posted February 08, 2002 12:48 PM
I'd assume it's about the same as the other Enterprise bridge sets. According to The Art of Star Trek both the E-nil and E-D bridge sets are 38' (11.6m) wide.
posted February 08, 2002 02:49 PM
Belief, nuthin'. It *is* too big for the top of the model, and totally doesn't take into account the airlock or ready room sets off to the sides.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Belief, nuthin'. It *is* too big for the top of the model, and totally doesn't take into account the airlock or ready room sets off to the sides.
What airlock?
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posted February 10, 2002 05:47 PM
Supposedly, when Picard, Worf, and Hawk went for their little stroll to the deflector dish, they left out of an airlock at the aft end of the bridge module. At least, they did in the novelization IIRC.
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posted February 10, 2002 07:16 PM
Deck 1 doesn't have any airlocks - they're on deck 3. Otherwise Mark's right - I measured the top view schem from the Fact Files and deck 1 isn't wide enough for what's required. It might just be an inaccuracy w/ the schem though. Don't suppose anyone has the studio miniature handy?
posted February 10, 2002 07:46 PM
Deck 1 doesn't have any Ready Rooms, either. Or at least there's no room for them, and no vertical slit windows to match the interior design.
AFAIK, the Ready Room is built integrally to the bridge set, and indeed "First Contact" shows that you can see the bridge through the door of the Ready Room. And rumors say that the opposite door is indeed labeled "airlock". However, the airlock set is not integrated to the bridge set, nor does "First Contact" indicate that the heroes would enter the airlock through this door. And frankly, I have trouble believing that *any* of the doors on the set would be labeled at all (except perhaps in the undecipherable barcode used on Voyager).
As usual, the easiest way to fit a too large bridge set to a too small exterior is to say that the bridge is submerged more deeply into the ship than it first appears. This still won't solve the Ready Room window problem, but it will help a bit at least.
posted February 10, 2002 09:26 PM
If it helps, the cutaway poster I have shows that there is indeed a bridge airlock on the forward, port side. One woudl assume that's it's some kind of a hatch. The poster isn't at all clear as to what it looks like. It's just this little greeble labeled "#58: Bridge Airlock".
posted February 11, 2002 01:56 AM
Speaking of bridges not fitting, the Ent-B by far has the worst case of that. By memory the diameter of the dome is only about 6m. The way it's shaped doesn't make sense for a submerged bridge either - it looks like the Ent-A deck 1 but scaled too much smaller. IMO the Ent-E problem is nothing in comparison.
posted February 11, 2002 11:13 AM
I popped in the Captain's chair CD... The forward port door has writing on it, but it's tough to make it out. The first word is "Emergency", but the second is pretty well obscured.
posted February 12, 2002 03:29 AM
Thanks a lot - now I have more to worry about! Seriously -- 38'? I'm going to do a rendition in the same scale/application that I am doing the Intrepid-class - and I'll see how it looks. But that does sound a little small...
Any guesses as to why I wanted this?
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posted February 12, 2002 04:25 AM
Well, given your history with the medium, I'd guess it's blueprints of a certain ship we all know and have a love/hate thing with.
It doesn't have an exact measurement, but you can probably cross-reference that with the one from the Captain's Chair and get some kind of width.
Besides, the TNG movie sets had to be in different sound stages than the TNG TV series -- because the TV stages were taken over by "Voyager."
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posted February 12, 2002 10:49 AM
Doesn't Picard enter the Bridge from the port side in First Contact when they recieve the transmission from the fleet?
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