TAS seems to be a cultivated taste.
I’m all for encouraging franchise fans to make the effort.
StillPaisleyCat
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I’ll be curious to know what you think
Where are you getting the information about contractual rights on likenesses?
I’m curious to know if actors’ contracts have evolved on this over time. I would have thought Paramount would be the exclusive rights holder.
Marina Sirtis, for example, has commented that she wasn’t even informed in advance about her image as Troi being on a recent UK stamp. She says that she has no rights in relation to her likeness as Troi, the rights remain entirely with Paramount.
That’s a food synthesizer gone mad as part of the overall corruption of the ship’s main computer.
A space anomaly (TM) has integrated ‘playful’ entertainment programming from a holographic simulator. We also see artificial gravity shenanigans, and Scotty directing engineering specialists to force open the door to the simulator.
The TAS screencaps (thanks to Trek Core’s fantastic library) are from the episode ‘The Practical Joker.’
In TAS, we first see a precursor of the later Holodeck technology. In ‘The Practical Joker’, we first also see the familiar Trek trope of a space anomaly affecting the crew’s holographic entertainment simulator, leading to the ship being taken over in some way.
The VR simulator is within one of the Enterprise ‘Rec Rooms’ that also serves as a mess. The malfunction of the nearby food synthesizers was one of the first symptoms of the ship’s computer (AI) pulling practical jokes.
Here’s an image of what was happening on the other side of the closed Rec Room simulator door by the time Scotty’s team was trying to break in to rescue the other officers.
TAS introduced so many great ideas to the franchise. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth viewing all the episodes at least once. A few are classics.
The EPs have mentioned in interviews that the alternate version will be a bonus feature on the DVDs/BlueRay/UHD disc sets.
David Mack was more recently a consultant for the development and first seasons of both Lower Decks and Prodigy as well. I believe we can thank him for bringing Peter David’s Brikar aliens (from the YA Starfleet Academy and the New Frontier books) into onscreen canon with the character of Rok Tahk in Prodigy.
No idea. They seem to be selling through the major outlets only.
There’s no canon basis to support this, just head canon inference. While this could be the direction SNW is going with this, being posted elsewhere and then returning for a brief period doesn’t imply any demotion.
M’Benga was working, likely shadowing, with McCoy in TOS for just an episode or two before he acted as CMO when McCoy was away. The fact that McCoy had to confirm/remind Kirk that M’Benga had trained on Vulcan strongly suggests he wasn’t posted longterm to the Enterprise. More, M’Benga was supposed to be on his way to head up a medical station, which suggests he was moving towards a position of responsibility.
Asking a former CMO to work alongside for a short period and then act when he’s between postings, especially one with specialized expertise needed for the crew’s complement, is fairly routine.
It’s likely the impact of the sudden and unexpected death of Melissa Navia’s husband led to a lightning of her role in the second season.
She’s written about how hard it was for her to go into production just a couple of months after that. She was a musical theatre performer as a child, so it’s likely that a larger singing role was planned for her in 2 x 09. We can be thankful that she has apparently decided to stick with her career after some profound doubts in 2022.
Ah, someone who understands.
Several of the Relaunch novelverse TrekLit authors tried out with spec scripts before being picked up to write tie-in fiction.
David Mack, a film school grad, got script credits for 2 DS9 episodes, Starship Down and Only a Paper Moon before being contracted for some Starfleet Core of Engineers stories.
Kirsten Beyer, a theatre grad, never got into one of the shows with a spec script, but was picked up to write Voyager books, then came full circle to be in the writers rooms on all the new live-action shows.
You would need to ask the mods. Trekyards can be very negative and get stuck on points that aren’t based in fact. I can see their videos getting deleted in those cases. This is an analysis of a specific new ship in show they are generally positive about.