Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

[KennyB]

@Donny wow, just discovered your work and blog! Amazing work.........Great to see an Ocean Spring guy do well! I grew up not too far from you in BFE, Alabama.

 

[Donny]

Finished up the string of corridors as was built on Stage 9, including areas not seen in TUC. Also added the ever-present grate lighting accents, fire extinguishers, and intercom speakers which almost every set of the Enteprise-A contained.

 

[cardinal biggles]

These are amazing!

I don't know why, but it finally occurred to me after 25 years that the compartment door in your third pic goes up when you pass through it... bisecting those overhead conduits. Hope it's nothing important!

 

[TOMFAN]

Those are fantastic!

The lighting is excellent, really makes a huge difference.

 

[Donny]

Whoops! Just realized I posted those in the wrong thread. Silly me.

 

[Donny]

These are amazing!

I don't know why, but it finally occurred to me after 25 years that the compartment door in your third pic goes up when you pass through it... bisecting those overhead conduits. Hope it's nothing important!

You know, I just realized that myself as I was building this.

 

[Mytran]

That never occurred to me either!
Although I did wonder what all those horizontal conduits in the K-beams did whenever a doorway shows up.
Perhaps they utilise the same (incomprehensible) solution?

 

[137th Gebirg]

It appears to be a common affectation of Connie refits. The main intermix chamber was also technically severed when the blast door came down in TWOK during Reliant's initial attack.

 

[cardinal biggles]

^I don't feel like digging back into the thread just now, but I think we actually had that exact discussion when Donny was modeling Engineering.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Heh...yeah, I vaguely remember that. There was also the related question if there was enough room for the door above the engineering deck, IIRC.

 

[Mytran]

Yeah, except that the Engineering door has that weird louvre section down the middle of it that MIGHT have allowed warp energy through. The other examples - not so much

 

[FormerLurker]

I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the louvred section was louvred for exactly that purpose: to allow the warp energy to pass through unimpeded.

 

[Mytran]

Works for me! :-)

 

[JJohnson]

A more period-accurate ship interior would be great. I have to think there was a warp core style intermediate between TMP and TNG that can bridge the two. I know it's pure speculation, but I would love to see something that's not a very obvious redress of the TNG set for engineering, but still a slight upgrade over TMP.

 

[QuinnTV]

Donny: not sure if you've seen this. I came across it on a TMP page on Facebook. What caught my eye was the edging at the bottom of the walls. Perhaps they removed it after TMP.

 

[cardinal biggles]

It looks like the edging was still there in TWOK and TSFS.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/twok-dc-hd/chapter16/st2-twok-dc-2240.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tsfshd/tsfshd1223.jpg

More likely, it was removed when they revamped the sets for TNG in 1987.

 

[QuinnTV]

Wow. Never saw it. Thanks.

 

[cardinal biggles]

It's not something you really look for, normally. The floor isn't the focal point of the action, so the camera isn't really going there. On the other hand, when a publicity still like that Decker/Ilia photo brings all the details of the set into sharp focus...

And that photo got me thinking... the back half of that corridor is actually a matte painting used to double its length. The same painting was used on TNG, at least for a while. And in "Encounter at Farpoint," they hadn't modified it yet...

http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x01/farpoint_hd_487.jpg

You can notice that the light panels along the bottom are fully exposed, whereas the ones on the actual set are half-covered with aluminum paneling, and the TMP-era edging is also present in the painting.

 

[Donny]

And that photo got me thinking... the back half of that corridor is actually a matte painting used to double its length. The same painting was used on TNG, at least for a while. And in "Encounter at Farpoint," they hadn't modified it yet...

http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x01/farpoint_hd_487.jpg

You can notice that the light panels along the bottom are fully exposed, whereas the ones on the actual set are half-covered with aluminum paneling, and the TMP-era edging is also present in the painting.

Funny that they took the time to update the painting to match the carpeting, but not the rest.

 

[Maurice]

...the back half of that corridor is actually a matte painting....

Not a matte not a matte not a matte not a matte not a matte!!! It's an on-set scenic painting.