Watch the scene where Geordi and Data beam over to the observatory to look for Trilithium. In certain areas if you look carefully, you can see several wall decorations over the actors' shoulders. Some appear to be door and department signage like the stuff they have on crew quarters. The only thing is, they look like the signage used in TOS! It's the brown placard with the embedded white type. There also appears to be a com unit from the corridors on the TOS Enterprise on one of the walls behind Data I believe. You can barely make it out, but I swear I can see the little white push button and the red crystal light up thingy.

It's odd, though, because all the other equipment and displays seem to be Enterprise-B level of tech. You'll notice the Blue-Green-White color combo on the displays in the hidden torpedo room they find. This would make sense if the Amargosa Observatory were a few decades old.

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It would make sense for the observatory staff to upgrade the onboard equipment whenever possible. Thus, E-B/E-C style displays in some places. But if the station was originally built back in the TOS days, the majority of support equipment would be TOS style. Of course you'd try to buy the newest model of Subspace Solar Scanner each year to make sure that your scans were of the highest quality, but you wouldn't need to change the century-old comm panels as long as they still worked. (And once you acquired a replicator, then *that* would be the only thing you would need spares for - TOS-era support systems could get their spares replicated easily enough!)

Also, it would make sense for the stuff in the secret probe room to be, well, *secretly* more advanced than the rest... Something Soran had covertly acquired for his personal use only.

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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy

Well, I admit the circular displays did remind of the TMP ship (now with circular GRAPHICS in them!). But there were certain differences. The main one would be that there were no push-buttons in E-B, E-C and other ships of that general era. Also, the green-and-blue displays were Okudagrams mostly playing on flat surfaces, while the simple mostly black-and-white displays in TMP were computer graphics mostly playing on actual monitors.

I guess there was no big stylistic change between the E-B and E-C launches, with Cahkotay's Maquis ship and the apparently refitted Hathaway also representing the graphics of this era. The Stargazer in turn would be an unrefitted Constellation in the E-nil style, while the E-A could have been the trailblazer for blue-green Okudagram bridges. E-D style LCARS displays would come in vogue in the 2350s or later.

Timo Saloniemi

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what WERE they supposed to be?? The only thing close that I can think of that is around now are the 'pictures' in Astrometrics on Voyager... maybe they are some sort of screen-saver?

Andrew

Lacking the funds to have these displays actually display, the show used static images instead. But presumably, inbetween shots, the screens were filled with all sorts of important information.