Filming in Toronto (Canada) and not set on the Enterprise....
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I have no gripes about filming in Canada. As Owain knows, our favorite little show is filmed in Toronto. So I have no doubt about the quality of stuff that is produced over there.
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I can't think of very many shows I watch that aren't filmed in either Toronto, Vancouver, or New York City. Let's see, of the shows I currently watch (or have recently ended):
Toronto: 12 Monkeys, Orphan Black, The Expanse, Lost Girl, Killjoys, Dark Matter
Vancouver: Lucifer (pilot shot in LA), The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, iZombie (I would've thought that was Portland)
New York City: Elementary, Person of Interest, Daredevil, Jessica Jones (and future Netflix Marvel shows)
Los Angeles: Supergirl, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter
Atlanta: Sleepy Hollow (formerly Wilmington, NC), Powers
Portland: The Librarian
Overseas: Doctor Who (Cardiff), Humans (London), Power Rangers (Auckland)
So Toronto has the most shows I currently watch, followed by Vancouver, then New York, then LA. Though I may have overlooked a show or two.
In the DC television multiverse, I find it amusing that Earth-1 and Earth-2 are Vancouver and Supergirl's alternate Earth is Los Angeles.
The main sets for TMP through Voyager were on stage 9 of Paramount with 8 filling in for TNG later and Voyager for the bridge, but the bulk of the ship sets were on stage 9. The new studio is much bigger.
Paramount Stage 9
Dimensions
Width: 113’-4”
Length: 146’-8”
Height: 30’
Square Feet: 16,631
Pinewood Toronto Mega Stage
Width: 256 ft
Length: 180 ft
Height: 60 ft
Square Ft: 45,900
Lots of room to breathe there.
Paramount Stage 9
Dimensions
Width: 113’-4”
Length: 146’-8”
Height: 30’
Square Feet: 16,631
Pinewood Toronto Mega Stage
Width: 256 ft
Length: 180 ft
Height: 60 ft
Square Ft: 45,900
Lots of room to breathe there.
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/film...t-set-on-the-enterprise.280329/#post-11562151
At one time STDS9 and VOY took up to 9 of Paramount's 32 sound stages..well over 100,000 square feet.
At one time STDS9 and VOY took up to 9 of Paramount's 32 sound stages..well over 100,000 square feet.
True but we're talking just one series, not two and a feature film though.
For Enterprise alone it was 51, 980 feet, though not in a single stage. I imagine logistics might be easier in a single stage.
Yep, and everyone sees it more and more. Chances are, more than half the shows you watch these days are actually filmed in Canada. And I doubt anyone really notices. For what it's worth, Pinewood Studios has done some great work.
Slightly off-topic, but here's a great video that explains the industry in Canada. It's about Vancouver, but it also applies to any other Canadian city filmed in, pretty much. Just replace Vancouver with Toronto, and you get the idea.
Well, Vancouver sometimes plays itself. Continuum was very open about being set in Vancouver. And a number of Toronto-based show are implicitly or overtly set there. Flashpoint was in "Generica" at first, but increasingly acknowledged its Toronto setting openly. Orphan Black doesn't come out and say it's in Toronto, but there are background details that make it clear, like the money, the police department logo, certain printed documents, etc. Lost Girl never named its city, but it mentioned certain details that fit Toronto, like being near Niagara Falls and cherry-growing country.
It makes me wonder what they have planned that they need so much space. How many sets did the other series fit on one sound stage?
Yeah, the more I thought about it, the more I realized Toronto's actually in a pretty good spot compared to most studio cities, and it keeps improving. Part of it is likely due to the fact that it's easily the most recognizable Canadian city and therefore doesn't make all that much sense to disguise it, unless sitting in for something fictional like say, Metropolis. Five or even ten years ago, I wouldn't have said that, so the situation has changed considerably.
And then there was that time my city stood in for Vancouver, which was a riot given it showed the horizon with the rockies, and we're nowhere near the rockies.
Or Detroit, in various RoboCop productions filmed in Toronto. The '90s RoboCop: The Series initially used matte paintings to represent the Delta City skyline, but later on they just straight-up used the Toronto skyline in the background with the CN Tower and everything.
Stage 9 was originally slated for Phase II but got converted to TMP. So for TMP through TVH it housed the corridor sets, engineering, sickbay, the transporter room and the main bridge.
For TNG it housed the sets from above except it was the Battle Bridge not the main bridge as well as the Holodceck/Cargobay and a few swing sets.
For Voyager they expanded the corridor sets and engineering and just rebuilt pretty much everything else.
The main bridge and Observation lounge for the Enterprise D were located on another stage along with the bigger crew quarters and Ten Forward.
Well, they still had the same basic transporter, sickbay, and crew quarters sets as TMP and TNG as well, just heavily modified. At least, the underlying superstructure was the same even though they changed the interior details and contents.
Yeah they didn't modify much so they could use the existing electronics and lighting. If I remember right, either when they were building Voyager or striking the sets, some of the original corridor supports laid down for Phase II and TMP were still there when they were building/striking.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about Robocop. One of the early productions when the industry in Canada was in its infancy, with studios just starting to figure out the value of shooting here. An interesting case.
My understanding is that the underlying wooden frameworks of the sets, the parts you didn't see onscreen but that gave the sets their structure and solidity, were constantly there from 1978-2001. By the time Voyager ended, they were rotting away, which is why they were finally torn down and replaced with wholly new sets for Enterprise.
As pointed out, they needed 3 sound stages for the last modern series, Enterprise. The square footage was about 5.000 more than the new studio, so obviously they needed a lot of space. It remains to be seen if the new show needs to acquire even more space than the mega stage in Toronto.
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No, that was Vancouver, on the other end of the continent from Toronto. They're as far apart as Los Angeles and New York City. Vancouver is just north of Seattle, in a Pacific Northwest climate; Toronto is on the Great Lakes, close to Buffalo and Rochester, NY and not too far from Detroit (which is why so many RoboCop productions have shot there).
