Hey, I never noticed that before....

Doctor M'Benga

 

Yeah, I was just about to say, M'Benga did, because unfortunately we don't know his rank, in turn because he had no sleeves.

 

The man that attacked McCoy in The Tholian Web was an orderly and not a red shirt as I recall, Phase!
JB

 

It's a medical thing. Keeps him from dragging his sleeve through his patient's wounds.

I wonder why engineers never had short sleeves, though. Getting your sleeve caught in something could be dangerous for you.

 

Machinists wear short sleeves and no gloves to avoid them getting caught in rotating equipment. Does the Enterprise have rotating equipment in the engineering control rooms? I never see any.

 

I dunno. Maybe behind unopened (in the episodes) panels.

 

It all probably plasma this and plasma that. But you might have a point, Scotty did say in The Trouble With Tribbles:

SCOTT: They're into the machinery, all right, and they're probably in all the other food processors too.
KIRK: How?
SCOTT: Probably through one of the air vents.​

So, there is "machinery" which could imply moving parts. Also, the air vents move air somehow; why not with fans?

 

Thanks for the reference.

 

Long sleeves are all right when you’re working on pretend machinery.

 

Looks like he's giving it a good flossing.

 

"Quick, look busy; the Captain's coming."

 

Definitely, JB! I just meant that I think it's the same actor!

 

I think it was a guy with thinning hair wasn't it?
JB

 

Obsession...Kirk tells Garrovick to go to the left. In the background is that funny shaped rock with some foliage on it.



Next scene...Garrovick has found that same rock with the same foliage on it.

 

...Plus some alien footprints! (Or is he perhaps running in circles?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

You see one rock, you've seen them all. It looks like they rotated the camera only about 10 degrees and ripped out the foreground bush...maybe if they moved the camera more and changed more of the greenery, they would have fooled you.

 

I can't unsee this now.

DAMMMMMM YOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

Can't say I've ever noticed but I usually keep my eyes waiting for the Cloud to appear anyway!
JB

 

Yep, most viewers are focused on the actors, and we favor the foreground over the background (where nothing is expected to happen on a TV show). I never noticed the rock before, either.

Director Ralph Senensky was struck by how small the Stage 10 planet set was on "Metamorphosis." He even used a wide-angle lens to create that illusion that Cochrane was far away when first seen.
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x09/Metamorphosis_033.JPG
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x09/Metamorphosis_035.JPG

And he had to shoot through a rocky overhang to conceal the top of the cyclorama, the studio ceiling, etc.

 

Pretty sure it's the same guy, JB!



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