Star Trek

Space Seed - S1-E23

Visible crew/equipment: When Khan hides behind the wall in the engine room before Kirk enters, a crew member walks in front of the stage light and you can see the shadow of his head passing across the floor.

Space Seed - S1-E23

Visible crew/equipment: When the landing party are aboard the Botany Bay talking about it being a sleeper ship, Kirk asks if it's possible they're still alive, and as the camera follows Kirk the shadow of the camera/cameraman is visible on the wall, at the right side of the screen. (00:06:25)

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Miri - S1-E9

Visible crew/equipment: As Spock and the guards edge toward the mouth of the alley, watch the upper part of the wall to their right. There are shadows of somebody's hands throwing the debris down, carefully avoiding direct hits.

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Mudd's Women - S1-E7

Visible crew/equipment: In the briefing room, as the camera moves to its left along the seated figures, the camera rig is reflected in the glass of the communication view screen.

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Charlie X - S1-E3

Visible crew/equipment: After McCoy examines Charlie and they talk about how Charlie learned to talk by just listening to the ship's tapes, when Charlie stands up the two actors' marks can be seen on the floor - the short one for Charlie and the longer one for McCoy, where they both will stand momentarily. (00:04:56)

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Capt. Kirk: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

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Answer: Kirk was getting his physical and Dr. McCoy probably turned off communications, because if he hadn't, Kirk would have left and headed straight for the bridge, leaving McCoy irritated.

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