Star Trek Episode

[haywood]

This is a little off-topic for M&L but I just watched one of my favourite Star Trek TOS episodes called "Assignment Earth"<br />Many of you will remember the story...Colonel Gary Seven was sent to destroy an orbital warhead in the late 1960's.<br />The rocket used was a Saturn 5/Apollo and from the timing of the episode (March 1968) I am assuming they would have used footage of either the Apollo 4 or 5 test flight.<br />It looked like a full-up test of the vehicle with either a real or simulated CSM attached.<br />Is this a plausible assumption?<br />Loved the views of the vehicle from the various viewpoints, as well as some of the video from the launch gantry.<br />

 

[Leovinus]

This page says it must be Apollo 4: http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=7151 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

Also, I found this bit of trivia about the episode:<br /><br /><i>In this episode, Spock notes than an important assassination will take place. Less than a week after the show aired, Dr. Martin Luther King was shot. Episode includes footage of the Saturn V launching from Cape Kennedy.</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[haywood]

Thanks Leovinus.<br />After doing some additional research, I found that Apollo 5 was a test flight using the S1B and Apollo 6 launched in April '68 so it could not have been used in that episode.<br /><br />Also, interesting take on the "important assassination".<br />

 

[vogon13]

The episode is also charming in its' naivete regarding the lack of consequences of the US detonating a nuke 100 miles above the Soviet Union. <br /><br />Yoiks!<br /><br />Even the old clunky vacuum tube technology in use then would have been zapped along with power stations, ATC, radio communications, etc.<br /><br />US nuclear tests over the Pacific affected systems thousands of miles away. Even Telstar was fried by a nuke.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[nyarlathotep]

So, I guess this begs the question of whether Ray was under the hire of Paramount Pictures.

 

[spaceiscool]

ds9 is better.

 

[cuddlyrocket]

The episode also correctly predicted the day of the week on which the first manned Moon landing would take place. (Though that was only 6 to 1 against!)

 

[spaceiscool]

that is cool. i wonder if firefly will predick the next us manned landing on moon, which will be 2104 if nasa has its way.

 

[viper101]

2104.<br />ha!<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[BReif]

2104? We (whether its NASA, ESA, the Russians, or China, or all of the above) will have been on the Moon over 50 years, on Mars, and moving on into the outer solar system by then IMO.<br /><br />In Star Trek, the Federation already exists by 2104, first contact has occurred, and warp drive invented. In real life, alot can happen in a century. Look to 20th century history, or 19th century history and see how much progression took place.<br />

 

[elguapoguano]

<font color="yellow">In Star Trek, the Federation already exists by 2104, first contact has occurred, and warp drive invented.</font><br />Uhh according to "enterprise" the federation wasn't founded till after 2158, Star Fleet existed, but not the UFP... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#ff0000"><u><em>Don't let your sig line incite a gay thread ;>)</em></u></font> </div>

 

[BReif]

I stand corrected, StarFleet...not UFP. Thanks for pointing that out, the two are not interchangable.<br /><br />Original point about what can happen in a 100 year period stands.

 

[dobbins]

"In Star Trek, the Federation already exists by 2104, first contact has occurred, and warp drive invented. In real life, alot can happen in a century. Look to 20th century history, or 19th century history and see how much progression took place."<br /><br />I would suggest that you take a look at past predictions of the future, the ones that were made in 1900 about the coming century, the ones that were made at the 1939 World's fair, and the ones that were made at the start of the space age. The record isn't much better than you find from the psychics in the supermarket tabloids.<br /><br />

 

[BReif]

Good point Dobbins. I was looking at it from the perspective of what progress actually happened and not from what was predicted and came true. And I submit, that even though predictions by and large have a poor track record, what has actually been accomplished is staggering.

 

[dobbins]

My prediction for the future. 50 years from now many things that are being predicted won't happen any more than I can buy a Jetsons flying car today, and many things that are totally unlooked for will be common place.<br /><br /><br />

 

[spacefire]

that's pretty obvious. I do think that at some point in time everything will have been accomplished. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[dobbins]

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments" Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 10.<br />

 

[spacefire]

sorry, what I meant was everything we dreamt of will have been accomplished. I like the quote though, it really shows the foolish confidence of the Roman empire in its perfection. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

On that day, the Sun will expand and vaporize the Earth. Surely, nothing will be accomplished after that. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[silylene old]

The script to this episode was published in a special edition of <i>Weekly Reader</i> a few days before the TV show, which we got by subscription in my 5th grade class. I remember how thrilled I was to own that script, and held it in my hands following along as I watched the TV episode.<br /><br />(It was about the best thing Weekly Reader ever published). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature" align="center"><em><font color="#0000ff">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></em> </div><div class="Discussion_UserSignature" align="center"><font color="#0000ff"><em>I really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function.</em></font> </div> </div>

 

[nyarlathotep]

>>On that day, the Sun will expand and vaporize the Earth. Surely, nothing will be accomplished after that.<br /><br />Ah yes, the infamous year 5 billion problem.<br /><br />http://www.y5b.com/

 

[nacnud]

<font color="yellow">"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments"<br /><br /><font color="white">Well he was right for over 1000 years <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /></font></font>

 

[dobbins]

Inventions continued at about the same pace as in ancient times. Some notable inventions from the period 1 through 1000 CE are buttons, the wheel barrow, the stirrup, distillation and the escapement mechanism.<br /><br />

 

[nacnud]

It was a tongue in cheap rely <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />, BTW have you heard of the greek computer, doesn't have an escapment though <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />