Good catch - yes now that you pointed it out I can see that is the roll out console. I have also heard that Wise kept the bridge segments locked down from many different sources. I wonder if they meant that they kept almost all of the sections together save for one or two to provide access (as opposed to only having one side of the set locked togeth I can’t imagine it would be easy to film in those conditions. How did they get all the filming gear in and out of that set each setup? Where was the director and crew all hanging out each shot? There’s the turbo lift doors but it seems unwieldy to have to cart everything through those small doorways. I know that filmmakers find ways to film in cramped ways all the time but it seems like if they had an option to open just a section or two, they would. Especially considering one side has none of the principal actors on it.
Almost done with the weapons and defense console. Just finished the TMP, TWOK, and Reliant shield indicators. The top two are the TMP indicators ("Off" and "On", respectivley). The bottom two are, of course, the Enterprise (left) and the Reliant (right). I've got it rigged to animate the lights coming on/off in succession, as you see them here in mid-animation. Both the Enterprise and Reliant graphics are seen as their "early" schematics, as used in the film. The Enterprise's schematic is obviously from Phase II, the Reliant graphic is done in a very similar style, and neither is wholly accurate to how the ship's exterior appeared on-screen. I've decided to retain these early schematics to adhere to screen accuracy (and because I really like them ). I created clean versions of both of these schematics in Photoshop.
That shield display was NOT present on the TSFS bridge. They had other displays for that (which weren't so great). Though if would be present on the TVH bridge, I wonder if it would show a shield status more like what we saw in TFF/TUC?
Those are fantastic! I don't even remember seeing it in TMP, so it's great to see it here for the first time!
Maybe it finally experienced ECS (exploding console syndrome) when racing from the Mutara Nebula and was removed but not yet replaced before reaching Earth. (Uh, just wipe the crap from that notion as I just pulled it from my as...sumptions.)
And it doesn't even look like an explosion hit it or the base of the display was left over. It's like it never existed
Opinion time! Do I correct the TWO misspellings of "TORPEDOES" on the weapons console graphics, or leave them as their screen accurate "TORPEDOS"? It looks like they may have even darkened the "Photon Torpedos" graphic in the second up-close shot, realizing this was an error. Or is "Torpedos" an accepted alternate plural form of "Torpedo"? We may have had this discussion the last time I was modeling these sets back in 2014, but hey. That was 5 years ago and I can't remember.
Maybe for some inexplicable reason that word, and only that word, was in Spanish; thus 'torpedos' is correct.
Those kinds of changes puzzle me. Why remove it? The only thing I can figure is it wasn't actually bolted to the set and was treated like set dressing and stored with those materials, this forgotten when the story didn't require it.