The Original 1960s Enterprise Set: a tour of 'trek set one-b'
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- Unhappy with the quality of my last video, I thought I would salvage a little dignity with this video. Here, we tour a re-creation of the stage set for the original series of 'Star Trek', circa 'Journey to Babel'. I call this 'Trek Set One-B'. I hope you enjoy it.
Music: ‘Digital Ambient for Meditation’, by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay.
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It’s a larger set than I had thought… Excellent Video 👍
So much imagination and wonder were created by these sets, writers and actors. Very grateful to have grown up in those times. Great video! Thanks!
Now we get CGI crap. Boooo.
I've been to the Original Star Trek Studio tour in Ticonderoga NY, looks just like your renderings :D
Probably the most recognizable and iconic set ever created.
Yes! I enjoyed this video! Along with many of your others!
Given how much they cram into the space, it’s incredible to think how much (fore)planning must have gone into working out what they’d need - to create a truly believable, immersive world - and where to put it.
Today: "Oh you need a new set? let me shove this USB stick in and load one up on the screens behind you -.-"
I'm sure the editing must've been *hell on earth* though
I enjoy your work, and I'm always pleasantly surprised when a new one arrives. Keep it up! I'm sure its a much more complex question, but I'd love to see the motion picture/ star trek II set layout. I know that was transformed into the TNG set, but I can't visualize how it would have looked. Keep up the good work!
Matt Jefferies built a scale model (approx. 1/32 scale) of the Studio 9 set so that guest directors could familiarize themselves with them without having to go to the trouble of pulling them out of storage or anything else while planning shots. The bridge in this model was divided up even into moveable wedge sections just like the real one, and the Main Engineering part even has the overhead arched ceiling beams, again like the real one and a reminder that it was likely intended for the "real" engineering spaces to be in the secondary hull. There are even little gold, blue, and red shirted figures placed about it.
This model also has the Auxiliary Control room part of the, which you forgot to include in your rendering of the set. Interestingly, like the bridge set, it is depicted as standing alone from the corridors/sickbay, and cabins.
You should check out the Star Trek museum in Ticonderoga, New York. It's a recreation of the entire set of the original series, with a recreation of the set from TNG being built. The tour guides will explain a great deal about how things wee done and how props were made. Apparently the prop designers, being on a limited budget, kept swiping things from the cafeteria. Dr. McCoy's handheld scanner for his tricorder, for instance, was actually a salt shaker they swiped. From what they said William Shatner goes there a couple of times a year for events and to relive his youth.
Very nice. Looks pretty accurate, I've been to the recreation in Ticonderoga NY and it looks pretty much the same - they have a little hall from Engineering to the turbolift or something so you can have the experience of the doors opening and seeing rhe bridge. But otherwise it looks identical to what you have from what I can remember. If anyone is thinking of going, it is an amazing experience.
I'm just glad I was able to hear you this time.
Fantastic work!
Fantastic. Would love to see this done for all the sound stages for each series.
You always do a awesome job.
Vic Mignogna gave a tour of the replica Trek sets used for his 'Star Trek Continues' mini-series. Apparently it was all put together with the original set designs in mind, and those were modular and built to have removable sections so that the bridge, for example, could have 360º camera rotation and still look like one continuous room.
The corridor set built for Star Trek Phase II, and adapted for the movies and later for TNG, took the 'modular corridor' idea Matt Jeffries came up with for TOS and ran with it. The angular wall panels on the later sets could be lifted out and replaced with completely different panels entirely to suggest corridors on different decks, and indeed on different starships if necessary.
Very nice. We should do a collaboration around the interior of the original ship.
YES! That would be awesome for him to render the final version of your 1/25th scale ship.
Sadly, you brought this on yourself, sir. I would ❤ to see you also do a video of this for the films, TNG, DS9 (a fav), VOY and ENT. PIC too with those ships.
See! I cannot control my joy for these video you’ve done! 😂🎉❤
Addition - While watching I wondered if you had thought of showing those set parts in the locations on the ship, with or without modifications to the corridors. A lot of work, but hey, you planted those seeds with all the prior videos. 😉🤣🎉
Such a shame they only made 1 season of Picard.... ahem.
So cool. Thanks for putting this together!
There are in fact - TWO separate and distinct Star Trek Original Series sets existing in real life currently. One is in Ticonderoga, NY. And was used for the first serious attempt at a fan-made continuation of the original series "Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II" headed by James Cawley.
The second set - made for ViC Mignogna's "Star Trek Continues" currently resides in Kingsland, Georgia.
Both studio sets have also been "borrowed" by other shorter lived Star Trek fan series. Both use the original Desilu set plans as their starting point. Although Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II made some minor modifications when "Phase II" introduced the Phase II refit Enterprise - using the aborted concepts of the TV series that later became Star Trek: The Motion Picture to make a sort of "In-between" version of the Enterprise - midway in design between the original TV Series look at the Movie Refit.
That's a super cool model, I'd love to see more views of it
I've walked those corridors many times at Neutral Zone Studios in Kingsland, Georgia!
I have only visited once, but it was truly amazing!
Great work
You should help out Mr Trek who's making a whole 1/100 and 1/25 scale enterprises
Great job on putting it all together. If there will be another walk through please include the shuttle bay and auxiliary control if you can.
Awesome🥰
Ticonderoga NY. Original Star Trek Set Tour. Built from the original set blueprints and a bucket list destination for a TOS fan. BTW they are building a Enterprise D bridge now
Very cool video.
Very cool.
it's more complicated than I expected, especially the medbay. Also I didn't know so much of it was actually connected- I guessed more of it was just jammed in together with junk around it.
This set has always been a dream of mine to build in a smaller scale for display. Thanks for recreating the design and putting up this excellent tour!
great job 🖖🏼
🖖😎👍Very cool indeed!.
As I recall reading in another write-up about the series production, all of the walls were of 1/4" plywood, so that they would be light to move when necessary for camera work. And when the series was cancelled and the set was torn down, all of the wood was donated to USC, which used it in various stage and student projects over the next decade
Wonderful work, I love all your videos, thank you so much!!
Very nice work! Thanks!
Fantastic work, as always.
Great video. I made it a life goal to visit stage 31 at Paramount- Hallowed ground.
Love your work!
I loved this. Thank you!
Very cool! Thanks for making this.
Fantastic job as always
If possible, I would love to see you do similar videos on The Motion Picture sets and how they were modified over the years to portray the 1701 refit, Enterprise-D, Enterprise-A, and Voyager before finally being dismantled after 25 years to make room for the new sets for Star Trek: Enterprise.
Very good video. I especially love the way you release them during my insomnia hours, where I live. I find them very relaxing. Thanks!
Lovely, thanks!
There are 2 sets missing, the shuttle bay observation corridors and the Auxiliary bridge.
Love it. I've done a fair amount of broadcast set design in my career and this is fascinating. The TOS set design was an exceptionally brilliant design from a television production POV. More set design videos please!
I will say this was a very very cool setup very cool sets I love the interconnectivity what a thrill it would have been to have worked on this set.
Very interesting video and very well done. Congratulations!
Good stuff!
Fascinating!
Great work!😎👍🏼👍🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🕊
Beautiful work as always 👍 Love those corridor Easter eggs 😂😂
Great stuff!
Gen X trekkie here. Great video! Thank you
Please do the 1701-D sets!
Nicely done. It’s nice to see how all the sets were laid out in the studio.
An impressive effort to showcase. And yes I agree let’s all clear off “hate” in general. Our massive brains give us each vastly superior alternatives to that.
I'd love to see "Trek Set Two" (as it were)
AKA, the Phase 2/movies/TNG/VOY set. That set makes this look like a one night stand in comparison.
Neato!
I can honestly say, “I didn’t hate it.”❣️
Oh my god, the audio is so much better now..
Whatever you did, it worked.
AWESOME model too, man. This was a good one all around.
Oh to create another life size of this set is a dream.
Saratoga Springs has one that you can tour.
I think my idea for the Enterprise would have a hybrid of the TOS and SNW constitution corridors for the saucer's interior.
The secondary hull would use a variation of the Discovery Enterprise Corridors seen in s2 including details from TOS/SNW. This shows the engineering hulls more technical look and helps distinguish the Living and Working areas.
The exterior would mainly draw from SNW but also incorporate TOS specifically the straight nacelles and lighter hull panneling.
The Mirror version would use a mash of the S1, 3 and 5 Discovery Terran interiors, with black instead of red doors featuring terran livery it would be darker while lighting is gold and purple. Also the STO Mirror Connie exterior is awesome with the saucer cutouts, hinged nacelles and black hull pannels.
You can tour this set in person according to the actual studio specs from 1967 in Ticonderoga, NY
Wow, I never knew how much I NEEDED this video until I saw it! I've been so absorbed in the fictional world of Star Trek since childhood that I totally forgot that these sets all had a real location in a studio somewhere. This is fascinating! PLEASE can you do the same for TNG, I would love to see that? Maybe VOY and DS9 too?
I do like how you've lit up each set in turn to slowly reveal everything - it would be better not to 'spoil' this by showing the whole thing early on in the video, just reveal it all room by room. Also, I don't like all the fades to black and would rather have one continual shot!
If possible, it would also be nice to know which way is north and how big the entire building is relative. If you have time another thing you could do is overlay the studio set over the enterprise itself to show how much smaller the real set was! :-)
Take me back, brother! Well done!
And I ❤ this
Redressing the same set was a huge cost savings for production and this ability was peddled to the CBS studio brass to make an elaborate sci-fi series like Star Trek look affordable...After listening intently (and taking notes), CBS declined Star Trek in favor of Lost in Space. This is from the book "The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whifield.
Nice little easter eggs there :)
Good job! Do the Refit (Motion Picture) Enterprise sets next! Bonus points if you can also include the rejected sets for Star Trek: Phase II 😊
'Wild Walls' aka 'movable sets', were invented by Alfred Hitchcock and if you watch his movies you can see where he used them and how he used them to make them extremely effective and nearly a stand alone character in themselves. The old Universal Studios 'Alfred Hitchcock Pavilion' told the story. That was an under appreciated attraction, I loved it.
All your videos are awesome, don't blame yourself...
The last video on captain's spaces was of fine quality, we just happened to differ in our perspectives regarding leadership, and that's not a problem among adults.
Walking around such a large and integrated set must have been helpful for the actors to feel the part.
4:25 I always thought that the "red room" with the triangles in the Engineering section was the Impulse drive. I guess if it were to sync with the TMP refit, the "red room" would be directly between the warp engine pylons.. though I always thought the Jeffries Tubes went up the pylons (?).. it can be so confusing.
Very nice, but you didn't include the auxiliary control room or the brig.
I❤ this iam a fan of Is star trektv and moves too
When I see that curved corridor ... I think of Kirk's 'Wall of Death' fighting technique ...
Visuals are great..... please do it again at 0.25x speed so that we can truly appreciate it
I attended elementary school in the greater Los Angeles area, and one of my classmates claimed that his father designed the controls on the bridge set - most likely his dad was an electrician who did the wiring. That was, to my young ears, a bigger boast than if the kid had told me his dad was the mayor of LA!
Somehow it never occurred to me that the sets were connected. Like I thought it was a hanger full of loose sets
ok I loved this video! but this beautiful rendering demands that you now create other decks of the ship.. areas that we never got to see due to budget limitations. How would those areas have interfered with continuity I wonder? Where are the windows located on the TOS ship? what rooms feature them?? we must explore!
This gives a much clearer idea of what the stage looked like. Always thought it would be smaller somehow. Also, what's wrong with the previous video? It was as great as any of the others
So, then, not only were all of these sets kept standing during production, but they were actually connected by working corridors? That's fascinating. I would've figured that the bridge and maybe engineering and sickbay, and a shorter length of corridor would've been standing, but not this much.
Who had problems with your last video? Thank you so much for your effort and hard work. You are much appreciated
In the vid about the size about Kirk's personal room, WTBN said Kirk needed better, so the crew would be shown magnificence befitting his role.
But that isn't what Kirk would want, and it seemed an out-dated idea to many in the comments.
Dunno what your crime was on the last video, but this is awesome. Thank you.
Since you asked, in the video about the size about Kirk's personal room, WTBN said Kirk needed better, so the crew would be shown magnificence befitting his role.
But that isn't what Kirk would want, and it seemed an out-dated idea to many in the comments.
Really enjoyed this. Excellent model. It’s interesting that both TOS and TNG had such large sets for sickbay. It’s unavoidable, but a lot of set for a fairly boring part of the ship.
If I may offer some advice, I would suggest not referring to your own production concerns or people’s gripes in your videos. Your work is excellent, and there will always be detractors online. Your videos will feel more polished if you don’t apologise for the inevitable reality that your work is going to improve over time, and render your older work less impressive in your own eyes. If you feel you have to improve on a video, just post the better video unapologetically.
Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed seeing it laid out as it was.
Looking at this, I have to say that designwise, the Constitution class ship was a lot more practically designed than the ships in the later series from the Next Generation on to the current Star trek shows, . I'm guessing it's maybe WW2 Naval vets designing the original Enterprise in the 60s.
That's just a total guess though, I have no knowledge.
Ticonderoga NY they recreate this set exactly
I enjoy your videos but have one critique. There are MANY methods of transitioning to/from another scene other than fading to black. The reason I mention it is because just as one starts to really enjoy your excellent CG work it fades to black and stays black. In fact if you added up all the black screen time in one of your videos it would be considerable. Instead, let us linger on your work a bit longer which is, as I've stated, very good. Thanks for posting : )
Except they didn't have all this CGI in 60s. What's missing is the NTSC colors, 525 lines on a trifosfor CRT through analog signal processing .
How many hours did it take to make this video, an pd the video was great btw.
This is probably my memory being bad, but the angling of the transporter pad and control console looks odd. But may be due to them using camera angles to give false perspective.
Also, when did they add the transporter room "alcove" that had an additional panel and sensor display hood?
Too bad they never constructed any rooms with windows. Well... aside from the really odd looking observation deck. In fact, hey, that could be another vid - where in blazes is it located?!
That was great. What of the shuttle bay?
It consisted of a freestanding door in an empty soundstage and a circle painted on the floor
@@MatthewCaunsfield thanks. But I was looking for a reply from our host
@@SaturnCanuck Me too, but I just wanted to clarify that there isn't actually a set plan for that room
@@MatthewCaunsfield This comment affirms a correlation to the first
@@SaturnCanuck Your next comment sounds like it will be great. I can't wait to read it! 👍
This is oid school Star trek from back in the day
"Whatever you do, don't open this door" Ok then 😀
Where's Auxiliary Control? That set was around by at least "The Changeling".
Can you do more
A beautiful recreation, but at 2.50 I'm not aware of any episodes where the grill and ladder were hidden behind a false door.
Neither did the ladder section move around the corridor, because it couldn't! It was positioned above a hole in the floor, dug there for Season 2 (which is when the triangular ladder and hole was also added, further along the corridor).
Great model! The video would be better without all the black outs.