It could be that, but unless you can cite something, it's just an assumption on your part.
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Hey, I never noticed that before....
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They're the sector's designated jury. They also do weddings and bar mitzvahs
Hey, I never noticed 3D Checkers before:
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x04hd/thenakedtimehd0195.jpg
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x04hd/thenakedtimehd0195.jpg
I did notice it in '80s syndicated reruns, but I had seen it many times and was paying close attention to catch the uniform details.
They show up in one of the set photos in The Making of Star Trek, and of course they're seen in rec room background throughout the series. 3D checkers was just a retail toy they bought for the show, and you can tell that the custom-built 3D chess game used pieces from it.
Just search for "Space Checkers" under Toys on eBay.
Does anybody know who had the idea for 3D chess, and who built the game?
Huh? I'm not looking for anything.
I've never seen it attributed to anyone in particular. I'm pretty sure the base and lower arm of the 3d chess set is made of a globe stand, but I've never been able to find a match.
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Actually, the scenes seem to be shuffled out of order. Kirk starts the episode in the wraparound uniform, goes to the standard duty uniform in the bar scene and then back to the wrap in Stone's office. And Stone and Kirk don't decide to go for the "general court" until the end of act one, so it makes more sense for Kirk's judges to show up later rather than at the start of the episode.
So, it's not like the staff was being smart and filling in the background cheaply, they just moved scenes around. This happened in "The Enemy Within" too. I am all for giving them credit for ingenuity, but sometimes a lot of it is just "shit we gotta get this episode in the can."
That could be. But I think Kirk's uniform switches back and forth because he puts on the fancier green wraparound, with gold shoulder braids, for each appointment in Stone's office. And he changes back into his fatigues for the sh-- that doesn't matter, like hanging out with McCoy or Cogley. And to me, the scenes all seem to be in story order.
Wayyyyy too complex when swapping scenes explains all of it. Anyway, the uniform swap would make more sense if it was his dress uniform.
Also, Kirk's old buddies are already blaming Kirk for Finney's death. While it's possible Stone blabbed about it or it somehow leaked, it makes more sense for them to draw their conclusions after it was known Kirk was being subjected to court martial proceedings. Until then, Finney was just another casualty in the service. He sure wasn't Kirk's first fatality.
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In the first, final, and revised final draft scripts (Sept 21, Sept 26, and Sept 29, 1966), the scenes were ordered as:
1. Teaser in Stone's office
2. Beginning of Act I in Stone's Office (Kirk going over the events with Stone)
3. Star Base lounge with Kirk and McCoy (Act I)
On Oct 3, however -- the same day that the scenes in Stone's office were being filmed -- change pages were handed down that switched the order to what was ultimately in the broadcast episode. I think it's very likely that some of the production crew (e.g., wardrobe) either missed this last second change or were unable to do anything about it.
One of Bran Ferren and Associates favorite SFX techniques.
Man, I didn't even notice there were insignia inside the arrowheads until the summer reruns this year.
I do appreciate that HD and screencaps and script transcripts have made it easier to have nitpicky discussions on canon, but it does take away some of the fun of "the old days" when the boundaries were necessarily looser.
I've got a great bit about 3D chess in the 'zine I just transcribed.
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That was always the first thing I ever noticed in Lurry's office. I think it was one of the few times our show did an "all in-camera" fx shot of the Enterprise. They say it was a retail AMT model kit hanging in the window. Either that or a photo of the model:
https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x15/TOS_2x13_TheTroubleWithTribbles0181-Trekpulse.jpg
This was the AMT Enterprise kit, which was painted a silver-gray color. It survived and went up for auction a few years ago:
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0104.jpg
This shot was a still photo of the 11-footer, composited in as a moving object.
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0336.jpg
Very cool and sadly a little bit of trickery that we lose in TOS Remastered. I had no idea about any of that and thank you for a detailed explanation!
I just noticed this today - in Trouble with Tribbles, when Kirk is speaking to the space station commander (on the Enterprise display screen), you can see the Enterprise orbiting the station out the window behind the commander.
OMG wow yes..... I love these neat details that you might miss. They really did well here on this old show.
It's the kind of detail that they really didn't need to add. Nobody would have thought anything about it if it wasn't there. Even cooler, it must have been near invisible on a tiny 1960s TV screen. They did it, even if no-one would notice or care, because they cared...
Marvellous and Beautiful.
Marvellous and Beautiful.
TOS is filled with cool details like that. Like the report of Gary Mitchell's telepathic conversations with the natives of Deneb IV in WNMHGB that was onscreen for just a second or two. Or the brief mention of Christopher Pike as the previous Captain of the Enterprise in "Mirror, Mirror." The report on the Enterprise's previous visit to Talos IV in "The Menagerie." Or heck, even Shatner changing his costume, greying up his hair, and slapping on a fake mustache to play his own dead brother for a half second shot in "Operation -- Annihilate!" All of that shows that they cared about the details of their universe and would commonly go the extra mile to add to the verisimilitude of the series.
Okay. I'm too stupid to live.
Before this month, I never cottoned on to the fact that the Romulan officer in "Balance of Terror" and Stonn in "Amok Time" were played by the same actor.
In my defense, since Stonn had no lines, I never fully committed him to memory.
Speaking of "Balance of Terror"... I have distinct memory of the elderly Centurion being played by John Hoyt. I say this with complete confidence because I did file him away excitedly as "It's Doctor Boyce from 'The Cage'!" Now am I delusional here, or simply still too stupid to live? You needn't answer.
Before this month, I never cottoned on to the fact that the Romulan officer in "Balance of Terror" and Stonn in "Amok Time" were played by the same actor.
In my defense, since Stonn had no lines, I never fully committed him to memory.
Speaking of "Balance of Terror"... I have distinct memory of the elderly Centurion being played by John Hoyt. I say this with complete confidence because I did file him away excitedly as "It's Doctor Boyce from 'The Cage'!" Now am I delusional here, or simply still too stupid to live? You needn't answer.
