Why Did the Bridge in VI look different to the Bridge in VI?

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The original Star Trek Adventure from Universal Studios can be seen here

I performed the Klingon Captain in the Los Angeles "Star Trek Adventure" in January 1992, but the bridge set was certainly not ST IV finale white. Are you saying the LA set was painted white to make new footage of McCoy, Sulu, Chekov and Uhura to be used for the Florida "Star Trek" experience?

It looked white, from what I recall, back in the early 90s. By the two videos, it looks to be the same set as the LA Adventure with some modifications and brighter lighting, and not the TVH set.

What I am suggesting is that it may have been the set Kelley and the rest filmed on and not the TVH set. Further, Roddenberry is standing in front of the Angel One city matte. Suggesting that TNG was already in production by the time the footage was shot. Therefore, TVH set was already cannibalized for TNG.

Moreover, Uhura's chair looks like a stiff plastic, does not move, and is an exageratted version of the Paramount set version -- much like those on the LA Universal stages. As do the chairs that Sulu and Chekov.

 

[trevanian]

Hey, I'm just reporting what I hear.

Understood. I (incorrectly) assumed that you may have misremembered the cable car detail from your discussions with the ILM crew.

TGT

I actually AM having memory issues, so I've been checking old manuscripts before posting lately (also helps cut down on my post counts.) I don't usually check the published versions, but instead what I submitted (that way I don't post misinformation, like the Cinefex issue where they rewrote it to mention the ENTERPRISE- as seen on VOYAGER (??!!)

 

[HRHTheKING]

Modular bridges.

Easily replaced.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It looked white, from what I recall, back in the early 90s. By the two videos, it looks to be the same set as the LA Adventure with some modifications and brighter lighting, and not the TVH set.

Hey, I was on that set, and it wasn't stark white like the ST IV bridge and Florida Universal Studios bridge were stark white. The LA Universal Studios was all beige and grey tones, colour matched to enable it to be intercut with the stock footage from ST II and ST III.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

It looked white, from what I recall, back in the early 90s. By the two videos, it looks to be the same set as the LA Adventure with some modifications and brighter lighting, and not the TVH set.

Hey, I was on that set, and it wasn't stark white like the ST IV bridge and Florida Universal Studios bridge were stark white. The LA Universal Studios was all beige and grey tones, colour matched to enable it to be intercut with the stock footage from ST II and ST III.

Hey, I too was on that set, and I remember it being white before it was lit for the show. I have my own VHS tape of my escapade, same as you. Nevertheless, that was many years ago and too many brain cells wasted on college antics.

However, I'm pointing out the possibility that the LA Universal Studios set was redressed for the filming of the footage for the Florida attraction. They look too similar in the finer details, as I pointed out up thread. I'm may be wrong; however, if you look at the two videos, neither one, except in color, match TVH set exactly. Yet the two share more similarities in those finer details than they do to TVH set.

Moreover, the attraction opened when TNG was already in production. 1988-1994 in Los Angeles. This featured the stage show that both you and I were part of.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek_Adventure


The Flordia attraction opened in 1992 as part of The Screen Test Home Video Adventure. It used a blue screen to insert the guests onto the "set" as seen in the video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screen_Test_Home_Video_Adventure

Therefore, the TVH set was already cannibalized for TNG and by the time these two attractions went into service.

Moreover, the set on the LA attraction may also have been redressed, redone before it's eventual shut down. I dunno, I only went to it once when it was still new.

You claim that it is the TVH set in the Florida attraction video, but from what I can tell it doesn't seem to add up. If you have information that I'm not privy to or can corroborate your claim, then I am willing to coincide the point.

Until then, I just wanted to bring up the possibility-- possibility, since I wasn't there personally for the filming of the Florida scenes or have any other source than what I've brought up-- that it wasn't TVH set.

 

[Therin of Andor]

just wanted to bring up the possibility-- possibility, since I wasn't there personally for the filming of the Florida scenes or have any other source than what I've brought up-- that it wasn't TVH set.

All I know is that someone once asked here how/when they got the cast to Florida to film the footage used in the separate Florida attraction, and someone else said that they'd used the ST IV stark white bridge pieces, that were then famously left out in the rain when TNG used the standing framework to make the Enterprise-D's battle bridge.

The LA Universal bridge certainly wasn't painted to match the ST IV colour scheme in 1992. But... maybe the new pieces to be used in Florida were originally assembled somewhere in LA, then reassembled in Florida, meaning they didn't have to fly five actors there. Footage of the Florida bridge also seems to have white consoles.

I really don't know, but the sets weren't white in LA. As I said, it had to match the beige/grey colour scheme of the motion picture stock footage used in the LA attraction.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The LA Universal bridge certainly wasn't painted to match the ST IV colour scheme in 1992. But... maybe the new pieces to be used in Florida were originally assembled somewhere in LA, then reassembled in Florida, meaning they didn't have to fly five actors there. Footage of the Florida bridge also seems to have white consoles.

I really don't know, but the sets weren't white in LA. As I said, it had to match the beige/grey colour scheme of the motion picture stock footage used in the LA attraction.

From what I've read, there really wasn't a set or Trek stage in Florida just a blue screen in which the guests were Chroma keyed into the footage of Kelley, Doohan, Nichols, Koneig, and Takei.

I am still, however, based upon close examination of the videos inclined to speculate that it isn't TVH set. In any case, it's just one of those things that without any further information can't be said for certain one way or the other.