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I might be totally brainfarting but I'm sure the 1701-A gets a redressed Excelsior bridge?
I might be totally brainfarting but I'm sure the 1701-A gets a redressed Excelsior bridge?
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x10 - "A Quality of Mercy"
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The 1701-A first appears in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home.
I believe the only time the bridge that was the same in any of the TOS era Star Trek films was STII and STIII.
Other way around.
The Enterprise-B got a reworked Excelsior bridge which was based in part on the TUC version of the Enterprise-A.
In ST V, yes, it's a new bridge. Not sure about the one from the closing scene of ST IV - it LOOKS like the same bridge from the first three films, just painted white, but I seem to remember reading that the ST IV bridge was also built brand new. Just the parts we see, anyway.
And I'm fairly sure the TMP bridge is indeed the same one that's also used in TWOK and TSFS, only with the science and communications stations switched.
That's what I'm remembering.
Yeah, the 1701-B bridge is pretty close to an exact copy of the TUC Excelsior bridge with just some stations and control interfaces switched around, and, of course, the red digital clocks removed from the design.
same set in movies 1 to 4 but each time modified (a lot for the second movie, not so much afterwards).
Then the set was destroyed in a fire and the studios was forced to build a new one, only thing saved was the conn station, which had to me reworked a lot anyway. Meyer used the same set for movie 6 but had it heavily modified to make it look more militaristic.
that was an entirely different (and only partial) set and it was indeed bigger than the Undiscovered Country one. In fact the Excelsior miniature was modified to reflect the smaller bridge module!Maybe it was the framing or the lenses, but the Excelsior bridge in ST3 looked huge.
however, it was mounted on motors that could actually shake the set to simulate the explosions, a big surprise for the old time actors!
I thought it ended up being used over on TNG for various things, so a new a new set was built for V, which was then accidentally wrecked when it was temporarily moved to the car park while storage was being cleaned — caught in a storm and flooded — then they built a new one for VI on what was left (which wasn’t much)
It certainly did! I doubt that we saw more than a quarter of the compartment!Maybe it was the framing or the lenses, but the Excelsior bridge in ST3 looked huge.
Okay, where to start...
The set used in ST:TMP was used in the first four Trek movies. For ST 4, part of it was repainted, redetailed, fitted with new display graphics by a young designer from Hawaii who was hired just to work on this movie - Mike Okuda - and used briefly to represent the bridge of the NCC-1701-A.
A few months later that bridge set, along with all of the other sets dating back to ST:TMP, was modified and cannibalized for use in the new ST:TNG TV series.
That bridge was used as the "battle bridge" of the Enterprise D in the pilot episode, "Encounter at Farpoint," and later that season redressed as the bridge of the Stargazer for the episode "The Battle."
For the fifth Star Trek movie, a new bridge was designed almost entirely from scratch by Herman Zimmerman for Kirk's new Enterprise. The turbolift alcoves from the old set were reused, along with part of the Conn module.
This set was reused by Meyer, with changes, for Star Trek 6, as both the bridge of Kirk's Enterprise and redressed as the bridge of Sulu's Excelsior.*
It was also used, with changes, for the bridge of the Enterprise B in Star Trek: Generations.
At this point, it became sort of the Bridge of Theseus. The old TMP turbolift alcoves made their last appearances on the big screen in, I believe, in Generations, but I believe they were trotted out once more on television for the recreation of Sulu's Excelsior bridge on Voyager. The wall stations built for Star Trek 5 would continue to be used, with new graphics and control surfaces, on the bridge of the Enterprise E, right through the end of the Roddenberry/Berman era movies. God only knows how many bits and pieces were used for various ships on DS9. And so on, and so forth...
*For my money, Meyer's changes vandalized a rather brilliant piece of work by Zimmerman and the other designers and graphic artists on ST 5, for the sake of servicing the director's aesthetic fascination with the more military undertones of Trek (hey, it worked once, so why not again? Well, not so much, this time). I know that Meyer's fans will disagree with that.
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totally agreed here: the STV bridge embodies the kind of positive vibe it had in TOS and not in the other movies.
It looked the nicest in ST V. I never cared for the Excelsior Bridge at all. A shame ST V treated it like a joke.
Word has it that the motors were installed on a Tuesday!
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Wasn't that just the Enterprise-D bridge?
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