Phillip Thorne
2008-07-21 02:26:08 UTC
"Spectre of the Gun"
Season 3, Ep 6
Written by Lee Cronin (Gene Coon)
Aired 25 October 1968
<http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68772.html>
It looks like <trekmovie.com> doesn't have a rundown of the SFX in
this ep.
Instead of a glowing spinning cube, the new Melkotian buoy looks like
a stack of spinning crystal slabs, catching the light like Swarovski
crystal. (Hooray for ray-tracing!) When the ship shoves past, note
its size -- it must be at least 50 meters tall.
Why exactly is the Federation so keen ("at any cost") to make contact
with the Melkotians? If nobody has previously, how do the bigwigs
even know there's anybody there? No reason is advanced -- strategic,
cultural, medical.
When the fivesome are inserted into the Melkotian scenario, they
immediately notice that it's just fragments of a town. Later, Kirk is
talking as though they've time-traveled, and is wondering if history
can be changed. This don't match. Were the latter parts of the
script not modified to match the budget-necessitated
set-abbreviations?
Spock needs to learn brevity. "The anesthetic should have worked. It
did not, therefore this is some manner of construct." Or maybe the
Melkotians swapped the contents of your gas-bomb with a transporter.
("We've secretly replaced Doctor McCoy's knock-out gas with dry ice.
Let's see if he notices!")
And if they do think it's a scenario, a guy getting shot shouldn't be
any more surprising than on Shore Leave Planet (#1.15).
Unlike most races that put Our Crew through horrible tests (sometimes
under false pretenses), the Melkotians seemed actually agreeable once
theirs was passed. (Hmm, has "The Empath" been remastered yet?)
--
** Phillip Thorne ** ***@comcast.net **************
* RPI CompSci 1998 *
** underbase.livejournal.com ***************************
Season 3, Ep 6
Written by Lee Cronin (Gene Coon)
Aired 25 October 1968
<http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68772.html>
It looks like <trekmovie.com> doesn't have a rundown of the SFX in
this ep.
Instead of a glowing spinning cube, the new Melkotian buoy looks like
a stack of spinning crystal slabs, catching the light like Swarovski
crystal. (Hooray for ray-tracing!) When the ship shoves past, note
its size -- it must be at least 50 meters tall.
Why exactly is the Federation so keen ("at any cost") to make contact
with the Melkotians? If nobody has previously, how do the bigwigs
even know there's anybody there? No reason is advanced -- strategic,
cultural, medical.
When the fivesome are inserted into the Melkotian scenario, they
immediately notice that it's just fragments of a town. Later, Kirk is
talking as though they've time-traveled, and is wondering if history
can be changed. This don't match. Were the latter parts of the
script not modified to match the budget-necessitated
set-abbreviations?
Spock needs to learn brevity. "The anesthetic should have worked. It
did not, therefore this is some manner of construct." Or maybe the
Melkotians swapped the contents of your gas-bomb with a transporter.
("We've secretly replaced Doctor McCoy's knock-out gas with dry ice.
Let's see if he notices!")
And if they do think it's a scenario, a guy getting shot shouldn't be
any more surprising than on Shore Leave Planet (#1.15).
Unlike most races that put Our Crew through horrible tests (sometimes
under false pretenses), the Melkotians seemed actually agreeable once
theirs was passed. (Hmm, has "The Empath" been remastered yet?)
--
** Phillip Thorne ** ***@comcast.net **************
* RPI CompSci 1998 *
** underbase.livejournal.com ***************************
