UNCUT - Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991) | Star Trek Journey 234
Added 2025-03-14 19:45:38 +0000 UTCTW: Star Trek 6 & Nicholas Meyer slander
We watched the special via THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO so use that for an easy sync.
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There is also a great game from the days of old. Star Trek 25th Anniversary. It was a great 2D adventure game and you could control Kirk, Spock and McCoy mainly on away missions (which follow very much the same format as the episodes did) with all the actors voicing their characters. There are even space battles and you can loose your red shirts in many ways, if you are not paying attention. The banter between the trio and when looking at stuff in the world is spot on.
Loki San
2025-03-18 08:40:25 +0000 UTCThanks!
Ee'char
2025-03-16 22:16:27 +0000 UTCI'm 61. I discovered TREK in that 1st round of syndication in 1971. Loved it from the start.
Owen Madden
2025-03-16 16:56:42 +0000 UTCNearly 44. I was vaguely aware of Star Trek as a kid, but it wasn't until 1990/91 that a guy in my class told me I HAD to watch TNG. That was the week Conspiracy aired 😂 cue apologies from him the next day "it's not usually like that!" Didn't really call myself a Trekkie until 1996, as TNG was winding up and Voyager was starting.
Ee'char
2025-03-16 16:40:29 +0000 UTCThe DVDs had tons of interviews and behind the scenes stuff. Would love to see reactions to those. Especially the bloopers for each season. They are most likely on YouTube.
THE Fans
2025-03-16 10:56:56 +0000 UTCThis special reminds me how privileged I feel along with all of the others like me who had nothing but three seasons of Star Trek + The Animated Series for all those years before there was anything new and we got to watch them over and over and over again and really appreciate every last detail about them. Those days will never come again. What a time it was to be alive.
Jonathan Llyr
2025-03-16 05:13:32 +0000 UTCHow great to hear Denny Martin Flynn explain the thought process behind his and Nick Meyer’s screenplay: Shakespeare’s a great writer so let’s put a bunch of random Shakespeare quotes into our movie.
Richard Stone
2025-03-16 02:02:04 +0000 UTCThat would be Leonard Nimoy’s Star Trek Memories. I watched this a LOT as a kid! https://youtu.be/gmtfptOTR0k?si=b4-olv0HF1WtdP3M
Richard Stone
2025-03-16 01:54:42 +0000 UTCShatner starts talking about how TNG had plenty of humor as well, and it cuts straight to a montage of a bunch of episodes Alex and Josh hate🤣
Timothy Nikiforovs
2025-03-15 23:39:55 +0000 UTCMark and Brian hosted a syndicated morning radio show. I had no idea who they were when I first watched this special in 1991 because their show primarily aired in markets in the Pacific time zone and I was in the midwest. They showed up a lot on TV at the time as extras because it was good PR for those TV shows. NBC even gave them their own short lived show. Their popularity in Los Angeles started to dwindle when a time delayed broadcast of Howard Stern started airing there, with the certain show becoming number one in the market in 1992. Still they kept doing their morning show until 2012 when they retired.
Rich Loga
2025-03-15 22:14:24 +0000 UTC44 later this year. My dad introduced me to TOS when I was very young. I was 6 and had just started 1st grade when TNG debuted. I was hooked from the first episode. TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT ran from the time I was 6 to 24. It was a huge part of growing up for me. As nerdy as it sounds, I still find myself making decisions based on lessons I learned from Star Trek. My dad was watching from the time TOS debuted in '66. He and his friends used to watch new episodes while they were in college. TNG is still his favorite. TNG is my favorite too, but I think DS9 is the best show.
Encarta
2025-03-15 20:00:58 +0000 UTCFor a really in-depth retrospective on each individual series and also the movies, check it out Rowan J Coleman on YouTube. Seriously. He gets deep into the weeds. Spends hours on each series, extremely good production value. Probably not something the guys will ever cover, but the rest of us definitely should as fans.
Aaron Wells
2025-03-15 18:48:05 +0000 UTCI am 19. I was around ten years old never even knowing that Star Trek existed until my mother bought a box set of TNG because she enjoyed watching it in her youth. I was immediately hooked in this series and after time I watched all of the episodes with her. During and after that I started Binging all of the other classic Trek series and movies.
NX-01
2025-03-15 18:42:47 +0000 UTCTurning 50 later this year. Never heard of Trek back in Ukraine where I was born and raised, but always loved science fiction. Asimov, Sheckley, Bradburry, Campbell, etc. I read everything I could find that was translated to Russian. When I came to the U.S. in '92, I caught Time's Arrow part 1 on TV and was immediately hooked.
Dmitriy.0
2025-03-15 18:09:40 +0000 UTCI'm 63... I can just barely remember TOS original run! However, I really got to know the show in the '70s watching it after school.
David Wayne Fox
2025-03-15 18:07:02 +0000 UTCI’m 56. I started watching the first run of the Animated Series when I was in kindergarten and 1st grade. Then I started seeing TOS reruns.
Ron Hubbard Jr
2025-03-15 17:45:23 +0000 UTCI just turned 53. I vividly remember watching Star Trek The Motion Picture on HBO after it played in theaters. I'm sure I might have watched TOS as well, but I don't remember watching TOS until I was in 6th grade, around 1982 or so. TNG started my junior year in high school, and I tried to watch it as much as possible, but being in syndication, and living in small town TN it was sporadic at best. The first film I saw on the big screen was The Voyage Home.
Matt G Cowart
2025-03-15 17:26:21 +0000 UTCNo matter how many times someone posts this, the boys continue to say that the effects in Next Gen are “enhanced”.
Column Meanie
2025-03-15 16:16:21 +0000 UTCI'm 64 and dimly remember watching TOS when first aired.
Monty Crawford
2025-03-15 15:07:22 +0000 UTC58 here as well. I played with kids in the playground and the higher we swung our swingsets the faster went warp speed. We all assigned each of us a character. Everybody fought to be Kirk. Ha. Anyway. Good memories.
Glenn Zigli
2025-03-15 14:51:32 +0000 UTC40. Literally grew up with TNG era Trek. One of my very first memories is the TNG end credits with the theme song. The blue color, the font, and the blurry perimeter of the screen during those credits are stuck in my mind like concrete. I was 3 when TNG first aired. Another huge Trek memory for me is going to see Star Trek 8 in the theaters (1996) with a group of friends for my birthday. Talk about an amazing experience! As an adult I have a number of issues with the film (albeit still think it's quite good), but as a near-teenager it was absolutely flawless.
Lovok
2025-03-15 14:38:33 +0000 UTCI'm 25 now. Started watching with random TNG episodes my dad had recorded, back when I was maybe 6, 7. Even before then though, my dad would adapt TNG episodes into bedtime stories for me.
awktopus
2025-03-15 14:35:09 +0000 UTCI just turned 35. I didn't start watching Star Trek until shortly before the Abrams movies were announced.
Spencer Loften
2025-03-15 14:21:09 +0000 UTCNOTE TO EVERYONE: I'm curious... how old is everyone? I'm 58. I've been watching Trek since I'm about 7 years old, while it was in re-runs. How many people were watching Trek in the 1970s?
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-15 12:25:38 +0000 UTCI'm old. They didn't recognize the footage of the space shuttle being carried by a 747. That was common enough footage back in the 1980s.
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-15 12:23:42 +0000 UTCThere’s a lesser known doc called Star Trek Memories (based on Shatner’s book of the same name) that came out on 1994, which I think is actually De’s last interview. But I don’t think they can watch it just yet.
tyranusfan
2025-03-15 11:57:46 +0000 UTCWell wear your ST dress uniform at least 😁
tyranusfan
2025-03-15 11:55:18 +0000 UTCI was watching two back to back episodes of Have Gun will travel. And they were such allegorical humanist episodes that I knew they were Gene written before I saw the credit.
Philbot
2025-03-15 06:51:38 +0000 UTCMe too, I think my mom bought me the vhs copy from Suncoast video.
Philbot
2025-03-15 06:24:53 +0000 UTCDidn’t Gene think it was Apocryphal?
Philbot
2025-03-15 06:21:01 +0000 UTCThis felt defenitely more 'long ago' than the show itself. I forgot that the early 90s culturally still had this 80s vibe. And yes, so was the editing. Very typical for those days.
Sam Langanke
2025-03-15 05:37:07 +0000 UTCI did the Star Trek experience thing at universal when I was a kid and it was amazing. Still have the video of it with my dumb bowl cut and braces. My dad didnt know anything about Star Trek and made a bunch of faces at the camera whenever I wasn't looking. It's pretty funny and I'll never forgive him. Never.
Wrestling With Gaming
2025-03-15 05:17:45 +0000 UTCAnd no mention of The Animated Series...
Michael Nemo
2025-03-15 04:50:15 +0000 UTCAh man, this takes me back! I was 11 when this aired and I taped it on VHS, and watched it over & over. And yeah, I was hooked on that ST6 preview and was convinced that Kirk would die based on that shot of him being vaporized. This was reinforced by a line Spock said in Unification about “accepting the consequences of his actions with the Klingons”. Thanks for watching this guys! It was fun.
Russell Elledge
2025-03-15 04:00:37 +0000 UTCOkuda spotted!
#MaxwellDidNothingWrong
2025-03-15 03:54:54 +0000 UTCI was a member of the Official Fan Club and International Federation of Trekkers. Full geek mode for me. The Fan Club Magazine was basically the only way you could get any info on the series. I remember finding out Gates McFadden was returning from that magazine...good times.
Joshua Langweil
2025-03-15 03:27:37 +0000 UTCBro is NOT remembering a season 3 Patron Take my guy 💀
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-15 03:08:33 +0000 UTCI shared that story about the dude eating a bunch of pizza for the sounds of TIn Man as a Patron take and I am pretty damn sure you guys read it but I guess Alex didn't remember it all cause he seems surprised by that here. I won't take that or your unrelenting ST VI hate personally though. 😂
THE LORE!!!
2025-03-15 02:56:21 +0000 UTCYou ought to watch the bonus material on the movie blu-rays, especially 3 and 4, which you seemed to like the best. There's a lot of interesting stories, and I don't think there would be any spoilers, since it's exclusively about those movies.
tyranusfan
2025-03-15 02:51:15 +0000 UTCTo answer your next question; That's how NASA transported the space shuttle when they needed to move it, on the back of a 747. It's also the way they tested its gliding. The Space Shuttle Enterprise never went to space, but they did test it gliding by releasing it from a 747.
startrekiborg
2025-03-15 02:31:43 +0000 UTCI've never seen this. Fun to watch it with you guys.
Forbidden Donut
2025-03-15 02:23:08 +0000 UTCI don't think anyone else answered your question: Yes, you could still use those stamps. You can use all the stamps that have been created. The only problem would be the devaluing of the stamps, and those specific stamps were price specific (forever stamps had not been created yet). Therefore, it wouldn't be enough to mail a letter, thanks to inflation.
startrekiborg
2025-03-15 02:14:16 +0000 UTCSadly the Official Fan Club closed up in the early 2000s. I was a member from 1988-the end, around 2002 I think.
tyranusfan
2025-03-15 02:07:53 +0000 UTCTo the guys: Regarding the effects on TNG, please keep in mind that the Blu-ray HD remaster is mostly just re-scanning and re-compositing the original film elements in higher definition. There are indeed some effects where they used modern CGI, but even then they tried to copy the original look/animation/texture of the original effect as closely as possible. You would be hard-pressed to find any effects shots that look outright "different" from the original SD copy, only blurrier on the original. Don't ever feel like you're missing out on the "original effects" or anything. The TNG HD remaster is likely the highest quality TV remaster ever done, and it stays completely true to the original material.
Lovok
2025-03-15 01:52:25 +0000 UTCBack when Star Trek was actually smart and run by intelligent people.
Michael Nemo
2025-03-15 01:05:36 +0000 UTCAnyone else played this 1996 FMV game since it was remastered and put in a browser? https://borgremastered.com/ (It was a fun distraction for a couple of hours, and features the actor (Jeff Allin), who played the father in Imaginary Friend,)
nigel valentine
2025-03-15 00:07:27 +0000 UTCI loved Shatner's unnatural radio host voice in this. He is an excellent speaker who would have been perfect as a radio or podcast host, or anything like that. The vidon YouTube where he does the radio commercial overly hammy to make a point to the producer trying to tell him how to do his job is classic
Ken R
2025-03-15 00:07:13 +0000 UTCI can’t point to exactly what, but I would have seen each premier of this special, and seen the 30th anniversary special. I remembered there being some edited version after the initial broadcast.
Geoffrey Linehan
2025-03-14 23:56:20 +0000 UTCI had never seen that before
James Bottas
2025-03-14 23:40:59 +0000 UTCSpeaking of other anniversary documentaries, there is an amazing 11-part, 11-hour documentary for free on Amazon Prime to cover the 55th Anniversary in 2021 called "The Center Seat" which covers the entire history up to that point, but you guys will have to watch a LOT before then to avoid spoilers, but it's very well done when the time is right.
Brian Patterson
2025-03-14 23:30:10 +0000 UTCI remember watching a "documentary" (or more like a "story so far") hosted solely by Leonard Nimoy, which must have been filmed just before the release of The Search For Spock. Would be cool to find that again. He even explained where the Vulcan "live long and prosper" hand sign came from. If you'd noticed the lack of any mention of The Animated Series, by this time, the cartoons weren't considered canon. That didn't really happen until maybe 2007. In a book I had called "Coping With Your Trekkie" (published in 1997), the authour says in a footnote, "if your Trekkie tries to make you watch the cartoons, leave him and don't look back". Did anyone say on ST:6 that Iman was married to David Bowie?
Ee'char
2025-03-14 23:22:41 +0000 UTCI don’t wear suits brother
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-14 22:17:31 +0000 UTCI'm going to vote you wear suits for Anniversary specials..
Badger
2025-03-14 22:12:12 +0000 UTCThis was very much a public facing thing about the importance of Star Trek more so than something for the hardcore fans. The main reason why I suggested watching it is, it’s the last time you see all of the TOS actors together since DeForest Kelly passed away not long after this. Chaos on the bridge and the center seat the other two really good documentaries I think would be more to your liking.
Jonathan
2025-03-14 22:06:00 +0000 UTCInfomercial to get people to go watch the new movie.
Lt Dan I scream
2025-03-14 21:58:57 +0000 UTCBut 2 of his talents.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 21:47:02 +0000 UTCThanks. I stand corrected.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 21:46:17 +0000 UTCWatched this for the first time with you guys, had a good time with it! We need Alex in a wrestling ring with Nicholas Meyer.
Ian Meyers
2025-03-14 21:42:51 +0000 UTCYeah, Gene was a storyteller and a salesman!
Column Meanie
2025-03-14 21:40:19 +0000 UTCIt was Enterprise. Footage from the first approach and landing mission.
Column Meanie
2025-03-14 21:39:38 +0000 UTCVery few new interviews were actually in this special. In 1988 prior to the premiere of Season 2 of TNG, there was a special about TNG with interviews from all the actors, Gene Roddenberry, etc. They recycled a lot of the interviews from that special here. The only new cast interviews are from the set of Trek 6. The 25th Anniversary Special immediately followed a day-long fan-voted top ten episode countdown of TOS episodes, and aired right before the premiere of Redemption II. That was a really great Saturday in fall 1991!
Column Meanie
2025-03-14 21:38:57 +0000 UTCWhat a fun extra-credit asssignment! Never knew this existed but it was a really nice watch. I think that was my first time seeing Gene Roddenberry speak, as well. Along with some others. Nice cameos throughout. And the BTS info certainly builds appreciation for all of the hard work that goes into making Trek. Thumbs up for this 90s time capsule (including “Reading Rainbow” LeVar) 😃
Shanelle
2025-03-14 21:35:04 +0000 UTCThe plane on a plane was a space shuttle Endeavor on a 747 jet.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 21:22:08 +0000 UTCIt's funny, I had never seen this before, and like you I will probably never watch it ever again. When I saw the title "25th Anniversary" my mind sort of blanked out the rest of the title and I immediately thought of the computer game for MD-DOS (which is available for purchase on Steam and GOG!)
Kristopher
2025-03-14 21:17:38 +0000 UTCRemember the money quotes these guys make are 1991 dollars.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 21:15:59 +0000 UTC15:55 "Look at that mustache!" Yes, Burt Reynolds had an absolutely legendary stache.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 21:05:22 +0000 UTCWalter Koenig has spoken on it, and yes, it was HIS character, but would he really have been in the position to know the motivations of the folks who thought up the character? Gene's explanation and the other producers' explanations are not at odds with each other, both can be true.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:48:35 +0000 UTCI did the Star Trek experience at Universal Orlando back in the mid-90's. Got to dress up in a TOS movie uniform. Had a VHS tape made of it. It was fun.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 20:46:42 +0000 UTCDon't you just love those early 90's styles and that techno music?
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 20:31:40 +0000 UTCGene's explanation of how Chekov got to be a character on Star Trek TOS is total fabrication. The producers wanted a young, Monkees/Beatles type of guy as a regular. Walter Koenig has spoken at length about this on several occasions. Makes good copy, though.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-14 20:08:31 +0000 UTC
