UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek TAS ep11 - The Terratin Incident
Added 2023-07-05 14:25:29 +0000 UTCHere is our full uncut reaction to The Terratin Incident
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TOS (and TASs) Sex Scoreboard No scores due to shrinkage Kirk 12 Chekov 4 Spock 4 Bones 4 Scottie 2 Uhura 1
Prof Moff
2024-12-20 19:59:42 +0000 UTCEasily one of the more creative episodes. It's both amusing and interesting to see the crew portrayed at miniature scale, which they would have been hard pressed to pull off in live action. I kind of laughed my ass off a bit when Chapel fell in the fish tank, but thinking about it, it makes sense she couldn't swim. McCoy said their weight remained the same, so realistically at that size she should have shrunk like a rock. Of course that needle and string shouldn't have been strong enough to pull her out then. At the same time though, while they would be awkward to handle, the crew should have no problem with the weight of the full size controls and tools. 1 person should have been able to casually pull the strings to operate the transporter controls. Biggest WTF was kirk using the phasers to beam the city aboard. I just didn't understand the point of that. Also not sure planting that city in a fertile valley is doing them a favor. Every cat that comes along would be Godzilla.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-05-18 06:22:36 +0000 UTCThey said the size of the terratins had become hereditary, plus there was no prior transporter pattern for the computer to restore them to.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-05-18 05:41:08 +0000 UTCA later show will reveal that Earth indeed sent ships to colonize earthlike planets soon after developing warp drive. But at warp 1 or 2, at the most, these were still journeys that took years (warp 1 is basically lightspeed. So 5 light years travel at warp 1 would take 5 years. The warp scale is logarithmic i think, so each warp factor increases the speed massively, not just linearly. Warp 2 is not twice warp 1, but more like 10 times as fast as warp 2) So only when Starfleet was created and Earth had faster ships that could do warp 5 to 7 they were able to seek out these colonies and figure out why contact was lost with some of them. That will be a plot point in one of the future shows again :)
Andreas Schmitt
2023-07-06 21:05:24 +0000 UTCYeah they said only organic Material is affected. Their Uniforms are made from an orgsnic fibre, the communicator obviously is not
Andreas Schmitt
2023-07-06 20:57:54 +0000 UTCBones WAS actually quite done hehe that'll get addressed soon :)
Andreas Schmitt
2023-07-06 20:55:52 +0000 UTCYou two might want to check out The Incredible Shrinking Man for your next 90 minute film. It's 50s sci-fi. This was creative compared to others, but why didn't the city grow to full size when it was beamed up, all the people inside at least.
Ken R
2023-07-06 07:25:22 +0000 UTCThat was a fun episode. It reminded me of the '50's movie "The Incredible Shrinking Man." A good film with some very creative special effects. You're correct about Star Wars, I remember those years well, every studio was trying to make the next Sci-fi hit. So few worked. π
Gary Leyh
2023-07-06 03:58:45 +0000 UTCAnd don't forget, a few scripts that began as Phase II scripts were adapted to become episodes of The Next Generation!
Joe Concepts
2023-07-06 01:16:51 +0000 UTCYou were talking about Star Wars being responsible for the 1st movie. that's partly right. in the 70's there was an early attempt to do a movie, there was a script written called Planet Of The Titans where The Enterprise would go back in time to ancient Greece & the crew would take on the roles of the ancient gods, Kirk being Zeus. paramount was then planning to launch a new TV network, the Paramount Network & wanted Star Trek to be it's flagship launch program, so the movie was cancelled & a sequel show "Star Trek: Phase II" with sets, costumes & maybe about a dozen scripts written. When A new Hope came out in 77 & was an unexpected huge hit, everyone wanted to jump on the bandwagon. it's why the 1978 Battlestar Galactica was commissioned & paramount was trying to develop their own Star Wars when one exec said "well we do have this thing called Star Trek" Phase II was immediately shelved despite being a few weeks away from beginning to shoot it's 1st episode. The 1st episode script was heavily rewritten & Star trek went back to becoming a movie There are a few pictures & test footage from Phase II. It was mostly going to look like TOS but with a higher budget but most everything was abandoned once the show got cancelled
Retro Tom
2023-07-06 01:08:38 +0000 UTCIn terms of production, there was only one season. They just saved six of them to air the next year.
MntrTodd
2023-07-06 00:13:05 +0000 UTCI think the coloring lies with the remastering (maybe this film was more faded than others and they could not bring all the color back or tweaked it weird.)
Mike Rogers
2023-07-05 20:50:56 +0000 UTCI think you missed the part where Spock made a mini communicator for Kirk before he beamed down. When he went back to normal size, it didn't.
Mike Rogers
2023-07-05 20:41:33 +0000 UTCReally liked this one! Would have been so cool to see it in live action.
Elizabeth N
2023-07-05 19:03:16 +0000 UTCFrom a technical point of view, it was actually possible to do this concept and in fact there was a TV series, Land of the Giants that ran from 1968 - 1970. However, that show was quite expensive to make and most likely only viable because the cost of the giant props etc could be spread out over the whole lifespan of the series. So it likely probably wouldn't have been attempted for a one-off standalone episode.
Dion James Pitman
2023-07-05 15:49:59 +0000 UTCThe way cartoons were done in the Seventies was they'd do a complete first season and then re-run those the next year with a few new ones scattered in, on the theory that "the kids won't notice if it's a rerun."
James H
2023-07-05 14:52:48 +0000 UTC
