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Yeah, the Hatak corridors looked all nice and gleaming and pretty, but the design was pretty moronic. How often did SG-1 hide in those stupid panels that ran parallel with the corridor and then ambush all the Jaffa? Even worse, the first time they were seen, the panels served as doors into the landing bay, so SG-1 could plant C4 on all the death gliders without anyone seeing them.
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The Hatak sets changed all the time too - they were not standing sets but built as they were needed. In the first couple seasons the corridors were rather cavernous and very wide (i.e. taking up a lot of stage space), with those hidden wall panels and switches and no actual doors to important places. By the third season they had been downsized to more standard corridors wihtout ceilings, and by the fifth season they'd built the corridors that they've been using since then for all Goa'uld ships and bases (they were being built during the fifth season episode "Wormhole X-Treme!", where Martin was actually wandering among the incomplete sets as if they were from his show). The standard motif has always been those wall panels full of hieroglyphs, which remains to this day.
The Ha'tak bridge also used to be huge, with one command console and the sarcophagus, and room in the chamber for eeverl dozen worshipers. Over the years it too downsized, and today is a small, asymetrical room with three consoles and usually a throne, with the main viewer / window off to the side.
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SeaQuest has been on perpetual reruns here in Canada. I really liked the first bridge, with it decentralized command structure and lack of chairs for the CO and so on. Also cool tha thtey managed to have room for four pilot seats AND the forward viewer, too. Here's a Japanese site with a bridge floorplan. Cool!
Then they went and trekkified the whole thing with the second bridge, adding a freaking WINDOW among things. Didn't help that the show went down the tubes along with it...
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I give full marks to any bridge or command centre that has its own pool/sauna/fishing hole.
After all, command is a stressful job. The boss rarely has time to go on leave, so he's got to get it where ever he can!
And Stephanie Beacham was so definately asking for someone to rip off that blue jumpsuit and give her a good ravishing, but the writers seemed uninclined to oblige, so she left in search of more virile pasteurs where the men can take a hint and don't need to take two viagra with their tea beforehand. I once saw her on TV holding a rolling pin in a way I've never seen a rolling pin held before.
Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, starship bridge designs.
Yes, it's generally considered good to have somewhere from which to steer the ship which affords a good view of where you are going. That's my position on the matter. Also, have something that can detect planets and stars so you can steer around them.
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The Darwin tubes (was there supposed to be more than one dolphin on seaQuest? Seems an awful big deal for one fish) often provided the crew with a means of escape whenever the ship got taken over. I won't imagine how the sets for that show smelled after two years. Or tasted. Or the humidity on everyone's hair.
Dr. Westphalen, well she DID get ravished by Bridger at the end of the first season. Then she left. And so did everyone over the age of 35, except for the captain, thanks to an NBC memo.
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I remember the talking dolphin. It seemed a rather silly idea then and its still a silly idea now. At least the ship looked like a squid and had organic skin. That was cool. I don't know what the armaments were though.
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If Darwin had used Megatron's voice, it would not have so incredibly sucked.
Okay- it still would have incredibly sucked, but the dolphin would have sounded menacing and cool instead of warbly and queer.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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