Gentlemanly snarkieness, usually between McCoy and Spock, followed by a raised eyebrow or two
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TOS tropes/cliches/funny things you notice
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Flag officers and Federation officials are almost always a bunch of pricks.
The group laugh on the bridge at the end, even if several people or entire sectors of the galaxy were hideously killed just hours ago.
Or it could be...SPAAAAACE MADNESSSSSSS!!!!!
They even played around a little with the idea that Kirk might go off the rails.Being good at command may require a sort of ego that can go haywire.
Hubby and I are rewatching TOS. We start laughing every time we hear what we call the 'beautiful woman' music'. You know what I mean...that torch song theme. They then show the woman in question complete with the diffusion lens. It's as if the audience is too stupid to notice there is a beautiful woman on the screen, they must ANNOUNCE the fact and they can't let her just be beautiful, they have to soften it up and pretend she's more perfect than she is in reality. I know, that's how they did things in those days but now it seems so cheesy.
Apart from that, we're enjoying the rewatch.
Apart from that, we're enjoying the rewatch.
Kirk getting his shirt ripped, during a fight or otherwise. Heck they even had one scene in something, where McCoy is giving everyone injections. The hypospray apparently works right through their clothing. But he rips Kirk's shirt to give him his. I wonder if it was in Shatner's contract that he had to have a scene to bare his chest. 
Talk about gratuitous.
I think I heard back then, when I was a kid, that he actually did have it in his contract that he got to have his shirt off in x number of episodes.Kirk getting his shirt ripped, during a fight or otherwise. Heck they even had one scene in something, where McCoy is giving everyone injections. The hypospray apparently works right through their clothing. But he rips Kirk's shirt to give him his. I wonder if it was in Shatner's contract that he had to have a scene to bare his chest.
That xenylon is like paper.
I think that was a line from "Galaxy Quest".
Which would have been a reference to this. When I heard this, it was in the early 70s.
The Kirk pivot at a precise moment of drama.
The second season clinched fist on the command chair intercom ushered in with a subtle near twirl into the seat.
The emphatic Kirk's emphatic utterance of "Spock!" as a key moment or epiphany occurs.
All of those little things told me they were becoming more and more in line with their characters; comfortable with the role.
The second season clinched fist on the command chair intercom ushered in with a subtle near twirl into the seat.
The emphatic Kirk's emphatic utterance of "Spock!" as a key moment or epiphany occurs.
All of those little things told me they were becoming more and more in line with their characters; comfortable with the role.
"We can't violate the Prime Directive....but we will anyway."
From "The Alternative Factor"....
McCoy points to a Hulk sized red shirt and says, "And would you get that muscle man out of sick bay?!?!"
Poor red shirt dudes. That brings up a question.....why no female red shirt security guards? Women deserve an equal opportunity to get wacked by Nomad, Va'al and the vampire cloud.
They did, mainly because Patrick Stewart was the one most often called upon to do it. The idea was that in the future, clothing doesn't wrinkle, and they had to make sure everyone looked the part. Watch how many times Jonathan Frakes does it when he sits down.
That line bugs me because that guy shouldn't be some reviled stranger to McCoy, he should be one of his patients...somebody McCoy might even be on a first-name basis with.
If McCoy's on a first name basis with a security guard, the guy needs to go to sickbay too often.
There's only 429 other people on the ship...they all have to get routine physicals and other evaluations.
