Oh, yeah, I made my own position clear, this scene here is in favor of "bridge faces forward," but I know how the hair-splitting game works.At this point in the episode the Gorn ship had stopped and the Enterprise was barelling towards her target at Warp 8 - then she was stopped dead in her tracks.
No yanking to the side was required or even mentioned
“Balance of Terror,” perhaps? And not just Uhura. She and Kirk move in roughly the same direction: toward flashing alert lights. Everyone one else of the bridge is thrown in different directions, essentially boxing the compass.
It would seem reasonable to suppose that people getting tossed around would have to be because of relatively very tiny fluctuations in the inertial dampeners while they're getting taxed to their operational limits, given the accelerations involved. As fluctuations, they could be variable across a given deck, in time, in direction, and in magnitude, and they might not necessarily correlate with the direction of the ship's motion.
Sometimes, despite your world-weary façade, your inner geek really shines through. Always a pleasure to see.
I had seen where someone had posted a shot of the probe reading things at Spock's science station and crisscrossed it with yours; sorry about that. I can't account for the diagram in Star Trek III. Unless it just is the old version of the ship because it did not need to be accurate, like some have said, which means that it would not say anything about the angle of the bridge.The post I was responding to said:
Yes, let’s forget that Franz Joseph’s blueprints were used to (mis)represent the refit in Star Trek III
(emphasis mine) The pictures I cited were from STIII. I was talking about TSFS.
Yes, I think that's the one I meant!“Balance of Terror,” perhaps? And not just Uhura. She and Kirk move in roughly the same direction: toward flashing alert lights. Everyone one else of the bridge is thrown in different directions, essentially boxing the compass.
“Balance of Terror,” perhaps? And not just Uhura. She and Kirk move in roughly the same direction: toward flashing alert lights. Everyone one else of the bridge is thrown in different directions, essentially boxing the compass.
I think Vincent McEveety blocked that shot to draw attention to the lights which are the only things visible for 3.5 seconds, immediately preceding the VFX of the crippled Enterprise. It’s a compelling image, the brightly lit bridge plunged into (near total) darkness.
In-universe, though, the way the people are tossed to and fro suggests variable gravity at play.
To me, everyone is falling 'downhill' except for Sulu, Uhura and Kirk. The Navigator falling toward a point forward of Spock's station is the most downhill, followed the port perimeter peeps. Sulu goes almost directly aft of his chair, Kirk straight back from the camera along the axis of tilt, and poor Uhura looks like she is running uphill.
Leslie's fall looks unnatural. First he's later then everyone else, then he stands up to the right, spins around his chair and flies to the left. I think it would have looked better to just fly out of his chair to the left, like the guy next to him.
