Party like it's 1966!
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AND no one having the guts to correct his pronunciation. Because doing that...sickens him.
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Possibly my favorite episode ever, tonight. I'll watch the broadcast version instead of the pilot version.
Such a waste not having Gary Marshall in the reboot movies and turning him evil three or four in...
THAT I would have paid money for!
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Gary Marshall? Whatever you intended, you spelled it wrong. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Marshall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Marshall
Gary Marshall? Whatever you intended, you spelled it wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Marshall
Yeah, brain fart there. Obviously I meant Gary Mitchell
I hope everyone is enjoying looking at my thoughts, as terrible as they may be :-P
My thoughts on WNMHGB on my blog (includes my attempt to restore the original look of the Next Week preview)
My thoughts on WNMHGB on my blog (includes my attempt to restore the original look of the Next Week preview)
Well, that was a fun night! I don't know why, but I love that episode.
So what do people think of Gary's hospital bed? I thought the mattress and bed sheets added a little more real-world grounding than the later SPACE beds.
I've often said there were two times that Star Trek really put me on the decks of the Enterprise twice. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Where No Man Has Gone Before.
I was thinking last night how odd it is that the go-to solution for Gary is death. Do we need to kill him? When do we kill him? Should we go much longer without killing him? Did we miss our chance to kill him?
I also thought that Kirk and Spock seem oddly suspicious of Dehner. On the flip side Dehner seems weirdly defensive right from the get go. "WHY would there be anything DANGEROUS about that?" "Um, we didn't think there was. But it's still something we want to hear about." "Oh."
Both The Cage and Where No Man feature people in civilian attire. I wonder if that was an idea to show the "city in space" aspect of The Enterprise? Or even to imply that there was a civilian contingent?
SCOTTY! Ach, it's good to see ye, laddie.
BTW, Gary Lockwood is SO good in this. Kellerman is good too, but Lockwood is really on a different level. There's a reason that there's a whole contingent of nerds who wants to know why a character from a forty+ year old pilot wasn't in the JJ movies.
Plus he could stand on a transporter pad when he was unconscious!
I'll read the Blish story this weekend. I do recall that he tried to work it into regular series continuity, explaining why we had Piper instead of McCoy.
So what do people think of Gary's hospital bed? I thought the mattress and bed sheets added a little more real-world grounding than the later SPACE beds.
I've often said there were two times that Star Trek really put me on the decks of the Enterprise twice. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Where No Man Has Gone Before.
I was thinking last night how odd it is that the go-to solution for Gary is death. Do we need to kill him? When do we kill him? Should we go much longer without killing him? Did we miss our chance to kill him?
I also thought that Kirk and Spock seem oddly suspicious of Dehner. On the flip side Dehner seems weirdly defensive right from the get go. "WHY would there be anything DANGEROUS about that?" "Um, we didn't think there was. But it's still something we want to hear about." "Oh."
Both The Cage and Where No Man feature people in civilian attire. I wonder if that was an idea to show the "city in space" aspect of The Enterprise? Or even to imply that there was a civilian contingent?
SCOTTY! Ach, it's good to see ye, laddie.
BTW, Gary Lockwood is SO good in this. Kellerman is good too, but Lockwood is really on a different level. There's a reason that there's a whole contingent of nerds who wants to know why a character from a forty+ year old pilot wasn't in the JJ movies.
Plus he could stand on a transporter pad when he was unconscious!
I'll read the Blish story this weekend. I do recall that he tried to work it into regular series continuity, explaining why we had Piper instead of McCoy.
Nice job!
Watched the pilot version for the first time instead of the aired version - I have to say that the changes they made for broadcast were very smart. The pilot version feels very 1950s B-Movie sci-fi, whereas the updates feel much more in line with the times.
Also...wow, the terribleness of the collars on all the unis really stands out in HD. And a lot of them are poorly tailored - I understand for the extas/minor characters, but they really could have made Kellerman and Shatner's shirts fit better.
Also...wow, the terribleness of the collars on all the unis really stands out in HD. And a lot of them are poorly tailored - I understand for the extas/minor characters, but they really could have made Kellerman and Shatner's shirts fit better.
The collars were distracting me, and I don't have HD.
They may not have pockets in space, but they definitely have zippers.
They may not have pockets in space, but they definitely have zippers.
Where No Man was obviously very early in the travels of The Enterprise and it's stardate of 1312.4 proves this! Later episodes of the first season are either still in the 1s or 2s so I'd say the 1 is for first year and 2 for second! But anyway I'd guess that not much happened on those first few missions with the original crew to warrant showing them! (that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it)
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I'm fond of the theory that WNMHGB isn't even part of the 5YM. Makes a lot more sense for whatever refit changed the ship from the second pilot version to the regular production version to have taken place between missions rather than in the middle of a long-term one.
I agree. Except you still see the pilot ship as much or more than the production one.
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But that's just stock footage...one of the things that TOS-R got right was making the model consistent after the pilots.
It's funny. With TOS is the final version that's considered the official and "real" ship. But with TNG it's the first ship that's "real". When they re-did new FX for TNG-R did they go with the six foot or the four?
Curiously if you go by the second and third season TOS credits then it's the pilot ships that are official.
Curiously if you go by the second and third season TOS credits then it's the pilot ships that are official.
"Original look"? You mean the promos I've been watching for the last 30 years, on DVD and before that VHS, are NOT the original promos from the NBC years?
The promos originally said "next week" at the beginning, at least for the first two seasons. This was revised, probably because the show was headed to daily "strip syndication" and "next week" no longer applied.
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