Nimoy talks Spock—1967.

The good music today is on the independent scene. Unique and distinctive stuff. I never listen to FM radio these days (edit: except for college/indie stations, and any musical artist featured on NPR).

Kor

 

Because singers can't sing anymore, and music will be written by AI next.

 

Star Trek Maps gives the Cochrane number an average value for Federation space as being a little less than 1300, so you'd multiply the wf^3 by that number, which is a lot closer to the speeds actually used in the show.

 

I like that

 

I'd swear there was a pinned TOS general thread or something similar.

I think this fits here.

 

He looks like a Beatle

 

That’s so true. I stopped listening to the “current hits” channels around 2001.

 

Well, Nimoy was an actor doing a job: embody the character and bring him to life. He didn't need to grasp Roddenberry's warp scale.

And whatever Gene tought up, what was on screen wasn't consistent. Back then warp speed was simply "going really REALLY fast." But slow enough to see the ship approaching you at warp and having time to take action as it passed. They were like boats on the water and how fast a warp speed was depended on the needs of that story.

 

In terms of realistic depiction a ship at warp speed would be effectively invisible.

 

This idea about warp drive and the light reaching your eyes is tangentially related to a scientifically simpler question: how would the ship be lit when it is between the stars. How dark is it? What would you see when you look at the Enterprise?

On TMP, they decided that the ship needs to light itself, so they put spotlights on the hull. In TOS-R, they dimmed the ship, and even went to total darkness in "The Immunity Syndrome."

I say it's a mistake to worry about any of these issues. The fx shots should almost always show the ship plain and clear. Reason: there is no such point of view. Nobody is out in space looking at the ship. That means we are seeing the omnicient POV. "God's eye view" in a manner of speaking. And that is an observer who can see just fine in the dark, or any other conditions. Including warp speed.

 

When I was a kid, my sister used to say that we shouldn't be able to see the Enterprise because it's going faster than light. I told her the camera is probably going at the same speed. Kids, man. The things we accept.

 

We try to work with the program.

Today I see the flaws in the bear costume in PROPHECY…then, I chalked it up to the mercury poisoning.