If they'd tried to feature-ize The Cage sans Hunter

[Poltargyst]

Yes, Buck Rogers was released in theaters on March 30, 1979 before it went to series on NBC in the fall.

Wow, you just reminded me that I saw that in the theater. I had totally forgotten.

 

[Daddy Todd]

The "movie" edit of the Battlestar Galactica opening was released theatrically in Canada, Australia & most of Europe before the show bowed on ABC in the US, and did very well in theaters, which no doubt got Universal to think they could do the same with Buck but domestically.

Wait, are you saying it WASN’T released theatrically in the USA? Because I think I remember Universal shipping the Sensurround speaker cabinets back to my local Boise cineplex (2 whole screens!!) for the theatrical run.

 

[Harvey]

Wait, are you saying it WASN’T released theatrically in the USA? Because I think I remember Universal shipping the Sensurround speaker cabinets back to my local Boise cineplex (2 whole screens!!) for the theatrical run.

Wikipedia indicates that it was shown in the U.S., but not until later (May 1979).

 

[Maurice]

Wikipedia indicates that it was shown in the U.S., but not until later (May 1979).

Exactly. It was released in the US after Buck.

 

[johnnybear]

Battlestar Galactica had key scenes removed, like Baltar escaping execution in the theatrical movie, while the film of Mission Galactica:The Cylon Attack actually had an extra scene or two not seen in the television episode!
JB

 

[Maurice]

Baltar was flat-out seen being executed in the theatrical release.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

So these quotations prove that three crew members were killed and seven inured on Rigel Seven, and that the Enterprise then headed to the Vega colony for treatment for the injured, and to replace anyone who needed hospitalization.

So how did the Marvel Comics writers justify the idea that Yeoman Colt would have or could have transferred to the Enterprise after the fight on Rigel Seven? What ship or starbase would the Enterprise supposedly have met for Colt to have transferred from? It is logical to deduce that Yeoman Colt was assigned to the Enterprise shortly before the fight on Rigel Seven and was reassigned to be Pike's Yeoman after the fight. And I suspect that the writers of the comic just never realized that.

As I recall, they just had Yeoman Colt boarding via a shuttle that intercepted them somewhere. They definitely didn't have the Enterprise docking anywhere. It was fine. It didn't overtly contradict anything in the episode.

 

[plynch]

I saw BG in theaters in the US. He lived in the TV show, right? To make future appearances?

 

[diankra]

Another tv to feature is Invasion UFO, put together from scenes taken from four or five UFO episodes. Like most of the 1999 films I think that was only for TV, no theatrical release, though.

 

[Galileo7]

http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00spazio.html

http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00dmba.html

http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00aa.html

http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00jttbs.html

http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/epguide/t00cp.html

 

[MAGolding]

As I recall, they just had Yeoman Colt boarding via a shuttle that intercepted them somewhere. They definitely didn't have the Enterprise docking anywhere. It was fine. It didn't overtly contradict anything in the episode.

You say the comic didn't overtly contradict anything in the episode. So in the episode they had injured crewmen that they were taking from Rigel, about 780 to 940 light years from Earth, to the Vega Colony 25 light years from Earth, for medical care. Partway from Rigel to Vega, they intercepted a signal from Talos IV only 18 light years away. Number One said:

NUMBER ONE: We've no ships or Earth colonies that far out.

So if they were headed from a farther out place (Rigel) to a nearer in place (Vega) and partway someone says they don't have any ships or Earth colonies that far out, obviously they also don't have any ships or Earth colonies on their route back to the even farther out Rigel. Certainly if there was someplace close to their route with better medical care for Earth humans they would have headed there instead of to Vega. So where would the presumably short range shuttlecraft with Yeoman Colt be coming from?

A bit of a mystery.

 

[Maurice]

You can't reconcile the early material with the aired episode. Since they cut out the docking sequence they changed around what happens after. The two would not "mate" without some revision.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

So in the episode they had injured crewmen that they were taking from Rigel, about 780 to 940 light years from Earth, to the Vega Colony 25 light years from Earth, for medical care. Partway from Rigel to Vega, they intercepted a signal from Talos IV only 18 light years away.

So if they were headed from a farther out place (Rigel) to a nearer in place (Vega) and partway someone says they don't have any ships or Earth colonies that far out, obviously they also don't have any ships or Earth colonies on their route back to the even farther out Rigel. Certainly if there was someplace close to their route with better medical care for Earth humans they would have headed there instead of to Vega. So where would the presumably short range shuttlecraft with Yeoman Colt be coming from?

Oh, come on. You know as well as I do that TOS more or less used star names randomly, picking them more for the familiarity of their names than for their distance from Earth. I guarantee you that Roddenberry never gave any thought to the route the Enterprise might have taken between Rigel and Vega. Nor should he have, because it didn't matter to the story he was telling.

A bit of a mystery.

That you're insisting on criticizing a story you haven't read based on only secondhand information? I agree.

 

[Iamnotspock]

How would Gene Roddenberry have padded out a Trek TV script to a feature length? With lots of sweeping external shots of the ship and a majestic Jerry Goldsmith score.

 

[Maurice]

How would Gene Roddenberry have padded out a Trek TV script to a feature length? With lots of sweeping external shots of the ship and a majestic Jerry Goldsmith score.

Yeah, but they former was impractical in 1965 so they'd have to do it the old fashioned way... with actors.