Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

Where there's memo exchanges or other records covering something, that can be pretty definitive, though, within limits.  This book is supposed to have a lot of that...

[Valka]

It'll be interesting to see if those memos match the ones in Stephen Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek.

[Buster's Uncle]

...Which Roddenberry had entirely too much veto power over to make a reliable history.  At least, I've long found it a teeny bit suspect on that account.  I mean, I reread the book in the last few years, and it really struck me how self-serving it could be...

[Mylochka]

I just read this review at Trekcore (the best spot for getting ST screenshots) http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/08/review-these-are-the-voyages-tos-season-one/

I'm interested that the book goes through the production of each episode.  There are some (The Alternative Factor for example) episodes where I'd love to hear what went wrong and why some strange choices were made.

[Buster's Uncle]

John Barrymore was too drunk to show up, and the last-minute replacement hadn't time to prepare and wasn't very good to begin with.  Simple.

-Also, the script must have run long, or they didn't get everything they really needed shot so the narrative made sense, or something...

[Buster's Uncle]

It was Walter Koenig's birthday last week.




Our little Chekov is all grown up. 

I think he looks better now without the toupee or pathetically-combed hair than when I met him at a con thirty years ago.

[Geo]

Our little Chekov is all grown up. 

I think he looks better now without the toupee or pathetically-combed hair than when I met him at a con thirty years ago.

Oh, I see he Picarded.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think with the bald out, he makes a good-looking old man; he made a very sad-looking middle-aged man who was trying too hard.

That's the same thing Shatner was doing wrong for over 20 years.

[Unorthodox]

http://cdn.shortlist.com/resource/binary/e98b5fa29cf19528b159d48ed4f7deed/starshipfull.jpg

Scale poster of all scifi ships. 

[Geo]

Not all of them...

[Unorthodox]

a decent chunk of them. 

[Buster's Uncle]

They were commendably thorough. 

And isn't it just like innerwebs nerdz to go to all that trouble to make a chart comparing the ridiculousness of the numbers various shows and movies pulled out of their butts?  Oh wait ---

[Unorthodox]

I have to say, I didn't realize how comparitively small the ST stuff was. 

[Buster's Uncle]

They pulled less ridiculous numbers out.  Where's the Death Star, anyway?

[Unorthodox]

It's a "station" not a "ship"  ?