From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: The Unasked &Unanswered Questions of TOS   
      
      
      
   "Graeme"  wrote in message    
   news:d75b3cf9-e0f8-4f5f-9df5-1084a14714a5@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Jul 25, 3:31aam, Ron  wrote:   
   > > Hmmm, in 78 other episodes, nobody gave a crap about anyone's back   
   > > unless you can see the zipper on the monster suit.   
   >   
   > I don't remember any episodes other than this one using that looking-   
   > out-of-the-transporter shot.  And of course, different episodes have   
   > different directors.  Jud Taylor, who directed Battlefield, never   
   > directed Trek before the Third Season.  If you want the answer, that's   
   > probably it.  If the idea of this thread is for questions to remain   
   > permanently unanswered, then delete it from your memory banks.   
   >   
   > Captain Christopher had trouble with the transporter too.  He didn't   
   > face the wrong way, but he didn't know to stand on the pad.   
   >   
   >   
   > > But doesn't it   
   > > seem a little silly that landing parties will go to the effort of   
   > > getting into position (City On Th Edge Of Forever, etc) just to be   
   > > beamed up and materialize on each pad totally irrespective of how or   
   > > where you would have been standing in the first place? a:-)   
   >   
   > I don't think they care about the position so much as standing   
   > straight upright, in a heroic pose.  Nobody wants to be beamed up   
   > slouching.   
      
   In "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," they beamed Captain Christopher out of his    
   fighter jet and materialized him in a standing position.  I guess the    
   director of the episode decided that having Christopher materialize in a    
   sitting position and promptly fall on his derriere would be too    
   farcical.   
      
   And near the end of the episode, they beamed Christopher (while    
   standing) back into his fighter jet seat.  I don't know how they could    
   have done otherwise:  Tell Christopher to squat on the transporter pad    
   like he's going to the toilet?   
      
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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