Rubbish. He'll simply absorb the radiation through that metal plate in his stomach!
Donny's Refit Enterprise Interiors (Version 2.0)
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Rubbish. He'll simply absorb the radiation through that metal plate in his stomach!
I dunno where that "metal plate" idea comes from, but I have read the early script where Spock absorbs a laser/phaser blast aimed at his torso. I shit you not.
I surmise that during Phase II, the intent was to have a one-(or two-?) person transporter in the module between the main viewer and the weapon defense station (which then was to have a large transparent hemisphere to act as a holographic viewer for tactical purposes). The control panel for this station was to the right of the main viewer and had some gizmos near it as well. You can see the transporter console in the upper right image
ANd here you can see where the weapon console's transparent tactical dome was intended to be. I believe the one-person transporter pad was intended to go in the alcove you can see directly theough the ladder's arch.
(Thanks to @Maurice for posting these on another thread)
When the bridge was modified for TMP, the transporter console was instead anchored to the wall and dubbed the "Artifical Gravity Control Station", the gizmos removed, and the weapon console then became the bulkier shape we know it as. In the place of the transporter alcove, two small recessed units were added which appear to be mini-transporters, supposedly for transporting samples/equipment/etc to the bridge. The graphic between these two recessed units does indeed have graphics on it which were pulled from the transporter console in the transporter room (and the bridge), supporting this idea. I'm guessing that this was when the line of thinking was that intra-ship beaming without a receiving-end transporter was still considered extremely dangerous.
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For that purpose, I'm going to be placing a TMP/TWOK era food processor in the small docking port reception area directly aft of the bridge.
Reminds me of my headcanon of crews having meetings in the formal dining room from TUC since it was closer to the bridge than the briefing room, so Starfleet went with it and the Conference Lounge behind the bridge was born. Likewise, everyone uses the sophisticated, highly expensive and temperamental bridge transporter to get snacks, so they just add a replicator to the bridge later on (there are replicators on bridges other than the E-D, right? It's been a long time since "Captain's Chair" would run on a computer I use).
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I remember reading somewhere that Judson Scott's wimpy pounding on the weapons console in TWOK ("Our shields are dropping!" "Raise them!" "i CAAAAAAAAAAN'T!") was a result of him knocking the console off the wall on the first take.
Maybe that's what I read when I reference people would "knock into it".
Thank you.
I doubt is was the weapons console proper, given the way it's built, but who knows?
Hey @Rick Sternbach that door next to the weapons station is not called out in the Enterprise Flight Manual. It's just shown as a set of doors. Was it intended to be the head or a transporter back when the TV show was still a thing?
IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME TO ME!!!A different captain, movie, and completely different chair!
I had originally assumed the bridge transporter was for emergency evacuation [personnel not bowel movements], since it's likely the the last to leave the ship will be from that location, but I have since read that its main use was intended to be to transport equipment and tools to the bridge.
The last time Judson Scott was a guest at the Denver Star Trek convention, he described exactly this sequence of events happening, and yes, it was the console proper. It was a hollow plastic shell cast on a vacuum table, and very flimsy.
Edited to add: I knew, as this is one of Donny's threads, that I was going to post here eventually, and here it is.
Okay, but if so it's surprising given how easy it would be to have built some structure under it using 2x4s.
Not to mention that there had to be some kind of sturdy framework underneath to support a CRT monitor (that was added for that scene’s cool “Locking Phasers On Target” graphic, specifically) and all the console electronics.
He didn't say anything about the support structure behind the shell, just that the shell itself was hollow and flimsy. It fell on him, and when they lifted it back into place, they told him to fake hitting hard on future takes so it would stay in place.
Got the main viewer and helm/astrogator console in. I hope to knock out the TWOK greebles and remodel the chairs this weekend before moving on to the display and console graphics.
TWOK main viewer and helm:
TMP main viewer. Note that the greebles were not present in the ceiling modules over the weapons console and main viewer in TMP:
TWOK main viewer and helm:
TMP main viewer. Note that the greebles were not present in the ceiling modules over the weapons console and main viewer in TMP:
I thought this was a still from the film. Nice!TWOK main viewer and helm:
I try to guard myself from "This is good or the best and the fact that it's what I was introduced to it when I was 10 is purely coincidental!" That's why I'm always curious to know if there is anyone who likes the JJ bridge or the Disco bridge. (I did like the Kelvin bridge.) Getting someone with no prior attachments is fun.
I'm not sure if I like the TMP bridge so much because I was young enough to be OK with it or if it was close enough in form and spirit to the TOS bridge.
Anyway, longwinded way of saying "YOWZA! Is my favorite bridge!"
I'm not sure if I like the TMP bridge so much because I was young enough to be OK with it or if it was close enough in form and spirit to the TOS bridge.
Anyway, longwinded way of saying "YOWZA! Is my favorite bridge!"
