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What do you think the Enterprise interiors will look like?

Re: What do you think the Enterprise interiors will look lik

Yes that is exactly what I was thinking too! The red cushions and the flat panel can be made to look very close to the housing on the back light panels on TOS bridge. And the panel at eye level on the consoles can be flat panel as well. This all would bring TOS style bridge really alive!
 
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I was thinking of something else that might be fun. Why not say the ship was in the middle of a refit when it was called into action. The ship could look like it's still being worked on. The idea is you will see familiar elements but not all them, under the guise the ship is still not finished but when it is done it will end up looking like it does in "TOS."

Jason
 
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If you go back and watch "The Cage," many elements of set and costume design and particularly color schemes were very different from the regular production episodes that followed. Personally, I think those sets looked considerably more modern and less prototypical of the 1960s. The bridge, in particular, could be replicated almost exactly--with the possible exception of the gooseneck viewer/comm thingies--and look just fine even by today's standards. Of course, that's assuming the parts, pieces, materials and workmanship are upgraded to look good at feature film resolution.

Considering the next film is supposed to be a TOS prequel, it would make sense that the art directors look more toward the earlier set designs for inspiration than the latter.
 
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^^While I would love that, I'm just not sure that's going to fly. But please, Hollywood, prove me wrong!
 
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Make the bridge round instead of polygonal? Make the inset above each station with the two big displays one continuous display that wraps the bridge from turbolift to main viewer? Give the main viewer a larger, 16:9 aspect ratio? Instead of bright red for surfaces like the railing, turbolift doors, helm/navigation panel, mute it to burgundy?
 
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One problem is the sets have to look primtive compared to "TOS" because the show will be 20 years in the past or so while looking more advanced thqn modern technolgy. They then got to do this while making us believe we are on the Enterprise we saw in "TOS."

Jason
 
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Balance is the key, the right balance between what we saw in the 1960's with what modern movie goers can accept.

There's not a thing wrong with TOS's design, it's the details you'll need to change mostly, goodbye jellybean buttons, goodbye bright colors, hello NASA style controls, hello muted colors.

Let's face it, Matt Jefferies designs were brilliant in the 60's they still are, the details should change to be more accepted my the modern film-goers.

Part of this has to do with how the future itself has changed over the last 40 years, eh ?

We're living in it for starters, who'd would of thunk we'd be sitting behind computers at home 40 years ago ?

I remember when I first saw colored Floppy Disks, I said hey those look just like the squares on Star Trek they stuck into the computer on the Bridge and elsewhere.

Then later the first flip-open cell phones got me wondering what century we were living in, didn't you think that as well ?

This doesn't mean that the equipment like communicators should be made smaller, how 'bout instead the communicators just do more, like the iPhone, they can store data on them and so forth and so on, it's a personal communications device, not just a phone or even a walkie-talkie.

Same with tricorders, the reason they're so huge is that they do a lot more, show them doing more if you have to, the point is that there's not a blasted thing wrong with the designs, just make them do more as a way to show that tech has moved more forward from this point in time.

See unlike Rick Berman I have a sci-fi way of getting around why everything is bigger in TOS then it would be if made w/ modern tech, it just does more, if it does more, it needs better batteries and so forth and so on, therefore it's bigger to accommodate these longer lasting batteries.

See it's all perfectly logical ;)

- W -
* Who thinks that Jefferies and Wah Chang's designs have nothing wrong with them at all *
 
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Let me be the first to nominate Woulfe here as a member of the Star Trek XI production team.
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Woulfe said:
This doesn't mean that the equipment like communicators should be made smaller, how 'bout instead the communicators just do more, like the iPhone,

They already do. Cell phones need an external infrastructure of transmitter towers and satellites to work at all; TOS communicators could reach an orbiting starship without any help. They also may have been able to communicate in real time at ranges over one light-second (assuming they had that range), and/or communicate without direct line-of-sight, such as when the starship's orbit takes it below the horizon.

Likewise, tricorders routinely did several things no modern machine can do, and some more things that today can only be done by massive devices.


Marian
 
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Vektor said:
If you go back and watch "The Cage," many elements of set and costume design and particularly color schemes were very different from the regular production episodes that followed. Personally, I think those sets looked considerably more modern and less prototypical of the 1960s. The bridge, in particular, could be replicated almost exactly--with the possible exception of the gooseneck viewer/comm thingies--and look just fine even by today's standards. Of course, that's assuming the parts, pieces, materials and workmanship are upgraded to look good at feature film resolution.

Considering the next film is supposed to be a TOS prequel, it would make sense that the art directors look more toward the earlier set designs for inspiration than the latter.

Agreed - it should look like The Cage era - muted greys and blues as opposed to red and retina-burning yellow.

Same for the uniforms.
 
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Two words: Shag carpeting.

*runs away*
 
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Ugly and dark, like the "First Contact" uniforms, didn't work for "Star Trek." If these guys have a clue, the design and colors will brighten up again. :cool:
 
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UWC Defiance said:
Ugly and dark, like the "First Contact" uniforms, didn't work for "Star Trek." If these guys have a clue, the design and colors will brighten up again. :cool:

I thought those costumes worked great for DS9.

They were a lot more military-looking than the prior costumes.
 
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UWC Defiance said:
Ugly and dark, like the "First Contact" uniforms, didn't work for "Star Trek." If these guys have a clue, the design and colors will brighten up again. :cool:

You're right...only the second highest grossing trek movie.

Dude, if you think the uniforms will make or break the franchise at this point, you need to take a look at the less than stellar scripts they've been putting out over the past decade.
 
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Squiggyfm said:
UWC Defiance said:
Ugly and dark, like the "First Contact" uniforms, didn't work for "Star Trek." If these guys have a clue, the design and colors will brighten up again. :cool:

You're right...only the second highest grossing trek movie.

Dude, if you think the uniforms will make or break the franchise at this point, you need to take a look at the less than stellar scripts they've been putting out over the past decade.

You're absolutely 100 percent correct about the scripts.

At the same time, I can kinda sorta see how visual effects including costuming might have a negative effect on a movie.
 
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Tamek said:
I thought those costumes worked great for DS9.

They were a lot more military-looking than the prior costumes.

They didn't look anything like military uniforms, but they did look a lot like tacky jogging outfits.
 
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Tamek said:
I thought those costumes worked great for DS9.

That's what he said. They didn't work for Star Trek.

A big part of Star Trek's visual recognisability is due to the use of bold primary colours. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie would be similar in style.

But back to the Enterprise interiors, I think that the "First Contact" sets certainly were one of the most refined examples of the TNG school of TV set design. It had forward-facing consoles, and was roomy, so that it was possible to shoot from lots of different angles.
 
Re: What do you think the Enterprise interiors will look lik

Squiggyfm said:
UWC Defiance said:
Ugly and dark, like the "First Contact" uniforms, didn't work for "Star Trek." If these guys have a clue, the design and colors will brighten up again. :cool:

You're right...only the second highest grossing trek movie.

Dude, if you think the uniforms will make or break the franchise at this point, you need to take a look at the less than stellar scripts they've been putting out over the past decade.

:thumbsup:
 
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