Subcommander Tal
@subcommandertal.bsky.social
Mostly here to riff on Original Series Star Trek.
Trying to save Starfleet a few credits on transfer type letters…
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Trying to save Starfleet a few credits on transfer type letters…
Apparently Pevney was a bit sick of working with the principal actors though, and this was the last episode he was involved with.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
January 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Apparently Pevney was a bit sick of working with the principal actors though, and this was the last episode he was involved with.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
January 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Interesting that this episode is only about 15 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
January 11, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Interesting that this episode is only about 15 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
I agree this episode is inferior to The Doomsday Machine and is kind of a warmed-over version of it. And yet, I like it just as much! The character moments and the weirdness of a giant amoeba are just really appealing to me
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM
I agree this episode is inferior to The Doomsday Machine and is kind of a warmed-over version of it. And yet, I like it just as much! The character moments and the weirdness of a giant amoeba are just really appealing to me
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
If only Commodore Decker was available for another shuttle suicide mission…
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#TOSSatNight
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 AM
If only Commodore Decker was available for another shuttle suicide mission…
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? :)
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? :)
Looks like it!
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Looks like it!
I don’t think it makes much sense for Vulcans to be unable to comprehend something killing them, but Nimoy’s performance, the dialogue, and the music sell the scene to me and I buy it
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I don’t think it makes much sense for Vulcans to be unable to comprehend something killing them, but Nimoy’s performance, the dialogue, and the music sell the scene to me and I buy it
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
In my headcanon this moment explains why Spock regresses to his barbaric ancestors in All Our Yesterdays: there is some kind of psychic link between Vulcans and their home planet, as implausible as that sounds…
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 AM
In my headcanon this moment explains why Spock regresses to his barbaric ancestors in All Our Yesterdays: there is some kind of psychic link between Vulcans and their home planet, as implausible as that sounds…
#TOSSatNight
#TOSSatNight
Robert Johnson?? 😉
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Robert Johnson?? 😉
I think this is the only time Mr. Kyle wears gold, so he would match stock footage of a different extra from behind.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
January 11, 2026 at 5:02 AM
I think this is the only time Mr. Kyle wears gold, so he would match stock footage of a different extra from behind.
#tossatnight
#tossatnight
KIRK: Recommendations?
MCCOY: I have one. I recommend Survivor
MCCOY: I have one. I recommend Survivor
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
KIRK: Recommendations?
MCCOY: I have one. I recommend Survivor
MCCOY: I have one. I recommend Survivor
Well, I think you had better take it up with the producers of Star Trek, who are the ones that included Nurse Chapel in the publicity photo. She did after all appear in twenty-five original episodes and three feature films and usually had a speaking part. 🤷🏻♂️
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Well, I think you had better take it up with the producers of Star Trek, who are the ones that included Nurse Chapel in the publicity photo. She did after all appear in twenty-five original episodes and three feature films and usually had a speaking part. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m thinking Day of the Dove for some reason…
January 7, 2026 at 5:18 AM
I’m thinking Day of the Dove for some reason…
Do you mean Nurse Chapel? Yeah, I don’t think they had her character in the reboot movies, although I think she was a more than just an extra (although certainly she was in fewer episodes than the rest of the cast)
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Do you mean Nurse Chapel? Yeah, I don’t think they had her character in the reboot movies, although I think she was a more than just an extra (although certainly she was in fewer episodes than the rest of the cast)
Anyway, the plucky Galileo has a long history, from its AMT origins to its ignominious end to its wonderful restoration, but I hadn’t heard about the black Kellogg version. There’s always more Trek lore to learn! Finally, here’s a cool imagining of the model from Bill George’s Sci Fi Air Show:
January 3, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Anyway, the plucky Galileo has a long history, from its AMT origins to its ignominious end to its wonderful restoration, but I hadn’t heard about the black Kellogg version. There’s always more Trek lore to learn! Finally, here’s a cool imagining of the model from Bill George’s Sci Fi Air Show:
I do have a fondness for the Jefferies design, with its wings that look like a pterodactyl at rest, but the aesthetic is a bit Flash Gordon-esque…
January 3, 2026 at 2:09 AM
I do have a fondness for the Jefferies design, with its wings that look like a pterodactyl at rest, but the aesthetic is a bit Flash Gordon-esque…
This was apparently the first blocky design proposed after Matt Jefferies’ curvy shuttlecraft proposal was rejected for being impractical. The designer was Tom Kellogg…
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 AM
This was apparently the first blocky design proposed after Matt Jefferies’ curvy shuttlecraft proposal was rejected for being impractical. The designer was Tom Kellogg…
Wow! Early script for The Paradise Syndrome
January 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Wow! Early script for The Paradise Syndrome