Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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I'm not convinced most of these tiny differences can't just be accounted for by different cameras/lenses, and slightly different shooting positions/perspectives.
The dedication plaque also has a more ribbed and deeper edge now, but that could just be because the Enterprise-D probably cycled through several different plaques between "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I(TNG)" and GEN and Geordi restored the bridge using the least damaged and/or most available one.
Blass said the plaque was one of the original props, not a recreation.
Looks to be the one that first appeared in Silicon Avatar, based on the dark areas around 'USS Enterprise' lettering.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Enterprise_dedication_plaque#USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)
Yep, definitely not the later one (S3). But Patrick couldn't have shrunk that much. I think we're seeing one of the less obvious differences in the rebuilt bridge layout.Blass said the plaque was one of the original props, not a recreation.
Looks to be the one that first appeared in Silicon Avatar, based on the dark areas around 'USS Enterprise' lettering.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Enterprise_dedication_plaque#USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)
The dedication plaque used in the recreation was seen in Seasons 5 to 7 (and presumedly Generations)
Dave Blass has posted some more ship pictures
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrG7L3wJ1vH/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrGvi9vJQ98/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrGtZi4uveV/
Edit: He deleted them probably typos or something.
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fuck trekyards. Also you don't need to spoiler tag them, the thread already has a spoiler tag.
Can we just stop with these idiots. They've literally wished death upon production staff.
Just stop.
Well one of them did. I don't think Samuel has ever expressed such things, he's more composed than Foley.
Fair point. The talented one atleast seems to have a self filter.
They sort of carried over that idea when they were doing Ops for Deep Space Nine. The transporter nearby, and a staff meeting table at the center of the room instead of a command chair.I also really liked this idea, which was intermediate between the giant original bridge concept and what we ended up getting. The couches wrapping around the forward consoles make more sense here, and we can see the origins of the Enterprise-D's famous horseshoe.
One idea from these concepts that should have absolutely carried over into the final design was the bridge being part of a self-contained "command complex" containing its own transporter room and docking port facilities.
Another factor with this sort of thing, a lot of these sketches look good on paper but when it comes time to actually shoot with them, they don't work because of where the camera needs to be and how the set would have to break apart for different shots. I believe that's the reason the Defiant's bridge changes dramatically in-between its introduction in DS9's "The Search" (S03E01-02) and its next appearance. The initial production design had issues as far as being able to get good shooting angles.
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He was also drunk when he did that, but hey people say stupid things when they're drunk
People tend to say what they really want to say when they're drunk
I've been pretty drunk in my life. I've never wished death on anyone.
Being drunk is literally the opposite of a get-out-of-jail-free card. "Sorry your honour, I didn't mean to plough through that queue of children waiting for the school bus, but you see I was just so drunk..."
Well, too bad. They get to talk to many of the folks who create the show and interview them.
And there are those who like their work.
So what are you going to do, complain everytime they show up?
It's apparently the seasons 5-7 plaque: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1647676234745225219
