That rock formation with the green foliage is the one the cloud creature comes over yet somehow is also behind Garrovick when he fires his phaser and behind everyone when Kirk shows up after:“Obsession”
After Kirk tells Garrovick to ‘circle around to the left’, Garrovick ends up at the same rock formations where the landing party was just standing. I guess he really went full circle. And a green and blue tree instantly bloomed on the left side of the screen cap.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Yes, it’s a very mobile rock.
More likely a very immobile camera
The original USS Enterprise typeface on the saucer is pretty much identical to the USAF's of the time. Nice touch. 
(it helps when watching other shows like "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the font is emblazoned on the side of a plane and *ding* it's realized. /spoiler)
(it helps when watching other shows like "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the font is emblazoned on the side of a plane and *ding* it's realized. /spoiler)
For years, I thought that the Romulan commander's outfit was just groovy. It's just a stylized white leaf motif with dark blue background. Really, really nice design - simple yet complex yet simple. 
For years, I thought that the Romulan commander's outfit was just groovy. It's just a stylized white leaf motif with dark blue background. Really, really nice design - simple yet complex yet simple.
It never surprised me that Bill Theiss always worked his magic when designing various TOS costumes, even during the 3rd season with its’ drastic budget limitations.
The dude was legendary (and in good ways!). The Romulan Commander's was toward the top-tier list for ingenuity. Along with his Vulcan designs and the Eemorg outfits from "Spock's Brain" (bad plot, great costuming), but I've a thing for geometric angles. Which brings me to giving big brownie points for his TNG uniform design as well, for which early designs - as with anything production-related - showed an interesting evolution to what would later become greenlit for season one...
https://www.startrek.com/news/william-ware-theiss-in-out-of-uniform
(Cool history, with information also provided by Dorothy Fontana)
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/favorite-william-ware-theiss-costume-design.130943/
(I should have realized, LOL. Gotta admit, Mea3's outfit is pretty cool. And even using dime store* plastic placemats got repurposes for Kryten and co. in “Elaan of Troyius” as a terrific cost-saver that (a) works (how'd he get the plastic to stay on under the hot studio lighting!) and (b) also foreshadows both 70s lapel (and yellow/orange palette!!) and 80s shoulder pad trends. Again, the guy had an angle...
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My TOS rewatch is long, long overdue. Sorry Steve and Jaime...
* Season 3's budget issues and how inexpensive prevalent plastic was in the late-1960s, on top of the creativity the 1960s had for these sorts of things, I am not using the term in any derogatory way, not even accidentally so
(Cool history, with information also provided by Dorothy Fontana)
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/favorite-william-ware-theiss-costume-design.130943/
(I should have realized, LOL. Gotta admit, Mea3's outfit is pretty cool. And even using dime store* plastic placemats got repurposes for Kryten and co. in “Elaan of Troyius” as a terrific cost-saver that (a) works (how'd he get the plastic to stay on under the hot studio lighting!) and (b) also foreshadows both 70s lapel (and yellow/orange palette!!) and 80s shoulder pad trends. Again, the guy had an angle...
)My TOS rewatch is long, long overdue. Sorry Steve and Jaime...
* Season 3's budget issues and how inexpensive prevalent plastic was in the late-1960s, on top of the creativity the 1960s had for these sorts of things, I am not using the term in any derogatory way, not even accidentally so
Speaking of Theiss, I never made this connection before; Green dress uniforms, green wraparound, green coveralls:
so the intended green uniforms too? There certainly weren't any yellow/gold coveralls (that I recall anyway.)
so the intended green uniforms too? There certainly weren't any yellow/gold coveralls (that I recall anyway.)
Bill Theiss seems to have had a thing for off-one-shoulder women's costumes. (Clickable thumbnails)
Pardon the pun, but I think Bill Theiss referred to it as the ‘titillation factor’, the viewers’ belief/hope that the costume was going to fall off.
The one worn by Leslie Parrish is the prime example of this.Pardon the pun, but I think Bill Theiss referred to it as the ‘titillation factor’, the viewer belief/hope that the costume was going to fall off.
Fascinating! Although the last image in the phaser room had the yellow-ish (in the light) officer uniform too...
yep. the top is held up solely by the weight of the cape.
That was the "official" story. More likely a generous amount of double-sided adhesive tape was involved. The stuff is used so much in modeling and fashion photography that it's often called "fashion tape" or "boob tape."
Bill Theiss seems to have had a thing for off-one-shoulder women's costumes. (Clickable thumbnails)
And for dudes, too!
Well, just not as many...
Romans, meet Disco (albeit a decade early...)
William Shatner says as much in Star Trek Memories (1993). He has a production still of Leslie Parrish in a "ratty" bathrobe for on-set rehearsal with him, and he mentions the dress was affixed with double-sided tape that (supposedly) took off chunks of skin every time it was removed.
I doubt the skin thing was literally true, because it's well-known that she wore the same dress again in a episode of Mannix. That had to be her suggestion, or at the very least she could have vetoed the idea. She knew she looked good in that Grecian gown, and I don't think it was hurting her.
True but you can also see color changes due to lighting in that image. The waist of the crewman in back is washed out to a gray-blue by a side light, for example. And note how green Tomlinson's foreground sleeve looks outside of the spotlight.
I like that look.Pardon the pun, but I think Bill Theiss referred to it as the ‘titillation factor’, the viewers’ belief/hope that the costume was going to fall off.
Yes, totally agree. I tried to acknowledge that by saying it was yellow-ish in the light but should've added green outside of the light.
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