Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Shore Leave; videotapes Message-ID: <24900108@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900108 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:34:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:39:04 EDT Lines: 59 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcs:24900108:000:3112 Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!friedman Aug 14 09:34:00 1985 I bought a tape of "Shore Leave", and watching it last night, noted a couple of things that have been discussed recently on the net. 1) The trivia question was asked recently, in what episode was the E. shown orbiting "backwards", i.e., right to left (on the TV screen) instead of left to right? The episode I thought of at the time was "Mirror, Mirror", in which the orbital direction seems to reverse just as the landing party beams into the alternate universe. But "Shore Leave" consistently shows the E. orbiting right to left around the amusement park world. 2) There was some discussion about Angela having been hurt by the strafing airplane, and not being "repaired" as McCoy was. Some people said they saw her in the final scene on the planet, with the alien who ran the park, and others did not. On the tape, she is missing at first from that scene, while Kirk has everyone standing at attention and concentrating on not thinking; but later, she is shown in Esteban's arms, just before the shot of Spock disengaging himself from the chorus girl. It's a very brief shot, easy to miss, easy for a station to cut. Seems to me to be a breakdown in scene continuity; one would expect her to be either present or absent from the entire scene. 3) Speaking of breakdowns in scene continuity, has anyone ever noticed that Yeoman Barrows' tunic, very badly torn before she changes into that princess outfit, is intact again when she changes back, just before the above-mentioned scene? There's no logical way she could have gotten a new one; there is still no communication or transporter contact with the ship. These tapes of the TV episodes are indeed of excellent quality. They are SO complete, they even have the next-week preview at the end. $15 per episode ($30 for the double episode "Menagerie" on one tape) seems to me to be a fair price, as videotapes go, but adds up to a lot of $ if you set out to buy them all. Pesonally, I intend to get copies of the episodes I like best, and depend on the tapes I make off the air for the rest (the local station here doesn't cut TOO badly). There seem to be about 20 episodes available on tape so far (counting the 2-part "Menagerie" as one). They appear to be numbered in the order they were originally filmed, beginning with "Where No Man Has Gone Before" as #2 ("The Cage" would be #1, of course, and is not available, at least so far; I don't suppose it will be). The latest one I've seen so far is #22, "Return of the Archons" (I'm not certain whether there are any gaps in the sequence). It appears that Paramount is quietly adding more and more episodes. Incidentally, the numbering appears to be the same as that used by Alan Asherman in his "Star Trek Compendium", published by Wallaby in 1981. H. George Friedman, Jr. Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 West Springfield Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 USENET: ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4,convex}!uiucdcs!friedman CSNET: friedman%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa ARPA: friedman@uiuc.arpa