Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life

[Tomalak]

Characters are experimental at this time. They were added mainly to get feedback from visitors to see if they add or take away from the experience in their current form. Your feedback is really welcome on this. We can make them animated and even give them a routine as NPCs, but that is more resource intensive and some steps away from where we are today.

Thanks, I think it's worth exploring but take the point on the resource demand.

I don't know if you could make them an option in the settings?

 

[UssGlenn]

I don't know if you could make them an option in the settings?

you already can, press K

 

[Jules / OTOY]

Thanks, I think it's worth exploring but take the point on the resource demand.

I don't know if you could make them an option in the settings?

Yes - we were thinking that might be the way to go in fact. It might even be there in the settings, let me check if that made it into today’s update or if it was only in an internal build.

 

[UssGlenn]

Yes - we were thinking that might be the way to go in fact. It might even be there in the settings, let me check if that made it into today’s update or if it was only in an internal build.

It's there already. However, if the person is holding a prop, it stays floating in space when they disappear. There's a guy in the Farpoint engineering like that.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The lockers at the very back of the TMP hanger deck have no collision

FWIW I find the characters immersion-breaking, but what if we had Lower Decks "Twovix" style uniformed manikins dotted around? They'd add to the living museum feel.

 

[MarcKyle1964]

I just noticed this post. Has anyone quoted Scotty from Relics yet?

 

[Tuskin38]

Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49.bsky.social)

Here are two shots of the #TOS Enterprise bridge from the excellent new Roddenberry Archive documentary "Lost Voyages: Phase II and the Rebirth of Star Trek" released today. Using my bridge overhead display research, I can conclude that the bridge is shown as it appeared in "The Galileo Seven". :-)

bsky.app

 

[Tallguy]

I watched the Phase II and Nick Meyer videos. For two subjects that I'm pretty sure I've heard everything about (everything that can be public anyway) these were surprisingly engaging. Very well done!

 

[fireproof78]

Is there a gym yet?

 

[UssGlenn]

I saw signs for a volleyball court and bowling alley in the rec room.

 

[Firebird]

I watched the Phase II and Nick Meyer videos. For two subjects that I'm pretty sure I've heard everything about (everything that can be public anyway) these were surprisingly engaging. Very well done!

That's something I've noticed about a lot of Meyer's interviews lately - he covers a lot of the same points, down to the "art is cool" quotation and the bit about seeing his papers at U of Iowa. Props to the Archive team for including visuals to spice things up!

 

[NCC-73515]

The Koenig and Meyer videos were the best.
I wish the 3D views were loading :/

 

[Maurice]

Re the demographics story, here's an example of reporting on it from 1967 re Gunsmoke:

As far as broadcasting is concerned, the population drops into four categories: the 18-to-34 viewers (and their young children); to 35-to-49 plus growing kids; the 50-to-64s, and the 65-plus.

Gunsmoke, which certainly looked healthy enough on the Nielsen chart, recently was pulling a 21.7 rating and placed 26th in the popularity poll. That was better than The Monkees, Star Trek, Lost in Space — all renewed for another season and all counted among the successful programs.

GUNSMOKE'S ailment is in the demographic area. Surveys reveal that its popularity with viewers over 50 is infinitely greater than with the 18-to-34 and the 35-to-49 groups. And, after all, the over-50s are constantly getting older or dying off — and they are in smaller families that don't buy as much soap, beer, ice boxes, cars, cake mixes or anything else as young consumers. So, Gunsmoke was shaky — particularly since it costs about $200,000 a week to produce.

Cynthia Lowry, Associated Press, Why Gunsmoke Almost Fell--Young Folks Don't Watch It, Press & Sun Bulletin, Sun, March 19, 1967, p.40.

 

[Michael]

Love the new updates! Just spent half an hour exploring the engineering set from Strange New Worlds. It’s one of my favorite sets and I hope we’ll see it a few times more before the show concludes. I don’t know why I hadn’t realized that before, but those columns are housing ladders! That’s pretty cool. I wish they would actually use them on the show.

Also watched the “Phase II” documentary yesterday and thought it was very well made. Not super much I hadn’t already heard or read about, but really well put together. I kinda wish it had spent another five or so minutes to talk more about the various story outlines that were written for the would-be show. But that’s looking a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[UssGlenn]

I was surprised how small the movie engineering was. It feels so much more expensive on screen.