00:00In this video I'll point out a possible future easter egg to British science fiction tv series
00:05Doctor Who and 12th Doctor actor Peter Capaldi. You can see this in Star Trek the original series
00:14season 2 episode 26 entitled Assignment Earth. Robert Lansing and Terry Garr guest star. The
00:23Enterprise travels back in time to 1968 Earth where they encounter interstellar secret agent
00:31Gary 7. They have to avert a nuclear weapons accident involving the launch of a space rocket.
00:39One interesting thing I noticed is something I saw only in a couple places in science fiction
00:46and this involves the way Gary 7 travels. He has a large a secret vault or safe hidden in his
00:56office.
00:56When he opens this a portal opens up that has a similar effect to a wormhole or a stargate. He's
01:07transported to a location of his choosing. It's a bank vault and teleportation. This was also
01:16featured as a story concept in Time Heist. Episode 5 series 8 of Doctor Who broadcast in 2014.
01:27A cast included Jenna Coleman as companion Clara. So in this story the Doctor and Clara arrive
01:34at a maximum security bank. A heist is planned and part of the operation involves using a transporter
01:43to help them make a clean getaway with the looted money. The future Star Trek connection. It turns out
01:50that Peter Capaldi auditioned for the role of Captain Benjamin Sisko in the Star Trek spinoff TV series
01:59Deep Space Nine. This was in 1992. Avery Brooks eventually played this character. There's another connection
02:08here and it involves adaptations of English author Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A gothic horror novel
02:17written in 1818. Capaldi played Angus in director Ken Russell's 1988 comedy horror film The Lair of the White Worm.
02:28Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Sammy Davis, and Amanda Donahoe were also in this.
02:34Russell had earlier directed a fictionalized retelling of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's visit to
02:43Lord Byron in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva Gothic in 1986. This psychological horror featured a cast with
02:54Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, and Timothy Spall. Actress Terry Gar of Star Trek Assignment Earth
03:03was also well known for her role as Frankenstein's assistant in the 74 Mel Brooks comedy
03:11Young Frankenstein. This cast featured Gene Wilder, Doctor Who actor Peter Cushion. He appeared in six
03:20Hammer productions of Frankenstein between 1957 and 1974. Cushion played Grand Moff Tarkin
03:29in George Lucas' sci-fi epic Star Wars in 1977. And this leads to another very interesting series of links.
03:42Darth Vader actor David Prowse had played Frankenstein's monster in the horror of Frankenstein in 1970.
03:50Amazingly, Hayden Christensen, future actor who played Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel films
03:59which were released between 99 and 05. He was in a movie whose story also features the concept of teleporting
04:10into the vaults of major banks. This was Jumper in 2008 loosely based on the 92 novel by Stephen Gould.
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