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UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek The Original Series - S2E7 Catspaw (Patreon)

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A Star Trek Halloween episode!? 

Here is our full uncut reaction to Catspaw. 

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Patreon UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek The Original Series - S2E7 Catspaw

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Timothy Nikiforovs

Halloween, as well as Christmas and some other holidays(Charlie X mentioned Thanksgiving) are mentioned or appear throughout the franchise, though to my knowledge this is the only overtly Halloween themed episode. There are definitely some really creepy episodes in the various shows. TNG has several, but 3 in particular that were pretty creepy, and 2 of those have scenes on the holodeck that still send shivers down my spine. Less Halloween and more X Files though. But yeah, for me this one is a little too ridiculous to find creepy as an adult. Even when I saw it for the first time at 9 or so, it didn't really do a lot for me.

Prof Moff

TOS Sex Scoreboard No new halloween sex-scapades. Kirk 5 Bones 1 Spock 1 Chekov 1 Extra: It would have been a cos-dressing role playing sex rump but no time to do it. We know it would have happened because Sylvia wanted to get the full Kirk treat-ment and not the trick. In a 2 minute period Sylvia said the word “Sensations” 10 times, a sign of a woman in the mood. Then she literally looks right at Kirk and says: “give it to me”; and then seconds later she says: “come with me”. Another almost notch BUT turns out she was a small birdy-thing-a-mo-job so, no time so no dice on a score.

PFCoffey

Thanks for the reaction. Catspaw is in the bottom 10 for me, even as a kid I felt cheated by the paper thin plot.

Brad Barter

DeSalle started out as a yellow shirt and in Squire of Gothos I remember him from raising his phaser at Trelane who saw him in his magic mirror, waved his hand, froze DeSalle and took it from him. Then getting excited after vapirizing the creature model of the Salt Vampire (Nancy) from The Man Trap. Here he is wearing a red shirt and Kirk said he was the Assistant Chief Engineer put in charge as the most senior officer left onboard. Since this episode was dealing with Halloween as well as sci-fi themed the wizard look of Korob was loosely based also with his bald head on the Flash Gordon character of Ming (another actor in a future episode of TOS will also have this same appearance). Incidentally the real life sounds that they gave for the true appearance of Sylvia & Korob are the sounds baby crocodiles 🐊 make. For the updated release they removed the clearly visible puppet strings you saw attached in the originally filmed format. Also as they came from another galaxy altogether being totally alien as Spock put it they could only exist in our galaxy by becoming living beings that could sustain themselves in an oxygen atmosphere hence having to become and appear human.

Jonathan

This episode was written by a horror writer who most famously wrote Psycho. He also wrote the robot episode last season and another episode later this season. This was the first episode filmed of season 2 which is why Chekhov has a wig because his hair hadn’t grown as long as they wanted to give him a “rockstar” look. For all of this episodes issues it’s high art compared to the return of Harry Mudd next week, but after that you have a bunch of good episodes.

Zefram Cochrane

Yup, original air date October 27, 1967--just before Halloween. "Catspaw" was the first-produced episode of season 2, hence Chekov's only appearance with the wig. Original musical scores tended to be for earlier episodes of a season (they couldn't afford an original score for every episode; later episodes recycled musical cues from the library of existing cues), so "Catspaw" had an original score used first in this episode written by Gerald Fried (who is 94 now). But, you have already heard the musical cues of this episode in later-produced episodes that were first-aired earlier. Episodes for which there is not an original score written use musical cues from a variety of composers, but episodes for which there was an original score written and scored to the action of the episode (such as "Catspaw") do not use cues from other episodes and writers except for the standard Enterprise theme and so forth by Alexander Courage. So, for these episodes, you either like the music for the episode or you don't. Fried's scores tended to be percussive. Fried also wrote the iconic score for "Amok Time" and for "Shore Leave", including the beautiful flute-? theme used there and in "This Side of Paradise" ("Ruth's Theme", although I associate it more with Leila--the woman that made Spock happy), and he wrote scores for other episodes yet to come. The great brash, discordant, brass-heavy score for "The Doomsday Machine" was written by Sol Kaplan. Not one of my favorite episodes, but not terrible, either. Leave it to the well-rounded Kirk to have "seduction-of-women" in his arsenal (imagine Spock in command here). Kirk to Spock: "We'll try to take it easy, but if we're forced to seduce... Clear, Spock?" Spock: "Clear, Captain."

Gary Leyh

Thanks for the reaction! I wasn't allowed to watch this one as a kid so I was so excited to watch it when I was older and I had the exact same reaction as you. It started great with the fog and the witches and the castle...and then I was bored the rest of the episode! I've only watched it a few times. Overall, not great.

Collin Freeman

You guys were right on: Catspaw was the first episode filmed for season 2 but it was held back until Halloween for airing. It is therefore the first episode to feature Chekov (along with his Davy Jones wig which only lasted for 1 other episode, Who Mourns for Adonais?). This episode was written by Robert Block. He wrote a little movie that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock you may have heard of called "Psycho". I think he may have also written 1 other episode in season 2. More of a horror writer, but he occasionally dipped his toe into sci-fi related stuff. Korab's mention of the Old Ones relates to the same demonic entities referred to in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. As for this episode, to me it is just "meh". Not in the upper half in terms of how good it is compared to other episodes in the series. My 2 favorite things about it are: 1) Kirk switching to calling McCoy "Doc" instead of Bones after he sees the skeleton. and 2) the true forms of Korab and Sylvia, the most truly alien-looking aliens in the entire series. Although they were just marionettes, they still looked cool.

MntrTodd

I would rather face the cat in this episode than my cat when he decides it's breakfast time in the morning.

Ricky Johnson

I liked catspaw as a kid more than I do today. To me it is an average episode. Quite a bit of repeat here - a bit of a mix of several episodes . They get mixed up about humans just like Trelain, they get zombiefied like in the Archons episode. The uniquness is that it is the Halloween episode. I think the next one is going to be Alex's new favorite, just by the title....

John conneally

I just started Patreon but I don’t know how to navigate the. Site I can’t find your videos of star trek in order they are all over the place

tyranusfan

I liked the moment when Kirk say "Bones--" but sees the skeleton and corrects himself to "Doc."

Rhett Coates
>>90037043

I didn't ever get that - until ALEX laughed at the scene and said it out loud. And to think, I've been seeing this episode repeated on TV dozens of times. And I JUST GOT IT when Alex pointed it out. Wow............ just wow. Maybe I took 'Trek too seriously, even in this story, so my mind just glossed right over it without pause. Please, Alex, KEEP COMMENTING OUT L OUD as you watch; I'm seeing items, thanks to you two guys, which I've missed until now -- like this one. LOL