Scotty at FlexiCorp. using an Apple Computer

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[markduch]

Oh and umm... the color Apple logo and words "Macintosh Plus" in the bottom left of the computer @ 0:54.

[markduch]

It is an Apple, as evidenced by the plainly-seen Apple logo in the top left corner of the screen, if you'll pause @ 0:50.

[Austindude3954]

Scotty is pretty fast with that

[urmo345]

Was ist das? Warum name of vid is on english but speaking is deutch? Ich speak nicht german!

[NilsByte]

@urmo345 i am really sorry if you don't get the point without understanding the spoken words :) it's obviously funny!

[Kaspersky1899]

@urmo345 germans do speak english much better than you can speak german, so please stop your terrible german ..

[jaspr1999]

As this was uploaded in 2007 I'm sure someone already mentioned this little tad of information. Product placement is exceedingly hard in futuristic shows such as Star Trek. As a result several companies jumped at the chance to show off their new products, Including Microsoft. If you take a close look at the bottom of the monitor Scotty is using you will see that this is the first version of Windows is being used for this scene. Apple declined the studios request. Sorry.

[MagicAlDF]

@jaspr1999 That's not Windows and this is an Apple product placement. The reason the graphics are strange is because he refresh rate of the Mac could not be synced with the film camera, so the screen is showing a videotaped animation at 24fps, fed with a cable drilled through the back of the Mac case. Early Macs had no way to output animation, except maybe stop-motion from printouts, so this animation was created externally. It was supposed to look like Mac but didn't turn out perfectly.

[jaspr1999]

@MagicAlDF

I do appreciate your point of view and your technical evaluation. However, the information came from the production notes and cost overruns. I used to be an extremely geeky trekker looking into everything I could find out about this "new Star Trek movie." One of the mysteries that surfaced was a product placement deal with Microsoft. It wasn't until the movie came out that we knew. We also found out that Apple was approached first and they declined the deal.

[EchoBoomer1987]

I feel like the Im a mac and I'm a pc music should be playing XD

[MacintoshPlus1MB]

It is a Mac Plus apple computer.

[sugarxwaffles]

Scotty is a genius XD

[st8ballin87]

I never understood how in movies they use the keyboard instead of a mouse lollolol

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Klassiker!!! XD

[dcddjc]

Klasse vielen Dank - jedes Mal wenn ich es sehe kann ich nicht aufhören zu Lachen. Danke schön, vielen Dank!

[justtestingthething]

I think the prop masters didn't have much time,will or manpower to optimize the screen-visualization :

Scotty's fast hacking opened, closed and rearranged (without using a mouse !!) mainly office application windows.

In the end (like magic without a visual or textual editor for the atomic structure having appeared before) the 3D molecule appears on screen.

[frisco1968]

;-)

well - it's just a movie.

and there is no warp drive yet! ;-)

[undertaker2312]

looooooooooooool

[SardonicusRexx]

Historical note: the prop masters wanted an Amiga 2000 but couldn't get one. Hence the Mac. Commodore supposedly fired the employee who refused to arrange for them to skip the long line of parties waiting for the new Amiga.

[therealromster]

wow, what a shame but the macintosh plus worked well in the prop too.