Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Grant]

Mudd's Women was the 4th episode shot and Space Seed was 23rd. It proves nothing. Lots of crewmen came and went during season 1.
Navigators alone the they lost Mitchell, Bailey, Styles early on. Chekov could easily have been brought on board after the Mudd incident and before they encountered Khan.
This has never been a thing and never will be.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

For years I thought that Peter Duryea (Lt. Tyler in "The Cage") was the same actor as Daniel Truhitte (Rolfe the telegram boy from The Sound of Music).

No, but he's son to another Dan who famously sweated with Jimmy Stewart.

 

[Maurice]

The line was an in-joke acknowledging the odd color Star Trek was featuring so much of.

No.

 

[Talos IV]

Just watched "Operation -- Annihilate!" for the first time in awhile. I'd never noticed there's a female crew member next to Spock's station in the teaser scene:

Also had never noticed the two female crew members in the briefing room scene in Act 3:

 

[Nerys Myk]

Jim doesn't seem happy to see them.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Jim doesn't seem happy to see them.

He keeps addressing them as gentlemen.

 

[tharpdevenport]

It looks like he is sharting and trying to sit down.

 

[Tango]

Just watched "Operation -- Annihilate!" for the first time in awhile. I'd never noticed there's a female crew member next to Spock's station in the teaser scene:

Also had never noticed the two female crew members in the briefing room scene in Act 3:

According to the Star Trek Technical Manual she is sitting at the bridge Navigation station. I would have been so happy to be an extra - no lines, just sitting at my station on the bridge pushing buttons and pretending to fall over every now and then. Sigh.

 

[Poltargyst]

According to the Star Trek Technical Manual she is sitting at the bridge Navigation station. I would have been so happy to be an extra - no lines, just sitting at my station on the bridge pushing buttons and pretending to fall over every now and then. Sigh.

Me too, but I was a year and a half old. I'd have had to play in a live version of the Counter-Clock Incident.

 

[Nerys Myk]

According to the Star Trek Technical Manual she is sitting at the bridge Navigation station. I would have been so happy to be an extra - no lines, just sitting at my station on the bridge pushing buttons and pretending to fall over every now and then. Sigh.

Is that the section that was removable for filming purposes?

 

[Tango]

Is that the section that was removable for filming purposes?

I think so, yes.

 

[scotpens]

Is that the section that was removable for filming purposes?

The bridge set was built in ten "wild" sections that could all be put together or pulled apart as needed for filming from different angles. Come to think of it, did we ever see the entire bridge circle in a single shot?

 

[Maurice]

The bridge set was built in ten "wild" sections that could all be put together or pulled apart as needed for filming from different angles. Come to think of it, did we ever see the entire bridge circle in a single shot?

Not that I recall. Even when Kirk walks the perimeter in "The Doomsday Machine," they pulled out one section between the viewer and Spock's station.

 

[Tango]

There was one (?) overhead shot of the bridge that I recall seeing very rarely. But it might not have been wide enough to show all sections (as I presume you might then see part of the soundstage around the bridge set).

 

[CoveTom]

I thought about the "log playback" in "Court Martial" -- you know, the one that somehow magically switches to a close-up of Kirk's chair from behind, where his three buttons are "red alert," "yellow alert," and "jettison pod" -- but even when it is the overhead shot it doesn't show the full bridge. Perhaps the shot was zoomed in by one to the fourth power?

 

[publiusr]

TAS had a door by Spock’s station

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvpAC8t5ogbXPPhlOaZPY-CtRbr_gOCptG_xvSb4KnGg&s=10

 

[Farscape One]

There was one (?) overhead shot of the bridge that I recall seeing very rarely. But it might not have been wide enough to show all sections (as I presume you might then see part of the soundstage around the bridge set).

"THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER", if I remember correctly, had an overhead shot of the bridge.

 

[BK613]

@Nerys Myk The post below—which was posted by @Maurice years ago—gives one a real sense of how disassembled the bridge can be.

Is the bridge at a funny angle?

By the way, what's the angle of the offset? Franz Joseph says 36 degrees, but is that correct? And just how canonical is the value, actually? FJ got the angles right. The geometry of the TOS bridge is fixed and immutable. The number of sections that make up the 360 degrees is known to be ten...

www.trekbbs.com

 

[CorporalCaptain]

TAS had a door by Spock’s station

They did not.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

There was one (?) overhead shot of the bridge that I recall seeing very rarely. But it might not have been wide enough to show all sections (as I presume you might then see part of the soundstage around the bridge set).

https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season1/113-galileo-seven/galileo-seven-br-003.jpg

It was ten sections, and they could use any parts of it they needed for a given shot.

I recall an anecdote from somewhere (Justman and Solow's book? Ralph Senensky's blog?) which said that every director who came along wanted to try a complete bridge shot, with the whole thing sealed up and I'm sure a handheld camera like the one they used for the brawl in "Tribbles." But no one could make it work. I suppose you could get a scene on film, but maybe the handheld style wouldn't fit the tone of the episode. So it was a waste of time.

It might be a separate anecdote where I heard that the bridge set got really hot in there if you put in too many sections at once. All those blinking lights put out heat. As it was, they needed special air conditioners just for the bridge.

What's neat is that they were very faithful about always putting the right stations in the right spot, except for that one walk-around bit in The Doomsday Machine, with a missing station.