That movie title is the ultimate spoiler, though the final nine are aware for about 15 minutes that only five may safely get out. Lucy will have no need for waaaahing as she's one of the luckier ones. It's a good day for co-pilots, females and children. Other than that.....You're probably now aware of this, per Wiki, The Galileo Seven was "inspired" by the 1939 film Five Came Back that starred Lucille Ball. I watched the movie a few years ago. They had to whittle down a larger group, like 10-11 people. The final selection of five survivors in the movie is not as clean as the TOS episode gives us.
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The first of the 12 saved the kid but dropped right out of the airplane. It was a stewardess in the Rod Steiger remake with a less revealing title.
The original might be considered slightly ageist since the two oldest of the final nine were happy to give away their survival shots. And the alleged terrorist had as much honor as anyone once it was over.
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Vaguely humanoid I could buy; interfertile not so much.
yeah. Vulcans/Romulans don't even share a common body chemistry. The idea of them having children together is less likely than a human and an Australopithecus. Oh sure we've all been stuck back in time a few million years ago in the veldt and think "Well why not?" but we DONT do it! .. where was I. yes it doesn't make sense.
Wait, what? …oh, you mean Vulcans/Romulans with us. Yes, very true.
(We did with Neanderthals. We are part Neanderthal, many of us.)
When I first began watching TOS, there wasn't an explanation of what the warp factor was about available to me, so I took it to be the cube of c, so warp factor 9 was 9x9x9 or 729 times the speed of light.
That qualifies as an assumption.
I think that used to be the default assumption, back in the day.
Is there any indication within TOS that the warp factor is non-linear? I'd think that the average viewer, especially back in the day, would assume it's linear like just about any other velocity measurement.
To further @B.J.'s comment, I'd bet the default assumption was it the warp factor was just how many times the speed of light, i.e. Warp factor 7 was seven times the speed of light.
Most people watching the show hadn't read behind the scenes material, know much about interstellar distances or like to do math.
That was always my assumption so the after market ancillary materials made little sense.
Unexpected Masks reference is unexpected.Speak for yourself. I am ALL Neanderthal
Ancillary material from the time or at least early 70s put forth the idea warp speed = warp factor cubed X speed of light.
It was at least in the Tech Manual. Might have been in The Making of Star Trek book.
I seem to remember that watching TOS reruns as a kid I'd get confused by the fact that every other Starfleet vessel Our Heroes encountered was also Constitution class, and so I'd initially think they were all the same episode.
This led to disappointment on at least one occasion where I thought I was about to watch "The Tholian Web" again but instead got "The Omega Glory".
Again, I was under ten years old at the time, so cut me some slack.
I also somehow saw the trailer for "Yesterday's Enterprise" but missed the original airing of it (maybe it was preempted?), and until I caught a re-run I thought maybe I'd imagined the whole thing.
There were also a couple of Trek-themed Choose Your Own Adventure books that hooked people by including stills from the movies on the covers, but then the plots of them had nothing to do with the plots of the films. The one with stills from TSFS was particularly disappointing because it was one of those books where you ultimately reached the same ending regardless of the path you took along the way.
This led to disappointment on at least one occasion where I thought I was about to watch "The Tholian Web" again but instead got "The Omega Glory".
Again, I was under ten years old at the time, so cut me some slack.
I also somehow saw the trailer for "Yesterday's Enterprise" but missed the original airing of it (maybe it was preempted?), and until I caught a re-run I thought maybe I'd imagined the whole thing.
There were also a couple of Trek-themed Choose Your Own Adventure books that hooked people by including stills from the movies on the covers, but then the plots of them had nothing to do with the plots of the films. The one with stills from TSFS was particularly disappointing because it was one of those books where you ultimately reached the same ending regardless of the path you took along the way.
those are Oreeons
That's what it said in The Making of Star Trek.
Berman loved breasts too much to ever have an alien species without them.I assumed Andorians were insectile, probably because the Trek lit of the 70s * 80s (ie Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual) said they were. I mean, they have antennas! And according to that book, the antennas were their audio sense organs, rather than having human-like ears. Well, I guess nobody official ever read that - the movies showed them with ears, then of course Enterprise happened and they not only had ears but the women had boobies - thus making them mammals, not insects.
I assumed Cardassians were reptilian, and I think it's pretty obvious why one would think that. But of course we later got females with mammalian mammaries, and interbreeding with Bajorans.
When I was little I thought they looked like jello and I liked jello so I thought it would be fun to eat it all the time like they do in the show.
