Hey, I never noticed that before....
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That's brilliant!Watched the underrated "Operation -- Annihilate!" this morning. At the beginning of this sequence in Act 2, Uhura is played by Nichelle Nichols:
By the end of the sequence, Uhura is being played by another actress:
Nichelle's stunt double, perhaps?
They are on Dropbox. That’s probably the reason.
And Uhura isn’t being played by another actress. That’s probably just her stand-in being used because she’s in the background and Nichols was indisposed.
Yeah, I knew she wasn't actually an actress 'playing' Uhura. Was being facetious because I was literally stunned that I'd never noticed this gaffe before today.
I'd also never noticed that in the second half of the show (when they're still trying to figure out a solution to destroy the creatures), Kirk, Spock and McCoy traipse from the science lab for one scene, to the briefing room for another, to Kirk's quarters for another, and then to the biolab for another -- as if the producers were saying, "We know this is the last show of the season and by gosh, we're going to use these sets." That, plus the nifty outdoor filming locations for Deneva, make this an episode I really enjoy.
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I always felt they should have made more use of the lab set redressed to be where Spock's scientists did stuff. It would have been nice to see him running a dept. rather than just being the Swiss Army Knife.Well they had built a fairly extensive science lab set, it makes sense they'd want to use it!
Break time is break time. The Comm Officers Union is pretty strict about that.Watched the underrated "Operation -- Annihilate!" this morning. At the beginning of this sequence in Act 2, Uhura is played by Nichelle Nichols:
By the end of the sequence, Uhura is being played by another actress:
Maybe Nichols was getting full of herself and becoming a pain, or repeatedly kept people waiting, or any number of possible behaviors of someone who's gotten too comfortable in a job.
And maybe the producers sent a shot across her bow: when she showed up for this bridge scene, there was another actress in one of her uniforms. And they told Nichols to sit this one out. Message: this is how easily you can be replaced, and we'll still have our portrayal of futuristic diversity and anything else we want, so get back in line.
It's just a hypothesis. Wasn't there a rumor that GR went through the motions of looking for a new Spock (Lawrence Montaigne, Barry Atwater...) in the hopes of tempering Nimoy's salary negotiations?
Yeah, I agree that that's the way it plays. We hear the overload whine. Maybe the bum pressed the trigger to try to silence the warning sound, poor guy.
Ditto.
Ditto.
I never went that far. Conversion into, say, neutrinos and some such would suffice.
Then again, these things are called "phasers" - and phasing is what makes you disappear from this reality and go to another in TNG...
...Namely, to a reality slightly ahead or behind in time! What happens in "Time's Arrow" and "Next Phase"/"Pegasus" may be what happens when you get hit with a phaser blast, too. And what the transporter does to you, what with all the doubletalk about phased matter. Move ahead or behind in time, and you become transparent to the world, capable of traveling through walls and space and going from a room aboard a starship to a sidewalk on a planet when appropriately pushed.
Just pray that the guy, gal or BEM pushing the trigger pushes it all the way. Having just a pound of flesh around your heart become transparent will ruin your day for good.
Timo Saloniemi
...Namely, to a reality slightly ahead or behind in time! What happens in "Time's Arrow" and "Next Phase"/"Pegasus" may be what happens when you get hit with a phaser blast, too. And what the transporter does to you, what with all the doubletalk about phased matter. Move ahead or behind in time, and you become transparent to the world, capable of traveling through walls and space and going from a room aboard a starship to a sidewalk on a planet when appropriately pushed.
Just pray that the guy, gal or BEM pushing the trigger pushes it all the way. Having just a pound of flesh around your heart become transparent will ruin your day for good.
Timo Saloniemi
Or maybe you're just swinging wild with your speculation.
There were rumors, but they were not serious. Spock was a big deal to the show, and the part was written with Nimoy in mind. They weren't going to recast him.
I'm pretty sure that TNG was written and produced a couple of decades after TOS was, so....
Re-watched The Tholian Web for the thousandth time the other week.
Despite Spock's opinion of the Doctor in previous episodes (which I actually think is an outward act), here more than ever he fully appreciates, respects and believes in McCoy and his medical excellence. Several times over, despite McCoy's attitude toward him:
SPOCK: I have confidence that you will soon isolate the cause, Doctor, and prevent further spread of the affliction.
And then later he specifically desires McCoy to be in the lab, first hand, overseeing the tests, suggesting his faith/belief/trust is solely or primarily placed in McCoy, where ship's medicine is concerned:
SPOCK: The urgency requires your personal attention in the laboratory.
MCCOY: My staff is working around the clock. My being there will not affect the biochemistry of any of the tests.
Despite Spock's opinion of the Doctor in previous episodes (which I actually think is an outward act), here more than ever he fully appreciates, respects and believes in McCoy and his medical excellence. Several times over, despite McCoy's attitude toward him:
SPOCK: I have confidence that you will soon isolate the cause, Doctor, and prevent further spread of the affliction.
And then later he specifically desires McCoy to be in the lab, first hand, overseeing the tests, suggesting his faith/belief/trust is solely or primarily placed in McCoy, where ship's medicine is concerned:
SPOCK: The urgency requires your personal attention in the laboratory.
MCCOY: My staff is working around the clock. My being there will not affect the biochemistry of any of the tests.
I just thought he wanted McCoy away from him.
Although Spock does show he respects McCoys expertise in some episodes - a witch doctor in others.
Spock can be cruel at times but definitely its an act.
I agree with you when McCoy keeps unnecessarily invading the bridge. (If this was TNG or beyond, Crusher etc would be remaining in Sickbay until the cure was found, off screen. But with TOS, Bones is a central character, and is crucial in offsetting Spock.)
Not sure l agree he is intentionally trying to keep him away at the service though.
I also thought that McCoy should be in the Lab full-time. His staff were going crazy and he had plenty of time to hassle Spock who frankly needed some support. Yeh but I agree McCoy had to be there to create the conflict. I think the episode could have been rewritten to make McCoy appear less irrational.
If Spock had abandoned Kirk McCoy would have been the first to criticise him. For some strange reason McCoy seemed for once it was OK to abandon Kirk. And then his stupid idea to hold a funeral for Kirk in the middle of a crisis. Whar possible benefit could it have? Just made people crazier. And why did Spock go along with it? Yes McCoy should have been busy finding a cure rather than finding ways to make Spock and the rest of the crew suffer.
OK another thing in Kirk's cabin McCoy seems to understand that Spock is upset over Kirk's apparent death then makes some crack about Spock getting the Captaincy by declaring Kirk dead. Wasn't it McCoy who insisted on the funeral? I mean Kirk had to be declared dead for that to happen.
Interestingly Scott advised Spock to fire at the Tholians but not in a totally disrespectful way like McCoy.
Why wasn't McCoy blaming Scott then.
But I liked the funeral stuff and very much liked the scene in Kirk's cabin even though McCoy came out looking like a bit of a jerk.
I like the Tholian Web a lot but if it could have been tweaked a bit in regard to McCoy then it would have been one of TOS best episodes for me..
If Spock had abandoned Kirk McCoy would have been the first to criticise him. For some strange reason McCoy seemed for once it was OK to abandon Kirk. And then his stupid idea to hold a funeral for Kirk in the middle of a crisis. Whar possible benefit could it have? Just made people crazier. And why did Spock go along with it? Yes McCoy should have been busy finding a cure rather than finding ways to make Spock and the rest of the crew suffer.
OK another thing in Kirk's cabin McCoy seems to understand that Spock is upset over Kirk's apparent death then makes some crack about Spock getting the Captaincy by declaring Kirk dead. Wasn't it McCoy who insisted on the funeral? I mean Kirk had to be declared dead for that to happen.
Interestingly Scott advised Spock to fire at the Tholians but not in a totally disrespectful way like McCoy.
Why wasn't McCoy blaming Scott then.
But I liked the funeral stuff and very much liked the scene in Kirk's cabin even though McCoy came out looking like a bit of a jerk.
I like the Tholian Web a lot but if it could have been tweaked a bit in regard to McCoy then it would have been one of TOS best episodes for me..
Mr Scott stated to Spock over the intercom that he had to do something about that ship out there; at that point McCoy was on the bridge asking Spock what the point of this battle was and to take the ship out of here.
McCoy was blaming Spock because ultimately instead of taking the ship out of the area and acknowledging that Kirk was lost; Spock by firing the phasers pretty much made the decision that he was going to risk the ship to retrieve Kirk no matter the cost.
