Things you didn't spot in Trek until the umpteenth viewing...
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I've found it painfully distracting when I watch remastered TOS on my 50 inch HD television and find Captain Kirks hair to be standing up in places. There are some episodes where he has two or three hairs just standing at attention and it's so annoying. I believe I was watching "The Apple" just the other day and I saw more stray "little kirks" and I'm thinking "why the heck didn't someone get a can of hairspray or something and fix that?" aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!!
This doesn't quite fit what Tiberius was asking, but visiting family in other cities while growing up often let me see new things in TOS, since no two syndication outlets ever trimmed episodes the same way. For example, my local station chopped out more than half of the intercom scene between Spock and Sulu in "Mirror, Mirror." I was nearly college age before I ever saw Spock's ominous warning about his operatives avenging him.
It was only a few years ago that I noticed Betazoids' eyes are all black.
This may sound really dumb, but it wasn’t until years after Trek TOS was cancelled that I realized the episode title “The Galileo Seven” referred to both the shuttlecraft’s registry number and the number of crew on board.
Other things that escaped my notice, even on repeated viewings:
Robert Lansing in “Assignment: Earth” was the only TOS guest star to have his name in the episode’s opening credits.
Jane Wyatt’s screen credit in “Journey to Babel” reads “Miss Jane Wyatt” — the only female guest star so honored.
Other things that escaped my notice, even on repeated viewings:
Robert Lansing in “Assignment: Earth” was the only TOS guest star to have his name in the episode’s opening credits.
Jane Wyatt’s screen credit in “Journey to Babel” reads “Miss Jane Wyatt” — the only female guest star so honored.
That the command division uniforms in TOS are actually green. 
Yeah, the big thing for me was seeing the parts that had been previously cut out for the broadcast. It was like a moment of "new trek"... that feeling you get when you see something for the first time. It was terrific. 
Funny thing about "The Galileo 7"... I always thought it was just the registry number; never dawned on me that it could be referencing the 7 crew members. Good catch there, Scotpens.
Funny thing about "The Galileo 7"... I always thought it was just the registry number; never dawned on me that it could be referencing the 7 crew members. Good catch there, Scotpens.
That the Cardassian viewscreen in Deep Space 9's Ops isn't actually on the wall.
A long time ago I discovered that there's enough evidence that TOS originally took place in the 22nd Century, but was placed into the 23rd-Century later in both TMP and TWOK.
Also, that the Enterprise arrowhead insignia was not entirely exclusive to the Enterprise during TOS.
Also, that the Enterprise arrowhead insignia was not entirely exclusive to the Enterprise during TOS.
This seems to be something a lot of fans didn't notice, including myself as well. It was only after reading about it in the DS9 Technical Manual I went back and looked.
Umm. You mean bright blue? They stuck out like a Klingon on an Enterprise bridge.
The funny hair dyeing in the background in one of the scenes in Data's Day.
Leah Brahms from TNG and Captain Erika Benteen from DS9 are the same person.
That, and that Tasha Yar waved to the audience at the end of Symbiosis.
That, and that Tasha Yar waved to the audience at the end of Symbiosis.
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The President of the Federation in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is blind.
(I didn't actually spot it myself, but when I read it on the internet I watched the movie again and it's actually really obvious.)
(I didn't actually spot it myself, but when I read it on the internet I watched the movie again and it's actually really obvious.)
I don't think he is. When the Klingon ambassador is saying how Kirk was legally arrested for the crime, the President has a line "I have ordered a full scale investigation." Straight afterwards, he turns to face the Klingon ambassador, and you can see his eyes looking directly at the Klingon ambassador. And his eyes stay on the ambassador while he continues to turn. Seems that he can see the Klingon ambassador quite clearly.
If he were blind, I doubt he would do nothing about it. I mean, even a peon navigator-turned-engineer got a VISOR. Even 100 years before then the president would have something to help him out!
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