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From: urban@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Front viewing screen (transparent dome)
Message-ID: <156@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 13:54:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: spp2.156
Posted: Mon Oct  1 13:54:50 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:39:30 EDT
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Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA
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Summary: 

Obviously, someone changed his mind about the bridge/dome between
the time of the first pilot and the regular series.  In particular,
one of the first episodes, "Corbomite Maneuver", begins with
the IDENTICAL establishing footage (Enterprise in space,
zoom close to the bridge...) but simply cuts to the interior:bridge
shot before the "transparent dome" matte would occur.

The original pilot (if I recall the screenings I've seen) also had 
a particularly corny bit of business as the Enterprise is
traveling to Talos IV, in which the theme music plays while
you see the people at the helm doing their thing with a
star-field superimposed.  Since the only complete prints
of "Cage" are in B&W, the whole thing feels very 1960-space-cadetish
when you watch it now.

BTW, KCOP (Ch. 13, LA) is airing nice fresh prints of these early
episodes.  These episodes used interesting camera angles (overhead
shots of people waiting for elevators, moving camera follows behind
Kirk onto bridge) that they never bothered with in the later
episodes.  I guess imagination had to take a back seat to 
budget as time went on, huh?

	Mike