Thanks for that but while the two going off to the left are accurate, the one going to the right is wrong that is not the same panel. Found a few important things at that link.
Donny’s Late TOS Movie Era Interiors
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Could you be more specific? "The one going to the right/the two going off to the left". What are you referring to?
The image in the center that you pointed me to your source, it is not used in the panel on the right and left of the edge of the helm. I've looked at those panels in detail.
I disagree. It’s quite clear in my reference image I made that the panel it's pointing to (With the label "Optical Data Net") is the type found at the end of the astrogator structure, just rotated 90 degrees CCW and painted a darker color. It is also clear in additional screenshot evidence that the panel on the opposite side on the NAV side is also this same panel (I'll post a clear shot when I get home this evening). I’m not sure why you think otherwise and would appreciate your evidence against this statement, since you say "you've looked at those panels in detail". Do you have photographic evidence that would prove otherwise?
EDIT: Here's my image again so you don't have to flip back a page
EDIT: And here's an additional image showing that the bottom right-most panel on the Nav side is also the same panel at the end of the astrogator. It is quite clear that the amount of buttons and shapes match.
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They could pop out of a hidden panel. It would be pointless, but visually interesting at least.
looking over my images again, you are right Donny.
At first I thought maybe the 6 circular insets have a similar function to the pitch/yaw/roll displays from the TMP era console http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=686&pid=73053#top_display_media but obviously there's a few too many for that!
The top three are pitch, roll, and yaw, and the bottom three are the speedometer, tachometer, and fuel gauge. 
("Feel the pulse-pounding drama as Chekov announces: "Keptin, ve must break off our pursuit of the Klingon wessel, because ve only have a quarter of a tank left, and this is the last Sunoco for three sectors!'")
("Feel the pulse-pounding drama as Chekov announces: "Keptin, ve must break off our pursuit of the Klingon wessel, because ve only have a quarter of a tank left, and this is the last Sunoco for three sectors!'")
Well, there is a slot for an ignition key at the top of the astrogator next to all those toggles...The top three are pitch, roll, and yaw, and the bottom three are the speedometer, tachometer, and fuel gauge.
("Feel the pulse-pounding drama as Chekov announces: "Keptin, ve must break off our pursuit of the Klingon wessel, because ve only have a quarter of a tank left, and this is the last Sunoco for three sectors!'")
Considering how painful he felt it was to shoot that bridge, why keep those bloody LED clocks?! Continuity nightmares everywhere you turn.
The clocks were added for TUC. Continuity headaches aside, Meyer wanted them there.
The lack of clocks are one of the things I liked more about the simpler TFF bridge, even when I was young I wondered why they would be there and not as a part of the console screen instead.
I get what he was going for though as the clocks do give a submarine vibe ala Hunt for the Red October.
I get what he was going for though as the clocks do give a submarine vibe ala Hunt for the Red October.
I know! Those must've been a pain to deal with in that largely pre-CGI age. The only thing I can think of is that they made it clear that the computer replay of the torpedo hitting the Klingon ship was just that, a replay.
Is there any way you can get me good shots of with scaling of the controls on the helm. I am not just trying to make a replica of the Enterprise helm, I want to make a functional replica. I want to work out how to operate the helm and hook it up to a computer that can simulate space flight. Having straight images with accurate scales would really help with the project. If you have the time for that when you get to that point.
they could have just overlayed the footage on the view screen with some extra lines and a big time index in the corner, like they did in Star Trek IV bridge security footage.
I don't remember anything of the camera work on this film, but how about moving/handheld shots?
The clocks aren't necessary to make it clear to the audience that they're watching the torpedo hit on instant replay. Spock asks Valeris to replay it, and they're all sitting/standing around discussing. There's nowhere near the level of urgency in that scene as there was in the earlier scene when the attack actually happens. The clocks are there as decorations, nothing more.
I just ordered two vintage magazines about Star Trek 6, hopefully they have blueprints or some good behind the scenes images.
Nick Meyer seemed to like conveying a sense of time in his Trek movies. You can hear the ship’s hourly chimes in both TWOK and TUC. The addition of the clocks in the bridge in TUC also help sell that we are on a living, breathing starship. It’s cool to see Kirk sleepily make it to the bridge after being summoned after the dinner with Gorkon and company, and the clocks confirm that we are indeed seeing the late night shift. This sense of the “day/night” cycle is missing from other Trek productions, unless implied by dialogue.
