How do the warp factor indicators work? I think the NCC-1701 can only go to Warp 9.
Helm Controls
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Unmarked buttons make it harder for an enemy to control the helm.
Who says they're unmarked?
The labels (and other information) probably appear as required on that shiny black glass which the buttons are mounted in
Yet every Tom, Dick and Space Hippy have managed.
The problem I always had with the overlays is, what if you need to fire the phasers while you're doing evasive maneuvers?
Isn't it obvious? He's battening down the hatches.I'm pretty sure all the actions on the ship were scripted and coordinated to approximate actual functions...
And, WTF is up with that GIF's color? Look at the sign seen left of the guy's head. It's purple, then it's blue, then it's purple again (the sign is actually blue).
"PHASOR"Michael McMaster made a set of TOS bridge blueprints that mapped out the function of every button on the bridge. To say it isn't a very user friendly interface is an understatement
In TOS they didn't give an official spelling. To my knowledge it hasn't been shown in writing until maybe the TNG era.
It was all over The Making of Star Trek in 1968, and in the tie-in books. Its spelling was well established. Plus, LASER, PHASER.
Also, you see it on the weapons panel in TWOK.
Yes, but those arent/werent canon. I see your point. Might have been a copyright/trademark issue, or just a flat-out mistake.
It's a flat out mistake, like the people here who decades on still type Geordie and Scottie and Checkov.
Hmmmm, not sure if that's right. Seems like there was a sign for the phasers on the wall in Balance of Terror . . . ? Or maybe another S1 visual reference.
I think one of the overlays was "custom" , so you could have phasers and manuevers on the same panel.
But having to program the custom key in the midst of battle would be a pain wouldn't it? The majority of the time you would not be in a battle and having to use that.
It was capable of going to Warp 14... with some help.
Macros, child, macros.
I don't have a reference, but I seem to recall that when the DS9 production crew rebuilt the TOS sets for "Trials and Tribble-ations" (Or maybe when the Enterprise production rebuilt the sets for "In a Mirror Darkly"?) They did put TNG style alphanumeric labeling beneath the resin jewel controls and were surprised to see that while perfectly visible to whoever was seated in the chair, they were totally gone to any viewer standing elsewhere. So I propose that the buttons themselves (in universe) always had labels that were only visible to the crewman seated there.
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It was to give Kirk access to the ship's PA system, or as the characters put it:
KIRK: Address intercraft.
MITCHELL: Intercraft open.
...which illustrates that TOS' creators were thinking about a type of control more advanced than the rest of the bridge controls, although it was never used again, for some reason.
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