Green look aquarium glass does not, no, based upon the pictures presented thus far.
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Thank you, Naren Shankar.
I think we passed silly a few pages back.
On the original series, the transporter wall panels were apparently made of a lenticular plastic that's used, among other places, as drum wrap - something like this:
Early on, BTW, the panels were just a milky white. They may have been lit with green light later:
The same thing was used on the overhead partition panels in the Enterprise corridors that existed to block the camera from picking up the studio ceiling above the high but open-topped sets:
So, ever since it seems the designers look for something of unusual texture to line the walls of the transporter platform with. In the TOS movies it looked like some kind of vacuum-formed translucent plastic egg crate. On TNG, it was different geometric graphics, on STD it was that three-dimensional rectangular pattern. But each designer seems to want to do it in a new and different way.
Early on, BTW, the panels were just a milky white. They may have been lit with green light later:
The same thing was used on the overhead partition panels in the Enterprise corridors that existed to block the camera from picking up the studio ceiling above the high but open-topped sets:
So, ever since it seems the designers look for something of unusual texture to line the walls of the transporter platform with. In the TOS movies it looked like some kind of vacuum-formed translucent plastic egg crate. On TNG, it was different geometric graphics, on STD it was that three-dimensional rectangular pattern. But each designer seems to want to do it in a new and different way.
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I would hope so.
Dig it.I told the designer of the Disco Sickbay I wasn't a fan of it. I said it was way too small and there is no private room, everyone is sorta on display the second you walk in. He told me the reasoning behind it was that they can put a forcefield around the bed that hides the patient like using a curtain.
Interesting - so they literally baked a VFX budget spike into the set design every time they wanted to use that feature in an episode. Probably why we haven't seen it much - if at all?I told the designer of the Disco Sickbay I wasn't a fan of it. I said it was way too small and there is no private room, everyone is sorta on display the second you walk in. He told me the reasoning behind it was that they can put a forcefield around the bed that hides the patient like using a curtain.
It's not like they're spending that money on writing talent.
I'm really excited to see the engineering set, if we actually get one.
My one main gripe with Discovery is the whole engineering aspect of it. If memory serves, I think the spore room was initially designed as a torpedo room, then changed last minute to be a science lab, and now I guess it just serves as the defacto engineering room. It's not a huge deal and certainly not a dealbreaker, I just wish for the amount of time we spent in there it was more of a dynamic set.
My one main gripe with Discovery is the whole engineering aspect of it. If memory serves, I think the spore room was initially designed as a torpedo room, then changed last minute to be a science lab, and now I guess it just serves as the defacto engineering room. It's not a huge deal and certainly not a dealbreaker, I just wish for the amount of time we spent in there it was more of a dynamic set.
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How does green make it appear any more or less functional than another color? We have to bring enough suspension of disbelief to (a) assume that the panels serve some sort of function, and (b) that there's likely an in-universe tech reason why the color they display is green.
Now that your draw my attention to it, the Disco transporter walls look like a harlequin costume.
I didn't watch enough of the show to be sure, but I thought the transporter walls were three dimensional rather than on a single vertical plane and would shift perspective somewhat depending on camera angle and movement.
Ok, to be clear, it isn't just the green, but the green stands out. What it appears to be is glass. Now, as others have pointed out, it probably isn't glass. It probably functions just fine. But, upon initial appearance it does not look like it can do the job as described. The green aquarium looking glass leads me to a particular conclusion that is neither rationale, and will probably dissipate upon watching the show.
However, the look breaks my suspension of disbelief because it looks like an aquarium. Mileage will vary. It being green happens to be a small sticking point because I do not care for most green things, including Kermit, Yoda, Grogu and vegetables, just to address any future questions.
True enough. I hated the refit Enterprise until I got the manual.
Thanks for those teasers - it's the perfect balance between showing nothing at all and showing way too much. The last pic post seems to have disappeared, but they're still visible in one of the quotes. May wanna take care of that as well if there was a reason to remove the post itself.
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...right now? XD
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