It was a ratings thing. They redesigned Kira's costume to be tighter & sexier to get more young men watching the show. I think they added high heels to it, too.
That is one unfortunate abbreviation there.
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Oh, they did. Massive high heels. This also allowed Visitor to stand eye to eye with the rest of the regular cast, almost all of whom stood at least 5-11. It was a tall group.
I could never understand why she changed her name from Tucker to Visitor? Is visitor even a real name, more a description of a friendly traveller? 
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I always pronounced it NANna, like banana. I'm still gonna.
I watched the Trilogy and Invitation to a Shoot Out. For some reason the link for Let the World Slip was a different format and tried to make me register a Mega account, and I haven't done that yet. I am very interested in checking ALL of these out. So far so good, though. All 3 episodes slide into each other really well. The only thing that fails narratively, slightly is the quick recovery and no visual "cure" scenes bridging the craziness from the end of Naked Time, with the beginning of Tomorrow is Yesterday, but I doubt there was any way of conveying that. The cuts are all very smooth and act as actual bridging cliffhangers. The segueway into Assignment: Earth is absolutely perfect. Sometimes you can tell that the way they filmed / material of the uniforms / brightness and colors changes slightly between episodes, but its the nature of the beast. I wasn't sure if the voices were at the right pitch during part of the first episode. I was surprised not to see any of the chonometers going backwards at the end of Part 1.
The Twilight Zone episode was awesome. Perfect voice-overs, proper mood.... the lack of introduction of the characters is very TZ, putting us right in the middle of the story. The 60s dialogue gives it an air of legitimacy, as even Trek itself was designed to be watched by new viewers - Spock calling Scotty "engineer", the doctor being "Bones," the roles being all generic enough to need little explanation - it totally works as a TZ style work, the generic space crew that needs no introduction. The atmosphere is just perfect.
I have a TZ episode fan-cut that someone made out of Planet of the Apes, trimming it down and putting it in black and white. Its another great episode, so now I have a double-feature....
Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme........
jk, but seriously, I am very interesting in learning more about ... just about all of these. Beyond Intriguing.....
I think I saw that POTA version on YouTube and someone was asking why it was made into film afterwards!!!
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Agreed. The TOS movies tried to introduce a "new generation" but always reset to the Magnificent Seven. I would've preferred that after TMP, only Kirk, Spock, McCoy and maybe Scotty continued into the other movies whilst introducing new crew, like Saavik to take over for the rest. Then have the new crew take completely over in one of the movies.
There was some intent to do just that early on. The problem arose that the casual fans wanted their crew (the Seven) to keep appearing, over and over again. Much of the in-universe BTS stuff with Starfleet's keeping them together unrealistically was done to achieve this. At the same time, once Sulu was effectively written out by putting him on his own ship, his ship gets involved in the action anyway, just so he can appear.
Some ideas:
Dulmur and Lucsly in a MST 3000 type deal going over Immunity Syndrome, Operation Annihilate and how it ties to fluidic space and the spore drive, with comments.
Kolchak The Ripper with Wolf in the Fold Demon & Mummy style
Only the opening of "The Alternative Factor" with subspace shaking. If Throne had survived, I might have had him do voice-over work--with Kirk opening up a file (new footage)
Enter the Doomsday Machine. Footage explains it is in Romulan space--with reports of a new weapon--so you splice the better part of Doomsday with Balance of Terror. Voiceover from TNG footage about Romulan space being attacked--but it is Doomsday--not Borg.
When Kirk talks about it being a weapon in an ancient war--run the (flashback)scene of the Star Killer base (Force Awakens) beam in reverse, showing the Hitler types killed by the Doomsday beam from above
I would certainly not have wanted the supporting cast to disappear but I would have been happy if they had featured in some other capacity. Chekov being first officer and Sulu having his own ship worked well. Uhura's role in STIII was one of her most memorable. Other characters could have been brought back for stunt cameos, although I wish Chapel had been given something worthwhile to do in STIV and STVI. She had a scene with Sarek that was cut, it would have been shockingly awesome if she'd been revealed to be Spock's wife.
I do understand that the actors were reluctant to accept cameos in some instances, and that STIII and STIV work better with the old regulars in the thick of it, but some growth would have been cool.
I do understand that the actors were reluctant to accept cameos in some instances, and that STIII and STIV work better with the old regulars in the thick of it, but some growth would have been cool.
Just think -- We could be coming up on the 40th year of Takei, Koenig, and Nichols complaining at cons about how they were written out of the movies!
I don't think that Sulu captaining the Excelsior was "writing him out." It was more like, "Well, it's the last movie with this cast anyway... Why not?"
God, I'd have hated that. Spock deserves better than being stuck with a wimpy wife like Chapel.
Yeah if she had no character development at all. Who knows how her hosting his consciousness affected them both or what might have developed over that second 5 year mission. TMP Chapel, all sciency, crisp and business like is my favourite version. I remember Hill Street Blues threw a few curveballs in there with characters you wouldn't expect having long term off camera relationships.Just think -- We could be coming up on the 40th year of Takei, Koenig, and Nichols complaining at cons about how they were written out of the movies!
I don't think that Sulu captaining the Excelsior was "writing him out." It was more like, "Well, it's the last movie with this cast anyway... Why not?"
God, I'd have hated that. Spock deserves better than being stuck with a wimpy wife like Chapel.
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I did say "Effectively". It wasn't the intent to write him out, but with him not on the Enterprise, they needed a plot device so they could include him. That was my point.
Which is my problem is Chapel as a character in a nutshell. She never developed beyond "Has an unrequited crush on Spock." It was that one note, played over and over, like a kid plunking away on a toy piano.
Warlord, I watched the last episode that I have. Very interesting concept. I loved how you spliced in the "cure" coming from the Preservers, after moving the Preservers infodump to the bridge. The ending from yet a third episode was absolute *genius* and fits this scenario better then its source material. I really enjoyed how the two storylines parelleled (McCoy and Kirk both getting ill fated, out of character romances with tragic endings) and I just wish there had been form footage from the first episode that could have cut back to show what McCoy was doing while Kirk was missing. The concept is *excellent.* There was some jumpiness and sound/music cues that felt off right around the transitions, but I was watching it on a kind of crappy computer so it very well may have been on my end. The story actually works really well with the "asteroid" bridging things together. I haven't seen "World is Hollow" in so long that it felt new, and I had no idea how it was all going to work together until it was unfolding. Kudos.
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Which is weird since it only comes up three times; four if you include her goofy smile after she shares his consciousness.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm working on finishing my Eden/Requiem edit, which should be ready pretty soon.Warlord, I watched the last episode that I have. Very interesting concept. I loved how you spliced in the "cure" coming from the Preservers, after moving the Preservers infodump to the bridge. The ending from yet a third episode was absolute *genius* and fits this scenario better then its source material. I really enjoyed how the two storylines parelleled (McCoy and Kirk both getting ill fated, out of character romances with tragic endings) and I just wish there had been form footage from the first episode that could have cut back to show what McCoy was doing while Kirk was missing. The concept is *excellent.* There was some jumpiness and sound/music cues that felt off right around the transitions, but I was watching it on a kind of crappy computer so it very well may have been on my end. The story actually works really well with the "asteroid" bridging things together. I haven't seen "World is Hollow" in so long that it felt new, and I had no idea how it was all going to work together until it was unfolding. Kudos.
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More?
I'll probably go back and re-tackle my Ultimate/Omega edit after that, as it needs re-doing from scratch.
I'll keep you posted!
Was that all? It felt like three times that.
I can't vouch for TAS.
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