Well, sorta. But the particulars of that version of Spock seem to have been misremembered over the years. There's no "metal plate in his stomach."
We plan to do a Fact Trek piece on the pilot version of this script.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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We plan to do a Fact Trek piece on the pilot version of this script.
Looking forward to it.
It would be nice if the script (and all pre-series versions of it) would be accessible to the general public.
Rather difficult because there's a ton of change pages.
As @Maurice alludes to, it's not as if there are a couple clean drafts of the pilot version of "The Omega Glory" that can be read from cover to cover. There's tons of hand-written revisions and other page revisions in the scripts that are at UCLA (which are typically publicly accessible, at least in person, although that has been curtailed by the pandemic).
Sorting through all that stuff requires a lot of time and patience. It is a pretty fascinating look at an early kind of Star Trek, though.
Was that just a very early concept for the character that had been nixed by the time the pilot scripts were written?
Roddenberry was clearly rethinking Spock here, having dropped Number One and moving her unemotional aspects to Spock and was still obviously trying to figure out how to make him "alien" in way beyond his ears. I want to see if we have any early draft materials on the "WNMHGB" and "Mudd's Women" pilot scripts to see how Spock was being handled there before I comment more.
So in "The Cage" Spock was just a regular guy with pointed ears.
So 3rd in command but 4th in terms of characterisation.
So when GR had to get rid of Number One he transferred his character ideas to Spock? So in the first few episodes shot Spock was about I'd say 3/4 the Spock we know with his shouting and strange looks in I Mudd. But I'd say in WNMHGB he was really the Spock we know.
So 3rd in command but 4th in terms of characterisation.
So when GR had to get rid of Number One he transferred his character ideas to Spock? So in the first few episodes shot Spock was about I'd say 3/4 the Spock we know with his shouting and strange looks in I Mudd. But I'd say in WNMHGB he was really the Spock we know.
He wasn't quite the Spock we know yet. The chess scene between Kirk and Spock wouldn't play the same way in later episodes. He's a bit shouty when they hit the barrier, too. The briefing room scene where they discuss Gary also has Spock behaving less Spock-like.
We could also say the field manual calls for upping the volume since time warp is so damn noisy; the heroes even have to resort to hand gestures to communicate in "The Cage"!
(Or then it's all the beeping and blinking, beeping and blinking and flashing and flashing... I can't stand it any more!)
Timo Saloniemi
(Or then it's all the beeping and blinking, beeping and blinking and flashing and flashing... I can't stand it any more!)
Timo Saloniemi
That’s part of the job. Just like the AD on a film set.Yeah, everyone on the Hangar Deck.
His yelling actually made sense to me that way. Make sure everybody hears the order.
Also when an officer questions the order, as they always do, "But Captain that will take us into the neutral zone," or whatever, the OD could just yell SHUT UP, and save me the trouble of yelling at the TV.
Also when an officer questions the order, as they always do, "But Captain that will take us into the neutral zone," or whatever, the OD could just yell SHUT UP, and save me the trouble of yelling at the TV.
There's no question in my mind that that's so in WNMHGB.
Of course, the original shouty line was "THE WOMEN!" which is a TrekBBS meme unto itself!
Shouting so urgently was of course a style choice, to inject excitement into the scenes. And it did work well at that point. The trouble is, if repeated throughout the series, it would get old fast. And no one can imagine the later Spock having that persona.
I think his last shouts were in "Amok Time" (the ending in Sickbay), and "Is There in Truth No Beauty" (seeing Kollos without visor), both of which were in unrelated contexts.
I think his last shouts were in "Amok Time" (the ending in Sickbay), and "Is There in Truth No Beauty" (seeing Kollos without visor), both of which were in unrelated contexts.
And there's the fact that Spock says that one of his ancestors married a human, implying that his human heritage goes several generations back, instead of his mother being human.
I've always chosen to interpret that line as Spock trying to make himself seem more distant from his human heritage than he actually is by implication (without, of course, really telling a lie).
Yes, Spock is certainly secretive about his past. That's more or less how I rationalize that line now.
