Yeah, I never got a "creepy" vibe from Kirk's interaction with Miri either. She may have had a schoolgirl crush and he may have used that to further the goal of saving his crew, but it's not like he was sexually interested in her.
The other white meat!
Well, they did the best they could on a TV production schedule with the Mayberry set on the Forty Acres lot.
It might not be super great. Maybe it's just ubiquitous because it's a very common commodity due to the Saurians flooding the market.Cool. But then knowing the shuttlecrafts were part of the ship's capabilities, they ignored them without apology. That's a little sloppy - though at the time, no audience member could complain. So when did they decide the make the transporter since landing the ship was right out, and using a shuttle all the time would be harder? Right from the start, despite knowing the shuttles were a comin', they invented the transporter. After they took up the transporter, were they still expecting to use shuttles, or were they just on order that long and so eventually used them when they finally arrived?
I did say it might have gone off, but it would still be hot, so they could hold it to get warm.
Yeah, I knew that. Just another stupid mistake from cranking these out this quickly without checking stuff.
So what makes saurian brandy so great? I wonder why this lizard-like race makes such a decent drink that it achieved almost galactic fame.
Grace was pretty. She suffered under that super unflattering woven basket wig. There's a memo where Gene R. suggesting bringing her back for a guest role with a more flattering hairstyle, which is funny since Grace said it was Gene who kept telling them to make her wig taller. I mean, here's what she looked like in 1967 with a less goofy hairstyle (link)
She's absolutely gorgeous there.
The ratio of crew to transporters would likely be set, unless new systems greatly improved transportation speeds, but the limiting factor there would probably be how quickly they can get to their emergency transporter stations without becoming an unruly mob too difficult to sort out in a short time. If in TNG they figure it should be 50 to 1, it seems reasonable to assume that ratio would hold or be approximately true, all other factors being equal.
But it's only a contradiction if one assumes there is only one transporter room. Otherwise, it is not a contradiction at all.
Well that's true, but it is highly suggestive well beyond what we two might think they were shooting for, isn't it?
Like I said, one may be the workhorse or best positioned for speed or convenience, so 95% of the time that one is the default. Therefore, unless somebody is told otherwise, it is implied that TR is the one they are talking about (let's call that TR01).
I'm not sure which scene you mean right off the top of my head. More often than not, however, since the transporter puts each molecule back in its original position in the body (or with quantum reasoning, duplicated them while the original is read and destroyed and puts the duplicate back in its original relative position), they will normally have no problem keeping two people separate even when on one pad. If anything, it's only dangerous since that much extra information might overload systems if something goes wrong, so if an emergency occurred, that makes it more likely they won't be able to sort you out, and even cross-circuiting to B won't help you then.
Still having Christmas in the 23rd century is interesting, but more than one party on a ship of over 420 crewmembers with dozens of departments and different social clicks isn't really too surprising. I wonder why Kirk went to the science department's party, or maybe he floated through them all and just got lucky there. What other name is better suited for a Christmas party girl than Noel, though? It's worth noting Kirk doesn't like his private affairs to be publicly known, lest it probably be viewed poorly by the crew and affect his ability to command respect and them. Do you really think McCoy aimed that little brunet at our good captain? I bet he didn't, but Kirk seemed to think so. But I've notice Kirk often assumes ill intent from doctor McCoy, like Bones is the type to make a practical joke so Kirk dismisses his observations a lot.
Oh, I wasn't saying Rand isn't pretty only that I find Noel more so.
It's been celebrated since the reign of Emperor Constantine, so why not in the 23rd century?
As many of us geeks are aware, the Vulcan mind meld was the result of TV censorship restrictions. The script for "Dagger of the Mind" originally had Spock hypnotizing Van Gelder. The network censors objected on the grounds that (A) Spock isn't a qualified medical practitioner, and (B) you can't depict hypnosis on screen because we don't want to accidentally hypnotize someone watching the show! So the scene was rewritten to introduce the mind meld. Just to make the point absolutely clear, Spock was given the line: "This will not affect you, Dr. McCoy, only the person I touch. It is not hypnosis."
It's not so much that Christmas (or Thanksgiving) is being celebrated as the obvious lack of other religious holidays or ones of other nationalities, let alone other alien cultures. One might also wonder if, or exactly how or in what form, Christianity would survive the contact and assimilation of many other worlds' creation beliefs, Gods, etc., particularly the literal fundamentalists and such, or how these things might survive or change with the information age. Maybe the Federation or the Enterprise in particular is still mostly human and lacking in sufficient alien representation to make conflicts a problem or other holiday parties noticeable, or there is a deep and overriding Federation principle that all conflicts will not be tolerated. Anyway, I'm mostly making note of it – not saying it was wrong or right or likely or unlikely. Just interesting.
Cool. And I wonder if they were overreacting, but suits and bean counters – better safe than sorry, and worry not like Spock, we have no medical degree that would suggest this stuff was likely to happen. We just don’t want to be sued just in case.
There are reasons. The time of an emergency would be approximately the same, so the time it takes for people to get to a transporter and for that one transporter to get 50 people off the ship seems to be the mark.
True, but I do know there isn't dialogue stating it's different, so again, not using things to counter arguments unless they are backed up in dialogue is also the mark. So unless you move off the position that only explicit dialogue will be accepted as evidence, and that it's O.K. to think something may be so for a variety of reasons other than explicit dialogue, one would have to accept things are equal (until told otherwise).
Given that Star Trek was an American television series aired on network prime time in the 1960s, the fact that it was mentioned that the crew celebrated these holidays, without mention of any other, is completely unremarkable. It provided a point of contact between the audience and the characters.
The early TOS episodes were also much more Earth-centric, with the idea that the Enterprise was sent out from some vaguely unified Earth of the future. The United Federation of Planets wasn't mentioned until "A Taste of Armageddon."
History falls under science? The scientific method probably doesn't apply much there, though maybe at some point they might use the science of time travel to look at historical events and, I bet, many might be in for a bit of shock.
True, the Christmas celebration may have been more a secular celebration of the birth of conspicuous consumption than a Christian holiday, and Thanksgiving could have broader appeal than just with the Americans and Canadians and a few others, but as a monotheistic culture (for Kirk does find "the one" quite adequate), one might hope humanity had somehow consolidated Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, or the Abrahamic religions by then, but if not completely unified in some way, at least found a way we aren't trying to kill each other over the differences. I mean, compared to the differences we'd begin seeing on other worlds, those differences might begin to seem pretty small.
He probably disabled the sound after jumping out of his skin a few times and tossing a few test tubes around, or spilling this or that, or whatever slip he might make after a jarring and shocking sound like that hits you. Just hope it wasn't during surgery. Or maybe it was already done by other doctors or this is SOP for sickbays, since, I don't know about you, but for me, I sure wouldn't want to be doing anything delicate when that alarm suddenly starting screaming at me.
I still just assume such uniform changes are best explained (in universe) as floating between departments to gain experience, so while you may put on a different uniform if you start your day in a different department, you probably would keep it on during the day, even if you had to spend a few hours in your regular department.
Spock is usually smarter, more logical, and far less likely to lose his cool in an argument/debate, so yeah - tread lightly if you feel the need to go there. Even Kirk wouldn't presume to debate Spock to which Spock simply said, "That is wise."
One of the Federation's proudest moments, and maybe humanity's. A very touching scene.
