Things You Missed The First Few Times

[Starborn Dragon]

So I'm watching Sta Trek with a friend who has seen very little of TOS and we're watching Where No Man Has Gone Before. I haven't watched it in a long while so these are the things I noticed.

Scotty didn't wear a red shirt and there were no red shirts in that episode. I don't know what color it was, but it was an awful color and close to the gold Kirk wore.

Spock didn't wear a blue shirt. he wore a gold shirt.

The shirts had sweaters in the direct middle of the back.

The shirts were a one piece shirt. In later episodes they use one piece and two piece in which the officer's shirt is pulled over a black shirt. The shirts were more like sweaters as they didn't have the black around the neck line.

The change of the view screen.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I don't think the cast actually wore the uniform shirts over the black undershirts. Not sure why the used the black undershirts in those shots. Though undershirts were common in the 60s. I know my dad away wore one. Whenever we see a torn uniform on the show there is no undershirt.

None of the shirts were actual pullovers, though they were designed to look like turtleneck tunics. They all had hidden zippers in the seams. The zipper in Nimoy's costumes are more noticeable, as they used a different style because of his make up.

 

[Starborn Dragon]

You should rewatch Charlie X. You will see them pull a uniform shirt over the black undershirt in that episode.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm watching it right now. You can actually see the zipper line on Kirk's tunic in the scene with Kirk and Charlie following the card trick scene!

 

[FormerLurker]

So I'm watching Sta Trek with a friend who has seen very little of TOS and we're watching Where No Man Has Gone Before. I haven't watched it in a long while so these are the things I noticed.

Scotty didn't wear a red shirt and there were no red shirts in that episode. I don't know what color it was, but it was an awful color and close to the gold Kirk wore.

Spock didn't wear a blue shirt. he wore a gold shirt.

The shirts had sweaters in the direct middle of the back.

The shirts were a one piece shirt. In later episodes they use one piece and two piece in which the officer's shirt is pulled over a black shirt. The shirts were more like sweaters as they didn't have the black around the neck line.

The change of the view screen.

The color shirt Scotty is wearing is what became red for the production run of the show. What we know from all the other episodes as Gold, Red and Blue started out in the pilots as Tan(of some sort), Peach(a light pink), and of course Blue. Depending on how a scene is lit, it can be difficult to tell the difference between the Tan and the Peach. This may have been one of the reasons the colors became much more saturated for the production run. Even the Blue becomes richer, and a little darker to look more impressive on the then-new color televisions of the day.

 

[Starborn Dragon]

When i first got my hands on the Blueprints for the classic TOS Enterprise, they ahd a bowling alley. For the longest time I thought that it was never mentioned in any Star Trek that I'd seen. Then I got the remastered first season and when I watched The Naked Time I was really surprised when Riley says this line after he took over engineering:

RILEY [OC]: Attention, crew. This is Captain Riley. There will be a formal dance in the bowling alley at nineteen hundred hours tonight.

So apparently, there really was a bowling alley on the original Enterprise.

I don't know why that surprises me so much, but it does.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Well, to be fair, Riley was drunk off his ass (in a way) when he said that. So he might have been just joking around.

 

[Greg Cox]

^ Well, to be fair, Riley was drunk off his ass (in a way) when he said that. So he might have been just joking around.

He was drunk, but he wasn't hallucinating. And nobody reacted with "Bowling alley? What the heck is he talking about?"

I consider the bowling alley "canon" . . . and have been known to reference it in my novels. (Although I've yet to find to find a good excuse to set a scene there.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Maybe the bowling alley was part of the giant rec room seen in TMP.

 

[Starborn Dragon]

^ Well, to be fair, Riley was drunk off his ass (in a way) when he said that. So he might have been just joking around.

He was drunk, but he wasn't hallucinating. And nobody reacted with "Bowling alley? What the heck is he talking about?"

I consider the bowling alley "canon" . . . and have been known to reference it in my novels. (Although I've yet to find to find a good excuse to set a scene there.)

There was an episode of the Animated series that had them bowling in it.

 

[eyeresist]

^ Well, to be fair, Riley was drunk off his ass (in a way) when he said that. So he might have been just joking around.

He was drunk, but he wasn't hallucinating. And nobody reacted with "Bowling alley? What the heck is he talking about?"

I consider the bowling alley "canon" . . . and have been known to reference it in my novels. (Although I've yet to find to find a good excuse to set a scene there.)

As a physics demonstration, obviously!
"Look, Captain, this is how we will penetrate the Horta defenses."
*Rolls a strike*

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's real

 

[Avro Arrow]

There was an episode of the Animated series that had them bowling in it.

[citation needed]

Here's what the bowling alley supposedly looked like as an easter egg in the cancelled PC game The Secret of Vulcan Fury.

 

[BillJ]

There was an episode of the Animated series that had them bowling in it.

[citation needed]

Here's what the bowling alley supposedly looked like as an easter egg in the cancelled PC game The Secret of Vulcan Fury.

I don't ever remember the bowling alley showing up in TAS.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I don't ever remember the bowling alley showing up in TAS.

That's because it wasn't in there.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^ Well, to be fair, Riley was drunk off his ass (in a way) when he said that. So he might have been just joking around.

He was drunk, but he wasn't hallucinating. And nobody reacted with "Bowling alley? What the heck is he talking about?"

I consider the bowling alley "canon" . . . and have been known to reference it in my novels. (Although I've yet to find to find a good excuse to set a scene there.)

IIRC, Barbara Hambly set some scenes in the bowling alley of another Constitution-class ship in Crossroad

 

[Therin of Andor]

I also liked how he was wearing a metal Starfleet emblem with the outside circle broken as a decoration- missed that the first time.

My theory: it's Marla's graduation emblem, or perhaps all Enterprise officers recieve one on their first posting. ie it's not a uniform belt buckle, but the new belt buckles use the same design.

I consider the bowling alley "canon" . . . and have been known to reference it in my novels. (Although I've yet to find to find a good excuse to set a scene there.)

Fan extras filming on the rec deck in TMP saw Lee Cole's directional signage to the ship's bowling alley. If the signage is visible onscreen (can we check?), it's canonical.

The signage is in the "ST:TMP Peel-Off Graphics Book". On the cover! (The symbols would have appeared inside the stylized left or right arrow-shape featured for other ship locales inside the book):


Star Trek Peel-off Graphics Book by Lee Cole by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[erastus25]

I don't ever remember the bowling alley showing up in TAS.

That's because it wasn't in there.

Yeah...the only even HINT at a bowling alley is Riley in The Naked Time. Wasn't mentioned/seen otherwise. Kind of like the dolphin tanks on the E-D mentions in The Perfect Mate. *rolls eyes*

 

[Nerys Myk]

Do dolphins bowl?

 

[BillJ]

Do dolphins bowl?

You just blew my mind!