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Random LOLs and observations about Trek serieses

Tosk said:
Not really so weird though...almost all TV shows ever made are set in a world where their TV show doesn't exist. Would be pretty confusing otherwise. ;)
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The upcoming Galaxy Quest TV show being developed is likely to break that tradition...
 
Laura Cynthia Chambers said:
Kirk dies (Shatnerverse excepted), but his actor is still alive. Meanwhile, McCoy lives to be in his mid-100s (Encounter at Farpoint (ep), Flesh and Stone (comic)) while Scotty cheats death via transporter (Relics, and SCE books) both actors have since died.
Spock Prime has died in the alternate reality, never having gone home.

I know why they didn't kill McCoy and Scotty off in canon yet - they're too beloved, and perhaps nobody can think of a fitting way for their characters to go. It's nice to think they're still out there exploring and offering their wisdom. It's just ironic, that's all. Shatner's still around but aside from time travel, appearing as a hologram, or contradicting Generations, he can't be Kirk.
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You could have old Kirk. Mirror Kirk. Back in the day, in the Mirror Universe, he got into some inescapable fix but knowing about the Prime Universe he escaped to it but got arrested by the Tholians or some other crowd who had gotten wronged by Prime Kirk and so having been mistaken for him, Mirror Kirk got flung into a dungeon for decades on end.

And now in freedom Mirror Kirk lives in retirement like an old gangster, swappin' yarns 'bout the good old days and doing that self justification thing that old lags do "that's just what we did back then, sonny". No longer the cackling cosmic machievalli he was when he was an uppity young pup but he's a more world weary grump knowing now that what he got up to when he was young probably wasn't the best way of doing things. He might even go and met his ex-jailer Ambassador Spock for the quirky nostalga of it all. Roving reporter Jake Sisko making the arrangements of course.
 
Was watching Star Trek IV the other night and spotted this during the closing credits. Never noticed it before!

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This one always bothered me as a kid, in the TNG intro when they show saturn then pan to the shot of the enterprise the Stars don't line up. They're 2 separate shots of different stars so it doesn't flow quite right. ( at about 25 seconds)
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Also, the stars move too fast. When they show the ship passing a bunch of Stars, they're going unbelievably fast. the average distance between stars is 5 lights years (I just looked it up) but they pass about 10s of stars in a matter of seconds.
 
 
JoeCabby said:
This one always bothered me as a kid, in the TNG intro when they show saturn then pan to the shot of the enterprise the Stars don't line up. They're 2 separate shots of different stars so it doesn't flow quite right. ( at about 25 seconds)
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Wow, I've seen the TNG opening hundreds of times, and I never noticed that.
 
In TOS, especially, but in other series, occasionally too, I've seen various actors looking bored in the background, unaware, or not caring about the camera including them, in the shot. I noticed this more with Nimoy, than anyone else. Nichelle, though, I noticed how she sometimes will look over at the camera, ever-so-subtly, to make sure that her background acting is caught on film. She actually does this with some regularity. I guess back in the old days, there wasn't much for her to do, or be concerned about, other than how much coverage she might be getting at her console. But it always gets a quick laugh out of me, like ... why do you gotta do that? Leap me out of the show like that, for?
 
Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny if Spock and McCoy had run into old Spock on Sarpeidon instead of Zarabeth? They're both wearing winter coats.
 
Laura Cynthia Chambers said:
Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny if Spock and McCoy had run into old Spock on Sarpeidon instead of Zarabeth? They're both wearing winter coats.
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Sure would make them making out awkward. ;) (I kinda thought the way Spock Prime was dressed in ST2009 was an intentional callback to that episode - but I haven't seen anyone say so, now that I think of it...)
 
Are there any identifiable bird songs in Trek scenes filmed outdoors? I've heard house sparrows in the background of some TV shows
 
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