I'm assuming that the stardates were largely random, with some attempt to keep them in chronological order?
Broadcast vs production, does episode order matter?
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And they still, for some reason, swap "A,B & C" and "The General" when it's clear "The General" should come first (the returning No. 2 is much more nervous and drinking milk by the gallon to soothe an unspoken ulcer).
They started to work in some kind of sequence if watched in production order, but it doesn't take all that long for that to go out the window and just become random.
When I researched it, the best cases I found were for the TUV and AV Club orders, which only really differ over where to place "It's Your Funeral" between "A, B, & C" and "Many Happy Returns" or just before "Once Upon a Time".
And it's totally valid to put an episode or two between them, just so long as "The General" is before "A, B & C".
"TX"??
Transmission.
I am curious to know the order they came up with. Whatever that order is would be my ideal order of watching Star Trek.
EDIT: Memory Alpha has the Columbia House Home Video release order. And I would respectfully argue that that would be the exacting order I would view TOS, as well as it being the correct chronological order in-universe (that last bit is just my personal head canon though).
What BD "bloated disc start up disclaimers?" What is this?
As far as I know, there's just original broadcast order vs. production order vs. watch randomly. Yes? No?
Not quite.
It's US broadcast order vs logical narrative order.
Production order makes less sense narratively as some episodes were filmed based on production block and actor availability.
A few episodes were written with writers allegedly being told their episode would be the second filmed or would resolve the mystery of #1, when none of these things turned out to be true.
Is there anything that's glaringly obvious? Besides "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (2nd pilot) aired as the 3rd episode, there doesn't seem to be any problems. Granted, I'm only 9 episodes in.
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I thought you were talking about The Prisoner. That's the show I was talking about in my response you quoted. Sorry.
No, other than some hairstyles and uniforms and a little bit of Spock evolution, not really.
Some costume anomalies. Weird collars and Uhura in gold for two episodes. In broadcast order those episodes air after we've seen Uhura in red.
The characters are different in the early production episodes, as the actors and writers hadn't quite got a grip on who they were. So you see Spock smirking in "Mudd's Women" and a way more serious Kirk, who more in line with the Pike from "The Cage" than the character we know. Sulu and Uhura are written more interestingly in the early episodes, with a spark of personality.
CORBOMITE definitely has the record for ''Hailing frequencies open, sir''s.
And Uhura is relaxed to the point of drowsiness in the briefing room. It's almost as if she's rehearsing for next year's IMMUNITY SYNDROME.
Why was Uhura in gold, and in which two episodes? I just assumed Spock frequently shows a quick smirk, an eyeroll, and so on. He is half-human, the odd look is going to slip through, no?
That's called acting. The team is exhausted from burning the midnight oil and chugging coffee for eighteen hours.
The CBS / Paramount logos, the audio codec bumper, the FBI warnings... it's not like a Warners disc where you get to the main menu quickly
They originally costumed her in gold. Corbomite Maneuver (Prod #3/Broad #10) and Mudd's Women (Prod #4/Broad #6). Someone decided the gold didn't work so they switched her to red for her next appearance in The Man Trap (Prod #6/Broad #1)
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