Andromeda Strain Reference in TMP

[Herbert1]

In an interview with Shane Johnson over at Trekplace, Johnson states:
http://www.trekplace.com/shanejohnson.html

One neat little detail that escaped detection by the cameras during the making of ST:TMP involved a section of the Sickbay set. A silver and blue medical storage unit, seen briefly in the background during the scene in which Kirk, Spock and Decker discuss the Ilia probe situation, featured labels warning that it held culture samples of "Andromeda Strain." That, of course, was another of Robert Wise's films, and the set piece was a subtle homage to him.

I seem to remember reading something similar in Starlog magazine IIRC.

Has anyone seen pictures of the silver and blue medical storage unit in question and does anyone have the exact wording of the label? I wanted to know for a fan fiction project I am working on.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

That gag - care of assistant art director John Cartwright - was also discussed in the The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Susan Sackett & Gene Roddenberry (Wallaby Books, 1980), and if I may quote the label text reprinted on page 92:

CRYOGENICS DIVISION
CULTURES-FROZEN CYTO
ANDROMEDA STRAIN

The silver and blue sample containers in question are presumably the ones visible through the windows of McCoy's sickbay office.

BTW, on a somewhat related note, does anybody know if the planet Nimbus III featured in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was named in honor of the (real) weather satellite mentioned in The Andromeda Strain?

TGT

 

[trevanian]

BTW, on a somewhat related note, does anybody know if the planet Nimbus III featured in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was named in honor of the (real) weather satellite mentioned in The Andromeda Strain?

TGT

Just a wild guess, but considering that the people writing this thing didn't know the dif between center of galaxy and center of universe, I think it is likely they pulled it out of a thesaurus, probably to maximize the irony of it all:

nimbus - a bright cloud surrounding gods or goddesses appearing on earth
an aura of splendor about any person or thing
a halo or bright disk surrounding the head of a divinity, saint, or sovereign on pictures, medals, etc.
any rain-producing cloud

 

[Herbert1]

That gag - care of assistant art director John Cartwright - was also discussed in the The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Susan Sackett & Gene Roddenberry (Wallaby Books, 1980), and if I may quote the label text reprinted on page 92:

CRYOGENICS DIVISION
CULTURES-FROZEN CYTO
ANDROMEDA STRAIN

The silver and blue sample containers in question are presumably the ones visible through the windows of McCoy's sickbay office.

BTW, on a somewhat related note, does anybody know if the planet Nimbus III featured in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was named in honor of the (real) weather satellite mentioned in The Andromeda Strain?

TGT

Thanks so much The God Thing, I was confident that you would know.