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From: friedman@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Shore Leave; videotapes
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:34:00 EDT
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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

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