Grubbier perhaps, even maybe a bit weirder but definitely not as alien! 
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Hey, I never noticed that before....
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If the cop had roughed Spock up a bit, imagine his face when the perp bleeds green...
That was part of the joke. He had his history mixed up, so he didn't realize it was an anachronism. Seems like a realistic badimprovement. History was obviously nothing major
Y'know, like the the Voyage Home, not familiar with how swore in the past 30 years... "a double dumb ass on you"
Or Spock taking a lot of LDS previously...
Fascinating catch, but it's so subtle that I doubt if Alexander Courage was aware of it.
Uh, not quite. The music in The Time Machine flutters back and forth, like leaves in a breeze. Up and down, like a sine wave. The Trek music is a driving, descending ripple, like someone drumming their fingers. Or a heartbeat.
(Back to the Future had a couple allusions to George Pal's Time Machine. The clock tower chiming when Marty arrives in downtown Hill Valley is akin to the clock tower heard in almost all of The Time Traveler's arrivals, including his return home. And the squeal of the wind-up toy car used in Doc's model, especially as it hits the floor and accelerates, is reminiscent of Pal's scale model, and even full scale machine at high velocity.)
Maybe he's got a quota to make.
I wonder how their theft of the clothing affected the people who owned it. Not like people living in the depression had clothes to spare.
Some guy didn't have his nice clothes, so he didn't land that job in industrial research. And so Velcro was never invented.
The Vulcans have that sorted.
Pretty much:
"The original hook-and-loop fastener was conceived in 1941 by Swiss engineer George de Mestral."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook-and-loop_fastener#In_popular_culture
2002 - The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Carbon Creek" portrays Velcro as being introduced to human society by Vulcans in 1957. One of the Vulcans in the episode is named "Mestral", after the fastener's actual inventor and founder of the brand.
Remember he started as a stage actor, and to project attitudes, expressions, etc, from the stage across a large theater requires a bit more emphasis and expression. Which could translate as over acting or campy on a TV screen. Shatner may be a bit flamboyant even decades later, when perhaps he might have learned to tone it down, but I usually don't find it pulls me out of a scene.
Except when they had a bigger budget, we got ridiculously extreme costumes and makeup, "because they could". I liked Sarek's original ambassador uniform in JTB. The heavy plastic "jewelry" and robes didn't seem as elegant to me as his embroidered tunic on black. Ditto for the Klingons etc. extreme and ugly transformations.
Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Each successive Trek series and film has had bigger budgets and better resources, but look at Trek today I find it over-designed, dark, dreary and even ugly. Starship design went largely south after TWOK. Current Trek design is heavily fanbois.
As much grief as I gave TNG when it was in production it didn’t feel radically different from TOS. It felt evolutionary. At least the better parts of it. After that I found myself caring less and less.
But I agree—the heavy robes for Vulcans carried forth after TSFS were ridiculous and counter to the image Sarek presented as a full Vulcan in TOS. The TOS films after TSFS and in TNG made Klingons the comic opera outlaw bikers of the galaxy.
I agree with you that after TOS, I couldn't find myself caring. I disliked the ugly uniforms in TMP. The whites were okay, if rather bland. The gray uniforms were ugly, though they seemed to match the overall blandness of the movie, after the gorgeous lighting of TOS. And I really disliked the ugly red uniforms later on, with the heavy jackets and thick turtlenecks. Maybe they were trying to get away from the comments about TOS pajamas, but I never thought of the original TOS uniforms that way. I liked the uniform shirts, including Kirk's crossaway or bolero shirt. The pants with the little flare at the boots and the high heeled boots I confess I liked less.
I'm sure there was a need for that, but somehow, with their budget, I feel like they could have fashioned something less ugly.
Honestly, Doohan was the only cast member with major "expansion" at that time. Shatner was a little heavier than 3 years earlier but not excessively so. I wouldn't have put him in the form fitting togs of TMP, but I think the idea was more of a formal Old Tyme Naval feel but while I didn't think they were ugly, I do think they were far too formal for duty and looked unbearably hot.
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