Or "sabotage" and "camouflage."*I can't believe people voted for William Shatner. The man couldn't even pronounce 'Orion' correctly.
* In " Once Upon A Planet," Shatner pronounces the "-age" in "camouflage" the same way he does in "sabotage."
Which TOS Actor Did the Best Voice Work on TAS?
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* In " Once Upon A Planet," Shatner pronounces the "-age" in "camouflage" the same way he does in "sabotage."
I didn't know that! Very cool!
But everyone in that episode mispronounces "Orion." Whether that was a conscious choice or everyone just following Shatner's lead after not wanting to correct him, I don't know.I can't believe people voted for William Shatner. The man couldn't even pronounce 'Orion' correctly.
Nope. Leonard Nimoy as Spock pronounces 'Orion' correctly in the episode.
I'm due for a TAS rewatch, during which I might change my mind, but when reading the thread question I immediately thought of Majel Barrett. It's kinda weird seeing that I'm the first who gave her the vote. I think she was above the rest of the regular cast, had a nice emotionality to her voice. And she was delightful as M’ress. Practically ASMR before that even was a thing with all the purring.
. . . So yeah, same alien race, just miscolored with their names mispronounced throughout.I'm amazed that nobody bothered to correct that.
But that was because he was disguised as an Andorian, complete with fake antennae.
Not a spoiler, but one of the principal characters on Lower Decks is Caitian - and they make fun of the purring (and other feline things) all the time. I think it's partly a tribute to Majel.
Don't we see green Orion males in Enterprise?
I thought it because the head of the cell painting department was color blind? (That's why anything that was an enemy in TAS had a pink ship or wore Pink.)
Pretty sure most of the odd color choices were as simple as that.
In universe, you could claim this was because Amanda is married to a Vulcan and lived on Vulcan for many years and pronounces the names well, while McCoy doesn't have nearly as much exposure to Vulcans and doesn't particularly want to either.
The animated series was disappointing in so many ways. The actors pronouncing alien names differently is the least of their problems.
That is one perspective. I can tell you that in 1973 I was 11, unspoiled by modern technology, and entirely accepting of limited animation with lots of thinly disguised still frames. That was normal back then for Saturday morning fare.
The Animated Series was exciting and engrossing to me, and I hung in for every rerun, going several years as I recall. I even loved the music, and would play it in my head on bike rides. When coasting down a long hill, going faster and faster, I would play Act I from "Beyond the Farthest Star" in my head, which I knew very well from audio tape. Good times.
I can't remember how Nimoy said "Orion" and I'm not about to rewatch the episode just to find out, but the Orions themselves mispronounce "Orion" in the episode. That jumped out to me.
Yes, we do. I believe that was the first time Orion males were seen in live action.
Yeah, I believe the "they made weird color choices on TAS because such & so was color blind" thing has been disproven as an urban myth. I'd find an article or something on it, but it's late I'm tired. Maybe later.
Thanks. I have a great book about Filmation's history (co-written by Trek novelist Andy Mangels), but it's in storage now so I don't have it handy to check.
In-universe, McCoy had never heard the word before, and therefore had no reason to pronounce it differently than he had just heard. Yet no attempt was made to correct De Kelley's pronunciation, most likely because they were just cranking out the episode and couldn't be bothered to apply every jot and tittle to the i's and t's in the 'alien' words that showed up every so often.
We are the same age, but I think it was a year or so later before I started watching the animated series. I liked the music too, though I sometimes wished there was more variety. As I see it the biggest problem was the half hour episodes. Not really enough time to present a new planet, introduce a problem, and wrap it up.
...Or, y'know, McCoy mispronouncing the word was scripted. Scripts usually have pronunciation guides at the beginning.
Honestly, I think the "Sehlat" thing might've been an in-joke based on De Kelley consistently mispronouncing "Gumato" as "Mugato" while they were shooting "A Private Little War" earlier in the season. He did that to the point where they just changed the creature's name.
It would be very odd to script two different pronunciations. Since each line was a closeup, the most likely explanation is that Kelley didn't hear Wyatt say the line, and nobody noticed they didn't match. Or if they did, it was too late to do anything about it.
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"Journey to Babel" was shot before "A Private Little War." Immediately before, in fact.
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I see you’re channeling Batman season 3.
Yep.
