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[Maurice]

There's a page of notes in the front of the "Journey to Babel" script, presumably written by Fontana, as it sounds like her. This is what it says:

[Pow]

Very cool piece of Trek history to read. Thank you for providing it Maurice.

By the time they could do Star Trek: Enterprise (2001~2005) the sophisticated makeup allowed the Andorians antennas to move on the actor's heads.

[Pow]

A-ha! Memory Alpha answers the age-old question as to why Mr. Spock's parents and their Vulcan delegation chose to board the Enterprise via a Star Fleet shuttlecraft rather than beam up via the star ship's transporter, even though the Enterprise was in orbit of the planet Vulcan.

It was a budget saving measure.

With the cost of doing Vulcan, Tellerite, and Andorian make-up for the guest stars as well as costuming; and the outer space footage of the attacking spaceship, there was no money left over for the transporter visual effect. The answer was to have Sarek & Amanda & company arrive via shuttlecraft.

It works out better that way due to the production saving $$$ by filming the Vulcan delegation on the hanger deck in my opinion. This was a more dramatic & impressive entry for the guest stars compared to seeing them beam onto the transporter pad. The hanger deck appearance had more pomp and circumstance to it compared to an arrival in the smaller transporter room.

[Gord Green]

Plus, consider that a shuttlecraft entrance would produce more "pomp" and distinctive image than a "beam in".

It would be "red carpet" entrance indeed!

(And cheaper to produce than a "special effect".
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[mach7]

Good points!

And the fact that the shuttlecraft existed and was impressive so they probably just wanted to use it.

As you said it did add some gravitas to Sareks entrance.