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
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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
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?Bullshi...
I don't recall anything about it that is "clicky-clacky." Don't assume you know its limitations based on that fact it was produced in the 1960s. Maybe it IS a cgi display and it's just showing what it needs to. Panels/screens that clearly display information are WAY better than JJswoosh-JJzoom-cover-everything-with-distracting-grafix.
'MUH GRAFIX!
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.
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."
If I want ice cream, I'll eat it, not watch it on Star Trek.
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.If it's the one I'm thinking of, the masonite board with the holes and the sliding panel behind, I don't have a hard time believing that thing clicked or clacked a little!
That display never bothered me at all. But I was not crazy about this one in TWOK, it looked like something from the local TV station:
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And of the six he commanded, the only two who never gave him any guff at all were Scotty or dead.
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.
