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I always thought they belatedly realized that the Galileo had burned up in the first season. Probably a fan letter came in nit-picking about it, and Fred Freiberger decided to paint II on the mockup. For the art department, this is analogous to just adding "-A" to the miniature after the...

The classic communicator is the only sci-fi prop I ever lusted for, if you don't count robots. Maybe the Space: 1999 commlock a little, but it looks like a much less comfortable carry than the communicator.

I always thought it reflected the automatic cultural assumption that when a career girl gets married, her next step is to quit that job and start a family. "Balance of Terror" was filmed during a transitional era, but a lot of women in 1966 still went to college to get their MRS degree and...

A little remedial DS9, please. When did that become canon? I can't believe Bashir would be sexually attracted to a Kardashian.

Agreed. After WNMHGB, I'd say Spock and the Enterprise Science Division wrote research papers that led to fleet-wide shield upgrades. In "By Any Other Name," the new shields were up and running. Thus Mitchell and Dehner, and the other nine who died, had something in common with the pioneers of...

Yeah, moonshot is now a cool-sounding, "retro" word that makes a catchy title in modern retrospectives, but it was not an up-to-date expression at the actual time of Apollo 11. The history of space flight was moving very fast in the Sixties, and nobody wanted to sound three years out of date.

But nobody was saying "manned moonshot" by the time of Apollo 11. Nobody. They were calling 11 the first attempted Moon landing, and words to that effect. Just having a rocketship that could carry men to the Moon was no longer a wild, theoretical concept, a "shot" as in, Let's see if this even...

This is a little bit like saying John Robinson and Don West should "Just kill Smith." At least, I've seen somebody say that. And they can't, if you put yourself in their place. If Kirk reports back to Headquarters that he shot Mitchell dead the moment Mitchell was rendered helpless, there would...

Nimoy must have had a stage trick, such that he wasn't looking directly at the light bulb but it looked like he was. Along with the ergonomic problem of bending over a hooded viewer, if the data was always bright blue, then standing watch after watch would mess up his eyes. As a young man, I...

I just measured the McMaster drawing with a ruler. I got a viewscreen length of 68 inches, height 40, and diagonal 80. https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/uss-enterprise-bridge-sheet-5.jpg Even allowing for error on my part, that's remarkably consistent with your eyeball figures. I...

Identity theft. If Flint wanted to be seen as 30 when he was really 1000, he'd get documentation on a baby who died about 30 years ago and take that name. Then forge some papers to create his education and whatnot. Historically, infant mortality rates were enormous for most of Flint's life. If...

I had a second-printing of The Making of Star Trek growing up, the one with this full-color frame on the cover... https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season3/303-paradise-syndrome/paradise-syndrome-br-379.jpg ...and it was quite a contrast to my white plastic AMT model. But I...

This Paramount map doesn't even show the full absurdity of making a spaceship so big. The Enterprise-D has 42 decks. If you separate them out and add up all the floor space, the combined area must be ridiculous. It goes way beyond this map. It's much more than you'd need, and I don't think they...

Not sure if that's over my head or just very baked. :vulcan:

In both of Edward Madden's appearances, he played a guy from the Geology department. But they didn't know yet that it would be "13 years" between those stories, and Fisher doesn't act like an officer, so that connection came to nothing. When Spock called Eddie Paskey Rand in "The Naked Time," I...

He played to the camera in every episode. Good thing it was a TV show. :bolian: It only stands to reason his flair for the dramatic would predate the episodes we saw. Kirk's heroics always looked good.

I guess you're right. It's there, but it doesn't show up so well as to be unmistakable. Another thing I notice: the artist was tracing ship frames from TOS, which was the best thing they could have done in those days, and he faithfully followed the tall bridge dome and oversized deflector dish...

As a kid, I would have lost my mind for a model like that. Also today. It looks like the 11-footer in D.C.

But Kirk is not actually seeing anything from the main viewscreen's POV. The viewscreen is seeing him. I think his gigantic face was out there pointing straight at the bow, and the interior bridge angle they selected, the "reverse angle" in a sense, points right back at the turbolift because the...

When Kirk looked at the 3-footer in "Requiem for Methuselah," they showed his eyes peering straight in... https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season3/321-requiem-for-methuselah/requiem-for-methuselah-br-639.jpg ...and this is the reverse angle they chose...