Poor goat. Even back then things were getting tagged with spray painted graffiti.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Poor goat. Even back then things were getting tagged with spray painted graffiti.
Hmm. The Organians can obviously create illusions too, on a grand scale, and they seem to be able to project power over long distances give Ayelborne's line about appearing on the warring races' homeworlds. Moreover, the Talosians have no powers other than illusion, which is quite enough, but the Organians have additional abilities like control over matter (the superheating). I'd say they're more powerful. They would probably disapprove of the Talosians' methods, too.
Interesting. A possible new thread....would you rather be a Talosian or an Organian?
I wonder if anybody watching Star Trek in the CRT era ever noticed the color of that goat. You'd need a big, top-quality set, perfect reception, and you'd have to be paying close attention, even to details that aren't the usual obsessions of sci-fi fans. And even then, you might chalk it up to an artifact of the TV picture, a faulty bit of color akin to the "aliasing" we used to see in venetian blinds and fine-striped clothing.
I'd say painting that goat was a waste of time. It was too subtle for the SD television medium, unless the director was going to a close-up and make a point of it.
That’s why I’m still following TOS after all these years. This entire thread is a testament to the attention to details that were never expected to be seen. The panels, displays, even the buttons were labeled as if the “operators” needed that information.
Take the Talos IV dossier, for example. The text in the folder follows the script and is even signed by Robert Comsol. In my mind, the script reference was to COMSOL — Commander of something something, much like CINCPAC. But not to the production staff at Star Trek.
Leave it to Beaver, on the other hand, was a little more whimsical.
Possibly the woman crew member was reassigned to the bridge crew to replace an injured man after the fight 2 weeks ago and reported to the bridge for her first turn at the beginning of the current watch. Thus Pike wouldn't be any more used to her than to Yeoman Colt.
Or possibly the crew member who looks like an Earth Human female was actually not one or more of those things.
Acting captain Spock was responsibly trying to save about 200 other crew persons in that scene. Spock became much more devoted to Pike after many more years of serving with him by "Menagerie" and Spock may have known (or been tricked by the Talsoians into thinking) that taking PIke to Talos IV was safe for the other crew members.
That’s why I’m still following TOS after all these years. This entire thread is a testament to the attention to details that were never expected to be seen. The panels, displays, even the buttons were labeled as if the “operators” needed that information.
Take the Talos IV dossier, for example. The text in the folder follows the script and is even signed by Robert Comsol. In my mind, the script reference was to COMSOL — Commander of something something, much like CINCPAC. But not to the production staff at Star Trek.
Leave it to Beaver, on the other hand, was a little more whimsical.
At first I wondered if the spoken line was "Council Starfleet Command", "Counsel Starfleet Command", "Consul Starfleet Command", etc. until I settled on "COMSOL Starfleet Command" meaning "COMmander SOL sector Starfleet Command" and didn't learn until much later it was (Robert) "Comsol, Starfleet Command". (Did the top brass appoint Comsol COMSOL because of his name?) So I guess someone was having a little fun!
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During S1 and S2 the wall color of the Transporter Room is a light grey color. Another S3 oddity....the Transporter Room is now purple with yellow highlights. 
Errand of Mercy - I didn't notice until the hi-def remasters that, when Kirk and Spock beam down, the goat that somebody walks by with is spray-painted:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x26hd/errandofmercyhd081.jpg
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x26hd/errandofmercyhd103.jpg
Come to look at it, that crowd scene is the same dozen extras walking back and forth.
Either that was the great emerald goat of Organia's long lost past or it could have been a gamma goat of some irradiated quality? Either way though, it was just an illusion used to fool the invading forces of both Klingons and the Federation!
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Day of the Dove....after Kirk and company beam up, they discuss what's happening. Scotty says "Who are the guests, by the way?" Just as Kirk says "Klingons", McCoy starts to talk over Kirk's line. Shatner even glances over at Kelley as if to say, "Hey, the script says Kirk does the talking here."
The purple transporter room never really looks "right" to me, partly because I don't rewatch the third season episodes that much.During S1 and S2 the wall color of the Transporter Room is a light grey color. Another S3 oddity....the Transporter Room is now purple with yellow highlights.
That link just gets me a "Failed to connect to database" message. Happens with the main site, too. Maybe that's temporary, but if anyone else runs into that problem, here's the same page via the WayBack Machine (link).
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I thought that was the lighting for a long time because I’d read that Jerry Finnerman would “paint with light,” and this was supposed to be a cost saving measure. We saw less of this as the seasons went on and eventually Al Francis replaced Finnerman as cinematographer.
This would require drilling down into the data, but I wonder if there was ever a cost/benefit analysis of this practice. Between labor and gels I would think the cost was non-trivial.
The sets had to be lit regardless, but it might've added a tiny bit of time to where the lights were pointed. And gels are pretty cheap but when you're pinching pennies I can see where this could have been cut back.
In the scene in "The Naked Time" where Tormolen is being operated on, the view switches several times from McCoy/Chapel to a closeup of the biobed readout. In the first several longer shots, the indicators (ie, the arrows) on the panel are much higher than they are in the closeups showing Tormolen's decline.
Ah, Joey, the only Lieutenant Junior Grade in Starfleet (at least until TNG).
His self doubt was always very high according to Spock but maybe it was the fact that his blood was a tad pinker than everyone else's that finally drove him over the edge!
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Klingon spy?
Or a man who liked a lot of Rose? 
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In City on the Edge, if you look closely after Kirk and Spock run from the police, all they do is run around the small city block and straight back to the alley area that they just left.
