Observations on Janice Lester's isolation room

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Yes, it was the standard designation - the label "Transporter Room" was never used or seen.
It can be glimpsed in several episodes but here's another clean appearance from This Side Of Paradise

https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season1/125-this-side-of-paradise/this-side-of-paradise-br-355.jpg

And the pointer-sign version from Journey To Babel

https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season2/215-journey-to-babel/journey-to-babel-br-018.jpg

If they had, it would have looked more like this:

But sadly, no chicken soup dispensor.

 

[blssdwlf]

Yes, it was the standard designation - the label "Transporter Room" was never used or seen.
It can be glimpsed in several episodes but here's another clean appearance from This Side Of Paradise

https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season1/125-this-side-of-paradise/this-side-of-paradise-br-355.jpg

And the pointer-sign version from Journey To Babel

https://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/season2/215-journey-to-babel/journey-to-babel-br-018.jpg

If they had, it would have looked more like this:

The "Savage Curtain" floor plan appears to have added another wall segment? and rotated the segment with the camera to a more 90 degree angle. Hmm, if I understand the old layout, it would seem that it is possible to change the angle of the walls to fit for "Mirror, Mirror". I sketched in red what it might be based on the earlier floor plan but with a change in angle on the wall. If I ever get around to modeling the transporter room I might try and see if it will fit

 

[Mytran]

The "Savage Curtain" floor plan appears to have added another wall segment? and rotated the segment with the camera to a more 90 degree angle. Hmm, if I understand the old layout, it would seem that it is possible to change the angle of the walls to fit for "Mirror, Mirror". I sketched in red what it might be based on the earlier floor plan but with a change in angle on the wall. If I ever get around to modeling the transporter room I might try and see if it will fit

I think you're right; the room depth in both those setups may not be too dissimilar after all!
Perhaps the Transporter Room which Space-Lincoln materialises in doesn't fit the set either?

Here is another angle from MM which confirms that there is only the "door wall" panel adjacent to the angled wall with the mini-scanner on it (above the guard on the left).

Interestingly; 7 episodes before Space-Lincoln turned up the Transporter Room set was configured like this:

The wall with the mini-scanner angles toward the T-platform even more severely and the back wall is noticeably closer to the main console (than in Savage Curtain), meaning that the whole area might just fit correctly!

 

[blssdwlf]

I think you're right; the room depth in both those setups may not be too dissimilar after all!
Perhaps the Transporter Room which Space-Lincoln materialises in doesn't fit the set either?

"Savage Curtain" does avoid showing the corridor outside of the transporter room where it would stick out... so very likely?

Here is another angle from MM which confirms that there is only the "door wall" panel adjacent to the angled wall with the mini-scanner on it (above the guard on the left).

Interestingly; 7 episodes before Space-Lincoln turned up the Transporter Room set was configured like this:

The wall with the mini-scanner angles toward the T-platform even more severely and the back wall is noticeably closer to the main console (than in Savage Curtain), meaning that the whole area might just fit correctly!

Indeed!

 

[Maurice]

Jumping back to the signs seen in the corridors, I designed a handful of those for use in the corridor set for the second Starship Exeter fanfilm, one of which was designed to indicate where intruders were headed, and also to suggest there were more facilities for extra-vehicular activities than the transporter or shuttles. That sign gets its closeup here (at 24:04 if the video doesn't start in the right spot).

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[Christopher]

I think you're right; the room depth in both those setups may not be too dissimilar after all!
Perhaps the Transporter Room which Space-Lincoln materialises in doesn't fit the set either?

We can presume that the different configurations represent different transporter rooms, even though they tend to refer to "the transporter room" as if there were only one. But there must be more than one, since only one has a food dispenser in it.

Here is another angle from MM which confirms that there is only the "door wall" panel adjacent to the angled wall with the mini-scanner on it (above the guard on the left).

I wonder what the "mini-scanner" is for. Is it just a camera? It would make sense to have a security camera in the transporter room, although there are cases where someone beams up or down clandestinely without anyone being alerted. So what else could it be?

 

[Maurice]

Can anybody say where they built the Observation Deck (over the shuttle bay)? Where on Stage 9 I mean, or was it on Stage 10?

According to the shooting schedule for "The Conscience of the King", the "Int. Observation Corridor" was on Stage 9.

According to the shooting schedule for "Journey To Babel," a "Hangar Observation Room" was specified for scene 4D of the teaser, but it was omitted, but appears to have been Kirk and Co. looking at the Shuttlecraft door opening (off camera).

sc. 4D: Kirk,-Spock-McCoy enter Observation Rm-(Teaser)

CONSTR: Galileo ship platforms.

EFX: Galileo doors to open.

The next location is "Int. Hangar Corridor", which is where Sarek's party is greeted. The schedule specifies the day to begin on Stage 10 (planet/swing set), and then for a crew move back to Stage 9 (Enterprise sets), though it doesn't specify that crew move til after the Engine Room scene with Spock's parents, which is probably just an error. But it seems like the hangar corridor and shuttlecraft were meant to be shot on Stage 10, which would have enough room for the shuttlecraft and the ante-hangar corridor.

 

[Phaser Two]

I think you're right; the room depth in both those setups may not be too dissimilar after all!
Perhaps the Transporter Room which Space-Lincoln materialises in doesn't fit the set either?

Here is another angle from MM which confirms that there is only the "door wall" panel adjacent to the angled wall with the mini-scanner on it (above the guard on the left).

Interestingly; 7 episodes before Space-Lincoln turned up the Transporter Room set was configured like this:

The wall with the mini-scanner angles toward the T-platform even more severely and the back wall is noticeably closer to the main console (than in Savage Curtain), meaning that the whole area might just fit correctly!

It's a bit hard to tell because of the angle, but it almost looks like they moved some things around for the Lincoln-on-the-pad shots versus the Cheron-guys-running-for-the-pad shots. But that's probably just due to Lee Bergere being taller than both Antonio and Gorshin by something like four to six inches. The shots from the pad of Losira killing Ensign Wyatt are tighter so there's not as much to be seen. I'm just thrilled that they shot from the pads—other fun S3 staging choice.