Enterprise-d generations bridge set

[Russell Oviatt]

For years I saw posts about the generations uniforms thst were never used, forcing the cast and background actors to wear what was available but i also wondered if the same could be said about the way the brodge set was designed in adding the side stations.

I always thought the stools weren't practical and while the side stations were cool it seemed like they were just kind of crammed in without any thought of a wider ramp for the cast. Except for when spiner removes a panel along one of the side ststions I always thought the intent was to have the starions have pull out chairs similar to the ones used during the series.

Who knows, to me it just seems like the whole set was thrown together on a rushed deadline, a tight budget, and a "let's send her off in style as long as she's crashing" reasoning.

 

[1001001]

Since this is about a specific movie, I’ll move it to the correct forum.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Basically, David Livingston really liked the alternate bridge from Yesterday's Enterprise and wanted to recreate that in this movie on a more cinematic scale.

 

[Fire(BOO!)]

The side stations gave the set some more visual flair for the wider Panavision frame.

Personally, the Generations version of the set is my favorite build. It's more interesting to me than the basic series version.

 

[USS Firefly]

I also love the Generations D bridge.

 

[Takeru]

The side stations gave the set some more visual flair for the wider Panavision frame.

Yup. Raising the center seats and lowering Worf by giving him a chair also allowed them to zoom in more on those characters, had they kept the series arrangement there would have been a lot of space at the sides of the frame while focusing on those characters. The set was originally designed for 4:3 framing after all.

 

[arch101]

Yep= They had to compress the actors into the wide-angle frame by lowering Worf and bringing up the command chairs. Also, the bridge would have felt empty on the big screen without the side stations, which you would now be able to see in the wide-angle frame. Besides, with the film budget, they could now afford the extras to man those stations.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's always amusing to me that the Next Gen Enterprise is meant to be this mostly automated, minimalist ship of wonders... until they get an injection of money and rule of cool takes over. Officers everywhere! Every wall covered in banks of monitors and control panels!

It does look cool, though.

 

[Kount Korbula]

obviously the events of the series proved the heavy automation needed more people backing it up

 

[Tosk]

It's always amusing to me that the Next Gen Enterprise is meant to be this mostly automated, minimalist ship of wonders... until they get an injection of money and rule of cool takes over. Officers everywhere! Every wall covered in banks of monitors and control panels!

It does look cool, though.

I dunno, four or five extra officers on the bridge of a ship with over 1,000 people on board doesn't seem that crazy to me.

 

[Takeru]

I dunno, four or five extra officers on the bridge of a ship with over 1,000 people on board doesn't seem that crazy to me.

Some of those 1000 people are civilians, let's say you have 800 officers but those are working in three shifts and some people always have the day off. So during a regular shift you might have 200 people running the entire ship and suddenly 4 people manning extra stations on the bridge is a lot.

 

[David cgc]

What’s the bridge’s function? I mean, is the captain and command crew just a bunch of glorified bus drivers for the mission specialists, or are they actually supposed to be contributing to the missions outside of transiting the ship from point a to point b? If it’s the latter, it makes sense to have as many people as possible close to the captain and first officer to keep them in the loop.

 

[Mage]

Another fan of the Generations bridge. The new side stations and elevations between the horseshoe and front consoles offer a better dynamic.

 

[CovePhanTom]

The side stations make sense to me and were integrated in a way that I think they look natural to the bridge.

I'm not a big fan of the elevated center chairs. I understand why they did it, but I think it looked better in the TNG version.

And I am on record many times as absolutely despising the lighting in Generations.