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There is one thing about every Star Trek series and movie ever made that has always bothered us. It has to do with the outdoor lighting in any of the exterior shots of the Enterprise (ANY Enterprise). It isn’t as obvious in the original series, but anything made afterward shows the ship passing by with a light source illuminating the ship’s exterior.
What we want to know is WHERE is the light source, because you never get a clue where the light is coming from, but in deep space with no nearby stars or planets the exterior shots should be black as midnight, maybe blacker.
Tribbles have got to be one of the most famous alien creatures in all of Star Trek, having appeared, if only as cameos, in almost every trek series and at least one movie.
The tribbles used in the original series were just fuzzy beanbags, some of which also contained the inner workings of a toy baby that crawled, allowing the tribble to crawl across the railing on the bridge.
After that episode, the props department had hundreds of tribbles which were used for all sorts of practical jokes – one of which involved filling someone’s office wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling with tribbles.
Apparently, in 2008 Hallmark commemorated this episode with the Christmas ornament you see pictured here. It plays sound clips of Kirk’s voice as tribbles continue to fall out of the storage bin onto the pile he’s buried in.
We’ve always liked the way the lamest disguise always worked so well in the old TV shows. For example, if Superman puts on a pair of glasses, then nobody on the planet can recognize him, or the way Batman’s cowl left the lower half of his face exposed but nobody ever recognized Bruce Wayne’s face.
One of the best examples of this in Star Trek is in the episode “Errand Of Mercy” when the Organians are hiding Kirk from the Klingons. They dress him up in a sheepskin jacket, a pair of blue tights, and a pair of what look like fuzzy ugg boots then tell the Klingon commander that his name is Barona. Now, given the Klingon’s reaction when he finally did learn that it was Captain Kirk, it is obvious that the Klingons know very well who James Kirk is and surely they have pictures of him. But, dress him in native clothes and lie about his name and nobody will ever suspect a thing.
Here’s an interesting parody of Star Trek. Made by YouTube user TinFoilChefDotCom, Phat Trek chronicles the adventures of Tiberius T. Crane as he embarks on the mission as captain of the starship Enterprise as part of a dream sequence that began in Troll Wars – Episode 2.
Without a doubt, this has got to be the most unique Stat Trek parody we’ve seen to date.
