Things you didn't spot in Trek until the umpteenth viewing...
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That the command division uniforms in TOS are actually green.
A light olive green to be exact and not gold. I think that is a new revelation for me also.
Speaking of this, what do the uniforms "really look like"? I've never laid actual eyes on one. I've only seen them on TV, video, DVD, film, digital projection, and in photographs, in which the uniforms look "gold".
Does anybody have a picture that shows "what color they really are"?
Does anybody have a picture that shows "what color they really are"?
Wow. Under what type and intensity would you accept a color? I'm sorry but that question is a bit out there. And the uniforms even seem to vary in the same scene. Good example is where we see Beverly and her old mentor in Remember Me. The blues looked a bit different.
The photos still won't do them justice
Well in the first place I thought we were talking about TOS gold uniforms which are "really" olive green.
In the second place, it's not really that out there, since for example a photo that contained a ColorChecker might be convincing, or that contained some other reference of known color, such as a landmark (if shot outdoors) or other well-known object.
Clearly, a lot of people are agreeing that the uniforms usually appear gold, although reports are also that they are "really" olive green. I was curious if anyone has been able to document this photographically in a convincing way. Sorry, the question is not that out there at all, although documenting the effect in a convincing way is understandably a challenge.
In the second place, it's not really that out there, since for example a photo that contained a ColorChecker might be convincing, or that contained some other reference of known color, such as a landmark (if shot outdoors) or other well-known object.
Clearly, a lot of people are agreeing that the uniforms usually appear gold, although reports are also that they are "really" olive green. I was curious if anyone has been able to document this photographically in a convincing way. Sorry, the question is not that out there at all, although documenting the effect in a convincing way is understandably a challenge.
Well, the Enterprise D was, in reality, a duck egg blue. But it looked grey on the screen. So which is real? Is the shooting model REALLY the Enterprise D? Or is the D only what appears on screen?
I go with what appears on screen. That's the way it's presented to the audience. (BTW, during the crash in ST Gen, those trees were actually flourescant green in real life. Not very realistic at all. But because of the film they were using, they came out looking natural on the screen. Just another example of what appears on screen is the "real" version, and what is in reality isn't real...)
I go with what appears on screen. That's the way it's presented to the audience. (BTW, during the crash in ST Gen, those trees were actually flourescant green in real life. Not very realistic at all. But because of the film they were using, they came out looking natural on the screen. Just another example of what appears on screen is the "real" version, and what is in reality isn't real...)
It's the things that the wife notices that I would never have seen. Two anecdotes...
Angel One. "There's someone else in the room!" she yells. I look around, slightly panicked, until she assures me that she's talking about the episode. So I grab the remote and go back a few seconds to the beginning of the scene in which Riker gets all sexy and stuff with Mistress Beata. He takes a sip from his prosecco, or tulaberry wine, or Red Bull for all I care, and puts the glass down. Only he doesn't really put it down, there's a hand reaching into the frame from below that takes it away.
Homeward. "That's no family tent." Again, I go back to rewatch the scene at the very end of the episode, in which Worf bids goodbye to his brother Nikolai. Dobara (as played by DS9's Penny Johnson) attempts to enter her tent which is really tall but has a tiny base. She crawls in, but her legs are sticking out. She pulls them in, but her skirt still shows. She somehow manages to grab it as well and pull it all the way in. Cue the wife: "She's going to live in there with Paul F-ing Sorvino?"
Angel One. "There's someone else in the room!" she yells. I look around, slightly panicked, until she assures me that she's talking about the episode. So I grab the remote and go back a few seconds to the beginning of the scene in which Riker gets all sexy and stuff with Mistress Beata. He takes a sip from his prosecco, or tulaberry wine, or Red Bull for all I care, and puts the glass down. Only he doesn't really put it down, there's a hand reaching into the frame from below that takes it away.
Homeward. "That's no family tent." Again, I go back to rewatch the scene at the very end of the episode, in which Worf bids goodbye to his brother Nikolai. Dobara (as played by DS9's Penny Johnson) attempts to enter her tent which is really tall but has a tiny base. She crawls in, but her legs are sticking out. She pulls them in, but her skirt still shows. She somehow manages to grab it as well and pull it all the way in. Cue the wife: "She's going to live in there with Paul F-ing Sorvino?"
That Kirk is wearing laced boots in "Arena".
A blooper, or just a attentive servant in Mistress Beata's chambers?
I noticed in TWOK there are little units at the side of the turbolifts on the bridge that indicate that they are not working below C deck. You can see it more clear in the blu ray version ?
In TNG ep 'Too Short A Season', about a third of the way through Picard pulls a funny face as he heads into turbolift near the viewscreen. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment but it's definitely there!
That in the 2nd episode of DS9, when the two runabouts are on the screen at the end, they actually have a part of the Kira and bajorian terrorist runabout visible out of Sisko's and O'Brian's Runabout window, and it matches what should be out of he window.
Probably since Beverly wore the same uniform all the time, the props department would wash it repeatedly, thus making the color fade. Somebody who wore a blue uniform only once, would have a brand new one, that was not faded.
In In Purgatory's Shadow, right after a fight with Martok, a Jem Hadar puts his arm around another Jem Hadar's shoulder.
The tough, brutal emotionless Jem Hadar.
The tough, brutal emotionless Jem Hadar.
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No way!
The mentor's uniform looked more greenish. Fading wouldn't result like that. Otherwise, we would see that uniform in extras and one time guests. You can see in this screencap that it has a different hue. I also figure they have above par laundry facilities and that Gates might have wore more than one....
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