My Problem With.....

[GSchnitzer]

For what it's worth, these are the times I can remember of using the overhead monitors on the bridge to display motion picture images:
The four images from Where No Man Has Gone Before:

...and the pages from Baruch Spinoza's book The Ethics (Part IV):

The Corbomite Maneuver:

Dagger of the Mind:

The Galileo Seven:

The Squire of Gothos:

Friday's Child:

And the Children Shall Lead:

I think a matte shot was planned for "Conscience of the King" where the bridge crew could watch the Karidian Players do Hamlet in the Ship's Theater.

This also doesn't include static shots of Dr. Roger Corby or John Gill.

(I hope I didn't miss any.)

 

[Spock's Barber]

This is a minor example of the krinkled photos pasted on the viewscreens, from "Squire of Gothos".

 

[retroenzo]

This is a minor example of the krinkled photos pasted on the viewscreens, from "Squire of Gothos".

Oh wow that's glaring.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Oh wow that's glaring.

That's why I said "minor example". Check out the end of SOG as Spock walks back to his station. The photos above Uhura's station are almost folded diagonally.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The ceiling doesn't look so great in that lighting either.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I like most of the props, sets, special effects, ships, stories, characters, etc. in TOS. However, every once in a while there appears something in an episode that just makes me scratch my head and say, "What is up with that?"

I'll start off....in "The Corbomite Maneuver", that big glowing disco nightclub glitter ball that Balok drives around just makes me laugh.

I'll take a different view. After 50 years, TOS' set and prop designs were so strong with Starfleet tools and environments having such a believable appearance and sense of function, that it remains one of the best, filmed examples of a far future ship to date.

Adding to that, we should not forget several truly alien culture designs and written (or manufactured) languages are still impressive. Few sci-fi productions can boast that success after decades of advancement in set & prop design.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I'll take a different view. After 50 years, TOS' set and prop designs were so strong with Starfleet tools and environments having such a believable appearance and sense of function, that it remains one of the best, filmed examples of a far future ship to date.

Adding to that, we should not forget several truly alien culture designs and written (or manufactured) languages are still impressive. Few sci-fi productions can boast that success after decades of advancement in set & prop design.

So there is nothing in TOS that makes you say, "What were they thinking???"

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

So there is nothing in TOS that makes you say, "What were they thinking???"

The most glaring thing fitting that question is "Gertrude" the plant from "The Man Trap". However, it was not so crucial to the story that its low budget construction hurt the overall effect of the episode.

 

[Spock's Barber]

The most glaring thing fitting that question is "Gertrude" the plant from "The Man Trap". However, it was not so crucial to the story that its low budget construction hurt the overall effect of the episode.

That is a good one. I completely forgot about that hand in plastic gloves thingy.

 

[FormerLurker]

Don't forget the multi-colored tissue paper glued all over it. And you probably forgot about it because regardless of what it was made of, the hand-actor was very effective. Whoever that was, I hope they had the opportunity to make a career out of it.

 

[Spock's Barber]

...and the screaming sound effect of Gertrude when the Salt Vampire came in was priceless.

 

[Shawnster]

[QUOTE="GSchnitzer, post: 11816089, member: 10555"

(I hope I didn't miss any.)[/QUOTE]

Weren't they also used in "The Cage" / "The Menagerie" when the Talosians were scanning the Enterprise databanks?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Oh wow that's glaring.

Well, how about these high tech viewscreens....black, wrinkled paper from 'Tomorrow is Yesterday'.

 

[FormerLurker]

...and the screaming sound effect of Gertrude when the Salt Vampire came in was priceless.

I'd have to check, but I think the Tribbles made the same sound around the Klingons.

 

[scotpens]

This is a minor example of the crinkled photos pasted on the viewscreens, from "Squire of Gothos".

Of course, they weren't nearly as noticeable when we were watching broadcasts of 16mm film prints on our 21-inch CRT televisions with 525 lines of resolution.

So there is nothing in TOS that makes you say, "What were they thinking???"

Well, a couple of things:

The way Kirk is holding that mic makes me think he's going to start singing lounge tunes.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Of course, they weren't nearly as noticeable when we were watching broadcasts of 16mm film prints on our 21-inch CRT televisions with 525 lines of resolution.


Well, a couple of things:

The way Kirk is holding that mic makes me think he's going to start singing lounge tunes.

...and those red, yellow and green cubes look delicious.

 

[johnnybear]

...and those red, yellow and green cubes look delicious.

Munch, crunch, munch!
JB

 

[Solariabsg25]

The most glaring thing fitting that question is "Gertrude" the plant from "The Man Trap". However, it was not so crucial to the story that its low budget construction hurt the overall effect of the episode.

After his defining role in the Addams Family he hoped Gertrude would expand his range, but was unable to beat being typecast, eventually fading into obscurity.

 

[Redfern]

After his defining role in the Addams Family he hoped Gertrude would expand his range, but was unable to beat being typecast, eventually fading into obscurity.

Unless the information I read is incorrect, "Thing" in "The Addams Family" was performed by Ted Cassidy. (Well, except for those scenes when Lurch and Thing both appeared in the same shot, obviously.) It seems Cassidy was a man of several performing talents. G*d, I loved this voice! Yeah, the guttural moans and muttering as Lurch were dang amusing, but I'm thinking of the "voice over" material he did, Like Balok, the Gorn, Ruk (though that was an on screen role), and the numerous cartoon characters he performed. He was also a radio announcer in Dallas, Texas in the early 60s. I think he was working November 22, 1963, the day Kennedy was assassinated. Can you imagine that vengeful godlike voice of his announcing that the president had been shot?

 

[FormerLurker]

He did the growls for the Hulk during the first season or two, and they had enough recordings of his voice doing said growls that they were able to use them for *I think* the rest of the show after he passed away.