The Cage Printer

[Timo]

It always made me laugh that in the same episode they had Spock controlling the computer via gestures, a là Minority Report, and the computer PRINTING a readout.

(Actually, Spock is supposed to be gesticulating to a female character, a "secretary" operating the "slide projector" in a scene that would have appeared outdated back then already - but since the episode as aired leaves that character out of the frame, we get very welcome futurism instead...)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[jackoverfull]

(Actually, Spock is supposed to be gesticulating to a female character, a "secretary" operating the "slide projector" in a scene that would have appeared outdated back then already - but since the episode as aired leaves that character out of the frame, we get very welcome futurism instead...)

This explains it!

 

[Timo]

Also, cutting the character makes for one fewer female on the bridge to frighten Pike... Although we get a glimpse of her in a different shot.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Noname Given]

Also, cutting the character makes for one fewer female on the bridge to frighten Pike... Although we get a glimpse of her in a different shot.


Timo Saloniemi

But come on... You're telling me in 1964 Gene Roddenberry would actually cut out the bit part of an attractive female actress? I don't think so.

 

[Christopher]

But come on... You're telling me in 1964 Gene Roddenberry would actually cut out the bit part of an attractive female actress? I don't think so.

Gene Roddenberry was not the director or the editor.

 

[jackoverfull]

Also, cutting the character makes for one fewer female on the bridge to frighten Pike... Although we get a glimpse of her in a different shot.

Timo Saloniemi

oh right, talking about outdated stuff, Pike’s attitude was likely sexist even in the 60s!

 

[jackoverfull]

Then again a decade earlier on Forbidden Planet there were no women on the ship period...

 

[Timo]

oh right, talking about outdated stuff, Pike’s attitude was likely sexist even in the 60s!

Naah. It was briefly outdated in the 2000s. Now it's totally back in vogue, Pike being a sensitive person who can't cope with the presence of women (certain exceptions excepted) and needs our support and sympathies.

(Actually, it's just Pike having trouble with the fact that he just lost a man, who got replaced by this total stranger who doesn't even have the decency of being another man, let alone another man looking, speaking or talking anything like the good lad who died.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[jackoverfull]

I never realized it was his yeoman to have died.

 

[Maurice]

It always made me laugh that in the same episode they had Spock controlling the computer via gestures, a là Minority Report, and the computer PRINTING a readout.

 

[Qonundrum]

Fax machines, (called as such) were quite common in 1987. What do mean by 'modern day'?

I knew I was out of touch somewhere... I could have sworn they hit their zenith in the 1990s...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is Spock really gesturing at the computer? I seem to remember a wider shot in which we learn he's actually motioning to the crewman at the console.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Is Spock really gesturing at the computer? I seem to remember a wider shot in which we learn he's actually motioning to the crewman at the console.

See @Maurice’s post above.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Gene Roddenberry was not the director or the editor.

I always assumed that, in TOS at least, Gene could pretty much do whatever he wanted. I mean, he's Gene freaking Roddenberry, FFS.

 

[alchemist]

FYI, a subsequent frame from this shot is shown on page 60 of Star Trek Lost Scenes.

 

[Maurice]

FYI, a subsequent frame from this shot is shown on page 60 of Star Trek Lost Scenes.

YES! AVAILABLE NOW!

 

[mb22]

I knew I was out of touch somewhere... I could have sworn they hit their zenith in the 1990s...

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[ChallengerHK]

But come on... You're telling me in 1964 Gene Roddenberry would actually cut out the bit part of an attractive female actress? I don't think so.

The part was filmed, so Roddenberry was free to make whatever run at her he wanted to. After that success or failure, he had no reason to care if the part actually appeared on screen.

 

[scotpens]

Fax machines, (called as such) were quite common in 1987. What do mean by 'modern day'?

I knew I was out of touch somewhere... I could have sworn they hit their zenith in the 1990s...

Fax machines have been around for a long time. Here's one being used in 1936's Charlie Chan at the Opera. At that time, fax was used mainly by government, big business, and news organizations.

They had a character explain how the machine worked since the technology might have been unfamiliar to a good portion of the audience. (Scene starts at 47:08.)

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[CorporalCaptain]

I never realized it was his yeoman to have died.

It's explicitly stated by Pike in the scene between Doctor "We both get the same two kinds of customers" Boyce and Pike in Pike's quarters.