WTF moments in TOS...
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^I considered it, but one could make a case that it's central in a more literal geographic sense, and I was looking for examples that demonstrated that "Central" was not always used in the sense of physical location.
FYI - The accident you are refering to happened during the filming of Arena - he got too close to one of the rigged charges in the bombed out Starbase set.
That must have been the take they used - you can see he takes a hell of a blast, and it's really him.
Nimoy and Shatner both did really impressive stunt work in this one - which is funny, since they usually used really obvious stunt men.
If you'll look above, you'll see I already responded to that. It's generally reported as "Arena," but Nimoy has described the event in a way that's only consistent with "The Apple."
My WTF moments seem to be constant:
1) For a Vulcan with 'no' emotion, Spock has probably done more women on Trek then anyone else.
2) In some of those early episodes, Spock seems to have the need to shout what he has to say on the bridge when everyone can clearly hear him.
1) For a Vulcan with 'no' emotion, Spock has probably done more women on Trek then anyone else.
2) In some of those early episodes, Spock seems to have the need to shout what he has to say on the bridge when everyone can clearly hear him.
But I still wonder, how did anyone know (after the accident) that Pike's mind was still active, if he couldn't communicate that?
That'd be through the wonder of 23rd century technology! They just look at the medi-scanner:
^Heck, we can do it today with fMRI and PET scans.
When someone would die in sickbay, Kirk's sister-in-law, the camera would do a close up on this panel as all the indicator pointers dropped. The body temperature would drop too, shouldn't that take minutes or hours?
I think it's just that the computer shuts down because it recognizes that there's no longer any need to give readings.
...Which, considering how fuzzy and even reversible death is in Star Trek, is a bit funny. I mean, yeah, perhaps the flatlining is a fancy style of alarm or something. But surely McCoy would still want to know a few key blood values, so that the most profitable organs of today's stiff could be properly extracted?
I wouldn't mind it if only people like Gary Mitchell did the complete flatline trick. Trek is perfectly justified in showing exotic alien ways of dying. But nothing of the sort should have been involved in the death of Aurelan Kirk, for an already mentioned example.
Timo Saloniemi
I wouldn't mind it if only people like Gary Mitchell did the complete flatline trick. Trek is perfectly justified in showing exotic alien ways of dying. But nothing of the sort should have been involved in the death of Aurelan Kirk, for an already mentioned example.
Timo Saloniemi
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That must've been during the brief period when they didn't use money in the 22nd century.
You know what they say -- it's very cold in space.
Jeff
>>When someone would die in sickbay, Kirk's sister-in-law, the camera would do a close up on this panel as all the indicator pointers dropped. The body temperature would drop too, shouldn't that take minutes or hours? <<
Jeff
>>When someone would die in sickbay, Kirk's sister-in-law, the camera would do a close up on this panel as all the indicator pointers dropped. The body temperature would drop too, shouldn't that take minutes or hours? <<
Speaking of Space Central, I think "Amok Time" in season two gives us a way to explain those early references. Uhura mentions a Space Central on Vulcan. It's possible Starfleet makes use of Vulcan's Space Central to coordinate some of its activity.
My vote for WTF — the whole festival/red hour thing in "Return of the Archons". Kind of like the duplicate Earth idea in Miri, it is a plot point that is introduced early in the show and is seemingly a big deal, but then is dropped for the remainder of the episode which ends up being about something else entirely.
I later read somewhere, I guess it was MA, that the festival was some kind of population control mechanism. But none of that is in the episode (or anywhere in canon), which ends up being a big WTF when you first see it without that background.
I later read somewhere, I guess it was MA, that the festival was some kind of population control mechanism. But none of that is in the episode (or anywhere in canon), which ends up being a big WTF when you first see it without that background.
^I always interpreted it as a release valve -- Landru keeps everyone's natural drives controlled and repressed the rest of the year, and this is the one opportunity they get to let them out and burn them off. In that interpretation, it fits pretty neatly into the whole of the episode, I think. It shows the other side of the coin that's represented by "the Body"'s highly controlled, restricted existence the rest of the time.
Well, it's rather likely that the planet was spraying the visitors with all sorts of happy chemicals, now isn't it? That would be in keeping with its purpose. And our heroes accept with amazing ease the idea that the uninhabited planet has lawns and parklands! If they aren't more alert about something as suspicious as that, something that could threaten their own lives, it's unlikely they would care all that much about the lives of others...
I'd very much like to think that these Space Centrals are local space traffic control hubs, and that every inhabited system worth anything has one. But that doesn't explain the "Miri" reference.
Timo Saloniemi
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