Question One (Q1) Lt. V. Desalle says "...credit to navy beans...". Does anyone here know what he is referring to?
Q2 The starship Enterprise is said to have at least three reactors for the impulse engines. Do we know the exact count of reactors, and where they are located?
Q3 Mr. Okuda has stated that a starbase is mentioned in this episode. I believe the starbase is SB 9. I be darned, but I couldn't find a reference to this starbase in the episode. Did he take the information from an unaired segment of the script?
Thank you.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
1) No idea, except that perhaps there is a tradition in the Navy for the crew to gamble on beans when gambling for money is forbidden?
2) In "The Doomsday Machine", a reference was made to a single reactor. No location was ever given, really. But at least "Obsession" seems to confirm that the impulse engines themselves are where later movies show them to be - on the aft rim of the saucer. Here, dialogue establishes that the impulse drive is offline and a valve of some sort is left open to space, and the vampire cloud enters through the said valve; and the VFX shows the cloud entering through the rear of the saucer (IIRC).
3) Phil Farrand's excellent Nitpicker's Guide should help. I'll go and check if the reference was in the syndication cuts somewhere.
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
This double post avoiding feature works well...
[ August 06, 2001: Message edited by: PsyLiam ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Beaten you.
Hmm. It doesn't say exactly, but there is a large section deleted out which features the Enterprise crew trying to find the landing party. It could be in there.
*shudders* I've just remembered what Checkov's hair looked like in this episode.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
The oldest Star Trek continuity fix i ever figured out when i was a kid refers to Catspaw.. it was chekov's first appearance, and the stardate for Catspaw predates the stardate for Space Seed, when Khan supposedly met Chekov (offscreen, and in the bathroom according to some convention attendees in 1988) before he was on the cast
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Well Chekov might of been on the Enterprise, just not as a bridge officer.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Yes. The only evidence we have regarding Chekov first being on the Enterprise is from "I, Mudd", where he implies that he wasn't on the Enterprise during "Mudd's women".
But since Mudd's Women was sometime before "Space Seed", there's plenty of time for him to get assigned.