Poll 1701-REfit v. 1701-A Photon Torpedo Bays

[Galileo7]

Which set design did you like better?

I liked the redressed TMP Klingon bridge set made into 1701-REfit Torpedo Bays in WOK and SFS.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Was there even a complete set built for VI? My impression was a wall, a console, a pole and a very small tube.

 

[Galileo7]

Was there even a complete set built for VI? My impression was a wall, a console, a pole and a very small tube.

It was on Deck 13, had entry door, at least two walls creating a medium size corner room with monitors and two torpedo launcher tubes built for this new 1701-A set. At least two scenes take place in the 1701-A torpedo bays first with Scotty after the attack on Kronos one. Second with Spock & McCoy preparing and launching a photon torpedo against the BoP.

 

[Firebird]

Was there even a complete set built for VI? My impression was a wall, a console, a pole and a very small tube.

I'd actually done a floorplan for both levels of this set at one point, and it's much more extensive than you'd think:

 

[MarsWeeps]

Which set design did you like better?

I liked the redressed TMP Klingon bridge set made into 1701-REfit Torpedo Bays in WOK and SFS.

You would probably get more participation if you posted side by side pictures.

 

[Galileo7]

You would probably get more participation if you posted side by side pictures.

True. Albeit, I just know we all saw the films so we would remember without posting.
WOK / SFS :
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ef/28/39/ef28392c73efa690aa04430cee269306.jpg

 

[Maurice]

I hated the TWOK torpedo room because it was a) obviously the Klingon bridge and b) ergo didn't feel like part of the same ship.

 

[MarsWeeps]

I hated the TWOK torpedo room because it was a) obviously the Klingon bridge and b) ergo didn't feel like part of the same ship.

I hated the whole "manually-load-the-torpedoes-like-an-old-WWII-submarine" scenario. I always envisioned a more automated process.

 

[Galileo7]

I hated the TWOK torpedo room because it was a) obviously the Klingon bridge and b) ergo didn't feel like part of the same ship.

Even though I liked it better than TUC torpedo room, the WOK/SFS torpedo room being the recycled TMP K'T'inga bridge set was a problem for the reasons you have stated. I just wished that in TUC with a chance to re-image the 1701-A torpedo room it could have been so much more than just feeling like part of the same ship.

 

[Galileo7]

I hated the whole "manually-load-the-torpedoes-like-an-old-WWII-submarine" scenario. I always envisioned a more automated process.

It must have been Nicholas Meyers Horatio Hornblower in space attempt to recreate the loading of cannons.

 

[Maurice]

I'm pretty sure they redressed that set since it was elevated off the stage floor (for the under-set lighting and sloped front section down to the below-floor screen) and easiest to modify to have a torpedo run trough. Still hate it, tho.

 

[Galileo7]

I'm pretty sure they redressed that set since it was elevated off the stage floor (for the under-set lighting and sloped front section down to the below-floor screen) and easiest to modify to have a torpedo run trough. Still hate it, tho.

Yes, it was redressed.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/reused_ship_interiors.htm
scroll down to K'T'inga class bridge

 

[Maurice]

Of course it was redressed. I said as much a few posts earlier. I was stating why it was redressed.

 

[Galileo7]

Of course it was redressed. I said as much a few posts earlier. I was stating why it was redressed.

When you said

I'm pretty sure they redressed that set since....

I thought you were not totally confident of it. That is why I post the confirmation.

 

[Maurice]

I hated the TWOK torpedo room because it was a) obviously the Klingon bridge and b) ergo didn't feel like part of the same ship.

See?

 

[Timo]

I hated the whole "manually-load-the-torpedoes-like-an-old-WWII-submarine" scenario

I think it's pretty easy to rationalize that away as "schoolship has the system sealed and the seals need to be taken off before the automation can run", especially since the system seems much more automated in ST:TMP and the supposedly operational system of the E-A has much fewer "manual" features in evidence.

We couldn't have gotten lightning-fast revolver magazines in the TOS movies anyway, as the CGI wouldn't have been up to the task and the practical SFX could not have been built into the sets on budget. Which is why it's a bit of a shame that we fail to get those rackety-clack machines in the new movies, instead being treated to lots of parallel kick-out chutes of little visual attractiveness or techno-logic. I mean, cranes with cables? Worse than the rigid loading arm and rails of the ST2 system!

Timo Saloniemi