And it showed how relaxed and familiar he was with these controls... great acting!
The worst are Ryker, Troy, Wharf, Spok
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Of course, canonical signage isn't all it's cracked up to be.
So, this is where the ship's closet is?
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x10hd/journeytobabelhd0058.jpg
Wheee! I've just earned my pay for the week! And, y'know, justified my username and all.
I heard that in Mariner's "SENSE-ORS" voice from Lower Decks
Not visible on screen, but the diagram of the phaser emitter of a Constitution Class starship was created for "Space Seed." The diagram does appear in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phaser_bank?file=Constitution_primary_phaser.jpg
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0444.jpg
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phaser_bank?file=Constitution_primary_phaser.jpg
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0444.jpg
Yep. But BOT came first in production order so it established the "canon" spelling.
An in-universe explanation is that languages and word spellings change over three hundred years. The British English still uses the "u" in a lot of words that have been dropped in American English; ex. flavour vs. flavor. Maybe a phonic approach to English spelling systems was introduced at some period during their last three hundred years on Earth. I can see that it might help it become the common world language.Of course, canonical signage isn't all it's cracked up to be.
So, this is where the ship's closet is?
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x10hd/journeytobabelhd0058.jpg
Hmmm. Thanks for this! I wonder what use they had planned to make of it in Space Seed? (P.S. the emitters are wicked cool looking, and now we know what Scotty was brushing up on in the rec room.)
The diagram was part of the technical tapes Khan was viewing.
Interesting. Learning about the destructive power that would soon be at his disposal, evidently.
Then why would it be spelled PHaser and not Fazer?
Yep. And you couldn't see a bit of that diagram in "Space Seed" or when Scotty studied it in "The Trouble with Tribbles," especially on the old TV sets. As with the tiny labels on bridge buttons (the rectangular white ones), they made this stuff super-detailed just in case the camera would pick it up.
Totally secure for him to do so, too!
Oof, yes. As if Kirk wouldn't have been drummed out of Starfleet within a week or two after that. I've often said that Space Seed has the worst plot holes of almost any episode of Star Trek, not the least of which is Kirk's total incompetence in the face of a self-evident security threat. It's a testament to the outstanding dialogue, acting, and story idea that SS is still a terrific episode despite the ridiculous plotting problems.
Sulu was such a whizz at his console he rarely ever even looked down at the buttons he was pressing.
They stopped after the "A's" when they discovered it was a dumb idea.
I've been waiting for someone to say somethingNice Avatar update....
It seems like this was some kind of touch sensor that did not really require touch, as if has infrared and can read his hand position. Spock seems to do something similar when accessing records in "the Cage." Can't a Nintendo Joy-con (sp?) do this now?
Does anybody have a reference for this? With so much "re-envisioning" of how things looked in the TOS era over the last few years, I really think this is more in line with the "add-detail-for-a-current-TV-but-don't-change-existing-details" approach instead.
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