Am I misremembering, or was the idea that the table would retract into the floor when not in use like the joystick console in Insurrection?
I wish I could remember where I read it, but supposedly the tea table (and the corresponding thing in front of Kirk's feet on the Ent-A) was there to hide machinery related to gimbals they installed on the set? I thought that Nemesis was the first time they put a bridge set on gimbals to simulate shaking while under attack.
I dunno. I was reviewing the Excelsior scenes the other night, and when the ship starts to shake from the initial shockwave before the big wave hits, you can see the light panel in the turbolift alcoves moving wildly, as if the set was actually being shook.
I'm guessing there's different kinds of gimbals, and they wouldn't necessarily cause movement as dramatic as that pic of Connery and Baldwin standing on the bridge of the Red October tilted on a 30° angle that someone posted a few pages back, right?
I suppose you could have rigged it to send big vibrations through the set as a cue to the actors. Since the pie wedges are still wild, whatever it was can't move them that much. Do we know how they vibrated the table to get the teacup to slide off?
It's the "this is the first Bond Girl who isn't just a damsel in distress" press angle again, my mind starts to go blank when I hear these things as though I haven't heard those exact words before. There have been at least 4 Treks where coverage has indicated that this is the first time the bridge is on gimbals, and I'm guessing my count is low.
I think I remember people talking about the Galaxy Quest bridge having gimbals when none of the Trek bridges had them. Nemesis being the only one filmed after, matches with the story of it being a trek first. But those would be the big hydraulic ones that can tip the bridge a couple feet. Whatever was used in STIV must be a smaller effect, especially given the tight budget.
It was. The individual seats on the BOP bridge were rigged to vibrate. Walter Koenig recalled getting Nimoy the director mad using the vibration to make a joke.
He's speaking of the Final Frontier Enterprise-A bridge palette, which had beige padding throughout, since you were wondering if the Final Frontier bridge would look better with blue padding/doors. Which I don't think it would; I agree with @Rusty0918
I've been working a lot but haven't been posting; as I want to reveal the Excelsior all at once when it's completed. But for now, here are the Excelsior bridge crew chairs, which was in reality the older verison of the HAG Capisco chair with a giant cylinder to cover the casters
The detail's incredible, Donny. Great work. Do you know if they had castors under the bases to allow the seats to be moved? dJE
Yes. We see (and hear) and the chairs roll across the bridge on their casters, however under their conspicuous, large covers
Yes, I always wondered why they went to the trouble of hiding the casters when the sound is unmistakable!
Wait, the sound wasn't foley and was actually recorded from the take? Wow. @Donny - wonderful seat build as always. But I'm not sure that looks so comfortable to sit in
Oh, I don’t know about that. I just know we definitely hear casters, whether from the take or added in post.
That would have to be added in post. IIRC the flooring they used in TUC was some sort of vinyl that looked like steel diamond plate, but you wouldn't be able to get the same sound from the casters skidding across it that you would actual metal.