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Hey, I never noticed that before....

I've heard (never seen it for myself) that to watch TOS in HD television treatment, the seam between Leonard Nimoy's prosthetics and his real ears is obvious.
In some cases it was noticeable in the original show. It has been a lot of years, but I think I remember seeing a faux pas like that in "Shore Leave".
 
Am I crazy, or does this guy (David Troy as "Larry Matson") look kind of like he could have played a younger McCoy in a flashback scene?

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Wow, that's an eerie resemblance. That guy could have been DeForest's stand-in. What episode was he in?

Hmmmm....also in 'Arena', the first time Kirk kneels down to talk into his recording device, he is wearing lace up boots. Maybe the Metrons decided he needed more ankle support. :shrug:
Yep, I posted a picture (or a link to a screencap, I forget which) earlier in this thread. I'm guessing that it was easier to climb the rocks when he was out of the Beatle boots.
 
Wow, that's an eerie resemblance. That guy could have been DeForest's stand-in. What episode was he in?


Yep, I posted a picture (or a link to a screencap, I forget which) earlier in this thread. I'm guessing that it was easier to climb the rocks when he was out of the Beatle boots.

Shatner's "jump-around-stunt boots" are visible in the fight scene in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," too.

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Wow, that's an eerie resemblance. That guy could have been DeForest's stand-in. What episode was he in?

The Conscience of the King. He was in the rec room when a lonely Kevin Riley, who had pulled solo duty, called from the engineering room, asking to talk to anybody who was available.

As for being DeForest's stand in, MA says his only appearance was that one episode. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/David_Troy
 
Which of the sickbay walls was that?

It they cut a hole in the wall of the sickbay set to put in the prop, doesn't it make sense that it would remain there, even if covered up by something later?
 
Hmmmm....also in 'Arena', the first time Kirk kneels down to talk into his recording device, he is wearing lace up boots. Maybe the Metrons decided he needed more ankle support. :shrug:
Yep, I posted a picture (or a link to a screencap, I forget which) earlier in this thread. I'm guessing that it was easier to climb the rocks when he was out of the Beatle boots.
I believe the regular costume boots were also rather fragile and easily damaged, which is why the boxer-style lace-up boots were used for shooting outdoors on bare ground and for fights and stunt sequences.
 
I believe the regular costume boots were also rather fragile and easily damaged, which is why the boxer-style lace-up boots were used for shooting outdoors on bare ground and for fights and stunt sequences.

"Arena" was filmed after "Shore Leave". My theory is that Shatner's custom-made boots had to be replaced after the fight scenes in "SL", and they needed a cheaper approach for "Arena." So in came the lace-up boxer's shoes.
 
"Arena" was filmed after "Shore Leave". My theory is that Shatner's custom-made boots had to be replaced after the fight scenes in "SL", and they needed a cheaper approach for "Arena." So in came the lace-up boxer's shoes.

That doesn't really explain their use in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday."
 
That doesn't really explain their use in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday."

I think it does. "Shore Leave" (E17) came first, in which costume boots were damaged and had to be quickly replaced.

Then came "Arena" (E19) and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (E21). Both used the boxer's shoes to spare Shatner's new costume boots during fight scenes.
 
On the subject of 3D chess and checkers...just caught a Batman two-parter that has Bruce and Dick playing a 3D chess game with four stacked boards at the beginning and the end: "The Purr-fect Crime" and "Better Luck Next Time" (aired March 16-17, 1966)--the show's first appearance of...well, you can guess.
 
On the subject of 3D chess and checkers...just caught a Batman two-parter that has Bruce and Dick playing a 3D chess game with four stacked boards at the beginning and the end: "The Purr-fect Crime" and "Better Luck Next Time" (aired March 16-17, 1966)--the show's first appearance of...well, you can guess.

The Puzzler? Wow!
 
In 'The Changeling', Nomad comes into engineering. Scott says something to one of his red jumpsuit engineers and even calls him 'Roger'. The man looks like Roger Holloway. Then when Nomad exits engineering, 2 red shirt security dudes are waiting. One of them is Roger Holloway.
 
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^ Yes, and in the same episode Bill Blackburn is seen in a command tunic, then a science tunic and finally in a red engineering jumpsuit.
 
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