Dialogue Doesn't Match the Scene

[Phaser Two]

And then there's the cost-cutting CLOUD MINDERS ventriloquism which should have been remastered and ejected.....

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS POST???

 

[ZapBrannigan]

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS POST???

Yeah, I couldn't place the ventriloquism reference either.

Also, when someone gets "remastered and ejected" from Stratos, it's a long way down. That first step is a doozy.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS POST???

''Attack'', actually. Act One, Scene One after opening credits. Watch Kirky's lips.

 

[Phaser Two]

Yeah, I couldn't place the ventriloquism reference either.

Also, when someone gets "remastered and ejected" from Stratos, it's a long way down. That first step is a doozy.

''Attack'', actually. Act One, Scene One after opening credits. Watch Kirky's lips.

Er . . . yes. The missing ventriloquist dialogue is "Who are you? What's the meaning of this attack?" Hence my little joke about your post . . . like Chekov's in "The Trouble With Tribbles" opening briefing . . . aaaaand I'll show myself out now.

 

[Noname Given]

How about those moments when what is said doesn't quite go with what's happening?

• The Corbomite Maneuver
"I knew he would."
Sulu's line was confusing for years. Now we know what happened, but my best guess during the syndie era was that Sulu "knew" Kirk would apologize to McCoy. That wasn't it, which is why it didn't quite work as such...

Actually Sulu's line comes across as a response to McCoy saying to Kirk: " I don't know how you kept from punching me in the mouth..."
^^^
It's after that line that you hear Sulu say: " I knew he would."

• Spock's Brain
"If it will trap the creatures for the Others, Keptin, won't it trap us, too?"
The trouble: in the episode as shot, Morg and Eymorg are just plain cavemen and hot women. If you were seeing them in person, you wouldn't call them creatures. It rings false.

It makes sense if you consider that in POS just because an alien looked human it doesn't mean they were human.

This is reinforced later in the episode by the fact that Spock mentions use of The Teacher device might kill McCoy because the Eymorg aren't human; and their brains are different.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Er . . . yes. The missing ventriloquist dialogue is "Who are you? What's the meaning of this attack?" Hence my little joke about your post . . . like Chekov's in "The Trouble With Tribbles" opening briefing . . . aaaaand I'll show myself out now.

No need for that, unless a moderator orders as such. And as I've locked the doors from outside, it's currently impossible anyhow. Please stay. No joke could ever be as little as Chekov's.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

Also, that line in Shore Leave is wrong. Surely Spock would've beamed down from the Transporter Room?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Also, that line in Shore Leave is wrong. Surely Spock would've beamed down from the Transporter Room?

He had to. As if he didn't need any other ways to show off.

 

[Phaser Two]

No need for that, unless a moderator orders as such. And as I've locked the doors from outside, it's currently impossible anyhow. Please stay. No joke could ever be as little as Chekov's.

Ohhhhhhh, okay. And is it wrong that I laugh out loud at Chekov's joke every single time? (Although nothing is funnier to me in that episode than the Kirk-Scotty post-fight discussion; I cannot believe Shatner and Doohan acted that so perfectly. And speaking of dialogue, that scene positively glows.)

Also, that line in Shore Leave is wrong. Surely Spock would've beamed down from the Transporter Room?

Sure! And that's why I haven't been able to make it work from 1976 or so until now. But I think Zap is saying that you can read Sulu's line as seeing Spock's shape in the beam and saying to Kirk, in code, "Oh, come on, seriously - looks like 'a mysterious someone from the bridge' has got to join us now?!"

Incidentally I always loved Spock and Sulu's relationship.