I have no idea where you live and, given the average level of vitriol in this thread, your statement surely wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility given that you put no indication of it being a joke in the post. I'm glad that it's not the case.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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I have no idea where you live and, given the average level of vitriol in this thread, your statement surely wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility given that you put no indication of it being a joke in the post. I'm glad that it's not the case.
I actually thought the first picture looked like CGI at first glance. It does look nice with mostly TOS and some TMP stylings similar to the Ares. Given that it took something like 5 years to come to 95% (according to the article) for just one practical set, are the rest going to be done in CGI? Has anyone read whatever script they put out for the downgraded 30 minute version to see how many sets they'll need? If there are alot more sets to build, I suspect most backers will die of old age before they're built at that rate.
Or release the Pink Pony.....
I agree it looks great! What I giggled at was Lane's fanboyish praise of Alec for pulling all nighters to get the set ready for the big event. It's not like they've been sitting there for over a year with nothing going on. The sets AND the film should have been done by now. More likely, the guys who actually are doing the work have been busting their ass while Alec turns the lights on and hold a clipboard. It is a great update to TOS bridge and the people who designed it and built it deserve praise. Is it still not even going to be used in the film?
But by changing things they don't have to make it perfectly match TOS.....so in that way these were much easier than the 1701 replicas.
Actually, we bust our butts the night before every shoot or open house ourselves. We had to create a stage for an alien base for one of our latest shoots, and we were busting ass the whole week before the shoot, and especially the night before. I suspect this was more of that sort of thing.
That set is pretty impressive, but not really impressive enough to have taken as long as it did. Other people probably could have built sets for an entire ship's interior in a fraction of the time it took them to build this one bridge. And probably for a fraction of the money too.
Yeah, it's a pretty set...and a pointless one, because LFIM has said he's not sure it will even be used in the upcoming Axanar film. If it isn't, that means that all that work all the volunteers put into building it was solely to create a tourist trap for the dozen people dumb enough to buy tickets for Axacon.
"Come one, come all! See the great USS Ares bridge set, which has never been featured in any kind of trek youve ever watched and might never be featured in any trek you might see in the future! See the wonderful construct that will never be a background for any scene, won't have any actors in costume performing in it, and will only appear on camera in the memories of the smartphones a dozen people bring with them! Live the dream!"
It's about on par with P.T. Barnum inviting his sideshow patrons "To the EGRESS!" Barnum was smarter about it, though. All he needed was a sign.
"Come one, come all! See the great USS Ares bridge set, which has never been featured in any kind of trek youve ever watched and might never be featured in any trek you might see in the future! See the wonderful construct that will never be a background for any scene, won't have any actors in costume performing in it, and will only appear on camera in the memories of the smartphones a dozen people bring with them! Live the dream!"
It's about on par with P.T. Barnum inviting his sideshow patrons "To the EGRESS!" Barnum was smarter about it, though. All he needed was a sign.
Check the pictures out in the article, but I think they're large flat-screen monitors across the top.
And apparently the smaller screens in the middle as well as they both have wiring going towards them (unless it's just a backlight of sorts).
Yes I believe they are all actual flatscreen displays......which is probably why they are duplicated graphics....limited number of CPUs to run everything. You can see 2 towers in the above shot. The volunteers have done good work, but like @Admiral2 said above, it is a shame that it will only be used as a playhouse.
What's with that helm design?? Why did they go away from the classic two-man station??
Why have the operator sit straddling the center support beam?? Getting in / out of the chair must be fun, smacking your knee or shin on that thing. I don't see any controls on the center panel; it looks like it's just the nav display. The whole console looks very awkward to operate.
Why have the operator sit straddling the center support beam?? Getting in / out of the chair must be fun, smacking your knee or shin on that thing. I don't see any controls on the center panel; it looks like it's just the nav display. The whole console looks very awkward to operate.
Yeah.
I can't comment on their thinking, but to me it seems like a perfect example of what I think of as the "Forerunner Reduction Trope." That's when, given an example of a piece of tech from sci-fi, to create an in-universe forerunner of it, you take a distinctive feature and halve it, reduce by one third, etc. Example: The sixth-millennium starfighter from oldBSG "The Long Patrol." It looks very similar to a Viper, except it has fewer engines, fewer doodads on the joystick, etc.
http://on-screen-fighter-craft.wikia.com/wiki/Sixth-millennium_starfighter
https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Viper_(TOS)
So, my first thought in looking at the Ares bridge design years ago was that they're representing that starship class as being more primitive than the Connie by having—yeah—only one person seated in front of the captain instead of the usual two.
Contrast that with what I call the "Upgrade Reduction Trope," when a more advanced instance is given fewer thingies. Examples there include TNG communicators vs TOS communicators, for that matter also the TOS communicator vs the communicator from "The Cage," and the NX-74205 Defiant bridge with one person in front of the captain instead of the usual two.
Apply the trend represented by the "Forerunner Reduction Trope" in creating future tech, and you get what I call the "Upgrade Enhancement Trope." To make a future version, increase the number of thingies. Example: The "dreadnought" Ent-D from the alternate future in "All Good Things..." with three nacelles instead of two.
Apply the trend represented by the "Upgrade Reduction Trope" in creating forerunner tech, and you get what I call the "Forerunner Enhancement Trope." That's when you create forerunner tech with more thingies than the new tech that's preexisting in the real world. This also seems to apply to the Ares bridge, given the two auxiliary stations inside the railing forward from and on both sides of the helm.
In the case of future tech, fewer thingies means improved; in the case of older tech, it means more primitive. In the case of future tech, more thingies means more advanced; in the case of older tech, it means more primitive.
That's a lot of tropes!
Yeah, sorry, that's probably an instance of the "Trope Avalanche Trope."
The 30 minute shows are going to be the same talking head format in front of gren screens as prelude. This bridge set isn't even needed for it.