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They have a large number of sets, and they won't all fit on one stage," Sternbach said. "From what I understand, [the 'Planet Hell' cave set] will come down, and any planetside sets will be put up on Stage 9."
Now, one little trend I've noticed is the fact that standing sets for TV shows are getting bigger.... While we can primarily blame Sorkin for this (the sets for Sports Night and The West Wing must be gigantic) another culprit was the Promenade on DS9, which was pretty damn big. I wonder if Series V will continue the trend to make spaces bigger and more continuous.
While the entire corridor-sickbay-transporter room-engineering-cargo bay as a continuous set thing certainly made for one big structure, the fact that one really couldn't do superfunky(tm) Sorkinesque(tm) tracking of characters from one room to another to another has always made them seem smaller. The fact that we're (unconsciously) so used to the particular bends and intersections probably adds to this. If Series V were to take place on a starship where a conscious effort was made to perhaps put Engineering and sickbay on the same deck we might get to see some some very creative directing with the end result of making the ship seem bigger and more real...
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"I can be creative when I have a good idea. That just happens way too rarely."
-Omega, April 6
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Not even a god can deny that I have squared the circle of a static Earth and cubed the Earth sphere by rotating it once to a dynamic Time or Life Cube.
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Gene Ray
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Read three (three!) chapters of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet" Or don't. You know, whatever.