Talk:The Cloud Minders

Aired in Britain?
I realise, obviously, that this is hardly that controversial an episode but I have never seen this episode shown on British Television. Was it ever shown on British TV in the 1970's or early 80’s? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.110.191 (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I think this episode was rarely shown in North America during that time as well. It could be because there are some issues with it. For example, Spock lies when he says that the woman's movements awakened him because he was sitting up and narrating his thoughts, not sleeping. And Vulcan's are supposed to be unable to lie. Spock's narration of his thoughts is unusual, I've never seen him do that in any other episode. Also, Kirk's hair is dyed much darker in this episode than any other. This is probably because his stunt double in the fight scene at the beginning has dark hair. While it would have been more prudent to dye the stunt double's hair, the fight scene was probably shot before Kirk's scenes. The stunt double's face also looks nothing like Kirk, which is quite obvious.64.180.146.10 (talk) 04:26, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Something odd
This is something I found on my region 2-dvd of "Star Trek: Remastered": Just after the main titles you can hear Kirk protest about being attacked, however his lips aren't moving. According to TrekMovie.com this was fixed by CBS ditital during remastering by using an alternate angle that doesn't show Kirk's lips. However, on the dvd this glitch is still present.--Dvd-junkie (talk) 01:44, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Metropolis
Any influence from this source? Much of the plot seems similar. MartinezMD (talk) 06:49, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Zienite rather than zenite
Most of the article had it spelled "zienite", which matches the official Star Trek site, so I changed it in the one place where it was spelled "zenite", which had also redirected to the article Liquid crystal polymer, which article mentioned a zenite that is "a liquid crystal polymer with 45% glass fiber filler, originally developed by DuPont", and which doesn't at all match the Star Trek site description of "zienite, a rare mineral". So, unless someone wants to fit "zenite" in the article in some way, I think including it otherwise, and linking to it the way it was, would only be confusing for the vast majority of casual readers. Misty MH (talk) 12:10, 16 February 2016 (UTC)