Talk:The Conscience of the King (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Background notes 3 Music, not Effects 3.1 Effects 4 Remastered Version 5 Background Cleanup

[edit] Background notes

My work on the background notes on these episodes continues. I am removing the following note:

• Lenore's conversation with Kirk on the observation deck, some of it quoted above, is loaded with double entendres, and is probably the raciest dialogue ever uttered in the series.

This note is entirely opinion, and to me fits in the same category as "the most famous blooper" notes. While those are remaining, it is usually because I can re-write the note to just state the blooper. With this, all I can do is say that her quote is "racy". Doesn't quite sound needed like that. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 04:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I removed the following note for discussion:

The voice of Captain Daily is the same voice used for "Starbase Operations" in "The Menagerie, Part I", and is the same actor seen as "Mike", one of Kirk's old classmates at the bar in "Court Martial". It is unknown if the actor is Tom Curtis or Frank da Vinci, as there is conflicting evidence.

Mike is definitely not played by da Vinci, and I'm pretty sure not Curtis either. If he truly is the actor who voiced Daily and Starbase Ops, then he couldn't be either actors. If on the other hand the unknown actor who played Mike is equally possible as the voice of Daily and Ops as da Vinci and Curtis are, then it needs to be reworded and placed back in (and ideally on the three articles, and maybe Mike's article).--Tim Thomason 22:06, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Music, not Effects

The following text was moved to "Story and Production":

[edit] Effects

• Joseph Mullendore's score for this episode would be heard again in "Court Martial", "Shore Leave", "Space Seed", "The City on the Edge of Forever" and in the teaser of "The Return of the Archons".
• The Star Trek theme song is performed by the lounge band at Tom Leighton's party. This is the first time the Star Trek theme has been played as source music.

I am pasting here in case there is a disagreement. --GNDN 20:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remastered Version

I just saw the remastered version, and it was a complete screw-up on the order of the scenes -- looked like Intro, Scene 1, Scene 4, Scene 3, Scene 2. Was this an editor or a network screw-up? --71.245.138.67 00:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Most likely network. Remember that these are all being edited and shortened to allow for more ads by each network as they are syndicated. I imagine that it will be fine in the HD-DVD/DVD release. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 00:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Background Cleanup

I removed the following for being seemingly groundless analysis/commentary:

• This episode can be read as an allegory about the search for Nazi war criminals long after the end of World War II combat operations. The Soviet troops who liberated the Nazi capital believed they had found the body of Adolf Hitler, albeit burnt beyond recognition, in 1945 - twenty-one years before the production and first airing of this TOS episode.

I removed the following for being unnecessary analysis/commentary:

• Spock's humanity is on display again in this episode. He is very impassioned as he speaks of the mass-murders on Tarsus IV.

I removed the following for nitpicking:

• It takes considerably longer for the overloaded phaser to explode in this episode than it does for Kirk's phaser to blow up in "That Which Survives".
• The design of the spray bottle has not changed at all since the 20th century, as witnessed in the poisoning of Riley's milk.

– Cleanse 02:10, 30 December 2007 (UTC)