Stuff you 'remember' wrongly........
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^^Outpost4 is right. Only the syndicated versions of TOS Remastered episodes are cut, to make room for the obscenely greater amount of commercials we have today. The DVD versions are complete and uncut.
Things as a kid I remembered wrongly:
1) I thought there was one episode where there was a transporter platform on the bridge (like the small two-man beamer seen in strbases)
2) I thought they kept going to the same damned planet every week: the planet Surface.
1) I thought there was one episode where there was a transporter platform on the bridge (like the small two-man beamer seen in strbases)
2) I thought they kept going to the same damned planet every week: the planet Surface.
For years I could swear Kirk and McCoy mention the starship Lydia Sutherland during their discussions in "Obsession." And that Kirk once commanded that ship and lost her before getting the Enterprise. Took me years to clear that up, and have seen all available unedited versions of that episode. No mention of that ship.
It's not that the Remastered version left the line out, it's the syndicator who cuts the scenes. They trim out heaps of stuff to fit in the commercials.
The Remastered episodes on DVD are intact.
Guess you read Vonda McIntyre's Enterprise: The First Adventure, which starts with a flashback to the bloody end of the Lydia Sutherland.
When I was a kid, I thought I had a hazy memory of the Enterprise docking with a Starfleet "sub" performing spy operations in "Errand of Mercy"; when docked to pick up an agent, the "sub's" docking hatch somehow opened up from the floor of the Enterprise bridge! Obviously this came from a dream, but was kinda neat.
Don't know if this is relevant to this forum, but I swore for years when I saw STP on opening day in 1979 that there was a scene that showed the Klingon ships digitized by V'ger (not just zapped, but in the memory bank and seen by Spock). I've never since seen that scene, and I know it is in the comic version, so perhaps I got the two confused. Nonetheless, there have been cable film broadcasts that include scenes that are different than the theatrical version. For instance, I saw "1941" in the theater; when it was shown on cable, the scenes where Japanese sailors come to shore and kidnap Hollis Wood are included, but no such scenes were in the theatrical version, which only show him being brought aboard the submarine.
When I first saw The Doomsday Machine, when I was about 7, I somehow got it in my little head that the planet killer was called the "Hull".
Years later, seeing it in syndication, and later on VHS, I could never figure out why I thought that, since they all clearly call it the PlanetKiller.
The only thing I can come up with, is that I misunderstood Spock's line "The object's hull is solid neutronium, a single ship cannot combat it.", and thought Spock was calling the object the "Hull" as if it were a proper name(maybe not discerning the possessive apostrophe "s" and thinking he was saying "the object Hull"). Who knows, I was a dumb kid.
Years later, seeing it in syndication, and later on VHS, I could never figure out why I thought that, since they all clearly call it the PlanetKiller.
The only thing I can come up with, is that I misunderstood Spock's line "The object's hull is solid neutronium, a single ship cannot combat it.", and thought Spock was calling the object the "Hull" as if it were a proper name(maybe not discerning the possessive apostrophe "s" and thinking he was saying "the object Hull"). Who knows, I was a dumb kid.
also Kirk says 'If we can get this hulk moving..' referring to the Constillation.
It wasn't TOS it was TNG. I remember seeing The Enemy on its first run. A few years later, when one of the local stations started playing TNG nightly in re-runs I would watch pretty much every night. After about a year and a couple of complete runs through the entire series I hadn't seen it again. I was pretty sure it existed but I never caught it so I began to wonder if it was something that I had read or dreamed or something. It was a bit of a relief when I finally caught it again. At least I knew I wasn't completely loosing it.
It's also described in the novelization, and there were interviews with the production people about a more exciting, proposed ending for TMP, where the Klingon ships undigitize in Earth orbit.
Do you recall that Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, was a cinema patron of TMP?
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2007/01/andorians-old-and-new-and-_116998599053792730.html
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Yes, in an issue written by Marv Wolfman, who was the editor for Marvel's ST comic book at the time.
That would have been a cool scene to CGI into the Director's Edition DVD of the first movie. V'Ger vanishes, and the Epsilon 9 station and the Klingon cruisers rematerialize as if nothing happened and drift in Earth orbit as the Enterprise soars by them.
Fair point. But seeing how many logical loopholes already exist with the V'Ger concept I suppose it wouldn't have made things THAT much worse.
Space is cluttered. Really cluttered.
Unless you're in Earth orbit during a major space crisis when something big, bad and awful is barreling towards the planet. Then you're lucky if one single ship is available.
1) "Cloud Miners" here, too. And as a title it DOES work. The miners mine for who? The CLOUD people. In fact, I think it's a better title than the weak "Cloud Minders".
2) "Star Track" (when I was VERY young)
3) I also thought it was "Who Mourns for Adonis"
4) I used to mix up Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones (they are practically the same character, really)
2) "Star Track" (when I was VERY young)
3) I also thought it was "Who Mourns for Adonis"
4) I used to mix up Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones (they are practically the same character, really)
I always thought it meant the miners toiled for the city dwellers' lifestyle in the clouds. Similar idea.
I still pronounce it "Adonis", even thought I know better.
