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

[David cgc]

Don't quote me on this, but I believe they did more than try to replicate it. I'm pretty sure the Voyager warp core is literally the Refit warp core.

Well, it's in the same spot and the bones of the set are the same (the TMP, TNG, and VGR Engineerings are all the same set, heavily modified), but the actual core is new, and the "swirl" effect is less elaborate.

 

[UssGlenn]

That sounds like it's true?

The story is that demographic tracking wasn't a thing until after the cancellation, but the gunsmoke article proves they were already tracking and making decisions based on demographics before the cancellation.

 

[Tallguy]

and the "swirl" effect is less elaborate.

And presumably works ALL the time.

The story is that demographic tracking wasn't a thing until after the cancellation, but the gunsmoke article proves they were already tracking and making decisions based on demographics before the cancellation.

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Is there a gym yet?

They must do the bowling alley first!

 

[Tomalak]

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!

I think he was clearly “playing the hits” and it was nothing that long-term fans haven’t heard from various DVD commentaries, documentaries and interviews before.

But I think that’s a feature, not a bug. The sense I get is that the Archive are aiming to capture the definitive versions of these stories to preserve them for future generations.

“The Michael Eisner answer phone anecdote, preserved in every detail…”

 

[B.J.]

How are y'all exploring the sets? I just get the spinny one place view. On some there's an "Explore in 3D" button, I click on it, it says it's loading for a bit, and then it goes back to the single view. I have been able to do it before, so I'm not sure what's going on now.

 

[Maurice]

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

That sounds like it's true?

The story is that demographic tracking wasn't a thing until after the cancellation, but the gunsmoke article proves they were already tracking and making decisions based on demographics before the cancellation.

As @UssGlenn said.

I quoted that article to illustrate that demographics were not some new thing that revealed an ideal audience after NBC had cancelled Trek (as the well-worn and oft-repeated Roddenberry anecdote went). The show's demographics were well understood while it was running on the network.

 

[UssGlenn]

How are y'all exploring the sets? I just get the spinny one place view. On some there's an "Explore in 3D" button, I click on it, it says it's loading for a bit, and then it goes back to the single view. I have been able to do it before, so I'm not sure what's going on now.

That was my problem for a few months, but now it's back to working normally for me. No idea what changed.