Voyager Briefing Room Table

[Phil123]

I love the interior design of Voyager, the perfect mix of comfort (the E-D goes a little too far for me) and function (the E-E goes too far here for me).

However, what is up with that weird lumpy sickly pale green table? It looks a bit like a Bajorian symbol.

Does anyone know anything about it's design history? Does anyone have the opposite opinion to me?

 

[jaime]

I love the interior design of Voyager, the perfect mix of comfort (the E-D goes a little too far for me) and function (the E-E goes too far here for me).

However, what is up with that weird lumpy sickly pale green table? It looks a bit like a Bajorian symbol.

Does anyone know anything about it's design history? Does anyone have the opposite opinion to me?

Nope. I always wondered. I particularly wondered if it was originally planned for something else (new Ds9 set, change to existing set) and then got repurposed, like the TNG engineering table.

 

[Phil123]

I just found this:

https://www.yourprops.com/Conferenc...ieces-Star-Trek-Voyager-TV-1995-YP808531.html

which gives some insight into the design - built to easily be taken apart for cameras.

What's the story behind the TNG engineering table?

 

[jaime]

I just found this:

https://www.yourprops.com/Conferenc...ieces-Star-Trek-Voyager-TV-1995-YP808531.html

which gives some insight into the design - built to easily be taken apart for cameras.

What's the story behind the TNG engineering table?

It was the Starfleet command table in Star Trek IV. Had a weather app installed I think...

 

[TommyR01D]

I liked the scene in Twisted where they made an ersatz big table from the little ones in Sandrine's.

 

[Lynx]

My theory is that Janeway was unhappy with the original table and bought this table on Bajor shortly before Voyager lefr Deep Space Nine.

 

[at Quark's]

It is a weird table.... for example, what's the function of that black 'path' that runs over the surface of the table and that ends in a circle?

 

[Phil123]

I though maybe a screen. But it's a silly shape and too far away from everyone, plus never used.

 

[at Quark's]

^Yesterday I thought it could perhaps be a mini bowling alley for those times the captain really gets bored listening to all those dull reports of her underlings ... but set up in such a way she can't miss ... she's the Captain after all

 

[Kor]

The pukey green color doesn't go with anything on the ship.

Kor

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

I though maybe a screen. But it's a silly shape and too far away from everyone, plus never used.

Asolutely. And the question is: how a Ready Room/reunion room where regularly settled a total of 7 people,can accommodate such a small screen, which is so far removed from the table. I know that the latter 7 people are supposed in full command of their physical faculties and next to that, we had a gigantic screen in the Astronomy Lab!
Maybe an integrated display in the table or better yet, several would have been small screens more useful.

 

[Phil123]

The horrible green was a repaint too, it was more grey in earlier seasons.

 

[Amasov]

I always thought the design in the middle of the table was a basic shape design similar to Voyager, itself. The circle being the command module with the long neck being the spine that connects the ship with the secondary hull. Then you have the two nacele pylons jetting out there.

 

[DonIago]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had issues with that table.

 

[dauntless]

It's shaped in such a way to prevent them playing shove ha'penny when Janeway isn't in the room, like we used to when the teacher left class at school...

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

These are different views of the said conference/briefing room

.. with the non less famous screen!

 

[DonIago]

That table looks like it was designed for a small game of curling.

Seriously, even if it's used for holographic displays or such, the "screen" seems very oddly shaped.

I will say that I thought I remembered the edges being slanted as well; glad that doesn't seem to be the case. "Sorry captain, my PADD keeps falling off the stupid table!"

 

[XCV330]

the table works as the power button for the ship. All senior officers are required to press down really hard on it to turn it on, off, or reboot it.

 

[DonIago]

Actually, it looks to me like a large keyhole. I can only assume Janeway keeps the key under the bed in her quarters.

 

[psCargile]

Sometimes you shouldn't overthink a table and use an oval.