Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Phaser Two]

Your worst nightmare isn't necessarily someone else's.

True, but given the length of that sequence, the audience is supposed to emphathize with Picard, I believe. I rather enjoyed his dilemma but thought they overdid it a bit in implying that anyone in that job was necessarily boring, unambitious and dull.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

the audience is supposed to emphathize with Picard

By then (mid-season 6), most of the audience knows Picard's character and can understand how he would hate that, even if they wouldn't.

 

[Phaser Two]

By then (mid-season 6), most of the audience knows Picard's character and can understand how he would hate that, even if they wouldn't.

Agree to disagree then. IMO they overdid it and Picard came off as a bit insulting. Additionally there are about a half dozen eps at least where he wistfully longs to be free of the pressures of command and immersed in archaeology. It's just a bit of a bum note in a top-flight episode.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Perhaps it's the environment that drags on him. He wants all that, but to be his own man, not in a subservient Starfleet setting.

 

[Phaser Two]

Perhaps it's the environment that drags on him. He wants all that, but to be his own man, not in a subservient Starfleet setting.

Interesting! I don't think about TNG nearly as much as I think about TOS - probably in part because I don't know it nearly as well (indeed I think there are still a handful of TNG eps that I have never seen - I need a (re)watch!), but Picard never came across to me as nearly as in love with his ship or enamored with Starfleet as Kirk is. Maybe he wants to be in Starfleet (of course), but only on his own terms.

 

[johnnybear]

I'm a bit in the same boat with you where seasons six and seven are concerned, Phase!
JB

 

[plynch]

Fisher looks older in the Cage due to the hair.

 

[Forbin]

Welp, I never noticed this before, because I rarely look at the Captain's crotch, but now that we have hi def, I see he's a bit off center at the end of The Deadly Years. Probably all that thrashing around from the cure.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x12hd/thedeadlyyearshd1373.jpg

 

[Maurice]

Most guys "dress" left or right in pants so your point is... nothing.

 

[Forbin]

Most guys try not to show it quite so obviously, or wear a jock with tight pants, when on television shows. And, I wasn't trying to make any kind of a point, just sharing a thing I hadn't noticed before.

 

[FormerLurker]

Some guys end up wearing cups under their costumes, especially if they're tight. See Christopher Reeve as Superman, or Burt Ward as Robin, for example.

If only the Decker unit had been stored thus.

 

[GNDN18]

If only the Decker unit had been stored thus.

Aye.

 

[Maurice]

According to Walter Koenig he was issued a jockstrap to wear under the costumes. I assume this is true of all the male actors.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

According to Walter Koenig he was issued a jockstrap to wear under the costumes. I assume this is true of all the male actors.

Regarding what I call the footed pajama uniform, Koenig also reported that the men wearing it each found out that when they sat down, it was suddenly so tight at the groin that they yelled in severe pain. This is from the book Chekov's Enterprise. The costumes must have been adjusted somehow after that first day.

Actors in the 24th century spinoffs didn't suffer the idiocy of built-in shoes, but their trouser cuffs had stirrups which hooked under the shoe in front of the heel. It created a very smooth line in the pant leg. For seated scenes, they discretely unhooked the stirrups to ease stress on their legs.

 

[Tenacity]

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if tmp had put all the men in scottish kilts. this wouldn't have been an issue

 

[WarpFactorZ]

In "A Wolf in the Fold", Kirk as McCoy if he has anything that will put down Jack the Ripper's ghost. McCoy says "I've got something that will tranquilize an active volcano." Although completely unrelated, I thought it an unintentional reference to the fusion device in STiD.

 

[johnnybear]

How could something written in 1967 reference an event in 2013? I'd say it was just a coincidence!
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

How could something written in 1967 reference an event in 2013? I'd say it was just a coincidence!

This.

 

[johnnybear]

This what?
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It means I agree.