TOS Revisited (for the umpteenth time)
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This afternoon watched This Side of Paradise. Having seen all the episodes so many times it is hard not to concentrate on the errors and anomalies. Very strange continuity problem when Spock is being taken to see "the Plant". He is wearing is uniform but when he has been affected by the spores he is wearing the same overall as the colonists. I don't think that this phenomenon affected any other crew members.
The scene when Kirk is trying to make Spock angry is priceless although the when they are fighting the presence of doubles is VERY obvious.
If there no insects on the planet the plant life would not do very well.
Something that always strikes me in the episodes when people are tilling the ground for some reason, and there are quite a few, is that the soil is ALWAYS so atrocious.
The scene when Kirk is trying to make Spock angry is priceless although the when they are fighting the presence of doubles is VERY obvious.
If there no insects on the planet the plant life would not do very well.
Something that always strikes me in the episodes when people are tilling the ground for some reason, and there are quite a few, is that the soil is ALWAYS so atrocious.
That's the first time I've ever seen the word "biepisodial."
The soil is atrocious? How so? And is that only in episodes where the exterior scenes were obviously filmed on a soundstage, or does that also apply to real outdoor locations as in TSOP?
There was an offhand remark that they attempted to beam down heaters of some sort, but they were rendered inoperable by the contaminated transporter.
As for the shuttlecraft, well, the script was a victim of its own production order. No one thought to give the Enterprise a shuttlecraft until "The Galileo Seven" episode.
No, no, no. It was just a fact (per the old Enterprise tradition); that the Shuttlecraft wasn't going to be in the bay until Tuesday.
I never thought that the scene with the coveralls was right after the spores, I just thought he went with Leila somewhere and changed clothes.
Last night watched City on the Edge........ It is not perfect but certainly one of the best episodes if not the best.
The idea of the time portal is a bit contrived as a vehicle to sell a good yarn. I always feel slightly embarrassed when Edith Keeler makes her little speech whilst the down and outs are eating. Not really believable I think. However, I'm nit-picking. An excellent episode.
The idea of the time portal is a bit contrived as a vehicle to sell a good yarn. I always feel slightly embarrassed when Edith Keeler makes her little speech whilst the down and outs are eating. Not really believable I think. However, I'm nit-picking. An excellent episode.
I asked the late, great Bob Justman about this when I was lucky enough to chat with him at a convention a few years ago, and he shot this down as a myth.
I don't have a copy handy, but I am fairly sure that if you read Inside Star Trek (Justman and Solow, 1996), you will see reprinted memo's from Justman dated well after The Naked Time wrapped production, where Justman is still trying to convince Roddenberry to even approve Tomorrow Is Yesterday.
The two eps do fit beautifully together though, so I can see where this has come from.
The source was Dorothy Fontana, who wrote "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", so it looks like not all the staff were on the same page.
Let's consider this possiblity: The two episodes were initially thought up by John D.F. Black and Dorothy Fontana as a matched pair, Black's "The Naked Time" got approved right off, but the delay in approving Fontana's "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" blew the deal.
Let's consider this possiblity: The two episodes were initially thought up by John D.F. Black and Dorothy Fontana as a matched pair, Black's "The Naked Time" got approved right off, but the delay in approving Fontana's "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" blew the deal.
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Just watched Amok Time with the introduction of the Russian Mophead.
I'm really glad he changed his hairdresser later.
Whoever he got didn't do much better. Chekov's hair usually looked bizarre, like an ill fitting wig.
Hmmmm...
Not going to do a resume of every episode I watch but this afternoon I saw Mirror Mirror again. I always enjoy this one but how come they change clothes when they pass into the alternative universe? I don't think this happens in any of the other episodes in other series e.g DS9. 
I love Uhura in this one in that sexy alternative outfit.
Talking about Uhura I also watched The Changeling. Not much of an episode IMO. I think it might just take quite a few years to re-educate Uhura from scratch to the level required for being a Starfleet Officer.
I love Uhura in this one in that sexy alternative outfit.
Talking about Uhura I also watched The Changeling. Not much of an episode IMO. I think it might just take quite a few years to re-educate Uhura from scratch to the level required for being a Starfleet Officer.
In the case of the original Mirror, Mirror, I think the idea is that the transporter accident swaps the people — only. The uniforms and equipment transport from Prime Halkan to Prime Enterprise and from Mirror Halkan to Mirror Enterprise, but the people transport from Prime Halkan to Mirror Enterprise and from Mirror Halkan to Prime Enterprise, materializing inside their counterparts’ uniforms.Not going to do a resume of every episode I watch but this afternoon I saw Mirror Mirror again. I always enjoy this one but how come they change clothes when they pass into the alternative universe? I don't think this happens in any of the other episodes in other series e.g DS9.
The DS9 trips to the Mirror Universe are by different mechanisms, with no such exchange of people. When the DS9izens go to the Mirror Universe they meet their Mirror counterparts rather than switching places with them.
I was thinking much the same thing.
Makes as much sense as the clothing switch, I suppose. Of course, the Prime Enterprise crew had to materialize on the transporter platform wearing their mirror-counterparts' uniforms, or they would have been recognized instantly and there would be no story. Sometimes you have to just go with it.
Uhura's first thought upon materializing must have been, “Funny, why do I feel a draft?”