UNCUT - Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991) | Star Trek Journey 234

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.

The 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.

This 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.

How 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.

Shatner 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🤣

Mark 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.

For 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.

I'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.

NOTE 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?

I'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.

I 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.

This 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.

I 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.

And no mention of The Animated Series...

Ah 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.

Okuda spotted!

I 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. 😂

You 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.

To 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.

I've never seen this. Fun to watch it with you guys.

I 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.

Sadly the Official Fan Club closed up in the early 2000s. I was a member from 1988-the end, around 2002 I think.

Back when Star Trek was actually smart and run by intelligent people.

Anyone 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,)

I 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

I 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.

I had never seen that before

Speaking 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.

I 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?

I'm going to vote you wear suits for Anniversary specials..

This 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.

Infomercial to get people to go watch the new movie.

Watched this for the first time with you guys, had a good time with it! We need Alex in a wrestling ring with Nicholas Meyer.

Very 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!

What 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) 😃

The plane on a plane was a space shuttle Endeavor on a 747 jet.

Remember the money quotes these guys make are 1991 dollars.

15:55 "Look at that mustache!" Yes, Burt Reynolds had an absolutely legendary stache.

I 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.

Don't you just love those early 90's styles and that techno music?

Gene'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.