Would 'Assignment Earth' really make it as a series?

That slo-mo close-up that caps off the opening credits is not the one they're talking about. But an interesting thing about that one is that it plays in reverse, so it will end with the sunlight lens flare that it freezes on. He's actually "running backward" there.

 

The beginning of this clip is the footage used to create the end sequence of the opening credits. Zoomed a little closer and with the trees, etc., added, that Zap described.

Super Power, enhanced running, bionic full speed scenes - YouTube

Sir Rhosis

 

Amusing aside, when I was a kid, I thought all that stuff attached to Steve was stacks of cash (because he was the "Six Million Dollar Man").

 

When I was five and first discovered Star Trek, I saw them talk about going to the bridge and then coming through sliding doors into a big round room, and I thought that behind those sliding doors was a bridge that they walked across to get to the big round room. I also thought the Enterprise was a weird-looking airplane that only flew at night, and that "planets" were some kind of islands it flew to; I don't remember what I thought the big colorful balls next to the ship were. Oh, and I was angry that they named a character "Check-Off," because that was a ridiculously fake name that we couldn't be expected to take seriously.

So I think your conclusion about the Six Million Dollar Man is actually pretty logical by comparison...

 

I think I was four when I started watching Star Trek in (relatively early) syndication. For some reason, I thought for the longest time that Chapel's name was "Sickbay." And I excitedly told my dad one night that I had just watched "The Naked Time," pronouncing "naked" to rhyme with "baked." I also remember thinking that Kirk, Scotty and Spock were impossibly cool - so that hasn't changed. However, I did figure out Christine's correct name and now generally pronounce "naked" correctly.

 

Well, they were kind of baked, weren't they?

 

The only funny kid misperception of Star Trek that I can remember having was thinking the bridge was on the bottom of the saucer for some reason.

 

When I was a kid, I saw those animated "build-up" graphics of Steve and Jaime's limbs — and convinced myself that (instead of replacement limbs) they had enhancement technology implanted in their natural limbs. With a lot of excited speculation about whether I could have that done to me. (Apparently I ignored the footage where the doctors are clearly handling a disembodied artificial hand.)

If someone showed me what Steve actually looked like after his accident, it would've been pretty traumatic ... but it might've been a much-needed dose of reality.

 

We should have a "Mistakes I Believed About Star Trek" thread.

 

Or about retro S.F on TV in general.

 

Interesting fact, Steve's injuries are very nearly the same ones suffered by the test pilot whose lifting body crash footage is used in the show. The test pilot didn't lose any limbs, they were just severely broken, but he did lose an eye.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Peterson

Nasa Video Shows The Actual Crash Footage Used In The Bionic Man TV Intro - YouTube

Which, I promise is the last time I'll continue the hijack. I'd love a thread about things we believed falsely about Trek or other old SF program like that mentioned above, if anyone will start it, I'll contribute.

Sir Rhosis

 

Make it happen.

I was 10 or 11 when I started watching Star Trek. I don’t recall any far-out misconceptions. I did have one, though. When I first saw the two-part “The Menagerie” I thought I was seeing clips from an older show or early season I had somehow missed or never heard if. It wasn’t until I read The Making Of Star Trek sometime later that I finally understood what I was seeing, footage if the first unaired pilot episode. I still thought it was cool in that it gave the Star Trek universe some added backstory.

 

Voila: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/ret...ds-misconceptions-and-assorted-errors.313368/

 

I thought the entire saucer was the bridge.

 

I think there was a toy like that. And then there was that inaccurate Gold Key cutaway that made the ship only a few decks high.

(Shouldn't this be in the spinoff thread?)

 

Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel, was already canceled and off the air for over a year by the time the TOS S2 episode Assignment Earth, aired.

 

Only in the Mego bridge viewscreen art boards…really…look at one.

 

It makes sense though. I can totally understand how a kid would come to that conclusion. A bridge that leads to the bridge. Very nice.

 

I was probably influenced by my local library, whose downstairs children's section had a fish pond with a short bridge you crossed over to get to it from the foot of the stairs. People would drop pennies or nickels into the pond, presumably making a small contribution to the library's operating fund. The pond and bridge were still there are recently as six months ago, just as I remembered them after nearly half a century (gods, I'm old), although that branch is currently undergoing a renovation that includes an "updated, sustainable fish tank," and it doesn't look like it'll be in the same place anymore.