Comments on: “Operation — Annihilate!” Screenshots and Video

By: Ian Watson

Ian Watson — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:05 +0000

#68: Actually, the atmosphere on Mars is a purplish colour, much like you’d see on Earth at higher altitudes. Mostly because Mars has a thinner atmosphere.

IIRC, there’s a theory that any planet with an atmosphere would generate a blue sky, with the exact shade depending on the density of the gases involved.

By: sharon fisher

sharon fisher — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:50:07 +0000

They also sliced it to ribbons. “I’ll rig up some special safety goggles,” McCoy says, and then Spock turns around and walks into the booth with no goggles, without the discussion of “Dude. They don’t have goggles on the planet.”

By: sharon fisher

sharon fisher — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:11:40 +0000

It occurs to me that this episode is a lot like The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein.

It also features major use of one of my favorite pieces of music from Star Trek, the pizzicato bumpbumpbumpBUMPbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpBUMPbumpbumpbump music that they play when they’re walking on the “planet” (which is, as I recall, a college campus in southern California).

By: dan

dan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:21:03 +0000

1:25 I HATE THE NEW CGI stock shot of the E peeling away. They use this one too often for my liking.

By: Greg Stamper

Greg Stamper — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:15:57 +0000

#107 Jorg Sacul – “ok, Greg, I’m going to find some spot where they don’t mow. This means probably traveling back roads and drinking bourbon at every rest stop.”

Everyman needs a hobby.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:22:37 +0000

107

Was it in the original? I never noticed it. Wow.

By: Jorg Sacul

Jorg Sacul — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:08:42 +0000

ok, Greg, I’m going to find some spot where they don’t mow. This means probably traveling back roads and drinking bourbon at every rest stop.

re:106 Kirk NEVER faced death in a “healthy” fashion until Spock died. Even when Edith Keeler died, he was able to run away, back to the future and his job.

re 105 Ben Burtt was the sound editor for Star Wars. Back in 1977, Trek had been cancelled for 8 years, and most people didn’t have hi-fi TVs that played the sound effects with such clarity. He probably was going through his reels of sound effects tape and heard it, and thought, “Hmmm that sounds pretty cool, I’ll layer that in the background noise.” I myself didn’t notice it until I was watching the remastered movie at home, run through good speakers. I did notice it, however, and freak out accordingly. Who knew Obi-wan had a StarFleet shuttlecraft parked in his hut?

By: Wick

Wick — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:34:16 +0000

How come Kirk is in such a good mood at the end of this episode. Sure he has saved the planet and stopped the infection and I am sure this is great for his career. But his brother has died. Is he in denial?

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:32:49 +0000

102 Love identifying set dressing.

Funny. I knew a musician would notice it. All very interesting.

So, Daren, do you have any inside scoop on the shuttlecraft cockpit noise they’ve so distractingly ruined the little intimate scene in Obi Wan’s quarters with? Did you happen to have drinks with the Skywalker Ranch guys and hear how hilarious and clever they think they are? Maybe I’m the only one who’s noticed it. Maybe I’m the only one who’s bothered by it.

By: Greg Stamper

Greg Stamper — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:37:23 +0000

100. Jorg Sacul – “Don’t get me wrong, but are you out of your Vulcan mind??? I’ve been to and through Kentucky dozens of times. The grass is not blue. I’ve looked for blue grass. It is green. My color vision is perfect. It is green.”

It helps to live here otherwise I would not have seen it either – -
“Kentucky Bluegrass, which has green leaves, derives its name from the seed heads which are blue when the plant is allowed to grow to its natural height of two to three feet.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Meadow-grass

Sorry this is all Off Topic – - -