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I was watching my season 2 tape this morning and noticed that we get a pretty good lookee at the Lantree's bridge. It looks quite a bit different that the Reliant's and, as far as I remember, different from the Saratoga's too.
My guess is that it's a redress of the Battle Bridge with fancy LCARS panels on the back walls, but still, does anyone know where a brotha could find some screen caps or a little artwork?
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The Lantree bridge is basically a one-wall set using the battle bridge monitor as the main LCARS display behind the CO chair. The two flanking stations use generic consoles and chairs. There reallyisn't enough to make a full bridge set out of the one shot we saw...
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Hmmm... I'll have to take a closer look at that back wall and the stations. The forward ops and conn consoles look like the same ones from the Battle bridge.
I guess you're right, the range of vision was pretty much limited to the area right behind the captain's chair. Still... it looked like a pretty neat design.
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I'm not sure I see what there is to love. A captain's chair, two stations in front of that, a wall display behind..., it's the prototypical Starfleet bridge.
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Was the bridge of the Odyssey really just a one-wall set?
IIRC, we saw scenes with officers running around that bridge while Captain Keogh gave orders to the crew. I think that shot showed more than just the back wall.
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can you say 'fixed camera position'? there were prople running and Keough and his number one were a ways from the wall, but the camera never tracked any of the shot, so therefore the only scenery shown was a static wall.
at least i think it was.
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Nope. We had more than a one-wall set - technically, it was a half-set. We had the aft stations, the tactical rail (NOT the one on the E-D, I might add), two of possibly three command chairs, and at least one of the two forward stations. The shots were mostly with only the aft stations in view, but in at least one shot we see the ops console, the guy sitting at it, and the port wall of the set behind him before panning aftwards.
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Thanks, that's what I meant. I will have a look myself tomorrow when I manage to dig up the tape.
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Danko, Phlox. I noticed, too that pretty much the same set up served as the hearing room in "Measure of a Man". The "witness stand" was facing away from the Battle Bridge monitor which was filled in with LCARS just like it is on the Lantree bridge. The monitor also served as the back wall of one of the bridges in "The Outrageous Okana", though, in that episode, there was no filler and one could see through the hole.
Now, as I look at this picky, I see something odd... the LCARS panels to the sides of the big graphic that run horizontally look well out of reach if the floor is at the same level as the captain's chair. It almost looks like a set of two or three stairs goes up to a second level right in front of the big LCARS monitor. Am I crazy?
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Every piece of technology on that bridge smacks of 2360's era tech. Yet the ship is Miranda class, with a whopping 18XX registry. Why is this? (And before everyone says, "Well, you can replace the bridge module with an upgraded version," why would they do this for this particular ship? It's not like the Lantree was anything special. It was just an 80 year old transport ship.
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um.. well, they obviously upgraded from WindowsME (movie era) to WindowsTNG because of the LCARS graphics, but thats the E-D captains chair, which is a reuse of a seat from Voyage Home, and the conn and ops are the TNG conn and ops, which have been in use as far back as the Excelsior and E-B.
I dont see any other tech. How is this inconsistent with movie era tech?
And even if it wouldnt be worth giving a smacking new bridge for a frigate converted to supply ship, they would at least have to reupholster the chairs.
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I guess what I'm saying is that the bridge tech is way too advanced for a ship that is of the same class as the Reliant (and even built before the Reliant, if registries are chronological). Sure, upgrades would be commonplace if the ship is still serving an important function (i.e. Sisko's Saratoga was definitely still performing as a warship), but all the Lantree was doing was routine transport.
I guess what I'm REALLY saying is that TPTB for TNG should have built some more "newer" models than just the Enterprise-D, instead of reusing old movie-era ships, if the interiors were going to be 24th century tech. Their attitude was "We're not going to spend money building new models if the show gets cancelled halfway through the first season." Silly, silly men.
Note: Remember that matte painting of the pre-Ambassador ship Andy Probert made for "EaF"? That would have been perfect for the Lantree, since it basically never moved an inch in the shot.
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except the pre-ambassador was a huge explorer, not a cargo ship at all.
you still havent proven your basic statement.. how is a bridge with a wall display, and three stations 'too modern'??
its true that TPTB took the easy way out by making it an ancient ship. but theres nothing about what we saw that doesnt concur with movie era tech.
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