Shane Johnson (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)

[Ryann866]

If this was late 1986, perhaps the carpet was for early test shots of TNG?

The GMA video aired in Nov of '86 (probably shot a week or two earlier perhaps). The earliest blueprints I've seen of the stage 9 TNG layout is March of 87. So it's likely the red carpet was there just for that shoot as not much had been designed or planned for TNG at that point.

There was another set-tour from that time period on a Showbiz Tonight-type show with James Doohan leading a host through the sets. It was up on youtube a while back, can't seem to find it now -- might have been aired on just a local station, but it was the same kind of set up. The host and Doohan were talking in the entry foyer to engineering..

 

[Lora4October]

I always wanted to know what that material was on the back wall of the pad - in TWOK they had two disco balls reflecting bounced light from behind the set to create that energy pattern that was never seen again. The wall material was also used for the engine room isolation door that became the shuttlebay door on TNG.

In 1979, during my first visit to the Star Trek sets, I was told by someone in the Trek offices that for TMP the rear transporter wall was created by pulling a mold from a bunch of hexagonal plastic milk jug bottoms arranged together to create a repeating, stackable master pattern. This was then cast in resin and creatively lit. I can't verify that, and the veracity of the person who told me that has repeatedly been called into question, but it makes for an interesting anecdote

Lora

 

[F. King Daniel]

Talking of the STIV sets, I'm still hoping @JoeRalat will make his STIV Okudagram binder publicly available someday! I've wanted to see the rest since MSGttE's samples.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Reading David A. Goodman's The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, and Kirk mentions on p253 that the Enterprise-A is the renamed Ti-Ho.

 

[publiusr]

From: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-A)

I also heard Levant...

 

[Ithekro]

I do wonder, what the name "Ti-Ho" was suppose to be based on? The only reference I am aware of is a Japanese tank. Unless is was suppose to be Taiho, which was a Japanese aircraft carrier.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I do wonder, what the name "Ti-Ho" was suppose to be based on? The only reference I am aware of is a Japanese tank. Unless is was suppose to be Taiho, which was a Japanese aircraft carrier.

Earlier in the thread...

 

[Ithekro]

At least that makes sense.

 

[Lora4October]

Reading David A. Goodman's The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, and Kirk mentions on p253 that the Enterprise-A is the renamed Ti-Ho.

That's lovely to hear...thank you.

Lora