Donny's Refit Enterprise Interiors (Version 2.0)

[Workbee]

Be careful not to follow the hospital paradigm too closely. The Enterprise is a ship with limited room and other functions to support. Space is a premium (pun intended).

Without revisiting the whole “is Starfleet military?” debate - I think in many ways, sick bay in the Enterprise has more in common with the sick bay of a modern aircraft carrier. One thing that stuck me in picture is just how cramped everything seemed. Beds were stuck along the wall bunk style. Equipment stuck wherever there’s room. Lots of storage cabinets everywhere.

Starships are depicted as being more spacious than our navel ships so things need not be as “tight” But there are clues to that tell us how restrictive space is. The corridors in TMP are much more narrow and cramped than they were in TOS. The transporter room - while technically larger, has much more restrictive floorspace. And bedspace wasn’t so limited in sickbay that patients were lying on the floor in TWOK. The exam room doubled as an OR. This was a ship that had all sorts of new technology and equipment crowbarred into its older spaceframe.

The bed numbers need not indicate the literal amount of beds. Bed 28 might represent bed 8 of ward 2. Ward 1 might only have 2 beds for all we know. Labs could be across the corridor in another room.

*edit - @Donny - looks like you beat me to it... by about 6 years!

 

[Maurice]

As regards the walkway outside McCoy’s office windows, we know the real reason for that was as an extension of the elevated grill floor of the transporter room set, so I think you could make an argument for there not being that walkway in the passage way in Sickbay since it’s surely supposed to be a different passage,

 

[cardinal biggles]

Hey Donny, modern carriers also have a lab / pharmacy (see link below). Is there a way you could incorporate this into your design? Even in the 2270s, medicines need to be stored somewhere that access can be restricted to specific individuals. And even though tricorders can provide medical information that today requires labwork, there are still going to be situations where more detailed testing and analysis will need to be performed.

I assumed the room where Kirk, Spock, and Decker talk was a lab space.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmp2/tmphd1962.jpg

 

[Christopher]

I assumed the room where Kirk, Spock, and Decker talk was a lab space.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmp2/tmphd1962.jpg

Yup, the Lee Cole manual calls the console behind them a Medical Laboratory Console.

 

[Donny]

I assumed the room where Kirk, Spock, and Decker talk was a lab space.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmp2/tmphd1962.jpg

It’s a combined office/lab space.

 

[cardinal biggles]

It's interesting that of the various consoles that were supposed to have machinery pop up out of it — manual antenna controls next to the communications station, various gizmos on the slide-out wings of the science station, and then there's that whole bridge transporter thing — the ones in Sickbay were the only ones that stayed. (They're probably also the ones that made the most sense... presumably one of those things is a futuristic microscope, and maybe another one cranks out samples of drugs McCoy has to develop before the final commercial break.)

 

[UssGlenn]

I could have the ward on the right be the intensive care ward, and the one on the left be...well...what would the proper medical term be for a ward for non-intensive care patients?

I tried looking it up, but couldn't find a single answer. Outpatient ward? General ward? Recovery ward?

Infirmary Ward? Usually they seem to just be numbered if they don't have a specific use (Maternity Ward, Isolation Ward).

 

[Workbee]

Was looking at some of these screencaps of sickbay and just noticed there are 2 other patients in sickbay when Spock’s recovering from his meld. Who—- no wait, how are there two other patients at this time? It’s only been 2 days since the E left spacedock on its maiden voyage. Surely they wouldn’t have sent sick or injured crew members on this mission? There have been no battles. Are they injuries from the initial Vejur attack? We saw Chekov get zapped but seemed okay to resume duties after on-site treatment — and that was like a day ago. Injuries sustained during the warp engine imbalance? That was about 2 days ago so they would have to be pretty severe.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=64350&fullsize=1

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=64322&fullsize=1


Sorry to get off topic, but what the heck? It was like they were just putting a bunch of background extras just to make it look “busy” without thought to the actual circumstances. Did we already talk about this in 2014? Are we just having the same discussions in higher resolution?

I was actually looking to see what staff we see in sickbay. In TMP there are 3 other medical staff besides McCoy and Chapel. In TWOK there seem to be four or five (one seems to be assisting with a patient but is wearing a cadet jumpsuit). Not sure whether they are doctors, nurses or other medical staff. Bringing this up in case this may help flesh out the size and scale of sickbay.
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=64321&fullsize=1

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=64355&fullsize=1

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http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=73344&fullsize=1

 

[David cgc]

During the trip into the final chamber of V'Ger, an officer off-screen runs down the current roster of 172 on duty, 248 off duty, and 11 in sickbay (all minor). Of course, that's right after V'Ger's "tantrum," so they could've been knocked around when the ship was being blasted with intimidation-lightning, and might not be related to the two we see here. Also, in retrospect, it's awfully low-key for Kirk not to have gone back to red alert when the Earth is minutes away from a devastating attack, and the ship is nearing a final confrontation with the entity they've been chasing all movie, but maybe he decided that if things turned bad, there wasn't a lot a crew at battle stations could do that the normal duty shift couldn't, so he may as well let people sleep through it.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Who—- no wait, how are there two other patients at this time? It’s only been 2 days since the E left spacedock on its maiden voyage. Surely they wouldn’t have sent sick or injured crew members on this mission? There have been no battles. Are they injuries from the initial Vejur attack? We saw Chekov get zapped but seemed okay to resume duties after on-site treatment — and that was like a day ago.

You just answered your own question there. Chekov was lucky, it seems - others were holding on to the wrong thing at the wrong time for too long.

Also, in retrospect, it's awfully low-key for Kirk not to have gone back to red alert when the Earth is minutes away from a devastating attack, and the ship is nearing a final confrontation with the entity they've been chasing all movie, but maybe he decided that if things turned bad, there wasn't a lot a crew at battle stations could do that the normal duty shift couldn't, so he may as well let people sleep through it.

He'd seen how hair-triggered V'Ger can get when faced with hostility, and Red Alert's a big red flag in that regard. He needed V'Ger's guard to be down; he was taking a helluva risk as it was, that Ilia either wouldn't overhear him talking to Scotty or (being a mere lieutenant) wouldn't know what Order 2005 was.

 

[Donny]

Not too much to show here, just the beginnings. Testing materials to see how they look with the lighting. It's a challenge because the sickbay set is SUPER WHITE, especially in TMP in contrast with the more warmly lit TWOK sickbay, and it's a little difficult to generate materials that look clean, bright, white, but also realistic. I'm not putting my normal dirt/scratches/edge wear treatment, although there are some subtle surface imperfections (that you can't really see in this render anyway).

Anyway, here are the beginnings:

 

[Mytran]

Thanks for those links @Workbee I just realised there's a transparent screen between the final bed and the door to the corridor!
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=64321&fullsize=1

The bed & door always did seem a little close but the screen helps to justify that somewhat

 

[Maurice]

I always assumed the other casualties were people hurt when the V'ger lightning got into engineering at the same time as Chekov got singed.

 

[Lt. Washburn]

Where do you think they sourced (or made) the graphic for Ilia's body scan?

 

[Tallguy]

It's a challenge because the sickbay set is SUPER WHITE, especially in TMP in contrast with the more warmly lit TWOK sickbay, and it's a little difficult to generate materials that look clean, bright, white, but also realistic.

You've done it before. And well.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Where do you think they sourced (or made) the graphic for Ilia's body scan?

Made by Abel & Associates, I presume - one of the few things they did that made it into the final film. It would have had to have been by them, as it was rear-projected on the set (BTS photos show this), so it was made prior to/during shooting. It was also longer than what we saw, starting with an image of Ilia in her bathrobe and continuing all the way down to the skeletal level.

 

[Lt. Washburn]

Made by Abel & Associates, I presume - one of the few things they did that made it into the final film. It would have had to have been by them, as it was rear-projected on the set (BTS photos show this), so it was made prior to/during shooting. It was also longer than what we saw, starting with an image of Ilia in her bathrobe and continuing all the way down to the skeletal level.

Where did you learn this?

 

[Nightowl1701]

One of the trading cards had the skeletal image, one of the Milton Bradley jigsaw puzzles of the time had the image of the unscanned Ilia up on the screen. (Only pics of the latter I can find are on either eBay or Etsy, so I can't show them here.) They wouldn't have ginned that up just for a publicity photo, esp. at a point when none of the finished fx were ready (another of those puzzles has the not-quite-finished Enterprise composited against a nebula), so it had to have been done on the set.

 

[Donny]

Where do you think they sourced (or made) the graphic for Ilia's body scan?

Made by Abel & Associates, I presume - one of the few things they did that made it into the final film. It would have had to have been by them, as it was rear-projected on the set (BTS photos show this), so it was made prior to/during shooting. It was also longer than what we saw, starting with an image of Ilia in her bathrobe and continuing all the way down to the skeletal level.

Where did you learn this?

This is all just speculation, but I'm guessing that the Ilia body scan images were produced by an actual medical scanning device of the time, as those images look pretty legit and not something Abel & Associates would have come up with. I do believe it is an actual scan of Persis Khambatta's body. They probably contracted a medical or computer company with the appropriate hardware to do so.

FWIW, in the end credits, there is a credit for "Medical Computer Displays Courtesy of DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION". I don't know for sure if the body scan is being attributed to that, but it sounds likely. But then again that was a computer company and not a medical device lab. The other medical computer displays we see in the film are of Spock's brain in sickbay after his spacewalk. I've sourced one of those 3 brain-scan videos here, but unsure about the other two.

I also sourced the "Osmotic Micropump" video back when I was doing a deep dive for the bridge display videos, but can't for the life of me remember where I found it.

 

[Rick Sternbach]

I doubt Rick would know, since he was in the main Art Dept. not over in RA&A and later Trumbull's factory. Andy Probert designed that miniature room, so maybe he'd know.

Yeah, I got nuthin'. My actual published artwork didn't show up in Trek until TNG. - Rick