Mr. Castillo!
Please, there is no use for such profanity and lack of common courtesy. You seem to be unwilling, sir, to present your own information, or lack of it, in a professional manner. That is very unfortunate behavior that has now totally ruined the very little credibility that you may have had here.
Yep, if you're deaf, dumb and blind it does prove nothing. ... and I suppose you believe the world is flat as well? lol:lol
When exactly was your lobotomy performed?
Total blind ignorance again. Not unexpected at the Flying Circus. lol:lol
If it was that wide it would be a quarter inch or more, which it clearly is not....a screenshot that I honestly believe shows a Desilu midgrade communicator which has a midplate that extends away from the shell 400% or 500% wider than that in the Wah Chang pieces...
Studio built comms, if they exist or not, prove nothing about yours.... How do you explain that non-Wah Chang midgrade on Shatner's belt which has a very obvious much-too-wide midplate?...
...Desilu may have made comms? but there is no way to prove yours is one of them!...
Mr. Castillo!
Please, there is no use for such profanity and lack of common courtesy. You seem to be unwilling, sir, to present your own information, or lack of it, in a professional manner. That is very unfortunate behavior that has now totally ruined the very little credibility that you may have had here.
Please, sir, stop avoiding these very reasonable questions.
How do you explain that non-Wah Chang midgrade on Shatner's belt which has a very obvious much-too-wide midplate? Do you feel that John Dwyer was totally incorrect when he authenticated my comm after closely examining it side-by-side with his own comm? Are you associated with the creation of HeroComm? Why do you firmly deny it's possible that Desilu made midgrade communicators when they made stunt comms and all the other props and there are clear screenshots showing non-Wah Chang comms in TOS? Please stop ignoring all of these questions but answer them directly.
Please give us your serious, honest analysis of the screenshot evidence:
Very Best,
Gerald
My comments are:
Now, I have no idea if this chap owns a real communicator, or not. He probably does,
I hope he does. I do.
HOWEVER, there is no way on God's Green Earth the two pictures above are of the same prop.
Sorry, you can see what ya want if you look hard enough, but those are two different props.
Ok one more lmao the screen cap comm kirk is holding doesnt have the huge mid plate!
You really can't be seriously saying that the lumps of glue and a blurry screenshot makes a match? Or do you? Truth to be told, there's nothing intriuging about it unless you can provide us with HD version of that particular scene. The only thing I can give you credit is the placement of the velcro.
Interesting insight! That makes me wonder about the info I received from Greg Jein about the layers of different colors of glue to affix seal the black plastic shells to the midplate. He said that was evidence my comm was opened more than once for repairs at Desilu. (I have published Greg's testimony about that for years on my site.) Wonder if they swapped midplates. There is evidence some Wah Chang tricorder control plates were swapped during filming of TOS. As true experts know; that is another complication of verifying TOS pieces - how they swapped components and replaced parts to do repairs. Thanks for that insight!
Very Best,
Gerald
How did Greg know that it was from repairs made at Desilu? Where is the proof? Did Desilu have their own unique glue that only experts can identify? Do you see the problem with your statement?
And the Dwyer authentication does have all those great photos of our props taken together inside his home.
since you feel it acceptable to bring up minute points about special glue with Greg Jeins remarks, why not ask the same level of overly skeptical question for any TOS prop ever sold from the year 2000 onwards without a 1960's letter from Desilu.
Very Best,
Gerald
gbg1701 appears to be using the same method of answering questions I have seen elsewhere on Star Trek threads on this forum and on other Star Trek forums. Any body who asks relevant questions is instantly labeled (i.e. mean-spirited; deaf, dumb and blind; had a lobotomy; ignorant; etc.) and called names (***, jerk, etc.) instead of answering the question at hand.
At the risk of being labeled mean-spirited, I offer this word of the day (by the way, I hate when people use definitions from the dictionary to describe something- so I will do it anyway):
ob·fus·cate
verb (used with object), ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing. 1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
3. to darken.
I hope the moderators are not threatened with legal action to take this very informative thread down.
James