You can hardly miss the conspicuous art adorning the walls of the Terror wardroom, floating in and out of view behind the heads of our beloved officers during the dinner scenes of our favourite show. For those of you who’ve been itching to take a closer look, I hope to provide some relief with this post.
Like the Bridge, the Transporter Room in Star Trek: The Next Generation was always evolving. It started, in part, with the The Original Series’ transporter room:
As I recall, the bottom disks had been either been salvaged or kept in storage and incorporated in the design of TNG’s transporters, flipped upside down so they were now at the top. The bottom had a glossy lightable circle with a smaller blue circle. The alcove panels were also meant to echo the frosted glass TOS transporter and they always looked a lil cloudy. As seen in Encounter at Farpoint:
Problem was, no one knew where to stand on the pad when the cameras were rolling! So after keeping the clean configuration for the entire first season, the first redesign came in season 2:
Now we have basic lines delineating each individual pad. it’s not bad but it’s still missing something. It will remain that way throughout the 2nd and 3rd seasons as well as Star Trek V (we’ll get back to that).
The next major redesign came during the 4th season episode Remember Me:
Now people are sure to know where to stand! Each individual pad space has been shrunk, including the central blue one, while also making it pop more visually. When in doubt, add lines (The interior design of the runabout would also follow that rule). This configuration would stay on for the remainder of the 4th and 5th season (and Star Trek VI, we’ll get back to that too). until one more change would be brought for the season 6 premiere:
Speaking of making things pop, the backlit wall panels have been replaced.Gone is the frosted glass aspect, now the lines are cleaner. However, a small accident during Star Trek Generations’ production would damage those same panels, and a replacement was needed.
Nearly identical, but lit differently. And only there for about 7 seconds on screen. The TNG transporter room doesn’t stop there. The top and bottom elements would be recycled for Voyager’s otherwise brand new transporter rooms:
Voyager’s transporters would remain unchanged for the entire 7 year run. the top roundels that started in the 1960s would last until Voyager end in 2001.
Finally, the TNG transporter room sets also saw some use for the last two original series films. For Star Trek V:
Filmed during TNG’s second season, includes a barely seen transporter control blast shield and some blue neon strips in the transporter bay. The isolinear stack that’s usually off to the side has also been removed.
Star Trek VI would dispense with the blue neon strips:
Filmed between TNG’s 4th and 5th season, The transporter room is again a re-use of the TNG set. The blast shielded transporter controls are trotted back out, signage on the door is changed and, because it’s Nick Meyer, a fire extinguisher next to the door. The lighting elements to the right and left of the pad have also been swapped.
Like the Bridge, the Transporter Room in Star Trek: The Next Generation was always evolving. It started, in part, with the The Original Series’ transporter room:
As I recall, the bottom disks had been either been salvaged or kept in storage and incorporated in the design of TNG’s transporters, flipped upside down so they were now at the top. The bottom had a glossy lightable circle with a smaller blue circle. The alcove panels were also meant to echo the frosted glass TOS transporter and they always looked a lil cloudy. As seen in Encounter at Farpoint:
Problem was, no one knew where to stand on the pad when the cameras were rolling! So after keeping the clean configuration for the entire first season, the first redesign came in season 2:
Now we have basic lines delineating each individual pad. it’s not bad but it’s still missing something. It will remain that way throughout the 2nd and 3rd seasons as well as Star Trek V (we’ll get back to that).
The next major redesign came during the 4th season episode Remember Me:
Now people are sure to know where to stand! Each individual pad space has been shrunk, including the central blue one, while also making it pop more visually. When in doubt, add lines (The interior design of the runabout would also follow that rule). This configuration would stay on for the remainder of the 4th and 5th season (and Star Trek VI, we’ll get back to that too). until one more change would be brought for the season 6 premiere:
Speaking of making things pop, the backlit wall panels have been replaced.Gone is the frosted glass aspect, now the lines are cleaner. However, a small accident during Star Trek Generations’ production would damage those same panels, and a replacement was needed.
Nearly identical, but lit differently. And only there for about 7 seconds on screen. The TNG transporter room doesn’t stop there. The top and bottom elements would be recycled for Voyager’s otherwise brand new transporter rooms:
Voyager’s transporters would remain unchanged for the entire 7 year run. the top roundels that started in the 1960s would last until Voyager end in 2001.
Finally, the TNG transporter room sets also saw some use for the last two original series films. For Star Trek V:
Filmed during TNG’s second season, includes a barely seen transporter control blast shield and some blue neon strips in the transporter bay. The isolinear stack that’s usually off to the side has also been removed.
Star Trek VI would dispense with the blue neon strips:
Filmed between TNG’s 4th and 5th season, The transporter room is again a re-use of the TNG set. The blast shielded transporter controls are trotted back out, signage on the door is changed and, because it’s Nick Meyer, a fire extinguisher next to the door. The lighting elements to the right and left of the pad have also been swapped.
Bridge of the Romulan Warbird Valdore. Really just a redress of the Enterprise-E bridge with some recycled chairs from Voyager (flanking the commanders chair), former Cardassian console (center front), ex-Klingon consoles (left, right) remade Cardassian cargo doors.
aStar Trek V Brings us the first major redesign of the bridge in the movie franchise. I-IV had been using the sets created for The Motion Picture and modified them as necessary TMP had pastels and grays while Wrath of Khan and seen the darker tones and adding little things like handheld fire extinguishers and no smoking signs. The Search for Spock bore damage from the previous one but was also lit a bit brighter. For the end of The Voyage Home they did a horrible all white paint, metal accents and just a general eyesore. The manual buttons were gone and replaced with Okudagrams (the first instance of them, prior to TNG).
For Star Trek V, the sets were apparently damaged, either by storm or by their use in TNG (as the Stargazer and the Battle Bridge IIRC) and a new bridge was commissioned. Herman Zimmerman, who had shaped the look and feel of the Enterprise-D with Rick Sternback and Andrew Probert, was hired as Production Designer and built a bridge meant as an a link between TOS and TNG. Memory Alpha cites the DVD commentary that the Helm Console, the turbolifts, the handrails and some of the platforms which the set stood, were the only things salvaged from the old bridge set.
Star Trek VI, under Nick Meyer, would see the return of the gray tones and militaristic feels…..
aStar Trek V Brings us the first major redesign of the bridge in the movie franchise. I-IV had been using the sets created for The Motion Picture and modified them as necessary TMP had pastels and grays while Wrath of Khan and seen the darker tones and adding little things like handheld fire extinguishers and no smoking signs. The Search for Spock bore damage from the previous one but was also lit a bit brighter. For the end of The Voyage Home they did a horrible all white paint, metal accents and just a general eyesore. The manual buttons were gone and replaced with Okudagrams (the first instance of them, prior to TNG).
For Star Trek V, the sets were apparently damaged, either by storm or by their use in TNG (as the Stargazer and the Battle Bridge IIRC) and a new bridge was commissioned. Herman Zimmerman, who had shaped the look and feel of the Enterprise-D with Rick Sternback and Andrew Probert, was hired as Production Designer and built a bridge meant as an a link between TOS and TNG. Memory Alpha cites the DVD commentary that the Helm Console, the turbolifts, the handrails and some of the platforms which the set stood, were the only things salvaged from the old bridge set.
Star Trek VI, under Nick Meyer, would see the return of the gray tones and militaristic feels…..
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