Anchorhead said:

Gaffer Tape said:

I'm currently enduring the infamous four minute long Kirk and Scotty looking at the Enterprise scene, but still. I could write this post seven more times, and it still wouldn't be over. It's still going on!

I chalk it up to being a product of it's time: Trek being back in the world again - and bigger than ever. Plus, they were finally able to show the Enterprise in all it's detailed glory. At that point, it had all existed only on 26" Zeniths. But yeah, they got carried away with that beauty shot.

That's an RCA tv, made by the company that owned NBC at the time. In my family, owning a Zenith would have been tantamount to treason. ;)