TMP Sickbay

[lennier1]

Are there any good behind-the-scenes images of the movie sickbay (before it was converted into the TNG set)?

Unlike the bridge and the engineering sets it's relatively hard to get useful reference images of some sickbay props (like the orderly's station and the desk in the doctor's office or the chairs). Kinda presents an annoying handicap if one wants to build a CG model of a set like that.

 

[wjaspers]

Did a CG model of the sickbay, and I'm afraid you won't find anything more than what was showed in the movie. Except the layout of it.

 

[lennier1]

That's what I'm afraid of.
It won't be a 100% faithful reproduction anyway (different ship), but having desks similar to the original set still seems like a nice idea.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I looked, too, and other than the scene where all the guys are laying about Sickbay, dying from coolant poisoning and all, in TWOK, I can't find any.

 

[Ryann866]

There are really very few behind the scenes set photos from TMP. For sickbay, there is a "completed" deck plan in Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise that was based on the set dimensions.

Here are the stage blueprints for TMP sets:
http://pat.suwalski.net/film/st-stages/stages/stage9-tmp.jpg

Sickbay is in the upper left and you can see that there really wasn't much built for the main hospital ward section. What you see in the film is pretty much it -- the angled wall supports and the beds. Each end of the set had a transparent "divider" connected to the bulkhead.

The narrow gray corridor that extends off of the transporter room continues on outside the back big bay windows of McCoy's office. The famous sample containers labeled with "Andromeda Strain" was attached to this wall behind a table.

For TNG the table was used in the 1701-D sickbay and the wall containers were moved further back in the corridor as part of the transporter room. The rest of the corridor length was dismantled and not used on TNG, separating the sickbay set from the transporter room set.

the TMP nurse's desk can only be seen in a few shots, like this one: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmphd/tmphd2285.jpg

The nurse's desk was later repurposed for TNG (repainted) as a transporter console in the cargo bay: Here's the best pic I could find:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x04/codehonor018.jpg

Hope this helps.

 

[lennier1]

Thank you!
That's one down and one to go.

I already had the rest, but didn't make the connection to the cargo bay console.
Went through Trekcore with a fine toothcomb myself. Unfortunately their screencaps never show more than fragments of the top portions, like in your image.
AFAIK Pretty much the only time we get to see Bones' desk is this shot: http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9426/tmphd1968.jpg

Probably a good thing I'm mixing influences from some other sets in my project to make the differences on this other ship less of a problem (e.g. my CMO's office has ceiling lights similar to Kirk's quarters, added a utility room, ...).

 

[Ryann866]

Here's a better shot of McCoy at his desk.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/ph...k-III-leonard-bones-mccoy-6351939-599-435.jpg

Looks like its just a regular desk with that console from TMP pushed into the corner.

 

[lennier1]

Thanks!
I think with those images I'll be able to come up with something.

 

[Timo47]

Here's a better shot of McCoy at his desk.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/ph...k-III-leonard-bones-mccoy-6351939-599-435.jpg

Looks like its just a regular desk with that console from TMP pushed into the corner.

Wow, where's that image from? First time I've seen that.

 

[Ryann866]

I think it was on the Trek II dvd in the photo gallery. Either that or from an old magazine.

While we're talking sickbay there is a shot from the Roddenberry intro to The Cage that shows what the set looked like post Trek IV:

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x01/thecgaeintro01_044.jpg

This footage was shot sometime in late 1986 after Trek IV's shooting but before the sets were redressed into their TNG configurations. The last time sickbay was shot was for Trek III as the Klingon BOP sickbay for the one short scene where McCoy talks to the comatose Spock

You can see that a biobed was moved into the area of McCoy's office and covered with black fabric. The bottom row of wall panel storage bins that were mounted on the wall were popped out and replaced by graphics and most interestingly, the glass windows were detailed with a distinctive Klingon cross hatched design. The back wall with the two windows (that was later used as the rear wall of Crusher's office) has been removed from the set.

You could never see any of this in the film since the scene was shot tight in close-ups. The magic of movie money-saving!

 

[Maurice]

The narrow gray corridor that extends off of the transporter room continues on outside the back big bay windows of McCoy's office. The famous sample containers labeled with "Andromeda Strain" was attached to this wall behind a table.

The labels in question also appear on the containers on the antigrav sled that crosses Kirk's path on his way to the engine room. I have a photo of the labels and a screenshot, and you can tell they're the same.

 

[SonicRanger]

That wall ended up in the TNG transporter room:

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x03/brothers131.jpg

 

[Ryann866]

That wall ended up in the TNG transporter room:

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x03/brothers131.jpg

Amazing how they recycled stuff! IIRC the only time we saw that corridor used was in TREK II when Spock, Saavik, and Kirk walk though it after they beam up from the Genesis cave. For TNG it looks like they sealed off the transporter room because we never saw where it led.

 

[lennier1]

That wall ended up in the TNG transporter room:

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x03/brothers131.jpg

Amazing how they recycled stuff! IIRC the only time we saw that corridor used was in TREK II when Spock, Saavik, and Kirk walk though it after they beam up from the Genesis cave. For TNG it looks like they sealed off the transporter room because we never saw where it led.

For TNG they simply saved themselves a lot of hassle:

 

[SonicRanger]

For TNG they simply saved themselves a lot of hassle:

The funny thing is that, behind those blinds, I think we saw both stars and a corridor on different occasions.

Stars: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x02/farpoint2_156.jpg

 

[Ryann866]

That wall ended up in the TNG transporter room:

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x03/brothers131.jpg

Amazing how they recycled stuff! IIRC the only time we saw that corridor used was in TREK II when Spock, Saavik, and Kirk walk though it after they beam up from the Genesis cave. For TNG it looks like they sealed off the transporter room because we never saw where it led.

For TNG they simply saved themselves a lot of hassle:

Just noticed from the Trek II screencap you posted -- the wall on the left side of the office (next to David's hand) Was taken from TMP airlock set --

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmphd/tmphd2033.jpg

There used to be an actual console there for TMP. That entire left side of McCoy's office was used in TNG engineering - the wall of consoles at the back of Geordi's office:

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmphd/tmphd1962.jpg http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s2/2x16/qwho124.jpg

Making it easier for themselves indeed!

 

[Timo47]

Just noticed from the Trek II screencap you posted -- the wall on the left side of the office (next to David's hand) Was taken from TMP airlock set --

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmphd/tmphd2033.jpg

Could it be that the same wall was also used in STFS?
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tsfshd/tsfshd0369.jpg
The background is never in focus, so it's hard to make out.

The design of McCoy's office is really odd. With it being open and showing the transporter corridor I always used to think they were somewhere deep in the ship, some part of engineering. It hardly looks like an office.

Even though this is only the only scene showing McCoy's office, and only for a few seconds even, it's noteworthy they went through the trouble of adding a lot of personal touches such as the clock. Certainly if you compare it with TMP, were this and other sets were very spartan looking.

I wonder what McCoy was reading (on paper!).

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I wonder what McCoy was reading (on paper!).

A notice/memo from HB that his sickbay scenes would be drastically cut for "timing."

 

[aaon80]

I just wanted to thank people who are posting the images in this thread, it is pretty cool! If there are more interesting images showing sickbay, or images of other set reuses, please keep 'em coming! I especially love the reuse and detailed images of the TMP Enterprise.