Production Order Group Viewing 2018
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Agreed. Didn't Shatner direct that? Shatner didn't even remember.
Makes sense.
Ah. They just want the corporeal types to leave them alone. Actually, they aren't the only non-corporeal types who seem annoyed by physical beings. The Metrons were as well. We seem to be annoying to higher beings.
The flying pancakes were not bags of fake vomit. They were made specifically for the show out of some hot-melt plastic if I recall correctly.
If Warp 8 were 512*c as per TMOST, that means the Enterprise could go from the distance of the Earth to our Sun in just shy of 1 second. We don't know the ship's distance from Deneva at the point they detect the suicidal ship, but there's no way they could go that fast in straight line towards the Deneva sun and have the hull temperature reach 1000 degrees because they'd end up in the star a microsecond later.
If Warp 8 were 512*c as per TMOST, that means the Enterprise could go from the distance of the Earth to our Sun in just shy of 1 second. We don't know the ship's distance from Deneva at the point they detect the suicidal ship, but there's no way they could go that fast in straight line towards the Deneva sun and have the hull temperature reach 1000 degrees because they'd end up in the star a microsecond later.
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A lot of today's fans think TOS was cheaply made, especially the younger ones. But the show cost roughly $190,000 per episode to make in 1967 (correct me with better figures if necessary). Adjusted for inflation, that's over $1.4 million per episode today.
The best-made shows of today spend that much, but they're using vastly improved film-making technology that creates amazing images quite easily. And this 21st century equipment has become incredibly affordable. Their money goes a lot farther than Star Trek's budget did.
Also, getting that decent budget from the studios has become easier because a lot more international television markets have developed since the Sixties, and on top of that there are future revenues to be made from DVD sales and streaming services that were undreamed of in 1967. More money to be made means more money is willingly risked.
Star Trek was an expensive show of its time, but the tech was more limited, and the market was smaller.
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Oops! I stand corrected.
It's quite weird as Kirk gives the same order twice (more or less) It was the second time where he speaks to Sulu that I was thinking of:
KIRK: If you gentlemen are finished, would you mind laying in a course for Starbase Ten, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: My pleasure, Captain.
MCCOY: Unusual eye arrangement. I might've known he'd turn up with something like that.
KIRK: What's that, Doctor?
MCCOY: I said, please don't tell Spock I said he was the best first officer in the fleet.
SPOCK: Why, thank you, Doctor McCoy.
KIRK: You've been so concerned about his Vulcan eyes, Doctor, you forgot about his Vulcan ears. Ahead warp factor one, Mister Sulu.
SULU: Warp factor one, sir.
Oops! I stand corrected.
It's quite weird as Kirk gives the same order twice (more or less).
Well, laying in (charting) the course and executing it by stepping on the gas are two different things.
Maybe, but using the science station to perform a navigational function is still all wacko jacko
Maybe, but using the science station to perform a navigational function is still all wacko jacko
That's one of those things that was "wrong" in 1967, when it was probably thought that each bridge station was physically wired to specific mechanical systems. But it's okay today because nowadays you can do anything from any station if it's a computer interface that is networked to the whole ship.
Like Picard giving his helmsmen a course and speed but nobody moves the ship until he says "Engage." Which always annoyed me. I like Kirk's "lay in a course for Ceti Apha Three, Warp One" and they just go.
Hmm, guess I'll have to go back to calling them Flying Pancakes.
Ha ha, right. Just go already. "Engage." Sheesh. Picard's so pompous.
That's why we love him!
They can never screen Operation: Annihilate before What Are Little Girls Made of? Not unless they want to create a right old discrepancy story wise! 
JB
JB
I kind of think he couldn't think of anything else to tell Spock to do, but wanted to give him something, a way of saying, "you can see and I have full confidence you're back to duty shape, not controlled by the creatures, so I'll give you an order, any order, just to get you back to work." He buys time for himself to think and later tells Spock to do something else, or has a meeting to discuss what's next.
Howso?They can never screen Operation: Annihilate before What Are Little Girls Made of? Not unless they want to create a right old discrepancy story wise!
JB
Does Kirk mention his brother?
In one episode Sam has 3 sons and in the other 1 son.
I suppose the other 2 children could live on Earth going to college maybe?
I suppose the other 2 children could live on Earth going to college maybe?
I think JB meant that Sam would die first, and be casually referenced as alive second if they were shown in that order.
Oh, yeah!
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