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Anecdotes from the filming of TOS last episode

This is taken from the account by Joan Winston (an ABC television employee and Star Trek fan), about her two-week visit to the studios, when they were filming Turnabout Intruder. The account was published in the book Star Trek Lives! (Lichtenberg, Jacqueline 1975).

A selection of some funny anecdotes:

The origin of the set decorations

I wonder if this was the origin of the suspicious stalagmite in What are Little Girls Made Of?

Nimoy avenges his bike

The story of the bike itself can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbHP5FbJNAw

Dr. McCoy’s diagnosis

De boss, he’s De boss.

The chewing gum

“Spock, it’s always been you”

Spock’s silky hair

CCL stands for chopped chicken liver, by the way.

The “thing”

At this point, Shatner was severely ill with the flu, and they barely managed to film the intro scenes of the episode (the last material to be filmed, actually) before he collapsed on a couch. After this, they started dismantling the sets for the bridge, the transporter room, etc. Pretty poignant.

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Sometimes at work you repair people’s microwaves. Sometimes you become the god of an ancient people. And you don’t even get hazard pay because there’s no such thing as pay. You’re there because you like repairing the microwaves.

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apologies for the terrible video quality but i NEED y'all fellow Spirk enjoyers to see this freakin' blooper

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The smell of incense

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My favorite gif. I never get a chance to use it, so I’m just going to share it.

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one of the many cases of Why are you Looking at him like That

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[screencaps of odo saying“I’m always suspicious of people who are eager to help a police officer”]

local cop says acab

#he knows cause he is one

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not a SINGLE day goes by where i don't think about that post with the photo of andrew's death grip on alex's waist. you know the one

(i have, regrettably, once again, lost the damn post. if anyone has any clue as to its whereabouts i would be much obliged if you could drop the link lol. but at the very least i had the presence of mind to download the photo so here yall go xDD:

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I fucking love the costumes on DS9. I feel like the designers were a bit hamstrung by the fact that MOST of the characters are in uniform most of the time, so they went HARD AF on the rest of it.

Ferengi fashion? All style, no substance. It's all about signaling wealth and opulence with no taste or restraint. They want to show off EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME and ebd up looking like tacky little boys who dressed in the dark.

Jake Sisko? Honestly, I didn't quite get what the costumers were going for at first. Wtf is he wearing? He looks ridiculous. BUT THEN I started working around a lot of teenagers, and I realized that teens across times, across galaxies, across civilizations, are always dressing in ways that confuse and enrage adults. Jake Sisko is peak Weird Teen Fashion.

Out Of Uniform Kira? She wants so much to be soft and pretty. So much of her life was spent in hardscrabble guerrilla warfare. My girl just wants to wear cardigans, goddamn.

Out of Uniform Ben Sisko? Ma'am, that's my Emotional Support Weird Jazz Uncle.

Garak? Every bitchy, middle-aged queer man I've ever met, but in SPAAAAAACE.

Out of Uniform Bashir? Peak dumb twink. TIS PEAK, MY LORD.

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With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar

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i am obsessed with this moment from what we left behind. ira steven behr is basically like, "yeah so were they buddies? ^w^" and andrew robinson in a completely deadpan, 100% serious tone just says "they fucked." he doesn't hesitate, he doesn't miss a beat. he believes in garashir with his heart and soul and that is just so incredibly awesome

(full clip)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S03E16: The Offspring

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I couldn't resist redrawing this one..

..but then with Quark. ✨️

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