Very Obscure Items of Discussion from SFS.

[sbk1234]

Isn't that in the officer's club where Kirk tries to get permission to go to Genesis? I know the Epsilon 9 station is a piece of art on the wall there.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Shatner also broke his pinky in the craptacular film Impulse, and it's been crooked ever since. That may also have something to do with his needing his fingers tied together.

Funny how "un Klingon" the BoP bridge looks, with it' sswell multi-colors and smooth, round doors. Aside from the smoke, it looks so clean and very, well, Romulan. Whoops.

 

[Data Holmes]

Shatner also broke his pinky in the craptacular film Impulse, and it's been crooked ever since. That may also have something to do with his needing his fingers tied together.

Funny how "un Klingon" the BoP bridge looks, with it' sswell multi-colors and smooth, round doors. Aside from the smoke, it looks so clean and very, well, Romulan. Whoops.

They should have kept the baddies in the film romulian.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Aside from the smoke, it looks so clean and very, well, Romulan. Whoops.

And in the script proposal "Return to Genesis" it was manned by Romulans. In the first version of the full script, Klingon Lord Kruge had stolen it from Romulans.

They should have kept the baddies in the film romulian.

Very confusing, when you're trying to convince a general film audience about the honest motives of Sarek and Saavik - plus the bizarre story point of the rapid aging of a Vulcan child - to toss in a heap of essential backstory about renegade aliens who look exactly like Vulcans but aren't part of the UFP.

 

[doubleohfive]

Ok. Finally sat down and checked TSFS and TMP. Also, thanks to my roommate, we figured out where the discrepancy came from as well.

In TMP, Gary Faga gets nerve-pinched by Spock. The Okuda text commentary on TMP and in that very scene says, "This is Gary Faga, who played the security guard in Star Trek III who makes the mistake of calling Sulu "Tiny""

So, there you have it -- either Okuda is right, or Memory Alpha is. I don't know for sure, but when Faga turns around after getting pinched, it sure looked like the same guy who played "Tiny" to me.

 

[Therin of Andor]

So, there you have it -- either Okuda is right, or Memory Alpha is. I don't know for sure, but when Faga turns around after getting pinched, it sure looked like the same guy who played "Tiny" to me.

You only have to look at the photos I showed you on Memory Alpha. The two dark-haired Faga shots (TMP, ST III) are shown side by side.

The guy who calls Sulu "Tiny" is blond, mustachioed, round-faced and broad-shouldered. Okuda simply misremembered which guy got floored by Kirk and which one was insulting Sulu.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ultra-bizarre trivia I got from http://curtdanhauser.com/PsychoFiles : The security guard(that calls Sulu "tiny")'s uniform and cap appear to be based on an old Gold Key Star Trek comic flashback to Kirk's days at the academy published 8 years previously.
The idea that the old Gold Key Star Trek comics somehow influenced the canon is both bewildering and awesome in equal measure.

 

[Timo]

Funny how "un Klingon" the BoP bridge looks, with it' sswell multi-colors and smooth, round doors. Aside from the smoke, it looks so clean and very, well, Romulan. Whoops.

Hmm...

Romulan bridge:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x14hd/balanceofterrorhd180.jpg

Romulan bridge aboard a Klingon design:

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x02/The_Enterprise_Incident_326.JPG

Klingon bridge:

http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x12/thetimetrap_046.JPG

Klingon corridor:

http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x05/moretribblesmoretrouble_289.jpg

ST3 bridge:

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tsfshd/tsfshd0750.jpg

If anything, the Romulan design from "Balance of Terror" is the sore thumb (with its "central control table" or "periscope pedestal" layout, although not significantly so...

The security guard(that calls Sulu "tiny")'s uniform and cap appear to be based on an old Gold Key Star Trek comic flashback to Kirk's days at the academy published 8 years previously.

It's extremely difficult to see any similarity there. The guards wear a "boosted" blue baseball cap, one with three add-on white ridges; the duty officer wears a "stripped" white baseball cap, essentially just a whitish sunshade...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

^I'll take your word for it. I just came across what was said on the site and thought I'd share. It's been a while since I saw STIII.

STIII trivia from EAS: When the Enterprise enters spacedock, you briefly see the rear of a large starship in the background. It's an old Phase II Enterprise study model, one of the Star Destroyer-inspired versions (a slightly different one would crop up in the junkyard of TNG's "Unification").

 

[comsol]

^I'll take your word for it. I just came across what was said on the site and thought I'd share. It's been a while since I saw STIII.

STIII trivia from EAS: When the Enterprise enters spacedock, you briefly see the rear of a large starship in the background. It's an old Phase II Enterprise study model, one of the Star Destroyer-inspired versions (a slightly different one would crop up in the junkyard of TNG's "Unification").

Actually it is a Planet of the Titans study model, which pre-dates the Star Destroyer design. Of course, they are both wedge-shaped designs, and and wedges were everywhere in 1970's design - just look at sportscar and experimental car designs of the era.

 

[doubleohfive]

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[Therin of Andor]

Obviously, it's a case of using the same actor in wardrobe fitted for them, but still ... she's rather prominent in both scenes, so it kind of sticks out every time I watch.

I think you'll find it's not the same actress. Jeanne Mori was credited only for the Grissom helm scene. The other woman was a no-line extra.

 

[doubleohfive]

Holy crap. Now I feel really dumb. Deleting post...