140
Hypnotizing people is pretty easy, if they're receptive and able to relax, but it ain't happen' through a TV tube.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
140 points (99.3% liked)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
6045 readers
963 users here now
/c/TenForward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags.
Use spoiler tags in comments, and NSFW checkbox for posts.
This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Weird take given most people are most relaxed and receptive to the television.
An entire generation has been made into a cult through a TV tube..
It's fascinating when a much-loved and now quintessential aspect of a show only turned out the way it did because of bothersome real-world factors.
Just like how transporters and "Beam me up Scotty!" only happened because it was too expensive to be doing shuttle model shots every episode.
As the audience, we tend to assume that every aspect of what we see on the screen is intentional and deliberate, but just like any job there are surprises and curveballs, and the production team are making things up and solving problems as they go along. I always love learning about stuff like that.
Hypospray became a thing because they weren't allowed to show needles on tv.
The transporter VFX were cheaper than filming model ships?
It's a single frame, where they would make a mask of the person and run the same film on that part every single time. The film they used was a slow motion shot of falling metal dust, upside down.
It probably took minutes to make those shots once they had the stock footage made.
The film they used was a slow motion shot of falling metal dust, upside down.
I swear I read it was gold glitter in water that was swirled
That's what I read many years ago. They probably used both methods.
That might be a later thing? Aluminum dust is what they describe in "The making of Star trek" (a book by Roddenberry and Whitfield, doubt it's still in print though)
It could have been other fx they did or from another show/movie altogether
TIL, TY.
I still prefer TOS-style transporters, despite being fancier and more sparkly by ST: TMP.
It was a still frame with the actors that were masked with stock effects. Bread and butter of film VFX at the time.
Not just the model. You have to build a full shuttle on the planet set every episode. Want to do an episode with on location shoots? Oh boy, that's going to be fun to haul out there. Almost might as well leave it at Vasquez Rocks permanently.
It was a 3/4 size model, wasn't it? Surely they could tow it on a trailer?
Edit: from wikipedia
Art director Matt Jefferies originally envisioned a sleek, streamlined shuttle based upon his background as a pilot. The curved shape proved too expensive to build for the first episodes.[3] AMT offered to build a full-sized shuttlecraft at no cost in exchange for rights to market a model kit. The final design of the mockup, by Gene Winfield,[4] is 24 feet (7.2 m) long and weighs one ton, has a plywood hull, and was built in two months by a team of 12 people. A separate set was used for interior scenes as the mockup was too small for filming.[5]