Stange and wonderful things you notice about star trek

Beanstalk

Ive been tearing through TNG recently and Ive noticed a couple of things...

The foley artists use the exact same sounds of clinking glasses everytimeb the crew is in ten forward or a holodeck bar. I keep thinking its my doorbell ringing and I have to stop myself getting up.

another one is the fact that the music for the end credits is way louder than the volume of the episode, and sometimes it startles me. manys a time ive fallen asleep through one or two or more episodes and have woken up with a jump to the words 'producer WENDY NEUSS'.

sorry if this are silly but they are just a few of the things that I think for me make the series more unique.

anyone else notice this or notice similar things?

Kirby

That ship death animation that popped up in every large battle of DS9 involving the dominion. You know the one.

A phaser beam originates from the bottom of the screen and blows a hole through the saucer section of the ship......and the ship flips over towards to camera. They must have used it four times in total.

nyarlothothep

The slight blue light to the bottom corner of the screen for the TNG credits, wonder what that is and why it's there.

Myrddin

nyarlothothep wrote: »

The slight blue light to the bottom corner of the screen for the TNG credits, wonder what that is and why it's there.

My God what is that thing...I've noticed it for years

crazyderk

nyarlothothep wrote: »

The slight blue light to the bottom corner of the screen for the TNG credits, wonder what that is and why it's there.

lmao I've never noticed that before! I went onto YouTube looked and saw it.
I bet now I'll never not be able to notice it!

Myrddin

crazyderk wrote: »

lmao I've never noticed that before! I went onto YouTube looked and saw it.
I bet now I'll never not be able to notice it!

You should have ran while you still could...your doomed now

nyarlothothep

EnterNow wrote: »

My God what is that thing...I've noticed it for years

I think it might be the light they shine on the credits to make them blue? I think it's absent in the digitally remastered episodes.

filmbuffboy

nyarlothothep wrote: »

I think it might be the light they shine on the credits to make them blue? I think it's absent in the digitally remastered episodes.

Yeah, it's gone from the remastered version. I always wondered what caused it too.

downwithpeace

Looks like the light from the blue text reflecting or bleeding on to the stars layer but that's just a guess, yeah went on to youtube to see and instantly remembered it.

SarahBM

Strange things - Patrick Stewert in very tight shorts in the ep Captain's Holiday! - very weird.

SarahBM

Watching the episode Remember Me S4 of TNG - Why dont they have security cameras on the Enterprise, or any other starship for that matter???

Crusher's friend is beamed aboard and then something happens and she is the only one who can remember him. Nobody else does, including Chief O'Brien who beamed him aboard. Surely it would be easier to check the security cameras in the transporter room for the arrival of the man, instead of relying on O'Brien's recollection of the event.

baffling.

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

Watching the episode Remember Me S4 of TNG - Why dont they have security cameras on the Enterprise, or any other starship for that matter???

Crusher's friend is beamed aboard and then something happens and she is the only one who can remember him. Nobody else does, including Chief O'Brien who beamed him aboard. Surely it would be easier to check the security cameras in the transporter room for the arrival of the man, instead of relying on O'Brien's recollection of the event.

baffling.

I think sensors & sensor logs superceded camera really, & besides...the camera would have shown no beam in either

SarahBM

EnterNow wrote: »

I think sensors & sensor logs superceded camera really, & besides...the camera would have shown no beam in either

BUT the camera would have seen the guy beam aboard!!! get me???
Sensor logs dont "see" the people, if you know what I mean.

Although I cant imagine Worf going through hours of security footage in order to catch someone in the act. That sort of thing could make a Klingon very mad indeed.

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

BUT the camera would have seen the guy beam aboard!!! get me???

He didn't beam aboard though. His existence from the universe had been erased, so anything he ever said & done never actually happened. Lest you forget, Chief O'Brien 'seen' him beam aboard, & after the warp bubble, he had no memory of the event because it had been erased/never happened.

Picard also never got the passenger request that Crusher sent him, his belongings were no longer in his room, & the computer had no record of him. These wern't simply forgotten details, they are details that once erased, never actually happened.

Sensor logs dont "see" the people, if you know what I mean.

No but the transporter would have recorded the beam in, who it was, who beamed him in, time/place etc. All this info was invalid, as the man was erased from existence. As I said above, O'Brien seen him at one point & even said hello to him. That didn't mean a damn after the warp bubble expanded though

SarahBM

EnterNow wrote: »

He didn't beam aboard though. His existence from the universe had been erased, so anything he ever said & done never actually happened. Lest you forget, Chief O'Brien 'seen' him beam aboard, & after the warp bubble, he had no memory of the event because it had been erased/never happened.

Picard also never got the passenger request that Crusher sent him, his belongings were no longer in his room, & the computer had no record of him. These wern't simply forgotten details, they are details that once erased, never actually happened.



No but the transporter would have recorded the beam in, who it was, who beamed him in, time/place etc. All this info was invalid, as the man was erased from existence. As I said above, O'Brien seen him at one point & even said hello to him. That didn't mean a damn after the warp bubble expanded though

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I just wanted cameras. way to go and rain on my parade

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

:(:(:(:(:(:(

I just wanted cameras. way to go and rain on my parade

Ok ok if it makes you feel any better, the Enterprise did have cameras. Check out The Drumhead. The explosion in engineering was caught on camera :P

Goodshape

Just spotted this today. Crazy leg-over-backrest sitting action from Cmdr. Riker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRgs

Myrddin

Lol thats pretty funny I noticed him do it once or twice in the ready room but never that much

SarahBM

that crazy leg thing is just brilliant!!! LMFAO!!!

@enternow :P right back attcha!

IvySlayer

Every fight has to involve putting your hands together and knocking the enemy out with a 2 handed fist.

nyarlothothep

Haha, that'd be interesting, the fighting styles of star trek characters. Kirk would be the unbeatable champion. Did Riker not use the face punch aswell?

IvySlayer

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Haha, that'd be interesting, the fighting styles of star trek characters. Kirk would be the unbeatable champion. Did Riker not use the face punch aswell?

Data would punch Kirks head off.

Literally.

Riker got owned in this scene by the wrist punch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaguilvSrY

nyarlothothep

IvySlayer wrote: »

Data would punch Kirks head off.

Literally.

Riker got owned in this scene by the wrist punch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaguilvSrY

haha, I always find that scene amusing for some reason, the wrist punch is a better way of describing it. I dont think Data would win though, Kirk would defeat him by making a rudimentary gunpowder cannon or frying his circuits with a logical paradox. Kirk just cant lose, he has Kirk luck and ingenuity which will always see him win the day.

Goodshape

Great collection of "Kirk Fu" here: http://trekmovie.com/2009/04/19/trekmovies-guide-to-kirk-fu/

SarahBM

IvySlayer wrote: »

Data would punch Kirks head off.

Literally.

Riker got owned in this scene by the wrist punch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaguilvSrY

ya see a female science officer throwing a nice right hook too

and janny mack does Chief O'Brien kick some arse who knew Miles had it in him LOL


Something strange and wonderful I have noticed watching back TNG - the hair. Everyone either has massive hair (Troi for example) or is bald/has their hair gelled to their head. Mad. You would think that id they have gel in the 23rd century, that they would have anti-frizz shampoo as well. :rolleyes:

368100

Why would Starfleet make Troi a Lt Cmdr without having a balls notion how to even work the helm.....Lt maybe but Lt Cmdr???

liamtech

Wesley Crusher

Kiith

I never noticed this, but Riker even makes sitting down look badass :P

Kurn

No one, has ever once gone to the toilet.

SarahBM

Excuse me while I go to the little girls room - said no one in Starfleet EVER!

Knine

johnmryan wrote: »

No one, has ever once gone to the toilet.

Oh they did. In one of the films First Contact Geordi was following the guy who invented Warp Drive around and he wanted to go for a leak!

Goodshape

Knine wrote: »

Oh they did. In one of the films First Contact Geordi was following the guy who invented Warp Drive around and he wanted to go for a leak!

And if you remember his reaction, this was a totally foreign concept to Geordi.

"Ohhh.. A leak! Haha... How primitive"


;-)

Kurn

LMAO I did mean more on a ship, even in the bathroom scenes there is no sign of a bog

Myrddin

Goodshape wrote: »

And if you remember his reaction, this was a totally foreign concept to Geordi.

"Ohhh.. A leak! Haha... How primitive"


;-)

Nah, was more along the lines of:

"Leak? I'm not detecting any leak. Oohhh, haha, that's pretty funny!" Not a foreign concept, just more like the word leak was humorous to him.

I think in one of the Starfleet tech manuals, it explains that everything on the ship is recycled, everything

Goodshape

EnterNow wrote: »

Nah, was more along the lines of:

"Leak? I'm not detecting any leak. Oohhh, haha, that's pretty funny!" Not a foreign concept, just more like the word leak was humorous to him.

I know, was only joking

I think in one of the Starfleet tech manuals, it explains that everything on the ship is recycled, everything

I'd say so, actually. Sure they do the same with urine on the International Space Station today. Cleaned and recycled into drinking water.

Not sure what they do with "solid waste" on the I.S.S. but I'd imagine they'd find a use for it on 23rd/24th century star ship. Fertiliser maybe?

Regardless though... they still have to make the deposit somewhere ;-)

Myrddin

Goodshape wrote: »

INot sure what they do with "solid waste" on the I.S.S. but I'd imagine they'd find a use for it on 23rd/24th century star ship. Fertiliser maybe?

Regardless though... they still have to make the deposit somewhere ;-)

As far as I know, its actually used as one of the sources of matter for the replicators. I could be wrong, & I hope I am, but I think replicators give out part-reconstituted poo poo

Antar Bolaeisk

EnterNow wrote: »

As far as I know, its actually used as one of the sources of matter for the replicators. I could be wrong, & I hope I am, but I think replicators give out part-reconstituted poo poo

I think you're correct, I'm fairly sure I read the same thing somewhere.

Can't find a video for it but Trip also had to answer a 'poop' question in Breaking the Ice.

Kurn

sorry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLxoRMx5g8I

SarahBM

johnmryan wrote: »

sorry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLxoRMx5g8I

ah here, I love chocolate too but Troi is ridiculous!

Cossax

Kirby wrote: »

That ship death animation that popped up in every large battle of DS9 involving the dominion. You know the one.

A phaser beam originates from the bottom of the screen and blows a hole through the saucer section of the ship......and the ship flips over towards to camera. They must have used it four times in total.

They re-used plenty of space battle scenes in DS9, got a bit ridiculous at time TBH. I suppose they spent so much on Sacrifice of Angels that they had to get their money's worth!

crazyderk

in regards to the bathroom situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKQzZfpaz8

nyarlothothep

You know what I cant forget, the borg in Q who, when he takes the thing out of his fallen comrade's chest in engineering he stands up and makes a somewhat self important hmph noise, which I thought wasnt in keeping with the borg being mindless automatons.

Beanstalk

Hah watching through ds9 season 1 and came across the episode where Rumplestiltskin tells o'brien that he was onced chased by a farmer from Derry...

eh2010

I love noticeing how they reuse sets and props. I remember in the thinktank episode in Voyager there was a robot that made beeping noises. I've seen that same prop used loads of times.

Myrddin

eh2010 wrote: »

I love noticeing how they reuse sets and props. I remember in the thinktank episode in Voyager there was a robot that made beeping noises. I've seen that same prop used loads of times.

I enjoy noticing things like that too. Some of the ten-forward wall tiles were in an episode of Voyager, Ex Post Facto I think. Exact same, just a different colour

downwithpeace

nyarlothothep wrote: »

You know what I cant forget, the borg in Q who, when he takes the thing out of his fallen comrade's chest in engineering he stands up and makes a somewhat self important hmph noise, which I thought wasnt in keeping with the borg being mindless automatons.

I watched that episode the other day and only noticed it then, it was a bit strange.

mr lee

no matter where the enterprise get hit from another ship,sparks always fly out from a console on the bridge,
the transporters always go down when there needed and they always get them back online at a critical moment to save the day,
i still love star trek though and i wish they could bring back data somehow

Cookie_Monster

mr lee wrote: »

i still love star trek though and i wish they could bring back data somehow

they do in the non-canon books. He downloaded himself into whatever that other android they found called himself, One?

He goes on to captain the enterprise after Picard retires.

mr lee

i haven't read any of books so im not sure what you mean by non -canon,do you have any names of the books,i tried looking on amazon for them but i dont what to look for,theres a lot of choices there.

Myrddin

mr lee wrote: »

i haven't read any of books so im not sure what you mean by non -canon

Non canon is fan written/expanded universe material & isn't considered 'official'. A new film/episode can easily overwrite anything written in non canon. Canon is proper, official material.

SarahBM

Data's brother was called B4 - very clever.
I have noticed that Picard gives half his time in every episode to pulling down his uniform top. it always seems to ride up and he is constantly fixing it. you would have think that over the 7 years of the show and in the subsequent films the wardrobe department might have figured out a solution to this problem! - just a thought.