Your Hub series?
TOS Turbolift
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Your Hub series?
Fantastic video.
Enterprise wanted it both ways: they got to be a prequel, so their crew would be the first at everything, but then they wanted all the technology and goodies from Star Trek's future at their disposal, so there was nothing they couldn't see or do. Galaxy Quest and The Orville could blaze their own trails, but Enterprise kept dipping its quill into somebody else's inkwell.
No, my starship idea was much earlier than that, from an early version of what's now my Arachne-Troubleshooter Universe.
In the Hub universe, they use nanite clouds in the air -- what some SF calls a utility fog -- as an inertial damping system and sort of a pseudo-gravity within ships (a retcon after the fact when I realized I'd portrayed the presence or absence of shipboard gravity inconsistently), and otherwise use good old centrifugal force to create weight in the Hubstations. Although my fourth story, "Hubpoint of No Return," featured an alternative method of gravity generation based on a physics paper I'd read, basically a giant ring of dense, moving mass that creates a gravitomagnetic effect perpendicular to the ring in the same way that an electric current in a loop creates a magnetic field.
Yeah, the May/June 2018 Analog, which is the only time my story title was the one featured on the cover.
was there ever any female crew member being filmed in an operating turbolift during the original series? I only recall the Romulan commander.
I can't think of any, not filmed from an interior perspective.
Uhura and Rand are seen going in/out in The Man Trap but that's the closest!
Right, and Uhura stepping into it in S1's "This Side Of Paradise", after having sabotaged the communication system.
BTW note the shrinked dress of Uhura's, not only the sleeves are very short...
Not a crewman, but from Elaan Of Troyius:
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x13hd/elaanoftroyiushd1080.jpg
Thanx MFB and "pfiat di"!
I never thought of that. It was always the male regulars who had plot-necessary conversations, so we rode along with them, while female crew only needed to be seen arriving at or leaving a given deck, because what did they really have to say?
For Starfleet females filmed inside any elevator, we had Dr. Helen Noel down on Tantalus. Unless I'm forgetting one. [Edit: I missed Uhura in MM.] The Romulan commander, and Mudd's three women riding with Spock, don't count. Saavik takes a ride in TWOK.
Nicely done. Fun editing!
Is there an elevator on Tantalus?
Okay, now we have established a list of female characters using the turbolift in TOS. None of them ever touched the handle, even Mirror Uhura riding by herself did not.
It's at the very beginning. It shoots down so fast and sudden, when it opens at the bottom of the shaft mere mortals can be seen on their hands and knees puking with abandon. But Kirk is Kirk, and Helen is held secure in his arms. So Adams doesn't get his kicks this time.
Ah, I see, you are talking about the Tantalus sanatorium lift, not an Enterprise turbolift !
My thoughts exactly. Sad, but true. One of the glaring shortcomings of TOS.
Dr. Mulhall exits an elevator onto the bridge in "Return to Tomorrow" for the final act.
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