Bridge of Klingon D7 ship

[Timo]

Do you mean that the set doesn't match the exterior? Because I think I've seen a drawing by Andrew Probert that showed the TMP bridge in relation to the exterior layout.

Yup.

I guess the "quite deliberately" bit is exaggeration - to the contrary, the contours of the superstructure are the same as those of the set. But the bridge set as built chooses not to put the skipper in the prominent cylinder turret with the portholes (where it could fit if needed), whereas the round walls of the TAS bridge suggest this exact (and prominent) placement.

Had the Klingon bridge set been retained in storage and used in a later movie in its original role, only with the upper floor now built as suggested... It would have been glorious. But it does make for a damned good machinery space, including a passable photon torpedo autoloader (with "auto" disabled for training purposes).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[johnnybear]

Maybe I felt that the D-7 battle cruiser was new in service due to the fact that we had never seen one before and yet I had felt that we had always seen them in the series as a child but now I know their first appearance production wise was Elaan of Troyius! I certainly am not counting the new effects stuff or ENT either!
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Maybe I felt that the D-7 battle cruiser was new in service due to the fact that we had never seen one before and yet I had felt that we had always seen them in the series as a child but now I know their first appearance production wise was Elaan of Troyius! I certainly am not counting the new effects stuff or ENT either!
JB

...or, *yawn*, The Motionless Picture.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Maybe I felt that the D-7 battle cruiser was new in service due to the fact that we had never seen one before and yet I had felt that we had always seen them in the series as a child but now I know their first appearance production wise was Elaan of Troyius! I certainly am not counting the new effects stuff or ENT either!
JB

Conflating new to the viewer with new to the characters is a rookie mistake.

 

[Maurice]

We've been discussing a TOS Klingon bridge over in the Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors thread (link) in the Fan Art forum where I mentioned the plans that were drawn up for the Klingon ship bridge for the Star Trek [Phase] II show, and Donny found them in the book I mentioned. Not exactly TOS but closer than anything else I've seen.

 

[Timo]

...A good continuum from the TAS designs with the skipper up front to the TMP design actually built.

Of course, if an alien bridge gets constructed for Trek, it generally falls in one of two categories: something to be seen on the hero main viewer only (in which case the adversary skipper sits or stands closest to camera, and there are varying degrees of visually interesting background clutter, from a wall-with-blinkies to a layered structure with extras), or something to be visited (in which case it is a reprisal of the hero bridge, with the adversary skipper in the middle so that the heroes can walk around him or her and there's action and extras between this focus of activity and the exposition on the main viewer).

It's just fun that the Klingon bridge is of the former type even when built for the latter case, for a rare once making for something that actually would cater for both viewscreen discussions and physical visits in-universe.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[johnnybear]

...or, *yawn*, The Motionless Picture.

They were the new K'Tinga class Klingon battle cruisers! Yet not officially the D-7 versions anymore!
JB