Date: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:19 AM
From: "John Savard" <jsavard@ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid>
>It was interesting that the movie and Archer's sports
>game were being watched on a square screen. I guess wide viewing
>screens don't survive into the 22st century. Yet, Enterprise (22
>century era) is shown (21st century era) in letter box format. Go
>figure.
You're right: the water polo game *should* have been letterboxed. The
movies make sense: their OAR is that of the TV screen. But the water
polo game was filmed in their time, so it should have been filmed at
16:9.
However, we know that video communications in the TOS era, such as
messages from Starfleet played back on Spock's tricorder, were in the
4:3 aspect ratio. Perhaps widescreen *is* a passing fancy.
Maybe with digital projection, filmmakers no longer had to worry about
klutzy projectionists forgetting to remove the 1.85:1 matte from the
projector, and felt free to rediscover the potential of the 4:3
screen.
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:09:04
From: "Karl Evans" <tide323@c...>
I don't think they mistood eating for mating just that like mating,
eating is something done in private.
>I can see how the Kreetassen visitors would mistake humans
>eating food for sex. Quite often humans will give their food the
>"tongue".