The Doomsday Machine // Star Trek: The Original Series Reaction // Season 2

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  @bunnytailsREACTS · 2 years ago · pinned

  Please no spoilers! So that I can provide my best and most honest reaction, please do not mention the names of any future characters, events, or episode titles (this goes for future series as well). Please do not say which upcoming episodes are good or bad, otherwise I will have trouble forming my own opinion! <br> <br>Thank you, and enjoy!

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• LE

  @Lexington1705 · 2 years ago

  William Windom is one of the finest character actors to ever have lived.

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• TH

  @TheNeonRabbit · 2 years ago

  For my money, William Windom did the finest bit of acting in any Trek series. He really came off as someone who lived through true horror and came out with a broken soul.<br>I loved that they even made the planet killer look kind of like Moby Dick, perfect for Decker to obsess over.

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• CL

  @clash5j · 2 years ago

  While you will never be able to watch these episodes for the first time every again, you can, a few years down the road, watch a reaction channel that is watching the series, just like many of us are doing with your channel. Watching along with someone who has never seen the show before is the closest you can come to experiencing it for the first time again

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• HA

  @hawkmaster381 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m a retired veteran, and shell shock or not, I still love and admire Commodore Decker. He had absolutely no fear and did not take to being pushed around, yet had a deep love for his crew and ship. A true warrior.

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• RO

  @rockabye274 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Mirror, Mirror and The Doomsday Machine are two of the most iconic and re-watchable episodes of TOS. &nbsp;I look at Matt Decker as a guy who is suffering from severe PTSD due to the traumas he endured.

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• DO

  @dondevice8182 · 2 years ago

  I totally understand your sadness of the idea of having watched them all—<br>But you know, my dear, this is why those of us who have seen them 1000 times watch you

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• MR

  @MrGadfly772 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Matt Decker is a very complex character. He&apos;s a large part of what makes this episode so great. This is a very intense episode and one of the best. People initially get quite mad at Commodore Decker and yet ironically it is he who ends up saving millions of lives. If they hadn&apos;t followed his lead, they would have sacrificed the Rigel colony in order to go warn Starfleet. Because Decker forced them to attack the Doomsday machine all those millions would have died. It&apos;s an irony of this episode that in the end Decker was right. It would be worth it to lose both ships if it stopped the machine. Of course, we as the audience are rooting for Kirk and crew, and so Deckard is the antagonist, and yet he is the one that makes the outcome that needed to help Rigel. And of course this is one of Scotty&apos;s finest moments.

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• DE

  @deafheaven99 · 2 years ago

  I’ve never seen Bunny so intense. Both her hands balled up into fists, punching one hand with the other, etc. Great fun.

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• BR

  @brom00 · 2 years ago

  William Windom (Decker) was a great character actor. He appeared in dozens of TV shows and films from the 60&apos;s to the early 2000&apos;s. Even in smalls roles like in &apos;Planes. Trains and Automobiles&apos; he was a stand out.

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• JU

  @juandesalgado · 2 years ago

  According to Wikipedia and IMDB, the actor playing commodore Decker, William Windom, had a heck of a life. Apart from a full life acting in TV and the theater, and five different marriages, he was a parachute trooper during WW-2 in Europe, a sports sailor, and a tournament-level chess player.

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  @archlittle6067 · 2 years ago

  This episode was nominated for a Hugo award. Your elaborate description of Kirk&apos;s qualities as a leader are what we with a military background sum up as &quot;badass&quot;.

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