You need to rewatch the first season of TOS in production order. the first 12 overall are as 'connected' as anything in the first season on TNG.
If SNW only gets 5 seasons as well
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What this demonstrates is that rather than in any way ignorant they are entirely familiar with fannish canon and continuity-obsessed trivia, and will use it or not as they please.
What do you mean?You need to rewatch the first season of TOS in production order. the first 12 overall are as 'connected' as anything in the first season on TNG.
Exactly what I said. If you watch the first 12 S1 TOS episodes in the order they were written and produced (as opposed to the NBC network airdate order) they were very connected and you saw a bit of a through thread connection character wise and story wise.
Examples? The show at that point was constantly evolving. Things were being added and discarded almost every episode. They were also in more of an "anthology with regulars" mode.
Comments made by the characters in the episodes like Rand, Sulu, McCoy, O'Reilly, etc.
Like I said, it was about as 'connected' as early TNG which itself was pretty much aired in production order at the start - unlike TOS on NBC.
The reason ... Kirk ... was always ... hesitating ... was that the scripts were being rewritten SO quickly William Shatner never quite knew what his next line was going to be (he didn't hesitate in the movies -- the screenplay was more or less set in stone).
Examples of said dialog?Comments made by the characters in the episodes like Rand, Sulu, McCoy, O'Reilly, etc.
Like I said, it was about as 'connected' as early TNG which itself was pretty much aired in production order at the start - unlike TOS on NBC.
Not going to waste my time going back over transcripts for that - if you watch, you'll see - if you don't care to, not my problem.
Yeah, I've watched more times than I can count. Since you made the claim, I assumed you had at least a couple of examples at the tip of your fingers. I guess not.
Because it's not easy to relate in just dialogue - it's a combination of a lot of the production elements that convey that feeling, at least for me.
Is there anything substantial in those initial TOS episodes as something like TNG having Wesley being granted acting ensign five episodes into the show after showing aspirations of wanting to help the crew? Q showing up and characters directly referring to events from the first episode? That’s sort of what I was alluding to.
As far as I recall, TOS wouldn’t even have direct references to past episodes until perhaps later in S2, and then a scant few more after. That’s just how television was. Even when going by production order, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” has Spock saying “one of my ancestors married a human female”, and then the very next episode he states that it’s actually his mother who is a human.
As far as I recall, TOS wouldn’t even have direct references to past episodes until perhaps later in S2, and then a scant few more after. That’s just how television was. Even when going by production order, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” has Spock saying “one of my ancestors married a human female”, and then the very next episode he states that it’s actually his mother who is a human.
Back then, everything was geared towards syndication.
That was less true of the first movie than it was most of the episodes of the series.
No, that is not why Shatner hesitated in his dialogue, though God knows he's offered contradictory explanations for the affectation, mostly humorous.
Christine Chapel staying on as the Ship's Nurse after she first signed on jut to find her fiancée Roger Korby (TOS S1 - What Are Little Girls Made Of) -
It's stated in the episode Christine Chapel "just signed on" even though she appeared as Nurse Capel in The Naked Time.
The Naked Time was the 4th episode aired in 1966.
What Are Little Girls Made Of was the 7th episode aired in 1966.
(But even though the script for What Are Little Girls Made Of was written and submitted before the script for The Naked Time it was still produced after The Naked Time because it underwent more rewrites from GR. It does appear from the scene on the Bridge it was intended to be Christine Chapel's 'first' appearance.)
Didn’t realize her second appearance was intended as her first, and that the reference to having “just signed on” was a carry over meant to reflect that first appearance. Thanks for sharing.
The actual line is
"KIRK: I understand you gave up a career in bio-research to sign aboard a starship."
The role was not originally written for Chapel. Roddenberry's rewrites were when the part (originally a woman named "Margo") became Chapel. Rewrites were happening while filming.
Looking at MA for both NT and WALGMO, they were being written at almost the same time.
With that timeline, there's room for Spock and Christine to take up again after Korby's death on Year One.
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