Captain Picard's Ready Room Desk
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Given Data's assessment of Picard's painting skills, it could be that the painting is one Picard did himself.
The model was supposed to a reference to the Stargazer (even though it had the wrong registry), so I just assume it is the Stargazer or another Constellation meant to represent the Stargazer to Picard. He had a Constitution class model before (which was supposed to be the Stargazer before they changed the class in production), which we might assume was another ship he served on, if we didn't know from "Relics" that he hadn't been on a Constitution class before (outside of a Fleet Museum ship).
Of course, this being an Enterprise ready room, it's quite likely that the model was of the refit Enterprise itself or the Enterprise-A.
The model was supposed to a reference to the Stargazer (even though it had the wrong registry), so I just assume it is the Stargazer or another Constellation meant to represent the Stargazer to Picard. He had a Constitution class model before (which was supposed to be the Stargazer before they changed the class in production), which we might assume was another ship he served on, if we didn't know from "Relics" that he hadn't been on a Constitution class before (outside of a Fleet Museum ship).
Of course, this being an Enterprise ready room, it's quite likely that the model was of the refit Enterprise itself or the Enterprise-A.
One thing that was built into the room but never used was that the seat portion of that sofa can slide out from the wall and double as a bed. This makes the Ready Room the equivalent to the "sea cabin" adjacent to the bridge on modern warships. You can see the size of the "bed" indicated in some of the set plans.
Come on, it's really not that bad
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Apparently not as a bad as the one of the Enterprise-E that was done for First Contact and then substituted with a boring silhouette of the ship at the last minute, because the production team thought it was terrible. Also rather notable that Janeway didn't have a painting of Voyager in her ready room, despite having ample room for it.
What silhouette? Perhaps the painting showed one of the earlier designs and that's why they didn't use it
Those space paintings are just so on the nose "Oooh we are in a show set in space, so all the paintings have to be of ships and star bases and nebulae and moonscapes and the like"
Eh... It's pretty lame
It looks more comparable to Data's alternate Battle of HarOs from Parallels.
That is to say, they both look like they came out of a paint by numbers book
I've always really liked the Ready Room painting of the -D.
Also a cool one is the space nebulae/internal organ one outside Crusher's office in Sickbay.
Also a cool one is the space nebulae/internal organ one outside Crusher's office in Sickbay.
Well, we never saw the entirety of Kirk's apartment.
He absolutely had a waterbed and strobe lights in his bedroom.
And a mirror on the ceiling.
What is lame about it? How many people do you think can paint like that?Eh... It's pretty lame
It looks more comparable to Data's alternate Battle of HarOs from Parallels.
That is to say, they both look like they came out of a paint by numbers book
It looks like something you buy from a roadside painter in a resort town?
It might be technically painted well as a visual replication of the ship, but it's not exactly inspired in its motive or execution.
In Picard's universe? Trillions. It's paint by numbers
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I am certain that some publicity shots of the Enterprise-E ready room showed a silhouette of the ship mounted on one wall. Then again, they also showed a giant cylindrical fish tank in one corner that was never actually seen on screen either, so it's possible that this was also dropped before filming commenced.
I remember the rejected portrait of the Enterprise-E being discussed in one of the "Art of Star Trek" books that covered the design process for the Enterprise-E (possibly "The Making of Star Trek: First Contact"?) but I can't locate the specific source right now.
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In the future, everyone learns calculus by time they are 12 (When the bough breaks), are cool with their parents dying when they are young, and everyone learns how to paint. It's an amazing future.
It was painted by Probert (and Sternbach?). How many talents like these do we have in TV production?
CC onsidering how often stuff gets painted for TV productions and movies and how much concept artwork is produced... A lot?
You're right, the painting is a piece of crap that can be made by anyone. It's nowhere near the amazing art quality of, say, Lower Decks.
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