Goof in Day of the Dove

[evangelist6589]

Watch the scene where Chekov attacks the Klingon guard and captures Kang's wife. He knocks out the guard with his sword but when Kirk and Spock appear the body is gone. What happened to it?

 

[Vger23]

The * took it away to regenerate it and get him back into combat.

 

[Forbin]

The funniest moment in that scene is when Kirk picks up the "unconscious" Chekov, it's incredibly obvious that Walter is standing up by himself to help Shatner pick him up.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Some more of Walter's "acting".

 

[Spock's Barber]

Some more of Walter's "acting".

Chekov : "Wat arrrrre you talk-eeng about? I'm a wery, wery gut ack-tor."

 

[gottacook]

...the body is gone. What happened to it?

You could ask the same question about dead McCoy in "Shore Leave" or dead Chekov in "Spectre of the Gun." Not even a "Where'd he go?" line.

 

[Timo]

What connects all three episodes (besides the theme of resurrection of disappearing bodies) is the characters all being drunk as skunks.

That is, the Shore Leave planet is somehow making these people very, very happy and uncaring of the fellow man. Which is exactly what one would expect of a Shore Leave planet!

The * thing is explicitly making these people very, very angry and uncaring of the fellow man. Which is exactly what one would expect of the * thing!

And the Melkotian illusion is the ultimate in required suspension of disbelief...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Chekov : "Wat arrrrre you talk-eeng about? I'm a wery, wery gut ack-tor."

That's some helmet of hair. At first I hated his wig at the beginning of the second season but I think I like it better now than the massive combover.

 

[tomswift2002]

I think the funniest part of the episode is the glass arm scene. I wonder why the security guy didnt’t tell his other companions just to hit the Klingons on the arms.

 

[Phaser Two]

I think the funniest part of the episode is the glass arm scene. I wonder why the security guy didnt’t tell his other companions just to hit the Klingons on the arms.

Tons of this in TOS. The instantly immobilizing neck chop, for instance.

 

[johnnybear]

Hah! In 1981 when the BBC screened Day of The Dove, the scene where Chekov attacks the Klingon and attempts to rape Mara was very heavily trimmed down! So obvious as it was a cut, worrying about the fallen Klingon (Mark Tobin) wasn't the greatest of our worries! More like what was going on in the first place?
JB

 

[Mytran]

I had a similar experience watching TNG's Conspiracy on BBC2. I honestly wondered what the fuss in all the sourcebooks was all about!

 

[johnnybear]

Same here, My! The scene with the monster was cut! My son accidently saw it a month or so ago on Horror while I was out of the room and it scared him quite a lot! I had to tell him it was all just a CGI job and not real!
JB

 

[Timo]

I think the funniest part of the episode is the glass arm scene. I wonder why the security guy didnt’t tell his other companions just to hit the Klingons on the arms.

John M. Ford apparently had some fun with this thing (among a hundred others, including the silent Klingon transporters in this episode) in his classic novel Final Reflection. His Klingon hero quickly wins a fight against a fellow Klingon by skilfully punching the opponent in the "neural nodes" in his joints and limbs to paralyze the victim...

I gather Benjamin Sisko learned about those nodes from Curzon, too, and spread the knowledge to his crew!

Timo Saloniemi