Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Marsden]

A Shatner loving one?
JB

Aren't we all!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

No, I mean seriously.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Was it already discussed that the use of the three "slider" controls on the Transporter console were not always consistently operated? You would see a crewman move the center one up or down before beaming the landing party down, things like that.

 

[locutus101]

Was it already discussed that the use of the three "slider" controls on the Transporter console were not always consistently operated? You would see a crewman move the center one up or down before beaming the landing party down, things like that.

Could it be that those were different kinds of beaming?

 

[Lieut. Arex]

watching Assigment earth I realized Scotty must be using some kind of holographic imaging system to allow him to scout for Gary Seven at McKinley Base, it's a shame that system disappeared it's one of the only times we see that a starship has imaging capabilities equal to or superior to modern spy satellites

 

[johnnybear]

Maybe they only use the full sliding controls when the participant in the transporter beam is in trouble of phasal disintegration? Or it produces the extra power needed to bring them back in one piece!
JB

 

[scotpens]

watching Assigment earth I realized Scotty must be using some kind of holographic imaging system to allow him to scout for Gary Seven at McKinley Base, it's a shame that system disappeared it's one of the only times we see that a starship has imaging capabilities equal to or superior to modern spy satellites

According to the dialogue, Scotty got those views by "bouncing" off "an old-style weather satellite." So he was using a combination of 20th and 23rd-century technology.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The transporter sliders must move independently for reasons. I think it's a mistake to infer that the correct way to operate them is necessarily to move them all together in all cases.

As an aside -- non-canon I know --- the Franz Joseph cargo transporter has only two sliders, which dovetails with fan tech theories about how one of the main transporter sliders controls the beaming of consciousness (see this discussion here regarding Geoffrey Mandel's work). One possible resulting interpretation here would be that FJ's two-slider cargo transporters are designed solely to transport inanimate matter.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I would have liked it better if Kirk began the episode with his wife, and we find out later through expository story-telling that he had been gone for a while and Spock had been in command.

That would be the "TNG and so on" approach, no question. But linear storytelling did allow for a span of eight weeks in "The Paradise Syndrome."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It just seemed to happen so fast. Maybe TNG would have made a two-parter out of it, focusing also on the tense situation on ship. Wait, they already did. "The Best of Both Worlds", aka "The Purgatory Syndrome".

 

[jaime]

But then there are the odd one's: there is what looks like a stain from greasy food above the communications station in "The Cage".



Obviously, they had someone on the inside. Simply no other way to pull off what they did.

Uhura ordered chinese in three dialects, including Hk movie dubbing. You see there the results of Spocks Kung Pow Chicken.

 

[Kor]

Speaking of stuff we never saw again, what ever happened to the psycho-tricorder technology from "Wolf in the Fold," which could scan and record a person's memories?


Kor

 

[Avro Arrow]

As an aside -- non-canon I know --- the Franz Joseph cargo transporter has only two sliders, which dovetails with fan tech theories about how one of the main transporter sliders controls the beaming of consciousness

Wow, so if someone's fingers slips off one of the sliders, they accidentally materialize the landing party as empty sacks of meat? That has the potential for all kinds of creepy.

Speaking of stuff we never saw again, what ever happened to the psycho-tricorder technology from "Wolf in the Fold," which could scan and record a person's memories?

Starfleet realized they were a HUGE potential invasion of privacy, and quietly recalled them all?

 

[Kor]

Bah, future humanity will move beyond our quaint notions of privacy and personal boundaries.

Kor

 

[UnknownSample]

Bah, future humanity will move beyond our quaint notions of privacy and personal boundaries.

Kor

Nice 1984-like dystopia you just started writing, there...

 

[johnnybear]

Once your every thought is recorded by their machines even the notion of privacy will become a fantasy!
JB

 

[jefferiestubes8]

For those of you who have TOS on BluRay can you share something you saw onscreen that somehow you never noticed before in all your previous viewings over the years?

this 3-page thread:
HIDEF..too good?

 

[Jedman67]

Was it already discussed that the use of the three "slider" controls on the Transporter console were not always consistently operated? You would see a crewman move the center one up or down before beaming the landing party down, things like that.

The left slider controlled the persons body. The middle one controlled their clothes. And the right slider controlled the direction of their buttocks ("Snotty! You beamed him backwards!!")

 

[Kor]

The left slider controlled the persons body. The middle one controlled their clothes. And the right slider controlled the direction of their buttocks ("Snotty! You beamed him backwards!!")

I'm sure many a transporter technician had some "accidental" fun with the middle one.

Kor

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In Plato's Stepchildren, Christine has Vulcan eyebrows (via makeup). Saw that when watching it the first time and this person's fanfic noted it too. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12150249/1/I-Am-Not-Afraid