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Hey, I never noticed that before....

Watched "I Mudd" yesterday. Was there a reason that anyone knows that Takei wasn't in it past the bridge scenes? Looking back at the episode I wonder why Kirk didn't blast the androids as they came onto the ship or you know blow up the planet with some cockamamie scheme. Surely it was better the ship destroyed than in say Mudd's hands. Kirk threatened to blow up the ship more than once rather than see it in enemies hands.
 
Watched "I Mudd" yesterday. Was there a reason that anyone knows that Takei wasn't in it past the bridge scenes?
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Watched "I Mudd" yesterday. Was there a reason that anyone knows that Takei wasn't in it past the bridge scenes? Looking back at the episode I wonder why Kirk didn't blast the androids as they came onto the ship or you know blow up the planet with some cockamamie scheme. Surely it was better the ship destroyed than in say Mudd's hands. Kirk threatened to blow up the ship more than once rather than see it in enemies hands.

I've always wondered that myself. Why didn't he just shoot them?
 
Watched Metamorphosis today. Its really a beautiful episode. Great colours. Great story. Great aesthetic. I noticed a couple of things. Spock shook hands with Cochrane. No Vulcan salute thingy. I like Cochrane's house, the artwork and the Galileo. Though when Cochrane inspected it, it was a bit tardis like in height..
 
Watched Metamorphosis today. Its really a beautiful episode. Great colours. Great story. Great aesthetic. I noticed a couple of things. Spock shook hands with Cochrane. No Vulcan salute thingy.

Spock eagerly shakes hands with McCoy when they are reunited near the end of "The City on the Edge of Forever." It was a realistic moment too, because if you haven't read the script in advance, you don't know things will work out in the end, and it's a great relief when they seem to have worked out.
 
Watched Metamorphosis today. Its really a beautiful episode. Great colours. Great story. Great aesthetic. I noticed a couple of things. Spock shook hands with Cochrane. No Vulcan salute thingy. I like Cochrane's house, the artwork and the Galileo. Though when Cochrane inspected it, it was a bit tardis like in height.
It's quite well known that, like many fictional vehicles, the Galileo is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
 
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.
 
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.
It's obvious in in many of episodes on the regular clamshell 2004 DVD release too; as is the bad paint job on many of the plywood Bridge set pieces.
 
Neither of those things is obvious to me. I’ve avoided getting TOS in HD because of those visible things that are more noticable. I like my clamshells fine, though watching remastered on MeTv, I love how green the command tunics often appear!
 
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Watched Metamorphosis today. Its really a beautiful episode. Great colours. Great story. Great aesthetic. I noticed a couple of things. Spock shook hands with Cochrane. No Vulcan salute thingy. I like Cochrane's house, the artwork and the Galileo. Though when Cochrane inspected it, it was a bit tardis like in height..

Spock eagerly shakes hands with McCoy when they are reunited near the end of "The City on the Edge of Forever." It was a realistic moment too, because if you haven't read the script in advance, you don't know things will work out in the end, and it's a great relief when they seem to have worked out.

Maybe it's in deference to Cochrane's humanity, and the fact that Spock is representing Starfleet here, not Vulcan?

Also, maybe it's common knowledge that Cochran had trouble making the gesture, as seen in First Contact.

Spock's father was Sarek, "child of Skon, child of Solkar". Given Vulcan longevity, Spock could possibly have heard stories about Skon's life and even Solkar's life diectly from them. And some fans claim that Solkar was the captain of the Vulcan ship in Star Trek: First Contact who personally greeted Zefraim Cochrane.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Solkar
 
Spock's father was Sarek, "child of Skon, child of Solkar". Given Vulcan longevity, Spock could possibly have heard stories about Skon's life and even Solkar's life diectly from them. And some fans claim that Solkar was the captain of the Vulcan ship in Star Trek: First Contact who personally greeted Zefraim Cochrane.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Solkar
Spock's great-grandfather discovered the Earthlings? And signed the Federation charter. With so much involvement with Earth by his forebears, maybe Sarek's openness to marrying a human makes more sense.
 
Spock's great-grandfather discovered the Earthlings? And signed the Federation charter. With so much involvement with Earth by his forebears, maybe Sarek's openness to marrying a human makes more sense.
Nah, he was just there for official first contact. T'Pol's grandma was trapsing around Earth in the 1950s.
 
I'm watching "Wolf in the Fold" and am thinking its probably the most sexist episode of TOS. Not only does Spock say women are more frightened than men. Is that even true? I mean women have more to be frightened of but I don't think they are more deeply terrified than men . I'd like to see the studies. Then there's an entire planet where the women make their living by selling their bodies to rich tourists. Anyway what was more sexist was the disrespect for women where Scotty strongly suspected of killing women was continually left alone with women. If he'd been handcuffed or something then we'd know he didn't do it. Then when Lieutenant whatshername was killed there was not a word said in mourning - it was all poor Scotty. The chief planet dude did not seem all that worried about his wifes death and McCoy was saying that Scotty had a severe concussion so therefore he was not responsible for anything he did? What? I mean just murder a woman - nothing much.

Another thing - in the scene in the conference room after the Jack the Ripper had got into the computer - suddenly the knife reappeared from being analysed in the lab. Did I miss something when someone bought it back in?
 
Did I miss something when someone bought it back in?
It was displayed on the monitor in the room, hence it was in the computer. Jack brought it back out with him when he left the computer. Yep, that's how computers work. :wtf:

Actually, in-universe, I assume Hengist had its matching companion knife on him the whole time.
HENGIST: Gentlemen, I know something of the law. You're engaging in sheer speculation.
KIRK: Perhaps. Mister Spock. The murder weapon.
SPOCK: Computer. Report on analysis of Exhibit A.
COMPUTER: Working. Exhibit A on visual. Composition of blade, boridium. Composition of handle, murinite. Details of carving on handle conform to folk art forms, indicating place of origin.
SPOCK: Specify. Point of origin.
COMPUTER: Artefact produced by hill people of Argus River region, planet Rigel Four.
KIRK: Now then, Mister Hengist
(But Hengist tries to make a break for it, even landing a very good kick on Kirk, who repays him with an even better right cross. Hengist falls to the floor.)
When Hengist realized that if he was searched, he would have its matching companion on him and proof of his guilt :techman:; up to this point all evidence was only circumstantial (sheer speculation), i.e. murders on Rigal 4 and he comes from Rigal 4. YMMV. :)
 
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