New Sets

[EJD1984]

With principal filming due to start in a few weeks, and it's been mentioned that the new sets are being built (and most likely nearly finished) - Has any set pictures/sketches started to leak out?

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

The only concept design I have seen so far is for the Enterprise bathtub.

I've heard most of the "action" takes place there.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Zuni Fetish Doll said:
The only concept design I have seen so far is for the Enterprise bathtub.

I've heard most of the "action" takes place there.

Now I'm all hot and bothered.

 

[RAMA]

EJD1984 said:
With principal filming due to start in a few weeks, and it's been mentioned that the new sets are being built (and most likely nearly finished) - Has any set pictures/sketches started to leak out?

Exciting from a fan standpoint because it won't re-use any of the old sets. Its really a fresh take on the look of the series. A lot of those sets started off in 1978!

RAMA

 

[Christopher]

RAMA said:
Exciting from a fan standpoint because it won't re-use any of the old sets. Its really a fresh take on the look of the series. A lot of those sets started off in 1978!

But those sets (occupying Paramount's Stage 9 from 1978 onward) were torn down at the end of VGR in 2001 (because their 23-year-old wooden framework was rotting away). They weren't used in Enterprise or Nemesis and only saw minimal use in First Contact and Insurrection (the Enterprise-E sets were mainly on Stages 14 and 15 for FC, Stages 5 and 15 for INS, and Stages 15 and 17 for NEM; FC and INS also used a few redressed VGR sets on Stages 8 and 9, mainly sickbay).

Personally, I'd love it if the Enterprise sets for this movie would be built on Paramount's Stage 31, formerly known as Desilu's Stage 9, where the original TOS sets stood:

http://pat.suwalski.net/film/st-stages/stage31.php

Unfortunately, reports are that they'll be using Stages 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, and 18 instead. Now, all of those have their share of ST history, especially 8 and 9, but it would've been so cool to see the TOS Enterprise sets recreated in the exact same spot where they originally stood.

 

[seigezunt]

they just better have a vanity mirror in the captain's quarters that barely goes chest-high, or this movie will FAIL.