Right on, man! Ain't no thing. You left out the mustaches too! Alien sets would have wallpaper all over them. The Enterprise also probably would've had wallpaper. Kirk-Fu would've been taken to a whole new level.
I sort of like the ambiguity with canon and on-screen evidence, because it reminds you two things: this was a show where the past wasn't hacked out (and I would argue that beyond good strokes, that's a good thing. Earth had wars. We went to a dark place. Met Vulcans, crawled out, had a war with Romulans, made the Federation), and it allows you to fill in the blanks with things you like instead. I can pick from Starfleet Museum to FASA to Axanar to The Romulan War to a few novels and be content. And besides, it's not like a technological society has a handle on history just for being technological. This forum itself could provide ten different views on the history of the US, much less the world, and a lot of key events that buffer one's sides view might be completely unknown or unheard of by another. I sort of see the Federation in that angle, if we look at the show, they barely care about anything from 2161-2250, 2293-2364, 2385-2399... The meta reason, again, is that the writers didn't care to hash it out. They could. They could make up whatever in a month and say 'THY CANON', but honestly, that might just cause more problems, chaining every generation to the other. The only thing I would like enforced is aesthetics, but even that is flexible - the Connie in ENT trumps any prior connie, and people are fine with DIS's connie, for example. There are still many silly things, but eh.
Agree- some of them are amongst my favorites. I was just glad they took a different focus and tone in S3!
Wasn't there a alien lady who could transform into a cat? One of the episodes where they go to Earth.
Well, there was a giant cat in "Catspaw" and a cat that apparently also doubles as an alien woman in "Assignment:Earth" Both are Season 2 episodes.
A regular size cat on a scale model set. Easiest way to achieve said effect, and the best they could do within their budget. I found it effective.
Not something I ever had an issue with. The creativity just oozes out of TOS, all the things they were able to do to sell it as a living universe. It was amazing. Probably one of the big reasons why it still represents the very best of Star Trek, even after 54 years.
Ok heres one Star Trek V despite its many problems is much more watchable then TMP, Genarations, insucrection, and Nemesis
Not to mention that everyone on a planet has the same culture or religion, UNLESS you want to make a satement about peace or racism or something, then it's two! I'm sure it has more to do with budget contraints, but it really comes across as "only humans are the special snowflakes ho have diversity and complexity".