How big was the Enterprise?

[Shawnster]

Okay. Why hasn't it occurred to anybody that it may have to do with artificial gravity sources and the interaction with the warp field???
Especially with sudden changes in acceleration due to weapon impacts?

And no this isn't a new thought with me. I have been playing around with it, ever since I first saw this bbs - twenty years ago.

I must be weird.

Oh well what else is new...

How does that work? Why would it apply only to the TOS Enterprise bridge? How does this affect the rest of the ship? What would happen if the bridge was oriented straight on? Again, why would the negative affect affect only the bridge and not the rest of the decks?

 

[DaveyNY]

Yes.

Unless it's dinky.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

**slinks away in shame**

OH MY ....
That reminded me that I once dated a young lady that had a "dinky toy" fetish.

You don't want to know...

 

[DaveyNY]

I read ages ago that in actuality, the main bridge set was purposely adjusted by the production crew late in the building phase in order to be able to have the camera look past the Captain's chair (thus Shatner) whenever anyone entered from the turbolift.

They decided that having it right behind the chair, blocked the camera's view when a guest star entered.

 

[Dukhat]

OH MY ....
That reminded me that I once dated a young lady that had a "dinky toy" fetish.

You don't want to know...

Yes I do.

 

[HotRod]

OH MY ....
That reminded me that I once dated a young lady that had a "dinky toy" fetish.

You don't want to know...

 

[DaveyNY]

Yes I do.

Think a very expensive vehicle.., say a Rolls Royce, entering a tunnel over and over again, in the rain.


She was gorgeous, but more than a bit strange.
We got along quite well as long as I catered to her "proclivities" and she mine.

 

[Maurice]

I read ages ago that in actuality, the main bridge set was purposely adjusted by the production crew late in the building phase in order to be able to have the camera look past the Captain's chair (thus Shatner) whenever anyone entered from the turbolift.

They decided that having it right behind the chair, blocked the camera's view when a guest star entered.

Read where? There's a paucity of documentation about the sets.

 

[Warped9]

Actually many, many years I read the very same thing, that the bridge originally was supposed to have the turbolift directly aft of the command chair. But early on, before construction began for the first pilot, someone decided (possibly Roddenberry) the turbolift should be offset as it we would see it throughout production. They simply felt it would be more visually dramatic. And at this point the name of the Captain was still April or Pike.

I’m wondering if I read that in The Making of Star Trek.