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BLANK TRICORDER SCREENS

That doesn’t look like Baxley. Not sure who that guy is. He seemed taller than Shatner’s and Montalban’s double looks too short
 
Here's my favorite stunt double.

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I thought they were Lt. Palmer's photography collection - she was using the bridge as a makeshift gallery until she could turn pro...

Well, theyre on a five year mission, and the Enterprise is a pretty spartan looking place. A bit of feng shui would do wonders for morale.
 
Moving on to a little change of subject, there's one obvious use of a double that shouldn't be too hard to fix using cgi. The close up of Scotty's hands on the transporter controls where all ten digits are intact.

Robert

Scotty has ten fingers. Best special effect in Star Trek.
 
The displays on the bridge used to confuse me as a youngster! I was never sure if they were meant to be pictures (which they actually were) or screens depicting the outside of the ship or just images of various space phenomena that the ship had recently encountered!
JB

I my mind, it's possible the Bridge is busy place with people studying all kinds of things and we only hear what is relevant to the moment. So, for example, if there is a group of comets on the screen above the Environmental Engineering station, then someone is studying how atmospheres relate to the comets, and in many episodes we just don't hear exactly what is going on at that station unless it is relevant to the episodes problem to solve in the plot.

I'm exaggerating of course.

But it was a fight scene involving Kirk, I don't remember which episode, probably Court Martial or Space Seed.

I haven't been able to watch TOS for a long time so my memory can be foggy but if I remember right, this same guy who doubled for Shatner played a non speaking Enterprise crew member a few times. In The Trouble With Tribbles, I'm sure he was one of the crew sitting with Chekov and Scotty in the bar before the brawl.

Now that I think about it, in the DS9 tribute episode to TTWT, as a joke one of the DS9 people in the bar scene, O'Brien I think, mistakes this guy for Kirk.

I'm sure others here know who I'm talking about.

Robert

^ You're talking about Paul Baxley, who played Freeman in "The Trouble with Tribbles."

Freeman was replaced with Obrien in some scenes for DS9.
 
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