The Roddenberry Archive / OTOY

[Orbing Master]

No RA artist has unreleased stuff from the Archive on their portfolio, it would kinda spoil the surprise.

Like you said that stuff is years old, and was made as fan-art (probably what got each of us the job in the first place). The standards for the Archive as so high that none of that could just be added in, usually each room is a months long process.

to me, this begs the question - will you/are you allowed to release images of the completed and released bridges/sets on your artstation/websites at some point, to complement those already available?

As much fun as the walk-arounds are (limited by the lack of a AR/VR thingie), it would be great to see HQ pictures of the newer bridges, like the Ent-A of TVH, the Bozeman and Defiant.

 

[F. King Daniel]

No RA artist has unreleased stuff from the Archive on their portfolio, it would kinda spoil the surprise.

Like you said that stuff is years old, and was made as fan-art (probably what got each of us the job in the first place). The standards for the Archive as so high that none of that could just be added in, usually each room is a months long process.

Ah, fair enough it looked like WIP to me. I am hoping we get to explore the TMP Enterprise in a lot more depth soon, walking around engineering and the rec deck would be wonderful

 

[Uxi]

Is that 1 to 1 walkable refit ever going to be available?

 

[David cgc]

Is that 1 to 1 walkable refit ever going to be available?

"Ever" is a long time, so... yes. I'll put down my marker for that... at some point.

 

[Jules / OTOY]

Is that 1 to 1 walkable refit ever going to be available?

It's coming along, but we are a long way out from finishing every deck. We will be putting out more interiors from the TMP movie in the shorter term.

 

[NCC-73515]

It would be amazing to also walk on the entire hull, like you could in Stage 9 and in KHG

 

[Tomalak]

Every deck is going to be a mammoth task. I'll settle for a few more of the on-screen sets for now!

 

[cardinal biggles]

I just noticed on DS9 that you can now walk into Odo's office. Pretty sure that was locked before, so that was a nice subtle update.

 

[Dukhat]

to me, this begs the question - will you/are you allowed to release images of the completed and released bridges/sets on your artstation/websites at some point, to complement those already available?

As much fun as the walk-arounds are (limited by the lack of a AR/VR thingie), it would be great to see HQ pictures of the newer bridges, like the Ent-A of TVH, the Bozeman and Defiant.

All this time I never knew just how anachronistic the Bozeman’s bridge was. For a ship from the 2280’s that was decommissioned 70 years before TNG, it sure uses a lot of TNG-style components like the center seat and consoles.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Noticed that myself. I now wonder that maybe it was an experimental platform for newly-emerging technology that later became standard in early 24th century ships. The Soyuz class has always been an enigma to me. Such an extreme departure from the other myriad, more mundane, Miranda variants we’ve seen. There’s so much more to it than we’ve been shown.

 

[Firebird]

I just noticed on DS9 that you can now walk into Odo's office. Pretty sure that was locked before, so that was a nice subtle update.

Someone must've paid off Quark to get access.

 

[Tallguy]

it sure uses a lot of TNG-style components like the center seat and consoles.

That's it, isn't it? And on screen you can't really see the chair. Obviously the uniforms and the Okudagrams are doing most of the period work.

Of course the Okudagrams are all TUC era and the Bozeman is from 2278 which if I have my approved Earth dates right is before TWOK.

 

[Rekkert]

Due to the realities of TV they reused a bunch of stuff they already had for the Bozeman, the chair and consoles are very easily recognizable on screen as TNG-era, especially given the red labels on the standing consoles. All the okudagrams are directly taken from TUC, with the ship schematic actually being a standard Miranda graphic taken from 'Night Terrors'.

It all works surprisingly well considering it came together in a few days.

 

[cardinal biggles]

^Given how brief the scene is, and that we only see the Bozeman's bridge through the Enterprise's viewscreen, for them to have put a ton of effort into making it look more like the Reliant or Saratoga bridges just wouldn't be practical. It's not like Scotty and Picard on the TOS bridge on the holodeck in "Relics," where it's a longer scene and you want to really sell it that he's back on the bridge again.

 

[Dukhat]

Due to the realities of TV they reused a bunch of stuff they already had for the Bozeman, the chair and consoles are very easily recognizable on screen as TNG-era, especially given the red labels on the standing consoles. All the okudagrams are directly taken from TUC, with the ship schematic actually being a standard Miranda graphic taken from 'Night Terrors'.

It all works surprisingly well considering it came together in a few days.

Don't get me wrong: between the shortness of the scene, the clever use of TNG-era set dressing just out of frame, and the TUC LCARS, they did a great job of utilizing available assets to create that bridge. It's just that seeing it in all it's glory now, it's more obvious what they used.

 

[Tallguy]

Captain Bateson is so embarrassed about it all that he blurs his background. (Either that or the Enterprise com systems have a flair for the dramatic.)

 

[David cgc]

It was probably just a left-hand not talking to the right-hand thing, but this all could've been averted if he'd just said twenty-two ninety-something.

Actually, come to think of it, 78 popped up a few times. Data said he was in the class of '78 in EoF (or, as I like to reconcile it, the Class of Seventy-Eight, a famous Starfleet Academy cohort that graduated in 2345), and GEN was seventy-eight years after, um, GEN. I guess there are only so many two-digit numbers and coincidences are bound to happen, but maybe it was somebody's kid's birth-year or something and it was 47 situation.

 

[Tomalak]

The EaF example is probably not relevant, but obviously CaE and Generations share a writer, so possibly?

It’s not really an issue, other than the Bozeman apparently having very advanced computer systems for a ship just about to be retired due to obsolescence. Maybe it was a simply a test bed towards the end of her intended life?

I kind of like the eccentric bridge. Maybe Starfleet was experimenting with Klingon-inspired command and control?

 

[Tallguy]

Not to steal @Jules / OTOY 's thunder, but:

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November 18th is of course the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Generations.

From the comments:
Q: ...it looked like similar sets and graphics from Picard season 3 at points.
A: Andrew Jarvis made both these and the ones you see in Pic S3. See you in a week!

 

[Tosk]

Oo-ee, what will it be?