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I know, I know, all the things to talk about, and I wanna talk about the corridors of a destroyed starship!
But seriously. TOS had one curved corridor set and that was it. But if you watch TNG, you see lots of different corridor sets -- which to me, is just facinating, because you wouldn't think building a variety of corridor sets would be high on the producers' list.
You've got the Family corridors, which look very pastel and "friendly" compared to the rest of the ship.
You've got the "side" corridors with the indented floor and ceiling panels that lead to turbolifts and the transporter room.
You've got that corridor that makes an "L" coming away from the Holodeck/Brig/Cargo Bay door.
You've got the corridor that dead ends going forward, branches to the right, then goes off again to the left. This is where the infamous "Sofa" was in early TNG.
You've got the corridor set seen once in "Perfect Mate" (with red bulkheads) and then never again.
My question: how many corridor sets were built for TNG? Were they all permenent standing sets -- and if so, does anyone have a diagram of the stage layout of the corridors? Just wonderin'.
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I just wrote this frickin' HUGE post explaining the layout of all the standing TNG sets on the soundstage. And then the program hiccuped and erased the whole damn thing. And I don't want to do that again.
Digest version: ONE MAIN CORRIDOR SET. Engineering at the branching end, covered up to look like a corridor end. Following down: sickbay and junionr officer quarters. Cross intersection, to transporter room set. Then the cargo bay / holodeck doors, and the corridor end where doors to custom sets are built ("The Perfect Mate" et. al.)
Outside of the "senior" officers quarters is the "family" corridor set you talked about. the ends of this corridor are wild walls that are used as the walls outside Ten Forward.
That about does it. It's basically the same layout as for Voyager, too.
Mark
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Which ones were salvaged from TMP though, and which were built from scratch?
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I have a copy of the soundstage plans for TMP, TNG, and Voyager.
As far as I can tell, nothing was actually disposed of. The TNG and Voyager corridors seem to be redresses of the originals - as far as I can tell in the same locations. I assume they have removable panels, so they can convert from Ent-E to Voyager now.
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Could you scan that image of the TNG soundstage? For some reason, I'm really interested in their corridor layout.
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The E-E and Voyager corridor sets are completely different sets, whcih is clearly shown with the TNG Movies Sketchbook. The Voyager corridors are likewise new (the TNG corridors were finally struck when they blew everything else up in "Generations"). You can tell the Voyager corridors apart as they are very angular (suitable for a smaller starship, methinks) and the set is overall shorter. You don't see many long corridor scenes on Voyager for that very reason, and even when you do it's not long before you see characters disapear around one corner or another dus to the angular nature of the set - this makes it more interesting transition-wise, and avoids the long corridor talk scenes we occaisionally see on TNG. Everyone remember "Realm of Fear"? Barclay and Troi walked doen the same set three times at least!
Remember, the TNG corridors were redressed from the Phase II sets by simply removing the arches in the "curved" part of the set, and adding in similar panels to what used to be there. You notice that the arches remain in the radial (straight) part of the set, and only got a new pant job. They were reconverted to the corridors of the Enterprise A in ST5 by simply covering up the LCARS interfaces, and in ST6 by adding in skeletal archways with lots of pipes and cables.
Mark
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Um. Anyone going to scan the stage layout? Please?
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Treknophile, can you please post some scans of those stage layouts please? Highest res you can muster. I think there are many people here who would love to see those.
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