Is the bridge at a funny angle?
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I think your red lines are off a little. They should go through centers of the communications station, the captain's chair and the helm console. It's still at a funny angle. If I was doing the FX, I'd rotate the ship more to port.
I just put it through the captain's chair and the center of the console, very roughly, but there's no way you could get them to align.
They probably filmed the bridge from the side and then the model people filmed the ship from an angle between front and side, and whoever had to put them together had no alternative than to merge the two as they were.
They probably filmed the bridge from the side and then the model people filmed the ship from an angle between front and side, and whoever had to put them together had no alternative than to merge the two as they were.
It's not a literal push-in through a clear dome. It's just to show where the bridge is.Even just by eye, in both the original and the remastered versions, the bridge is at a funny angle.
And meaningless because it can't be taken as anything more than "this room is in this". So not a valid data point, even if there are no others.And yet, it's the only visual indication of this thread's topic
Not all "on-screen evidence" is evidence, any more than the Planet Killer or Decker's shuttlecraft changes size as the latter approaches the former.you may find visual on-screen evidence irrelevant, but that doesn't change what it is: visual on-screen evidence.
Here's how it was depicted in a SOVF trailer
And I have no idea what an "SOVF trailer" is.
No, I believe that the show portrayed that wholly fictional event as happening.
And how is anyone supposed to know that SOVF meant "Secret of Vulcan Fury"? It's not anything commonly referred to even in Trek circles. I mean, if I typed DS9COT outside of a Trek gaming discussion would anyone know it meant the game Deep Space Nine—Crossroads of Time? Nnnnnope.
Laugh-out-loud-funny. Thank you.
just as that bridge dome shot portrayed the wholly fictional bridge in the wholly fictional ship as totally happening to sit at a funny angle.
does knowing what the abbreviation means affect the picture itself?
Hmm. That could be useful!
FJ stuff has appeared onscreen and is well known.Oh really? XD (So is the Franz Joseph stuff, of course)
Apparently, it is as meaningless as actual, real CBS/Paramount-made canon
The canon versions of that shot are meaningless because neither version (TOS and TOS-R) offer any evidence on the bridge's orientation. In either shot, neither the bridge faces forward nor does the turbolift line up with the nub. The only evidence the canon shots provide is that the bridge is located in the upper dome of the ship.
Given that the turbolift doors do not in fact open into space, nor is the top of the bridge see-through . . . I don't understand what's wrong with the explanation that the turbolift car, when leaving the bridge, makes a little jog aft and starboard to reach the main chute/core.
Nothing's wrong with it. It's a fine idea.
One of the things that gets some fans hung up about it (not me, though) is the literal size of everything that's required to make it all fit together. That 947 feet is a problem, whether you're married to the number or not. If we're willing to just let things be the right size so it will work, then it's not as big a deal. Or, you solve the 947' problem by just sinking the bridge down half a deck. Those are the talking points in a nutshell, if I've followed all the bouncing balls.
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