Saratoga bridge at beginning of The Voyage Home

[Doctorwhovian]

Even before the probe neutralizes it, the lighting on the bridge seems to be kind of fairly dark compared to other movie-era bridges. I know it's basically the same bridge set as Enterprise/Reliant/Grissom, was the dark lighting meant to hide this? Or in-universe were they going by reduced power or something being close to the zone?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IIRC, the bridge set used for the Grissom in ST III, and the Saratoga in ST IV, was the same set used for the Enterprise bridge. If they futzed with the lighting it was probably just to hide the obviousness of this. And you'll notice that in neither of those cases do we ever see a viewscreen...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The amount of power that lighting would put out compared to other systems like warp drive would be utterly minuscule. Plus, any radiation that the ship's lighting system would put out wouldn't be detected for years, since it would only move at light speed.

It would go something like this:

Romulan Tech: Sub-commander, I'm picking up an extremely faint energy reading, almost too weak to register: radiation moving at light-speed.

Sub-Commander: Analyze!

(The Romulan tech activates switches at his station. Indicators flash as the computer analyzes the data. After a few long moments, the computer chimes that it has completed its task. The Romulan tech reads the read-out.)

Romulan Tech: Oh. It seems it's just stray electronmagnetic energy from a Federation spy ship that we tracked in a flyby of the Neutral Zone 8.7 years ago.​

 

[F. King Daniel]

I wonder if it was to disguise that the bridge had already been given it's shiny white Enterprise-A paintjob? Purely speculating, don't have the film or screencaps at hand.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Also have sort of noticed that when we first see the Enterprise bridge in TWOK (not counting the Kobayashi Maru), it's also quite dark, but sort of gets lighter later in the movie, even after it's been damaged by Khan.


I'm mainly going by the blu-ray transfer image BTW.

 

[USS Triumphant]

One of the alien crewpeople on the bridge of the Saratoga was from a species with a high light sensitivity. The lighting was set out of consideration for them.

 

[f14peter]

One of the alien crewpeople on the bridge of the Saratoga was from a species with a high light sensitivity. The lighting was set out of consideration for them.

Hence the Federation President's ultra cool shades in TUC?

 

[Maurice]

It was the night shift.

 

[Dukhat]

One of the alien crewpeople on the bridge of the Saratoga was from a species with a high light sensitivity. The lighting was set out of consideration for them.

Hence the Federation President's ultra cool shades in TUC?

Actually, he was wearing those glasses because he was supposed to be blind (although they didn't actually go out of their way to make this 100% apparent...)

 

[Lance]

I wonder if it was to disguise that the bridge had already been given it's shiny white Enterprise-A paintjob? Purely speculating, don't have the film or screencaps at hand.

This thought occured to me too. Maybe they had already revamped the sets for the Enterprise-A, but darkened the lighting on Saratoga so that the reveal of the 'new' Enterprise bridge was still a surprise.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hence the Federation President's ultra cool shades in TUC?

Actually, he was wearing those glasses because he was supposed to be blind (although they didn't actually go out of their way to make this 100% apparent...)

Really? Where did you hear that?

 

[velour]

One of the alien crewpeople on the bridge of the Saratoga was from a species with a high light sensitivity. The lighting was set out of consideration for them.

Hence the Federation President's ultra cool shades in TUC?

Do you mean the dude with the fancy white mustache and do?

Was the Prez in TUC the same guy as the one who was on the Saratoga in VOY? I mean the character(s). Maybe the guy on the Saratoga got promoted to President. They surely look alike. Or maybe it was the same actor but playing different characters of the same species. In any case, they are a distinguished looking species.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Was the Prez in TUC the same guy as the one who was on the Saratoga in VOY?

Not the same character, no. Just the same race (Efrosian).

 

[Nerys Myk]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

The Saratoga helmsman was Nick Ramus.

You don't get promoted to President.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

"This president is not above the law...Dumbass."

 

[Amaris]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

The Saratoga helmsman was Nick Ramus.

You don't get promoted to President.

Yet.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

The Saratoga helmsman was Nick Ramus.

You don't get promoted to President.

Yet.

I'm sure that'll be the next step in the improbable rise of Cadet James T. Kirk in Star Trek (1)3.

 

[Ithekro]

Naw they are saving that for Lt. Sulu.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

"This president is not above the law...Dumbass."

That line is actually a bit funnier when you consider Kurtwood Smith was also crime boss Clarence Boddicker from Robocop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZqKVcI9m8

 

[USS Triumphant]

The President was Kurtwood Smith aka "Red Foreman" from That Seventies Show.

"This president is not above the law...Dumbass."

When Kirk tackles him to the ground saying "Kirk, Enterprise" I can rarely keep myself from adding, "I know who you are, dumbass."