Final Mission: Arrow? What arrow?

[Ketracel]

Just rewatched Final Mission and laughed out when I noticed that when they head towards the mountains, they don't follow their own arrow (which Picard put down to guide a possible rescue party).

Check out the screengrab!

It is difficult to see but they really are walking in the direction of the blue arrow.

LoL

http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finalmissionus8.jpg

 

[DostoyevskyClone]

Yeah, this is a good one. If you don't know about it, I suggest you try and get hold of a copy of Phil Farrand's 'Nitpickers' books (he's done them for TOS, TNG, and DS9) - he talks about all this kind of stuff in his book and it's probably the funniest set of books I've ever read.

 

[Ketracel]

thanks,I'll look it up
I'm not usually a nitpicker, but this just jumped out at me and made me chuckle a bit.
Not that it takes away from the enjoyment of the show :-)

 

[Timo]

...On the other hand, they did say they were heading for the mountains. There would be nothing of interest or value in the direction of the blue arrow - but also no particular reason why they should rigidly walk in a straight line towards those mountains, if the sand was firmer in some other direction or something.

Even out in a desert, you don't navigate by "dead reckoning", trying to walk in a straight line. That's the surest way to end up walking in circles. What you do is find a spot in the horizon that marks your next destination, and then take whichever path is the easiest for reaching that spot. In this case, it would be the mountains...

Timo Saloniemi