They have magnatomic adhesion strips?But but...Starfleet uniforms have no zippers!!!!!
Even if Star Trek costumes do!!!!!
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Not in script, no, but "The Tholian Web" had off-screen strife about it. The spacesuits that were designed for the episode had to have the actors sewn into them based on a Roddenberry mandate about zippers being 'non-existent'.
I think its always been implied that the uniform shirts in TOS were pullovers. The zippers were always "hidden" in seams. I think this was for make up purposes. Real pullovers would be hell on make up. By TNG the zippers were on the back, but when a jacket was shown to be open, they opened from the front!
That was so stupid, and the costume delays apparently cost director Ralph Senensky his job. They didn't have a problem on Lost in Space. Those suits looked fine.
Theiss should have put big phat zippers on the spacesuits, and then covered them with a simple flap and some of the tacked-on gimmicks that his suits would end up sporting anyway. Also, it seems like he needed more advance notice that spacesuits would be needed.
Fix to save time and money: invent the force field life support belts from TAS.
IDK if I posted this in this thread previously, but is McCoy in "Where No Man Has Gone Before?"
I know he has no dialogue, but I was watching it recently, and in the early scene where Kirk & Spock are playing chess, the camera pans to have a shot of the view screen of someone on the bridge talking to Kirk. If you freeze that shot, there is a blue uniformed white guy with short hair looking back towards camera. Really tough to see the face clearly, but could that be DeForest Kelley?
I know he has no dialogue, but I was watching it recently, and in the early scene where Kirk & Spock are playing chess, the camera pans to have a shot of the view screen of someone on the bridge talking to Kirk. If you freeze that shot, there is a blue uniformed white guy with short hair looking back towards camera. Really tough to see the face clearly, but could that be DeForest Kelley?
No, he's not.
No, it isn't him. The first produced episode after the second pilot, "THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER", is the first episode DeForest Kelley appears in.
If the force fields were depicted by a "halo" effect surrounding each actor, that would have required rotoscope animation for every frame of every scene in which the life-support belts were activated, which probably would have blown the effects budget for the entire season.Fix to save time and money: invent the force field life support belts from TAS.
Just FYI, the life support belts were invented for TOS "The Tholian Web," but the idea was rejected in favor of the environmental suits, and the belts had to wait for TAS. Per Memory Alpha:
Although used exclusively in TAS, the life support belt was invented during the run of Star Trek: The Original Series. Judy Burns, co-writer of "The Tholian Web", thought of using battery-powered "force field belts" in that episode, but the series' producers decided to feature EV suits instead. "They felt strongly that if they started something like a force field belt," explained Burns, "it might have ramifications down the line on other stories. I was a novice in those days, but today I probably would have countered that it was a prototype model that had been given to us this one time. In 25 years, we would get it back again." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, 3rd ed., p. 72)
Nah, they could have shown a full halo upon initial activation, then only occasionally have shown tiny glimmers at the point of contact whenever they touched something or got shot at.
There would also be memes of Kelley sitting back there and saying to himself "Bide your time, DeForest. Climb the ladder." [That's a paraphrase of what Monty Burns, age 104, said to himself at the secret Stone Cutter's meeting.]
Here's what I just noticed: the girl civies costume from "The Cage" got reused intact in WNMHGB:
Not so far from the truth. Roddenberry tried to cast him as Boyce and Piper but was overruled by the directors both times.
Have you looked at the shot? Not that I am disputing it, just asking.
I know the scene you are talking about. It's not Kelley.
Really? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm surprised if the director on a TV project could overrule the executive producer. TV directors have nowhere near the power of feature film auteurs, although Roddenberry could hand over as much power as he pleased.
Also, would anybody prefer Paul Fix to DeForest Kelley for a spaceman role? Fix wasn't very light on his feet, and his delivery didn't exactly light up the screen.
Scotty is using some 1960’s era blue and yellow handled nut drivers to fix the Shuttlecraft impulse drive.
Scotty is using some 1960’s era blue and yellow handled nut drivers to fix the Shuttlecraft impulse drive.
...and wrenches too!
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