Probably because the majority of the times I ever watched the film was on a 13" TV.
The little details you only catch on the 500th viewing
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Probably because the majority of the times I ever watched the film was on a 13" TV.
Something I've never noticed on the last 1032 times I've watched Generations, but only picked up on my most recent rewatch: the computers on the Armagosa observatory have got TOS-style interfaces. I know these later popped up in DS9 (on Kassidy Yates ship, etc), but I never noticed them on Armagosa until now.
... My goodness, so they do. Huh.
I had that realization the last time I watched it. I had always known it was essentially Kirk's story, but it finally occurred to me how little Spock really did in it. That may be because as the story goes, the death scene was actually written into the script much earlier in the story, then kept getting pushed back to increase Spock/Nimoy's time on screen and give him a bit more to do.
In TVH, one thing that may go unnoticed by young'uns watching (even if they see it) is that on the bus, after Spock neck pinches the punk, you can see one of the passengers is reading an issue of "Omni" magazine. "Omni" was a magazine in the 1980s that dedicated itself to high-quality science and science fiction writing. Kind of like the "Atlantic Monthly" of science. You can imagine how thrilled a reader of that magazine would've been to know two men from the future were on that bus with him.
Not so much an observation, but one thing did occur to me for the first time watching TVH this weekend. Kirk says they've been on Vulcan for three months, yet they are all leaving Vulcan wearing the exact clothes they wore at the end of TSFS. They must've really liked what they had on.
Part of it owes to the movie apparently trying to set up Saavik as Spock's replacement should Nimoy not return...an angle that ultimately goes nowhere in the series. Looking at TWOK as its own story, it would have made more sense to spend the middle part of the movie with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy enjoying one last landing party together on Regula before Spock dies.
In TVH, it's entirely possible that they dressed in their "Earth attire" specifically for the trip home. They may have been wearing Vulcan clothing during the stay.
Also- Chekov is wearing different clothes.
When McCoy says "he's definitely on about something Jim" in The Undiscovered Country, it's a dubbed line, and De Kelley's mouth isn't moving.
In TWOK, there's a decal on the turbo lift doors on the simulator bridge that makes it look unfinished.
In TSFS, Saavik says the "temperature is decreasing rapidly" and David declares "it's snow in the same sector," in the sector with sub-tropical vegetation...but on the planet it's the desert sector where the snow is falling.
In TWOK, there's a decal on the turbo lift doors on the simulator bridge that makes it look unfinished.
In TSFS, Saavik says the "temperature is decreasing rapidly" and David declares "it's snow in the same sector," in the sector with sub-tropical vegetation...but on the planet it's the desert sector where the snow is falling.
They took Chekov out of the pink suit because they were going to San Francisco. So they put him in leather.
As far as the decal on the turbolift doors, it's still there on the "real" bridge, but was lighted and shot from different angles and looks like the stenciled image it's supposed to be.
As far as the decal on the turbolift doors, it's still there on the "real" bridge, but was lighted and shot from different angles and looks like the stenciled image it's supposed to be.
Miss Piggy's face can be seen during one of the V'Ger flyovers.
So I heard. Never saw it. The highest resolution I got is DVD tho.
Here piggy, piggy.
I'm not so sure. Here, it looks like it still had some masking,that was peeling, on it. Here, it looks like the masking has been removed and the stencil is finished.
^In the first image, there is an obvious bubble under the decal. In the second, it looks like it had been removed and reapplied. A lot of it could even depend on which they actually shot first. The bubble could have been caused by studio lighting heating a smaller bubble and stretching the decal, or by misapplication in the first place. Either way, watching how light plays across it in other scenes shows it to be a decal all the time.
Yeah -- Walter Koenig really hated his STIII costume with the pink jacket and the white collar. Robert Fletcher modeled it after some Russian author or painter (I forget which). Koenig finally complained about it after a few days of shooting (You'll noticed that the white collar disappears mid-film).
Holy shit. After 35 years I see Darth Vader. The black triangle is the nose (air filter) of the mask, the two lightsources are the eyes and the two lensflares outline it all. Right?
(Still no see Piggy)
Easily explained: The first shot is from the bridge training simulator. The second shot is on the Enterprise itself.
