I just found that in my saved files; you're correct. But the captain's chair is huge and super-cushy. All it needs is a romance novel and a tray for the bon-bons, and Kirk would be all set for some me-time.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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I just found that in my saved files; you're correct. But the captain's chair is huge and super-cushy. All it needs is a romance novel and a tray for the bon-bons, and Kirk would be all set for some me-time.
Now I feel bad for criticizing it as he is clearly a nice guy who put a lot of hard work into his design. It's not as bad as I said, really, just not at all my favorite. Darkly lit, with the extra stations they built for Generations, it was much cooler. Black or gunmetal would have helped enormously.
It was a bridge design that purposely eschewed every thing military. It was created in the era of Platoon, Stripes, and Good Morning, Vietnam, when we were lampooning and criticizing the military; In the post-Gulf war era, we thank them for their service but we tend to forget the cultural disdain from a few decades ago.
I always liked that stripped, down, minimalist approach to technology on the bridge.
The public observation gallery (as I saw it) suggested a total equalisation of Starfleet and the civilians on board, who could saunter by and see peaceful exploration in action whenever they fancied.
IOW, a very different kind of TNG!
The public observation gallery (as I saw it) suggested a total equalisation of Starfleet and the civilians on board, who could saunter by and see peaceful exploration in action whenever they fancied.
IOW, a very different kind of TNG!
An observation gallery--that's totally were The Wandering Blueshirt belonged!
Interesting! But don't get me started on having kids aboard the Federation flagship. Thankfully they didn't seem to be ported over to the Enterprise-E, unless I'm forgetting something from Insurrection, which I hope I'm not.
TNG was apparently developed by "solving" every problem that TOS supposedly had. Especially the problems David Gerald pontificated about in The World of Star Trek. The captain shouldn't beam down to potentially dangerous places. He shouldn't be a hit with the ladies. Blah blah blah. Gerald probably said families should be along for the ride, or that was a GR thing.
GR started this whole thing with his insistence in The Making of Star Trek, "Why should a man give up the joy of ham and eggs if the technology of his time permits it?" or some such. And then, given time, this kind of space-luxury thinking ballooned into the captain having his therapist on the bridge and civilian spouses and children being aboard. Jeez.
Shore Leave....during the fight between Finnegan/Kirk (Vince Deadrick/Paul Baxley), right about this moment Deadrick stops, looks to his left and starts to move towards a small rock, like he is going to pick it up to use as a weapon. The stuntmen, director or editor must have changed the fight scene because it goes back to fisticuffs.
I think this episode must have destroyed several pairs of expensive, custom-made Starfleet boots. And that's why Shatner wears boxer's shoes in "Arena."
On topic; Prior to the @Donny TOS Enterprise Interiors thread, I never noticed that Pike's Enterprise allowed you to wipe your feet when entering the bridge:
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I always felt that was a pad they stepped on for opening the doors. Like a supermarket.
It looks like the same actor who plays Mirror Spock’s bodyguard....
Also plays the stunt double for Nimoy during the sick bay fight scene. That would make sense since he’s already in Vulcan make up.
Also plays the stunt double for Nimoy during the sick bay fight scene. That would make sense since he’s already in Vulcan make up.
This assumes that was shot on the same day.Also plays the stunt double for Nimoy during the sick bay fight scene. That would make sense since he’s already in Vulcan make up.
I don't recall Gerrold (That's how it's spelled, BTW) ever railing against the Captain having romances in The World of Star Trek. He did argue against the logic of the ship beaming down its top two officers in every single situation, though. And he reasoned that, logically, the ship should have a group of first contact specialists whose job it was to make contact with new races and report back to the Captain on board the ship. Those suggestions were implemented into TNG, but I'm sure it got boring for Patrick Stewart to be stuck on the bridge set all of the time, so they had the Captain beaming off the ship again in later seasons.
Just checked Star Trek Wikipedia...
Russ Peek was Spock’s bodyguard and Dave Perna was the sick bay double for Nimoy. Oh, well....
