IDK who was the DOP on the TOS episodes, but they made a ton of use of light and shadow on tight shots. It’s honestly quite heavy handed at times – the best example is probably “The Enemy Within.”
It’s easy to forget that it was still television and they still chose better-looking people to be on screen because of how old and campy it is and looks in standard definition… but the reality is the young cast of TOS was chock full of hotties.
The spare cotton spool thing is, at least, backed up by the odd shape of the Andorrian antennae. It’s also exactly the sort of slapdash, low-budget thing they had to do back in the day.
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