Where Was Majel Barrett Filmed In This Video?

[FalTorPan]

This video from a 1993 episode of Entertainment Tonight features Majel Barrett dressed as Lwaxana Troi and talking about the women of Star Trek, from the original series, TNG and DS9. What's odd is that Barrett is standing in what appears to be a partial replica of the Enterprise bridge from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan -- many years after the set had long since been irreversibly redressed countless times for TNG. So... where did this set come from?

My guess is that it's left over from the old Star Trek Adventure video exhibit at Universal Studios Hollywood. If I'm not mistaken, the bridge set at that park was styled after the Enterprise bridge from Star Trek II, whereas the set at Universal Studios Florida was styled after the Enterprise bridge from Star Trek IV.

 

[sojourner]

It's been 20 years since I was there, but I don't remember the bridge set for the Star Trek Adventure being that complete.

 

[Therin of Andor]

many years after the set had long since been irreversibly redressed countless times for TNG. So... where did this set come from?

The chairs are quite distinctive. But remember the TOS movie bridge was redressed as the Enterprise-D battle-bridge several times. Also, the video promotes the premiere of DS9, so is it Sisko's ship that was attacked by the Borg in "Emissary"?

 

[T'Cal]

That looks like a set for a convention judging by the lighting.

 

[FalTorPan]

many years after the set had long since been irreversibly redressed countless times for TNG. So... where did this set come from?

The chairs are quite distinctive. But remember the TOS movie bridge was redressed as the Enterprise-D battle-bridge several times. Also, the video promotes the premiere of DS9, so is it Sisko's ship that was attacked by the Borg in "Emissary"?

Sisko's ship, the Saratoga, had a bridge which did not strongly resemble any bridge that had been built to that point. It also seems unlikely that the set, which had indeed been redressed several times for TNG, could be redressed to a state in which it existed even before its Star Trek IV redress. Even if the set could be redressed to that state, the cost to do so just for this one video would be prohibitively high.

 

[Anji]

I can't be positive but it looks like its a set from the TOS movies. My best guess is the Excelsior.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It definitely the look seen in TMP/TWOK/TSFS. The chairs and walls are different in the other movies. I suppose they could have those pieces in storage and dug them out for this report. I cant find any use that set in that configuration in the TNG or DS9 episodes produced prior to the date mentioned. (01/04/1993)

 

[Therin of Andor]

It definitely the look seen in TMP/TWOK/TSFS.

Which is why people speculated it was the Los Angeles' Universal Studios' bridge. I appeared on that bridge (as the Klingon Captain in "A Star Trek Adventure", which integrates new footage with stock bridge scenes from ST II and III) in January 1992, and DS9 was announced as a concept for the next ST series only a week later.

Not too sure about the distinctive chairs, though.

 

[FalTorPan]

My guess is that it's the set from Unversal Studios Hollywood's Star Trek Adventure. It makes little sense to reconstruct a set for a segment like this. It would have made more financial sense to film it on the TNG bridge set after hours, especially since the average ET viewer wouldn't know the difference.

 

[Forbin]

Somebody check screencaps from the beginning of Emissary to see if it's the Saratoga. I can't get to trekcore at work.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's the Universal Studios Hollywood version of the bridge set, used for their "Star Trek Adventure" - the Florida version was somewhat simpler.

Check out the chairs, stanchions and animations.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw4Y03wvEfY[/yt]

 

[barnaclelapse]

She was probably thinking "Where the hell did they get this?"