The New, Improved Alternative Factor

There was a long stretch where I could watch Star Trek 5 days a week right as I got home from school.

On Sundays I could watch TOS 3 times over a 4 hour span.

TOS was always on somewhere in the 70s.

That’s because the television stations that aired it in syndication discovered that it was a ratings and advertising $uper $how! :)
 
…but former NBC executives admitted that they blew it by cancelling TOS based on incorrect Nielsen ratings.
The Nielsen ratings were accurate. You are probably thinking of the Trek myth that it was cancelled before NBC executives started including demographics in those decisions, and that it would have been renewed because it did much better with the all important 18-34 young adult crowd. However, the networks actually already considered demographics, and while Star Trek's demographics were a little better than some of its competition, they weren't enough to make a difference in the end.

What's sort of interesting to think about is if Star Trek did run for 5-6 seasons, would there have been as much interest in a revival during the late 70s, or would people have been tired of it? Although, it would have undoubtedly been rebooted in the mid-90s when they rebooted all of those other 60s properties.
 
I always believed Lazarus was a human and the mention of time-travel was a way to handwave his access to advance universe-hopping technology that definitely didn't seem like a civilian from the 23rd Century would have access to.
 
"Oh, yes. He's fled me across all the years, all the empty years to a dead future on a murdered planet he destroyed."

I'm confused by that line (but not only that line). It has a haunting quality to it, but if that refers to the planet below, how long ago was this planet destroyed if there are no vestiges of life or civilization (none that we've heard of during the episode, anyway)?
 
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I don’t understand his ‘time machine’….it doesn’t seem to transport him anywhere in time, just to the corridor. This whole episode needed a serious re-write by GR.
 
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Too bad that lil' ship prop/set piece just kinda "vanished" after this episode (except for the dome that was used in "Gamesters of Triskelion"). With a bit of redressing, it could have made a nifty wee inspection pod, like a TOS era "work bee" or something.

(K-7 station by Metlesits, Lazarus pod by Ptrope, crewman figure by DAZ, composition by me using Poser)
 
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Too bad that lil' ship prop/set piece just kinda "vanished" after this episode (except for the dome that was used in "Gamesters of Triskelion"). With a bit of redressing, it could have made a nifty wee inspection pod, like a TOS era "work bee" or something.

(K-7 station by Metlesits, Lazarus pod by Ptrope, crewman figure by DAZ, composition by me using Poser)
Isn't that out of scale? It looks as big as half of K-7.
 
"Oh, yes. He's fled me across all the years, all the empty years to a dead future on a murdered planet he destroyed."

I'm confused by that line (but not only that line). It has a haunting quality to it, but if that refers to the planet below, how long ago was this planet destroyed if there are no vestiges of life or civilization (none that we've heard of during the episode, anyway)?
I just came back from a week in Wyoming. Lots and lots and lots of room, no sign of humanity or any evidence that there was any, aside from some fence posts. Which would have been gone by the time of Lazarus' future.

In other words, we're not necessarily in his capital city. :) Think of what Talyor, Dodge and Landon were greeted with at the beginning of Planet of the Apes.
 
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