CLAPPER OF THE WEEK: 1967 – A TRUE CLASSIC "THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES"

This week's Clapper shot is from one of the all-time great episodes (at least, in my opinion!), "The Trouble With Tribbles". This scene features Captain Kirk getting an update from Dr. McCoy on just what the heck these tribbles are. A plastic bin filled with the pulsating little beasties sits between them.

Clapper info: August 22, 1967 / Scene 33A / Take 2.

LLAP,

Don

CLAPPER OF THE WEEK: 1968's "REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH"

This week's Clapper is from the great third season episode, "Requiem for Methuselah", a story that featured a five-thousand-year-old man who had evidently been a number of famous men throughout history. Exactly how he pulled off that feat was kind of left up in the air. Kind of like this clapper shot. It shows our three main characters in various states of unreadiness. Nimoy seems to be eating something while Shatner is apparently bored with the whole thing. Only De Kelley seems to be ready for the scene to begin. "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not an actor!"

Clapper info: December 2, 1968 / Scene 26A / Take 3.

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Don

CLAPPER OF THE WEEK: "THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT"

This week's clapper comes from one of my all-time favorite TOS episodes, "The Enterprise Incident". The episode is only the second time we ever saw the Romulans in TOS and the plot is centered on the now-familiar Trek device, a "cloaking device" – the machine that renders a ship invisible to detection by an enemy. Call it "Trek stealth". The episode features a female Romulan captain, Spock hitting on said female captain, Klingon ships being used by Romulans (the Rom ship model had been lost), and more.  Oh, and the cloaking device itself was actually a reused prop from an earlier episode, the mysterious Nomad spacecraft from "The Changeling". It would again be repurposed in Season Three to create Flint's M4 robot in "Requiem for Methuselah".

The clapper shot shows our intrepid chief engineer Scott using one of his 23rd century super high-tech tools that just so happens to look a lot like a clear plastic ruler.

Clapper info: June 21, 1968 / Scene and take are unknown

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Don

CLAPPER OF THE WEEK: 1964 "THE CAGE"!

This week's Clapper shot is from the very first Star Trek EVER, "The Cage", the first pilot episode made for NBC which starred Jeffrey Hunter as the original commander of the starship Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike. This scene features the super-brainy, telepathic Talosian Keepers, the episode's antagonists. Evidently they didn't see much sunlight on Talos.

Clapper info: December 11, 1964 / Scene 45 / Take 2.

CLAPPER OF THE WEEK: "CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER"!

This week's Clapper shot is from the classic episode "City on the Edge of Forever", one of the greates episodes ever made, IMO. Time travel, ancient civilizations, Joan Collins – what's not to love? This scene features one of the coolest Star Trek creations ever – The Guardian of Forever! Awesome!

Clapper info: February 13, 1967/Scene 5A/Take 1 – this was to be used for adding special effects ("optical FX" is written at the bottm).

Image used with permission

LLAP,

Don