Will they go back to primeTrek after nuTrek finishes?.
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I'm just imagining the Enterprise-D's conference room getting shot at mob-style now.
Though, we did get the set, redressed as the fancy dining room, blown up darn well in TUC.
That wasn't on the enterprise or with the bridge crew. I want to see the enterprise briefing room and what it looks like. But the Starfleet brass briefing did have some pizzazz.
A briefing between all staff is tedious, but a briefing room for staff to meet with non-staff or guests would probably be more appropriate on screen.
Now that I think about it, I never realized that Kirk -- in any incarnation -- never had a ready room.
Well, you can have snacks & drinks in the briefing room while you talk about stuff.
You don't want to accidentally spill any of that on the bridge consoles and have sparks flying all over the place.
The TOS crew drank coffee around it all the time and it never caused any harm, except when someone slipped something into it.
Yes, but ships were sturdier back then, too. They ran into just as many threats and anomalies as their 24th century successors, but with a lot fewer sparks and explosions.
Ugh @ Voyager blowing sparks in the bridge while landing -- something she was designed to do.
I can only think of a few times where briefing room scenes were essential to an episode. "Where No Man", where Spock advises Kirk to abandon Mitchell on Delta Vega. "Balance of Terror", "Q, Who?", where Q explains the Borg and when Hansen gives Riker command of the Enterprise in "The Best of Both Worlds".
Most of the time, they were dull exposition that brought an episode to a grinding halt.
Most of the time, they were dull exposition that brought an episode to a grinding halt.
The infamous Onion article from 2009 explicitly states briefing rooms.
"Apparently there isn't even one scene set at a long table in which interstellar diplomacy is debated in endless detail."
"Apparently there isn't even one scene set at a long table in which interstellar diplomacy is debated in endless detail."
I don't have the Ep on me, but where were they when Khan got his mock 'trial' at the end of Space Seed?
Admittedly, it's not really plot-essential to the actual ep (Kirk could have just logged his decision). But it is more important in hindsight, when Khan's starts throwing accusations and torpedoes around.
Admittedly, it's not really plot-essential to the actual ep (Kirk could have just logged his decision). But it is more important in hindsight, when Khan's starts throwing accusations and torpedoes around.
It looked, to me, like a set that had been repurposed to serve as a Captain's Mast/court-martial room. It wasn't the briefing room as far as I could tell.
Way to generalize.
This is one of my favorites. Hammy, yes, but classic Trek goodness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toG6aSQFF7Y
But he's correct, the scenes were pure filler and added little to the show other than to make it much duller. Something Voyager ran with too much during it's time as well.
I agree. I loved the briefing room scenes in TOS.
The briefing room was where the action was in TOS. Spock smacked Kirk clear across the table in "The Naked Time." In "Space Seed," Khan attempted to execute Kirk while his crew watched in horror. Not to mention that Sarek and Gav mixed it up in "Journey to Babel."
The 23rd century. Good times.
The 23rd century. Good times.
Well said. That's what I want to see in the NuTrek movies. The briefing scene were always so cool in TOS but seemed kind of neutered in TNG.
Notice there isn't any 'briefing' going on in those briefing room scenes.
To be honest, I never even realised that was the TOS briefing room. I just figured that was a room with a table that could be whatever the plot required for the week. Hell - based on Space Seed I figured it was somewhere near Engineering, considering how quickly characters walk back and forth.
To be honest, I never even realised that was the TOS briefing room. I just figured that was a room with a table that could be whatever the plot required for the week. Hell - based on Space Seed I figured it was somewhere near Engineering, considering how quickly characters walk back and forth.
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