It didn’t looked squashed to me.
The “dome” the bridge-B/C deck rests upon was always flat—the underside too, originally.
My vision isn’t the best.
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The “dome” the bridge-B/C deck rests upon was always flat—the underside too, originally.
My vision isn’t the best.
We're talking about the image in the video where the photo has been colorized, most likely by AI tools, and the bridge is largely missing.
That's a thought. I've seen a lot of accounts that just post clips from TV shows or movies add crappy music, lens flares, fake VHS static, and randomly mirroring and un-mirroring the scene in order to keep from being taken down by copyright bots. I don't think it applies in this case, but it could be an explanation for heavy, heavy post-processing that distorts the photo all over.
I think this must be Gene's brother Sid, it sure does not look like Gene!We're talking about the image in the video where the photo has been colorized, most likely by AI tools, and the bridge is largely missing.
Maybe it's Alexander Courage, wearing prosthetics to look like Gene, trying to get the other half of his royalties back.
That wasn't in TMoST, I'm pretty sure (since Roddenberry "co-wrote" it and probably wouldn't have let something like that into the manuscript), but otherwise, yes, that's true.
Yeah, it’s been a minute since I read my (now dog-eared and yellowing) copy, but good to know at least some of my memory banks are not corrupted!!!
TMOST was not really the book to find negative statements about the show in.
It wasn’t exactly a puff piece, but not unbiased either.
True story. Almost everything else you might hear (from Solow or Cushman's books) about Courage never writing for Star Trek again? NOT a true story. Three seasons and a movie.
For decades, I was convinced that the two season 3 episodes with original scores credited to Courage, "The Enterprise Incident" and "Plato's Stepchildren," were ghostwritten by my father's old music professor Scott Huston, because my father and a local newspaper article had both claimed some years apart that Huston had filled in for his friend Courage on a couple of episodes. But some years back, the folks on this board offered compelling evidence and arguments that Courage wrote those scores himself, and listening on the soundtrack albums made me realize they had more of Courage's stylistic signatures than I'd thought. So now I believe what must have happened was that Huston assisted Courage with parts of those scores, maybe orchestrating them for him or something -- kind of like how Courage and Fred Steiner helped out Jerry Goldsmith without credit on the ST:TMP score. And when Huston told the story to my father and the reporter, they must have misinterpreted, or maybe he exaggerated his role.
You’re probably thinking of Inside Star Trek, another “making of” book by Bob Justman and Herb Solow. For me at least, that was the first place I heard about the lyrics being written simply to claim half royalties under the copyright for the theme.
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I remember Courage complaining that he wished Roddenberry had at least consulted him on the lyrics to help him come up with things that weren't so awkward to sing, like putting "starlight" and "starflight" in a single note each, and ending lines in drawn-out consonants with "reaches" and "teaches."
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