And Norman did pull it off.
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He was a pretty humanoid-looking android. Still, you'd think incoming crew members would all get a physical when they came aboard.
The EMH clearly never detected that Seska was a Cardassian who was genetically altered to pass as a Bajoran woman in the Maquis, so even late 24th century Starfleet physicians sometimes overlooked something that could be detected with enough oddities being spotted.
I hope TAS is never updated. It's absolutely perfect, just the way it is.
Uhura, was into Intelligence, due to her communication posting. Electronic Signal processing is part of Intelligence. Maybe not Starfleet Intelligence, per se, but part of the requirements for a Star Ship Captain to know what is going on around him. This means that Captain Kirk relied heavily on Uhura. And I mean heavily.
I'm listening to the Enterprising Incidents Podcast's TAS episodes. (Very enjoyable. Some terrific guests as well.) And something that I think gets missed when talking about how "cheap" TAS is is: Compared to what? What was the TV show that was getting the five star animation treatment that TAS did not?
Would I have loved a fully cast show with Disney Feature Film quality animation? I mean, sure. But what show was getting that?
And beyond the animation and Jimmy Doohan: Man of Five Voices there is the undeniable "Star Trek" of it all. It has the cast, it has the writers, and it has a higher hit to miss ratio than TOS does (IMHO). It even has (according to Walter Koenig) endless Roddnberry re-writes!
@Richard S. Ta - You're right. There are ways it could be changed or supplemented. But never replaced.
This can be waived away by saying Norman altered the personnel file to show he did receive a physical before coming aboard.
Much easier to get away with altering records in a larger populated environment like a starbase. 430 people and only McCoy (who doesn't trust computers) doing the exams? You bet he'd remember giving Norman a physical or not.
That is one aspect of COMMs, SIGINT. So I concur, I can see Uhura delving into that subject area, especially given the AstroPolitical Climate of the 23rd century.
Blasphemy!
I love Scott. But life is change, it was always unsatisfying that these characters never really grew beyond their TOS roles.
I suppose that's where a lot of vitriol came from between the "lower tier" characters directed at Shatner/Nimoy. There were always allegations of the top-billers keeping the others down (Sulu's infamous cut "Excelsior" line from TWOK fits in this category, spawning decades of rage from Takei against Shatner), but then you have the story about Nimoy demanding the others be included in the animated series (and threaten to not participate himself) when the producers considered leaving them out, particularly the characters of color.
TV was different back then, though. I don't think the writers really knew how to handle an ensemble cast. Anyone other than the "Big 3" were treated more as living set dressing than actual living characters. "Fleshy NPC's" in today's gaming parlance. Things are better now, IMO.
TV was different back then, though. I don't think the writers really knew how to handle an ensemble cast. Anyone other than the "Big 3" were treated more as living set dressing than actual living characters. "Fleshy NPC's" in today's gaming parlance. Things are better now, IMO.
That's the thing, though. TOS wasn't an ensemble cast. It was a show about three main characters. Period. The remaining characters were there to help move the plot along. It was structured like a typical 60's TV show would be structured. Yes, there were certain episodes where the supporting cast got more to do, but most of the time, it was supposed to be Kirk, Spock, and McCoy heading off to planetary adventures while everyone else sat around the bridge and waited on them.
Sometime during Trek's great syndication run during the 70's, and particularly the rise of conventions, many people associated with the show, not the least of which was Roddenberry, began rewriting history as to what the series was. Fans began elevating anyone who appeared in the show as though they were all legendary members of a big ensemble show. But that's never the way it actually happened.
If you've ever seen the scene or heard the recording you know this is a BS story against Shatner. It's a terrible line and the reading of the line wasn't even good.
As it is those were the only two the kept. Sorry Pavel.
It was like a WWII movie like The Enemy Below. Sure there are a bunch of wacky crew members and they might even be memorable but it's Robert Mitchum's movie.
When it comes to Shatner, I don’t trust a single word that comes out of George Takei’s mouth.
I’m sure there’s some truth in his vitriol, but it’s mixed in with so much of his own personal biased bullshit that it’s impossible to differentiate fact from fiction.
A very unpleasant, embittered individual.
I’m sure there’s some truth in his vitriol, but it’s mixed in with so much of his own personal biased bullshit that it’s impossible to differentiate fact from fiction.
A very unpleasant, embittered individual.
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