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RobertScorpio
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the puppets they used for Catspaw? I think they were recasted for the roles of YAR and TROI in the TNG series...strings and all
Rob
Rob
Somewhere, maybe earlier in this thread, someone pointed out that Green's jumpsuit in Savage Curtain became Mork's suit.
No. It was Col. Green's red outfit that became Mork's Orkan spacesuit.
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It'd be nice if they could get part 2 of "Blood & Fire" out.
Is it out yet?
Is it out yet?
number6
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Well, at least the production schedule is going faster than the poor shlubs over at Starship Exeter.
I need to get on the ball and win Powerball already....
I need to get on the ball and win Powerball already....
EDIT: I now see your retraction.
Robert, the scale of the two props alone make this highly unlikely.
This is a cool pic I got years ago from some place on the Internet that I don't remember. If you want the original 1298x974 version, it's here.
Maybe they were inspired by the phaser rifle and then made the Botony Bay....but great picture. Looks like it was taken yesterday, very clear!!....
Rob
The "body" of the Botony Bay was actually a giant pencil-the kind they used on Land of the Giants or The Incredible Shrinking Man
RobertScorpio
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EDIT: I now see your retraction.
Robert, the scale of the two props alone make this highly unlikely.
This is a cool pic I got years ago from some place on the Internet that I don't remember. If you want the original 1298x974 version, it's here.
Maybe they were inspired by the phaser rifle and then made the Botony Bay
Rob
The "body" of the Botony Bay was actually a giant pencil-the kind they used on Land of the Giants or The Incredible Shrinking Man
I stand corrected...but great pics..love them!!!
Rob
There is a hand-held scanner we saw a few times, sometimes used as a medical scanner and sometimes used as an engineering-type scanner. It has a black handle and a silvery-colored top, so folks might not have even noticed that this item is not Dr. McCoy’s regular rotating head medical scanner.
We first see this scanner in “A Private Little War.” Dr. M’Benga uses it in the Sick Bay Exam Room on Mister Spock. (Perhaps since he’s an alien, a special scanner was used on Mister Spock to convey in a shorthand way that he requires special care. Or perhaps a different medical scanner was developed as a shorthand way to convey that a doctor other than McCoy was handling the patient.) It’s a little hard to see, but the prop is a bit larger than McCoy’s regular medical scanner and it has a black pebbled-texture handled about the size and shape of Dr. McCoy’s regular scanner. The silver head is about the same diameter as the handle—which makes it different from McCoy’s regular scanner. (On McCoy’s regular scanner, the rotating head was a protrusion on the end of the handle, slightly smaller in diameter.)
On the “M’Benga Medical Scanner,” this silver head doesn’t rotate. But there is a slider switch that activates a light inside of the head. There’s a small hole on the top through which you can see the light. Lastly, there is a small color wheel with six different colored gels that rotates in front of the light, changing the color of the light visible in the hole. If you unscrew and remove the top of the scanner, you can see the rotating white wheel underneath with the colored gels:
We see this scanner again in “Return to Tomorrow.” Henoch uses it to scan the android body under construction. (The android body is played by Billy Blackburn.)
We see it again in “The Ultimate Computer” when Dr. Richard Daystom checks the M-5 unit and makes some settling-in adjustments:
It shows up again in “Assignment: Earth.” Mister Spock uses it and its scanning function to help zero in on Gary Seven’s location:
Nurse Chapel uses it to scan Ambassador Petri in “Elaan of Troyius:”
In one of the few instances where we can see three medical scanners at once, you can see it over on the bedside table next to Loki in “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield:”
You can see it on an instrument tray over on the exercise table in “The Lights of Zetar:”
And in probably the best look we get at this device, you can see it in a Third Season publicity photo with Nurse Chapel and Dr. McCoy. Here’s a blow-up:
So, here are some shots of my Dr. M’Benga-style large scanner:
To see it in action, check it out here on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/v/dZyWniLFH4s&hl=en&fs=1&
Obligatory slideshow is at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157620916618244/show/[url]
We first see this scanner in “A Private Little War.” Dr. M’Benga uses it in the Sick Bay Exam Room on Mister Spock. (Perhaps since he’s an alien, a special scanner was used on Mister Spock to convey in a shorthand way that he requires special care. Or perhaps a different medical scanner was developed as a shorthand way to convey that a doctor other than McCoy was handling the patient.) It’s a little hard to see, but the prop is a bit larger than McCoy’s regular medical scanner and it has a black pebbled-texture handled about the size and shape of Dr. McCoy’s regular scanner. The silver head is about the same diameter as the handle—which makes it different from McCoy’s regular scanner. (On McCoy’s regular scanner, the rotating head was a protrusion on the end of the handle, slightly smaller in diameter.)
On the “M’Benga Medical Scanner,” this silver head doesn’t rotate. But there is a slider switch that activates a light inside of the head. There’s a small hole on the top through which you can see the light. Lastly, there is a small color wheel with six different colored gels that rotates in front of the light, changing the color of the light visible in the hole. If you unscrew and remove the top of the scanner, you can see the rotating white wheel underneath with the colored gels:
We see this scanner again in “Return to Tomorrow.” Henoch uses it to scan the android body under construction. (The android body is played by Billy Blackburn.)
We see it again in “The Ultimate Computer” when Dr. Richard Daystom checks the M-5 unit and makes some settling-in adjustments:
It shows up again in “Assignment: Earth.” Mister Spock uses it and its scanning function to help zero in on Gary Seven’s location:
Nurse Chapel uses it to scan Ambassador Petri in “Elaan of Troyius:”
In one of the few instances where we can see three medical scanners at once, you can see it over on the bedside table next to Loki in “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield:”
You can see it on an instrument tray over on the exercise table in “The Lights of Zetar:”
And in probably the best look we get at this device, you can see it in a Third Season publicity photo with Nurse Chapel and Dr. McCoy. Here’s a blow-up:
So, here are some shots of my Dr. M’Benga-style large scanner:
To see it in action, check it out here on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/v/dZyWniLFH4s&hl=en&fs=1&
Obligatory slideshow is at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157620916618244/show/[url]
The short answer is "yes." The slightly longer answer is that the Art Asylum tricorder scanner is based on this one but is a bit inaccurate. It's only about 3/4 of the size it should be. (A full sized one actually won't fit into a properly proportioned tricorder.) And some of the details (like the slider switch) aren't vintage 1960s era. But the Art Asylum scanner is a pretty good little toy copy. But the accurate scanner replica in my pictures costs about about four times more than the combined toy Art Asylum tricorder with scanner.
Another good prop I did not recall in detail.
At least that scanner is battery powered. From what I've heard, the one in the Entertainment Earth Medical Tricorder has to be spun around manually.
Relizing that TOS was filmed with very little money and before ILM or anything like that, I was also amazed at the ways they would save money by using props more then once and even using "ENTERPRISE" sets for other ships...'The Enterprise Incident': that Romulan ship was ENTERPRISE with different dressings. I also enjoyed the graphics... all pre-ILM... 'The Immunity Sydrome' was my favorite.
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