Such a hollow world...

[RobertScorpio]

Trek(s) of all ages loved to do a lot of filming in the studio so as to cut down on the budget. What is the worst use of the an indoor set, meaning, when did it just look crappy...and, when did it look right on

For example, I tried to watch the episode of TNG this weekend when Picard and company have to stay alive against that weapon device on The arsenal of Freedom. I thought the set looked horrible then, and just as horrible now. Looks like something out of a Glen larson production. Gilligan's Island looked far better!...very cheap looking...that too me was a bad use of the studio set...

Inner light, I thought, was done quite well. It was TNG's typical 'commune looking set where everyone wears simple clothes and eats trail mix', but I thought it looked well made. It actually, to me, looked like an outdoor set. And at the end, when the sun was getting bright and they lured picard out to watch the launch of the probe, the lighting was very good. I believed him to be 'outside' watching that probe go off as they revealed its true purpose....


what are some good and bad studio work you can remember on all things Star Trek

Rob
Scorpio

 

[sbk1234]

Skin of Evil looked like absolute crap. Actually, in that first season, every time they filmed a planet in the studio it looked fake, except perhaps for The Last Outpost, when they FX'd in a sky with moving clouds, etc.

As for good ones? Hard to say. I really don't remember any. Perhaps Pen Pals. There really weren't any that made a positive impression.

 

[Semah]

Unimatrix Zero on Voyager wasn't terrible. The set I mean.

 

[chris32482]

I hate any scene that's supposed to be outside, because you can always tell that they're in a studio with some fake trees and stuff.

 

[Finn]

I don't know the episode, but there was that scene where we see Kirk and Co. (TOS of course) beam down at a planetside starbase. It obviously was a painting.

 

[sbk1234]

One of the frustrating things was at the same time as TOS, Lost in Space was being produced. It was generally considered a farce by most, but its planet sets were usually pretty darn good, especially the backround which seemed to actually stretch to a horizon.

 

[Mysterion]

All the Genesis Planet stuff from TSFS.

 

[RobertScorpio]

One of the frustrating things was at the same time as TOS, Lost in Space was being produced. It was generally considered a farce by most, but its planet sets were usually pretty darn good, especially the backround which seemed to actually stretch to a horizon.

The only 'painting' background they got right, IMO, was for the Menagrie and Where No man Has Gone Before...but the rest of the time it just lookd hokey

Rob

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Wasn't it Berman's influence to start using as much as possible, real settings and adding a bit more money to the production values of the show so that it could be taken more seriously?

I thought I read that somewhere. And if so, VERY good on him. They weren't always perfect, but you could definitely see the effort as seasons went on.

 

[Marie1]

I'm pretty sure that the last scene in To the Death (DS9) is on a stage. They looked like they were in the woods for the rest of it, the all of a sudden, its like they were in front of a green screen. The plants look all weird and so on... thats always bugged me.

 

[Crewman47]

I've started to notice that the star "scenes" outside the windows of the conference room and ready room of Voyager are more noticably fake the more time it's on screen. It's just that static looking and sometimes you can make out the ruffles on the cloth. Surely it can't be that hard or expensive to have an active star scene outside the windows.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

One of the frustrating things was at the same time as TOS, Lost in Space was being produced. It was generally considered a farce by most, but its planet sets were usually pretty darn good, especially the backround which seemed to actually stretch to a horizon.

The only 'painting' background they got right, IMO, was for the Menagrie and Where No man Has Gone Before...but the rest of the time it just lookd hokey

Rob

Yeah, those matte paintings were spectacular (at least compared to most planets in TOS).

 

[sbk1234]

One of the frustrating things was at the same time as TOS, Lost in Space was being produced. It was generally considered a farce by most, but its planet sets were usually pretty darn good, especially the backround which seemed to actually stretch to a horizon.

The only 'painting' background they got right, IMO, was for the Menagrie and Where No man Has Gone Before...but the rest of the time it just lookd hokey

Rob

Yeah, those matte paintings were spectacular (at least compared to most planets in TOS).

Yeah. That bugs me even more. If they started off with such a great background, why the Hell didn't they use it again, at least sometimes?!

 

[RobertScorpio]

I am not sure, but I think those episodes were filmed over in the old studio..maybe they couldn't bring the mattes with them because they were being used for westerns...But I am with you. Would have come in handy for scenes like the one at the start of Mirror Mirror...

Rob
Scorpio