Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Nebusj]

I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but I always thought that maybe each ship in starfleet having a different insignia might have been a nod to the American space program, which was reaching for the moon as this series was being created -- each Gemini and Apollo mission (I believe) created its own unique patch/insignia that the astronauts wore, even though they were all using essentially the same type of spacecraft.

You believe rightly, in the main. From Gemini 5 on the astronauts designed, or had designed for them, mission patches. It started as consolation for the no-names policy adapted after Grissom and Young picked ``Molly Brown'' for their capsule's name. If all this squabbling sounds remarkably petty to you that's because it kind of was.

After it turned out mission patches were very popular as public relations items and for mission team morale there were patches retrofitted onto the Mercury and the first two Gemini flights.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Kirk sorta becomes a member of the medical profession when he replaces Salish as medicine chief. Given what McCoy had to tell him about his wife and baby dying, it's not surprising there was no chance to rib Kirk about being considered a doctor.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Kirk sorta becomes a member of the medical profession when he replaces Salish as medicine chief. Given what McCoy had to tell him about his wife and baby dying, it's not surprising there was no chance to rib Kirk about being considered a doctor.

I can just hear Kirk in 'Paradise Syndrome'....."I'm a doctor, not a ship's captain."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And I wonder what Spock would have to say about that.

 

[Spock's Barber]

And I wonder what Spock would have to say about that.

"I'mmmmmm.....Capppp......tainnnnn.....Spockkkkkk!!!!!!"

 

[Spock's Barber]

I just watched 'Miri'. I guess her planet is an exact duplicate of Earth. In the background of several of the street shots you can plainly see a huge television/movie sound stage.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I just watched 'Miri'. I guess her planet is an exact duplicate of Earth. In the background of several of the street shots you can plainly see a huge television/movie sound stage.

I never think of Mayberry during "Miri", because The Andy Griffith Show rigorously shot those buildings to show the first floor only. Seeing the whole height of the buildings made it look like a different town altogether.

 

[kkt]

I just watched 'Miri'. I guess her planet is an exact duplicate of Earth. In the background of several of the street shots you can plainly see a huge television/movie sound stage.

They had to meet a budget. Backgrounds that you wouldn't have been able to see on a 1960s broadcast, shown once, on a pre-cable, fuzzy, ghosting, CRT set seems like a pretty reasonable place to cut.

 

[johnnybear]

Miri's world must have been in parallel development with earth when they're civilization collapsed due to it's nineteen sixties look and our understanding in later shows that Kirk's Enterprise is three centuries from our present at that time!
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Miri's world must have been in parallel development with earth when they're civilization collapsed due to it's nineteen sixties look and our understanding in later shows that Kirk's Enterprise is three centuries from our present at that time!
JB

Heaven help us! Those poor people on Miri's planet had to watch 'My Mother the Car' on their parallel planet televisions like we did! Oh, the horror!

 

[The Old Mixer]

That's not a sound stage, that's the shelter where the grups are living.

 

[Spock's Barber]

That's not a sound stage, that's the shelter where the grups are living.

Like in POF, where the Desilu/Paramount Producers Building doubled as the Nazi headquarters. A subtle reference to power hungry television executives (??).

 

[J.T.B.]

I never think of Mayberry during "Miri", because The Andy Griffith Show rigorously shot those buildings to show the first floor only.

Usually, but not always.

 

[UnknownSample]

Miri's world must have been in parallel development with earth when their civilization collapsed due to its nineteen sixties look and our understanding in later shows that Kirk's Enterprise is three centuries from our present at that time!
JB

Exactly. That planet 's man-made plague wiped out most of the population during their 1960s, which took place at the same time as our 1960s. In "Miri", it's now centuries later.

 

[johnnybear]

Heaven help us! Those poor people on Miri's planet had to watch 'My Mother the Car' on their parallel planet televisions like we did! Oh, the horror!

Never heard of that one old chap!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Exactly. That planet 's man-made plague wiped out most of the population during their 1960s, which took place at the same time as our 1960s. In "Miri", it's now centuries later.

But we had to wait until the final episode of TNG to find out the date exactly didn't we!
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Never heard of that one old chap!
JB

You are very fortunate, my friend. A brief synopsis...a man's mother passes away, but wait....she comes back as his car. It was supposed to be a comedy. It lasted one year, thankfully.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Antenna TV plays in Sunday morning, if you get the channel and you're feeling adventurous....

 

[EnsignHarper]

Antenna TV plays in Sunday morning, if you get the channel and you're feeling adventurous....

It does have Avery Schreiber mugging it up in it though.....

 

[JE Smith]

They had to meet a budget. Backgrounds that you wouldn't have been able to see on a 1960s broadcast, shown once, on a pre-cable, fuzzy, ghosting, CRT set seems like a pretty reasonable place to cut.

I keep seeing posts like this. Guys, I grew up in the '60s and '70s, TV reception wasn't THAT bad. Yeah, it wasn't hi-def, and the TVs weren't huge (well, some of the expensive ones were), but the cliche of somebody having to bang the side of the TV just to get the picture to stabalize is pretty much a joke. TV looked "pretty decent" for most of my childhood/young adulthood. Sure, I wouldn't trade it for my 50" HDTV, but the notion that we spent our entire lives squinting at a bunch of fuzz that barely constituted a "picture" is simply nonsense.