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I'm sure you're aware that Kirk did come back in Generations, since you mention Scotty and Chekov's appearances. He was, in fact, a major part of that particular movie.

Those shots looked bad on CED disc on a 19-inch tube TV, too. Scotty's 'tobacco mouth' in the self-destruct sequence was very distracting!

I wonder if Doohan ever gave an interview discussing his time on Jason of Star Command, which was shot prior to Star Trek: The Motion Picture?

Katherine Leigh Scott was also on 1999, BTW. She had a minor role on the Year Two episode "Dorzak."

True, but they did do that awful clip show in the second season!

Well, if that's why they did it, they definitely made a poor decision, as the initial reviews for that episode trashed it for being a literal re-make/rip-off of an original series episode. "The Last Outpost" or "Where No One Has Gone Before" would have been better alternatives, if they had a...

Oh, I understand why they were made (though TPTB made some serious missteps on "Code"), just don't understand why those are the ones they led off with, unless they were in a similar situation as in the '60s, in that they didn't have many "in the can." As we all probably remember, Bob Justman was...

Yeah, I, too, watched with an open mind and wanted to like it, but "Farpoint" was a bit underwhelming (though not bad), then the very next week, we get a blatant remake, and the very next week, we got "that" episode (which even in 1987 seemed pretty racially insensitive to this teenager). If...

I know I can't be the only one here who wants to point out it did not premiere with a "two-part" episode, but with a two-hour (uninterrupted) movie. The two-part version didn't come about until mid-season repeats.

Well, until roughly sometime between "Heart of Glory" and "The Best of Both Worlds" (and the many failings of "Star Trek V"), the Next Generation actually caused a split in fandom (and in the original cast). I remember many folks supposedly "hated" the thought of any Star Trek that didn't...

That was the reason for my speculation...the theory that perhaps somebody re-did the credits on an episode to correct a vintage error (such as someone's name being misspelled... of left off, or in this case, the name of a character). Granted, it's not likely, but it makes you wonder about the...

Ah. In that case then, yes, I'd say PAL speedup. When you say 'correct for the episode', does this jibe with people's memories from the 1960s and the pre-1978 syndication prints? It's been awhile since I've watched all of the first season, but thought it was fairly consistent in the typography...

It might also be a "fan re-creation." Picking the right "stills", it would be very easy to do. The typeface appears to be standard Helvetica or Arial, not what was used on the actual episodes (Eurostile, I think?). I'm sure they would not have re-built the end credits for the UK release...

My local market was bad for pre-empting the Noon cartoons on Saturdays for wrestling, too. Always ended up being shows I wanted to see, like the early '80s version of Spider-Man.

Yeah, multi-system VCRs were tremendously expensive (especially ones with digital converters in them), so I knew that was a longshot... I guess the only other explanation (that doesn't disprove his statement) would be that the very first batch that was duplicated mistakenly lacked the music...

Any chance your tape was a British (PAL format, CIC Video) one? Music rights are different in the UK than the US, so their copy of the episode might have been 'right' after all? I ask as the artwork you had for 'Mudd's Women' was the UK tape (not the US one).

Notice, too, that this extra is (mistakenly, it seems) wearing the "starship" logo (delta shield), rather than the "starbase" one (like Miss Piper and Mendez).

I think it's highly unlikely this would take place before the second season of Discovery. Moving back and forth in the timeline like that with the same characters would be unnecessarily confusing. I'm sure all of Pike's adventures beginning with his appearance in Discovery will be more or less...

There's also Elizabeth Rogers, who appeared as Lt. Palmer in two episodes: "The Doomsday Machine" and "The Way to Eden." Unlike all the other series regulars, Nichols was never given a contract by the studio. She was considered a "day player." Since she wasn't under contract, she wasn't...

I agree. Now, if somebody proposed bringing Denny Crane out of retirement, I'd certainly be up for that!

The whole 'Franchise Fatigue' thing is different than now, though. When those shows were all on, they were all on for the entire season (20-plus new episodes a season, plus repeats), and from 1993-1999, there were two Trek running concurrently all season long (TNG+DS9, then DSN+VOY, and finally...

There was an Ilia/Scotty/Decker Engineering scene in the Marvel Comics adaptation, which is likely the scene they're talking about (the Marvel comic also contained many other sequences that were left out of the theatrical edition, and many of which were restored in later editions). See this...

I hope they do the same for the physical release of ST: TMP Director's Edition, since TMP, also, had distinctive typography for the alien dialogue, but am I correct in thinking that the "TV division" and the "movie division" are both still separate entitles (CBS vs Paramount), or is everything...

And that is exactly why I have refused to purchase the physical releases for these. I'm sticking with the streaing for those. Good to hear they've done the right thing for season 3. Hope they carry this through with the remaining seasons (as well as the other new shows like Picard and Strange...

So, he's become the Star Trek equivalent of a certain group of Doctor Who fans. And he made a typo (It's "led to believe" not "lead").

I understood. You and I are of similar age (I was in high school in the mid-80s). When my dad got the family a backyard satellite dish for Christmas 1984, I finally got to see a lot of cool TV I had missed out on prior to that. Some of my fave channels were WOR (for all sorts of stuff), CBN and...

Yep, Humes & Berg "Stonelined" cup mutes, probably (I'm a trombonist and have some of those). I also think the two 'bottles' either side on the top row are French Horn mutes.

I haven't made my way to the Season 3 Cushman book yet, but perhaps there weren't a lot of episodes 'in the can' for premiere night? Maybe 'Spectre' and/or "Enterprise Incident' weren't ready yet, and this was the most 'network-pleasing' or 'fan-pleasing' episode ready for air?

the cooked goose?

I loved 'Chaos on the Bridge' (recently watched it a second time). As Shatner once said in an interview, 'Wackydoodle' would've made a great name for the documentary! I was glad that we heard a lot from Hurley in this. I don't recall ever hearing much from him. There was a lot of 'new' info in...