Doomsday Machinefloats aimlessly by......

Is it just me, or does this look an awful like our favourite (?) giant space cigar???
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techa...-space-cigar/ar-BBFppdZ?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=ientp
Good job it just sailed by and didn't stop for a snack!!

 

Ah yes! The cornocopia of destruction.. how appropos for Thanksgiving. LOL. Time to nom on some planets.

 

Space turd, plain and simple.

 

Its miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships.

 

Straight out of Hell! I saaaawwww it!

 

But, the article says it's pink!

 

Ah, the TAS version of it!

 

Either that or one major space doobie.

 

Being English I didn't consider the synchronicity with Thanksgiving and it's cornucopian shape.

It could almost be ironic I guess lol ??

 

A single ship cannot combat it though! And Vulcan's never bluff while trying to remove a superior officer from the command seat!
JB

 

More like a large joint -- IN SPACE! (Light up folks. )

 

it looks like a whale because the story is based on Moby Dick with Decker as Ahab

 

Wasn’t the idea was that it was supposed to have weapons etc. All over the hull and over time they have eroded away, into what it looks like in that episode.

 

From a post a while back...

As to the Planet Killer, what Spinrad says he imaged the machine looking like doesn't jibe with what he wrote in the script.

From scene 31:

DECKER​

A hundred times the size of a
starship... a mile long, with
a maw big enough to swallow a
dozen ships... it destroys
planets... cuts them to rubble...
​

And from scene 41:

On the screen, looming large and seen head-on, we see

the Planet-Killer; a great funnel extended before its
huge metallic body as if it were to devour the Enterprise.

SPOCK'S VOICE​

An immense body... a large funnel-
mouth... It looks very much like
Commodore Decker's Planet-killer...
And it is pursuing us!
​

No other details in the script. Spinrad had some a slightly more detailed descriptions in his first draft* story outline (http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/discovereddocuments/035)...

...the Constellation was attacked by a huge metallic creature, which Decker refers to as the "Eater" -- a kind of cylindrical "living atomic rocket" at least ten times the size of the Constellation, apparently from beyond the Galaxy, with a posterior rocket and a great anterior funnel-mouth big enough to swallow a ship with a cluster of atomic blaster beams and tractor beams around the funnel, not a machine, but a living organism with a nuclear metabolism.​

...but the crew works from the script, not the outlines.

 

Yes, that’s what they say Spinrad wanted

But, then, they say a lot of things.

 

All Spinrad wanted were sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

 

What we got was a great episode and probably the best one of the second season bar none!
JB

 

Definitely!
High drama, tension and adventure!!
And as follow ups......
The great Peter David novel "Vendetta".
And (for us ST roleplaying fans) the amazing scenario by FASA "A Doomsday like any other".
Definitely win - win.

 

Spock should have shot it in the neck.

 

What, Decker?
JB