"Kim Cattrall posed naked on the bridge of the ENT-A", say who in the what now ?!?

This is another Meyeristic anachronism. TOS Enterprise had replicators. But Meyer wanted that scene in the galley with the turkey and the mashed potatoes, so let's take the technology backwards for the sake of a cheap sight gag.

As for log entries, any good assassin would be able to doctor them.

Not as easy with modern computer forensic techniques.

Valeris was Spock's student. Spock is a level A7 computer expert. He probably wrote most of the subroutines used in the replicators.

STVI was far better than any of that fanfic crap published by Pocket Books.

Okay, pumpkin, I know you're just trolling, but come back when you've (A) learned the difference between fanfic and paid work and (B) read every single Trek novel Pocket has published so that you can offer an informed opinion instead of just methane, mmkay?

If I may...were the photographs destroyed, or the negatives?

If the former, then negatives may exist.

Let's keep it civil in Media Central, please.

TUC is my favorite out of all Trek that has ever been put to film. So, fuck you.

I just hate that the Klingon Empire was defeated by Teddy bears. TEDDY BEA--whoops! Wrong franchise.

No it didn't. It had some type of food processor which was located only in the crew mess area.

And Scotty or Spock did explain that putting the uniforms in the disposal unit would leave a record.

Most likely TOS had primitive type of replicators. Certainly not on the scale we saw in TNG and certainly it was never seen in crew quarters.

I've no problem with a galley. You may need a galley for special functions where one or more people won't eat "replicated food" on some diplomatic mission. Or it could also be a rec area as well. Cooking as a hobby.

As for log records......you're going up against Spock. You going to take those chances?

Yeah, that's how I rationalize the galley being on the ship. They're on a high-powered diplomatic mission, so a galley is one of the special amenities with which the ship has been outfitted for the occasion.

SOME of the "touches" Meyer introduced (in both films) I liked, even if they were anachronistic. They gave a sort of "warmth" to the thing which justified their existence (the Naval boarding ceremony, Scotty's bagpipes, Kirk's glasses, Spock's supposed "ancestor")

but some of it was just stupid (phasers in the galley, reading Klingon from old textbooks)

Tere are all sorts of ways to explain away having a galley. From the fact that they had one in TOS but that it wasn't commonly used because of the supply demands....to the idea that what we saw replicated in TOS was essentially a "grill" and not the main dining area...to the fact that the A was simply a "fancier" ship or whatever.

i don't mind any such thing you can reasonably explain away (like Kirk's allergy forcing the glasses) but other things not so much.

Nevertheless, I loved TUC as a film and that isn't significantly diminished by a couple of unfortunate sight gags.

The biggest thing that bothered me was the scene that had Uhura and the others fumbling around with a bunch of books in order to speak and understand Klingon. Not only does that make Uhura look stupid as a comm. officer who doesn't know the language of the people who have been the enemy for what's probably been her entire career, but it makes one wonder why the E-A's computer didn't even have something along the lines of Bablefish, so they could just type in what they wanted and say what was on the screen.

Oh, and I, for one, would still not mind seeing the pics that Cattrall had taken. If anything I bet that would have given the movie more publicity and made it more popular.

I always figured that the TOS/movie-era replicators were for food only and that the, "Hey, replicator! Make me a clarinet so I can be a total loser alone in my quarters for the next seven years" technology was more a TNG and after thing.

Did we ever see them replicate anything other than food?

um no, it's mentioned several time the ENT has food stores. In fact I believe in one episode it's actually mentioned that they have 5 years worth of food stores.

Food stores do not negate replicators, nor do replicators negate food stores.

By the way, the sign that we're all hopeless nerds is that in a thread about a young, naked Kim Cattrall, we've ended up talking about replicators and gravity boots.

One time, as a 20 year old, during a dry spell, I mentioned that I thought that sex was overrated. Without missing a beat, the MILF next to me said "That's because you've never done it wearing inversion boots."

Now that I'm 32, I wish I'd had the sense to run with that opening.

I neatly circumvented the whole galley issue in my TUC Redeux by writing that scene (and in fact, most of that plotline) completely out of the story.


So these naked Kim pics no longer exist, eh?

'Tis a pity, no?

Hey, I did at least run some image searches for said pictures, then any nude shots of Ms. Cattrall, then all photos of her in general.

Kim has always been very high on my list. It saddens me that her gloriousness was often on display on Sex in the City, a show I wouldn't watch if strapped to a chair Clockwork-Orange-style.

IIRC, those "food stores" were supposed to be just bulk protein, probably something like tofu, that could be transformed into whatever you wanted.

Probably in her private collection. Someone must have the negatives.

However, there was one episode of S&tC where she did a nude photo shoot on a dare, and those photos were actually published somewhere or other.

"Patterns of force", they made vague reference to the computer making Mcoy's Nazi boots too small.

Hey, it's useless without pics, innit?

In Catspaw, Kirk tells Korob and Sylvia that they can synthesize all the jewels they would want and therefore the bribe the two aliens are trying to offer the Enterprise crew means nothing to them. Not a clear replicator reference, but close enough for me.

Boots, gems, all single-material constructs. Maybe a more rudamentary version of a replicator or synthesizer could manage it, but it doesn't prove that they could replicate something as complex as prepared meals. And didn't Scotty have to manufacture flintlocks by hand in "A private little war"?

I figure by the 23rd century they'd have perfected the technology that already exists to turn gray water into potable water, which would be necessary, for example, for a mission to Mars. Then there's recycling other organic matter to supplement the food supply, but any discussion there is not for the squeamish...

As has often been pointed out, if you've got transporter technology, you have replicator technology. The only limiting factor is simply how much database capacity you have to store the necessary information.

Maybe, but I'd have to assume that a replicator in TOS era would have to be closer to the size of the transporter room itself, rather than a small console on the wall in the mess hall.