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I'm trying to figure out how viewers in the 1960s would've understood the Federation. So far as I can tell, there's nothing in the first season that indicates the Enterprise is part of a multispecies confederation. Sure, Spock is in Stafleet, but as a half-human he could simply be an exception...
I picked up a book recently called Operation Hollywood, which looks into the ways the Pentagon forces Hollywood studios to rewrite movies in exchange for cooperation on the production. There are some really ridiculous examples, like the Army objecting to Forrest Gump showing his butt to LBJ, and...
I was watching TMP the other day, and something occurred to me: why wasn't Rand court martialed for her role in the transporter accident? I mean, this wasn't some random, unforseen malfunction -- the system was offline for repairs. Scotty and Decker were in the engine room working on the...