ENTERPRISE BRIDGE SET?

[The Wormhole]

Plus the Enterprise is at least 10 years older than the Discovery. Maybe that's just how ships in the 2240s looked.

The Shenzhou is meant to be older than both ships, but its interiors are more or less in line with Discos.

Unless the third officer was in his bunk during the whole episode.

Perhaps the actual third in line was an Andorian undergoing his tonsillectomy?

 

[Mudd]

I like the jelly-bean buttons.

 

[Noname Given]

Implicitly he is the Chief Science Officer, but is there any Cage dialogue to support it? Same for third in command?
The need to "modernize" sets for a current audience is a good reason to avoid prequels in Trek.

There's no "Cage" dialogue to support:

- Science officer Connelly.
- Security Chief Nan.
- The Chief Engineer that recommended removal of the Holocomm system (They gave a name for him but I forgot it.)

The above said "The Gage was 3 years ago related to the current ST: D storyline.

 

[GNDN18]

The Shenzhou is meant to be older than both ships, but its interiors are more or less in line with Discos.

Perhaps the actual third in line was an Andorian undergoing his tonsillectomy?

Yep. Here’s a post-op picture:

 

[TrickyDickie]

Not sure how an Apple Store compares to the Enterprise, but here is a tour of one:

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[Mudd]

Okay, it's fairly well-lit. Shockingly similar, in that respect, to some Trek sets.

 

[Trajet]

Love it except for the weird corridors that go around the back of the consoles.

How else are they gonna access the head? Makes more sense for it to be sited a brief walk from your duty station than having to hop in a turbolift, go down a deck or two, drop a deuce then turn tail and head back to your station.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Then why is he even sitting at a bridge station as opposed to whoever is supposed to be sitting there?

The chair was free.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Spock was probably third in command in "The Cage" because he took over the ship after Number One was captured near the end. Other possible explanations include "quickie mutiny" and "Spock is fourth in command; Colt is third," but I don't think those are as likely.

Spock's original job was "First Lieutenant"
"The Captain right hand man, the working level commander of all the ship's functions-from manning bridge to supervising the lowliest scrub detail" *

*From Roddenberry's original pitch as reprinted in The Making of Star Trek.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Spock's original job was "First Lieutenant"
"The Captain right hand man, the working level commander of all the ship's functions-from manning bridge to supervising the lowliest scrub detail" *

*From Roddenberry's original pitch as reprinted in The Making of Star Trek.

In Age of Sail naval parlance, the “First Lieutenant” was the second-in-Command—the top lieutenant in the pecking order with the most seniority.

 

[DaveyNY]

holy moly!

Don't you mean Ay Carumba!

 

[DaveyNY]

I learned it here in discussions of Spock's bifurcated penis.

<Raises hand>
Guilty on all counts your Honor.
(I used it a few days ago)

 

[Dar70]

As an old original Star Trek fan, while I do have an issue with the exterior 1701 Starship CGI model (IE I really dislike the split & swept back nacelle struts; although all the other aspects of said model are fine...):

I LOVE what they did for the 1701 Bridge set (as well as the Turbo Lift and Conference Room sets). It's updated to 2019 'cinema' standards; yet still VERY faithful to the original design.

Let's not fool ourselves. There is nothing faithful to the original designs except the basic shapes and maybe a splash of color here or there. Otherwise it's all different and so far removed from TOS that we can now just assume this is all a reboot, which it should have been originally.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Let's not fool ourselves. There is nothing faithful to the original designs except the basic shapes and maybe a splash of color here or there. Otherwise it's all different and so far removed from TOS that we can now just assume this is all a reboot, which it should have been originally.

Funny. I think, it‘s as close to the TOS set as you can get away with 60 years later. Must be a matter of opinion then...

 

[Mudd]

Let's not fool ourselves. There is nothing faithful to the original designs except the basic shapes and maybe a splash of color here or there.

Well, that simply isn't so.

 

[starbuck]

I like it good take on the tos bridge, would ppl have been happy if they had walked out into the 60s brigde

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Do we have design sketches for the bridge before the original was built for The Cage?
Often what is built is a huge compromise of the actual vision of the design artist.
In the case of Discovery‘s take on the same bridge, it‘s probably elevating it.

 

[Mudd]

Jefferies was a smart designer from the beginning - most of his sketches are very much directed toward the practicalities of budget and construction.

There are some interesting variations in his earliest drawings for the bridge, though.

 

[zar]

It looks like an Apple Store in night-mode.

I know, right? And did you notice how the Boreth monastery looked exactly like the back-room of an abandoned Apple Store during winter?

 

[seigezunt]

I liked it. Where it didn't remind me of TOS, it reminded me of TAS and the movies. And then to find out they got buttons from James Cawley, that's pretty heart-warming.

And it bears repeating, THEY KEPT THE CHAIRS