Cheesiest set decor
- Thread starter T'Boggan
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It's not cheap, it's cost-effective.
I recommend ripping up your living room carpet. After all, if you've got a turboshaft under it, you should know these things.
If I want to go after cheesy set decor, I'd call out any scenario in which a room was clearly a reuse/redress of a different room from a different series. I love ST:TUC, but it doesn't even try to hide its usage of the TNG sets.
The bit in ST 5 where we see a re-used set from the Enterprise-D (one of the corridors) that they didn't even bother trying to make look even slightly different from how it looked on TNG.
FYI: Some of the smaller angled-wall corridors used in TNG were recycled from TMP and TWOK.
You know, I've read about that, but I've never been able to spot them.
Nardpuncher
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The bridge of the Excelsior in STIII.
They are mounted to the wall to the right of the turbolift doors.
They resemble the training module "books" we used in the air force long ago; the circular insets would film rolls or microfiche that the cassettes would play audio to in a big clunky device that went right in the dumpster as soon as we could afford VCRs.
Oooooh, those things. I remember having huge ones like that too - childrens books on tape when I was a kid. Big huge clamshell cases. Thanks for finally solving that!
I have to say it doesn't look bad =).
My FAVORITE think they did on TWOK bridges were the 4-pack little glowy light cones.
I have to say it doesn't look bad =).
My FAVORITE think they did on TWOK bridges were the 4-pack little glowy light cones.
True, but the wall sections mentioned refer to TNG corridors which were "updated" to 24th century style from the original TMP style. A look at Trekcore.com should show the difference.
I'll also add the transporter room from TUC, which was the TNG transporter from later seasons, showing an update from the first season TNG transporter, which would have been 80 years more advanced than the transporter from TUC.
They are mounted to the wall to the right of the turbolift doors.
They resemble the training module "books" we used in the air force long ago; the circular insets would film rolls or microfiche that the cassettes would play audio to in a big clunky device that went right in the dumpster as soon as we could afford VCRs.
I always thought the lighting of this set made it look incredibly cheap (especially compared to the much better lit Enterprise bridge... and both were the same set).
But it wasn't so blatantly obvious then. At least they tried to make it look different. For the ST 5 scene, they literally just filmed inside the ST:TNG set! I think all they did was to block off the LCARS wall panel interface, otherwise it was exactly the same.
They didn't even do that much, since it was the movie-era set and didn't have the wall panel.
^ I'm talking about a different scene, where a bunch of Sybok's goons are seen running through a corridor on their way to capture Kirk and Spock.
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