Star Trek TOS Re-Watch

So it's a holoprojection of the sensor readings over top of the person, like they're wearing a motion capture suit?

 

You're just gonna have to trust me on this. But yes, that's a great way to put it.

 

I always thought it was the carrier wave.

This sounds way worse.

 

I think the transporter effect looks to onlookers as it does to us. But each transporter can have a different energy pattern. So the Klingon transporters look different than the federation transporters, etc. When Compton disappeared, he also had a visual which could easily have been a transporter.

Another words, it shouldn't have been that flabbergasting. Surprising and unexpected? Sure. But they've seen this sort of thing happen in front of their eyes countless times.

 

An outsider definitely sees something when a person is being transported. We know this thanks to the "say what you see" gangster chap from "A Piece Of The Action":

OXMYX: You know what to do.
KALO: Don't worry, Boss. They can't do nothing till they're through sparkling.​

 

Right. Sound effects during some vanishing acts are debatable, but visually - what you see is what everyone gets.

 

Yep, that's what I've been saying.

 

"Hey Jim, we got another one."
"Crewman? Gone? No transporters?"
"Yup. (handwave) Pfffft. Splitsville. Y'know, same old, same old."

 

1/3 of PREDATOR is just watching the guys watching the jungle.

It's still awesome. Same with "THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER".

 

Hey! Where have I heard THAT before?

 

I am disappointed that modern storytelling spends more time with characters talking about their feelings instead of staring at viewscreens. It's a great way to evoke the submarine in space vibe and I miss that.

I don't miss that life is soo harrrd for Tilly so much. I love Tilly but you're in Starfleet now. Shape up or ship out!

 

And with no Goldsmith music this time. But McCoy does his best to spark up the proceedings. Nobody can chastise Kirky like McCoy.

 

Never bitched about your job, eh?

 

Only from 8am to 6pm. Mind you, nobody wants to hear about it. Unless you do?

 

I am intrigued, can you share any more details? It's always interesting to glimpse what might have been

 

I'm a mental health counselor. It's what I do

 

Aha! We need a lot more of you.

The issue with regard to drama is balance. Too much staring at the screen or too much social drama and you lose part of your audience. I wonder if the 10 episode format means that trying to give each of the principal characters some emotional drama means that we get a fair chunk every episode as opposed to more occasionally within 26 episodes.

 

I think the parts that have also resonated with me (the ones that stand out in Star Trek) are those interpersonal ones. Balance of Terror and Kirk and McCoy's discussion prior to the attack. The acknowledgement of the loss of life, and the challenges of these different cultures and people and their values in the face of attack.

Kirk and Spock Prime in ST 2009 is one of the most emotionally gripping conversations for me.

To me, hearing about social drama draws me in faster than say the mysterious anomaly of the week. The reactions and humanity are interesting.

 

The connection the characters have to the event of the week need not be direct every time; the times it is a relative (e.g. Sam Kirk and family), the story will have greater impact that way.

Most stories ought to have the characters draw parallels between the current issue as we do - an allegory or similarity to our situation.