Who was giving the set designer so much money lol
Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
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Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the most famous/beloved/notorious version of this is the guy in Star Wars running around with a completely unaltered off the shelf ice cream maker. https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/comments/bf20dp/i_p... I just found that link through Google, but that is apparently a whole subreddit devoted to this type of use of modern objects getting repurposed as some fantastical movie/TV props.
Sure looks like an electric ice cream maker but it's not the exact model pictured. Look at the pattern of vents on top of the motor, how far the "arms" overhang the pot, and the thickness of the pot lip for example. ;)
That's addressed in the comments, it's probably a Sunbeam rather than a Hamilton Beach
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#173This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example: - In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t... - In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264
I think the most famous/beloved/notorious version of this is the guy in Star Wars running around with a completely unaltered off the shelf ice cream maker. https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/comments/bf20dp/i_p... I just found that link through Google, but that is apparently a whole subreddit devoted to this type of use of modern objects getting repurposed as some fantastical movie/TV props.
You mean a camtono?
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
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You should force yourself through the first season or two. I promise the dominion war is worth it.
I am the only Star Trek fan I know who was not a big fan of the dominion war arc. I really liked some of the later season episodes, but the arc itself was a bit of a letdown. OTOH, DS9 is the only Star Trek that my wife will willingly watch with me; she finds the others too campy. As another data-point she likes the dominion war arc as much or more than B5, which was her favorite sci-fi series previously.
By Inferno's Light is among my favorites, if only for Andrew Robinson acting through his own actual claustrophobia in the episode.
I might also be slightly biased in favor of cardassian plots and actors, if only for Stewart's acting in Chain of Command.
The dominion and bjoran plots didn't really resonate with me at all, unfortunately.
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#175This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example: - In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t... - In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264
My favorite example is in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , where one of Captain Pike's hobbies is cooking. Real cooking with fresh ingredients, not replicated food. Pike grew up on a ranch in Montana, where his family used Lodge cast iron pans. Cast iron isn't perfect for cooking - the heat distribution is mediocre - but one thing you can say about it is that it will outlive you . Even if it gets rusty from neglect, y…
I would think induction tech and power delivery would be so good by that era, you could heat a cast iron pan in no time!
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#176Good thing members of Starfleet have excellent medical benefits, because 90% of these chairs look like they'd give you an instant case of sciatica within minutes after sitting in them.
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite example is in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , where one of Captain Pike's hobbies is cooking. Real cooking with fresh ingredients, not replicated food. Pike grew up on a ranch in Montana, where his family used Lodge cast iron pans. Cast iron isn't perfect for cooking - the heat distribution is mediocre - but one thing you can say about it is that it will outlive you . Even if it gets rusty from neglect, y…
I would think induction tech and power delivery would be so good by that era, you could heat a cast iron pan in no time!
Set phasers to “fry”.
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
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I read that one of HBO MAX’s key advantages over Netflix is that WB has a century worth of costumes and props in the archive that are available and catalogued for any new production. Whereas Netflix shows pretty much throw away everything when a shoot is done.
This is also a long standing production strategy for Star Trek. One of the reasons the original series had so many episodes where they went to a planet that was just like Earth in some specific time period was the availability of props, costumes, and even sets. Entire episodes were written around this conceit: there's the episode where they land on a Nazi planet, the episode where they land on a Roman Empire planet,…
> Prohibition-era mobsters
The whole noir thing was way overdone in Star Trek. Seems like there was one in every season of every show.
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#179This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example: - In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t... - In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264
My favorite example is in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , where one of Captain Pike's hobbies is cooking. Real cooking with fresh ingredients, not replicated food. Pike grew up on a ranch in Montana, where his family used Lodge cast iron pans. Cast iron isn't perfect for cooking - the heat distribution is mediocre - but one thing you can say about it is that it will outlive you . Even if it gets rusty from neglect, y…
Forget the pans, well, okay, they are cool, but where is Pike getting fresh, non-replicated ingredients to use?
Re: Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
A long time ago, someone gave me two boxes like this: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-9744GR/ I was tickled when I saw two red-uniform officers carrying them around on TNG.
We have a bunch of those. A local grocery store used them for deliveries a long time ago and I guess they didn't want them back because we probably accumulated a dozen or so. They are surprisingly well built and held up well to being in the sun for 15 years.
I've had a tan one since I was a kid. I know we had it by the late '80s, dunno exactly when my parents got it. It shows no signs of wearing out, at least 35 years and a bunch of moves (plus some hard use—it wasn't just a toy box when I was a kid, but a toy itself! And a table, and a chair...) later.
If the new ones are still made like that, I'd love a few more at that price. But I have a feeling the plastic's been CAD'd down to as thin as possible to meet some minimum spec, like with everything else.
[EDIT] Oh, mine's slightly different: the handles aren't a molded element of the outside, but holes through the box itself, with finger-shaped curves. They're great, very secure to hold, though that does mean small stuff can fall out, and they can be tricky if the thing's packed too full.