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I didnt see any problem with it.. sets get reused all the time, and i think the producers deserve a pat on the back for the creativity, because the redecorated sickbay Sovereign style so it fit right in with the ship.
Set reuses i dont approve of: Using TNG corridors as 1701-A corridors in Final Frontier.. they didnt take down the 24th century signage. The ST:VI corridors were redresses of the same sets, but looked infinitely better Using the 1701-D engine room in ST:VI as the 1701-A engine room
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Well, that just goes to show how well done the reuse of the sickbay set was...I've seen the movie a dozen times and it never stuck out at me. Yah, the tech in the room looked similar to that in use aboard contemporary starships...but I see nothing wrong with that.
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Of course.. but by the time they had been labeled in mauve and lavender signs (for the 1701-D residential sets..) they really didnt fit the bill for the 1701-A.. In ST:V the TNG door signs and beige and blue color schemes and carpets were still there, but for ST:VI they added the original chrome finishes and metal floors as they had been shown in ST:1-3.
They were actually built for Star Trek: Phase II, used for TMP when they decided to make the TV series a movie instead, used for ST 2-3, then refurbished to be the 1701-D corridors, reused as 1701-A corridors, used as 1701-D one last time for Generations and then taken down.
Quite a story, fifteen+ years of boldly going around the same corner and then resetting the shot to use the same intersection so it looks like the next one where no man.. where no one has gone before
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The actual sick bay for a Sovvie would have to be larger and quite different than an Intrepid's, yes. But what little we saw of sick bay in FC was just fine using the Voyager set. We didn't see the whole room. With the lighting as low as it was, I have no trouble believing that the actual room aboard the ship is quite different than Voyager's.
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or that it was composed of many rooms.. the VGR sickbay isnt much bigger than the TOS, TMP-TWOK or TOS sickbays.. the only problem with the VGR sickbay is that it is all one room.. the previous three sickbays were established to be much larger facilities, of operating suites & labs & doctors offices (by redressing the regular sickbay to fit the weeks script) that we ended up seeing during the course of the shows, even though we saw the main room most often. It can of course be assumed that the Sovereign has a larger sickbay than Voyager, but we only saw the main diagnostic area.
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Well, now that "Voyager" sickbay has been struck (it has, has it not?), we may not see the "Enterprise" sickbay at all. Of course, Dr. Crusher will have even less to do, then . . .
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quote: The actual sick bay for a Sovvie would have to be larger and quite different than an Intrepid's, yes. But what little we saw of sick bay in FC was just fine using the Voyager set. We didn't see the whole room. With the lighting as low as it was, I have no trouble believing that the actual room aboard the ship is quite different than Voyager's.
Reasonable speculation. But similarity implies further similarity.
It was an understandable set reuse, if a dissapointng one.
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I don't know about you guys, but the Ent-E/Voyager "style" seen in the corridors, Voyager's bridge, etc. seems rather cold compared to the Ent-D and the more colorful TOS Enterprise. There's just too much gray for my eyes!
The oddest set usage I noticed is in Generations when all the lights on the E-D go out. What was the point of repainting the bridge when they dimmed the lights so low?
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Well since we all know that the doors read the script, perhaps the lights in "Generations" did too, and decided to dim in order to match the "mood" of the movie.
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I still dont see why its 'diappointing' for the sickbay set to be reused (realize that at least one of the walls is still the phase II sickbay from 77).. its probably one of the smarter things theyve done, budget wise because with Sovereign color scheme, it looked ike a completely different room, and considering the one year deviation between the commissioning of Voyager and E-E they share a lot of tech in common, just on different scales..
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I do not want to see the advanced deployable armor and transphasic torpedoes from the VOY final.
I do not want to see Riker in command, only so the most goddamn powerful ship ever build by Starfleet up to that point can have its shot up stern handled back to it on a gold-pressed latinum platter by some half-baked alien race that Voyager would have no trouble taking to school.
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