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[WHF]

Hambone said:

WHF said:
I've recently rewatched this episode on DVD and the thing that struck me most was how bad the fake blood on the back and shoulders of Kirk and Spock looked. It's unfortunate something couldn't be done to make that look better. As technology improves and becomes cheaper this might be done in 10 years in TOS-R2.

I'm sure this was due to the 1960's censorship practices. You know, "...the green blood on Spock's back must not be so prominent as so to upset our gentle viewership"...

Yeah, let's see some "Passion of the Christ"-style whippin'!! Yee-haw!

Kidding.

I'm not talking about the amount of blood but the fact that what is there doesn't look very good. The blood on Kirk's shoulders looks very bad on the DVD. I suppose on the TV's of the day, given reception quality, it probably looked good enough.

 

[Plum]

The God Thing said:

The Squire of Gothos said:
Perhaps a V2 being launched?

Yep. However, I suspect that the multi-stage A11 or A12 conceptual designs by the Peenemünde Rocket Team (

) would have been a slightly more appropriate choice for an Ekosian space intercept vehicle capable of interplanetary missions than the A4/V2.

TGT

Not that I've a pint of your expertise here, but IMHO Von Braun and his fire cracker flinging Nazi moon boys were full of it... I feel.

Rockets to the moon was an idea 60 years old at the time. Really, these "scientists" (really, rocketeers with an engineering degree) were only interested in getting TNT to London. Period. Von Braun's old moon rocket fantasies seem disingenuous in light of the horrors of slave labour to build the rockets at infamous Peenemünde. He might have been sincere, but I'm suggesting using rockets for travel into space was always a stupid way of doing things and the space program was mostly about creating missiles to reach the USSR.

The space race rush to the moon was more about the same agenda the Nazi's had with the VII. A bomb to fling at the enemy. This time it was the Soviets, so an intercontinental missle (a rocket!) was created... the space program was about this for the US just as it was for the USSR.

Was there not a shuttle design already in the late 50s? Were there not more advanced and reasonable ways to get to space from engineers and scientists, many of whom ended up at NASA anyway? Why were the refuges from Nazi-land given all the power to design the one thing that was the center of the space program... those ever exploding rockets?

Somehow... I can't see myself putting Von Braun and the rest of the rocketeers in a

worthy light as scientists or ... well, much of anything really. How many of those things did those morons blow up anyway?

imho.

 

[Rat Boy]

I don't know who made my day more, Blizzard with StarCraft 2 or this.

 

[Mallory]

This was very amusing. Nice find Rat Boy!

 

[cooleddie74]

Loved how the new Zeon is now a ringed planet not too far from Ekos.

 

[Trekwatcher]

Rat Boy, that was brilliant!

 

[Noname Given]

Mallory said:
This was very amusing. Nice find Rat Boy!

Agreed, as someone who saw both - that was VERY well done - although does this mean the Spock is equivalent to 'Sgt. Shultz'?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Squire of Gothos said:
Another episode without much to remaster? The drool on John Gill's chin? Perhaps a V2 being launched?

Would have been nice if they could have fixed the Nazi uniforms, which appeared to be completely random. (What, the costume designer couldn't have taken .005 seconds to find out which uniforms to dish out?)

 

[cooleddie74]

Actually, the TV Land and Remastered edits of the episode OMIT the V-2 stock footage from the viewscreen on the planet's surface. Which helps quite a bit when you notice the new CGI of the attacking nuclear missile from the beginning of the episode looks nothing like a V-2 rocket.