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the Secondary Command Crew is probably in stand by just in case the situation becomes dire. But, thats why they have the emergency turbolift. Why didn't they go to the battle bridge more often during combat?
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Simple production stuff: 1) They would have had to fix the set up to it's Battle Bridge configuration from whatever background they had used it for the week before. 2) They felt it slowed the story down too much to have everyone drop everything, relocate, and seperate the ship. 3) Non-regular viewers wouldn't have understood what was happening.
For a "real" explanation, battle situations don't very often give you a chance to take a 3 or 4 minute pause to relocate half way across the ship and then reassess the situation. They had to deal with threats then and there.
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Yup. Usually by standing still for 4 minutes and having a discussion while the enemy pounded on the Enterprise's hull, but hey, they're idiots anyway.
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And 4) because if you drag your ass to the safe & secure battle bridge during every little incident, you may as well take up permanent residence there and dump the main one altogether.
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I these things later, but in "Cause and Effect," the Bozeman is right on top of them before Picard asks for suggestions! That always annoyed me. And I wonder why he went with Data's advice in the first place? Why couldn't they do both things at once?
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Simple production stuff: 1) They would have had to fix the set up to it's Battle Bridge configuration from whatever background they had used it for the week before. 2) They felt it slowed the story down too much to have everyone drop everything, relocate, and seperate the ship. 3) Non-regular viewers wouldn't have understood what was happening.
Which is crock, because you can "Captain's Log" it and say the ship has separated and the battle section is off to fight the bump-heads while the saurcer section and its kiddies go off for family hour viewing. It's the writers making up excuses for their inability to be creative within the show's limitations.
As to the battle bridge, if the show had used it more often, they'd have kept it as a standing set and the setup expense wouldn't have been so great. Honestly, if I were a budget minded producer I'd have instructed my designers to design the main bridge so that wild walls could be popped in effectively turning IT into the battle bridge. Say, imagine you only keep the rear stations, but the captain up where Worf normally is, and pull the Ops and Conn stations back into the horsehoe, and wall off the front of the room.
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This is sort of a parallel to a discussion we were having over at SCN. You will notice that during the movies and some shows, there is a lot of chatter and not a lot getting done, at least not without some question of the Captains orders.
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The thing is, what does seperating the ship actually ADD to the show? Sure, there's the "we're saving the familys" part, but doing that every other week would just get boring, to the point where people would wonder why they bothered having families on there in the first place.
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I think having families on board was GR's idea. I never liked it very rarely did it create a good story line. My guess is that most of the production staff felt the same way.
Though I was pleased that they stuck to it in Generations when we saw kiddies running all over the place.
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Remember though, 2364 = fun and happy and peaceful time with fun and happiness and peace everywhere. Lets take families exploring! Let's meet alien races and love them. Let's let everyone get along spendidly.
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who knew what 2365 would bring? lol
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