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the other day i was watching the voyager episode "Good Shepherd" and at the part where the guy takes out the escape pod and is communicating with the captian on a comm channel and you can actually see a muose cursor on the forword interface check it out it looks really wierd but ifve not only seen one in that episode but many others that i cannot remember is this true?
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I think there's another scene on the bio bed of the Flyer in that episode that has a snafu in it... it shows a Windows Desktop or something.
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Im trying to remember where.. somebody caught a blue screen of death on a background monitor once.
Damn this swiss cheese memory.. whats Ziggy have to say? What.. Archer? not Beckett? ah forget i said anything...
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actually most of the computer screens on TNG were either static backlit displays or composited in post production if they moved.. the DS9 sets were the first to use real-time video monitors (because before that the screens would roll because of the timing of their scan lines or some gobbledygook like that that made it impossible to film a monitor). The only time they used the filmable monitors in TNG would have been in the shuttle or new sets in the last few years
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I always wondered how they over came that problem with the monitors they used on DS9 and Voyager. Is it some kind of new uber-monitor or something that has super fast whatchamacallit lines that can be filmed?
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thats exactly what it was.
i think they only got a handful of them for the beginning of ds9, and moved them from set to set as needed but as the price came down they stuck them everywhere (see: voyager) im assuming...
what used to be a weeks work (animating an LCARS and adding it in post-production, could suddenly be done on set)
A little amazing considering the control panels on the E-D bridge in 1987 were mad with plexiglass and a black transfer and the button shapes were cut by hand with an x-acto knife
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The only time the Enterprise-D had the same monitors as DS9 was only during Generations. And then the ship blew up...
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Not on TNG. It was all backlit displays. One of the set upgrades they did for Generations was to replace all the bridge screens with working monitors.
It's weird. When you watch DS9, you can really tell the difference. It's just a more...I don't know...solid shot when it's a real monitor.
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Actually TNG did use the monitors, just not on the bridge until Generations.. they first started toying with them in the shuttle set, with the little tracking whooziwhatzis between the two seats
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And now we have Enterprise, with is just riddled with fancy displays. I imagine they might be borrowed for the next film, too.
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No, I better not see plasma screens on the Enterprise-E... or the Enterprise NX-01 on the silver screen!!!!!
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