Question about "Flashback"

[vess]

So, I'm re-watching "Flashback" for the first time since possibly it's first airing. I noticed that about halfway through the episode, Tuvok and two other Excelsior crewmembers are sleeping in their cabin. It was a short piece of exhibition between Tuvok and Janeway.

I found it odd that Tuvok and the two crewmen were sleeping... in their unforms.

Did I miss something?

 

[toughlittleship]

In an episode where Tuvok's hallucinations feature external shots of the Excelsior I wouldn't worry.

 

[Timo]

We might argue that we didn't really see the living quarters of these junior officers - but their Ready Room, a resting place closer to their assigned stations than their cabin was.

Of course, that doesn't really wash, because we see the stenciling "Deck 7" in the corridor beyond the door of this cabin...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Timewalker]

So, I'm re-watching "Flashback" for the first time since possibly it's first airing. I noticed that about halfway through the episode, Tuvok and two other Excelsior crewmembers are sleeping in their cabin. It was a short piece of exhibition between Tuvok and Janeway.

I found it odd that Tuvok and the two crewmen were sleeping... in their unforms.

Did I miss something?

This scene has bugged me ever since the first time I saw the episode. It's ridiculous for them to sleep in their uniforms - in a similar scene in the original Battlestar Galactica TV show (back in the '70s), the pilots slept in their t-shirts and shorts and had a blanket. They didn't just lay down on a mattress in their regular uniforms.

Either everybody on the Excelsior was very shy, or their pyjamas got eaten by Tribbles, or some other dreadful thing happened... mind you, if Janice was in the habit of barging in wherever she wanted, maybe that's why the guys kept their clothes on!

 

[You_Guyz]

The entire episode was a complete and utter mess, I wouldn't worry about that.

 

[Timewalker]

Oh, I wouldn't call it a complete mess. It was nice to see George Takei again.

Damn, they should have made a "Captain Sulu" series...

 

[Kellytong]

hehe I agree with you.
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I like Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Deep Space Nine very much!

 

[Admiral Shran]

Well, everyone in Starfleet has been shown to be utterly devoted to the service. All they have ever wanted to do with their lives is to wear the uniform. So after gladly sacrificing everything else in their lives for the uniform, how could they possibly bring themselves to ever part from it? Or it could just be that the show's producers didn't know what they were doing. I think the latter is more likely.

 

[Noise]

Since its his memory and not actual time travel or anything, it has a certain dreamlike quality, which allows for oddities and inconsistencies such as this. Tuvok's memory didn't consider the change of clothes worth noting.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Actually, I took that scene to indicate the officers had been given 30 minutes during the emergency off the bridge to catch some shuteye. One wouldn't want to waste precious minutes dressing and undressing.

 

[Kai Winn]

pyjamas are for cold weather zones, you hardly ever see them here. either naked or underwear. naked on a starship with shared cabins, that might be frowned upon, but how about boxershorts? thinking about it, what do they sleep in on today's warships, on surbmarines perhaps? never seen the inside of one.
excelsior is one of the old ships, no replicators. what means the crew had to bring a suitcase with private clothing, and to laundry it.
i recall that sulu didn't wear the uniform when he was awoken in st6.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I always wondered if the writers of this movie actually actually watched Star Trek
VI, beyond the very first scene, because in the very next scene, Spock clearly says that three months had passed, during which intense negotiations took place. The writers act like this all happened right after the subspace explosion occured.

 

[od0_ital]

... i recall that sulu didn't wear the uniform when he was awoken in st6.

He wasn't in a bunk bed, either.

 

[Timo]

Rank hath its privileges.

The "quick shuteye" theory suffers from our heroes being down on Deck 7, not within easy reach of their action stations. Otherwise, it makes relatively good sense as such - but if I were given that sort of pseudo-relaxation option, I'd certainly take off the jacket and sleep in my turtleneck (even if I had to wear the trousers because I wouldn't dare unlace my boots).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd just attribute it to Tuvok's memory being not quite perfect. (Remember, we were only seeing things as Tuvok remembered them - not as they literally happened.) Kind of like what happened with Valtane.

 

[KingstonTrekker]

Oh, I wouldn't call it a complete mess. It was nice to see George Takei again.

Damn, they should have made a "Captain Sulu" series...

It was great to see Takei in action again --- although he didn't turn in one of his better performances. He did a much better job in the fan film "World Enough and Time."

It was also PAINFUL to watch Grace Lee Whitney stumble awkwardly through her lines in "Flashback" -- her "gaseous anomalies" line (although poorly written) is probably one of the worst-delivered lines in Trek history.

 

[Timewalker]

Janice Rand came across as such a whiny, snarky bitch in that episode. Her snippy remarks about Tuvok bringing tea to the captain, and that he was trying to curry favor to get promoted just reminded me so much of "Captain, look at my legs" in Miri - also not one of Janice's better moments.