At least they didn’t have the Romulans singing, to thumb their noses at the Enterprise.
The sound is not propagating through empty space. It’s propagating inside the vessel and can be sensed, just like you can eavesdrop on someone inside a building by reflecting a laser off a windowpane. DUH!
I was fan-wanking something like that. Minute changes in the hull, as when impacted on the inside by sound waves, cause a minute movement which is detectable with sensors that do not exist now.
Uh, right. The Federation, knowing that this is possible, doesn’t build hulls for their ships that preclude that from happening? :dubious:
As the Agony Booth recap points out, you’d think they’d give the two guys already on the planet a call before (trying to) beam them up – what if one of them is in the middle of taking a leak or something? :eek:
Then I think they’d hear the air handlers, the turbo lifts, not to mention the engines, before they could hear someone talking on the bridge.
Plus those “bussard collectors” on the front of the nacelles must shine like Christmas trees in the dark.
Further, if they were close enough to a star for the comet to have a large tail, the ships could just look for each other with telescopes. Nine hours should be enough time to spot them.
Still it is one of my favorite episodes. I just pretend they’re talking quietly because of decorum, or because it’s after 1800 hours, or something.
And I liked it, when Uhura took over for Stiles at navigation, that she turned off her communications console. I don’t know if she had to, but it was a nice touch.
Separate post because it’s a separate episode.
I wanted to mention that I liked in This Side of Paradise, when Kirk was alone on the bridge, they didn’t play the usual background chatter over the bridge. Just machinery noises.
Aha! Computers can compensate for machinery, but not random noises like dropped wrenches and conversation.
I knew I could fan wank this!
^:dubious:^
… Which is why Kirk ordered all nonessential systems shut down while they were waiting for the Romulans to reveal themselves.
They didn’t need to suck in all radiant energy; they just needed to be quiet/dim enough to blend into the cosmic background.
Ye canna change the laws of physics, laddie!
I keep thinking of the scene in The Enemy Below where the U-boat crew puts on a record of “Der Dessauer Marsch” while they’re on the ocean floor.
It would have been great to hear the Romulans do something similar. :oAbout The Enemy Below, according to Wikipedia:
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[li]The 1966 Star Trek episode “Balance of Terror” is closely based on this film, with the USS *Enterprise *cast as the destroyer and the Romulan vessel, using a cloaking device, as the U-boat.[5] It is reported that Gene Roddenberry later paid a fee to the estate of Gary Cooper, who owned the rights to the film.[citation needed][/li][li]The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “Killers of the Deep” was not only based on this movie, it also re-used substantial amounts of footage from it. Also David Hedison (then Al Hedison) who played Lieutenant Ware, the executive officer of the Haynes, played Commander Lee Crane.[/li][/ul]
Trudging along with more of season 3:
Day of the Dove
This one I actually liked. Most memorable – and shocking – scene: Chekov attacking and on the verge of raping Mara. Mr. Cute -and- Cuddly – a rapist!
The Empath
Take some S&M porn, tone it down enough to be acceptable for broadcast, throw in some Biblical allusions and interpretive dancing, and you have this episode. Gah!
The Tholian Web
Fair. The Spock-McCoy antagonism is starting to get pretty tiresome at this point.
Plato’s Stepchildren
More S&M! This time in Greek costume!
Elaan of Troyius
Now we have a dominatrix, who, encountering Kirk’s irresistible masculinity, turns into a submissive.
Wink of an Eye
And the hits just keep on a’coming. Super-speedy aliens want to breed with Kirk, turning him into a docile and short-lived stud muffin.
It’s ironic. Here we have some accelerated aliens while the plot drags its ass for 50 long minutes. Yawn.
That Which Survives
Actually, this one’s not bad. There’s a couple of minor characters who are really pretty interesting – the geologist D’Amato and the helmswoman Rahda. Alas, one gets killed and the other is never seen again.
“I’m Tweedle-Dum, he’s Tweedle-Dee!” GROAN! :smack:
But, hey! At least we get to hear Nimoy sing! 
The same “accelerated” device (this time a mad scientist) was used in an episode of Wild, Wild West, also written and produced by Gene Coon.
Susan “Mara” Howard went on to become Donna Krebs on ***Dallas *** (198 episodes)!
Why does this episode not count as TV’s “first interracial kiss”? :dubious: 
That’s a very good ep. As I’ve said before, I love the moment Scotty says “It’s stuck!”…the teeeeny bit of crushed look on Spock’s face, brilliant acting. Doohan’s great acting also. Kirk is in fine snappy asshole form. I love it.
Also, as with other TOS eps, the sci-fi isn’t spoon fed. It’s just…there.
That Which Survives is one of my favorites. The way Losira disappears, accompanied by the spooky music cue, still gets me after all these years.
Plus, Scotty’s whole sequence, and that Spock actually trusted that his “feeling” was worth looking into. We needed more Rhada, though. I’m impressed she could be that accurate in her “1000 light years” comment just from glancing at the view screen. She must know her stars!
It’s funny when you think about it - if Losira-on-the-ship hadn’t damaged the engines in such a way that they were screaming along at Warp 14, the Enterprise would never have got back in time to save the three from Losiras-on-the-planet. The computer really wasn’t all that good an AI. Or maybe, #RealLosira’s personality prevented it from being truly evil.
I still feel sad for her people. Killed themselves off and probably never even knew what happened. Dead and gone, all these centuries. With the lonely planet, still functioning, maintaining, protecting, waiting for people who will never return. Just like the Krell world.
This is one of the few shows where Kirk undisputedly gets laid. Others can be fan-wanked to have him semi-chaste, but not this one.
Has any geeky types tried to estimate, via the very slow motion phaser beam, just how speeded up they would have to be? OK, I’ll bite…
The speed of light (this assumes phasers shoot particles at said velocity, some doubt on that here and there), is very close to 1 billion feet per second. I’d estimate (liberally) that the beam was moving at only 1 foot per second, which means Deela’s reality has been speeded up by a factor of (at least) 1 billion.
But, if that were the case, one normal time second would equate to 31 years! She, and Kirk (and Spock, and anyone else in said high speed realm) would age almost 100 years in 3 real-time seconds, according to my figures (32 million seconds in a year, divided into 982 million).
You know, even though neither got it “right”, the Wild Wild West version had better science!
In that version, if the accelerated person stood still long enough, the “normal” people could see him. And not only was the air friction problem mentioned (as opposed to ignored completely on ST), it was a plot point in dealing with the threat of speedy folk.