Most gorgeous episode
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But for the small matter that they don't.
I just watched the scene here on Dailymotion (link) (the sequence starts at 27 minutes) and I see no fruit. What I do see is a poorly edited scene where you don't clearly see what can be made out in the following screenshots from Trekcore, which matches the script excerpts I posted:
- In the wide shots you see people lining up to either side of Vaal, and to screen right you can see a pile of the rainbow rock (link).
- In this one you can see a rock at screen right in the hands of an off-camera person (link)
- In this image you can clearly see one guy bending to get a rock from the pile to screen right (link)
- In this one note the "rainbow" colors make this round rock maybe resemble a fruit (link). I think that is what is confusing people. I also suspect the natives' flowered armbands are adding to the confusion.
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Vaal calls to us! Vaal is hungry! Kirk lets Vaal die! 
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I've often thought the same thing. I acknowledge that it's cheaper in general, but something about the way it's lit and filmed also seems more striking and crisp. And I think the new uniforms also look neater and a little less hokey somehow
Then I guess Vaal shouldn't have been trying to kill our heroes and destroy the ship.Vaal calls to us! Vaal is hungry! Kirk lets Vaal die!
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Vaal calls to us! Vaal is hungry! Kirk lets Vaal die!
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Yeah, Kirk violates the Prime Directive again.
see above post; there've been threads where it's shown K violates the PD in self-defense, only or mainly, can't remember which.Yeah, Kirk violates the Prime Directive again.
It counters what the captured captain tells the Roman dude in Bread and Circuses (captain lets ship be destroyed before violating the PD), but he might have been mistaken; or the writers didn't care what he said.
Side note, but the extra on the right is Bill Blackburn (Lt. Hadley) in red body paint.
That's what the official answer is to the PD but Kirk turns it into a winning formula and gets his ship back home unlike many other Starship Captains!
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The Man Trap. Or anything from Season 1.
Much of the lighting for the bridge in the third season has a greater vibrancy. For second season examples, look at the bridge in Friday's Child, The Omega Glory or even Gamesters. Far less energetic or lively, than say Is There In Truth or Zetar. I guess lighting was very much a directorial choice.
Here are some lists of episodes that have various visual aspects.
For fans of architecture there are Earth and alien buildings seen in some episodes. I don't count back lot buildings from various Earth eras."
The Cage.
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Conscience of the King
The Menagerie
Dagger of the Mind
Court Martial
A Taste of Armageddon
Operation Annihilate!
Requiem For Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
Wink of an Eye
For fans of Interior architecture and interior decoration of places someone might want to live in:
The Cage has more shots of the Talosian zoo than the Menagerie.
The Squire of Gothos
Catspaw
Wolf in the Fold
Plato's Stepchildren
Requiem For Methuselah
Episodes with unusual images of astronomical bodies
The Cage, the Menagerie Part 2, Requiem for Methuselah
By Any Other Name
The Paradise Syndrome, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Episodes with good images of model spaceships:
Balance of terror
The Galileo 7, Metamorphosis, Journey to Babel, The immunity syndrome, etc.
Space Seed
The Doomsday Machine
The Ultimate Computer
The Trouble with Tribbles
The Deadly Years
The Omega Glory
Spock's Brain
Spectre of the Gun
The Enterprise Incident
Elaan of Troyius
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
The Way to Eden
Episodes with aliens who don't look like Earth humans, or as human as TOS Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons, or like glowing energy beings.
The Cage, the Menagerie
The Man Trap
The Galileo Seven
Arena
The Devil in the Dark
Operation - Annihilate!
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
By Any Other Name - not seen in original form, only seen in human form. Does that count?
The Tholian Web
The Empath
Whom Gods Destroy
The Lights of Zetar
The Savage Curtain
Episodes with the best looking guest stars - that is a matter of opinion "beauty is in the E eye of the beholder".
For fans of architecture there are Earth and alien buildings seen in some episodes. I don't count back lot buildings from various Earth eras."
The Cage.
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Conscience of the King
The Menagerie
Dagger of the Mind
Court Martial
A Taste of Armageddon
Operation Annihilate!
Requiem For Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
Wink of an Eye
For fans of Interior architecture and interior decoration of places someone might want to live in:
The Cage has more shots of the Talosian zoo than the Menagerie.
The Squire of Gothos
Catspaw
Wolf in the Fold
Plato's Stepchildren
Requiem For Methuselah
Episodes with unusual images of astronomical bodies
The Cage, the Menagerie Part 2, Requiem for Methuselah
By Any Other Name
The Paradise Syndrome, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Episodes with good images of model spaceships:
Balance of terror
The Galileo 7, Metamorphosis, Journey to Babel, The immunity syndrome, etc.
Space Seed
The Doomsday Machine
The Ultimate Computer
The Trouble with Tribbles
The Deadly Years
The Omega Glory
Spock's Brain
Spectre of the Gun
The Enterprise Incident
Elaan of Troyius
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
The Way to Eden
Episodes with aliens who don't look like Earth humans, or as human as TOS Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons, or like glowing energy beings.
The Cage, the Menagerie
The Man Trap
The Galileo Seven
Arena
The Devil in the Dark
Operation - Annihilate!
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
By Any Other Name - not seen in original form, only seen in human form. Does that count?
The Tholian Web
The Empath
Whom Gods Destroy
The Lights of Zetar
The Savage Curtain
Episodes with the best looking guest stars - that is a matter of opinion "beauty is in the E eye of the beholder".
Director of Photography (DP) Jerry Finnerman left the show in the 3rd season and his camera operator Al Francis took over on most of the remaining segments. You could check which episodes had whom as the DP and see if this lines up with the styles you notice.
Interesting - thanks, I'll have a look!
My first thought was "The Corbomite Maneuver." The spinning multicolored cube, that great shot of the Enterprise utterly dwarfed by Balok's ship, the Balok puppet... There are a lot of great visuals in that episode.
The series was so beautifully coloured and lighted that it's pretty hard to pick a single episode!
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It's funny: director Ralph Senensky, who should know artistically, thought Gerry Finnerman was the much better cinematographer, and Al Francis by implication did a mere workmanlike job. But I look at the 16 Al Francis episodes and see no problem. "The Lights of Zetar" even comes to mind when I think of "most gorgeous."
I'm sure a lot of us love the bright lighting and high color saturation of TOS. I drink in the set and uniform colors, especially as seen on the bridge with its contrasting black consoles. Starting with "The Corbomite Maneuver" in production order, I mean.
Helping RCA sell color TV sets was part of Star Trek's corporate mission, due to common ownership with NBC at the time, and the difference in TOS, the leap it took when your dad finally bought a color set, was astonishing.
And it's not just the bright lighting. For comparison, most b&w episodes of Lost in Space were visual works of art, but when the show went to color film, it really didn't get more beautiful. The lighting was just as bright as Star Trek, but not as artfully arranged. Everything was equally bright on LIS, with little in the way of shadows and texture. And LIS's production design changes for color film were pretty artless as well. The uniform colors and partially repainted Jupiter 2 interiors were serviceable at best. I also prefer the Robot in his b&w design, even in color publicity stills from the first season.
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