Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors
Well, last night when creating the
Weapons & Defense Station's shield status display, I realized that the graphic was indeed a top schematic view of the
Phase II Enterprise, not the
Motion Picture Enterprise. This makes sense (production-wise), since many of the bridge display graphics are exactly how they are depicted in the
Phase II Enterprise Flight Manual. Although a
different display was used altogether for this display in
The Motion Picture, the production crew on
Wrath of Khan obviously used an existing Phase II graphic.
Because I'm going for accuracy of what is seen on-screen rather than an "updated" version with the correct in-universe graphics (in this case, a Movie-Era Enterprise graphic instead of the Phase II graphic), I decided to re-create the display with the Phase II schematic, as seen below:
However, this got me wondering if the other Enterprise schematics seen around the bridge (for example, as seen in the Damage and Repair Station) were in fact Phase II schematics, and yep! They certainly are (as seen in
this reference shot). I had previously assumed these graphics were TMP-Enterprise Schematics, so my re-creations feature Andy Probert schems...as seen below:
So today, I changed the graphics to their screen-accurate versions:
Oh, and for those wondering, the "Deck Plan" schematic graphics featured in the screen shots above are in factfrom the TOS Franz Joseph blueprints, just as they were used on the actual set.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Should I stick with what's screen-accurate, or should I move towards using a more rational in-universe approach?
EDIT: Here are some close-ups of my Phase II schematic re-creations, followed by the TMP schematics I was using before:
