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How hard can it conceivably be? You're in the process of filming an episode, one already infamous for having been written by about a dozen people (a DOZEN people - what, were the million monkeys tied up on that Shakespeare project?). It involves major alterations to the standing sets, lighting rigs, and costumes on a scale that wouldn't be seen again until "Masks" or "All Good Things. . ." - even the changes in the alternate-universe epic "Parallels" would be minor in comparison.
And then they film this scene, the "Everything's back to normal! Yay!" coda. Not counting extras, there are probably about 30 people with their attention focussed on this little exchange of dialogue - Burton, Goldberg, the director, camera operator, focus-puller, script girl, continuity girl (ha!), assorted producers, Christ knows who else, and not one of them thinks "Should those cuffs really be there?" They were probably only held on with a few stitches!
(BTW, the alternate title of this thread is a reference to a long-running bloopers comilation show on British TV - a nice touch, I thought)
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Guinan: (thinks) "Um, am I still in the wrong universe? Ack, headache!!!"
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I think Guinan had a different outfit in the beginning of Yesterday's Enterprise... perhaps something in blue satin?
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Goldberg: Wearing a Fram Oil Filter on your head is one thing, LaVar, but drinking Tranmission Fluid is a whole nother ball game!
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Goldberg Thinking, "Come on LaVar, love me up and turn me into a toad!"
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Burton: Egad, One drink of this and Marina starts looking like Whoopie.
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Goldberg: Come on LaVar, sing it with me:
Its been a long road Getting from there to here Its been a long time But my time is finally near I will seem my dreams come alive at last I will touch the sky And they're no gonna hold me down no more, no they're not gonna change my mind
'Cause I got faith, of the heart I'm going where my heart will take me I got faith to believe that I can do anything I got strength, of the soul And nobody's gonna bend or break me I can reach, any star 'Cause I got faith...faith of the heart.. _____________________________________
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quote:Originally posted by Magnus Pym Eye: What exactly's the matter with this photograph, anyway?
Geordi is wearing the long cuffs and high collar belonging to the alternate Enterprise-D... but this scene takes place after the timeline has been rebooted.
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They shrank due to the extreme space-time distortions in the vicinity of that anomaly.
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Alt-Geordi: Shh. If I stay here long enough, I can get my regular universe citizenship.
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"Well, WELL, Mr. LaForge! I guess the cuffs DO match the collar, eh? Nudgenudge, winkwink!"
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: They shrank due to the extreme space-time distortions in the vicinity of that anomaly.
then why wasn't Guinan's bulbous cranium also shrunk?
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