Hey, I never noticed that before....

[JonnyQuest037]

Rewatching "The Menagerie, Part I" last night, I noticed that during the scene with Kirk and Mendez in Mendez's office, Commodore Mendez responds to a hail that he never gets. He just goes over to his computer, presses a button, and says, "Mendez here. What is it?" They obviously forgot to dub in the sound of the hail. Weird that they missed it in the remastered edition, too.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I put the hail in my laserdisc copy. Also added “one minute” for Sulu to respond to in Corbomite Maneuver. As well as Kirk’s communicator call beep at the end of A Private Little War. These easy fixes should have been on their list...

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I put the hail in my laserdisc copy. Also added “one minute” for Sulu to respond to in Corbomite Maneuver. As well as Kirk’s communicator call beep at the end of A Private Little War. These easy fixes should have been on their list...

You can dub in sounds on a laserdisc?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

You can dub in sounds on a laserdisc?

I think he means he digitized his LaserDisc, probably to an mp4 video, edited that on his computer, and then burned it to DVD-R.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I think he means he digitized his LaserDisc, probably to an mp4 video, edited that on his computer, and then burned it to DVD-R.

Yeah, sorry, that is what meant. I should have been more specific. Thanks for the assist, Zap.

 

[johnnybear]

Hate to admit this but I never noticed! Maybe there was an unseen light on the console that Mendez was aware of?
JB

 

[alchemist]

Rewatching "The Menagerie, Part I" last night, I noticed that during the scene with Kirk and Mendez in Mendez's office, Commodore Mendez responds to a hail that he never gets. He just goes over to his computer, presses a button, and says, "Mendez here. What is it?" They obviously forgot to dub in the sound of the hail. Weird that they missed it in the remastered edition, too.

Not quite. Here's the section from the revised final draft script dated October 10, 1966:

INSERT – VIEWING SCREEN
The Intensive Care Hospital Room is empty. Captain
Pike and wheelchair are gone!

MISS PIPER’S VOICE
(continuing)
Captain Pike. He’s gone!

BACK TO SHOT
As if punctuating the preceding, the RED ALARM LIGHT on
the wall starts blinking and we HEAR ALARM SOUNDING.
Mendez leaps for the wall speaker, hits the button.

MENDEZ
Mendez here! What is it?

LOUDSPEAKER VOICE
Starship Enterprise, Commodore.
It’s warping out of orbit! Refuses
to acknowledge our signal!

CAMERA ZOOMS INTO CLOSE SHOT OF KIRK, holds on his
stunned expression as:

FADE OUT.

 

[plynch]

So Cats missing digitizing a few hands/paws has precedent. (And Kirk hanging in scaffolding in the ABC TMP!)

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Not quite. Here's the section from the revised final draft script dated October 10, 1966:

Well, there was no alarm in the finished episode. The point remains that there was supposed to be a sound effect dubbed in, and it wasn't.

 

[alchemist]

Well, there was no alarm in the finished episode. The point remains that there was supposed to be a sound effect dubbed in, and it wasn't.

Yes, I'm not disputing that, only the type of sound that should have been dubbed (i.e., an alarm instead of a hail).

I thought "not quite" was synonymous with "almost" or "very nearly"... as in you're almost or very nearly correct.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Yes, I'm not disputing that, only the type of sound that should have been dubbed (i.e., an alarm instead of a hail).

I thought "not quite" was synonymous with "almost" or "very nearly"... as in you're almost or very nearly correct.

Gotcha. No worries. Thanks for the clarification.

The fact that it was supposed to be an alarm makes it even weirder that they missed it.

 

[alchemist]

The fact that it was supposed to be an alarm makes it even weirder that they missed it.

Totally agree.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Yeah, he's just saying, "[This is] Mendez here! What is it?"

 

[ZapBrannigan]

The fact that it was supposed to be an alarm makes it even weirder that they missed it.

I'm glad they didn't do like Power Records Star Trek, and dub in the AHH-WOO-GAH!!! sound. Because it wouldn't quite fit. Although I think Lost in Space might have used that as the alarm aboard an alien ship, in a second-season-silly episode.

 

[PCz911]

One thread I had going for awhile was called Never seen TOS scenes. Using Photoshop I created imaginary scenes of things that happened off screen or before TOS or elaborating on things we might like to have seen. It also allowed for humorous scenes such as Herman Munster as a security guard and Kirk’s exasperated expression. There was another one of the ‘60’s era Batman in the Transporter Room. There were quite a few funny ones along with the more serious wishful ones.I also photomanipped some TAS as well as TMP and even a few TNG scenes. And this was before TOS-R was released and I usually approached it as if it were still the 1960s and TOS was still in production. As such when I inserted new characters I tried to use actors who were active around that time, such as Stephen Boyd as a young Captain Robert April or Honor Blackman as a female starship captain for example.

I went back and found it, but none of the photo links are still active. Pity. Sounds fun

 

[Warped9]

I went back and found it, but none of the photo links are still active. Pity. Sounds fun

I haven't bothered paying Photobucket's fee so unless I do the pics can't be seen from there.

I'm thinking of revisiting the idea again with new pics (although I still have the originals on my computer) and posting them here again.

 

[Commishsleer]

Hate to admit this but I never noticed! Maybe there was an unseen light on the console that Mendez was aware of?
JB

I always thought this,

 

[johnnybear]

Jose was on top of the situation, always! Even when he wasn't really there!
JB

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Jose was on top of the situation, always! Even when he wasn't really there!

Well, the guy we see in the office is the real Mendez. He's not replaced until he and Kirk are on the shuttlecraft.

 

[Neopeius]

Have you tried sending any of them to the Genesis Planet?

I quite liked that thread. I've photoshopped a few never-seen Trek moments of my own in my Star Trek Timeline, featuring Captain Garth in his prime, the wedding of Sarek and Amanda, and James T. Kirk proposing to Carol Marcus. There are a few more I plan to do, but it's tough to find the time sometimes.

Your timeline is amazing!