Strange New Worlds? Really? It's the one show that actually had adequate lighting.
Original premise for Pic S.3 - Terry Matalas.....
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I think that is what they meant.
Yeah, I re-read it and you're right. Need to get my eyes checked.
tbh I kind of liked the low lighting on the Titan
It beats the 80's minivan look on the Enterprise-D.
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If the Titan’s lighting got any lower, it would turn into a gothic mansion.tbh I kind of liked the low lighting on the Titan
Fun fact: the Titan was slated to be the Fleet's haunted house until Picard and Riker comadeered it.
Dark Shadows is more brightly lit.
The one thing I found most (mildly) frustrating about the NuBSG CIC was that in the pilot they showed that the overhead DRADIS console could retract and extend, which I thought was a neat concept, but I'm not sure they ever had it do that again after the pilot.
Well, also it never quite sat well with me that Galactica would have a CIC but not a bridge. I guess we're supposed to accept that there may be a bridge that's simply never seen, but that's a weird notion to me as well. I just struggle with conflating a CIC with a bridge.
It happened a couple more times. Offhand, I remember a shot looking up from the plotting table at it lowering opened a season 1 episode, and it happened in the background in Blood and Chrome. Never saw the point of it, myself. Maybe if there was a space on the deck above and they lifted it up when they needed to fix one of the monitors.
Galactica probably didn't have a bridge, since the CIC had a helm console (well, they might've had a docking bridge with a window somewhere that wasn't in regular use), but I've suspected that Pegasus had a larger off-screen CIC that Cain preferred not to use (partially because she referred to her command center as a bridge).
Yeah, I know it's kind of silly, but it did make CIC a little more dynamic, and I figured it might retract for maintenance or upgrades or such. Otherwise I don't know how a Cylon put a beacon on the bottom of it without anyone noticing in any case. 
It just...I know the whole point of the CIC model was to get away from Trek's bridge model with the command center in an arguably more vulnerable area, but having -no- windows on what seemed to be the functional bridge just seemed kind of silly too.
It just...I know the whole point of the CIC model was to get away from Trek's bridge model with the command center in an arguably more vulnerable area, but having -no- windows on what seemed to be the functional bridge just seemed kind of silly too.
The same reason that in PIC S3 as presented, the Borg Queen hid her disabled Cube in Jupiter's atmosphere undetected for 20 years.
*- Which for me was an even more ludicrous/stupid idea (given Jupiter Station and other Federation assets in the vicinity.
In fact, I think it might have been a better story than the:
"Picard and Beverly's 'love child', (which Beverly hid from Picard); is used by a psychotic Changeling and a dying Borg Queen to take over the Federation... *a plan 30 years in the making too."
At least for me Locutus is a more interesting villain than the umpteenth 'Borg Queen'.
Hell, Picard and Co. beat a Borg Queen in PIC S2.
The cube wasn't there for twenty years, Jack's shuttle detected it dropping out of transwarp right after he got there.The same reason that in PIC S3 as presented, the Borg Queen hid her disabled Cube in Jupiter's atmosphere undetected for 20 years.
*- Which for me was an even more ludicrous/stupid idea (given Jupiter Station and other Federation assets in the vicinity.
The Queen herself said the Cube had no power because of what Pucrd had done earlier and she had managed to get it there via a hidden transwap conduit before it completely lost power - but yeah she and it had been sitting there disabled an undetected for years.
Unless she used transwarp to get from one side of the red spot to the other, she wasn't. There's nothing there when Jack arrives, there's a big whomp that shakes him up, the computer says a transwarp conduit just opened, and suddenly there's a Borg cube there. In the next episode, she doesn't say anything about going to Jupiter or when, just that her ship was stranded "at the edge of space" with no hope of survival until she felt Jack's mind and made her plan.
What? Story logic hole in Picard season 3? Unpossible!!
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Yep.
BSG was able to thus mask the limits of the budget.
Trek presents a different lighting challenge - darker is better cinematically, but in addition to the faces, people expect the walls to be lit.
This leads to a hilarious number of clearly meaningless displays and winky-blinkies scattered about the set.
When in doubt, throw one more schematic of the ship up there.
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