I always assumed Karidian's acting troupe brought along their own sets and costumes, like any other touring theatrical production.
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I always assumed Karidian's acting troupe brought along their own sets and costumes, like any other touring theatrical production.
Good point. I don't know much about touring theatrical productions.
I just think in the 23rd century, the acting troupe wouldn't use those materials but have holographic scenery.
Unless they are into a revival type situation. Our sets use actual wood and paper!
Do they have holodecks in the 23rd century? I thought that was more of a 24th Century thing.
But, yeah, acting troupes have been schlepping their sets and costumes and props from place to place for centuries. Put them up, tear them down, pack them up, and move on to the next town or city or city or planet on the tour.
And honestly, those sets didn't look too elaborate or difficult to transport. I've seen high school productions with more elaborate sets, let alone touring productions of Les Miserables or Wicked or whatever . . .
They knocked up a Nazi uniform quickly enough for McCoy, even if the boots were a tad small. Compared to that, several days to mockup some flats for a stage play (very thin flats, I might add) shouldn't have been too much of a problem for the right crew.
As for the Bowling Alley being part of the gym, I think that can work well. The gymnasium complex may well be the single largest open area on the ship. I wonder if it was refitted into the Red Deck on the TMP-E?
Probably doable, but, again, I doubt the Karidian Company relied on their hosts to provide the sets and costumes everywhere they went:
"Hi, friendly colonists on Vega IV, we're going to be staging 'Hamlet' for your entertainment. Here's a list of the sets and costumes we're going to need by tonight. Better get working on it right away, 'cause the curtain rises at eight."
I'm sure they traveled with their own supplies and stagehands, which were beamed aboard the Enterprise when Kirk offered them a lift. Because that's what a traveling acting troupe does.
When I did college theatre, after one production we took it to about a dozen high schools in the state, some of them over 100 miles away. We brought our wood and muslin flats, costumes, props, makeup, and even some lights because we weren't sure if we'd even be performing in a theatre auditorium at some locations. We didn't ask the hosting schools for anything related to the production. Sometimes we'd do two schools in one day on a one week tour.
That's very nice.We did a crazy bowling alley photoshop in a caption contest a few years back.
Same here. Riley was full of himself and under the influence of alien funny water when he announced, "Attention, crew. This is Captain Riley. There will be a formal dance in the bowling alley at nineteen hundred hours tonight." I always assumed the bowling alley, like the dance, was a figment of Riley's imagination.
And tribbles aren't literally born pregnant either!
I've looked in my USS Enterprise Haynes Manual and it isn't mentioned in the crew/recreational areas portion. 
I've looked in my USS Enterprise Haynes Manual and it isn't mentioned in the crew/recreational areas portion.
Franz Joseph is your guy for the bowling alley. I don't have any Haynes Manuals, but I suppose they're fun.
Kail Tescar authored a number of online Star Trek comics featuring the original series cast. This 2003 effort, "To Dance With the Devil", features an opening scene in the Enterprise's bowling alley which appears to be inspired by the artwork cited above.
http://www.startrekanimated.com/tas_comic04_cover.html
http://www.startrekanimated.com/tas_comic04_cover.html
Wow, how cool is that! Love his comics.
So professional baseball and broadcast television will virtually disappear in the future, but bowling, poker and Shakespere are alive and well.
Just to show how difficult it is to predict the popularity of pastimes, the state sport here in the State of Maryland where I live is jousting.
And fencing!
Hmm. A quick search on Memory Beta reveals that the bowling alley has only appeared in one STAR TREK novel to date: Crossroad by Barbara Hambly.
I may have to remedy that . . .
I was going to mention that, as I was reading that novel for the first time just a few weeks ago. When the bad guys try to take over the ship, they stage an important part of the attempt from the bowling alley.
Personally, I find it a bit hard to swallow that the ship would devote that much space to a bowling alley instead of a more general recreation area, but to each their own.
And there was a stretch for decades there where a top spectator sport in the United Kingdom and the United States was competitive walking.
Well according to DSN baseball is around, it's just not played professionally anymore, we know that Football makes it professionally to at least 2152 as England made the World Cup finals that year however DSN's "Paradise" indicates that it is still played professionally in the 24th century, Worf was Captain of his High School Team on Gault.
But the 2040's would place it around WWIII and the post-atomic horror. One could see why certain things fell out of favour and more pressing needs took over.
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