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I read a story about TOS. A company was building automatic doors. Someone wrote to the production asking how they got their doors to work so flawlessly.
Two Union workers was not the answer the company was hoping for.
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Amazing how much technology since the 60s has just been trying to make star trek props real
I like in old science fiction when the 'future' tech is behind what we have. 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' has a sentient computer struggling to invent CGI.
Starman Jones is the most extreme example of that I know of. They have slipstick boys to do their FTL math and the MC's special ability is that he memorized all the log tables and so he can do the math faster.
'Starship Troopers.' Hero gets a snail mail via starship. I never read it myself, but there's one form the 1930's where they land on an alien planet and explore it in a prop plane
Neelix goes around handing people PADDs of their mail but that's because Neelix is terrible not because of any technological necessity.
It's like when my boss sends me an email and then comes over to my desk to tell me he sent me an email.
Yeah, I know. It was 10 seconds ago. Go away.
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They worked smoothly but never silently, once you know to look for the breaks in dialogue for the door audio to be easily removed you never stop noticing it
There are so many little details like that. From the 'swoosh' noise in the intro to the way every ship in the Galaxy flies in the same orientation.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
I would also like to be manhandled by Terry Farrell
This was when they realized she was the right person to marry Worf
I don't get this reaction, is technobable really that difficult to recite for actors?
Yes. Like high octane laughter fuel. It's ridiculous and everyone is just trying not to crack.
There's also a reason that the "legitimate nerds" in show business become such cult favorites. The overlap of (1) "people who look like professional actors" and (2) "people who are believable while acting" and (3) "people who legitimately get into the fake logic of technobabble" is vanishingly small. If you are on a Trek show and not in that intersection, pretending to be a 3 is going to be one of the biggest challenges in pulling off 2 to your expected standards.
To cross franchises for a moment, "you can write this shit George, but you can't say it."
I don't like sand...
There was that one scene in TNG where Riker is actually making up a bunch of technobabble to distract a ferengi who had taken over the ship... and to this day I'm not sure how they got a take where he managed to go through it with a straight face.
I can see Frakes making it through, I have a hard time seeing the rest of the cast making it.
A scene that lasts 30 seconds on screen might take an entire morning to shoot. The actors have to repeat their lines exactly the same, every time. Imagine having to say the technobabble fifty times or more, without messing it up.
It's like filling up a balloon with air, then something bad happens!
Theoretically, it is possible
I can easily imagine it. You have words that the actor has never seen before, which have literally zero emotional resonance for them so they can't draw on any personal or cultural connections to use them, and they're tasked with spitting them out in a scene that calls for both intimate familiarity and stressful high stakes.
Dax was 6 feet tall?
One of them.
IMDB lists her height as 5'11¾".
...without heels, like she'd be wearing at a wrap party.
She’s always in 1-2 inch heeled boots on screen as well.
Cpt Sisko [Avery Brook] is 1.85 m, apx 6 feet. They were usually eye to eye.
I used to have such a crush on her. Beautiful woman.
Wrap party?
Not warp party? C'mon..
filming ends
"Alright people, that's a warp!"
I hate when people try to write technobabble like that. It has a logic and if you have watched enough star trek it starts to make sense.
Then JJ Abrams comes a long and has Butterbeer Crampleslice tell us life support system is behind the aft nacelles. Even the first few seasons of the new Trek shows did this crap until they brought on science and Canon consultants
God, Jadzia was my first gay crush, I so wish that were me 😅
And my first straight crush, so I second this.
Lol fantastic
What I wouldn't give to have Terry Farrell lift me up by the lapels and shake me.
She got her revenge it seems. :D
Haha! This is a fucking gem!