I have seen some post somewhere claiming that the prop used for the "Robot" called "Nomad" was reused as a Sickbay prop after a repaint. Is that true and where can that be seen?
"Nomad" Prop reused in Sickbay?
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Memory Alpha lists some other appearances of Nomad parts, but not in sickbay: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Nomad
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I think that what people might be confusing is that a set piece from Sick Bay (well, the Sick Bay Lab set) was indeed used on a super-powerful hovering robot--but the robot was Flint's M-4 robot.
You can see the big metal ball part in Sick Bay.
To further confuse things, part of Nomad was used on th M-4 robot.
You can see the big metal ball part in Sick Bay.
To further confuse things, part of Nomad was used on th M-4 robot.
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You can see the big metal ball part in Sick Bay.
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Technically, that's not sickbay, it's the medical lab. It's identified as such in dialogue, and it's a redress of the lab set seen in other episodes. It's part of the same 4-set complex as sickbay, but it's on the other side of McCoy's office from the main exam room and sickbay ward sets.
Probably how the crew would refer to things on a daily/casual basis, I agree.
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Well, we're talking in production terms here rather than in-universe terms, since it's a question about prop reuse. So it's about what the sets were called by the scripts and the production crew. The first-season blueprints I have use "Sick Bay" to refer to the ward set (the one with multiple beds) and "Sick Bay -- Exam Room & Doctor's Office" to refer to the adjacent set. In season 2, they partitioned off the office as a third set and built the lab as a fourth, and the second-season blueprint I have refers to the sets from right to left (as seen from the camera vantage) as "Sick Bay," "Exam Rm.," "Dr's. Office" [sic], and "Laboratory." The set diagram in The Making of Star Trek labels the sets as "Sick Bay Ward," "Sick Bay Exam. Rm.," "Dr. McCoy's Office," and "McCoy's Lab."
So I think the lab set was always treated as a distinct set from sickbay even though it was part of the same connected complex of sets. If a script said "Int. Sick Bay," it meant the ward, unless it specified the exam room. And if a scene was meant to be in the lab, it would say "Int. Laboratory" or "Int. McCoy's Lab" or some such thing.
Like Irwin Allen's Lost In Space(1965-68), TOS reused props over the series many times. Although, Irwin Allen's series did it much more than TOS.
Maybe the folks who made Tan-Ru run the intergalactic Acme Corp?
Part of 'NOMAD' was also reused for the Rumulan Cloaking Device in TOS - "The Enterprise Incident":
The production really got its money's worth out of that Nomad prop.
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