The Cage\Menagerie oddities

[Captain Robert April]

You thought the Marines in "Aliens" were overbearing?

 

[Timo]

I thought that the point was that they were incompetent: all bluster, no experience or skill. Their ninety-day wonder had simulator runs under his belt - but they themselves had apparently only done milk run missions so far. Gung-ho with lots of ho and little in the way of gung.

We've yet to see Trek characters like that. Which is a bit of a shame, really.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[The Castellan]

I thought that the point was that they were incompetent: all bluster, no experience or skill. Their ninety-day wonder had simulator runs under his belt - but they themselves had apparently only done milk run missions so far. Gung-ho with lots of ho and little in the way of gung.

We've yet to see Trek characters like that. Which is a bit of a shame, really.

Timo Saloniemi

I am thankful they did not, yet.
But I would not put it past Jar Jar to do so in a future film.

And yes, CRA, I found the marines in Aliens to be very overbearing. Only Mr. Hicks did I like, since he did not seem to have that annoying macho, jackass mentality that the others had.

 

[David cgc]

We've yet to see Trek characters like that. Which is a bit of a shame, really.

What about Red Squad?

(Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad!)

 

[Borjis]

Just noticed for the first time yesterday....after the landing party first beams down to Talos IV....Nimoy is limping.

 

[Cicero]

Agreed. The scene was clearly set up by someone with no real military experience, or even knew anybody with any real military experience.

Actually, the scene was correct according to U.S. Navy protocol. From Wikipedia (which squares with my experience aboard ship):

Other military courtesies serve a practical purpose. In the United States Navy, "bracing" is the practice of bracing oneself against the bulkhead (wall) at the position of attention as a superior officer walks by. This practice arose because of the narrow passageways on ships. Since officers may need to quickly move about the ship, sailors would get out of the officers' way by bracing. The tradition has extended to include the corridors and hallways of buildings (depending on the situation) and is mostly an obeisance, however it still serves a useful purpose aboard ships (especially submarines.)

 

[GSchnitzer]

Just noticed for the first time yesterday....after the landing party first beams down to Talos IV....Nimoy is limping.

Nimoy is limping because Spock is limping. More at this old thread:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=117331

 

[Nero's Shadow]

Just noticed for the first time yesterday....after the landing party first beams down to Talos IV....Nimoy is limping.

Yeah I noticed this for years it was to do of pike,s last mission and some of the away team was injured including Spock I think another had a hand injury and one crew member with a neck injury accured on that mission .??

 

[Cicero]

Yeoman Colt's jacket sleeves are different from everyone else's. Most jacket sleeves have the gold officer/CPO band; some have a wide blue-gray band (see here). Hers have neither (see here).