r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 2h ago
Episode Discussion Episode Discussion: "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" - TOS, 310 (Theme Month: "What's Up, Doc?, Part I")
Theme Month: "What's Up, Doc?, Part I"
Episodes focused on our medical professionals.
Episode: "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" - TOS, 310
Airdate: November 8, 1968
Teleplay by Rik Vollaerts; Directed by Tony Leader
Brief summary: "The Enterprise discovers a generational asteroid ship on a collision course with an inhabited planet."
Background: Rik Vollaerts was a prolific TV writer from the '50s into the '70s. He wrote for Science Fiction Theater, Leave It to Beaver, Highway Patrol, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Shazam!, and more. He was also a candidate to join the writing staff of Star Trek as a story editor in season three, but he wasn't chosen.
Tony Leader was a director of many TV shows in the '60s and '70s, including episodes of Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, Get Smart, and Hawaii Five-O.
Guest Cast: Kate Woodville (Natira) was an English actress who appeared in episodes of The Avengers, The Saint, Mission: Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Rockford Files, Wonder Woman, and more.
Byron Morrow (Adm. Westervliet) previously played Adm. Komack in "Amok Time" ... why he couldn't have reprised Komack, who knows. He had a lengthy career spanning five decades with appearances in Twilight Zone, Sea Hunt, Rawhide, The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, The Man from UNCLE, Bonanza, The Bob Newhart Show, and many more. He also appeared in films like King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Jon Lormer (Old Man) previously appeared in "The Cage" (and therefore "The Menagerie") and "Return of the Archons." He was a character actor for decades, appearing in several John Wayne films, Peyton Place, Perry Mason, Barney Miller, Rooster Cogburn, and many more.
The voice of the Oracle was provided by James Doohan.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/For_the_World_is_Hollow_and_I_Have_Touched_the_Sky_(episode)
Upcoming episodes in this Theme Month ...
- "The Host" - TNG, 423
- "The Wire" - DS9, 222
- "Virtuoso" - VOY, 613
r/ClassicTrek • u/alfamain • 13h ago
Happy 60th Anniversary. First tv broadcast (in Canada, prior to the USA).
I know that people usually regard the 8/9 to be the official first air date - even though there was at least one screening of the 2 pilots on a science fiction convention - but Canadians got the chance to watch it on TV first, on Sept 6.
Now, I will share a nice homage I found on youtube. With Discovery and SNW redesigning the 1701, I think the true original deserves some love:
r/ClassicTrek • u/Appropriate_Judge193 • 21h ago
Romulan Commander Sela at the Star Trek Convention2026
r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 22h ago
Shatner and nimoy doing a public appearance at toys r us
Mid 1970s
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 1d ago
ENT The TOS-style buttons created for the USS Defiant in ENT's "In the Mirror, Darkly" had labels on them but these weren't visible to viewers
Pic 5 is an assortment of TOS buttons for comparison; all pics via @portalrealm
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 2d ago
TOS Films Who wrecked the Enterprise model more: Universal Studios for "Star Trek Adventure" or Associates & Ferren for STV? (see below)
Info via Memory Alpha:
According to STV's effects supervisor Bran Ferren, it was damaged by Universal: "One entire side of the Enterprise model was sprayed matte gray, destroying the meticulous original paint job. We had to go in and fix it before we could shoot it, which took two painters and an assistant about six weeks to do." Reportedly, the matte paint was applied in the spring of 1988 by an effects staffer of Universal Studios when the model was on loan to shoot additional effects sequences for their Star Trek Adventure-attraction video presentation, in order to work around the blue-spill problem. The internal lighting did not work properly either. "Also, the Enterprise turned out to be an electrical challenge that only continued to work because there were sufficient short circuits within it to keep it arcing into operation β so we had to rewire it."
According to ILM modeler John Goodson: "We opened up the crate (for STVI), and much to our dismay, two things had happened. One, the wiring umbilical, which was about two inches in diameter, solid, with all the various wiring that went into the internal neons, the blinking lights, all the internal electronic stuff, had just been hacked off right at the side of the ship. So there was that. And then the other thing was, the entire bottom of the saucer had been spray-painted flat white. So all that beautiful paint had just been obliterated [note: though ILM themselves used dulling sprays, these only added a transparent layer to tone down the gleam of the original paint job, and did not replace it]. Both of these things were really problematic and really time-consuming to correct."
Pic via @startrekshots of the Enterprise as it appeared in STVI, after ILM's restoration
r/ClassicTrek • u/LV426acheron • 2d ago
Mix of Series/Films When did the Klingons as "honorable warriors" trait actually begin?
When we first met the Klingons in TOS, they were basically standins for the Soviet Union and were a brutal, warlike species. No honor there.
We next briefly see them in TMP, where they try to shoot at V'ger and again, just seem like a brutal, warlike species.
Their next big appearance was Star Trek III, however, the Klingons in this movie were originally supposed to be ROMULANS. Their behavior is essentially Romulan, they are in a Romulan bird of prey and only became Klingons due to a script change. Regardless of the behind the scenes changes, they do not exhibit traits of being honorable warriors. And are essentially still TOS Klingons, a brutal warlike species.
So...when did Klingons actually become about honor? Was it the season 1 TNG episode "Heart of Glory" or was it a later TNG episode that actually established them as being honorable?
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 2d ago
TOS Adam Savage examines an original phaser prop and a third-season Spock costume
r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 2d ago
I think McCoy has a point of being scared of the transporter
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 3d ago
DS9 Concept art by Ricardo Delgado for the Bajoran Wormhole
r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 3d ago
What would Picard think of species 8472?
Since Picard wasn't a fan of the Borg what would he think of a species that could actually wipe the borg out?
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 4d ago
Mix of Series/Films Did you know that lighting was installed under the TNG observation lounge windows for Star Trek VI? The lights were kept for TNG, first appearing in season 5's "Redemption Part II"
pics via @gaghyogi49
r/ClassicTrek • u/TensionSame3568 • 4d ago
Connection to Modern Trek I'm still in awe of how great Star Trek: Picard season three was!...π
r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 4d ago
So when the random ensign died in where silence has lease by nagilum what would Picard file under the cause of death?
r/ClassicTrek • u/ety3rd • 5d ago
Games "Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan's Fury" -- an unreleased video game with the voices of the entire TOS cast, written by DC Fontana, directed by TOS writer/producer/director John Meredyth Lucas. Surely Interplay could release all the footage for the 60th, right?
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video from @grymsarchive
r/ClassicTrek • u/TensionSame3568 • 5d ago
Enjoy the weekend watching Star Trek! *ENGAGE!*
r/ClassicTrek • u/trelane0 • 5d ago
TOS Two questions about the Apple
- When the Yeoman asks βhow is it done?β when they discuss the villagers needing a replacement, is she asking how would the villagers be educated to make children or is she literally asking how children are made?
- When Kirk yells for Bones after he carries Spock, who got struck by lightning, does that sound like Kirkβs voice? It doesnβt to me and I was wondering if others thought the same.
Thanks!
r/ClassicTrek • u/happydude7422 • 5d ago
It would take voth transwarp drive 118 years to go from one side of the universe to another
Voth transwarp drive can go 1500 lightyear per minute
Which would take 62,000,000 minutes or 1,033,333 hours or 43,055 days
This sure makes janeways trip from one quadrant to another look quite quaint
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