Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Spock's Barber]

Return of the Archons....when Landru 'summons' his people, they start to slowly chase Kirk and company. Kirk starts to go into an alley when several Landru zombies appear, blocking his way. His crew stuns them, then we see a shot of the Landru zombies in the street still walking towards Kirk. But wait...if you look closely, a couple of these Landru zombies are the same ones that Kirk and friends just stunned in the alley.

 

[johnnybear]

Return of the Archons....when Landru 'summons' his people, they start to slowly chase Kirk and company. Kirk starts to go into an alley when several Landru zombies appear, blocking his way. His crew stuns them, then we see a shot of the Landru zombies in the street still walking towards Kirk. But wait...if you look closely, a couple of these Landru zombies are the same ones that Kirk and friends just stunned in the alley.

Maybe there was a lot of inbreeding on Landru's planet?
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Just a small boo-boo. Alternative Factor....in the teaser when Spock is at his science station, on the left hand side of his area you can plainly see the large shadow of a studio light that illuminates the scene. Maybe that's one tiny reason why Gerd Oswald was not invited back to direct any more TOS episodes.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The guy who directed The Alternative Factor needed an excuse not to get invited back...?

 

[Spock's Barber]

The guy who directed The Alternative Factor needed an excuse not to get invited back...?

Well, to be honest, Gerd Oswald seemed so confused during this episode that he got himself trapped in The Corridor with both of the Lazarus dudes at the end, never to be seen again in TOS.

Kirk : "But what of Oswald? But what of Oswald?"

 

[johnnybear]

Gerd Oswald was known for directing The Outer Limits in 1963/64 wasn't he?
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I just noticed that there's another shot of Kirk that's mirror-reversed in "The Way to Eden," besides the obvious one on the planet. It's during the line, "Think young, brother! "

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x20hd/thewaytoedenhd0545.jpg

 

[Myko]

The steps leading down from the upper level of the bridge to the lower are not identical!

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x16hd/thegalileosevenhd003.jpg

The left one is straight but the right one is wedge shaped. Interestingly the front steps in front of the view screen would need to be straight so I wonder if they only had two in total, one wedge and one straight, and moved them around depending on which would be visible in the shot.

 

[Mytran]

I would imagine that they did have all 3, but since nothing was nailed down the stage dressers didn't always get them in the right places!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

They did have a complete bridge set; all the separate pieces existed. I've seen the anecdote somewhere that every new director who came to Star Trek wanted to get the camera inside the completely assembled bridge, and they tried it, but for technical reasons they could never make it work. They just couldn't film a "360" bridge scene with the cameras and lights in use at that time.

Today I'm sure it would be a snap to get in there with a little HD digital camera and look around in all directions.

A similar situation occurred on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The show inherited its Seaview interiors from the major motion picture that came first. The control room set was enclosed and a very tight space to film in. When the TV show got started, the director found that the control room was actually two halves bolted together. He got rid of one half, and that opened it up in such a way that filming the show became vastly easier.

 

[Maurice]

They did occasionally have most of the bridge assembled. It was just much easier to light and shoot when they pulled sections out.

 

[f14peter]

in OBSESSION, during the scene with Nurse Chapel trying to get him to eat something, Garrovick refers to her by her first name ...

CHAPEL: "You know, self-pity's a terrible first course. Why don't you try the soup instead?"

GARROVICK: "I told you, Christine, I'm not hungry."

 

[Phaser Two]

in OBSESSION, during the scene with Nurse Chapel trying to get him to eat something, Garrovick refers to her by her first name ...

CHAPEL: "You know, self-pity's a terrible first course. Why don't you try the soup instead?"

GARROVICK: "I told you, Christine, I'm not hungry."

I always liked that little touch - it implied more familiarity among what one would expect to be a pretty close-knit crew.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Uhura was on a first-name basis with her, too. McCoy frequently called her by her first name, Spock only in the throes of love potion/pon farr/polywater. Kirk once (to pacify Spock when Mudd kidnapped her in "Mudd's Passion") and Mudd himself once (same episode - which doesn't mean anything, just that he knew her first name)

 

[FormerLurker]

I think Mudd knew her first name because he stole her ID.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yeah, but the reason he called her by it was that it was a novelty to him - never having known her first name prior to that, he tries it out. And I guess he think's he's earned the right by way of his past encounters with the Enterprise.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Gamesters of Triskelion....when Kirk, Chekov and Uhura first have their collars activated, they fall to the ground. As the camera pans over to Chekov, in the bottom left hand corner of the screen there is a blue and white box with the number 4 on it. Looks like something the production crew left on the floor. I tried to find a screencap for it, but no such luck.

 

[GNDN18]

Gamesters of Triskelion....when Kirk, Chekov and Uhura first have their collars activated, they fall to the ground. As the camera pans over to Chekov, in the bottom left hand corner of the screen there is a blue and white box with the number 4 on it. Looks like something the production crew left on the floor. I tried to find a screencap for it, but no such luck.

Damn me, you have good eyes!

 

[Spock's Barber]

Damn me, you have good eyes!

Cool. Thanks for the screencap!

 

[Spock's Barber]

I've seen that episode a thousand times and for some reason today I saw a flash of blue and white in the corner.