Trek Fan To Restore Enterprise D Bridge

[TrekToday]

A Star Trek fan is on a mission to restore one of the original sets from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Rescued from Paramount in late 2011, the fan is in the process of restoring the set and plans to make it open to the public when finished. “Originally created by Gene Roddenberry, the design [...]

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[Mott the barber]

Amazing!

 

[davejames]

Um, kinda looks more like one of the bridge reproductions made for the Star Trek Experience or Exhibition to me.

It's definitely not the original.

 

[R. Star]

Sacrilege! Curse you for letting this happen Paramount!

Good for this guy, I'd pay admission to get to see the set.

 

[StewMc]

Yeah, not quite the "original set" is it, the guy even mentions on the Facebook page (see here) that it's probably a replica bridge created for a tour or exhibition.

The original set was completely trashed for Generations wasn't it?

 

[Mott the barber]

Yeah, not quite the "original set" is it, the guy even mentions on the Facebook page (see here) that it's probably a replica bridge created for a tour or exhibition.

The original set was completely trashed for Generations wasn't it?

Trektoday should clarify that. I was going to say...the story seemed strange to me considering how Paramount/CBS is known to preserve many of the old props and even bridge sets for later use.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Yeah, not quite the "original set" is it, the guy even mentions on the Facebook page (see here) that it's probably a replica bridge created for a tour or exhibition.

The original set was completely trashed for Generations wasn't it?

Trektoday should clarify that. I was going to say...the story seemed strange to me considering how Paramount/CBS is known to preserve many of the old props and even bridge sets for later use.

Seconded.

 

[MickJo1701]

Definitely not the original. I'm afraid a touch of paint wasn't going to save this set, probably torn down and trashed like most of the TNG sets that didn't become part of VOY.

 

[StewMc]

I seem to recall reading that the horseshoe was the only notable thing to survive the set's destruction/binning, although where it went, or even if the story is true, I'm not sure...

 

[davejames]

Definitely not the original. I'm afraid a touch of paint wasn't going to save this set, probably torn down and trashed like most of the TNG sets that didn't become part of VOY.

Lol. I'd still love to know where those girders and giant shards of metal come from. It certainly wasn't the ceiling, which we can see clearly there.

 

[MickJo1701]

Lol. I'd still love to know where those girders and giant shards of metal come from. It certainly wasn't the ceiling, which we can see clearly there.

Yeah, some of the debris doesn't really fit, it was the same when Voyager did Year of Hell. but the set was darkly lit in the film so its forgivable. I'd like to know why there's a 3rd armrest from the captains chair lying on the floor in front of it.

 

[trekker670]

That's definitely a reproduction of the bridge, the chairs particularly look like the ones from STTE. Most of the pieces (i.e. chairs, consoles, etc.) from the last 2 were sold either at the warehouse sale or the auction put on by Propworx a few years ago.

Edit from the Facebook page:

So is this the actual bridge or is it the one used at star trek the experience ?

it's neither, from what I can find, but it's definitely Paramount created

 

[Gary7]

Wasn't the original intentionally destroyed in "Generations"? That bridge never appeared again, as the next movie ("First Contact") featured a whole new bridge design with the NCC-1701E.

The one shown in the photo is definitely not an original set. The steps are a dead giveaway.

 

[trekker670]

Wasn't the original intentionally destroyed in "Generations"? That bridge never appeared again, as the next movie ("First Contact") featured a whole new bridge design with the NCC-1701E.

The one shown in the photo is definitely not an original set. The steps are a dead giveaway.

The one shown in the photos above are the original set from Generations. The stairs (along with side consoles, etc) were added for the movie. The original set was destroyed as seen above.

The set he acquired is a replica, similar to the one seen at STTE, but was designed to go on tour and was thus able to be disassembled and transported and was more durable.

 

[Takeru]

The original set was destroyed as seen above.

The set isn't destroyed in the above picture, there's no real damage (they made a giant hole in the wall between the bridge and the ready room, but that's not visible here). They just kicked the chairs and one of the new consoles over, emptied three buckets of dirt onto the floor, carried random "debries" in and sprayed parts of the walls black. The set as it is seen in that picture could probably be restored in less than a day, 30 minutes to carry the crap out, 20 minutes vacuuming the carpet, 5 minutes for fixing the chairs and then some scrubbing on the walls and the set would look brand new.

 

[trekker670]

The original set was destroyed as seen above.

The set isn't destroyed in the above picture, there's no real damage (they made a giant hole in the wall between the bridge and the ready room, but that's not visible here). They just kicked the chairs and one of the new consoles over, emptied three buckets of dirt onto the floor, carried random "debries" in and sprayed parts of the walls black. The set as it is seen in that picture could probably be restored in less than a day, 30 minutes to carry the crap out, 20 minutes vacuuming the carpet, 5 minutes for fixing the chairs and then some scrubbing on the walls and the set would look brand new.

No, the entire reason they destroyed the bridge so badly was that they knew the set was being destroyed once filming was completed. This has been documented by numerous people involved in the production:

Some of those pieces were really hitting us. We had worked for seven years on that set and it had never really blown up before. I mean, there was fire everywhere. It was a big-time special FX...It was fun, but it was kind of ironic that for seven seasons we had been able to get the Enterprise out of jeopardy, and in the feature, we don’t accomplish that. That was kind of refreshing, actually. The bridge set was a complete disaster area, utterly and completely destroyed. If we do another film, at the very least we know we’ll have a new bridge set.

Most of the Enterprise sets were destroyed during filming of the crash sequence. What was not destroyed, such as crew quarters, transporter rooms, and parts of engineering was integrated into the sets of the USS Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager. The frame from Data's Lab on Star Trek: The Next Generation can be seen among the wreckage at the Armagosa Observatory. Worf's tactical console was all that remained of the Enterprise-D Bridge after filming.

 

[Gaith]

Hurm. Well, even if it isn't the total, 100% original set, I remain intrigued...

 

[trekker670]

Hurm. Well, even if it isn't the total, 100% original set, I remain intrigued...

Agreed. I couldn't care less that it's not original. Having a recreation of the TNG would be great, now that STTE is closed.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

A Star Trek fan is on a mission to restore one of the original sets from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Rescued from Paramount in late 2011, the fan is in the process of restoring the set and plans to make it open to the public when finished. “Originally created by Gene Roddenberry, the design [...]

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I still move that the TrekToday article be clarified.

A Star Trek fan is on a mission to restore one of the original sets from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For starters, the leading paragraph here is untrue.

 

[Gaith]

^ Seconded.

Edit: they posted this on their Facebook site:

Michael and Denise Okuda have been AN INCREDIBLE help in everything pertaining to this project. Now that we're literally getting WORLD WIDE RECOGNITION, Michael informed me of a few errors I made on this page which I am now correcting (including photos from the ORIGINAL BRIDGE which were a part of what I rescued but NOT a part of the Next Generation D Bridge).

I also want to make it perfectly clear this was NOT THE ORIGINAL SCREEN USED BRIDGE, that set was completely destroyed for the film STAR TREK GENERATIONS. This was a Paramount produced REPLICA for display and exhibition, NOT the original set used for filming. It was designed and constructed under the supervision of TNG production designer Herman Zimmerman for Paramount.

The principal designers for the bridge were Herman Zimmerman (production designer), Andrew Probert (Illustrator), Sandra Veniziano (art director), John Dwyer (set decorator), Les Gobrugge, Richard McKenzie, Greg Pappalia (set designers), Michael Okuda (graphic designer).