....or the starving actors diet.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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....or the starving actors diet.
I mean, unless Chief Vandenberg, and Kor and co. pick up their wall decorations an accent pieces at Space, Bed, Sonic Shower, and Beyond..
Maybe it's a trophy from a captured ship.
That's some trophy. Lol. I wouldn't think Chief Vandenberg was some kind of great, anti-Klingon warrior stuck in a mine on Janus VI, but I've been wrong before.
He bought at a garage sale.
Actually, I was suggesting the Klingons seized it.
Oh.. Chief Vandenberg is one of those folks who buys military memorabilia from enemy powers and decorates their office with it. I wonder how Starfleet feels about that..
Well, they could have, but they must have liked it an awful lot because they used it for their letterhead.
I love the idea that the Klingons - THE KLINGONS - took the time to decorate an occupied facility that fast. 
Oh.. Chief Vandenberg is one of those folks who buys military memorabilia from enemy powers and decorates their office with it. I wonder how Starfleet feels about that..
Well, they could have, but they must have liked it an awful lot because they used it for their letterhead.
I like how this picture shows that Sylvia and Korob based their castle off of this one. That Organian citadel is all the rage in extraglalactic circles!
I love the idea that the Klingons - THE KLINGONS - took the time to decorate an occupied facility that fast.
...For all we know, not only did they confiscate the real estate and the furniture, they also stole the Organian stationery.
Timo Saloniemi
That's Organian.
..with the words KLINGON EMPIRE in big capital letters? LOL.
I've always thought that old school Klingon symbol was pretty weak.
I love the idea that the Klingons - THE KLINGONS - took the time to decorate an occupied facility that fast.
Since we're talking about Organia here, perhaps they weren't real decorations and were taken from Kirk's memories of recent events?
JB
Since we're talking about Organia here, perhaps they weren't real decorations and were taken from Kirk's memories of recent events?
JB
Very possible! I guess the Organians did construct a reality that the "limited mentalities" of the humans, Klingons and Vulcans could understand.
You know, it really is a shame how often the TOS crew encountered all-powerful aliens.
Why a shame, Phase? 
JB
JB
Well . . . it just got to be an overused trope. And TOS had so so so so so so many great ideas, such great characters, and such wonderful dialogue, writing, plotting, and acting. It just seems like we lost out on maybe 4 or 5 episodes because the writers felt the need to neutralize the sheer power of the Enterprise (always a recurring problem) and kept coming up with the same answers - omnipotent aliens. I mean, just off the top of my head:
Thasians
Trelane and Parents (who were maybe Qs)
Metrons
Organians
The Providers (GOT)
The Excalbians
The Melkot/Melkotians
I think I missed several. And even Vaal and Landru, while decidedly not all-powerful, found a way to take the Enterprise out of action by presenting it with an existential threat.
I don't find many flaws with TOS. But I wish they had found better ways to write around the power of the Enterprise. Every episode where the phasers/communicators/tricorders actually work and the Enterprise isn't captured (or the capture is portrayed realistically) is a such a pleasure.
Thasians
Trelane and Parents (who were maybe Qs)
Metrons
Organians
The Providers (GOT)
The Excalbians
The Melkot/Melkotians
I think I missed several. And even Vaal and Landru, while decidedly not all-powerful, found a way to take the Enterprise out of action by presenting it with an existential threat.
I don't find many flaws with TOS. But I wish they had found better ways to write around the power of the Enterprise. Every episode where the phasers/communicators/tricorders actually work and the Enterprise isn't captured (or the capture is portrayed realistically) is a such a pleasure.
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...and don't forget these little alien troublemakers.
Yeah, but they weren't all-powerful and relied on technology, like the Kelvans. That doesn't irritate me as much. In fact, the really powerful aliens who showed chinks in the armor or were eventually defeated (Apollo, and even the Talosians) aren't nearly as much of a problem for me, and probably belong to a separate subgroup. BUT put both of those groups together and it starts to grate just a touch. Most of my favorite episodes (TDD, WIF, WOE, Obsession, DiTD, FC, BOT, TW, ROA, MM - I think that's my personal Top Ten, with TUC right "behind") do not involve godlike aliens.
Since we're talking about Organia here, perhaps they weren't real decorations and were taken from Kirk's memories of recent events?
JB
Except that "Errand of Mercy" was a first season episode and "Catspaw" was a second season episode and thus was both produced and broadcast later than "Errand of Mercy".
However, the stardate of "Catspaw" is 3018.2 and the stardate of "Errand of Mercy" is 3198.4, so if episodes happen in stardate order Kirk could have had decorations from "Catspaw" in his memory for the Organians to scan during "Errand of Mercy".
