Hey, I never noticed that before....
- Thread starter Warped9
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That's fun.
I just watched 'Obssession' and Bill Blackburn is wearing a command tunic as he sits at the navigator's position. Then he can be seen walking past an open door in a blue tunic. Finally, he has the command tunic back on. He really gets around.
I think they stuck him in a different tunic on purpose, making two background characters out of one actor thus stretching the budget dollar.
They probably didn't expect anyone would ever see the episode beyond one time, didn't think anyone would notice it's the same actor or didn't care if they did.
Given how glaringly obvious the use of stuntmen throughout the series is, (even in SD) the truth is most likely the latter.
Ironically, they never thought that the technology would evolve to a point where anybody could analyze their episode picture by picture.
Ooooopsss! Kirk messed up in 'Gamesters'. When he is deposited on his butt on the Triskelion pad during the teaser, he sits on his communicator. When he turns around you can plainly see the flip up antenna is bent with respect to the body of the device. Sorry Starfleet. Put the damage on Kirk's expense account.
Or that Star Trek would become such a cultural phenomenon that millions of geeks would want to analyze each episode frame by frame.
That too.
Oh, well. It's just funny to see the mistakes that are caused by the pressures of filming on time and under budget.
The mistakes made in the TAS series are epic.
"Ultimate Computer" shows Bill Blackburn walking by the transporter room just as Kirk enters in the teaser. This time he wears a red shirt and he purposely turns his head away from the door so that he can't be identified by geeks like me.
Too bad they never wear glasses or have moustaches, or get fat, or have long hair, because that would make it easier to pretend that he's someone else.
At the ST con I went to this weekend, one woman cosplayed as Nurse Chapel from TAS. She wore a blue uniform with one red sleeve in tribute to a miscolored cel in one episode.
It's easy to forget that at the time the series aired, viewers would see it only one time, on a small screen that probably had some ghosts and static. They weren't expecting it to be watched dozens of times with high resolution and fans going back and watching background details again. Sure, they could have put their extra in a fat suit or something, but nobody was expecting the audience to be watching that closely. Facial hair or long hair on men probably wasn't within the uniform regulations anyway. Were there any Starfleet crew in TOS era with either?
That's funny.
I believe 'Day of the Dove' might have set TOS record for most aliens with moustaches and beards.
