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I picked up the July ST Mag today. Not because of the closeup on Voyager or the Equinox, but because of the Voyager preproduction spotlight on the design of the bridge. There's a BUNCH of Jim Martin sketches of Voyager bridge concepts, from the initial ideas through the refinement to the final set. Wonderful!
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Most excellent. What were some of the original ideas for the Voyager's bridge? A rehash of early set designs or ideas really far out that got roped back in?
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Scans are good. Scans make Tom glad he didn't go out and track down the magazine and pay an obscene price for it. Scans make Tom happy.
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Interesting how they considered such far-out designs (1 & 2) and such small designs (3 & especially 4), yet they went w/ a fairly traditional, rather expansive bridge.
For some reason, #3 makes me thing of something older. Like an Ambassador, or something...
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'Cuz windows are expensive. You'd always have to matcht the windows with what's going on outside - this would quickly get expensive in combat scenes.
For example, you'll notice that the DS9 Runabouts had windows on their sides. After a few VFX mishaps (ships turning or bouncing around and the "stars" outside the window remaining the same), the runaobut set suddenly had these "retractible" covers over those windows. Convenient, no?
As for those bridge concepts above, the third one reminds me more of a smaller ship, like a Defiant - or a Sabre. An Amassador's pretty big for a bridge that small.
The article, BTW, explains the size of the bridge as being indepndent of the size of the ship. For example, the living room in a three-bedroom house wouldn't be half again the size of the living room of a two-bedroom house. I've got a little free time tonight, so I'll try to scan at least a couple of the other concepts in.
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