Journey to Babel

And the first one for me is the Andorians.

yeah they were featured basically in one episode of the original series journey to babel right dream to be exactly yeah and uh then they were in the background for maybe one other tos episode i think whom gods destroy there's an andorian character doesn't have any dialogue or anything we see one in like the council in star trek 4 the voyage home and There's one that Lal considers turning into in the offspring in TNG, but that was kind of really it

for a long time.

Yeah, exactly.

Those just stay in the show in the prop room.

They're in Journey to Babel.

Like that's just the same.

That's all they have.

God, they-

In, uh, Journey to Babel, they do that quite a bit.

Yes, cut out the public-

Yeah

However, the Enterprise is now regarded as 40 years old during the events of The Search for Spock, having been launched on April 11th, 2245.

This date was established as yet another retcon in the Discovery episode Brother.

This movie marks the first live-action appearance of Ambassador Sarek, played by the great Mark Lenard, since his introduction 17 years earlier in the original series episode Journey to Babel.

There's an extra-long pause in the opening credits between William Shatner's name and DeForest Kelley's name where Leonard Nimoy's name would have been.

There's others where it's mostly Spock or whatnot according to the story.

In Journey to Babel, um, I was really keyed into that one because I really love that episode.

Uh, they talk about the Vulcan salute, and I know that the Vulcan salute was developed on set when they were filming the episodes.

I'm not sure if Amok Time or Journey to Babel was filmed first.

I know that Amok Time was screened first as far as, you know, broadcast.

So I don't...

It, to me, I am questioning whether Spock's half-human tongue allows him to say his own last name.

Oh, interesting.

And, and so he decided that he, that that would be a good Vulcan salute.

He'd, he'd previously decided the Vulcans have a very tactile culture and, That's like why in a journey to Babel, Amanda and Sarek put their fingers together and stuff like that.

And when Vulcans do various things with their hands.

And so he decided to incorporate the sheen from the blessing, uh, which in fact, sheen is the first letter of Shalom or peace.

Obviously, they haven't been introduced yet.

That'll happen in a future episode, I think, right, when Sarek and Amanda have their first appearance.

Journey to Babel.

That's right.