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It has been a long while since I saw "The Cage", and at that time I didn�t have my website, so I guess that�s a good excuse for missing this. Have you guys checked out Trek5.com lately? They are posting screencaps from that old TOS-episode, and wow, what cool things! Check THIS out. Spaceprobes, solar stations and so on. Question, a few of the diagrams I recognise from real life, but are all real spaceprogram probes? Can�t be, right?
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One of my favorite scenes, though mostly for the kitsch appeal of a super-advanced civilization sending out ships of exploration whose computers are stuffed mostly with U.S. history textbooks circa 1965.
Anyway, those space images are all real in the sense that I don't think any were created for the show. But they aren't all of craft that were actually built, or built as the drawings show. And some are just textbook illustrations. "This is what a circumpolar orbit looks like. This is what a geosynchronus orbit looks like." And so on.
443 is a real drawing of a Mariner probe. (It says so on the label!) 431 is one of the Ranger luner probes, I believe, or at least a concept drawing thereof. Image. I suspect much of this stuff is the result of either a quick letter to NASA's public affairs department or a dig through the public domain. Or both.
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Oh no! Now all of the Trekkie webmasters have to add the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor to their lists!!!
On the topic of "retro" technology, my favorite was the mechanical rolling clock in "Tomorrow is Yesterday." Or was that "The Naked Time"?
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Surprise! A map of the unexplored continent of Europe (454). The colors seem to denote the population density. 513 is a Nimbus meteorological satellite. 481: This cross-section of the eye looked to me like Ru'afo's ship at the first glance.
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...Which means that the Talosians really should have set some better search parameters when scanning the Enterprise computers.
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