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Set blueprint exchange

Count - that is a great reference and will be very useful


I've managed to make a blueprint for the Door Button panel - in Voyager it is normally used to call the turbolifts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/15863812994/

I think it first appeared in TNG series 2 - "Shades of grey" as a general control panel.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16486366505/

Also I found two very useful references
Voyager warp core - https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/15863862154/
Jefferies tube junction - https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16298683108/
I think I'll be adding the Jefferies tube and voyager engineering / nacelle control to my project list
 
Getting a decent plan of the Jefferies Tube would be excellent, it's one I've puzzled over for years. Floor to floor (of the next level) seems to be around 7 feet. However, this is considerably shorter than the corridor ceiling (8 feet) let alone the room ceilings (around 10 feet). I look forward to the results! :)
 
@Mytran: I would love that too.

From what I can tell however, the jefferies tube set appears to be at least 3 storeys high. It's got the middle storey (the one you commonly saw from engineering) one above it that's a duplicate with all wild walls and than a basic mockup below (in the stage 9 pit, same level as the bottom floor of the warp core) that's only a ladder and a few walls so you barely see it.

I think the Jefferies tube is still 8 feet in that room, it just feels smaller because halfway into the room is a 6" step, probably a hidden wall for the floor hatch.
 
Yes, but see the thing is, I think that Jefferies tube room may be the upper level of the trio, because if they had shot it from the doorway/engineering view even without the wall, you'd see the step facing riker. Also, where is the ladder? If that was shot from the ladder wall (wall removed) then you'd see the step at the side where riker is sitting in the hatch.

So either that's a swing set, or they've modified the thing. And one thing I noticed thanks to "Lessons" is that one of the two levels of the Jefferies tube set is 1' smaller than the other.
 
It's important to remember that the Jefferies Tube set (the 3-level version accessed from Main Engineering) was not the first incarnation of this part of the ship:

The very first version was the redressed engineering corridors from ST5 and appeared in Season 3's The Hunted. Aside from the ladder design it has very little in common with the traditional 24th century Jefferies Tubes.
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x11/the_hunted_hd_287.jpg

The next version debuts in Season 5's Disaster, which features the more familiar arched crawlway tubes meeting at a central junction room. No ladders are in evidence, only an octagonal panel in the floor and ceiling
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-5/5x05/disaster-hd-214.jpg

This version of the junction room appears in the following episode The Game, when Wesley is trying to evade capture.
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-5/5x06/the-game-hd-358.jpg
The octagonal panel in the ceiling however is just a metal grate, presumably so that Wesley can try and escape that way (and fail)
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-5/5x06/the-game-hd-368.jpg

Notice that at this point the Jefferies Tubes are in no way connected to the main standing sets. Also, the attempted use of the grate to go vertical clearly stuck in the set designers' minds, as when the Jefferies Tube junction reappears in Season 6's Realm Of Fear. As well as the junction room being moved to Main Engineering, a ladder was integrated into the design
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x02/realmoffear198.jpg

The junction room in general is now pretty much in its final form, and we got lots of good looks at it in Quality Of Life
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x09/thequalityoflife167.jpg
See also the impossible long crawlway which (by rights) ought to plough straight through the wall of Engineering and into the plasma conduit!!!
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x09/thequalityoflife177.jpg

The only other oddity that springs to mind is the presence of a door on the UPPER level of the Jefferies Tube, that Barclay (in ROF) actually exits through (apparently)
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x02/realmoffear199.jpg

As I said before, the height of the corridor set adjacent should have made that impossible, but maybe we are just looking at clever editing instead?

I will have to rewatch the episode, I think. :)
 
Yea, I remember the hunted Jefferies tubes, I always canonized that as since Geordi said he was headed to deck 46, those were more like the service corridors for the lower levels where the antimatter tanks were. :)

Didn't quite put together that the Jefferies tubes were swing back in season 5, but thinking back on it, I do recall Riker walking out the tube door more than once.

What I'm thinking though with Barclay is, it was a series of cuts instead. They didn't have him walk in the upper door, he's actually on the engineering level, and they transposed him looking down to the stage 9 pit, while at the same time had Geordi look up at the top Jefferies floor and cut the footage together. Since the scene wasn't single take, I figure that's how they did that.
 
After snatching a quick rewatch of that scene I think you are right. It is very likely that there was just one completely finished "pretty" junction room, the upper and lower levels likely just had ladders and the adjacent wall.

Some nifty camera work and cutting in that episode, I've been fooled for years!
 
So a few things of note and forgive me if it has already been brought up. On the Flickr account where the blue prints are being organized been organized:

The Galley from STVI:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/14153120715/in/set-72157644182510017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/14149781021/in/set-72157644182510017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/13966463540/in/set-72157644182510017

Is actually a redress of Conselor Troi's Office
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/15495981271/in/set-72157644182443257
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/15312407380/in/set-72157644182443257

This set was also dressed as The conference room / dinning room In S1 Haven and The Neutral Zone. In season 2 it was dressed as Captain Phillipa Louvois's office for measure of a man, where it then was also shown as the Admiral of the week's office on the view-screen. It was then dressed later in the season as Troi's Office for the first time. In later seasons of TNG this room served as the science labs in Lessons, and Suspicions.

The most interesting version of this room was when it made an appearance in Redemption as the Sutherland's Bridge. They essentially took the dress from STVI and added LCARS and doors. (the shelves in the blueprints were later used in the junior officer's quarters and in Sickbay on VOY)

I have a few notes to add to the "unknown set plans" section

Door of Captain Proton's Rocketship:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/14886933695/in/set-72157645949637850
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/14883899431/in/set-72157645949637850

Voyager Holodeck wall (possibly from the Hololab in Fair Haven):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/14700339348/in/set-72157645949637850
 
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Count and Mytran - your investigations into the junction room are very extensive and thorough. It will be a lot of help once I get to the junction room plans

Just one thing I did notice - the corners of the junction room are rounded
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x19/lessons110.jpg

I do wonder whether the junction rooms were stored complete and just wheeled on, or if they were broken down into "flat pack" parts and reassembled when required.


batboy853 - thanks for identifying the unknown plans. I've renamed them and put them in the voyager album.

The thread had previously identified the galley and troi office being the same, but I had forgotten to add the images to both tmp and tng albums. I didn't know it was also the Sutherland bridge and Captain Phillipa Louvois's office - well spotted.

Regarding the shuttle blueprint - these aren't the same pages, but I think they are the same type (type 9)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16068969099/in/set-72157646352071752
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16229194836/in/set-72157646352071752

I'm afraid I don't know where the refit observation lounge was placed on stage.
 
Redgeneral said:
Count and Mytran - your investigations into the junction room are very extensive and thorough. It will be a lot of help once I get to the junction room plans

Just one thing I did notice - the corners of the junction room are rounded
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x19/lessons110.jpg

I do wonder whether the junction rooms were stored complete and just wheeled on, or if they were broken down into "flat pack" parts and reassembled when required.
Click to expand...

I believe they were permanently added to stage 9 in the TNG engineering corridor and remained that way for the rest of the series. You see the Defiant junction room once in the Season 4 finale "broken link", but it's a straight cut from one of the Defiant tube hatches into the junction itself. The junction hatch itself previously being attached to the plain "crawlway" set piece in Adversary. So the junction set was never installed to Stage 18 with the rest of the defiant parts since 18 is smaller and if you look at the defiant plans, there's no place to put the junction (The tube hatch is in the long part of the "T" behind the bridge, near where the turbolift door is).

So I believe that the junction themselves remaining where they were (since the stage 9 pit did not cover the entire stage) and the crawlway was wheeled in to the left hand door hatch (during TNG) as needed, since the hatch in reality would be blocking the double doors and protruding into the engineering space if the wall plug was not there.

Not too sure on Voyager, have to reanalyse as the Voyager consoles were embedded much further into the wall, I would have thought that would obstruct the crawlway unless they truncated it's length in Voyager.
 
Actually, the Voyager Engineering set seems to have been designed with the Jefferies Tubes in mind (hardly surprising really, since the tubes were standing sets by then). There's enough space for two section of horizontal tube, which is all we ever see on the show anyway.

I do like the idea of a (single level) wild junction room set though, it would have made filming a lot easier!
 
Hey thanks Redgeneral, I had seen those two images.

I was modeling the interior, and was having difficulty with the proportions of the windows, so was looking for that one image in hopes to help. Hopefully one day it will appear online, until then I'm just going to eye ball it with using the exterior as reference.
 
These is also a slight variant of the Jefferies tube in TNG 4x19 (The nth degree) - a t-junction
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-376.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-377.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-381.jpg

Also there seems to be variation in the floor and ceiling of the tube. By TNG 6x19 the floor and ceiling have changed considerably from the version in the links above
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x19/lessons129.jpg




I've gone through the original blueprint images for the Kelvin captain's chair (also used in the training simulator) as it had quite a few "fuzzed" numbers (mainly due to the resolution and being blue ink on a blue background). I've figured out all but three of the numbers (each indicated with an orange "x"). The renumbered version can be seen below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16590440835/
 
Redgeneral said:
These is also a slight variant of the Jefferies tube in TNG 4x19 (The nth degree) - a t-junction
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-376.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-377.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x19/the-nth-degree-hd-381.jpg

Also there seems to be variation in the floor and ceiling of the tube. By TNG 6x19 the floor and ceiling have changed considerably from the version in the links above
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s6/6x19/lessons129.jpg




I've gone through the original blueprint images for the Kelvin captain's chair (also used in the training simulator) as it had quite a few "fuzzed" numbers (mainly due to the resolution and being blue ink on a blue background). I've figured out all but three of the numbers (each indicated with an orange "x"). The renumbered version can be seen below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/16590440835/
Click to expand...

Those are the original walkway sets as they first appeared in Galaxy's child. They also appeared in Power Play during the Geordi/Ro scene.

That was before the junction set had been built, it was crawlways only.
 
Unless they specifically state they're in the same place as before, couldn't all these Jefferies tube variations exist in different parts of the ship? There's no reason to think they'd all look the same.
 
The Enterprise-D is certainly big enough, no argument! However, I am loving this charting of the evolution of the set.
 
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