So I’m sitting at home today doing some work on my laptop and feeling decadent because I have the TV on as well. I decide to flip through the channels.
Home Shopping. click Infomercial. click Pat Robertson. click Same infomercial, different channel. click Poker. click Baseball. click Golf. click Infomercial. click Star Trek.
Win! Classic Trek! And it’s "Tomorrow is Yesterday", a good one. The Enterprise is thrown back in time to the 1960s, and they accidentally beam aboard an Air Force pilot, and antics ensue.
At the end, to get back to the future, they have to warp to the Sun, use its "magnetic field" to pull them in, and then that will somehow throw them first back in time a little way, and then forward back to their present.
OK.
So I’m watching, and I realize that this is one of the upgraded, refurbished Treks. They digitally remastered and cleaned up the old films, and added new computerized effects. Sometimes it’s good, and sometimes it’s not so good. In this episode, I got a chuckle out of seeing that they used special effects to make the ship’s chronometer be more digital looking, instead of the silly rotating tumblers they used to have back in the 1960s.
But then there was a "what-the-heck?" moment. As they warp past the Sun, they used a lot of the new effects, which looked OK. You see the Enterprise approach the Sun, and then move off to the right side of the Sun as it starts to warp around. The ship banks left, to port.
Now, I can forgive the idea that you don’t need to bank in space (no air, so nothing to bank against). I’m used to it. Plus, they had to put it in: in the original footage, we see the crew suddenly lean to one side when Sulu throws the switch.
But there was one thing the effects guys maybe should have thought through first. We see the ship banking to the left, to port, since it’s on the right side of the Sun. But in the original footage, everybody leans toward port!
Oops. If they bank to port, the crew would lean to the right, to starboard. Remember now, in 2006 someone went in and added that warp effect. And they screwed it up: the ship should have gone to the left side of the Sun, and the ship should have banked to starboard. Then the crew leaning to port would make sense.
I know, there are a million other things to nitpick on the show, but I give the original show a pass on a lot of them. In this case, some computer guys put the new effects long after the fact. They should have paid attention! They should be stripped of their Trek geek badges, too.
But it was still cool to see the old shows all spiffied up and pretty. Kirk rocks.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Yep. I’m taking a college course on Star Trek (How cool is that?) and we talked all about the CGI upgrade. I wasn’t aware it had happened either until I saw the new DVD release.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I bet they never considered that the tumblers were actually an intentional fashion choice by the Enterprise’s shipbuilders, kind of like sportscar makers opting for analog dials rather than digital readouts.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
So in the original, the crew were leaning toward the sun, yes? Leaning against the resultant vector which would be out the starboard side. That would mean a powered turn to port at greater than the local orbital velocity.
So entirely consistent with the script, untill the touch up gang arrive.
Nice.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
They have to lean that way to get the ship to roll properly.
Besides, they can’t go around on the left side of the sun, that would send them further into the past.
May 13th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
In that picture it shows the sun as yellow… is the sun not actually white, with not so much as a yellow tinge?
I’ve often wondered why people always depict the sun as yellow.
May 13th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Good catch.
I remember that episode. Star Trek used to drive me nuts. If I remember correctly, they accelerated to about warp 9, which meant about 27 times the speed of light, (or some big number anyways). Going that fast they should have zipped past the sun in about 10 seconds but it took them a way long time.
Oh my God, I’m a geek!
(But dang it, it’s true!)
May 13th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I forgot to add- this is the one where the crew suddenly leans to one side, but Shatner missed his cue. You can actually see that he notices Sulu leaning, so he suddenly leans as well.
May 13th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Heh - I saw that episode too, one of the very few I’ve watched in years. Caught the new dial, but didn’t catch the incorrect veering of the ship. I must admit that even without that faux pas, the new swing around the sun “effect” was pretty lame.
Sure they can’t go too whizz-bang with the new effects since it would jar terribly with the rest of the show’s dated look, but it’s still hard to see such lame effects when you know how much better today’s technology can do, even on a limited budget.
And yes, I did chuckle at the way the inertial dampeners never manage to quite cancel out all the acceleration–they handle about 99.9999999999% of the forces involved at superluminal speed but always leave just enough left over to make things a little uncomfortable for the crew
P.S. FYI: The Red Dwarf producers went back and retrofitted some new special effects for a couple of the early series also.
May 13th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
And yes, I did chuckle at the way the inertial dampeners never manage to quite cancel out all the acceleration–they handle about 99.9999999999% of the forces involved at superluminal speed but always leave just enough left over to make things a little uncomfortable for the crew
-That’s so the crew do not get travel sick, just like the tilting trains. If it was steady as a rock, they would be barfing all over!
P.S. FYI: The Red Dwarf producers went back and retrofitted some new special effects for a couple of the early series also.
-Yes, and it looks rubbish. The original model shots were of such high quality, and the new CGI was so cheap and nasty. Bad! Leave well alone!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
This whole thing hits a sore spot with me. I had went off on the whole updated fx for TOS on a visual FX board a while back-my personal feeling is that the updates are pretty unnecessary, wether the old effects seem “dated†or not. The point of Star Trek was not flashy effects, but story and characters.
May 13th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
This particular episode was one of my favourites, I actually got it on VHS somewhere but I don’t have a VCR :-).
What I have read about the updated episodes is that they would leave “artistic” choices intact and only update the look of the VFX.
I don’t mind that the VFX are touched up, it makes the episodes look the way I remember them and the crappyness of the old VFX no longer distract from the story.
I didn’t think the episodes with updated VFX had been released on DVD yet?
May 13th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Maybe the unexplained artificial gravity is on the fritz…
May 13th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Sorrry suh, It’s an effect of the inertial dampers, yeah it tends to over correct sometimes (sort of like me accent). (Scotty out)
May 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
May fave Star Treck observation (forgive me if this has already been noted) — The ENGINES can be out, the ELECTRICITY can be out, and they can even be running out of AIR, but by golly, that ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY will still be solid as a rock! (Insert standard geek apology/acknowledgement here.)
May 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Oops please forgive TRECK typo in previous message.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
What about the fact that you can HEAR the USS Enterprise when it goes into warp drive? That’s always bugged me, but, in TNG at least, it makes for a rousing intro.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
And by going at 27 times light speed wouldn’t they travel back in time without the Sun anyway?
May 13th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Wait a second, guys.
I haven’t seen the episode, but from the description it sounds like the Enterprise approaches the Sun, aiming slightly to the right, then banks left and engages warp drive to go around the Sun in a tight circle to the left. Correct?
If so, I have to disagree with Phil’s analysis.
Consider the following:
1. If the crew hadn’t engaged warp drive, but had merely coasted, their path would have been gently deflected to the left by the Sun’s gravity, but they would have been in zero g the whole time (plus whatever artificial gravity it is that they use to create the 1 g that they always seem to enjoy on board the ship). Banking wouldn’t have made any difference.
2. To follow a tighter path around the Sun, they would have needed to point the Enterprise in toward the Sun before engaging the drive. In effect, they would be trying to orbit the Sun, but at a higher speed than the natural orbital speed for that radius. Since a = v²/r, they would need to point the Enterprise in radially and fire the engines to get the necessary additional centripetal acceleration to keep them on the desired path. With the ship pointed radially inward, banking wouldn’t have made any difference here, either.
3. Because the additional acceleration provided by the engines would be directed in toward the Sun, the crew would be pushed toward the back of the ship. They would have to lean forward to prevent themselves from toppling over backward.
4. Now suppose that the engines’ thrust could be vectored without changing the orientation of the ship (I don’t think this was true of the Enterprise because it always seemed to accelerate along its longitudinal axis). With thrust vectoring, their best move (for human comfort) would be to bank to the left until the ship was parallel with the Sun’s surface, and then apply vectored thrust radially inward toward the Sun. That way the G forces would pull them straight down into their seats.
5. If they didn’t bank far enough to the left, but still applied centripetal thrust, then they would be pulled to the outside of the curve, meaning that they would need to lean left to keep themselves from toppling over to the right. Leaning to the left is the correct move in this scenario (though one would wonder why they weren’t smart enough to bank the rest of the way until their “horizon” was parallel with the Sun’s surface).
6. A spaceship will roll around its center of gravity. I have no idea how heavy various portions of the Enterprise are supposed to be, but my intuition sees the flight deck as being “above” the longitudinal axis through the center of gravity. If so, and if the banking were done abruptly, then there would be a noticeable transverse force on the crew members when the banking was initiated and a noticeable transverse force when it was stopped after reaching the final bank angle (assuming it was stopped as abruptly as it was initiated).
Since the roll was to the left, the initial force would have pulled them to the right, so they would have had to lean to the left to stay upright. When the roll was stopped, their inertia would have pulled them to the left, so they would have had to lean to the right to remain upright.
7. In any case, until they applied warp, they were in zero g (plus their local artificial gravity), so if they had been smart, they would have slowly banked ahead of time to the correct angle and then applied warp radially in toward the Sun using the vectored thrust that they didn’t have.
Conclusions: Banking wouldn’t have made sense at all without vectored thrust. With vectored thrust, banking would have made sense, but there wouldn’t have been any need to lean at all if they had done it right. Assuming that they banked to the left, but not far enough (i.e. not parallel with the Sun’s surface), and ignoring the fact that the maneuver would have required vectored thrust, the computer effects guys actually got it right.
Sorry for the length of the comment, but I have a feeling this thread is about to spawn a physics war and I wanted to dot my i’s and cross my t’s before the battle erupts.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:15 am
BA wrote: “I forgot to add- this is the one where the crew suddenly leans to one side, but Shatner missed his cue. You can actually see that he notices Sulu leaning, so he suddenly leans as well.”
Maybe this actually illustrates Shatner’s profound understanding of relativity. He probably figured that the ship is moving at warp speed and accelerating, so the distance between Kirk and Sulu, though appearing as only 10 feet is stretched through space-time hence the delayed reaction to gravity. We as observers notice this while they both see it simultaneously…well…sort of…not really
May 14th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Yeah, but we’re so much more safety-conscious now than in the sixties. Starfleet Regulation AG+/5757025F states that the bridge has to face backwards to limit injury in the case of a collision.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Just for the record, warp 9 is 729 times the speed of light (on the TOS scale, TNG warp 9 is MUCH faster). The Constitution class I bridge was actually offset by 36 degrees to the left, so that should affect the way the crew gets thrown about too.
For I am Robo, lord of all geeks - may all lesser geeks bow down to me!
:-p
May 14th, 2007 at 3:44 am
In that picture it shows the sun as yellow… is the sun not actually white, with not so much as a yellow tinge?
I’ve often wondered why people always depict the sun as yellow.
Actually, are sun is indeed a yellow star. Atmospheric effects do amplify this a bit, but they aren’t the whole story. Go look up some pictures of it from space to see how it looks devoid of atmospheric interference; still yellow. (Not sure the best place to find them; sorry.)
Just for the record, warp 9 is 729 times the speed of light (on the TOS scale, TNG warp 9 is MUCH faster).
Not that much faster, actually. The TOS scale translates the speed as v = c * w^3 (where w is the warp factor and c is the speed of light), while the TNG system translates it as v = c * w^(10/3) for 1
May 14th, 2007 at 4:16 am
I noticed the tumbler replacement, that was the only “improvement” that stuck out as silly in this episode. Overall, the CGI insertions have been pretty tasteful and restrained, they definitely haven’t been “Lucased”. It’s enhanced my enjoyment of rewatching TOS, because it’s fun to watch for and identify the edits. (I guess the really trekky could make a competition of it, get a bunch of you together to watch it with note pads, keep track of the inserts, see who correctly identifies the most additions.) I’m lucky, I have four local stations that play the new TOS episodes on Saturday night, plus TVLand has the untweaked TOS episodes at oh-dark-early weekday mornings. Add to that daily doses of TNG and Voyager on SpikeTV, practically Trek nirvana…
May 14th, 2007 at 4:23 am
The updated “Doomsday Machine” was pretty good. Also, in “The Paradise Syndrome” the asteroid rotated.
I had mixed feelings when I heard about the update, but watching the old stories with an occasional surprise has been fun.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Keiths: I was thinking along those lines too. Good post:).
DennyMo: I agree. When I first heard about this I was indeed expecting a “Lucasization” of the episodes. ei, modern CGI work and a complete re-editting and digital touchup of the episode footage. The first episode I watched was the Doomsday Machine, and I was iffy on it. Because I had been expecting modern day graphics, I was a little disappointed. But at the same time, the new “old style” CGI work fit in well with the overall oldschool style of the episodes. It worked well. Definately not over done.
May 14th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Fixing the scratches and actual faults is all it needed . The show is 40 years old, it SHOULD look dated.
May 14th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Keith, in his paragraph 4, gets at the point I want to make. We’re supposed to understand the Enterprise is turning by employing the visual metaphor of an airplane. Airplanes turn by coordinated input of rudder to yaw the nose left or right, and aileron to roll the wings so part of the plane’s lift is pulling you in the desired direction (Keith’s vectored thrust). In a coordinated turn the only force you feel is parallel with the vertical axis of the plane, which pushes you apparently down into your seat. You feel an increase in G force. If this were true in the show, no one would lean either way.
You can, though, make a sloppy turn by rudder or aileron only. These are called skidding or slipping turns respectively. In a skidding turn the nose is pushed left or right with the rudder and you feel yourself thrown to the opposite direction, as if you were in a car. In a slipping turn you bank the wings, but without the rudder input you lean downward to the same side you are turning towards.
So the Enterprise banks, but folks are thrown inward towards the turn. This would indicate not enough rudder. As Keith said, where’s the rudder?? Maybe Sulu has pedals under the console. More rudder, Mr. Sulu!
May 14th, 2007 at 6:14 am
“Now, I can forgive the idea that you don’t need to bank in space (no air, so nothing to bank against).”
My favourite version of this sci-fi error is in the most recent Star Wars fiasco, when the little droids that fasten on to Obi-Wan’s spaceship get blown off the wings by non-existent air resistance. The physics in that film were truly awful. And the script. And the acting. Anyway, I digress.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:59 am
>>> I’ve often wondered why people always depict the sun as yellow.
Probably because when most people notice the sun directly (ie, they can look at it without going blind), it’s on the horizon, and very yellow.
>>> The point of Star Trek was not flashy effects, but story and characters.
Which is the reason I *like* the upgrades. They aren’t flashy. Just little improvements here and there. I can even imagine the original effects being that good if ST had had a real budget. Remember, 2001 was created around the same time. They could do decent effects then with sufficient cash.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Personally I can’t stand the updated version.
The new bits just don’t fit with the old film.
It’s like when a sitcom shot on video goes outside and it’s suddenly shot on film. It’s fairly distracting.
Maybe if they ran the new bits through a filter to blur it and add film scratches.
As for the science, TOS is fantasy, not Science Fiction. In a rational universe Kirk would have been jailed as a sex offender for having sex outside his species. Like bestiality squared.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:12 am
In the British Sci-Fi show Hyperdrive, the crew is required to watch a work safety video about the perils of having sex outside your own species every time they visit a new planet.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:06 am
As for Hyperdrive…. I say, bring back Red Dwarf!
May 14th, 2007 at 9:31 am
To be completely honest, I only ever saw one episode of Hyperdrive yesterday on a plane, while being over-tired, jet-lagged, half asleep and generally uncomfortable in monkey-class with 5 hours yet to go. It might have seemed funnier to me than it actually was.
My wife did not appreciate being woken up because I recognised Nick Frost from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead and just had to tell someone.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Years ago, I attended a public-outreach event sponsored by NASA to hype the soon-to-be-launched Space Shuttle. The host/presenter was none other than James Doohan, and the end-of-show question-and-answer session digressed to the inevitible Star Trek stuff.
(Admitttedly, I was there as 51% Star Trek fan and 49% space exploration fan, myself.)
Mr. Doohan was gracious and charming when speaking about the show, the stories, the upcoming movie, and all things Trek–with one exception: when anyone would ask about technical details of starship design and operations, his only answer was, “picky, picky, picky!”
The point, as I understood it, was to keep our focus on what he thought of as the important elements of the show: the story and the characters.
Even Gene Roddenberry was known to occasionally refer to the warp engines as the ‘gobbledygook drive.”
So, although Keith S.’s long treatise (above) is knowledgeable, precise and detailed, it is fundamentally flawed: the Enterprise was not operating in Einsteinian space using her impulse engines, she was operating within a bubble of subspace (whereverthehell THAT is) created by the warp engines. A Newtonian analysis of warp locomation might be likened to running one of Robert Frost’s poems through a gas chromatograph. You get information back, but the answer and the question have nothing to do with each other.
At this point, the best answer to the “which way does the crew lean over” question beccomes something like: “well, the interaction of the doubletalk dampeners has to take into account the pseudovector of the Sun’s subspace mass–but not it’s real mass–when the Cochrane generator is inverted.”
Pure doubletalk.
I suppose the doubletalk also has to take into acccount that the Enterprise didn’t appear to slingshot around the sun, but rather to get reeeeal close, then abruptly veer away. That bugged me even when I was a kid, watching the first-run shows.
–Jeff
P.S.: my favorite Doohan quote: someone asked which episode was Doohan’s favorite, and he rambled for a while about several episodes wherein Scotty was featured. The followup question was, “which episode is the worst?”
“That’s easy, laddie. The Space Hippies!”
May 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am
oh, no. yet another icon of my childhood molested by cgi porn. Gee,why don’t we add nifty keeno effects to every movie and tv series that suggests something that wasn’t possible to depict literally without a really huge budget? Like the entire Twilight Zone series. Or maybe try to find some cheesy cgi way to depict the merging of two beings in Bergman’s classic “Persona?”
It will be a miracle if we manage to continue passing on the ability to imagine to our descedents at this rate.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:32 am
I love Trek in all its incarnations, but like Phil I can’t help nit-picking at the show whenever I see something that compromises accuracy for plot. I can forgive the “whoosh” sound of the various spaceships and put it down to dramatic effect - well, everybody does it now don’t they?
However, I really winced when I saw an episode of Enterprise (can’t remember which) when the crew - inside their ship - apparently heard the sound of another ship “pulling up” alongside! That was going too far - to have an impossible sound as a crucial plot point was a gaffe too far in my book. It’s bad enough having to come to terms with the crew of Voyager 50,000 light years from home bumping in to somebody they just happen to know… to have it happen once is bad enough, but over and over again?
Small universe, isn’t it?
May 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Ack! Not the space hippies…I’m a part-time musician, and I often use the song from that episode when I think it’ll fly. You remember:
(E minor)
Headin’ out to Eden, hey, brother
Headin’ out to Eden, no more troubles in my body or my mind.
Gonna live like a king on whatever I find.
Eat all the fruit, and throw away the rind.
Hey, hey, brother.
Follow it up with MPFC’s “Galaxy Song” and you’re good to go!
Cheers.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I guess where I’m unsure is whether you’re characterizing the leaning as a physiological response from the crew to counter a sudden new force, or whether the sudden new force is actually pushing them over regardless of the human’s response…
May 14th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I’m also a musician, and a bit of a poet. After hearing Shatner’s nauseating rendition of “Lucy in the Sky” I wrote my own version:
“Picture yourself going warp factor seven
Through starfields and wormholes in inky black skies,
Suddenly something appears on the viewscreen,
‘RESISTANCE IS FUTILE’ it cries…”
You get the idea.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
“Lucy in the Sky” continued… Nerd version
“Wish I was with Seven of Nine”
“Wish I was with Seven of Nine”
“Wish I was with Seven of Nine”
Ah… Ah…
May 14th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
As I recall, when this episode was made, the stock footage of Air Force fighter jets used to depict Captain Christopher’s plane showed at least four different types in use at the time. About ten years ago, Channel 7 here showed a cleaned-up version that replaced much of the stock footage of different aircraft with footage of only F-104 Starfighters, the logical choice for checking out an unidentified “bogey” at high altitiude. I didn’t watch the whole episode at the time, but I had the feeling that this was the only aspect (apart from the scratches) that was fixed up.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Dang, I wish I had seen this post earlier; I can’t imagine that anyone would read a comment added this late. Anyhow, have you ever wondered what would have happened if they had made a fourth season of the original Star Trek series? Well, a bunch of fans did wonder, and they did more than that; they recreated the sets and began filming a fourth season, with themselves playing Kirk, Spock, and so on.
http://www.newvoyages.com
They did an astounding job of it too. Quite a few people involved with the series have contributed; the guy who did the CGI for Enterprise basically gave them a million dollars worth of special effects for free, DC Fontana wrote an episode, and both Walter Koenig and George Takei have guest-starred in episodes (Takei’s is in post-production now). In fact, every episode has included actors who took part in the original series.
Evolving Squid and Infophile: The sun’s peak energy is actually at a greenish frequency, but our eyes don’t see green as well as they see yellow, so the yellow light we receive from it tends to look a little brighter than the green. If our eyes were equally sensitive across the whole visual spectrum, then the sun would look green.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
To JB of Brisbane: You might not be aware of this, but all the Star Trek original series episodes are currently being released in remastered versions, where the old inferior VFX and some music have been enhanced. I don’t believe they have been shown on Australian TV and neither have they been released on DVD.I’m not a "fundamentalist" so I don’t mind the touch ups. I rented a the first season on DVD, without the enhancements, when it was first released and was completely turned off by the primitive VFX, it took me out of the story. I have not "grown up" with the originals, I only saw them once back in the seventies where my youthful mind and general quality of VFX were not that advanced. So I welcome the remastered episodes.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
One point contrary to what has been stated previously, sound can be heard in space under very special circumstances. If propellant is being emitted from a spacecraft and it hits another spacecraft (naturally with pressurized air inside) the sound of the opposing spacecraft racing away would be heard. Now would (Picard’s) Enterprise entering warp drive make a sound to the hypothetical camera that the fans watch from and what would it be like? It most likely is completely different and overblown. No doubt it is a subtle effect and not to Hollywood’s liking at all.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Jeff Fite wrote:
A Newtonian analysis of warp locomation might be likened to running one of Robert Frost’s poems through a gas chromatograph.
Jeff,
You philistine! A chromatograph is the wrong instrument for the job, as L. Ron Hubbard could have told you You need a Koenig photometer:
“In one of his [L. Ron Hubbard’s] first pioneering experiments on the subject, he employed a sound wave measuring device called a “Koenig photometer.†Two students read poetry from extremely different languages — Japanese and English — into the device. He found that the device identified the speech as poetry regardless of language. When haiku was read in the original Japanese, the wavelengths produced by the Koenig photometer were the same as those produced when English verse was read.
Here, then, he concluded, was scientific evidence that people were not so different as he had been led to believe, that there was indeed a meeting ground, and all minds did in fact respond identically to the same stimuli.”
May 15th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Hey, Keith, I’m confused: where, in the reciting of poetry, did “Elron” think photons were involved?
Maybe what we need is an oscillation overthruster?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Jeff Fite Says: “I’m confused: where, in the reciting of poetry, did “Elron†think photons were involved?”
Maybe it was Vogon poetry, and they imploded.
- Jack
May 15th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Jeff,
Here’s an artist’s depiction of the historic experiment:
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/l-ron-hubbard/founder/pg012.html
Regarding your question about the involvement of photons with poetry: my obnosis is that the photometer, by enturbulating the verse with the stream of photons, deaberrates it and unmocks its randomity.
http://www.scientology.org/gloss.htm
May 16th, 2007 at 8:04 am
GEEZ !! in phil’s last video he said keep sending questions he loves to help, well here is a classic example of the jackass..
if he can sit there and flip thru tv how come he can’t answer the questions we DO send in? 7 times i’ve sent it and the jackass doesn’t answer.
loosing my faith in you Phil !
May 16th, 2007 at 8:08 am
YEAH! SAME HERE MARCIE!!
NOW THAT HE QUIT HIS AWESOME JOB LIKE A DORK TO TYPE ALL DAY HE GOES NUMNUTS ON US!
ALL THAT SCHOOLING AND TRAINING AND WORKING WITH HUBBLE ETC JUST TYPE A BOOK ?
WHAT A W-A-S-T-E OF A GOOD CAREER !
May 16th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Marcie is stirring up trouble, I have faith in you phil!
May 16th, 2007 at 11:14 am
“…Kirk rocks.”
Why, thank you! );)
May 17th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Two things bugged me about “Tomorrow is Yesterday.†First, just as in “The Naked Time,†the clock numbers sloooowed down to indicate that time was slowing down – as if clocks measure time, rather than just keep regular intervals. What, the crew wasn’t affected by this phenomenon? Second, Spock announces that, while Christopher himself doesn’t do any history-making acts, his son will lead the first manned expedition to Saturn. Christopher’s reaction to such an astounding feat? “A son! I’m going to have a son!â€
“Nitpicker’s Guide to Star Trek†probably has a lot more.
Bradley547: I’m pretty sure that by the 23rd century, rishathra will be legal.
Elwood Herring: Love the lyrics!
I’ve caught only a few of the remastered episodes, but what I’ve seen, I like. It blends in. Now, if they insert Jadzia Dax and Benjamin Sisko into “The Trouble With Tribbles,†I don’t know whether to be annoyed or impressed.