I wish TOS had...
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...with GR supervising, Gene L. Coon producing, D.C Fontana story editing and Fred Freiberger vacationing in Bangladesh.
Some fans are the ones drooling, not Kirk.
And do we have to go down this tired Noel thing for the millionth time?
Yeah there are some really good ones. But my point is that doesn't fit with "I wish TOS had..." That production closed down in early 1969.
That's cool. I enjoy TOS more as a historical piece.
I remember Gene once suggested that the Enterprise carried a platoon of Starfleet Marines.
I wish we'd gotten to see them.
I wonder what uniform color they would wear. Black, maybe?
I wish we'd gotten to see them.
I wonder what uniform color they would wear. Black, maybe?
Hey, I’m a purist as anyone, but it’s still not impossible to make something look period authentic.
This reminds me of Kirk's answer to Flint's offer of "Chess? Billiards? Conversation?" In this case, why not . . . all two? Er, well, both.
Seconded. My all-time favorite female guest star from TOS. Emily Banks was just vibrant and she had a great chemistry with DeForest Kelley.
It would've been fun to see a security chief as a recurring guest star. Either Chief Giotto from "Devil in the Dark" or a perhaps a female officer for variety's sake.
A female Captain from another ship.
Joanna McCoy.
The story that DeForest Kelley sometime alluded to in interviews, focusing on McCoy and Uhura, taking place on a planet where the relations between races were reversed. (Although that one might've ended up looking embarrassing today, so maybe it's just as well.)
And my biggest wish: That Gene Coon and D.C. Fontana had both stayed with the series.
I’m not 100% sure but I remember reading somewhere about that story premise morphing into Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Could be.I’m not 100% sure but I remember reading somewhere about that story premise morphing into Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
I’m not 100% sure but I remember reading somewhere about that story premise morphing into Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
That's what Solow and Justman indicate in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (1996), but what I've seen indicates they were mixed up about that. The 1966 story outline and teleplay (a rare script to be abandoned by the series, most abandoned ideas were cut-off at the story outline stage) for "Portrait in Black and White" by Barry Trivers has nothing to do with the third season episode, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." Indeed, Gene L. Coon was commissioned to write a brand-new story outline for that third season show, not to rewrite what Trivers had written during the first season.
Nice. Or Garrovick, too. He could have recurred in S3.
That also sounds like the plot of the Star Trek script that one of the Mad Men characters (Paul?) was pitching. He had Peggy and Stan (I think) read the script and they agreed it was awful. Funny.
Here is an example of something that could work. This is based very much on Matt Jefferies' original concept for the Enterprise shuttlecraft. He made somewhat detailed drawings of this, but it never went beyond the conceptual stage given they determined it would be too expensive to build such a complex fullsize exterior mockup. However, this design could have been repurposed as a different kind of Starfleet or Federation or even alien ship where only a filming miniature would have been required.
Here I repurposed it as a larger (than originally envisioned) runabout or scout type craft for far-flung starbases and Federation outposts. But my point is that MJ did quite a few conceptual sketches and drawings of things he never used that could be fleshed out in a manner consistenet with what is already familar in TOS if one really wanted to explore other possible TOS era designs.
I have not seen a version of the Saladin class with the shuttlebay done in this fashion before, and it seems more integrated than some I have seen, but it still looked fine without the shuttle bay, as well. I'm not as pleases with the deflector placement, but overall this looks like a good interpretation.Perhaps something like this?
Fantastic design. Looks a lot like Jones' ship from TAS. Maybe this one is sort-of already canon?Here is an example of something that could work. This is based very much on Matt Jefferies' original concept for the Enterprise shuttlecraft. He made somewhat detailed drawings of this, but it never went beyond the conceptual stage given they determined it would be too expensive to build such a complex fullsize exterior mockup. However, this design could have been repurposed as a different kind of Starfleet or Federation or even alien ship where only a filming miniature would have been required.
Here I repurposed it as a larger (than originally envisioned) runabout or scout type craft for far-flung starbases and Federation outposts. But my point is that MJ did quite a few conceptual sketches and drawings of things he never used that could be fleshed out in a manner consistenet with what is already familar in TOS if one really wanted to explore other possible TOS era designs.
I first saw this deflector placement on Masao's Starfleet Museum website and I thought it a brilliant and beautifully integrated solution as opposed to to what I always thought was the silly and flimsy looking notion of Franz Joseph to have the deflector simply dangling from the lower saucer. The integrated shuttlebay was my idea. I named this the Masao-class as a way of crediting him with solving an issue I was perpexed by.
I am presently just beginning to work out a 3D model interpretation of Cyrano Jones' ship from TAS in the Arts forum in my thread TAS made real. I will start modelling when I have worked out closely (or not) I can follow the onscreen design.
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