She's a collector and would never damage a mint condition artifact.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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Which artifact? The Doctor or...
I'm pretty sure on Blu-Ray HD with a large TV you can see the cable they used to move Nomad around from "The Changeling"
Just a few hours ago, the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour posted on Facebook that they are revising their corridors after receiving new information that the "header" panels (the overhead cross-pieces with the trapezoidal shapes) had internal lighting. I thought "surely not," having long believed that shower-curtain material was just glued onto the wood, and spotlights were sometimes aimed at it. Nevertheless, I started digging through my screencaps.
Well I'll be dipped in shower sludge. You definitely can't make reflected light stop at edges that precisely without some spillage onto the red painted wood. How did I not notice this for half a century?
Well I'll be dipped in shower sludge. You definitely can't make reflected light stop at edges that precisely without some spillage onto the red painted wood. How did I not notice this for half a century?
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How...illuminating.
I just noticed that the massively unwise display of blades in "Space Seed," that no real doctor would ever hang in a patient area, was reborn later over the couch in McCoy's office:
Also, there's a couch in McCoy's office.
And he learned nothing from "Space Seed."
Also, there's a couch in McCoy's office.
And he learned nothing from "Space Seed."
Yeah, I always snort a little when I think about these initially hanging on a wall in the recovery ward.
"He's dead, Jim."
"Why, Doctor?"
"Because during an attack, one of my many decorative knives fell off the wall, and stabbed him in the chest."
"Why do you have so many decorative knives in Sick Bay?"
"Seems rather silly, now that you bring it up. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go take them down and replace them with my collection of super sharp and deadly axes."
"Why, Doctor?"
"Because during an attack, one of my many decorative knives fell off the wall, and stabbed him in the chest."
"Why do you have so many decorative knives in Sick Bay?"
"Seems rather silly, now that you bring it up. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go take them down and replace them with my collection of super sharp and deadly axes."
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Kirk: "Why do you have a wall of blades?"
McCoy: "Because some days, I'm Dr. McCoy. Other days... I'm Dr. McCut."
McCoy: "Because some days, I'm Dr. McCoy. Other days... I'm Dr. McCut."
Mirror McCoy displays antique dueling pistols over his office couch. The set decorator was working out details that we wouldn't notice for decades.
That stuff is what's still sold as Rowlux Clear Colorless Moire Illusion Film lenticular sheeting. It's thick enough to bend gently without wrinkling like a "shower curtain". I could always tell they were sometimes lit from behind. I question if it's "internal" lighting given how thin those beams are, and also the light on the pipe looks more like it's coming from above the set than from those panels.Just a few hours ago, the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour posted on Facebook that they are revising their corridors after receiving new information that the "header" panels (the overhead cross-pieces with the trapezoidal shapes) had internal lighting. I thought "surely not," having long believed that shower-curtain material was just glued onto the wood, and spotlights were sometimes aimed at it. Nevertheless, I started digging through my screencaps.
Well I'll be dipped in shower sludge. You definitely can't make reflected light stop at edges that precisely without some spillage onto the red painted wood. How did I not notice this for half a century?
"He's dead, Jim."
"Why, Doctor?"
"Because during a fight in Sick Bay, the sedated man with violent tendencies woke up and grabbed one of my many decorative pistols and shot him in the chest."
"Why do you have so many decorative pistols in Sick Bay?"
"Seems rather silly, now that you bring it up. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go take them down and replace them with my collection of super sharp and deadly knives."
I too have been thinking about the thinness of the beams, and was having a hard time imagining light being sent down through the beam itself to illuminate the Rowlux diffusers. But then it dawned on me that if the beam wasn't solid behind the diffusers — if its trapezoids were hollow, or filled with something transparent — then you could drop a spot on the non-camera side of the beam and shoot color through each concentric pair of diffusers.
With the filming camera anticlockwise from the turbolift and the first two beams (as in the Mirror, Mirror screencap above), the stage might might have looked something like this if we imagine Billy Blackburn up on a 10-foot ladder with his home camera just as time-traveling Just a Bill rips off the two inboard Rowlux panels to reveal one of the empty pockets:
(Yes, the spotlights are floating in thin air. Just trying to keep the illustration from getting more cluttered.)
This method makes the lighting entirely optional, simplifies beam construction (and makes them lighter), and lets the crew assemble a wild section of corridor without having to worry about cables and bulbs. It's up to the director and Finnerman to decide if they want to take the trouble to backlight the panels in any given shot. This also means both sides of the beam itself are always "clean" and filmable, since the spots are separate from the beam and you move them to whichever side is the back in each shot.
Here's a rough approximation of the filming camera's perspective in the Mirror, Mirror cap, for no good reason (I snapped it, so now you have to look at it).
(Yeah, I've got the wrong tape on the foreground pipes. I just copy-pasted the background ones for now.)
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Ah, so then lifted out of the filmable volume (and probably moved back more than I had them) so as not to rely on obscuration by foreground objects; something like this, perhaps.
Yeah, that seems a lot safer. I suppose this means the very top inch or so of the camera-side Rowlux might not have received quite as much light as the rest of the panel due to the angling. But it seems they rarely included the very tops in the TV safe zone anyway (and possibly never did so when they were backlit with specific gels), so probably fine.
Thank you, today I learned about barn-dooring! Seems kind of obvious in hindsight, but I had never thought about it before.
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McCoy wasn't the only one on board the ship who had a sharp object on display in his office. Check out the dagger on Kirk's desk. (Mudd's Women)
The dagger looked like a collector's item, but it wasn't mounted on a wall like McCoy's knives were. It wasn't even prominently displayed on a stand, unlike how Sisko displayed his baseball on his desk.
The dagger was just lying on Kirk's desk, off to the side. As a tv viewer, you could easily miss seeing it.
I would guess that the dagger had sentimental value for Kirk. However, having a fondness for a dagger and having it within reach, would seem more fitting for Mirror Kirk than Prime Kirk.
Also, from that angle, you can see not only the dagger, but you also get a good view of the Magic Slate sketch pad that was used as the writing surface for those TOS electronic clipboards.
Ironically, the company that made Magic Slates did later produce Star Trek themed Magic Slates for sale. I had one when I was a kid.
Anyway, getting back to the dagger, here's another scene with Kirk at his desk. (Tomorrow is Yesterday)
A dagger looking object appears on Kirk's desk again, although I am not sure if this object is the same dagger as the one in "Mudd's Women".
Another interesting thing about this screenshot is the camera angle. Obviously, the back wall of the office section of Kirk's quarters was removed to make this view possible. Kirk's desk looks like it could use some polishing.
All images are from Trekcore.
Props to you for using the proper name of this prop. Lots of people seem to want to try to retcon it into being something it isn't. PADDs didn't show up until TNG; the two devices have very different designs, and significantly different capabilities.
I have to commend TOS continuity for their consistency in decorating officer crew quarter sets. Desilu's not gonna leave that up all filming season.
I actually didn't know what the proper name of that TOS device was. I did a Google search and PADD would pop up. But from the description given, those TOS devices didn't seem to fit the description of a Star Trek PADD imo.
To me, those TOS devices looked more like futuristic clipboards. While I was typing the post, I was debating with myself whether I should call the prop a PADD or an electronic clipboard. I went with electronic clipboard, and now I feel vindicated.
To me, those TOS devices looked more like futuristic clipboards. While I was typing the post, I was debating with myself whether I should call the prop a PADD or an electronic clipboard. I went with electronic clipboard, and now I feel vindicated.
Now that I think of it, we didn't see printed paper very much unless you were Sam Cogley. Remember Kirk's reaction to his lawbook collection? The Cage had their fax machine and that seemed to be it.I actually didn't know what the proper name of that TOS device was. I did a Google search and PADD would pop up. But from the description given, those TOS devices didn't seem to fit the description of a Star Trek PADD imo.
To me, those TOS devices looked more like futuristic clipboards. While I was typing the post, I was debating with myself whether I should call the prop a PADD or an electronic clipboard. I went with electronic clipboard, and now I feel vindicated.
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