tiberio (02/17/83)
do you remember the episode when kirk was accused of ejecting some pod with the records officer still in it during a yellow alert. during the trial they zoom in on his console and there in full color was a button labeled eject pod or such.
karn (02/17/83)
Yes, the episode in question was "Court Martial". The issue at hand was whether Kirk ordered a red alert before jettisoning the pod. That rare exception to the general rule of unlabelled switches didn't help that episode's credibility much. This was also the episode with the famous "one to the fourth power" gaff. Phil
no5sa (02/18/83)
Why is it that Star Trek is never featured on TV after 10pm? I think with all of the fans out there, it would be great for the ratings. What do you say? RJ Pietkivitch
karn (02/18/83)
The usual buchered syndication prints of Star Trek are shown daily at 12:30AM on WNEW-TV, Channel 11 in New York. What disgusts me is that the same scenes have been chopped as in the prints shown on Channel 32 back in Chicago. For example, I haven't seen that great sequence at the beginning of The Menagerie, Part II, in which they use a phaser cannon to blast into the Talosians' elevator, in many years. Phil
laurir (02/19/83)
If you're into butchered syndication prints, you might check out the VHS video tapes of eight Star Trek episodes. The advertising copy claims that each episode is fifty minutes long. (Doesn't prime-time television contains fifty-two minutes of programming per hour?) -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!laurir)
jah (02/20/83)
While we are mentioning butchered StarTreks I think we should note that most recent versions cut out the famous Fyzbyn scene!
mcewan (02/21/83)
#R:seismo:-22900:uiucdcs:24900006:000:355 uiucdcs!mcewan Feb 20 22:44:00 1983 ***** uiucdcs:net.startrek / ihuxa!no5sa / 5:35 pm Feb 17, 1983 Why is it that Star Trek is never featured on TV after 10pm? I think with all of the fans out there, it would be great for the ratings. What do you say? RJ Pietkivitch ---------- Here in Champaign, Star Trek is shown at 10:30pm Sundays. Come to think of it, I'm missing it now.