[net.startrek] Wrong shuttlecraft ID

ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura) (12/10/84)

I was watching Star Trek this past Saturday, and they had the episode with
Frank Gorshen (the half-black,half-white person who was chasing his
oppositely colored enemy across space).  Anyway, his prey had stolen
a shuttlecraft from starbase 4, and guess what the identification number
was on its side? NCC 1701/7 (which is, I believe, the same as the
Enterprise's shuttlecrafts?).  What would starbase 4 be doing with an
Enterprise shuttle?

elb@hou5e.UUCP (Ellen Bart) (12/12/84)

Sooo,

The shuttlecraft in "--Last Battlefield" had the number NCC1701/7 ?

Maybe it had been left at the starbase for a tune-up  :-)

ellen bart

merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (12/12/84)

> I was watching Star Trek this past Saturday, and they had the episode with
> Frank Gorshen (the half-black,half-white person who was chasing his
> oppositely colored enemy across space).  Anyway, his prey had stolen
> a shuttlecraft from starbase 4, and guess what the identification number
> was on its side? NCC 1701/7 (which is, I believe, the same as the
> Enterprise's shuttlecrafts?).  What would starbase 4 be doing with an
> Enterprise shuttle?

{ What's this Enterprise shuttle doing in our landing bay?
  The backstroke, sir. }

Oh, come on now!  You weren't supposed to notice these things!

Yes, it was an Enterprise shuttle.  Why?  Because it's cheaper
to use stock footage of the shuttlecraft than it is to do new
filming.

My other favourite was in one of the episodes with another ship
(I Think the episode might have been "The Doomsday Machine") where
the ship's number was NCC-1071.  Turn it backwards...
--
"Some tottyhead is mixing genres!"                    Peter Merchant