If you could go back....
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Have the guy who labeled the Constellation model arrange the numbers so that it reads "1710" instead of "1017." It's an incredibly minor, insignificant thing, but boy would it let me sleep better at night.
Oh, yes! Please! I'm glad I'm not the only one that bothers.
Then again, it may be more fun to have them change it to "0711."
I'd like to have seen more of Commodore Decker--the interplay between him and Spock in "The Doomsday Machine" was hilarious. I liked Lieutenant Palmer, and I absolutely agree that Uhura should have had the conn a few times. I'd like to have heard more of her Swahili and learned more about her background.
Major business decisions like selling Desilu or canceling Star Trek would never be changed for some guy who shows up out of nowhere and pleads the case.
But if you wrote smart fan mail early in the first season when every letter was a big deal, you could probably have influenced character and premise issues in noticeable ways. And a letter was the easiest way to get through the studio gates, anyway.
But if you wrote smart fan mail early in the first season when every letter was a big deal, you could probably have influenced character and premise issues in noticeable ways. And a letter was the easiest way to get through the studio gates, anyway.
How about a guy of average intelligence with a sack full of untraceable gold bullion and some diamonds?
Hell, if any of us had THOSE, we wouldn't need a time machine.
I thought of him, too.
Although, if I had the power to stop only one assassination event, it would be the one perpetrated by Gavrilo Princip.
Agreed. You would think Number One's existence plus Lester being psychologically unstable would lead series reviewers and fans to not take her statements as fact.
Yeah, Lester washed out of Starfleet and bitterly externalized the blame, claiming they were unfair to women.
But that's a re-interpretation, if not a ret-con. I'm pretty sure the line was originally written and played as a literal, in-universe fact.
It would be a tough choice if you could stop only one of them. Historically it really would be down to either Oswald or Ray, and I'd have to go with Ray.
1. Use more of the ship and alien landscape designs from TAS. It would make the heroes' universe seem a bit more "populated" with something other than the connies and K7--and, as TAS was only a couple of years removed from the TOS production years, the designs felt like they were born of the same creative energy / sensibility.
2. Update the Phaser rifle. Fan films have created wonderful, Phaser 2-based rifles, and unless someone suggested there was no need for a rifle on the series because the P2 was just as powerful (if not beyond it), I would suggest the rifle make a return in "The Devil in the Dark," as the next step in combating the "killer" creature
(obviously before Spock communicates with it).
Majel Barrett said somewhere that after the phaser rifle's first and only use, Gene felt it looked "too military," so that was the end of it.
The prop had been loaned to Star Trek by its maker, Reuben Klamer, in exchange for the toy licensing rights. GR gave it back to him after "Where No Man..." was filmed.
Klamer auctioned it off in 2013. He had kept it nice in a custom case all those years.
Might have been the bullpup configuration that made it look too military. Or Majel could have been mis-remembering things. Doesn't look particularly military to me. It actually looks kind of awkward to use without any kind of foregrip.
TOS was a mixture of some very forward thinking ideas as well as holdover views from the 1950s and early '60s. That's why some of the things in TOS still look cool while some others can look really dated.
The phaser rifle still looks very cool, but (to me) it looks like something belonging in the Pike era rather than the 5-year mission era.
TOS was a mixture of some very forward thinking ideas as well as holdover views from the 1950s and early '60s. That's why some of the things in TOS still look cool while some others can look really dated.
The phaser rifle still looks very cool, but (to me) it looks like something belonging in the Pike era rather than the 5-year mission era.
The phaser rifle was damn cool. I wished they had used it more than once.
I'm not sure it was too "military" in appearance, but it looked dangerous to a degree, especially when Kirk shifts the power coils to whatever settings were available.
True--especially next to the laser pistol props leftover from "The Cage." The Phaser rifle would have been right at home on the set of ST's unofficial "parent," Forbidden Planet.
I would have suggested dramatic changes to the Enterprise sets, particularly the control panels and displays. Part of what makes TOS seem dated and comical to modern eyes is the clunky, big, old-fashioned push-buttons and switches, and multitudes of flashing lights. Although TNG over-used the LCARS too much -- (every single alien ship used a different colored LCARS set-up) -- the TOS Enterprise would have benefitted enormously from a simple re-design of the control panels and displays in an LCARS style that would have seemed impossibly futuristic in the 60's.
As fans we benefit from hindsight and being able to see things differently from outside of the pressures of production. I imagine MJ and others would have liked to do many things, but simply didn't think of them at the time or were unable to do them for one reason or another.
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