"Torment of Destiny" Star Trek New Voyages
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Some early pictures are coming in from our episode "Torment of Destiny" that we shot earlier this month. How are they looking?
McCoy gets zapped in the Yonada Oracle Room as actor Richard Hatch looks on:
Scotty, Chekov and Sulu on the bridge:
Aaahh! The Yonada Oracle Room is too much! That is great attention to detail!
Wow. You guys have Bewitched, Dark Shadows and The Partridge Family beat with cast changes!
A few more recent droppings:
Some Guards/Extras from Yonada:
Spock, Kirk, and Commodore Bob Wesley:
Guest star Richard Hatch with Dr. McCoy (Jeff Bond) and Natira, High Priestess of the People of Yonada (Becky Wood):
Some Guards/Extras from Yonada:
Spock, Kirk, and Commodore Bob Wesley:
Guest star Richard Hatch with Dr. McCoy (Jeff Bond) and Natira, High Priestess of the People of Yonada (Becky Wood):
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NICE! Hey Greg, how much of the Enterprise bridge do you have? For some reason I thought you guys had a 360° set. Or are some of the pie slices simply removed in that shot above?
Last year, we moved from our old studio space to new larger digs. We haven't set up the entire bridge at the new studio. We focused on the sets needed for our shoot--and the starboard side of the bridge wasn't something we needed for "Torment of Destiny."
We'll get the rest of it set up at some point. In the meantime, having it opened up actually provides us the opportunity to get some shots we can't get when it's all buttoned up. There are some shots we were having to get by popping out the backlit astronomical pictures and shooting through the opening.
Will you guys be making the bridge segments wild in this new studio space so you can continue getting a variety of shots?
I don't know. James decides such things--and keeps his own counsel. I can tell you that he likes to make things as "real" as possible--regardless of how inconvenient it might be to our shooting. I'd be in favor of keeping the sections wild--as God intended. But they are James' sets. He'll do as he thinks best with them.
Each pie-shaped section could be broken down into 3 pieces but it was rarely seen. You can see this in "The Mark of Gideon" when they are shooting with a wide-angle lens through where one of the bottom sections has been removed while still showing the bottom of the upper section. There may be one or two other examples
I'm not entirely convinced that the upper part of that frame isn't a mockup made to LOOK like the bottom of the console. Perspective seems funny, especially given you can see the entire chair.
Here's the only picture I've ever found that shows freestanding pie pieces:
Here's the only picture I've ever found that shows freestanding pie pieces:
I don't know. I could easily see the bottom section (i.e. the light gray with the grates) and the middle section (the black consoles and readout screens) being removable. The angle of the border seen in in that screenshot could easily be the bottom part of the two larger monitors section, angled because it's not a uniformly flat wall, at least not when it comes to the console section and below, as per this graphic and this one too.
Only dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies would argue the finer points of bridge set pie slices and not even acknowledge the lovely Nichelle Nichols in the foreground showing off how bendy she was. 
