What Scene Drives You Crazy

Those things are admittedly cool, but a green, glowing, transluscent Melvin Belli?

No. I mean, I agree, cool touch, but ... a green, glowing, transluscent Melvin Belli.

Dakota Smith

 

Dude. Chocolate wobble and pistachio...AND PEACH!

 

Yeah... I appreciate the effort, but that Federation banner is about as inspiring as a real estate sign.

 

You mean the USS Enterprise is what,a Starfleet type of retro-steampunk art installation?

 

It's not retro-steampunk. It's the FUTURE man! Are you pickin' up what I'm layin' down? Hip to the jive and all dat.

 

"We reach, brother."

 

To quote my favorite space hippie, Adam, "Amen, brother."

 

The lower photo looks like the early 70's minicomputer trainer that we had in our electronics lab back in high school. Lots of switches and lights just like that, but it looked like it belonged on NX-01 Enterprise rather than the movie refit.

 

That scene in "The Savage Curtain" in which "Surak" (as imitated by Kahless) says (not convincingly and with poor line delivery )
"Help me Spock! Help me!" I use that line exactly as delivered at work when I'm in a bit of trouble with some instrument.

 

I think anytime a alien or even the show would have a female character,often one in Starfleet, have to wear a old timey dress.

Jason

 

Too bad Mr Boma didn't "red shirt" it.

 

I feel a big part of this is the fault of Spock himself, he should have verbally slapped Boma down, and in front of the others. Spock was in command, that means being in command.

The only male actor who could give out a really good scream was Shatner, and his character had just disappeared.

Given what we see in the episode Realm of Fear, being able to talk and move around makes perfect sense.

A normal transport take less time, but it still takes several seconds and (from Realm of Fear) they never lose mental consciousness or awareness of their surroundings.

 

Melvin Belli I can handle, but Melvin Belli in a flowery mumu is just going too far. He comes across like Marlon Brando trying to hide his obesity.

 

Or like he's wearing a slicker or shower curtain. I guess that's to protect him from all the hail, fire and snow.

 

Transporters take you apart and reassemble you at the other end. I wouldn't be surprised to hear transportees don't experience this consciously, since it's almost instantaneous, and there's no them to experience it, while it's happening. Apart from a TOS mistake or two, talking and moving in the beam started with the movies, because some Paramount executive, or somebody like that, told them to do this.

 

Quite a few episodes show the character to have moved between being on the ship and being at the destination.

The production reason is clear, the in-universe reason is that they obviously can move during transport.

No, it's approximately seven to ten seconds. Not really instantaneous.

 

So, apart from explicit specific examples in TOS, the movies and NextGen, transporting is an instantaneous? Right.

 

Doubtful, more likely talking during beaming (TWOK) was director/writer Nicholas Meyer's decision.