I bought more than one such desk lamp from garage sales back in the day. I'm sure you know the kind I mean.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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It must be meant as a security camera, which are ubiquitous today but practically didn't exist at the time, and was therefore futuristic. Somebody must have said, "These walls are ridiculously blank. We've got to have something."
Because that's what the chairs look like for five guys who rule a whole planet. And they have to share a desk.
Actually, that makes sense. Starships, as the envoys to new worlds, containing representatives who desire to impress, would have all the new, shiny, high-tech toys and prototypes. Bases, colonies, and backwater outposts would be lower in the hierarchy and get Enterprise hand-me-downs.
Ever seen a man as happy to be sedated as this guy?
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You're kidding. So we could have had lens flares in the original series, too? 
Here's one. Did anyone ever notice that many of the gray elements of the bridge in the 1st pilot are not, in fact, gray, but silver? Yep. And it was a cinematic pain in the fundament, as this excerpt from a 1965 post-mortem memo makes clear:
This whole 20-some page memo is really a fascinating look at the series in its nascent stages. A lot of the suggestions made it, but many others did not.
I always wondered where those landing jackets went. Turns out they were badly made and not reusable. This document suggests a better (but more expensive) supplier, but ultimately they solved the problem by losing the jackets altogether.
In "Journey to Babel" in the scene where Gav is drinking in the background, in the closeups he drinks with his right hand while at the same time in the wide shot he drinks with his left.
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Friday's Child...Akaar comes out of his tent. Akaar then kills a dude in a purple sash. Next scene shows Kirk fighting, then back to Akaar coming out of his tent again and fighting the purple sash dude who changes instantly to an orange sash. Then the orange sash dude jumps Akaar from behind. Bizarre.
The colors are factional/familial. It isn't the same dude.
Watch the episode. Akaar comes out of his tent twice, and the purple sash dude changes to an orange sash dude while Akaar is grappling with him.
Maybe the fabric it's made from changes color in different lights. 
I was going for the in-universe explanation.
What would it be for Gav? That he's just that fast?
