My "FIGHT" with Captain Kirk!

[Chris PikE]

A couple of years ago I was at The Star Trek Original Series Set Tour for a Shatner event. When I visit my friends there, I love to help out with the guests and stay out of their way. I didn't expect to have a "fist fight" with William Shatner!Normally my friend John Carrigan Does the honor, but John was unable to attend. While waiting outside the entrance to engineering ,out of the way of the guests, I hear my name called! James Cawley came out to meet me and said...You're Fighting Captain Kirk!So there I was standing in front of Mr. Shatner as he explained to the guests how he would Kick my butt!We did it twice that day. The second time Mr. Shatner and I waited for the guests to move on to the bridge.He then said to me, you did a good job. I said thanks! He then said John Carrigan would have fallen on the floor! I said, OK, next time I'll do that! Mr. Shatner looked at me in my full Starfleet uniform and said, No, I wouldn't want you to dirty that tunic...It looks expensive!A great memory! Luck would have it that several of the guests sent me these images as I was too busy acting!To do this, in full uniform, in engineering on the Starship Enterprise, acting a fight scene with William Shatner was a very surreal event indeed!

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[Paradave911]

Good stuff. Wish they had something like that here in texas, must have been super cool.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

This is great. Such a good venue for Shatner to play, such a good fan experience.

One thing I've thought about is the statement, maybe even made by Chris at some point, I can't recall, that the Engineering set seems smaller in person than it does in the Original Series.

In the wide view at 0:42, the two big machines on the left seem to have way less floor space around them than they did in "The Enemy Within," a show that may have played fast and loose with the size of the set.

Franz Joseph couldn't find tremendous floor space for them, either:

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/03-08-10.jpg

I figure the Ticonderoga sets were made to authoritative studio specs. @Chris PikE, was accuracy ever discussed, and do you know if Franz Joseph was near it or far off the mark?

 

[Chris PikE]

This is great. Such a good venue for Shatner to play, such a good fan experience.

One thing I've thought about is the statement, maybe even made by Chris at some point, I can't recall, that the Engineering set seems smaller in person than it does in the Original Series.

In the wide view at 0:42, the two big machines on the left seem to have way less floor space around them than they did in "The Enemy Within," a show that may have played fast and loose with the size of the set.

Franz Joseph couldn't find tremendous floor space for them, either:

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/03-08-10.jpg

I figure the Ticonderoga sets were made to authoritative studio specs. @Chris PikE, was accuracy ever discussed, and do you know if Franz Joseph was near it or far off the mark?

Thanks very much indeed! The sets are built to the actual set of BluePrints provided to James Cawley by Bill Theiss. They are 100% accurate/correct. Different camera angles can distort and change the visual look of them.
As much as I like the Franz Joseph blueprints, etc, His work is totally wrong.

 

[Phaser Two]

In the wide view at 0:42, the two big machines on the left seem to have way less floor space around them than they did in "The Enemy Within," a show that may have played fast and loose with the size of the set.

It definitely did, and thanks to Chris for his perspective on Ticonderoga. The sheer size of engineering in "The Enemy Within" and "Court Martial"—as well as the absence of incapacitated Khan-followers when Kirk arrives to confront Khan in the last act of "Space Seed," as I've discussed before—explains much of my support for the Two Engine Rooms Theory.