Hey, I never noticed that before....
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<bows>Yours is much better, but I state the obvious. I have no talent.
I love writing "filks" and trying to find words that fit the meter and the rhythm of the original. In the 90s my friend Sherri and I were so sick of Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" that we reduced it to a mundane song about laundry called "I Can't Do the Wash Tonight". The toughest bit of it was finding a word to substitute for "harmony" that wasn't necessarily a rhyme but which had the same cadence. It took me an hour to just come up with that one line.
Original
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
Filk
I can't do the wash tonight
The stupid washer pings
The Maytag man'd put us in poverty
Cause we don't live like kings
The stupid washer pings
The Maytag man'd put us in poverty
Cause we don't live like kings
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Once upon a time I wanted my local high school to do The Mad Comic Opera as their annual all school musical. Never got past my imagination, though.
I just watched "The Conscience of the King."
- After Karidian stabs his fellow actor in the teaser, you can see his fist is covered with blood as he heads for the set door.
- When a yellow-shirt crewman arrives on the bridge, he hands Spock a bunch of tapes. Spock looks them over and gives one to Uhura, like a mail-call delivery.
- In the voice test scene, obviously Kirk gives Karidian a small piece of paper to read from. "I remember the words. I wrote them down." But I never noticed that in a prior scene, Kirk is shown writing that very note in his quarters, pen to paper.
- After Karidian stabs his fellow actor in the teaser, you can see his fist is covered with blood as he heads for the set door.
- When a yellow-shirt crewman arrives on the bridge, he hands Spock a bunch of tapes. Spock looks them over and gives one to Uhura, like a mail-call delivery.
- In the voice test scene, obviously Kirk gives Karidian a small piece of paper to read from. "I remember the words. I wrote them down." But I never noticed that in a prior scene, Kirk is shown writing that very note in his quarters, pen to paper.
I can't remember verbatim what I said even 5 minutes ago rather than what someone else said once 20 years ago. I guess that's why I'm not a Captain...yet.
Hearing someone say something that could mean life or death for you and those you hold dear can burn its way into your memory like little else. Like the first time you ever held your own child. Or the last time you said goodbye to your mother. Sometimes such memories are so strong you wish they'd go away. For all its limitations, memory is a powerful part of being human.
Hey I started this one in 2013 and it's still going, too.I started this thread FOUR YEARS AGO(!) and it's STILL GOING?
One thread I had going for awhile was called Never seen TOS scenes. Using Photoshop I created imaginary scenes of things that happened off screen or before TOS or elaborating on things we might like to have seen. It also allowed for humorous scenes such as Herman Munster as a security guard and Kirk’s exasperated expression. There was another one of the ‘60’s era Batman in the Transporter Room. There were quite a few funny ones along with the more serious wishful ones.I also photomanipped some TAS as well as TMP and even a few TNG scenes. And this was before TOS-R was released and I usually approached it as if it were still the 1960s and TOS was still in production. As such when I inserted new characters I tried to use actors who were active around that time, such as Stephen Boyd as a young Captain Robert April or Honor Blackman as a female starship captain for example.
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Interesting. I'm in the process of building a model of what I believe the producers originally used for the Klingon scoutship/warship in "Friday's Child" (hint: it used parts from a commercially available model kit from the time, only with a glowy light radiating from it in post-production.) Maybe you could photoshop it into the viewscreen scene. It's gotta be better than the standard D7 they lazily used in TOS:R
Part of my approach, usually, was to aim for something that TOS could actually do under the best of conditions—meaning assuming they had the time and access to the best f/x resources available at that time. This differs from the approach generally taken with TOS-R where they did things that probably couldn’t have been done even under the best of conditions back in the day.Interesting. I'm in the process of building a model of what I believe the producers originally used for the Klingon scoutship/warship in "Friday's Child" (hint: it used parts from a commercially available model kit from the time, only with a glowy light radiating from it in post-production.) Maybe you could photoshop it into the viewscreen scene. It's gotta be better than the standard D7 they lazily used in TOS:R
Hmm...maybe I should ressurect this subject in a new thread...
Have you tried sending any of them to the Genesis Planet?All my threads are dead...
I quite liked that thread. I've photoshopped a few never-seen Trek moments of my own in my Star Trek Timeline, featuring Captain Garth in his prime, the wedding of Sarek and Amanda, and James T. Kirk proposing to Carol Marcus. There are a few more I plan to do, but it's tough to find the time sometimes.
Made me look.Have you tried sending any of them to the Genesis Planet?
I quite liked that thread. I've photoshopped a few never-seen Trek moments of my own in my Star Trek Timeline, featuring Captain Garth in his prime, the wedding of Sarek and Amanda, and James T. Kirk proposing to Carol Marcus. There are a few more I plan to do, but it's tough to find the time sometimes.
That thread was great. Send it to the Genesis Planet indeed, but stabilize the matrix first.
They're not really dead ... as long as we remember them.All my threads are dead...
Five thousand years was the term used in All Our Yesterdays I believe! 
JB
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