Does anyone have the sketches of the USS Bozeman from the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission? I want to see what the producers or artists had in mind before reusing the USS Reliant model.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
I thought I had it but I cannot find it.
Though I do remember that the ship on the sketch was called the USS Courageous and had the registry NCC-1861.
Posted by SoundEffect (Member # 926) on :
There were no Bozeman sketches in that book about an alternate to the Miranda Class. There was only the one mentioned above in which a fan publication top view Miranda was doodled over to show where the sensor pods might go.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:I want to see what the producers or artists had in mind before reusing the USS Reliant model.
What they had in mind was that they were going to have the Bozeman be a TOS-style Constitution class, I suppose because they wanted the Old Trek Ship/New Trek ship kinda meeting. However, they deemed it cost-prohibitive at the time to build a brand-new TOS Connie model (and bridge set) for just one episode, so they had Greg Jein adapt the Reliant model, & just used the movie Enterprise bridge, which I think still existed at the time. I'm not sure that the ship would have been named "Bozeman" if they actually did use a Connie, though.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
They just kept trying to get a Constitution on TNG, didn't they?
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
As I remember, they used photocopies directly from Ships of the Star Fleet.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Yup. It's the Courageous schematics, with some crudely drawn sensor pods attached to it.
Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :
quote:However, they deemed it cost-prohibitive at the time to build a brand-new TOS Connie model (and bridge set) for just one episode, so they had Greg Jein adapt the Reliant model, & just used the movie Enterprise bridge, which I think still existed at the time.
The Battle Bridge was a redress of the movie Enterprise bridge.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Not this one. The Bozeman bridge was a re-dress of one of their "swing" sets, and while it used a small number of elements from the movie Enterprise bridge set, it was almost completely different. This particular set has been seen as the SECOND Enterprise-D battle bridge (the first was mostly the movie set), the Pasteur, the Hathaway, the E-C, and others.
Mark
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The Bozeman Bridge did have more TOS - motifs to the bridge though.
Screen Caps anyone?
Maybe it was one of the first refit/reuniformed ships out of Spacedock maybe even while most were still in that TMP 'pyjama look'?
Andrew
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Not this one. The Bozeman bridge was a re-dress of one of their "swing" sets, and while it used a small number of elements from the movie Enterprise bridge set,
Huh. I always thought it was the same set, just modified over time (especially since the movies no longer required the "original" movie bridge after the third movie).
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Not exactly... With the first incarnation of the battle bridge all they did was use the aft third of the original set with the lighting grid they had overhead, building the other two thirds new. In the second season, the aft third was partially rebuilt (adding the inward-sloping upper bulkheads and removing the turbolift alcoves) in time for its use in episodes like "Measure of a Man" as the courtroom, modified again to be the lab in "Pen Pals", and once more to move the floor down and replace the rest of the walls in time to be the Hathaway bridge in "Peak Performance". By the time it showed up the following season as Data's lab, the Enterprise-C bridge, etc., there really wasn't much left of the original set.