Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

[JonnyQuest037]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

They also added a medical monitor to one wall; it looks like the bed monitor depicted in Lee Cole's Phase II "Enterprise Flight Manual", and also puts in an appearance on the Botany Bay set.

I thought that monitor was one of the bits of set dressing rented from Modern Props, but I can't seem to find it on their website.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

I'm just spitballing here, but I could see that being built for Phase II and then being stuck in a storage unit somewhere when the sets got upgraded for TMP, only to be dragged out again when Meyer wanted to make the sets more 'real world' or 'nautical' or whatever he was going for. I seem to recall the central room on Regula One being a combination of Phase II cast-offs and Modern Props rentals. The ovoid display screen is also kind of a giveaway that it was built for either P2 or TMP.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

That sounds very plausible, given its similarity to the design sketch posted above.

 

[Donny]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

Yes, I only labeled the "Chief Surgeon's Laboratory" as such in my graphic above to tie it in with the Shane Johnson schematic I posted along with it. This area much more likely serves as a simple foyer to the Surgeon's Office, although it does contain a console with various laboratory equipment on one of the walls:

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmp2/tmphd1962.jpg
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x01/thecgaeintro01_037.jpg
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/efm/efm-page-37.jpg

Also, I'm going to have the Refit's examination room double as the operating room, as it serves as both in it's only two appearances in Trek. Also, we see examples of the exam area also serving as an operating area all throughout Trek, all the way back from TOS...
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x04hd/thenakedtimehd0357.jpg
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x10hd/journeytobabelhd1151.jpg

This was, production-wise, done for budgetary reasons, and one could also argue that these were in fact meant to be different rooms from one another. But I shall indeed stick with the thought that the rooms could serve both purposes.

 

[Donny]

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That Phase II bed monitor also shows up in the intensive care ward, with the standing engineering crewman resting against it to the left:

 

[Donny]

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AND ALSO....

...I like the thought of this piece of textured translucent glass being able to transform magically into a display screen, much like the one in Kirk's quarters does in TMP when Chekov alerts Kirk about Spock's shuttle arriving...

 

[aalenfae]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

AND ALSO....

...I like the thought of this piece of textured translucent glass being able to transform magically into a display screen, much like the one in Kirk's quarters does in TMP when Chekov alerts Kirk about Spock's shuttle arriving...

With the Chekov screenshot, it actually looks like the textured glass has slid up to reveal the screen. You can kind of see its bottom border sticking down.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

^Good catch there, I never noticed that before. The one in sickbay could be the same, with the horizontal crosspiece across the top making the bottom edge of the glass less noticeable.

 

[Albertese]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

I notice the numbers associated with each bed. If there are at least 26 beds, do you plan on inventing perhaps another concentric area to fill out that number? Looks like you have room for, I dunno... 14?

--Alex

 

[Mytran]

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There are seven beds in the sickbay set and if they start at 22 then they will run up to 29. Maybe the exam bed is no. 30? Seems like a nice round number of beds.

Where to put the others, though?

 

[BK613]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

^^
Or Med Bay #1 has beds numbered 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Med Bay #2 has beds numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.
Med Bay #3 has beds numbered 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
etc.
This way, a caregiver only needs to know where the Med Bays are and not the range of bed numbers in each one. IOW, when being told to administer a shot to the patient in bed 23, the caregiver doesn't need to recall (or look up) which Med Bay that bed is in: It's immediately off to Med Bay #2 give the injection.

 

[Donny]

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^^
Or Med Bay #1 has beds numbered 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Med Bay #2 has beds numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.
Med Bay #3 has beds numbered 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
etc.
This way, a caregiver only needs to know where the Med Bays are and not the range of bed numbers in each one. IOW, when being told to administer a shot to the patient in bed 23, the caregiver doesn't need to recall (or look up) which Med Bay that bed is in: It's immediately off to Med Bay #2 give the injection.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Nice, sound reasoning. Much like the room numbers of a hotel.

 

[Blip]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

I agree. Based on this, would you plan to have four sickbay units, with two pairs mirrored port/starboard?

 

[Mytran]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

Nicely logical. But where would beds 21 and 22 be located? The ward seems to end at that door (in the above pic)

 

[cardinal biggles]

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22 would be the bed closest to the wall, assuming that is the wall there out of view around the corner.

 

[blssdwlf]

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I would imagine 22 is on the left of 23? 21 could be the exam bed

 

[Donny]

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Well, if each number is supposed to represent the bed to the right of it*, then the farthest bed we see to the right would indeed be 27, and I'm pretty sure this is the last bed in the ward, meaning there would be no 28. (* I think this is plausible since there is a TMP-style PADD below each bed number and the doctors approach the patients from this side of each bed, so it would make sense that their respective charts hang on this side of the bed as well)


That gives just enough room for beds 21-27 on the starboard side ward, which conveniently supports the theory that the first number (2) represents the ward number and the second number (1-7) represents the bed number:

 

[BK613]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

There is a nice shot here (in the TMP sequence after Spock's mind meld) showing the end of that ward.

 

[Mytran]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

That Phase II bed monitor also shows up in the intensive care ward, with the standing engineering crewman resting against it to the left:

I just realised that the "door" I've been seeing as the end of the sickbay ward is actually nothing of the sort and we don't get to see where the beds end after all. D'oh!

That being the case, beds #21 to #27 makes a lot of sense. The only mystery now is some sort of structural justification for the oddly curving ward walls.

BK613, that Sickbay shot really does look like a "damn computer centre!"

 

[BK613]

Re: Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

The only mystery now is some sort of structural justification for the oddly curving ward walls.

Two possibilities quickly come to mind:
1. Sickbay is the safest place on the ship (and also can be medically isolated) so the curve reflects the structure to be/do that.
2. There are corridors beyond the curve connecting to other facilities (labs, storage, isolation/long-term care rooms, etc.) of the Sickbay complex.

BK613, that Sickbay shot really does look like a "damn computer centre!"

Aye, if use of hospital white was an infraction, Sickbay's interior designers would have been red-carded for sure.