WTF moments in TOS & TAS....

I see, thanks@GNDN18 and @Ssosmcin.


About View to a Kill, yes, the age difference between Roberts and Moore WAS ridiculous but again, I'm one to talk.

My grandfather, who was a widower, was a lot older than my grandmother when they married and he was 55 when my father, his youngest child was born.

That is how I can have a grandfather who would be 150 years old today.

Robert

 

If we're mentioning Dalton then the marriage got a mention in his second outing, License To Kill, when Bond is teased about whether he will marry. Felix's new bride Della throws Bond her garter, but he shakes his head with a sad smile and walks away. “He was married”, explains Felix, “but it was a long time ago”.
So, is he still the same character, just with a younger body?

 

Now I have to ask: do the Bond films have transcripts online like Star Trek does? Because I want that.

 

It’s surprising how many films have scripts transcribed on line, so I usually I find what I’m looking for when I search Google by typing in the film name followed by “script”. Sometimes, though, the scripts posted are earlier drafts and not the dialogue I’m looking for. That’s happened with Star Trek VI, Broadcast News, and Dr. Strangelove.

 

Getting back to WTF moments, I will nominate the inflatable Enterprise from The Practical Joker.

 

Yeah, I thought that was WTF! way back when it first aired. It looked to come out of the hangar bay and I couldn’t help but wonder how such a large inflated balloon, even deflated, could fit in the allotted space. A projection of an oversized ship would have made more sense.

Mind you TAS is brimming with WTF moments. In TAS the Enterprise now has Tardis technology to allow for an impossibly large hangar with an array way oversized shuttlecraft.

 

To be fair the shuttles in TOS already had that tech, so it's a natural progression...

 

OK... Yeah....

The joke of course is that the Romulans are made to look extremely foolish by attacking the balloon. Looking at it like that, I think it's funny, which is the whole point. Not as funny as Spock's microscope or "Kirk is a Jerk," but the personality that the computer acquires is deranged and infantile. YMMV.

 

Yeah the inflatable Enterprise was a big WTF moment. Another one was from the TAS episode The Survivor, which had an alien that could become a Starship Deflector Screen...

 

I always assumed the alien transformed into the component it had previously sabotaged, which is almost as preposterous. But I could be misremembering exactly what happened.

 

I doubt it's what the author intended, but works with a little bit of squinting

KIRK: Good work, Mister Scott. That deflector shield went up just in time.
SCOTT: But sir, I haven't finished repairing the shield. I told you it'll take hours, and it will.
SPOCK: Interesting.
KIRK: Then what was? Winston.
SPOCK: It is not outside the realm of probability. If he could rearrange his own atoms to become an examination table, one would have to assume he could become a deflector shield.
SCOTT: Will someone tell me what's going on?
(The Vendorian enters)
SCOTT: What manner of beastie is that?
SPOCK: Your deflector shield, Mister Scott.
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Just read "deflector shield" as "machinery for deflector shield"

 

Except it was ONE shield facing and it was the one that just happened to be between the 1701 and the enemy ship. (IE if he became the part the Mr. Scott needed, you would think the entire system - meaning all shield facings - would have been restored for the time the alien was so transformed.

 

So your grandfather was born May 21, 1872? It is rare for a living person to have a grandfather born so long ago.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born 1928, has a grandfather, President John Tyler, born in 1790, 232 years ago.

 

Yeah, that's one WTF moment, for sure.

 

According to Roddenberry shields are all around the ship, deflectors are projected in a specific direction and don't surround the ship.

 

The Alan Dean Foster adaptation had him changing into a replacement for the damaged components. But still a WTF notion.