Screen Caps


The All-Time Top 20 Screencaps:
1. Friday's Child (Alpha, Beta in background)	2. Patterns of Force (Alpha)	3. Day of the Dove (Beta)	4. The Omega Glory (Kappa)
5. Assignment Earth (Gamma-open, Kappa-closed)	6. This Side of Paradise (Delta)	7. Patterns of Force (Epsilon-top & Zeta-bottom)	8. Day of the Dove (Beta)
9. Catspaw (Beta)	10. For the World is Hollow... (Alpha)	11. Dagger of the Mind (Beta)	12. The Omega Glory (Alpha)
13. Elaan of Troyius (Beta)	14. The Enterprise Incident (Kappa)	15. The Enemy Within (Gamma)	16. Mirror, Mirror (Theta)
17. Bread and Circuses (Theta)	18. Miri (Iota)	19. Spock's Brain (L to R: Zeta, Delta, Eta)	20. Tomorrow is Yesterday (Kappa)

All 79 episodes have been methodically reviewed, and every time a communicator showed up in any way, we grabbed the best frames from those scenes. Some shows had many sightings, a few had none. In total, we have amassed just short of a thousand screen caps, grabbed in 2006 from the best source available then - the two-episodes-per-disc standard DVD collection. Certainly high definition versions would add plenty more detail to these images, as discussed here...

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But regardless, the screen cap library will remain in standard DVD format, via the three links below:

314 total caps

424 total caps

240 total caps

1. The Cage (not directly aired)
2. Where No Man Has Gone Before
3. The Corbomite Maneuver
4. Mudd's Women
5. The Enemy Within
6. The Man Trap
7. The Naked Time
8. Charlie X
9. Balance of Terror
10. What Are Little Girls Made Of?
11. Dagger of the Mind
12. Miri
13. The Conscience of the King
14. The Galileo Seven
15. Court Martial
16. The Menagerie, Parts I & II
17. Shore Leave
18. The Squire of Gothos
19. Arena
20. The Alternative Factor
21. Tomorrow is Yesterday
22. The Return of the Archons
23. Space Seed
24. A Taste of Armageddon
25. This Side of Paradise
26. The Devil in the Dark
27. Errand of Mercy
28. The City on the Edge of Forever
29. Operation: Annihilate!

30. Catspaw
31. Metamorphosis
32. Friday's Child
33. Who Mourns for Adonais?
34. Amok Time
35. The Doomsday Machine
36. Wolf in the Fold
37. The Changeling
38. The Apple
39. Mirror, Mirror
40. The Deadly Years
41. I, Mudd
42. The Trouble with Tribbles
43. Bread and Circuses
44. Journey to Babel
45. A Private Little War
46. The Gamesters of Triskelion
47. Obsession
48. The Immunity Syndrome
49. A Piece of the Action
50. By Any Other Name
51. Return to Tomorrow
52. Patterns of Force
53. The Ultimate Computer
54. The Omega Glory
55. Assignment: Earth

56. Spectre of the Gun
57. Elaan of Troyius
58. The Paradise Syndrome
59. The Enterprise Incident
60. And the Children Shall Lead
61. Spock's Brain
62. Is There In Truth No Beauty?
63. The Empath
64. The Tholian Web
65. For the World Is Hollow... Touched the Sky
66. Day of the Dove
67. Plato's Stepchildren
68. Wink of an Eye
69. That Which Survives
70. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
71. Whom Gods Destroy
72. The Mark of Gideon
73. The Lights of Zetar
74. The Cloud Minders
75. The Way to Eden
76. Requiem for Methuselah
77. The Savage Curtain
78. All Our Yesterdays
79. Turnabout Intruder

We obviously didn't grab each and every frame with a comm; that would have added up to many tens of thousands, so we had to cull. Those selected depicted something of possible value that seemed different and better than any others, based on the following criteria:

1) The clearest, crispest image for every new viewing angle. In the case of a tie, the one in which the actors looked their best.
2) Changes in appearance (usually from motion) that resulted in the highlighting of different features.
3) Context and function - how a comm was worn or used.
4) The curious or perplexing.

Because a prop can change looks after being damaged and repaired, it is useful for tracking purposes to be aware of the week-to-week continuity. As such, episodes are listed in order of production, not airing. The single best screen cap from each episode will be shown above the episode's name; click on it to go to that episode's full page.

Once there, you will find an easy-to-review Summary Picture with the full comm image taken from each screen cap and assembled in one place. The communicator in each is shown in its entirety as it appeared on the screen, with no resizing or cropping. In this Summary Pic, the individual clips are numbered in time sequence as they appear in their episode, and that number relates to the full frame included below there. If a number is preceded with the "..." symbol, it means that cap is from the same continuous scene as the one prior. This Summary Pic is saved as a jpg file with maximum size (Photoshop "10 out of 12"), thus having a pristine pixel quality straight off the DVD. With this as a primary source for superior resolution comm images, the individual full caps are rendered relevant for context and lighting orientation only, so they are compressed to 4/12 (read - lower quality) to save on downloading time and storage space.