Comments on: The Squire of Gothos Screenshots and Video

By: blu-ray/hd-dvd... who is winning? - Page 62 - MacNN Forums

blu-ray/hd-dvd... who is winning? - Page 62 - MacNN Forums — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:26:42 +0000

[...] Meh. Some of the CG is good, some is OK, and some of it just looks like they changed things for no good reason. I really dislike the fact that the rear view on Squire of Gothos now has the back parts of the ship in the way. I am also disappointed by the new tricoder screen. It’s lost some of its charm. [...]

By: OR Coast Trekkie

OR Coast Trekkie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:32:42 +0000

Ok, my job took me away for 2 weeks, and I don’t have a laptop.

Overall, good job. Still, I wish they could redo phasers. Other than that, great stuff.

Although I liked the moving planet, I think an exterior shot would’ve been really cool to see.

By: Dr. Cheis

Dr. Cheis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:26:34 +0000

And was it my imagination, or did the glowy splotches of light that were the Squire’s parents look improved upon, almost as if they now had moving mouths as they spoke?

By: Dr. Cheis

Dr. Cheis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:29:27 +0000

I wish they could have used CG effects to prevent Kirk and Sulu from wobbling while “frozen.” Oh well…

By: Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile

Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:15:48 +0000

35. By “pin”, I meant “pin down”.

By: Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile

Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:13:39 +0000

34. Uhura has just asked Kirk if she should make a full report to “Spacefleet” Command. This implies that the producers still did not pin the name of the organization to which the Enterprise and her crew belonged. Of course, internal to the show, we can argue that Uhura was so frightened she misspoke the name of Starfleet.

And Kirk says “their” solar system probably because of slopping writing, but internally to the show, we can argue that he is tripping over his words.

By: Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile

Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:05:14 +0000

13, 17. A little after Kirk shoots Trelane’s machine and the bridge crew escape back to the Enterprise, Kirk takes an educated guess that Trelane’s range at tracing their subspace beam to “Spacefleet” Command is at the point the Enterprise entered “their” solar system. This guess implies that Gothos has a sun to create the day and night sides on the planet.

By: Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile

Trek-Inspired Astrophysicophile — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:18:16 +0000

14, 15. Actually, after Jaeger makes his guess and Trelane acknowledges the guess, Kirk says the squire has been looking in on the doings nine hundred years past. Since he lives in a society that routinely uses instruments which collect subspace radiation, I am surprised that he assumes that the viewing scope collected electromagnetic radiation. I guess he was so angry at Trelane he simplified the time differential.

By: Ozy

Ozy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:43:04 +0000

They reuse a same planet from episode ”A Piece of the action” ( and the same scene ). I don’t like that.
The Gothos looks great.

By: ZtoA

ZtoA — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:39:55 +0000

I too was curious about the closing shot of the blue planet. I Think the last shot pays homage to the infallable filemaker system touted by the TOSR producer mentioned in another thread on this board. (wink-wink) I bet there’s a statement and a correction made to future episodes much like the fix they made to Mirror-Mirror.