Need help from REAL fans: Images of empty bridge

[Christopher]

^^No, we're not forgetting it, it just didn't come up. The issue I was addressing was how much of the bridge set existed in "Relics" specifically. "Relics" was the beginning, in which they built one pie-wedge station and the lift alcove. "Trials" was the next step, with more of the set getting built, but still not the whole thing. IaMD was the culmination, where they reconstructed the entire bridge and numerous other sets besides.

And the cool thing was that they did a lot of it on their own time. The reason the show was able to afford doing this whole elaborate bridge set when its budget had been slashed was that the art/production staffers had done most of the work already as a labor of love.

 

[Ronald Held]

It is a good example, but not exactly like the Enterprise(AFAIR). The Christies catalogue has a picture in it.

 

[gastrof]

The Squire of Gothos said:
Welcome, but TNG's "Relics" did use a replica of Kirk's bridge built by (and I'm trying not to Google here) German fans to what looks like a fairly good standard...

No.

They didn't.

For the full shot of the bridge, they used a one second scene from a TOS episode when the bridge was empty, and kept it looping for as long as they needed it for in the TNG episode.

For the actual set pieces that Doohan and Stewart appeared alongside, those were built at the Paramount studio, with some stuff borrowed from a fan or two, but it wasn't of the complete bridge.

They photographed those bits that were built carefully, using clever angles so you never saw how little of the TOS bridge was really there.