(10-03-2022, 10:06 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Ideally, removing Kelso's shipwide alert should have been accompanied by removing Mitchell's remark in the turbolift. But that would have been a visible edit unless there was a cut to some other angle or closeup. At the time, the idea that the episode would be viewed over and over again for decades would never have occurred to them, so they just let it go.
It would have been a huge edit, and you're right. It would have had to be shot from another angle. This whole entry into the life scene by Mitchell just seemed odd and awkward. Enough of that, I really was just trying to see if there were clues to why Mitchell acted the way he did once he got zapped by the force field.
The creative team may not have had any idea about episodes being viewed again down the road, but, on the other hand, it wasn't as though that was a new and untried thought. I remember watching shows that had cancelled in the 50s. I do agree that they never would have figured that the pilot would be viewed again and again or on the forever popularity of Star Trek. I certainly never did and I was the only one in my family who liked it. I was a kid at the time, and we had just gotten color television, so I'm surprised my parents even let me watch it.
I just watched the pilot episode of Route a few months back. I had to laugh because the title was, (drumroll)...... "Pilot".
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Another point. Does it strike you as dangerously risky to take a single ship out to the edge of the galaxy and plow it right into a mysterious energy field without having a support vessel standing by, or at least sending a probe or shuttle through first? It's the pilot of course, so they obviously hadn't thought of probes yet, but the ship was designed from the beginning with a set of hangar doors on its rear end so they should have had something they could send through first.
Absolutely! In fact, I was trying to think of a reason why this would even happen. I finally came up with the fact that this was the pilot and back in the 60s, viewers would have wanted the Enterprise to take the risk and go through the field. We wanted the adventure, even though a ship had already gone through it 200 years before and blew itself to smithereens.
And we certainly would have been nodding our heads in the affirmative at Captain Kirk's statement:
"Other vessels will be heading out here someday and they'll have to know what they'll be facing. We're leaving the galaxy, Mister Mitchell. Ahead, warp factor one."
Now I hear him say this and I'm wondering, what the hell was he thinking?
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