Abrams Enterprise Corridor design vs Washington DC Metro

[alensatemybuick1]

Is this something others have noticed?

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[M'Sharak]

Is this something others have noticed?

That the Enterprise corridors were massive, made of reinforced concrete, and had two subway lines running through them, on either side of a central platform?

 

[F. King Daniel]

The lighting's better on the Enterprise.

 

[GNDN18]

I can the similarities. I wonder if The Andromeda Strain had any influence.

 

[ISS Enterprise]

I can the similarities. I wonder if The Andromeda Strain had any influence.
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I always felt Princess Leigh's ship from beg of ST 4 a new hope was

Liked the design, but felt color scheme was too much like noted above, but that's me

 

[GNDN18]

I think this might have been a 70s thing reaching into IRL architecture. When I was a kid, I really dug going to the newly-built Renaissance Center in Detroit. The corridors and open-air levels has the same vibe. It felt like I was in a starbase. (Try to keep this admission against geekness to yourself, 'kay?)

 

[PixelMagic]

I can the similarities. I wonder if The Andromeda Strain had any influence.
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It did, Abrams said so.

 

[pst]

scott chambliss has also repeatedly said the look of the 2009 film was inspired by 1950s and 60s futurist architecture, which the DC metro is. he also cites the TWA flight center in NY as a source of 2009's starfleet architecture, so clearly transit was on their radar.

 

[Qonundrum]

Or Doctor Who's "The Sun Makers":

Or Blake's 7 "Ultraworld":

 

[PixelMagic]

A few months ago I working on what the interior of the 1701-A might look like. Since the exterior is "evolutionary not revolutionary", I took the same approach with the interior. Work in progress still.

 

[Phaser Two]

That's a fantastic job!

 

[arch101]

...and THANK YOU for eliminating the 10,000 tiny overhead lights that have plagued starship corridor sets since Voyager.
This feels much more like the Probert/Michaelson look from TMP.

 

[pst]

...and THANK YOU for eliminating the 10,000 tiny overhead lights that have plagued starship corridor sets since Voyager.
This feels much more like the Probert/Michaelson look from TMP.

i loved that star trek beyond eliminated all the circular overhead lighting from star trek and into darkness...

and replaced it with more subtle embedded lighting:

 

[F. King Daniel]

Huh, it looks the corridor outside the bridge curves a lot more in Beyond than it did in St'09/ID.

 

[pst]

Huh, it looks the corridor outside the bridge curves a lot more in Beyond than it did in St'09/ID.

fairly sure this has to do with the fisheye distortion from the lens of the camera used to photograph the set. here's another BTS shot:

hard to tell...

 

[CommanderTrip]

fairly sure this has to do with the fisheye distortion from the lens of the camera used to photograph the set. here's another BTS shot:

hard to tell...

IIRC I believe the nu-enterprise sets were rebuilt between STID and ST Beyond as the movies were shot in two different locations/studios.

 

[M'Sharak]

IIRC I believe the nu-enterprise sets were rebuilt between STID and ST Beyond as the movies were shot in two different locations/studios.

They were. All sets used for Beyond were new construction; it would have been more costly to break down, transport from L.A. to Vancouver, and reassemble the sets which had been built for the previous films.

 

[Mudd]

Yeah, I had noticed. I live near DC.

 

[pst]

They were. All sets used for Beyond were new construction; it would have been more costly to break down, transport from L.A. to Vancouver, and reassemble the sets which had been built for the previous films.

well the sets were broken down and stored between 09 and into darkness and then again after into darkness. my suspicion is they were the same sets in all three films.

 

[Mudd]

No. They might have shipped some movable bits - consoles, chairs - but the sets were rebuilt.