ST TMP who is that strange scary guy?

[Blake]

I 've always wondered who this chap looking out of the viewport was.
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=75
I thought it was the ensign who meets Kirk.But that chap comes out of a turbolift.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6&pos=1

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6&pos=2

Also i can't see the viewport that we see from the exterior view.i wonder if it was a mistake made by the production people,has this issue ever been brought up over the years?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Why, he's Reed's great, great, great grandfather. Of course. ;-)

(NO!!!)

 

[seigezunt]

It's Captain Howdy!

 

[SonicRanger]

Is that really a face in the window or just a wierd reflection?

I've never noticed it before, but my old "ABC Sunday Night Movie" VHS obviously wasn't in widescreen.

P.S. Tharpdevenport -- grandson, not grandfather.

 

[Data Holmes]

Can anyone blow that part of the screen shot up?

 

[DanTheGrey]

I just assumed it was the Ensign or whoever would have piped the Admiral aboard. Or is the person who runs the airlock

 

[Basill]

It's actually a person. It moves and looks around, peeking out at the pod in 2 separate shots. Pretty sure it's a female.

She is first visible as the pod is turning around, and then as the camera closes on the door, where her head is a little out of scale. Or she is an alien with a huge head.

 

[Trekker4747]

It's The Master!!!

 

[Outpost4]

hutt359 said:
Can anyone blow that part of the screen shot up?

First, from this screencap:

Second, from the screencap mentioned above:

I think the second one looks like Jabba the Hutt.

 

[Firebird]

That second one looks like a little cat. I used to think that Andy Probert sneaked onto the set and peered out of the window during the take. I think that this shot was done with a 1:1 set piece of the Enterprise hull.

 

[trevanian]

It is strange, when I look at the LD or the dvd, I think it is very clearly the ensign who welcomes Kirk aboard. But when I see that frame blowup above ... it looks like a test shot of Xon from PHASE II.

That particular shot was done at EEG by Trumbull's people with a scaled-up piece of Enterprise engineering hull, so you're looking at a model that was maybe three or four feet across, with I guess a still or slide of the guy stuck inside the window.

 

[Jack Bauer]

It's Freddy Krueger.

 

[Basill]

Looks like an Asian lady with curly hair to me. Definitely not the Ensign.

 

[SmoothieX]

Emperor Palpatine, obviously.

Before he could supervise something as big as the Death Star being constrcuted, he needed a trial run on a smaller project.

 

[seigezunt]

Jon Pertwee.

 

[Starbreaker]

Chancellor Palpatine obviously.

 

[SmoothieX]

Oh...I'm afraid the transporter will be quite inoperational when your science officer arrives.

 

[RyanKCR]

SmoothieX said:
Oh...I'm afraid the transporter will be quite inoperational when your science officer arrives.

Don't do that when I'm drinking milk..........oh what a mess!




But yeah that blowup does look like Palpatine.

 

[cardinal biggles]

It's Waldo!

 

[ChristopherPike]

Pretty strange...

...and they do say the Paramount lot is haunted.