OT: The original Star Trek getting a CG makeover

[DarkHorse]

Randallw said:
Such as when the episode revolved around having to fix the transporters so they could save the crewmwmbers freezing on the planet. why?. The shuttle hadn't been invented

If you watch that episode on the DVD with the pop up info-thingies turned on, it mentions why there were no shuttles in that episode. Something about the models weren't finished yet during the filming of the first six episodes or some such, I don't remember exactly.

[PvK]

Baron Munchausen said:
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And then in another show where photon torpedoes would have been extremely useful they aren't mentioned once. Why did they have to drop the wrecked Constellation down the throat of the planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine"? Apparently because photon torpedoes don't exist when they interfere with a plot line. ...

My suspect is Chekov again. I think he used all the photon torpedoes joy-firing at stuff when others had left him in command, so they happened to be all out when they encountered the Doomsday Machine.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Or maybe photon torpedoes wouldn't have made a big enough explosion.

[Kamog]

Chekhov the trouble maker...

Why did the Romulans start using Klingon ship design? Did they not have the model of the Romulan ship when they filmed that episode?

[Black_Knyght]

Remember the scene in the "Wrath of Khan" where Khan, who'd never actually met Chekov, say he remembers him?

Like maybe he remembered hearing, during his short stay on the Enterprise, all about Chekov's rep for screwing things up......?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Or maybe photon torpedoes wouldn't have made a big enough explosion.

Pho-torps = small amount of antimatter packed inside a warhead.
Warp core = a heck of a lot more antimatter packed inside storage tanks that can be blown up.

It's kinda like comparing a stick of dynamite to an ammo dump..... or a nuclear powerplant

Kamog said:
Chekhov the trouble maker...

Why did the Romulans start using Klingon ship design? Did they not have the model of the Romulan ship when they filmed that episode?

RL: They had the Klingon ships on-hand, and used them because they didn't have more than one Romulan ship - IIRC. But I wouldn't put much stock in the "more-than-one-model" explanation. Its merely a conjecture.
In-Character: The Romulans traded several of their cloaking devices with the Klingons in exchange for a number of their battlecruisers. Very logical, considering the fact that those two races are at each others' throats in other series

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Stuff like that happens so often, not only in ST. The distance resetting, or just going back a bit; "Impact in two seconds", and judging from the viewscreen (and the screen time) it CLEARLY hits in six; stuff like that.