcoming 50th anniversary of the franchise, one lucky fan will win the opportunity of a lifetime: a walk-on role in the new “ Star Trek ” movie, titled “Star Trek Beyond.”

The announcement was made in video that aired on “ Good Morning America ” today. The video featured the stars of the upcoming “Star Trek Beyond” on the deck of the fictional U.S.S. Enterprise. Among the actors present were Zoe Saldana , Idris Elba , Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban.

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The lucky winner will fly to the closed set of “Star Trek Beyond” for hair, makeup and wardrobe for the character.

Five other winners will be selected to form the Star Trek: To Boldly Go crew, an honorary group that will visit the film set, meet the cast and be among the first to view scenes from the film.

Each winner will be able to bring a guest on his or her experience.

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The filmmakers have teamed up with charity platform Omaze for the contest, and fans must make a minimum $10 donation in order to enter to win the prizes.

Proceeds will be split among the following nine global causes, which were nominated by the film’s stars:

• Brave Beginnings, which provides neonatal equipment and critical care pulmonary services to hospitals across the United States . (Nominated by Zoe Saldana.)
• Camp Sunshine, a summer retreat for children with life­-threatening illnesses. (Nominated by Anton Yelchin.)
• Direct Relief International, an international disaster relief organization. (Nominated by Zachary Quinto .)
• Heaven Homes, a non­profit organization that provides safe and secure environments for children of Sierra Leone . (Nominated by Idris Elba.)
• KidsCan, an organization that provides food, clothing and healthcare to disadvantaged youth in New Zealand . (Nominated by Karl Urban.)
• Koreatown Youth & Community Center, whose programs and services are changing the lives of those who live there. (Nominated by John Cho.)
• Make-a-Wish, which fulfills wishes for children suffering from life-threatening illnesses. (Nominated by Chris Pine .)
• Time is Precious, which provides children's hospitals with new equipment. (Nominated by Simon Pegg.)
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, an organization which treats and researches childhood cancers and other life-threatening diseases. (Nominated by Susan Nimoy in honor of Leonard Nimoy .)

Entry starts at $10. For more information and to enter, go to omaze.com/startrek.

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Star Trek: Best Captain Kirk Quotes, Ranked

Star Trek's Captain Kirk is an iconic character in television history who has delivered some truly quotable lines over the course of his adventures.

Being a captain can't be easy. There are hundreds of people counting on them to make the right decisions that will keep them alive. Being the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise – the flagship of the United Federation of Planets – must come with even more stress. But fans of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek would rarely see that pressure get to him.

Along with his decisive thinking, strategic planning, and sense of humor, Captain Kirk often kept his ship and his crew alive with nothing more than his words. The boy from Iowa lived by the ideals of the future, using his beliefs not only to navigate the universe but to deal with the dangers he and the crew faced. With his confidence and words, Captain Kirk showed us all just how great humanity could be.

Updated on September 13, 2023 by Joshua M. Patton: William Shatner is the iconic originator of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, the first captain of the USS Enterprise that Star Trek fans fell in love with. However, in the nearly 60 years of history behind Gene Roddenberry's created universe, he's not the only actor to portray the character. With Chris Pine donning the signature gold shirt in the film trilogy set in "the Kelvin Timeline," and Paul Welsey taking on the role in Strange New Worlds, Kirk's wit and wisdom continues to expand.

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20 “Hang On Tight And Survive. Everybody Does.”

[T]here are a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are.... Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.

The first season episode "Charlie X" saw the Enterprise welcome a young man named Charlie aboard the ship who had spent years surviving alone. Charlie had been modified by aliens to survive their harsh planet, which gave him incredible abilities like telepathy that he used to force the crew into uncomfortable situations.

Charlie struggled with acclimating to his new way of life onboard the Enterprise where he didn't get everything he wanted, and despaired about going on with his life. Kirk was able to make him see that he could push through, surviving one day at a time like the rest of humanity.

19 "Either We're Going Down or They Are"

Attention crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down... or they are. Kirk out.

The mission of Starfleet is one of peaceful exploration and curiosity, but no matter which actor is playing Captain James T. Kirk, he's always read to fight when its necessary. In 2009's Star Trek when Earth is threatened by the time-traveling Romulan villain Nero, he takes command of the USS Enterprise to save the planet.

The version of Kirk in this film is much different than the one fans know, yet even after living a life of loss and aimlessness, once Kirk ended up where he belonged -- in the Captain's chair -- he became the man fans know and love. He will avoid a fight whenever he can, but if he can't? No one can stop him from saving the day.

18 "Don't Skip Good Hot Dogs"

My advice? Don't skip good hot dogs when you can get them.

Strange New Worlds Season 2 featured another time-travel romp, this time offering an alternate future version of James T. Kirk who wasn't part of Starfleet or the Federation, but rather the United Earth Fleet. His timeline was one of devastation and war. While La'an Noonien Singh, Khan's descendant , and the Enterprise Chief of Security, is trying to puzzle out their mission in the past, Kirk reminds her to take advantage of the good things that come her way.

17 “What Is a Man?"

What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion for something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized, but only dreamed, the highest reality?

The crew of the Enterprise was faced with a heavy decision when they encountered a planet full of androids that wanted to serve humanity by replacing their bodies with artificial ones and granting them eternal life in the second season's "I, Mudd."

However, Kirk was able to talk some of the curious members of his crew out of the decision by pondering exactly what it is that makes them all human – listing many of the reasons that humanity ventured into space in search of the unknown in the first place, which could never be replicated by the artificial androids.

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16 “I Need My Pain!”

You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier explored the ongoing Star Trek search for God that made a number of crew members question their faith and the surrounding reality, especially when members of the crew were "cured" of negative emotions like pain and guilt.

However, Kirk refused to undergo the same process as he felt that those feelings helped shape who we are and who we become, which ultimately allows humanity to make the right decisions. He was right, as the God-like being was later revealed to be an evil being who was trapped and manipulating others to facilitate his escape.

15 "The Prejudices People Feel..."

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.

Tasked with ensuring that the arranged marriage of the leaders of two warring planets takes place without interference, Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise find themselves dealing with an angry bride, a nervous groom, and a group of Klingons who plan to sabotage the event.

Kirk's words come from a more mature and evolved version of mankind that has worked past its biases based on skin color, religion, or gender. He knows as all humans in Star Trek do, that the only way to move forward is to work together. To see the things we have in common and celebrate the things that make us different.

14 "Sometimes A Feeling Is All We Humans Have"

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.

When the Enterprise finds itself caught up in a centuries-long planetary war where the casualties are decided by a computer program, Captain Kirk knows that the only way to bring about peace is to remind the people of the planet what war really is. By leaving the outcomes of battles to a computer, the people have done away with the lasting scars of war and come to accept the ritual deaths as something of a sacrifice that must be done.

Kirk risks everything by destroying the war computer, forcing the leaders of the world to decide if it is better to continue their war with actual destruction and devastation or if the time has come to talk peace. In his gut, Kirk knows they will make the right choice.

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13 "His Was The Most... Human"

"We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

In all fiction, there are few friendships as iconic as that of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock. It is impossible not to think of one when you think of the other. These two men, one an emotional human the other a rational Vulcan, will always be the greatest duo in Star Trek .

When Spock gave his life for the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Kirk was left to write a eulogy not only for his Science Officer but his closest friend in all the universe. His words ensured that there wasn't a dry eye in the theater.

12 "Believe In Yourself"

You either believe in yourself, or you don’t.

A captain needs confidence, and that's something Kirk has in spades. He knows that if he doesn't believe in the mission, then his crew won't believe in it either, and if he doesn't believe in himself, they won't be comfortable following him.

Even more important is the knowledge that without believing in oneself, there is no hope for improvement. And if a person can not improve, then what is the purpose of existence? To Captain Kirk, there is no more important thing for a person to have than faith in themself.

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11 "If Man Was Meant To Fly, He'd Have Wings..."

They used to say that if man was meant to fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to.

From the story of Icarus to the stories of superheroes today, mankind has always been inspired by the idea of flight. The idea of a man soaring through the skies seemed like an impossible task, but in less than 60 decades, humanity went from a 12-second 120-foot flight to sending the first man into space.

What Captain Kirk is saying here is that humanity has always stepped up to the challenge, and we always will. It won't be easy, and we'll fall down often, but in the end, we will succeed because we must.

10 "There's No Such Thing As The Unknown..."

There's no such thing as the unknown, only things temporarily hidden.

The unknown can be scary. The idea that just out of sight, hiding in the darkness is something that can hurt us is what most horror is built around, and for good reason. Be it the monster in the closet or the alien from Venus, we fear that which we do not know.

But if we think like Captain Kirk, the unknown isn't something to be frightened by. The unknown becomes something exciting to discover. The unknown is out there, just waiting to be found. Suddenly, that fear becomes a feeling of optimism.

9 "Genius Doesn’t Work On An Assembly Line Basis."

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, today I will be brilliant.

When Captain Kirk and the crew are sent to evaluate a supercomputer that could make their jobs redundant, he quickly sees the flaw in the plan. A computer may be able to react faster than a person, but it can never invent or show discretion.

It can never create or devise a plan that isn't preprogrammed, leaving it open to failure by a lack of improvisation. As Kirk sees it, all great things are created by those who think beyond what is and see what may be. It is the living being who can do this and no computer, no matter how great, will be able to replicate that.

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8 "We're Human, And ... That Best Explains Us."

We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human, and maybe that's the word that best explains us.

Star Trek captures the strength of the human race better than most other shows. As Kirk says, we make mistakes, but we don't just lay down and give up. We move forward even as we stumble, working to make things better. To make ourselves better, and in turn, make the world better.

Captain Kirk is no stranger to making mistakes, but he knows that each mistake must be learned from, and what was learned must be used to make improvements, all so new mistakes can be made, and new lessons learned.

7 "How We Deal With Life"

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

As the captain of the Enterprise, Kirk knows that he, and any other captain that is to follow him, will be forced to make life and death decisions on a regular basis. In his time, Kirk has seen more death than he would have preferred, and many of those deaths he holds himself responsible for. Still, Kirk knows that he can not let those deaths keep him from moving forward. He knows that if he and his crew were to give in, all those who died for them would have died in vain.

6 "That's What I Was Born Into"

Better to die saving lives... than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into.

This moment from Star Trek: Beyond was something of a full-circle moment for the Kelvin Timeline Captain Kirk. His father died saving his life and the lives of an entire starship crew. When facing off with Balthazar M. Edison, who was trying to destory a massive starbase, he truly became the kind of hero his father was.

Star Trek is about hope and optimism. The big-budget blockbuster needs of the 21st Century movies may have gotten in the way of that message, but in Star Trek: Beyond the audience finally gets to hear a Jim Kirk who sounds familiar.

5 "Sometimes You Can't Avoid a Fight"

Did it ever occur to you that sometimes you can't avoid a fight?

The Season 1 finale of Strange New Worlds was a time-travel adventure showcasing what would happen if Captain Pike stayed on the USS Enterprise. In trying to avoid a fight with the Romulan Star Empire, he ended up starting a devastating war.

This message from Kirk, played by Paul Wesley, shows that even the Prime Timeline version of the character knows when to seek peace and when to give villains the fight they are looking for. It's better to face an enemy than to leave them to harm others because one didn't.

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4 “I Don't Believe In The No-Win Scenario.”

I don't believe in the no-win scenario.... I don't like to lose.

One of the best movies in the long-running franchise, 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan introduced a number of oft-repeated quotes and inspired an altered take on the story in the modern reboot franchise. Kirk's ability to see every angle and find a way to win against all odds was best displayed by his quote about no-win scenarios, as well as the reveal that he was able to beat the training exercise known as the Kobayashi Maru – which was designed to be unbeatable in order to make cadets face their potential death in service to the Federation..

3 "You Can Let Death Win, Or You Can Fight Back"

Our job puts up against death more than is fair, and we may not like it, but we do have to face it. And right now, death is winning. It claimed your family. It claimed your friend. It convinced you to forget them because it is less painful than holding onto their memories. Now you can you let death win, or you can fight back. Hold onto them.

Another Season 2 episode of Strange New Worlds featured an adventure with James T. Kirk and Nyota Uhura , where the latter was experience visions and mental distress. He was the first person to believe what was happening to her was real.

When Uhura began to lose hope, because of the loss of her family a few years earlier, Kirk inspires her the way only the future captain could. Echoing Shatner's "I need my pain," line, he tells her that the memories of those we've lost are not burdens but blessings.

2 "Khaaaaaan!"

Khan, you have Genesis, but you don't have me! You were going to kill me, Khan, it was your sole purpose. You'll have to come down here to do it!

While it isn't the longest or most profound line that Captain Kirk ever delivered, his scream of rage and frustration in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is easily one of the character's most quoted and spoofed lines from Star Trek .

The line comes after Khan successfully takes the Genesis Device while also stranding Kirk and his crew inside a planetoid as revenge for Kirk doing the same to Khan and his crew. Kirk's protest is filled with such raw emotion that it quickly became one of the most memorable scenes from the Star Trek movie franchise and was even reimagined for the reboot trilogy.

1 "To Boldly Go"

This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no one has gone before.

These words have been said by many a Star Trek captain, but Captain Kirk was the first. And while the exact words have changed over the years to be more inclusive, what Kirk said in the opening of every episode of Star Trek over fifty years ago still captures the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions today.

The idea that humanity will one day travel among the stars, discovering new life and new civilizations, boldly going where no one has gone before is a concept that fills the world with the hope of a better tomorrow. The kind of tomorrow that Captain Kirk was a part of. The final time he said these words, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country he changed things around, ditching both the gendered language and the idea that the Enterprise crew was Starfleet's only explorers.

Walk, Don't Run (episode)

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Summary [ ]

On the bridge of the USS Enterprise , an Orion woman breaks the fourth wall , talking to the people at home watching the show . She introduces herself as D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks , and goes on to state that today, they are honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series .

As she continues, we are treated to a montage sequence of a variety of scenes from the 1973 Star Trek series. We see an aerial shot of the bridge, and then James T. Kirk employing a karate chop to knock a hand phaser out of a female officer 's hand . Then we see Arex the Edosian playing a double guitar , Scotty getting blasted with food by a malfunctioning food synthesizer , and finally a scene with Spock and Kirk. While all of this was being shown, Tendi was saying how the show came out in 1973, ran for two seasons , and featured the actors from Star Trek: The Original Series .

She goes on to state that it paved the way for future Star Trek cartoons like Lower Decks . She then turns to three of the stars of the old animated series and tells them that today they celebrate them, saying "you walked so that we may run ." Scotty thanks her , but then he suddenly realizes that what she said made no sense, and so he asked her what she meant by that, and she told him that she meant he set the stage for modern Star Trek cartoons. Scotty is then very offended by this comment, because he believed she was trying to say that they were merely stage hands , not actors as the Lower Decks crew is. He told her it sounded like an insult , rather than a compliment as she said it was. Arex then cuts in, saying that he has three legs , and therefore he is great at running . M'Ress then asks her what she is trying to say. Tendi told them that their show suffered from technological and budgetary limitations, and as such, their animation was a little stiff.

M'Ress is angered by this comment. Scotty told her it was a stylistic choice and M'Ress told Tendi that it's more likely that she moved around too much. Scotty then said that their show invented the holodeck . Tendi argued that it was a rec room , not a holodeck, and it was far more limited by comparison, since it could only create snowstorms and the like, whereas the holodeck could simulate a Cardassian prison escape , fighting the Borg . Then Scotty mentioned the orgy scene. Tendi then had a look of embarrassment on her face , as she thinks back to the old Naked Time simulation. Scotty then unfastens his belt , removes his pants and says: "I got your orgy scene, right here!" Tendi tells him it was just a short gag , not a scene.

Then Arex and M'Ress join Scotty in taking their clothing off; M'Ress removed her bra while Arex took off his pants too. They run around the bridge. Tendi then tells them that maybe her choice of words was bad. She then says that she meant to say that the characters from her show were standing on the shoulders of giants . This offends M'Ress, saying that she must think they are pack mules . Scotty assumed that since she called them giants she must have thought they were fat . He told her her that her big cartoon eyes were fat. Tendi tells them that she at least has whites in her eyes, not like the black dots on the skin where their eyeballs should be.

Just then, the turbolift door opens up. William T. Riker , carrying a trombone , and Hikaru Sulu , holding an electronic keyboard , enter the bridge. Sulu asks if they are having a party . Tendi immediately welcomes both of them, but admits they aren't having a party, but an argument. Sulu expresses his disappointment, and then takes his shirt off, showing them his abs . Scotty tells Sulu not to talk to them, since they look down on them for being an old cartoon. Tendi told him that wasn't true . She said they're jealous because she's a new cartoon. Sulu then tells them they need to embrace their differences and love each other.

Riker then cuts in, telling them that Sulu's right. He goes on to say that it doesn't matter what species you are, if you're part of the old generation or the new, or if you're animated on twos or sixes: love is the answer. Tendi then asks, "What're doing here, Commander Riker, jazz practice?" Riker tells her that their music mostly falls into the genre of Post Mainframe Acid-Cardassian Ten Forwardcore . Sulu then says "Hit it, Scotty!" Scotty then immediately begins playing the drum set , and a song begins.

The band plays the song. Riker plays the trombone and provides lead vocals, Sulu plays his keyboard and also sings , Arex plays his double guitar, M'Ress plays the tambourine , and Tendi provides backup vocals. Scotty then apologizes to Tendi and tells her he loves her and her co-stars from her show. He goes on to tell her that she's so cool and she gets to use all of the modern tech. Tendi apologizes too, telling him that she and her co-stars love him as well, saying that they are icons , the originals. She then looks away for a moment, clearly feeling shy about what she's about to say. But she then tells him that he's really hot . Sulu then says "Oh, my!"

Just then, outside the starship , a large fleet of Klingon D7 class battle cruisers are surrounding them, and one of them opens fire. The red alert begins to sound . Tendi then tells the other officers that the alert wasn't part of the song, and that they were actually under attack . The other officers continue playing their musical instruments , apparently not very alarmed by the situation. Once again, Sulu says: "Oh, my!" just as there is an explosion on the bridge.

Background information [ ]

Production timeline [ ].

• 5 September 2023 : Title revealed on StarTrek.com [1]
• 4 October 2023 : Premieres on StarTrek.com and the Star Trek YouTube channel

Production [ ]

• Tendi, from Star Trek: Lower Decks , breaks the fourth wall to discuss the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series
• Tendi describes the animation in TAS as being still, but Scott contends that it was an artistic choice, and M'Ress suggests that maybe LD characters move too much.
• Tendi compares the simulated "boring" snowstorm in TAS : " The Practical Joker " to Beckett Mariner 's simulated Cardassian prison break in LD : " Strange Energies " and Brad Boimler 's experience fighting the Borg in LD : " I, Excretus ".
• Scott points out the lack of class the simulated orgy scene , also from "I, Excretus", before he and Arex remove their pants, and M'Ress removes her bra.
• Footage of the Enterprise falling under Klingon attack was reused from the earlier very Short Treks episode " Skin a Cat ".

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Voice actors [ ].

• Noël Wells as D'Vana
• Arex (uncredited)
• Cristina Milizia as M'Ress
• George Takei as Sulu
• Jonathan Frakes as Riker

Stock footage background characters [ ]

• Christine Chapel
• James T. Kirk
• Leonard McCoy
• Nyota Uhura
• Enterprise cmd lt 14
• Enterprise ops lt 15
• Enterprise ops lt 16
• Enterprise sci lt 8
• Klingon exchange officers 1 and 2
• Orion captain
• Barnes (hologram)
• Andy Billups (hologram)
• Brad Boimler
• Haubold (hologram)
• Jet Manhaver (hologram)
• Beckett Mariner
• Merp (hologram)
• Quark (hologram)
• Jennifer Sh'reyan (hologram)
• T'Ana (hologram)
• Westlake (hologram)
• Borg drones
• Cardassian guards
• Cardassian interrogator
• | Cerritos Antaran ops ens (hologram)
• Cerritos Haliian ops lt 1 (hologram)
• Cerritos Human cmd ens 1 (hologram)
• Cerritos Human ops ens 4 (hologram)
• Cerritos Human ops lt 1 (hologram)
• Cerritos Human ops ofc 1 (hologram)
• Cerritos Vulcan cmd ens 1 (hologram)
• Philippa Georgiou
• Shenzhou communications officer

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• 2 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Star Trek Is Officially Redefining What "Where No One Has Gone Before" Actually Means

• The iconic catchphrase "where no one has gone before" gets an epic new meaning in Star Trek #19, by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Megan Levens.
• Captain Sisko and his crew are heading into the Pleroma, Star Trek's newly revealed "realm of the gods," prompting Doctor Crusher to call it "where no one has gone before."
• One of Star Trek's key tenets is that humanity can evolve and transcend, and the journey to the Pleroma is the first step in this quest.

For generations of Star Trek fans, the catchphrase “where no one has gone before” has been an iconic call to adventure, but now it has taken on a whole new meaning. In Star Trek #19, the crew of the Theseus is heading to the Pleroma, a mysterious new realm that promises great adventure–and great peril. As they prepare for the hazardous journey, the franchise’s catchphrase takes on new layers.

Star Trek #19 is written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Megan Levens. T’Lir, the enigmatic Vulcan, has been revealed to be the last of the Organians and has charged Sisko and company with a new mission: travel to the Pleroma and help fix the damage Kahless has caused. Sisko is wary of the Pleroma, having been forbidden to travel there by the Prophets.

He discusses the impending journey with Doctor Crusher, and she refers to the Pleroma as “where no one has gone before.”

For Over 60 Years, Star Trek's Opening Monologue Has Perfectly Set the Show's Tone

It has undergone several changes over the years.

The catchphrase “where no one has gone before” is one of the most memorable in pop culture. Part of a larger opening monologue, the phrase has undergone a few alterations. When Star Trek premiered in 1966, the line read: “where no man has gone before.” When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted in 1987, it was updated to the much better and more inclusive “where no one has gone before.” This has since become, with a few exceptions, the standard across the franchise, still recited in both the Abrams Kelvin-timeline movies and Strange New Worlds.

In the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise , it was revealed Zefram Cochrane coined the phrase "where no man has gone before."

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The Crackdown on Student Protesters

Columbia university is at the center of a growing showdown over the war in gaza and the limits of free speech..

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions.

[TRAIN SCREECHING]

Well, you can hear the helicopter circling. This is Asthaa Chaturvedi. I’m a producer with “The Daily.” Just walked out of the 116 Street Station. It’s the main station for Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus. And it’s day seven of the Gaza solidarity encampment, where a hundred students were arrested last Thursday.

So on one side of Broadway, you see camera crews. You see NYPD officers all lined up. There’s barricades, steel barricades, caution tape. This is normally a completely open campus. And I’m able to — all members of the public, you’re able to walk through.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Looks like international media is here.

Have your IDs out. Have your IDs out.

Students lining up to swipe in to get access to the University. ID required for entry.

Swipe your ID, please.

Hi, how are you, officer? We’re journalists with “The New York Times.”

You’re not going to get in, all right? I’m sorry.

Hi. Can I help please?

Yeah, it’s total lockdown here at Columbia.

Please have your IDs out ready to swipe.

From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today, the story of how Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators, and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech. I spoke with my colleague, Nick Fandos.

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

It’s Thursday, April 25.

Nick, if we rewind the clock a few months, we end up at a moment where students at several of the country’s best known universities are protesting Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks, its approach to a war in Gaza. At times, those protests are happening peacefully, at times with rhetoric that is inflammatory. And the result is that the leaders of those universities land before Congress. But the president of Columbia University, which is the subject we’re going to be talking about today, is not one of the leaders who shows up for that testimony.

That’s right. So the House Education Committee has been watching all these protests on campus. And the Republican Chairwoman decides, I’m going to open an investigation, look at how these administrations are handling it, because it doesn’t look good from where I sit. And the House last winter invites the leaders of several of these elite schools, Harvard, Penn, MIT, and Columbia, to come and testify in Washington on Capitol Hill before Congress.

Now, the President of Columbia has what turns out to be a very well-timed, pre-planned trip to go overseas and speak at an international climate conference. So Minouche Shafik isn’t going to be there. So instead, the presidents of Harvard, and Penn, and MIT show up. And it turned out to be a disaster for these universities.

They were asked very pointed questions about the kind of speech taking place on their campuses, and they gave really convoluted academic answers back that just baffled the committee. But there was one question that really embodied the kind of disconnect between the Committee — And it wasn’t just Republicans, Republicans and Democrats on the Committee — and these college presidents. And that’s when they were asked a hypothetical.

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?

If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.

And two of the presidents, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, they’re unwilling to say in this really kind of intense back and forth that this speech would constitute a violation of their rules.

It can be, depending on the context.

What’s the context?

Targeted at an individual. Is it pervasive?

It’s targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals. Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them?

And it sets off a firestorm.

It does not depend on the context. The answer is yes. And this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board.

Members of Congress start calling for their resignations. Alumni are really, really ticked off. Trustees of the University start to wonder, I don’t know that these leaders really have got this under control. And eventually, both of them lose their jobs in a really high profile way.

Right. And as you’ve hinted at, for somewhat peculiar scheduling reasons, Columbia’s President escapes this disaster of a hearing in what has to be regarded as the best timing in the history of the American Academy.

Yeah, exactly. And Columbia is watching all this play out. And I think their first response was relief that she was not in that chair, but also a recognition that, sooner or later, their turn was going to come back around and they were going to have to sit before Congress.

Why were they so certain that they would probably end up before Congress and that this wasn’t a case of completely dodging a bullet?

Well, they remain under investigation by the committee. But also, as the winter wears on, all the same intense protests just continue unabated. So in many ways, Columbia’s like these other campuses. But in some ways, it’s even more intense. This is a university that has both one of the largest Jewish student populations of any of its peers. But it also has a large Arab and Muslim student population, a big Middle Eastern studies program. It has a dual degree program in Tel Aviv.

And it’s a university on top of all that that has a real history of activism dating back to the 1960s. So when students are recruited or choose to come to Columbia, they’re actively opting into a campus that prides itself on being an activist community. It’s in the middle of New York City. It’s a global place. They consider the city and the world, really, like a classroom to Columbia.

In other words, if any campus was going to be a hotbed of protest and debate over this conflict, it was going to be Columbia University.

Exactly. And when this spring rolls around, the stars finally align. And the same congressional committee issues another invitation to Minouche Shafik, Columbia’s President, to come and testify. And this time, she has no excuse to say no.

But presumably, she is well aware of exactly what testifying before this committee entails and is highly prepared.

Columbia knew this moment was coming. They spent months preparing for this hearing. They brought in outside consultants, crisis communicators, experts on anti-Semitism. The weekend before the hearing, she actually travels down to Washington to hole up in a war room, where she starts preparing her testimony with mock questioners and testy exchanges to prep her for this. And she’s very clear on what she wants to try to do.

Where her counterparts had gone before the committee a few months before and looked aloof, she wanted to project humility and competence, to say, I know that there’s an issue on my campus right now with some of these protests veering off into anti-Semitic incidents. But I’m getting that under control. I’m taking steps in good faith to make sure that we restore order to this campus, while allowing people to express themselves freely as well.

So then the day of her actual testimony arrives. And just walk us through how it goes.

The Committee on Education and Workforce will come to order. I note that —

So Wednesday morning rolls around. And President Shafik sits at the witness stand with two of her trustees and the head of Columbia’s new anti-Semitism task force.

Columbia stands guilty of gross negligence at best and at worst has become a platform for those supporting terrorism and violence against the Jewish people.

And right off the bat, they’re put through a pretty humbling litany of some of the worst hits of what’s been happening on campus.

For example, just four days after the harrowing October 7 attack, a former Columbia undergraduate beat an Israeli student with a stick.

The Republican Chairwoman of the Committee, Virginia Foxx, starts reminding her that there was a student who was actually hit with a stick on campus. There was another gathering more recently glorifying Hamas and other terrorist organizations, and the kind of chants that have become an everyday chorus on campus, which many Jewish students see as threatening. But when the questioning starts, President Shafik is ready. One of the first ones she gets is the one that tripped up her colleagues.

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Columbia’s code of conduct, Mr. Greenwald?

And she answers unequivocally.

Dr. Shafik?

Yes, it does.

And, Professor —

That would be a violation of Columbia’s rules. They would be punished.

As President of Columbia, what is it like when you hear chants like, by any means necessary or Intifada Revolution?

I find those chants incredibly distressing. And I wish profoundly that people would not use them on our campus.

And in some of the most interesting exchanges of the hearing, President Shafik actually opens Columbia’s disciplinary books.

We have already suspended 15 students from Columbia. We have six on disciplinary probation. These are more disciplinary actions that have been taken probably in the last decade at Columbia. And —

She talks about the number of students that have been suspended, but also the number of faculty that she’s had removed from the classroom that are being investigated for comments that either violate some of Columbia’s rules or make students uncomfortable. One case in particular really underscores this.

And that’s of a Middle Eastern studies professor named Joseph Massad. He wrote an essay not long after Hamas invaded Israel and killed 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government, where he described that attack with adjectives like awesome. Now, he said they’ve been misinterpreted, but a lot of people have taken offense to those comments.

Ms. Stefanik, you’re recognized for five minutes.

Thank you, Chairwoman. I want to follow up on my colleague, Rep Walberg’s question regarding Professor Joseph Massad. So let me be clear, President —

And so Representative Elise Stefanik, the same Republican who had tripped up Claudine Gay of Harvard and others in the last hearing, really starts digging in to President Shafik about these things at Columbia.

He is still Chair on the website. So has he been terminated as Chair?

Congresswoman, I —

And Shafik’s answers are maybe a little surprising.

— before getting back to you. I can confirm —

I know you confirmed that he was under investigation.

Yes, I can confirm that. But I —

Did you confirm he was still the Chair?

He says that Columbia is taking his case seriously. In fact, he’s under investigation right now.

Well, let me ask you this.

I need to check.

Will you make the commitment to remove him as Chair?

And when Stefanik presses her to commit to removing him from a campus leadership position —

I think that would be — I think — I would — yes. Let me come back with yes. But I think I — I just want to confirm his current status before I write —

We’ll take that as a yes, that you will confirm that he will no longer be chair.

Shafik seems to pause and think and then agree to it on the spot, almost like she is making administrative decisions with or in front of Congress.

Now, we did some reporting after the fact. And it turns out the Professor didn’t even realize he was under investigation. So he’s learning about this from the hearing too. So what this all adds up to, I think, is a performance so in line with what the lawmakers themselves wanted to hear, that at certain points, these Republicans didn’t quite know what to do with it. They were like the dog that caught the car.

Columbia beats Harvard and UPenn.

One of them, a Republican from Florida, I think at one point even marvelled, well, you beat Harvard and Penn.

Y’all all have done something that they weren’t able to do. You’ve been able to condemn anti-Semitism without using the phrase, it depends on the context. But the —

So Columbia’s president has passed this test before this committee.

Yeah, this big moment that tripped up her predecessors and cost them their jobs, it seems like she has cleared that hurdle and dispatched with the Congressional committee that could have been one of the biggest threats to her presidency.

Without objection, there being no further business, the committee stands adjourned. [BANGS GAVEL]

But back on campus, some of the students and faculty who had been watching the hearing came away with a very different set of conclusions. They saw a president who was so eager to please Republicans in Congress that she was willing to sell out some of the University’s students and faculty and trample on cherished ideas like academic freedom and freedom of expression that have been a bedrock of American higher education for a really long time.

And there was no clearer embodiment of that than what had happened that morning just as President Shafik was going to testify before Congress. A group of students before dawn set up tents in the middle of Columbia’s campus and declared themselves a pro-Palestinian encampment in open defiance of the very rules that Dr. Shafik had put in place to try and get these protests under control.

So these students in real-time are beginning to test some of the things that Columbia’s president has just said before Congress.

Exactly. And so instead of going to celebrate her successful appearance before Congress, Shafik walks out of the hearing room and gets in a black SUV to go right back to that war room, where she’s immediately confronted with a major dilemma. It basically boils down to this, she had just gone before Congress and told them, I’m going to get tough on these protests. And here they were. So either she gets tough and risks inflaming tension on campus or she holds back and does nothing and her words before Congress immediately look hollow.

And what does she decide?

So for the next 24 hours, she tries to negotiate off ramps. She consults with her Deans and the New York Police Department. And it all builds towards an incredibly consequential decision. And that is, for the first time in decades, to call the New York City Police Department onto campus in riot gear and break this thing up, suspend the students involved, and then arrest them.

To essentially eliminate this encampment.

Eliminate the encampment and send a message, this is not going to be tolerated. But in trying to quell the unrest, Shafik actually feeds it. She ends up leaving student protesters and the faculty who support them feeling betrayed and pushes a campus that was already on edge into a full blown crisis.

[SLOW TEMPO MUSIC]

After the break, what all of this has looked like to a student on Columbia’s campus. We’ll be right back.

[PHONE RINGS]

Is this Isabella?

Yes, this is she.

Hi, Isabella. It’s Michael Barbaro from “The Daily.”

Hi. Nice to meet you.

Earlier this week, we called Isabella Ramírez, the Editor in Chief of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, “The Columbia Daily Spectator,” which has been closely tracking both the protests and the University’s response to them since October 7.

So, I mean, in your mind, how do we get to this point? I wonder if you can just briefly describe the key moments that bring us to where we are right now.

Sure. Since October 7, there has certainly been constant escalation in terms of tension on campus. And there have been a variety of moves that I believe have distanced the student body, the faculty, from the University and its administration, specifically the suspension of Columbia’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. And that became a huge moment in what was characterized as suppression of pro-Palestinian activism on campus, effectively rendering those groups, quote, unquote, unauthorized.

What was the college’s explanation for that?

They had cited in that suspension a policy which states that a demonstration must be approved within a certain window, and that there must be an advance notice, and that there’s a process for getting an authorized demonstration. But the primary point was this policy that they were referring to, which we later reported, was changed before the suspension.

So it felt a little ad hoc to people?

Yes, it certainly came as a surprise, especially at “Spectator.” We’re nerds of the University in the sense that we are familiar with faculty and University governance. But even to us, we had no idea where this policy was coming from. And this suspension was really the first time that it entered most students’ sphere.

Columbia’s campus is so known for its activism. And so in my time of being a reporter, of being an editor, I’ve overseen several protests. And I’ve never seen Columbia penalize a group for, quote, unquote, not authorizing a protest. So that was certainly, in our minds, unprecedented.

And I believe part of the justification there was, well, this is a different time. And I think that is a reasonable thing to say. But I think a lot of students, they felt it was particularly one-sided, that it was targeting a specific type of speech or a specific type of viewpoint. Although, the University, of course, in its explicit policies, did not outline, and was actually very explicit about not targeting specific viewpoints —

So just to be super clear, it felt to students — and it sounds like, journalistically, it felt to you — that the University was coming down in a uniquely one-sided way against students who were supporting Palestinian rights and may have expressed some frustrations with Israel in that moment.

Yes. Certainly —

Isabella says that this was just the beginning of a really tense period between student protesters and the University. After those two student groups were suspended, campus protests continued. Students made a variety of demands. They asked that the University divest from businesses that profit from Israel’s military operations in Gaza. But instead of making any progress, the protests are met with further crackdown by the University.

And so as Isabella and her colleagues at the college newspaper see it, there’s this overall chilling effect that occurs. Some students become fearful that if they participate in any demonstrations, they’re going to face disciplinary action. So fast forward now to April, when these student protesters learned that President Shafik is headed to Washington for her congressional testimony. It’s at this moment that they set out to build their encampment.

I think there was obviously a lot of intention in timing those two things. I think it’s inherently a critique on a political pressure and this congressional pressure that we saw build up against, of course, Claudine Gay at Harvard and Magill at UPenn. So I think a lot of students and faculty have been frustrated at this idea that there are not only powers at the University that are dictating what’s happening, but there are perhaps external powers that are also guiding the way here in terms of what the University feels like it must do or has to do.

And I think that timing was super crucial. Having the encampment happen on the Wednesday morning of the hearing was an incredible, in some senses, interesting strategy to direct eyes to different places.

All eyes were going to be on Shafik in DC. But now a lot of eyes are on New York. The encampment is set up in the middle of the night slash morning, prior to the hearing. And so what effectively happens is they caught Shafik when she wasn’t on campus, when a lot of senior administration had their resources dedicated to supporting Shafik in DC.

And you have all of those people not necessarily out of commission, but with their focus elsewhere. So the encampment is met with very little resistance at the beginning. There were public safety officers floating around and watching. But at the very beginning hours, I think there was a sense of, we did it.

[CHANTING]: Disclose! Divest! We will not stop! We will not rest. Disclose! Divest! We will not stop!

It would be quite surprising to anybody and an administrator to now suddenly see dozens of tents on this lawn in a way that I think very purposely puts an imagery of, we’re here to stay. As the morning evolved and congressional hearings continued —

Minouche Shafik, open your eyes! Use of force, genocide!

Then we started seeing University delegates that were coming to the encampment saying, you may face disciplinary action for continuing to be here. I think that started around almost — like 9:00 or 10:00 AM, they started handing out these code of conduct violation notices.

Hell no! Hell no! Hell no!

Then there started to be more public safety action and presence. So they started barricading the entrances. The day progressed, there was more threat of discipline. The students became informed that if they continue to stay, they will face potential academic sanctions, potential suspension.

The more they try to silence us, the louder we will be! The more they —

I think a lot of people were like, OK, you’re threatening us with suspension. But so what?

This is about these systems that Minouche Shafik, that the Board of Trustees, that Columbia University is complicit in.

What are you going to do to try to get us out of here? And that was, obviously, promptly answered.

This is the New York State Police Department.

We will not stop!

You are attempting participate in an unauthorized encampment. You will be arrested and charged with trespassing.

My phone blew up, obviously, from the reporters, from the editors, of saying, oh my god, the NYPD is on our campus. And as soon as I saw that, I came out. And I saw a huge crowd of students and affiliates on campus watching the lawns. And as I circled around that crowd, I saw the last end of the New York Police Department pulling away protesters and clearing out the last of the encampment.

[CHANTING]: We love you! We will get justice for you! We see you! We love you! We will get justice for you! We see you! We love you! We will get justice for you! We see you! We love you! We will get justice for you!

It was something truly unimaginable, over 100 students slash other individuals are arrested from our campus, forcefully removed. And although they were suspended, there was a feeling of traumatic event that has just happened to these students, but also this sense of like, OK, the worst of the worst that could have happened to us just happened.

And for those students who maybe couldn’t go back to — into campus, now all of their peers, who were supporters or are in solidarity, are — in some sense, it’s further emboldened. They’re now not just sitting on the lawns for a pro-Palestinian cause, but also for the students, who have endured quite a lot.

So the crackdown, sought by the president and enforced by the NYPD, ends up, you’re saying, becoming a galvanizing force for a broader group of Columbia students than were originally drawn to the idea of ever showing up on the center of campus and protesting?

Yeah, I can certainly speak to the fact that I’ve seen my own peers, friends, or even acquaintances, who weren’t necessarily previously very involved in activism and organizing efforts, suddenly finding themselves involved.

Can I — I just have a question for you, which is all journalism, student journalism or not student journalism, is a first draft of history. And I wonder if we think of this as a historic moment for Columbia, how you imagine it’s going to be remembered.

Yeah, there is no doubt in my mind that this will be a historic moment for Colombia.

I think that this will be remembered as a moment in which the fractures were laid bare. Really, we got to see some of the disunity of the community in ways that I have never really seen it before. And what we’ll be looking to is, where do we go from here? How does Colombia repair? How do we heal from all of this? so That is the big question in terms of what will happen.

Nick, Isabella Ramírez just walked us through what this has all looked like from the perspective of a Columbia student. And from what she could tell, the crackdown ordered by President Shafik did not quell much of anything. It seemed, instead, to really intensify everything on campus. I’m curious what this has looked like for Shafik.

It’s not just the students who are upset. You have faculty, including professors, who are not necessarily sympathetic to the protesters’ view of the war, who are really outraged about what Shafik has done here. They feel that she’s crossed a boundary that hasn’t been crossed on Columbia’s campus in a really long time.

And so you start to hear things by the end of last week like censure, no confidence votes, questions from her own professors about whether or not she can stay in power. So this creates a whole new front for her. And on top of it all, as this is going on, the encampment itself starts to reform tent-by-tent —

— almost in the same place that it was. And Shafik decides that the most important thing she could do is to try and take the temperature down, which means letting the encampment stand. Or in other words, leaning in the other direction. This time, we’re going to let the protesters have their say for a little while longer.

The problem with that is that, over the weekend, a series of images start to emerge from on campus and just off of it of some really troubling anti-Semitic episodes. In one case, a guy holds up a poster in the middle of campus and points it towards a group of Jewish students who are counter protesting. And it says, I’m paraphrasing here, Hamas’ next targets.

I saw an image of that. What it seemed to evoke was the message that Hamas should murder those Jewish students. That’s the way the Jewish students interpreted it.

It’s a pretty straightforward and jarring statement. At the same time, just outside of Columbia’s closed gates —

Stop killing children!

— protestors are showing up from across New York City. It’s hard to tell who’s affiliated with Columbia, who’s not.

Go back to Poland! Go back to Poland!

There’s a video that goes viral of one of them shouting at Jewish students, go back to Poland, go back to Europe.

In other words, a clear message, you’re not welcome here.

Right. In fact, go back to the places where the Holocaust was committed.

Exactly. And this is not representative of the vast majority of the protesters in the encampment, who mostly had been peaceful. They would later hold a Seder, actually, with some of the pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters in their ranks. But those videos are reaching members of Congress, the very same Republicans that Shafik had testified in front of just a few days before. And now they’re looking and saying, you have lost control of your campus, you’ve turned back on your word to us, and you need to resign.

They call for her outright resignation over this.

That’s right. Republicans in New York and across the country began to call for her to step down from her position as president of Columbia.

So Shafik’s dilemma here is pretty extraordinary. She has set up this dynamic where pleasing these members of Congress would probably mean calling in the NYPD all over again to sweep out this encampment, which would mean further alienating and inflaming students and faculty, who are still very upset over the first crackdown. And now both ends of this spectrum, lawmakers in Washington, folks on the Columbia campus, are saying she can’t lead the University over this situation before she’s even made any fateful decision about what to do with this second encampment. Not a good situation.

No. She’s besieged on all sides. For a while, the only thing that she can come up with to offer is for classes to go hybrid for the remainder of the semester.

So students who aren’t feeling safe in this protest environment don’t necessarily have to go to class.

Right. And I think if we zoom out for a second, it’s worth bearing in mind that she tried to choose a different path here than her counterparts at Harvard or Penn. And after all of this, she’s kind of ended up in the exact same thicket, with people calling for her job with the White House, the Mayor of New York City, and others. These are Democrats. Maybe not calling on her to resign quite yet, but saying, I don’t know what’s going on your campus. This does not look good.

That reality, that taking a different tack that was supposed to be full of learnings and lessons from the stumbles of her peers, the fact that didn’t really work suggests that there’s something really intractable going on here. And I wonder how you’re thinking about this intractable situation that’s now arrived on these college campuses.

Well, I don’t think it’s just limited to college campuses. We have seen intense feelings about this conflict play out in Hollywood. We’ve seen them in our politics in all kinds of interesting ways.

In our media.

We’ve seen it in the media. But college campuses, at least in their most idealized form, are something special. They’re a place where students get to go for four years to think in big ways about moral questions, and political questions, and ideas that help shape the world they’re going to spend the rest of their lives in.

And so when you have a question that feels as urgent as this war does for a lot of people, I think it reverberates in an incredibly intense way on those campuses. And there’s something like — I don’t know if it’s quite a contradiction of terms, but there’s a collision of different values at stake. So universities thrive on the ability of students to follow their minds and their voices where they go, to maybe even experiment a little bit and find those things.

But there are also communities that rely on people being able to trust each other and being able to carry out their classes and their academic endeavors as a collective so they can learn from one another. So in this case, that’s all getting scrambled. Students who feel strongly about the Palestinian cause feel like the point is disruption, that something so big, and immediate, and urgent is happening that they need to get in the faces of their professors, and their administrators, and their fellow students.

Right. And set up an encampment in the middle of campus, no matter what the rules say.

Right. And from the administration’s perspective, they say, well, yeah, you can say that and you can think that. And that’s an important process. But maybe there’s some bad apples in your ranks. Or though you may have good intentions, you’re saying things that you don’t realize the implications of. And they’re making this environment unsafe for others. Or they’re grinding our classes to a halt and we’re not able to function as a University.

So the only way we’re going to be able to move forward is if you will respect our rules and we’ll respect your point of view. The problem is that’s just not happening. Something is not connecting with those two points of view. And as if that’s not hard enough, you then have Congress and the political system with its own agenda coming in and putting its thumb on a scale of an already very difficult situation.

Right. And at this very moment, what we know is that the forces that you just outlined have created a dilemma, an uncertainty of how to proceed, not just for President Shafik and the students and faculty at Columbia, but for a growing number of colleges and universities across the country. And by that, I mean, this thing that seemed to start at Columbia is literally spreading.

Absolutely. We’re talking on a Wednesday afternoon. And these encampments have now started cropping up at universities from coast-to-coast, at Harvard and Yale, but also at University of California, at the University of Texas, at smaller campuses in between. And at each of these institutions, there’s presidents and deans, just like President Shafik at Columbia, who are facing a really difficult set of choices. Do they call in the police? The University of Texas in Austin this afternoon, we saw protesters physically clashing with police.

Do they hold back, like at Harvard, where there were dramatic videos of students literally running into Harvard yard with tents. They were popping up in real-time. And so Columbia, really, I think, at the end of the day, may have kicked off some of this. But they are now in league with a whole bunch of other universities that are struggling with the same set of questions. And it’s a set of questions that they’ve had since this war broke out.

And now these schools only have a week or two left of classes. But we don’t know when these standoffs are going to end. We don’t know if students are going to leave campus for the summer. We don’t know if they’re going to come back in the fall and start protesting right away, or if this year is going to turn out to have been an aberration that was a response to a really awful, bloody war, or if we’re at the beginning of a bigger shift on college campuses that will long outlast this war in the Middle East.

Well, Nick, thank you very much. Thanks for having me, Michael.

We’ll be right back.

Here’s what else you need to know today. The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation into two mass graves found after Israeli forces withdrew from hospitals in Gaza. Officials in Gaza said that some of the bodies found in the graves were Palestinians who had been handcuffed or shot in the head and accused Israel of killing and burying them. In response, Israel said that its soldiers had exhumed bodies in one of the graves as part of an effort to locate Israeli hostages.

And on Wednesday, Hamas released a video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American dual citizen, whom Hamas has held hostage since October 7. It was the first time that he has been shown alive since his captivity began. His kidnapping was the subject of a “Daily” episode in October that featured his mother, Rachel. In response to Hamas’s video, Rachel issued a video of her own, in which she spoke directly to her son.

And, Hersh, if you can hear this, we heard your voice today for the first time in 201 days. And if you can hear us, I am telling you, we are telling you, we love you. Stay strong. Survive.

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Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech.

Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The Times, walks us through the intense week at the university. And Isabella Ramírez, the editor in chief of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, explains what it has all looked like to a student on campus.

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Travel | hike canaveral seashore’s klondike beach: a 13-mile trek along wild florida coastline.

Booming waves crash one over another while pelicans fly overhead and shorebirds forage in the sand, comprising the kind of idyllic sunny beachside scene Florida is known for. Except this time, there aren’t people or high-rise condos for miles around.

This was the view during a 13-mile hike on Klondike Beach, the sandy stretch of Canaveral National Seashore that lies between Apollo Beach on the north end and Playalinda Beach on the south side. I was joined by Chris Stevens, a fellow explorer and outdoor writer for Florida Hikes who is known on Instagram (with his wife and family) as the Sunshine State Seekers .

It was Good Friday, and something felt almost biblical about our pilgrimage along the undeveloped seashore as we visited the church of nature and fully immersed ourselves in the wild Floridian coastline. At least we had the weather on our side, with high temperatures in the low 70s and a north wind at our backs the whole way.

I don’t know exactly when or how the idea hatched, but I had this hike on my radar for several years and finally found an ideal day and someone crazy enough to do it with me. My pack and gear kit for the day included 3 liters of water, an Arizona tea, a Publix sub, apples, a wide-brimmed straw hat, a sun shirt and hiking boots.

Adventurers who attempt this should be prepared with plenty of sun protection, food and water for hours in the open sun with no amenities. A $5 backcountry permit (available at either ranger station) is required to venture past Apollo Beach lot 5 and Playalinda Beach lot 13.

We set off southward just after 7 a.m. from the end of the road at Apollo Beach, catching a magnificent sunrise with an amber horizon and whispy clouds over the Atlantic as a bright half-moon shone above the Mosquito Lagoon. We first took a turn onto a section of trail or access road on the lagoon side, which continued for several miles as we observed vibrant sea grape leaves, bright red sea beans, white moonflowers in bloom, the occasional prickly pear cactus and mangrove forests. On both sides of the trail, we were flanked by lush green vegetation and saw palmettos.

Eventually, the trail lets out at the beach, which covers about 2/3 of the hike (or you can take the beach the whole way). A note on the Canaveral National Seashore website advertises that crossing protected dunes is unlawful, so be sure to contact a ranger for the best guidance on where to hike and where to avoid.

It’s remarkable to see so much sand and sea without any humans. Small crabs poked their heads out of the sand, curious but cautious at the sight of visitors.

Away from the development of New Smyrna Beach and Titusville, Chris realized there was nothing between us and Africa but the vast ocean (unless you were to stop in Bermuda). We were engulfed by the natural Florida coastline with no reminders of civilization — except for trash and debris that had washed up with the tide, a consistent sight for most of the hike.

I packed grabbers (which Chris graciously agreed to carry), but we ultimately decided that it would be too energy-intensive to walk on sand for 13 miles with heavy bags of trash. However, we picked up a few stray balloons and pieces of litter that traveled with us into the trash can at the end of the hike.

We soon stumbled upon a small shack along the beach labeled as a biological field station. I imagined it would be used by scientists conducting wildlife research for breaks and storage. We welcomed the chance to stop on its small porch for an early lunch and a snack.

A few volunteers on ATVs, likely conducting sea turtle nesting surveys, seemed surprised to see any other human life out there. Those chance encounters made us believe this hike isn’t something people do very often.

As we meandered onward, we stopped to look at odd pieces of washed-up debris, including large buoys and one ambiguous piece that could have been either maritime or space-related. At one point, we witnessed a trio of roseate spoonbills soaring over on the lagoon side, and pelican flyovers continued as the afternoon approached.

As we resumed our trek southward, closing in on the final quarter of our remaining mileage, NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building came into view on the hazy horizon. As my mind wandered, I thought of Doris Leeper, a longtime resident of New Smyrna Beach and artist who was instrumental in creating Canaveral National Seashore in 1975.

With the risk of widespread development along the seashore, Leeper fought to preserve the land around her home alongside the Mosquito Lagoon, where she lived with her two Great Danes and created art.

While enjoying the serene scenery unencumbered by beachfront properties and crowds, I also thought about the Indigenous people who first inhabited this stretch of coastline up to 14,000 years ago and the Timucuan people who lived in harmony with the natural landscape for centuries before Europeans ever set foot in Florida.

Within the last few miles of our hike, a ranger pulled up on his ATV and stopped, saying, “I’ve been following your tracks for a long time.”

He asked if we needed any water, but we came prepared for hours outside, although I admitted that we might have a few screws loose for attempting such an endeavor. This wasn’t the kind of outing most normal people decide to do.

As we approached Playalinda’s Beach 13, preparing for the sight of nude sunbathers, we found a congregation of pelicans, flamingoes, gulls and terns gathered on the shore of the lagoon with cormorants perched in the background. We were mindful of our distance but curious to get closer and join in the social affair.

In concluding our hike, I replaced the lens cap on my camera as we began to pass sunbathers in their natural state. We clothed hikers were the ones who looked out of place, gathering curious glances from people inevitably wondering, “Where the heck did they come from?”

After 6 1/2 hours in the sun, Chris and I were delighted to see his wife, Chelsey, and their infant son, who arrived to pick us up from the parking lot. We rushed to Playalinda Brewing Company in Titusville for sandwiches and beer, the most welcome treats after a long day of hiking.

Ultimately, this adventure represented a challenging but beautiful immersion in the wild Florida coastline, one that I won’t soon forget.

Find me  @PConnPie on Instagram  or send me an email:  [email protected] .

Visit nps.gov to learn more about backcountry hiking at Canaveral National Seashore.

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A Beach to Walk On (Professionals zine)

You may be looking for the Star Trek: TOS zine No Beach to Walk On .

A Beach to Walk On is a 127-page (80,873 words) slash Professionals novel by E.T. Cover by Evelyn .

The flyer states that "this zine will remain in print." The publisher of this zine passed away in 2017.

Birthplace as a Circuit Story

Like many Pros fics, this story was first distributed on the circuit.

Fans in a 1990 letterzine were anxious to see this story completed, and another fan replied:

... Just Another Jungle and "A Beach to Walk On," my copies are unfinished too, and I'm fairly certain that's because neither story was ever finished by the writers. "Just Another Jungle" will almost certainly never be completed, writer having moved on to other things, but I did hear recently that the other of "A Beach to Walk On" was thinking of trying to complete some of her stories. Let's hope she does and that this is one of them. [1]

After the Parsali Op Doyle is confused and depressed. The last thing he wants is a clichéd holiday on the south coast with his partner! Yet this is where Bodie, at his most irritating, is determined to whisk him, confident that a simple change of scene, not to mention female companionship, is just what they both need. But Doyle's emotions are deeper and darker than either of them suspect and in the effort to help his partner, Bodie finds himself revealing far more than he ever intended, while their friendship becomes laced with new meanings and new dangers. [2]

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Eyes not quite focused, he gazed out over the rooftops again. Between two chimney stacks to his left, he could see tiny blinking colors -- the traffic lights out on the main road, street lamps and house lights. People. People were out there, but in here he felt as alone as if he were standing on the moon. Suffering from nervous exhaustion following the events of Mixed Doubles, Doyle is coaxed by Bodie into taking a fortnight holiday at the seaside. E.T. does an excellent job capturing Doyle's physical and mental fatigue; his confusion and sense of isolation is very well done. Equally well-done is Bodie's understated concern and stubborn protectiveness. He won't be shut out, regardless of Doyle's efforts to push him back. The dialog is good, the banter familiar and genuinely amusing. Both characters ring true -- believably masculine as they fence uncomfortably with their growing realization of how attracted to each other they really are. Equally well-drawn is Bexington by the Sea. E.T. ably captures the feel of a holiday resort -- the sun, sand and sea -- and the restless laziness of these two men of action prowling the hotel bar or a seafront Dolphinarium for something -- or someone -- to amuse them. "Bloody hell, mate --" Sharply evolved destructive worry clawed at Bodie. All the risks, the dangers they took every day on duty and here was Doyle, throwing his life around on some bloody stupid fairground ride. Incredulous blue eyes bored into green. It's funny, it's sweet, and it feels real. The scenes of hurt/comfort are plentiful and well-handled -- as are the scenes of dawning sexual awareness. E.T. builds a convincing case for an intense and established friendship turning to something more. Rising from the nipples that were revealed by the tautly drawn silk, Bodie's eyes charted the soft skin of throat and cheeks, took in the full shape of the sensual mouth. Deliberately capturing the reflected green eyes once more, he let his mouth soften and part a fraction. In fact, until almost exactly the halfway point, A Beach to Walk On is probably one of my very favorite Pros novels. But midway through, the quietly intelligent plot suddenly slips a gear and veers off into contrived angst. There's a bit of miscommunication, a bit of convoluted thinking, and too much tiresome discussion in what should be a climactic scene. E.T. does manage to pull it back, but the pacing is lost, and sadly, the story never quite recovers. In the end it just sort of peters out. Still, while it doesn't quite live up to its initial promise, this is very pleasant reading and highly recommended it. [3]

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Bodie and Doyle are nicely written, recognisably "the lads", and their relationship rings true. I was with them all the way here, emotionally involved with the fic, which is one of my criteria for a wonderful read! Scads of hurt/comfort and great banter all through! [4]

Well I don't do reviews. But I did read it and liked it . No great amounts of angst or kink (which did disappoint one friend of mine). The plot is nothing new either -- first timers go the beach and discover each other. Doyle feels bad about his job, gets depressed and Bodie helps him come to terms with their life of violence and death. They find comfort in each others arms. That's like describing a triple chocolate sundae as a dessert. Or the Grand Canyon as this big hole in the ground. I think what really appealed to me was the slow build-up of B&D's relationship. Finally, someone who takes time to walk them through the days and events leading up to their Big Moment. Weaving into those days is humour, pain, insecurity, good dialogue, and good fellowship. Oh and the moment by moment build-up of love. Some stories can be summarized (The Full Monty is a movie about these unemployed depressed steelwokers who decide to become Chippendale dancers). Others, like ET, what makes their work "work" is the way they express themselves. And that's very hard to capture in a soundbite. [5]

A Beach to Walk On by ET is one of my favourite zines for re-reading, and is really a bit of a comfort read. It's absolutely, perfectly slash, and it's angst and partner-worry and partner-comfort and most importantly just the right amount of those things rather than tipping into soppiness and unlikelihood! It's set after Mixed Doubles, and the lads are actually given the two weeks off that Cowley has promised them. Bodie decides that what they need - what Doyle needs, but what he needs too - is some time away from the job together, where they can just be themselves with someone else who understands them. So he hijacks Doyle, who's having trouble coming to terms with those dum-dums, and they head off down to the Dorset coast. They both try to get over the whole Parsali affair in their own ways - Bodie by being as normal as he can be, and Doyle by struggling through, but they both come apart in their own ways. And of course they come together too, and that's the other part of the story. *g* Spoilers below, if you don't want to read any more... Much as I love the rest of it, the ending bugs me every time, because it makes me think the author was just trying to string things out to make a longer zine. She has an excellent resolution, but instead of finishing perfectly there, there's suddenly a whole series of doubts and misunderstandings about sleeping together and the frankly bizarre worry that one of them is going to "rape" the other one. It's that whole what-if-you-change-your-mind-in-the-middle-and-I-can't-stop thing, and okay I get there might be an element of a bloke changing his mind when it comes to same-sex sex for the first time, and the whole physical thing of fucking, but when there's been such a perfect build-up of love and lust between them, it just feels tacked-on and forced... So it's about a dozen pages too long - but apart from that it's fab, and I hope you get a chance to read it! It's a paper zine, and as far as I know it's not online anywhere, and not likely to be, sadly - and now the publisher is no more, either. I've got the ET story in zine form but I don't think I've ever read it and not sure if I will now because it sounds a bit samey. I think I'm tiring of stories where you get the sex thing thrown in at the end for no better reason than to fill out a story that bit more. Summer's End sounds more my cup of tea with a mystery/case story running in parallel to their relationship. But do read A Walk on the Beach, because up to the last dozen pages it's not same-y at all, and I think you'd really like it. I wonder if ET's publisher said "It's not long enough" and got her to add the ending - or some beta said "But we want to see them when they get together!" and so it was added on, because the end does feel tacked on. The story up until then is really well thought out, and a good exploration of the effect that the Parsali op might have had on them. So sad to think of the amazing Pros stories that are paper only, now that the Paper Circuit is properly gone, and no one seems to want paper zines any more. The end definitely seemed alien to the rest of the story, but apart from those 12 pages, it's great! I have that zine... I remember reading it and being a bit meh about it, although I did enjoy the moody atmosphere. It could be because I bought it at the same time as Redemption which really blew me away. Perhaps I'm due a re-read of A Beach to Walk On, to see if my opinion has changed. Oh that's a shame! I can see that reading after Redemption might have that effect though, not because A Walk on the Beach isn't enjoyable in its own right, but just because Redemption is pretty amazing, and a whole different scale of story, really! I'd be interested to hear if you like it this time! [6]

• ^ comments by Felicity M. Parkinson in Short Circuit #3 (October 1990)
• ^ from the publisher
• ^ by JGL at The Hatstand Archived September 22, 2013 at WebCite [1] [2]
• ^ "a review of 'A Beach To Walk On' " . Archived from the original on 2010-07-27.
• ^ In September 1997, Morgan Dawn posted the following review to the CI5 Mailing List . It is reposted here with permission.
• ^ Books 2019 - A Walk on the Beach by E.T. (Pros fic) , by byslantedlight and commenters
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