number6
Vice Admiral
Even if that were true, the crew were under the influence of the evil kiddie power, with their mind control and shaking fists and such.
Umm...Whoops?
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Indeed. It wouldn't do to have bridge crew be the only ones who falsely thought they were in orbit. Scotty had to be thinking that the engines were idled, and so forth. But the kids probably lacked the imagination to maintain the charade, beyond giving everybody they met the illusion of seeing the planet (I mean, why not do this with everybody?). That works fine until action is taken on basis of that illusion...
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
From a different episode, Charlie X, Kirk is wearing his standard uniform when he enters the turbolift and heads to the bridge. When he arrives on the bridge he's in his special wraparound tunic. This is either a continuity problem, or in a deleted scene he stopped off in the middle of the emergency to change, OR knowing he does has some serious BO issues, he keeps extra clean shirts stuffed behind access panels all over the ship. As for the poor abandoned redshirts, they were probably rescued by a passing Tellarite freighter and ultimately became admirals in charge of Star Fleet's very busy "Let's Change Uniforms Again" department. Their major unsung contribution to the fleet, was the decree sometime around 2350 that COMMAND CREW could wear the reddish color from now on.
Well, that's not exactly correct.
The last time we see Charlie in his standard uniform (apparantly a hand-me-down from the Antares crew), he's in the Briefing Room with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. He exits the Briefing Room and Spock remarks "We're in the hands of an adolescent."
The action then cuts to the Bridge some unspecified amount of time later (but clearly long enough for Kirk and Spock to have gotten back to the Bridge from the Briefing Romm and McCoy to have gotten back to Sick Bay), where Kirk asks Uhura to raise Colony Five and Uhura's panel short circuits. It's then that Charlie enters the Bridge with his wraparound suede command uniform-thing over his white turtleneck.
So I think there was plenty of time within the unspecified amount of time between the last time we see Charlie in the Briefing Room scene until the next time we see him during the Bridge scene for Charlie to have changed shirts.
Being a geek, I just took a look at the Netflix copy of Charlie X to refresh my age-fuddled memory. The scene in question has Kirk and Charlie in a corridor discussing the Yeoman Rand "derriere pat" incident. Kirk is interrupted by Uhura calling from the bridge to say that the Antares is attempting to communicate. Kirk and Charlie enter the turbolift. Kirk says bridge. Cut to Uhura operating her com panel followed by Kirk, now in a different shirt, and Charlie emerging from the turbolift. (time reference approximately 14:10 to 15:22 in the Netflix version of the TOS remasters). I'm certain the scene you mentioned also occurs at some other point in the episode.
Drake:
I apologize. I misread your earlier post as saying that *Charlie's* shirt changed. In re-reading your post now, I see that you actually had been perfectly clear what you meant.
Yes, Kirk and Charlie enter the turbo-lift at Scene 33A and come onto the Bridge at Scene 34--and Kirk is suddenly wearing his first season wraparound, instead of his usual gold/avacado tunic when he emerges from the turbo-lift.
Since the script goes right from Scene 33A to Scene 34, there doesn't appear to ever have been some interveneing scene that might explain what would appear to be a simple continuity goof.
No need to apologize at all, I'm just content that I remembered the scene correctly. Now if I could just remember where I parked the ship. And my hat is off to continuity assistants for all the little details they get RIGHT. The only time they ever get feedback is for the occasional goofs.
I'm pretty sure they wiped Scotty off between episodes.I think sets are never cleaned; when we visited NBC in Burbank, I noticed the soap sets there looked dirty. The guy told me that they'd been using them for years and never clean them, because it doesn't show up on camera. And he was basically right; but I've been thinking that with HD, it's going to show up.And the filthy, dirty floor in engineering in "The Immunity Syndrome"? When a shock wave from the giant space amoeba throws Scotty to the deckplates and Kirk helps him back to his feet, there's a GIANT white smudge of dirt and dust on his trouser leg. Starfleet's pride and flagship is THAT dirty?
This I didnt know but that is kinda funny. I guess the dirt not showing up on camera is something that never occured to me. I do remember the dust on Scotty and thought that was odd too!
I'm pretty sure they wiped Scotty off between episodes.
This I didnt know but that is kinda funny. I guess the dirt not showing up on camera is something that never occured to me. I do remember the dust on Scotty and thought that was odd too!
The Enterprise needed that 2270-73 break and refit, then. Just to Mop-and-Glo the decks down.
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