McCoy "handled" two women at the end of Shore Leave, but Yeoman Barrows put a stop to that.
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Hey, I never noticed that before....
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When was that?
Don't forget TOS S3 Day Of The Dove, where they set the transporter on Wide-field and beam up Kirk's party of five, and Kang's party of six all in one go. They of course materialize them separately so that Kirk can capture/outfox Kang; but they dematerialize 10 people from the planet simultaneously.
Plus "The City on the Edge of Forever" where 7 are beamed up at the same time.
I just watched The Searchers (1956) on TCM. It's considered the greatest western ever filmed. It even got a mention once on Deep Space Nine. It co-stars Jeffery Hunter.
Anyway, there's a scene where John Wayne is looking around an Indian settlement, and the POV switches to inside a tent, looking out through the flap entrance. John Wayne is walking past the opening, does a kind of double-take, and stops suddenly to step inside.
The camera angle and Wayne's moves are a perfect match for what Kirk does when he first sees Decker aboard the Constellation. I think director Marc Daniels lifted this idea from The Searches and used it in "The Doomsday Machine."
Anyway, there's a scene where John Wayne is looking around an Indian settlement, and the POV switches to inside a tent, looking out through the flap entrance. John Wayne is walking past the opening, does a kind of double-take, and stops suddenly to step inside.
The camera angle and Wayne's moves are a perfect match for what Kirk does when he first sees Decker aboard the Constellation. I think director Marc Daniels lifted this idea from The Searches and used it in "The Doomsday Machine."
That's entirely possible and it is indeed a wonderful shot, but since there wasn't a full outside corridor build for the ACR at the time the camera would have had to be inside the room anyway.
I suppose the default (less interesting shot) would have been just Kirk walking straight in and spotting Decker at the same time
Oh jeez, I never noticed their belly buttons are "hidden" by color-coordinated fluff balls. Network standards!
In A Private Little War, Kirk orders "ship's stores" to provide native costumes for him and McCoy. Does the Enterprise have a costume department? I don't recall seeing one in any blueprints. Come to think of it, how did they handle clothing and laundry on board? More important than having a bowling alley...
Like a lot of things I suspect familiar terminology remains while describing something largely unfamiliar. Today we refer to an electronic device as a tablet whereas in times past a tablet was a pad of paper or even a wood or stone slab. Today a computer is an electronic device, but at one time a computer was actually a person.
The TOS era obviously has replicator technology that can be used to produce pretty much whatever they need. Laundry is more likely recycling the garments in some manner rather than actually cleaning them. Effectively a clean uniform is likely a freshly replicated uniform.
And how else to explain how “native attire” (or a Nazi uniform) could be produced so quickly? They could hardly have imagined needing such items in storage when they embarked on the five-year mission.
They also get Nazi Uniforms in "Patterns of Force"
I assume ships stores is also tied into that.
They may store raw fabric materials (leather, linen, silk, etc) to be manufactured into whatever clothing they need. Ships stores store that material, as well as the clothing replicators, which make clothes after patterns or from photos from different angles.
And perhaps, to some extent, it's in vogue to "camouflage" high tech behind retro-future aesthetics. That and "military/service-grade" tech needs to be hard to destroy (relatively speaking, and unless the plot calls for it) and redundant, in case of breakage/loss/seizure, you can adapt a device to do the work of another.
Exactly. Most sci-fi will reflect modes of thinking for the time in which the story was written—like capital ships duking it out with big guns, and one-man fighters going at it World War II style, despite the obvious technical problems. Some sci-fi ventures into territory so novel that it risks losing the audience, but I've found most invokes technology not too far over the horizon.
Once in a while, even obvious technology, like the Trek transporter ("from here to there, like a phone call") will be used in a "thinking outside the box" manner, such as Spock appearing behind Capt. Christopher in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," or Kirk's Jekyll-and-Hyde experience in "The Enemy Within."
I thought Janeway said they didn't have replicators in Kirk's era. Oh well.
I agree, the ease and promptness that a needed costume showed up does imply some sort of rapid additive/printable manufacturing on board. Or maybe just tie the transporter into a sewing patten database.
I agree, the ease and promptness that a needed costume showed up does imply some sort of rapid additive/printable manufacturing on board. Or maybe just tie the transporter into a sewing patten database.
She also said they packed them in like sardines. History might not be her best subject.
Or the quarters were closer than Captain Hyperbole would like.
The precise technology? Probably not,anymore than I would consider my old wireless phone to be the same as my current phone.
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