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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] In 'Encounter at Farpoint', the 1701-D engineering room was built at the last minute, and its truly amazing the warp core looked so nice.. Gene and the staff were informed that if they didnt build the engine room on the pilot budget, then they probably wouldnt have one until the second season.. so they added a scene to the draft of 'Farpoint' that had Picard forbidding transmitted communications and sending Errand Boy Junior Grade Worf to Engineering to inform them they were going to try for warp 9.6... this scene always struck me as superfluous, but at least i know why. The E-D engineering set was built with (i believe) railings and the central core area adapted in some way from the ST:TMP engine room, either that or they were built new, but the one man elevator looks familiar. The warp cor was new. But right next to that area they added several of the corridor set pieces (the walls around the 'pool table') they had a couple doors in them.. that was a radial corridor, leading straight to and away from the core. It was crossed by two curved corridors that were originally supposed to connect the straight corridors on the 1701 set from TMP. So if you walk straight away from the warp core you had 1)A station to the left and Geordi's 'office' to the right, then 2)A corridor bisecting the area you were in, left and right 3) the pool table with a door on either side 4) The end of the corridor area (where the cutaway MSD was, and another intersection of a curved corridor left and right After the first handful of episodes (i believe) the corridor described in 2) was closed off, with some wall panels that had readouts and red alert lights. The corridor was still there in 'Naked Now', when engineering definitely didnt need more traffic. You can tell the wall panels because the walls around them are the hexagonally bent corridor walls built for TMP, and the panels themselves are flat. Perhaps it was intended that the panels could move and allow access to the area behind (which had become a Jeffries tube, not a corridor, later in the show when they finally opened the door left (walking away from the WC) of the pool table. If they showed a standrard Jeffries intersection they screwed up, because the right tunnel would go right through the left entry corridor outside the door. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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