What if the ship was hit by a plasma storm when you were standing away from your seat? What would you grab a hold of? The railings. We saw it many times in TOS. Its a safety measure and a welcome aesthetic feature of nearly all starfleet bridges.
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What if the ship was hit by a plasma storm when you were standing away from your seat? What would you grab a hold of? The railings. We saw it many times in TOS. Its a safety measure and a welcome aesthetic feature of nearly all starfleet bridges.
Not sure. In the Mr. Scott's Guide thread going on over in Trek Tech, Lora says her visit to the sets was in August 1986, which was three months after shooting wrapped, and long before the sets would have been redressed for TNG, which began filming at the end of May 1987. But between the Gene/Majel photo and some angles on the bridge in a Good Morning America interview with Kelley, Doohan, Takei, Nichols, and Koenig to publicize TVH, it's pretty clear that at the very least, everything got a fresh coat of paint.
OK, I get "Red Alert", "Yellow Alert" and "Normal". Not entirely sure about "Auxiliary", but maybe it's for situations like when Enterprise returned to Spacedock earlier in the movie, and Spacedock actually took control of Enterprise's systems for the docking procedure.
But "Stand By"? What does the crew do, just cease all operations and sit there expectantly?
Stand by means Scotty stole parts of the main computer drive.
I liked the "GOOD MORNING CAPTAIN" display once Excelsior had been sabotaged and its computer lobotomized. Big, blocky letters, like you'd see on a TRS-80 or VIC-20 back in the early 1980s.
They should have used a font for the letters that did not look like '80s computers. Same problem when they auto-destructed the 1701-Refit on the computer screen there.
They should have used a font for the letters that did not look like '80s computers. Same problem when they auto-destructed the 1701-Refit on the computer screen there.
But time and cost is a factor. Creating something new would've taken time and cost money.
I know, but it looked cheap like a low-budget sci-fi film.
It was a joke, anyway.
Guess you had to be there.
Guess you had to be there.
Never really bothered me. Just a sign of the time in which it was made.
A reason that I liked it was that this was supposed to be the zillion-dollar-system reverting to its most basic operating system functions-- sort of like HAL 9000 singing that old song. This is the cold start boot!They should have used a font for the letters that did not look like '80s computers. Same problem when they auto-destructed the 1701-Refit on the computer screen there.
It pretty much was a low-budget sci-fi film.
For the opening scenes of Trek IV, they did have a nice transparent screen with exotic-looking typeface on Spock's computer.
It still brought up the letters one at a time and with sound effects, as movie computers often do!
It still brought up the letters one at a time and with sound effects, as movie computers often do!
It wasn't Star Trek V.
Love this bridge, by the way.
The best version ever used in a movie - prior to 2009, anyway.
Yeah...i hated it. Meyer ruined it aping Red October.
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OK, I get "Red Alert", "Yellow Alert" and "Normal". Not entirely sure about "Auxiliary", but maybe it's for situations like when Enterprise returned to Spacedock earlier in the movie, and Spacedock actually took control of Enterprise's systems for the docking procedure.
But "Stand By"? What does the crew do, just cease all operations and sit there expectantly?
And what does it mean when none of them are lit like the picture shows?
And what does it mean when none of them are lit like the picture shows?
IIRC, the "Yellow Alert" indicator was blinking, and I think the TrekCore screencap just happened to catch it while it was off.
Indeed it is; see 2:20 in the video posted here:
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-original-excelsior-bridge.281989/page-3#post-11650329
Also, this follows Styles being summoned from his quarters:
"Bridge, this is the captain. How can you have a Yellow Alert in Spacedock?"
They should have used a font for the letters that did not look like '80s computers. Same problem when they auto-destructed the 1701-Refit on the computer screen there.
But it was from an 80s computer... 2280s, that is. Check out the pinnacle of late 23rd century home computing:
Not exactly surprising, since it's obvious Kirk likes to collect antiques. They're all over his apartment. The computer is just one of those antiques that he collected - it doesn't just look like an 80's computer, it IS one.
