New project - TOS Enterprise 1341-foot version full interior 3D model

[Jim Botaitis]

It's possible my opinion is skewed by my familiarity with the filming sets, although watching the video this morning got me thinking about how often we actually see Kirk moving inbetween his cabin and the nearest turbolift. The 2 main examples I can think of are:

• The Enemy Within - Kirk and Spock leave the cabin and board the turbolift at the end of the corridor, 8 meters away
• What Are Little Girls Made Of - Kirk arrives by the same turbolift as above and enters his quarters 8 meters away. However, when he leaves (thanks to some editing in of a scene originally filmed for The Corbomite Maneuver) he walks at least another 16 meters before boarding a totally different turbolift!

Later episodes seem to avoid Kirk going directly from the turbolift to his quarters which avoids the limitations of the set and also helps imply the larger size of the Enterprise.

Oh! I thought I could use Kirk's alternate quarters in the Secondary Hull to explain this. I think it was in MUDD'S WOMEN, Kirk asked to see Mudd in his quarters and Spock - escorting Mudd - said, "Deck 12" when they entered the turbo-lift.
Well, there is no Deck 12 in the Primary Hull. There is a Deck 12 in the dorsal section, but it is too narrow to allow for quarters. All that remains is the Secondary Hull. If the Secondary Hull separates from the Primary Hull, then those decks could have an alternate numbering system. Deck 23 (where there are some Transporter Rooms) becomes Deck 15. Only 3 decks above, Deck 20 becomes Deck 12. I put Kirk's alternate quarters there.

https://www.jbot.ca/space/bhc/BHC%2024.jpg

A turbo-lift is about 8 meters away, but it is not oriented or aligned exactly as we see it in the episodes. Oh well!

 

[David cgc]

It wasn't until I started rewatching TOS episodes multiple times in research for this project that I noticed in some scenes that require dialog while Kirk, Spock, and/or McCoy are walking through the corridor, they sometimes walk very slowly! If they walked at a normal pace, they would run out of corridor before they finished their lines! It gave me an appreciation of how creative the show runners had to be to make the most of that relatively small set.

I remember when Enterprise came on, they talked about how they designed the main set complex with two nestled arcs of corridors instead of just one, which let them stage indefinitely long walk-and-talks without having to do multiple setups (or slow-walking).

The new Battlestar Galactica took the same lesson, the centerpiece of their corridor complex was arranged in a figure-8 that likewise allowed them to loop back and around to make it seem longer.