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My guess is the inspiration was the Van Allen belts, detected in 1958 by instruments aboard the Explorer 1 satellite.

The script for TWOK says the ale is an "instant drunk".

Nah, he was right. To some fans it's perfect. To most audiences, it's tediously long. You could whack most of the shots from outside the dock because they add nothing and give away too much of the ship before the big reveal. Also, that stupid hexagonal light didn't merit its closeup. I also...

The DE listed runtime is longer than the theatrical cut by 4 minutes, though some of that is the longer overture and the extended end credits. I'm unclear on how much shorter the body of the film is or isn't. The Special Longer Version is an abomination of an edit and I choose to ignore it.

Even Wise didn't want the drydock scene to go on that long. Here's a few salient quotes from an interview titled "A Very Sloppy Way to Make a Movie" (Best of Starlog Vol. VI), which is described in the introduction as having been conducted "In 1980, a few months after the release of the 1979...

IRL the various Apollo missions got shifted around after this episode was written. For instance, Apollo 8 wasn't originally intended to go anywhere near the Moon, but various factors caused the mission profiles to be altered.

Frankly, the -D isn't too huge if you assume a lot of its interior volume is filled with fuel and other consumables for lengthy voyages. I'd just assume the populated areas were mostly at the outside where all the windows are, and the bulk of the interior volume is tanks and bulk matter storage...

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Read where? There's a paucity of documentation about the sets.

The 11' model was hung from the ceiling in the 70s. Last I heard, it was still on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall on the first floor, which is right across from the entrance.

Medal of Honor The nation’s highest military award for valor is the Medal of Honor, presented by the president in Congress’ name. By law, only U.S. service members who distinguish themselves “through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty” can...

When I saw it at the Smithsonian, it was like 11'2" long, tops.

USS = Space 'murica NCC = Numbering Can Commence

That's pretty much it.

But the Enterprise knew where they were beamed down on Gothos so would be looking for a signal from that vicinity. On Tarsus II they had no idea where on the planet the shuttle might be (which made beaming search parties down preposterous).

Due to how tiny it would be, I'd image a beam would be very difficult to spot. Maybe the explosion of a phaser on overload would be easier to spot from orbit, assuming the ship happened to be orbiting where it could detect it and not over the horizon.

In a memo to Freiberger, Roddenberry effectively stated Gerrold was a n00b who had a lot of help with Tribbles — meaning Coon — and up-front suggested pairing him with an experienced TV writer. Also, Justman never liked "Tribbles" and he might've recommended against a sequel.

One can pick the logic apart in all the movies, and ST IV is no different. I did a whole series of tongue-in-cheek articles on them. Example: when they get a visual on the whales from 600 nautical miles/1,111 km. To even see the whales just on the horizon at such a distance, the Bird of Prey...

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loD HoS be' jagh qepHom Though it loses something in the translation.