I have a couple thoughts on Continues... It is very well done. And because of that, I'd love to see them tackle the animated episodes, using the longer versions of the stories in Alan Dean Foster's "Star Trek Log" series to work from. There were some good stories in there, hampered by a 20-minute run time and the 1970s. I could care less what Gene said about their "official" standing in later years. He liked them at the time, they were solid for their day, there's good Trek in there, many of the authors and other production staff carried over from TOS, and Gene had been largely absent from TOS for the third season, anyway. The only episode I'd say should be omitted would be "The Slaver Weapon" because it has too much from Niven's "Known Space" setting.
Because the five-year mission was completed. Rack up the stardates (how production staff originally treated them, not the b.s. non-explanation Gene pulled out of thin air at a convention, rather than just acknowledge that the episodes were aired out of order and a few goofs occurred). "Mudd's Women" is within the same month as "Where No Man...", just over a year after Kirk took command of the Enterprise. They add up over the three live and two animated seasons to a little over six years in command of the Enterprise. Little continuity problem with the films, though, as The Powers That Be had changed their minds about how stardates work (or rather, they'd abandoned the old way and not replaced it with anything other than "it should be higher than the last one we saw").
Oh, and the environment-simulation rec room in TAS isn't a holodeck, per se. The lighting and environmental settings change to suit what's being projected on the walls, but it's nowhere near as immersive as in TNG.
I am seriously liking how they're not directly tacking random episodes on set after "Turnabout Intruder" so much as adding flavor to existing original episodes by showing the aftermath -- something that was anathema to the model of syndicated television. I think of all the people tackling Trek right now, these guys "get it" more than most -- certainly more than the current rights-holders.
--Jonah
Because the five-year mission was completed. Rack up the stardates (how production staff originally treated them, not the b.s. non-explanation Gene pulled out of thin air at a convention, rather than just acknowledge that the episodes were aired out of order and a few goofs occurred). "Mudd's Women" is within the same month as "Where No Man...", just over a year after Kirk took command of the Enterprise. They add up over the three live and two animated seasons to a little over six years in command of the Enterprise. Little continuity problem with the films, though, as The Powers That Be had changed their minds about how stardates work (or rather, they'd abandoned the old way and not replaced it with anything other than "it should be higher than the last one we saw").
Oh, and the environment-simulation rec room in TAS isn't a holodeck, per se. The lighting and environmental settings change to suit what's being projected on the walls, but it's nowhere near as immersive as in TNG.
I am seriously liking how they're not directly tacking random episodes on set after "Turnabout Intruder" so much as adding flavor to existing original episodes by showing the aftermath -- something that was anathema to the model of syndicated television. I think of all the people tackling Trek right now, these guys "get it" more than most -- certainly more than the current rights-holders.
--Jonah
