WNMHGB ahead of its time?

[Wingsley]

Is it just me, or was "Where No Man Has Gone Before" way ahead of its time?

When the Valiant's recorder-marker was beamed aboard, Kirk proposed checking its tapes. Then the buoy suddenly came alive, and Scotty warned "It's begun transmitting, sir." Kirk ordered all decks put on alert.

Spock then went to his science station and began examining the Valiant data.

Nobody ever touched the thing, and yet the Enterprise crew was able to learn the fate of the Valiant...

Boy and girls, can you say "WiFi"?

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Is it just me, or was "Where No Man Has Gone Before" way ahead of its time?

When the Valiant's recorder-marker was beamed aboard, Kirk proposed checking its tapes. Then the buoy suddenly came alive, and Scotty warned "It's begun transmitting, sir." Kirk ordered all decks put on alert.

Spock then went to his science station and began examining the Valiant data.

Nobody ever touched the thing, and yet the Enterprise crew was able to learn the fate of the Valiant...

Boy and girls, can you say "WiFi"?

The recorder-marker was one of Trek's better props. It looks strangely "real" to me.

 

[dogsowar]

Really great pilot episode, slight differences from the final show, but had a great vibe.

 

[Pixel]

Forty years on, both this and The Cage hold up - way better pilots than any of the other shows have had.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

The recorder-marker was one of Trek's better props. It looks strangely "real" to me.

I belive the design was pretty close to an actual early sixties space probe design, unfortnately I can't remember wich one.

 

[Kryton]

Favorite episode.

 

[Sector 7]

Forty years on, both this and The Cage hold up - way better pilots than any of the other shows have had.

Agreed. Although some forget it is a pilot and swear by it as final canon. It was a fantastic pilot.
Some of the technology was very much unheard at the time. Perhaps life imitated art?

 

[Joker]

Boy and girls, can you say "WiFi"?

I doubt it was using "WiFi".

The resemblance to "WiFi" begins and ends with "radio", which was hardly ahead of its time.

 

[Outpost4]

The recorder-marker was one of Trek's better props. It looks strangely "real" to me.

I belive the design was pretty close to an actual early sixties space probe design, unfortnately I can't remember wich one.

I hadn't heard this before but it would have been Tiros-1, the first weather satellite.

Agreed, great prop.

 

[Outpost4]

Boy and girls, can you say "WiFi"?

I doubt it was using "WiFi".

Alien1 to Alien2: "Where's that damn phonograph? I want to play this record we found on the V'ger spacecraft."

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

The recorder-marker was one of Trek's better props. It looks strangely "real" to me.

I belive the design was pretty close to an actual early sixties space probe design, unfortnately I can't remember wich one.

I hadn't heard this before but it would have been Tiros-1, the first weather satellite.

Agreed, great prop.

That wasn't he one I was thonking off, but now you've posted the shot from WNMHGB, the resemblence isn't as close as I remembered. My memory playing tricks again...

 

[number6]

Uhura's earpiece is Bluetooth compatible.

 

[Wingsley]

Do you think it is also sombrero compatible?

 

[number6]

Do you think it is also sombrero compatible?

Everything is Somrero compatible. Sombreros are Universal.

 

[Timo]

And Paramount.

I must admit I missed the shuttle here: I've never found out where this sombrero thing came from. Could somebody point me to an explanatory thread or something?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kryton]

There are 2,129 posts in this lovely thread...and for good reason. Set aside some time...it's worth more than a few chuckles and even outright guffaws.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=55523

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Tiros? Nah. Syncom!

AG

 

[Timo]

There are 2,129 posts in this lovely thread...and for good reason. Set aside some time...it's worth more than a few chuckles and even outright guffaws.

So the sombrero craze was launched by the STXI design thread, and not vice versa? Hmm...

Tiros? Nah. Syncom!

Well, any of the early spin-stabilized toys. But let's not forget the passing of the baton to the next generation:

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/blackhole/blackhole/blowup/palominotoy.jpg

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Warped9]

Forty years on, both this and The Cage hold up - way better pilots than any of the other shows have had.

\Very much agreed. TOS handled science and tech better than most sci-fi's including its own spinoffs. The trick was not to get too technical or get caught up in too detailed explanations with obvious technobabble. Keep it a bit vague and somewhat credible and it tends to age better.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I never really thought about it before, but the Palomino from The Black Hole looks a little like the Valiant's recorder.