Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 1/2016
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Fascinating video. I hadn't realized that there was a different miniature (or miniatures) reproportioned to fit the two-level plan of the series version of the ship. I always thought there was just an inconsistency between the exterior and interior designs. (Although there was one in the third season when they suddenly added the space pod dock and the engine room.)
Starfleet shuttlecraft suffer this same problem.
But the people can't live in Gemini 12. There's no place to sleep the night they crash-land.
The series-version Jupiter 2 was frustrating because the beautiful exterior can't really contain the nifty and accommodating interior, but if you overlook the non-Euclidean geometry, it's a pretty nice arrangement for sci-fi daydreams.
The Enterprise (at Jefferies' 947 feet) has some issues too, but since actors aren't walking around the exterior mock-up, and we never see a strict relationship between interior and exterior windows, we can scale it up a little in our head canon to allow for plenty of deck height and a capacious hangar.
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As my brother said when I pointed out something odd in Batman, "That's the only weird thing you noticed about the show?" The TARDIS-like nature of the J2 is the least of Lost in Space's problems. Let's start with the idea of space colonization as a way to off-set overpopulation and resource depletion, and go from there...
At least Star Trek is allegorical.
Yet, the Robinsons apparently were using the G-12 for shelter in the unaired pilot "No Place to Hide". True, we saw no hints of the sleeping arrangements. Maybe they packed air mattresses or something.
Related on a tangent, I always thought it was absurd the Robinsons thought it vital to abandon the craft and drive south in the Chariot when the discovered the region would freeze. Ugh, guys? You have a spaceship that functions in absolute zero. However, intended for the pilot but not actually depicted, the Gemini had been horribly breached with a gaping hole. (Elevation drawings float about the 'net depicting this planned feature.) No longer sealed against the elements, their drive for warmer climates makes more sense. But, as finally aired in episodic format, the Jupiter 2 is "whole" and even has some power(we see equipment glowing and blinking), so the exodus seems foolhardy. (Of course, Allen was the type not to waste any footage. He had sequence of the Chariot tearing across the desert and an inland sea, by gosh he was gonna' air it, sound reasoning or not!)
Sincerely,
Bill
A fair point, but it's not quite analogous. Despite the pervasive TV/movie mythology of exposure to space causing instant freezing, vacuum is actually an insulator. There's no surrounding medium to speak of to conduct or convect heat away, so you only lose heat by radiation, the least efficient mechanism. Real spaceships actually need heat radiators to avoid overheating, whether from direct sunlight or the buildup of heat from internal systems and the crew's bodies. But a ship landed on a habitable planet's surface would have its heat conducted away by the ground and convected away by the air, so it would lose heat a lot more quickly than it would in the vacuum of space, and its onboard heat generation systems might not be able to keep up. (Note that the Jupiter 2 version, at least, had landing legs, which would improve the ship's insulation slightly by minimizing the surface area in contact with the ground. But those don't help if the ship is crashlanded and partly buried with its upper exit conveniently close to ground level.)
True, a years-long journey through interstellar space, with no nearby stars to warm the ship, would give it plenty of time to cool down. But the crew was meant to be in suspended animation, frozen anyway, during that part of the voyage. Presumably the heat of their destination planet's primary star (Alpha Centauri A or B) would've warmed the ship on arrival, as would the waste heat of the engines as they fired up for deceleration. So it stands to reason that the ship wouldn't be designed for long-term habitability in freezing conditions, especially on a planet surface.
Moreover, the convolutions necessary to explain why the planet's orbit would bring about a deep freeze and a heat wave and then back to normal in a matter of days (in the aired version) are far more ridiculous than the original premise, particularly since no such weather extremes were ever seen again.
Well yes - part way before all done. While its LED and not Xmas lights I hope and think all will be pleased. A great deal of effort was put into matching and btw its never consistent on the show, either.
SpockboyAs I see it, the best way to do them might be to do a wrap-around specific built sensor over the original--and do dome shaped displays like on a smart phone with just that pattern.
Since the original had old style Christmas lights in it. They could just duplicate a similar shape with an LED inside of it. Which I think is what the 1/350th scale lighting kit does.
I'm hoping I'll get to visit the Enterprise next month when I'm in the vicinity for the Shore Leave Convention.
This part is making me think "Uh-oh" - I don't remember any streaks, and while they may have been there, they didn't show up on TV from what I remember. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Edit: I don't know if it's this board or my effin iPhone that's screwing up my quoting attempt.
