Amazing find: TMP behind the scenes film

There's some amazing, never-before-seen footage from an obviously "official" making-of documentary on Star Trek—The Motion Picture that just popped upon YouTube—as Part I and Part 2.





David Fein, producer for Robert Wise on the DVD Director's Edition, just alerted me to it. Persis' infamous and emotional haircut to be Deltan-bald is worth the price alone... Fascinating!

The mystery is, how did no one know of this for so long, and how did it turn up now?

Stay tuned!

Where No Blob Has Gone Before

Fascinating, to coin a phrase:

Giant mystery blob found near dawn of time.

... Ouchi and Ellis said one possibility is that by chance, astronomers captured the moment a galaxy was forming in the early universe — something that never has been seen before. ... What Ouchi found was from 12.9 billion years ago. Only three other objects have been seen that are from deeper in time and space. ...

The lowest-rez space anomaly ever? Or just some ancient subspace seaweed "snagged" by our cameras?

Fifty-five thousand lightyears across is no foam-core model...