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No he drew almost-everything by hand, tracing the photographs of the models. I thought it was interesting it took the computer 2 minutes to display just 1/24th second of the animation. Slow and time-consuming.

~3 years later computers could do these graphics in realtime:
http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/video/batlzone.swf

Flash movie of Battlezone Arcade in action: http://www.thelogbook.com/pdfmedia/1980/battlezone/ - Atarisoft version on C=64: http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/b/battlezone_02.gif

Other vector-based games: http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/category/arcade/vector/

Flash movie of Battlezone Arcade in action: http://www.thelogbook.com/pdfmedia/1980/battlezone/ - Atarisoft version on C=64: http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/b/battlezone_02.gif

Other vector-based games: http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/category/arcade/vector/

The 2600 had "Surround" first and IT was the inspiration for the Lightcycles. So Meh.

http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/atari26/q1-05/s.htm

I miss the old atari football game circa 1978 at the local pizza joint.
http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1970s/f.htm

I agree, people don't realise Trek's always been inconsistent with itself. See TOS klingons vs future klingons.

That was sort of explained in the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations. Except they (Klingons) don't wish to talk about it :)

He didn't write every episode. In the first season, for instance, he wrote 12 of 22 episodes. See eg Babylon 5 logbook or any number of other fan sites.

close, but backwards (bottom of page)

This parsec? That looks more like defender. And the abstract portion of PARSEC47 is far more... abstract..er

Actually when CBS aired "Without Warning" in 1994, it was done in the style of a faked news story, they were constantly running crawlers saying "THIS IS NOT REAL" and every commercial break ended with a screen saying the same.

After the show was over and they had the blurb for the 10 o'clock news, the local CBS affiliate in Houston reiterated this because their switchboards were flooded with calls wanting to know what was going on.

Oh boy, I thought that was one of those "*Every* Kubrick fan knows *that*" facts.

You can even buy the Alex North soundtrack that was going to be used for "2001" on CD now, so it's not exactly obscure.

Anyway, here is a link and here is another one.

A review at the beginning of the season in USA Today brought up some very good points on the lack of focus in Enterprise. Although Paramount wants you to think they took the show for a dramatic twist this season, nothing really has changed. They are still exploring the unknown, which is what they have been doing the first two seasons. Nothing to see here, move along.

To fix Enterprise they need to:

Be a little more subtle with public commentary. Compare Similitude with TOS's Let That Be Your Last Battleground

More friction among the crew.

Lose the T'Pol-Tucker story line

Slow DOWN THE TRANSPORTER!!!! It's faster than The Original Series'!

There have been a couple good episodes:

Shockwave

Chosen Realm

And a lot of duds:

A remake of Data's Day: Dear Doctor

An A-Team episode: Marauders

And just a really lame episode: Extinction

Come now! You really think those guys were just out to make money when they created Oink!?

Please.

Ahh. so that's why I couldn't find it online. This review of PacLand has some screenshots. Thanks!

the episode you are refering to is titled "space seed". FYI Richardo also played Khan Nunien Singh in that episode. It is worth mentioning that in the last scene Spock literaly warns Kirk that some day Khan might escape from seti alpha 5. see http://www.thelogbook.com/log/toslog1.html#tos23

I can't think of any major science fiction movie where the aliens showed any interest in anything of the Nazis.

I always thought (and there are quite a few sites like this one that also think it was a mis-translation of "Monkey Kong".