#elaan

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: The Original Series // S03E02: Elaan of Troyius

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Very stimulating, I’m sure.

[spockeveryday]

[spirk-trek]

LOVE :)

[sirellas]

FRANCE NUYEN in Elaan of Troyius STAR TREK 3.13 | 1968

[subterraneanna]

I've been scanning and restoring some pieces of original Star Trek: TOS film and wanted to share this before and after from a deleted scene in the episode "Elaan of Troyius":

At nearly 60 years old, the film is in bad shape, exhibiting substantial scratches and color shifting. The magenta/red tint is a good example of dye fading, a sign of deterioration likely due to the film stock it was shot on.

Prior to 1950, color motion picture film was shot in Technicolor, which required a large, cumbersome camera to simultaneously expose 3 separate strips of negative film that then underwent a proprietary dye imbibition process to create a full color image. Though visually stunning and remarkably color-stable, it was a complicated, expensive process reserved only for high budget productions. In 1950, Eastman Kodak introduced Eastmancolor, the first 35 mm “single-strip” color motion picture negative -- in short, a film that was easy to shoot and process, and compared to Technicolor, only used a 1/3 of the film stock. Suddenly color film was an affordable option for studios and its popularity took off. Eastmancolor was composed of a single strip of negative film surfaced with 3 layers of light-sensitive gelatin emulsion. During development, a chemical reaction produced magenta, yellow, and cyan dyes on their corresponding layers, which were superimposed to create a full color image. Unfortunately, these dyes were unstable, something that wasn't apparent until aging films began to lose their color in the following years.

The Star Trek image above is pink because its yellow and cyan dyes have faded away, leaving just the magenta layer. The information may be lost, but digital restoration can improve what's left. But because the yellow and cyan greatly contributed to the overall density of the image, basic color balancing still produces a lower contrast version compared to what the original must have looked like. The missing richness and depth seems most apparent in the skin tones, but hand painting some of the color can bring a little life back to it, as I've done here. It's a challenge because, as far as I can tell, the only remaining footage or still shots of this scene show some level of dye fading. Fortunately, now that the film is digitized, restoration can be an ongoing project. If you own any color motion picture film negatives or prints, the sooner you get them scanned the better. In the meantime, helpful storage information can be found here.

It's been a while since I've shot any film (film major), so it's nice to see it again, even if it's chopped up into single frames. I have a small collection of them so I'll post more restored images as they're completed. BTW @cheer-deforest-kelley has a great post on how this film went from the editing room floor to the hands of fans.

[lesbian-david-tennant]

Elaan's costumes in Star Trek, Elaan of Troyius (3x13)

[zirconpetals]

I know everyone and their mom had made this joke but I literally had to pause the episode for about three minutes because I kept thinking about this meme when they just kept standing there like that

[discoonthegrass]

For the past month, I've been running a bracket to determine which TOS episode is best, but how about which one is worst? I'm not gonna do a whole bracket for that, so let's do a single poll instead. The choices are based on how badly the episode lost in Round 1 or 2 of "Which episode is best." Any episode that won a round is not included as it is at least better than one episode.

[blanc-ci]

Thinking about when McCoy and Spock walk in on Kirk in that crazy make-out scene in ‘Elaan of Troyius’ and how after McCoy explains the tears love potion thing Spock says

“It is true then, Captain?”

In such a particular soft tone that my brain wants to interpret it either as concern for Jim essentially being assaulted OR (if you funny spirk lens it) as Spock almost being hurt/in disbelief at Jim being with another woman

Realistically, it may be more along the lines of Spock knowing just how much Kirk hates it when he’s not in control of himself (the most recent one before this being ‘And the Children Shall Lead’ I think?) and immediately going into “I must aid the captain so that he doesn’t do something he will regret” confidant/support mode

[starberry-cupcake]

spock's patience during elaan of troyius ended about 10 mins into the episode and jim is just powered through compliments

also, spock and bones discussing jim's wife (the enterprise)

not mentioned by spock but another thing that got jim to snap out of the lady's 'let's drug jim to get him to do things' plan this time was him, actually

[spockeveryday]

[skybson]

3x13 - Elaan of Troyius

[your-name-is-jim]

Kirk is infected with Elaan’s tears, which are like a super love potion that made him fall in love with her. Even though, when Spock talks to him, Kirk listens to his words and acts against her wishes.

Spock himself later explains that Kirk can resist to the tears because “the Enterprise infected the Captain long before”... I don’t know, Spock, “the Enterprise” includes is a lot of things for Kirk, and I think you are a big part of it. :)

[s3 e13 - Elaan of Troyius]

[scarysanctuary]

why were Spirk fans treated like they made everything up in their heads, this literally looks like a jealous boyfriend just caught his boyfriend ogling another hot babe, and Kirk looks really guilty about it (why does he look so guilty?? he kisses a new girl every episode! but this time he got caught)

[puppyfail]

me suddenly sweating: