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Based on the comments in this interview, Series V will have sets in at least three soundstages -- 9, 11 and 17?(whichever one is Planet Hell).
quote:They have a large number of sets, and they won't all fit on one stage," Sternbach said. "From what I understand, [the 'Planet Hell' cave set] will come down, and any planetside sets will be put up on Stage 9."
(I'm making the assumption that Planet Hell is coming down to make room for more standing sets)
Now, one little trend I've noticed is the fact that standing sets for TV shows are getting bigger.... While we can primarily blame Sorkin for this (the sets for Sports Night and The West Wing must be gigantic) another culprit was the Promenade on DS9, which was pretty damn big. I wonder if Series V will continue the trend to make spaces bigger and more continuous.
While the entire corridor-sickbay-transporter room-engineering-cargo bay as a continuous set thing certainly made for one big structure, the fact that one really couldn't do superfunky(tm) Sorkinesque(tm) tracking of characters from one room to another to another has always made them seem smaller. The fact that we're (unconsciously) so used to the particular bends and intersections probably adds to this. If Series V were to take place on a starship where a conscious effort was made to perhaps put Engineering and sickbay on the same deck we might get to see some some very creative directing with the end result of making the ship seem bigger and more real...
------------------ "I can be creative when I have a good idea. That just happens way too rarely." -Omega, April 6
[This message has been edited by The_Tom (edited April 08, 2001).]
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Voyager made a few tenetive steps in that direction, mostly by having the briefing room, bridge, and ready room all connected so that characters could move from one to the other without cuts. However, I don't think they did this all that often.
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