Hey, I never noticed that before....

Why didn't the Gorn just bite Kirk when he had him in a death grip?

 

Eeewww! You want that alien thing in your mouth? Raw, all its germs? And what if humans are poisonous?

 

^^ Mother Gorn to her child: "Don't put that human in your mouth. You don't know where he's been!"

 

To a Gorn, it's a Human Happy Meal.

 

The Gorn might look like a scary tooth filled monster, but as Kirk says during his duel:

 

What, you assume the Gorn just bite people willy-nilly? That they're carnivorous? Why, that's the most Gornist thing I've ever heard! Check your privilege, hew-mon.

 

Maybe the Gorn has false teeth.

 

Hear, hear! The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club. Present company excepted, of course.

 

Maybe he was too civilized? I do remember a scene where The Gorn's head was buried into Kirk's neck area, so maybe he did try! In James Blish's version, The Gorn states that the only thing it could eat on the asteroid was Kirk!
JB

 

Maybe already mentioned, dunno.


"The Man Trap."

From http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_Trap_(episode):

In one of the red alert scenes on an Enterprise corridor, the crewmen are wearing turtleneck uniforms. It is a recycled (originally unused) shot from "Where No Man Has Gone Before". (It can be seen at the beginning of Act One, in the original, pre-broadcast version of the second pilot.)​

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x01/themantrap213.jpg

Also, you can see a couple of crewmen, one of whom is the "Bobby" who Uhura asks to look at her rattling door later, standing around in the background waiting for a turbolift. I guess the elevators weren't always ready to go!
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x01-2-hd/themantraphd381.jpg


"Mudd's Women."

Here's Farrell showing Magda how to work a communicator, no doubt one she convinces him to part with and the one she gives Harry later to contact the miners.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x06hd/muddswomenhd299.jpg

 

I love this catch! It actually fills in a plot point-- how did she get the communicator-- and somehow I never caught it before. Or maybe I've forgotten it over the years.

 

Here's my latest "never noticed before," - "The Lights of Zetar" is actually good. After some Zetarian-related comments in the psychedelia thread, I decided to watch LOZ last night for the first time in years and was struck by the fact that it was well-paced, well-acted, and pretty well-written to boot. Not without flaws, of course, but good. I was surprised. Also, it had one of the few Sulu-in-the-Captain's-chair moments in TOS, which I had completely forgotten. It also features all eight regulars (which very few eps do) and may also contain the only dialogue ever exchanged between Scotty and Chapel.

 

In a Private Little War, Scotty interrupts Chapel's meek attempt to revive Spock by slapping him, with a "Here now,what are you doing?", restraining her, then, M'Benga steps in to give Spock some real nice, hard 'Vulcan Recovery Belts' .....

 

True, that. Dialog exchange:

CHAPEL: Hit you? No! I can't
SPOCK: Blast you, strike me! If I don't regain consciousness soon, it may be too late. Hit me. (she slaps his face) Harder!
(She does, with tears in her eyes.)
SPOCK: Again. Continue. The pain will help me to consciousness.
SCOTT: (running in and dragging her away) What are you doing, woman?
CHAPEL: Leave me alone!
SCOTT: Have you gone daft?
CHAPEL: Mister Spock needs me! Let go!
(M'Benga rushes in and helps Spock to sit up before giving him some pretty vicious hits across the face. Scott stares, astonished. Finally Spock grabs M'Benga's arm.)
SPOCK: That will be quite enough. Thank you, doctor.​

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/45.htm

 

Yeah, been a while since I've seen that one....

 

Good catch! I certainly never noticed the red and green lights before, on your right coming out of the elevator.

P.S. I had fix the quote tags to quote your message.

 

Ah, that's right! Thanks and good catch. It occurred to me that they might have said something to each other in The Enterprise Incident too. Amok Time would be another one with good fodder for interaction between them except that Scotty is IIRC not in it. Bizarrely. I don't think he's in either "Vulcan-centric" episode of S2 at all.

 

In EI, she's just there in Sick Bay, when he walks in, and sees Kirk with the pointed ears..
Both Amok Time, and JTB are both very heavy with extras and make up, and he really isn't needed, story wise....although he is mentioned. Doohan had a pretty hefty price of $750/show, a lot for a recurring character, and in both shows, Chapel was NEEDED, I'm sure Majel made less per show than Doohan.did. There is a lot of stuff in Justman's memos wondering about how much certain characters/actors are needed in certain shows, claiming a day player would do just as well ,trying to save a few hundred bucks here and there