I remember seeing that bridge for the first time on the first episode of season 1 back when I was a kid. I was mesmerized. Something so special, familiar, modern and futuristic. I could picture myself sitting at a station, working along side these wonderful people, exploring the stars and living the best comfortable life. I miss these days.
God the Enterprise D interiors looked so... comfortable to me as a kid. I would imagine myself on there, going to work. Safe in deep space, the walls, the doors, the _carpets.._ Beige. Seeing it now still soothes me.
Here's another secret for you: they didn't just update the main bridge set between seasons 1 and 2, they actually moved the set to an entirely different building. They disassembled the whole thing on Paramount stage 6 and rebuilt it on Paramount stage 8.
The fold out bed function was disabled by Doctor Crusher to make sure Picard actually went to his quarters for some proper sleep at some point. I jest but that's totally an unused script idea from somewhere around Seasons 1 and 2
I'm very happy to have visited the Las Vegas star trek experience and see the incredibly accurate enterprise bridge replica in person . God I miss that place !
Imagine interviewing these higher ups and you ask, "How do you think they stole the chairs?" And they look you dead on the eye and with the most serious voice you've ever heard in your life they say, "It was an inside job..."
The buttons doing nothing...it may also be a nod to the GNDN button sets of TOS...and GNDN was an acronym for "Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing"! 😆😆😆😆😆 The neat thing with that dedication plaque having the staff names was so cool...and it's also shown in the TNG Technical Manual.
GNDN!! OMG! the references... Tears (Happy tears, mind you) 👏👏👏 How about TPDN - Tap/Touch Panel, Does Nothing. Well, until Post Production... 😉 LLAP! 🖖😎
See also Shatner's scene in Airplane II. Counterintuitively, considering that title, he appears giving commands onboard a spacey facility. His primary concern is assigning the crew to figure out what the blinking lights and silly, techy-looking set pieces are for.
I'm a little surprised they didn't go with the balcony. What better way to show that a situation was serious than by having yet another random crew member get yeeted over the railing when their console exploded?
Gerry Anderson beat them to it. You'll notice that the balcony set design looks a lot like the bridge set in "Space1999" (Season 1). Just joking. But, it is an interesting coincidence.
Why have them get thrown OVER the railing, when you could have them thrown THROUGH the railings, and showcase yet another Federation health and safety oversight by having insufficiently secured barriers? Not to mention the extra hazard caused by having falling debris/personnel raining down on the officers below.
@@DarkKnight52365 True. What with superhero movies, TV fantasies, Harry Potter books, etc., Many young people cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. Lizard people? Flat Earth? Ghosts? Conspiracies? It's all possible to many people. Notice how upset many become when Star Trek Discovery changes something. It's real to these kids, and should not be altered. They forget: This is not true! This doesn't exist! This is Fiction! Grow up! Get a life! It's just for Fun!
@@waynemarvin5661 I was alright with what you where saying until you started saying they should grow up and get a life... After that, I lost all respect for you....
The stations behind the tactical were omni modular use. They could be configured to pull up any needed station for the mission. It was probably Patrick Stewart who stole the command chairs.
They said on this channel a while back that Paramount had to make a new head prosthetic for Worf for S2 because someone stole the one they used in the first season. In my head I like to think that Michael Dorn was like "well, that was really fun, but it looks like we're getting canceled, so they won't be needing this anymore" and he just has it somewhere in his place.
Even though the buttons on the Okuda-grams did absolutely nothing and had nonsensical labels, actors who sat or stood at specific consoles consistently, like Worf, Data, or Crusher, would invent real patterns that they would perform in order to "execute" a specific command.
We had circumstances on the ship such as Underway Replenishment where you couldn't leave your watchstation at the normal shift change, so if you developed the need to hit the head, you'd call for a temporary change. Some roving watchstanders (shaft alley patrol, roving electrical watch, etc.) could just go.
If memory serves the view screen was actually the entrance to the set. Also I'm pretty sure that in the ready room that alcove between the replicator and Livingstons tank was the captains bathroom
Damn that's effort. Re-carpeting is a pain, too. Now I'm super curious to see how apparent it is and the patterns they went with. I imagine they'd get soiled and that would be a no bueno to see a big ass stain on the carpet on the final cut lol.
He sits in it from time to time mimicking Picard's voice: "Excellent point Mr. Worf, fire at will!", "Thank you for your input everyone, but I believe we will go with Mr. Worf's suggestions this time."
The whole bridge is suppose to come out in one unit to be swapped for different missions. This lowers the refit time for upgrades. The Bridge also has its own life support, and power as well as if can be used as a escape pod although never used.
Am I the only one who noticed the joke written above the toilet in the star trek 5 brig? Do not use while in spacedock???? That must be a reference to the toilets in trains not to be used in stations right?
I think the big mistake they made with Riker was just having him sat next to the captain instead of having his own station, as Spock had. It made him seem redundant most of the time.
I would imagine a Star Trek toilet would not have any water, you would just sit down and dump into a replicator that would deconstruct it and put it in storage for when its parts are needed for something else
Enterprise A had a seatbelt on the captain's chair. Blink and you'll miss it in Star Trek V. Enterprise E gets one way at the end, though you'd sooner call it a full-torso harness. Check deleted scenes for Nemesis on your disc set. It may be the very last one since a repair crew installs it AFTER the climactic battle with the Scimitar. Still can't explain why it's just something they occasionally remember to furnish for the Captain. :-P
TNG was always a fun show to watch as a kid. One thing that struck me as an adult re-watching the episodes was just how much wide open space there was in the ship, people running down corridors and not passing another crew member. I didn’t remember noticing the revamped bridge for Generations included more people and stations on the bridge. I
No idea about the "rock" look, but those are spray painted foam pieces to represent random debris. Anything else is too dangerous to use in practical pyro effects with actors nearby.
The walls are actually made from rock! When the bridge is wrecked in Generations you can look at the open wall between the ready room and bridge and see the rock walls. 😁
I've often wondered what the hell all those blinking buttons and lights did. I mean, I've never flown a warp capable star ship, but it all looks needlessly complicated.
Fun that the thumbnail include the Norwegian translation of "The Chair": "stolen" (En stol - stolen - stoler - stolene). That particular chair is one of the most important chairs in tv history, so it is quite fitting! 😊
Correction: Only Michael Okuda (assisted by Cari Thomas) was the scenic designer on TNG. Denise Okuda joined during DS9 as a graphic artist and video supervisor.
Nope, that chair wasn't the result of the stolen chair. Watch the movie again, just after the bridge gets a hole blasted in it you can see the captain's chair now has a slightly deferent shape to it, so the replica chair was only used at the very end of the battle.
What I'm confused about it in Nemesis when the bridge got blown out where did all the paper come from? I would of thought with the introduction of padds paper would be obsolete
The bridge with all its faux touch screens has aged extremely well. The 1987 version looks exactly like what we really have in 2023. There is even one scene where Commander Riker appears to be sitting at a table in 10 forward, looking at a smart phone, pure coincidence, but still pretty cool
It is the same bridge just modified a lot. The bridge was rebuilt after season one on a different soundstage and used for the rest of the show and Generations. Not sure how much of the season one bridge set was reused when they moved it.
I believe I read somewhere that ST Generations is also where they also put the entire bridge set on a huge platform with pneumatic control, so during battle scenes, the platform would move and people's bodies would react normally to how you would if you were standing something that moved suddenly, versus "acting" out these effects like they did during the actual TV show.
@@razariel5693 Correct! It's called a gimble and the only time they were used in Star Trek films was in Star Trek 6 and Nemesis. The gimble is actually the reason Sulu had a table in front of him on Excelsior's bridge and the Enterprise had an extended helm center console in ST 6, they hid the gimble mount.
The original Conn/Ops chairs were both uncomfortable to sit in & stand up from leading to the more upright forward-facing stations in season 2. Although these originals were brought out for All Good Things along with the wooden side panels the 2nd captains' chair was still used in the 'Farpoint' timeline it's possible the original chair had been redressed for Beverly's captains' chair in the future timeline
George Takai has said that he had his station on the bridge figured out so that he knew what to push for whatever need. He tried to be consistent, even though it was just a plywood and plastic set.
Never understood why they didn't use the escape pods when the saucer section crash landed. Sure maybe they didn't have enough for everyone. But from orbit a crash landing probably would take at least 15 minutes. It is probably more like 30 to 60 minutes at least since they were not actually in orbit. They could have even launched shuttle craft and beamed people aboard. Then have a skeleton crew make the crash landing.
@Jules Jernigan wouldn't need all 1000 to escape pods. Would you rather crash land from orbit or use escape pods. If it takes a long time to use escape pods, then why is that even what they yell seconds before a warp core breach? Tell me you never watched ST without telling me. There are 400 escape pods on D. So even if 2 people grabbed the closest one and left, that's 800 gone within minutes. Tell me again why that wouldn't work? Heck, many could have been transported to the surface. The stats say they can transport 1000 people per hour. Using shuttle craft 250 more. Do you know how long it takes to crash.land.from orbit? Minimum of 30 minutes. So 500 people to escape pods and 500 transporter and still have time to spare.
An actual space ship wouldn't be designed for comfort like that. All the empty space is more air that needs to be processed and scrubbed. All spare floor space is more area that needs to be cleaned. It would be designed for work, not comfort.
HAHAAA!! I'm Swede - And the thumbnail you have on your vid is Perfect with an arrow pointing to the chair and the text "STOLEN"!!! :D In Swedish "STOLEN" - means - "THE CHAIR"..! XD
It's funny that you showed that specific clip when talking about the command chairs being stolen and it being an inside job, because it was Marina who stole at least one of them. She's talked about it at cons how she walked out with a "comfy chair" 😂
the captain having some sort of bed to lay on in his ready room makes sense because theres im sure times when they are expecting to go in emergency anytime it make no sense to go all the way to his cabin
In sone shots of the tang bridge if you look closely at the aft stations you’ll notice black pieces of some thing covering the screen to block out reflections of cameras crew and lights
i notice the two seats where data and wesley sits have changed to a higher upright position and Janeways bridge should have been smaller since the the Voyager ship was also smaller
I seem to recall reading in a magazine years ago that on STTNG the console buttons on the bridge and in engineering were random symbols and pictures, one of which was a rubber ducky. Does anyone else recall hearing this, or is it just my imagination?
Picard's THG chair was at one point sitting in someone's storage unit. I've saw a photo of it years ago that some guy posted of his friend's storage unit. I commented asking if his friend was enjoying his stolen chair, never got a reply back!! 😂
I remember seeing that bridge for the first time on the first episode of season 1 back when I was a kid. I was mesmerized. Something so special, familiar, modern and futuristic. I could picture myself sitting at a station, working along side these wonderful people, exploring the stars and living the best comfortable life. I miss these days.
God the Enterprise D interiors looked so... comfortable to me as a kid. I would imagine myself on there, going to work. Safe in deep space, the walls, the doors, the _carpets.._ Beige.
Seeing it now still soothes me.
Me too
Starfleet said I could be anything, so I decided to be Comfy.
Same, I love the aesthetic
Here's another secret for you: they didn't just update the main bridge set between seasons 1 and 2, they actually moved the set to an entirely different building. They disassembled the whole thing on Paramount stage 6 and rebuilt it on Paramount stage 8.
The fold out bed function was disabled by Doctor Crusher to make sure Picard actually went to his quarters for some proper sleep at some point. I jest but that's totally an unused script idea from somewhere around Seasons 1 and 2
I bet Patrick Stewart has 2 very comfy chairs at home, LOL
Having sat in every seat on the Bridge, I can say that Picard had the most comfy.
And a flute
Marina Sirtis took her conference room chair.
I was thinking the same thing, the crew nicked so many things from the set an I wouldn't be surprised that Patrick got his command chairs at his home.
Ok now we just wait for command chair thefts on the Picard set to confirm this.
I'm very happy to have visited the Las Vegas star trek experience and see the incredibly accurate enterprise bridge replica in person . God I miss that place !
I got to sit in the Captain's chair for that and get a photo. I was over the moon.
That was the only Las Vegas attraction I enjoyed profoundly.
Thanks Marcus, and the TEAM at TrekCulture for giving us fans this interesting look at something we may not have known.
On TOS any sets featuring pipes, the pipes were labeled GNDN followed by a number the prefix meaning: Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing.
Jeffrey's tube
The reason they are called Jeffries tubes is in reference to the production designer:
Matt Jefferies
Imagine interviewing these higher ups and you ask, "How do you think they stole the chairs?" And they look you dead on the eye and with the most serious voice you've ever heard in your life they say, "It was an inside job..."
The buttons doing nothing...it may also be a nod to the GNDN button sets of TOS...and GNDN was an acronym for "Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing"! 😆😆😆😆😆
The neat thing with that dedication plaque having the staff names was so cool...and it's also shown in the TNG Technical Manual.
GNDN!! OMG! the references...
Tears (Happy tears, mind you) 👏👏👏
How about TPDN - Tap/Touch Panel, Does Nothing. Well, until Post Production... 😉
LLAP! 🖖😎
See also Shatner's scene in Airplane II. Counterintuitively, considering that title, he appears giving commands onboard a spacey facility. His primary concern is assigning the crew to figure out what the blinking lights and silly, techy-looking set pieces are for.
It’s all just Lighting, Cardboard And Resin Screens I’m afraid ;-)
I'm surprised no one stole the plaque.
And know we are all tapping glass screens to watch and interact with this video
I'm a little surprised they didn't go with the balcony. What better way to show that a situation was serious than by having yet another random crew member get yeeted over the railing when their console exploded?
Gerry Anderson beat them to it. You'll notice that the balcony set design looks a lot like the bridge set in "Space1999" (Season 1). Just joking. But, it is an interesting coincidence.
Why have them get thrown OVER the railing, when you could have them thrown THROUGH the railings, and showcase yet another Federation health and safety oversight by having insufficiently secured barriers? Not to mention the extra hazard caused by having falling debris/personnel raining down on the officers below.
Missed opportunity
You're forgetting the rocks...😉
"The buttons do nothing" is a secret? Are you kidding me? What do you wanna tell me next? That Star Trek is fictional?
"Welcome to the Enterprise, ....im Captain Jean Luc- Picard, ..please sign the visitor register, thank you."
Hotel Enterprise.
well to be fair kids these days might think there real
@@DarkKnight52365 True. What with superhero movies, TV fantasies, Harry Potter books, etc., Many young people cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. Lizard people? Flat Earth? Ghosts? Conspiracies? It's all possible to many people. Notice how upset many become when Star Trek Discovery changes something. It's real to these kids, and should not be altered. They forget: This is not true! This doesn't exist! This is Fiction! Grow up! Get a life! It's just for Fun!
😁
@@waynemarvin5661 I was alright with what you where saying until you started saying they should grow up and get a life... After that, I lost all respect for you....
LCARS - Looks Cool And Really Shiny.
The stations behind the tactical were omni modular use. They could be configured to pull up any needed station for the mission. It was probably Patrick Stewart who stole the command chairs.
They said on this channel a while back that Paramount had to make a new head prosthetic for Worf for S2 because someone stole the one they used in the first season. In my head I like to think that Michael Dorn was like "well, that was really fun, but it looks like we're getting canceled, so they won't be needing this anymore" and he just has it somewhere in his place.
I bet the missing chairs are in Picard's self-store unit on Picard
@@vic5015 Its just like the Romulan Warbird from TOS. They learned that someone stole it right when they wanted to film The Enterprise Incident.
My money is on Brent Spiner. They're probably out on his patio. I bet he does a Picard maneuver every time he sits down, then just laughs.
@@CrimsonRevenant666 I thought that someone dropped the model and broke it. Isn't that why the Romulans suddenly got Klingon D7s?
Even though the buttons on the Okuda-grams did absolutely nothing and had nonsensical labels, actors who sat or stood at specific consoles consistently, like Worf, Data, or Crusher, would invent real patterns that they would perform in order to "execute" a specific command.
Does the bridge crew have to ask permission from Picard to leave station & go to the head or can they just up & go? These are important questions.
Wonder if it's like the Army..."sir permission to utilize the head"? Lol
Like on any naval vessel you do not ask permission, you just don't go. You are expected to go before or after your shift.
@@willlauzon3744 thanks for the insight! In the Army we always had to state a reason for being excused.
" 'Scuse me, Cap'n, I gotta take a dump!"
We had circumstances on the ship such as Underway Replenishment where you couldn't leave your watchstation at the normal shift change, so if you developed the need to hit the head, you'd call for a temporary change. Some roving watchstanders (shaft alley patrol, roving electrical watch, etc.) could just go.
If memory serves the view screen was actually the entrance to the set. Also I'm pretty sure that in the ready room that alcove between the replicator and Livingstons tank was the captains bathroom
Just like the Star Trek II simulator.
Makes real world sense since the only other doors would have gone to turbo lifts.
The screen area is an important fly-out piece that was used consistently to film the bridge scenes.
Denise Crosby did an awesome job for both Tasha Jar and Commander Sela.
The production crew changed the carpets on the bridge every year to a new pattern.
I seen something that said the studio had a stray cat problem and that was the reason for the carpet change
@@terranovarain6570 Remember Commander Data did have a cat, Spot.
Damn that's effort. Re-carpeting is a pain, too. Now I'm super curious to see how apparent it is and the patterns they went with. I imagine they'd get soiled and that would be a no bueno to see a big ass stain on the carpet on the final cut lol.
It has to be said:
Of course there's a toilet on the bridge - that's where you'll find the Captain's Log.
I'll bet that you're a popular guy in your middle school.
And Number One.
It didn't have to be said. Lol
Now you know where the intro monolog came from. Hooooo Somebody give me a star date. 🤣
I can show myself out. 😥
meh, the boss got its own executive throne next to his ready room. No need to share a bathroom with enlistet or *shudder* Whesley
What gets me is how well they simulated touchscreen computers decades before they became normal
Technically the 3rd seat was for a mission specialist or VIP.
But yes Troi or Crusher were normally there.
I suspect Worf took the chair, he did appreciate it.
He sits in it from time to time mimicking Picard's voice: "Excellent point Mr. Worf, fire at will!", "Thank you for your input everyone, but I believe we will go with Mr. Worf's suggestions this time."
DOOOOOORNNN!!!
"And Tactical still has no chair!!"
"nice chair"
The whole bridge is suppose to come out in one unit to be swapped for different missions. This lowers the refit time for upgrades. The Bridge also has its own life support, and power as well as if can be used as a escape pod although never used.
if?
@@dernvader6876 suppose to be "it"
Am I the only one who noticed the joke written above the toilet in the star trek 5 brig? Do not use while in spacedock???? That must be a reference to the toilets in trains not to be used in stations right?
No you're not the only one, and decades behind millions.
Yes it was inspired by trains.
I've wondered ever since I saw that film for the first time!
I think the big mistake they made with Riker was just having him sat next to the captain instead of having his own station, as Spock had. It made him seem redundant most of the time.
And the counselor position was vital?
Riker didn't need a chair. He just leaned against the conn
@@MGower4465 Picard used her as an advisor which was considered very unusual.
Ryker's primary function was to demand reports and shout "Red Alert."
@@theroguegeneralhunter2206 why does everyone misspell Riker?
Yes, part 2 please.
I do like these Top 10 lists.
I also like it when they are a different number like 5, 9, 21,
and 47.
47 Reasons Why Species 8472 Doesn't Like The Borg!
1:35 "The goggles, they do nothing!" The Simpsons
I would imagine a Star Trek toilet would not have any water, you would just sit down and dump into a replicator that would deconstruct it and put it in storage for when its parts are needed for something else
Haha.. don’t think too hard about where that chocolate came from, Deanna.
lol
@@Bartonovich52 Or Pudding!
I don't know about that, but I understand there's a sign in there that reads, "Flush twice, it's a long way to Ceti Alpha V". XD
POOP REPLICATOR, just don't let it spray your bits like a Bidet.
Torn carpet quickly repaired is visible under Data's chair at 0:39
I read somewhere that they had to replace the carpet every season cause the studio had a stray cat problem
"Until they were stol- no, they weren't stolen." made me snort.
But no seatbelts. After all, it isn't like they ever get thrown around.
Patrick Stewart called it "spaceship acting."
Enterprise A had a seatbelt on the captain's chair. Blink and you'll miss it in Star Trek V.
Enterprise E gets one way at the end, though you'd sooner call it a full-torso harness. Check deleted scenes for Nemesis on your disc set. It may be the very last one since a repair crew installs it AFTER the climactic battle with the Scimitar.
Still can't explain why it's just something they occasionally remember to furnish for the Captain. :-P
@@alm2187 All the children they had on the ship - I wonder if they all had car seats?
I would love to have a replicator in my kitchen at home and cargo bay #2 for my garage.
Would love to have a trek themed home and amusement park!!!
When I saw the fold-out bed the first thing that popped into my head was Riker.
I was hoping you would cover the hide -a-chairs at the science stations behind where Warf stands
*Worf
@@RichO1701e gahhh I hate talk to text!!
Never trust Google speech to text...
Sigh
Thanks for the correction.
Worf's Wharf
@@davidmcauliffe8692 Commander Wharf? :D
Ironically, on a real Naval ship there is a table where everyone gathers on the bridge to make decisions. It’s the navigator’s station or plot table.
And on a submarine they use a similar table to plot courses and torpedo tracks. Or at least they used to.
Battlestar Galactica.
@@milou66 oh, yeah. That too.
@@vic5015 being a retired submariner, I concur. And they still do have the table. It’s now digital, but it’s still there.
And they lost it!
TNG was always a fun show to watch as a kid. One thing that struck me as an adult re-watching the episodes was just how much wide open space there was in the ship, people running down corridors and not passing another crew member. I didn’t remember noticing the revamped bridge for Generations included more people and stations on the bridge. I
Holy shit Marcus is back! I've missed you man!
I'd love to hear the reason for the broken rocks on the bridge during conflicts
No idea about the "rock" look, but those are spray painted foam pieces to represent random debris. Anything else is too dangerous to use in practical pyro effects with actors nearby.
@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 I'm just going to call you captain obvious 🙄
The walls are actually made from rock! When the bridge is wrecked in Generations you can look at the open wall between the ready room and bridge and see the rock walls. 😁
I've often wondered what the hell all those blinking buttons and lights did. I mean, I've never flown a warp capable star ship, but it all looks needlessly complicated.
look at the 'Computers' In 1960's batman ... they dont even have screens
Fun that the thumbnail include the Norwegian translation of "The Chair": "stolen" (En stol - stolen - stoler - stolene). That particular chair is one of the most important chairs in tv history, so it is quite fitting! 😊
Correction: Only Michael Okuda (assisted by Cari Thomas) was the scenic designer on TNG. Denise Okuda joined during DS9 as a graphic artist and video supervisor.
The crash scene in Generations is still my favorite SFX ev-ah!
Mine too. Preceeded by Data's "Oooooh, shit!!"
With Picard's Enterprise-E captain's chair stolen, that explains why they made the new captain's chair for the nemisis' deleted scene.
Nope, that chair wasn't the result of the stolen chair. Watch the movie again, just after the bridge gets a hole blasted in it you can see the captain's chair now has a slightly deferent shape to it, so the replica chair was only used at the very end of the battle.
What I'm confused about it in Nemesis when the bridge got blown out where did all the paper come from? I would of thought with the introduction of padds paper would be obsolete
@@Anthonyz121
Paper covers rocks...😉
The bridge with all its faux touch screens has aged extremely well. The 1987 version looks exactly like what we really have in 2023. There is even one scene where Commander Riker appears to be sitting at a table in 10 forward, looking at a smart phone, pure coincidence, but still pretty cool
I never noticed the black cardboard that was placed along the rear science station during the first two seasons. Now, I can't unsee them.
Welcome back Marcus.. ;)
I never realized the bridge from Generations wasnt the same bridge from the series!
It is the same bridge just modified a lot. The bridge was rebuilt after season one on a different soundstage and used for the rest of the show and Generations. Not sure how much of the season one bridge set was reused when they moved it.
When the show was coming to a end they had a contest to win picards chair , plz do a vid on it.
The stolen chair; "clock": I swear you vomited that word out XD
Was that the clock Ness monster...
I keep going back to 10:17 to hear it again and again!
I believe I read somewhere that ST Generations is also where they also put the entire bridge set on a huge platform with pneumatic control, so during battle scenes, the platform would move and people's bodies would react normally to how you would if you were standing something that moved suddenly, versus "acting" out these effects like they did during the actual TV show.
No it was Nemesis where they did that, In Generations, First Contact & Insurrection still that actors and camera operators had to do the shaking
@@razariel5693 Correct! It's called a gimble and the only time they were used in Star Trek films was in Star Trek 6 and Nemesis. The gimble is actually the reason Sulu had a table in front of him on Excelsior's bridge and the Enterprise had an extended helm center console in ST 6, they hid the gimble mount.
The original Conn/Ops chairs were both uncomfortable to sit in & stand up from leading to the more upright forward-facing stations in season 2. Although these originals were brought out for All Good Things along with the wooden side panels the 2nd captains' chair was still used in the 'Farpoint' timeline it's possible the original chair had been redressed for Beverly's captains' chair in the future timeline
This was a good one. Well done!
Picard checking for dust? When is the ship cleaned anyway? Do special drudges comeout and scrub everything down when there aren't any officers around?
Scutters?
George Takai has said that he had his station on the bridge figured out so that he knew what to push for whatever need. He tried to be consistent, even though it was just a plywood and plastic set.
Never understood why they didn't use the escape pods when the saucer section crash landed. Sure maybe they didn't have enough for everyone. But from orbit a crash landing probably would take at least 15 minutes. It is probably more like 30 to 60 minutes at least since they were not actually in orbit. They could have even launched shuttle craft and beamed people aboard. Then have a skeleton crew make the crash landing.
Do you realize how long it would take to get over 1000 people it to escape pods
@Jules Jernigan wouldn't need all 1000 to escape pods. Would you rather crash land from orbit or use escape pods. If it takes a long time to use escape pods, then why is that even what they yell seconds before a warp core breach? Tell me you never watched ST without telling me.
There are 400 escape pods on D. So even if 2 people grabbed the closest one and left, that's 800 gone within minutes. Tell me again why that wouldn't work?
Heck, many could have been transported to the surface. The stats say they can transport 1000 people per hour. Using shuttle craft 250 more. Do you know how long it takes to crash.land.from orbit? Minimum of 30 minutes. So 500 people to escape pods and 500 transporter and still have time to spare.
TNG definitely has my favourite bride
Season 4 ENT bridge is a close second, though
My favorite trek culture dude! Marcus!!!
Personally i'd love to know how the made the set itself, like what materials were used for the walls, carpet on the floor and so on
Wow!
There are so many cray things that can happen on set!
No 3 seashells?
PHOENIX!!!
And as we found out with all the new touch only infotaiment in cars, touch only controls are shit when you are in a moving vehicle.
Wait until we invent IDFs. (Intertial Dampening Fields)
An actual space ship wouldn't be designed for comfort like that. All the empty space is more air that needs to be processed and scrubbed. All spare floor space is more area that needs to be cleaned. It would be designed for work, not comfort.
Wasn't the Enterprise D bridge used for the Las Vegas Star Trek Experience Show up until 2007?
That was a recreation of it and a bad one at that!!
HAHAAA!!
I'm Swede - And the thumbnail you have on your vid is Perfect with an arrow pointing to the chair and the text "STOLEN"!!! :D
In Swedish "STOLEN" - means - "THE CHAIR"..! XD
The first hotel lobbyesque bridge was impressive.
Number One take the Bridge, while I take a number two.
It's funny that you showed that specific clip when talking about the command chairs being stolen and it being an inside job, because it was Marina who stole at least one of them. She's talked about it at cons how she walked out with a "comfy chair" 😂
Always happy to see another Marcus Bronzy vid 😄
Meanwhile Sir Stewart is at home in his chair room plotting nicking the Generations chair
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Poor Worf always had to stand.
Great video.
Forgot to mention the bridge rocks. Every time something blows up rocks get tossed around the bridge.
"If YOU stole the captain's chair (or know who did), please leave a comment below!"
I really want to know why the warp core on Voyager was a different colour in the pilot? It’s always bugged me.
the captain having some sort of bed to lay on in his ready room makes sense because theres im sure times when they are expecting to go in emergency anytime it make no sense to go all the way to his cabin
I wonder if anyone ever put those stolen chairs up for auction after time had passed
In sone shots of the tang bridge if you look closely at the aft stations you’ll notice black pieces of some thing covering the screen to block out reflections of cameras crew and lights
Yep, black adhesives. Was probably also put there to stop rocks from blowing out lol
I think if you zoom in very closely on the conn terminal the small sign reads “Objects in the rear view mirror appear closer than they are”
Meat Loaf fan?
The Observation Lounge set also made an appearance in _The Undiscovered Country_ where it was used as a dining room aboard the Enterprise A.
So on the bridge the head has one toilet but two sinks 🤔
Troi crashed the Enterprise twice. Once in Star Trek: Generations and once in Star Trek: Nemesis.
you think that shatner guy stole the chair?
i notice the two seats where data and wesley sits have changed to a higher upright position and Janeways bridge should have been smaller since the the Voyager ship was also smaller
Maybe but not necessarily. They could have a large bridge as it's its own deck (deck 1).
Patric Stewart took the chair
That’s what I was thinking. I would have if I were him!
I seem to recall reading in a magazine years ago that on STTNG the console buttons on the bridge and in engineering were random symbols and pictures, one of which was a rubber ducky. Does anyone else recall hearing this, or is it just my imagination?
OMG MARCUS! YAAAAAS
Picard's THG chair was at one point sitting in someone's storage unit. I've saw a photo of it years ago that some guy posted of his friend's storage unit. I commented asking if his friend was enjoying his stolen chair, never got a reply back!! 😂
I absolutely hated that they changed the bridge between All Good Things and Generations.
Number 1, I order you to go take a Number 2. You have the bridge.
10:17 Sounds like you were breaking into Klingon a bit there. Is it your first language?
It's like someone gave him a Vulcan Neck Noogie.
So there's someone in the world who somewhere has hidden Picard's chair
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Designed by Mike Okuda and Terry Thoms? Theres more than a little Denise Okuda in there too!
I wish there was a Star Trek themed Only Connect special. Trek Culture could go to Cardiff and compete.
I hated the generations bridge . It looked awful on the dig screen . They went from futuristic bright to dark and over done .
Someone stole Picard's chair!? TWICE!!!??? Where do you think it might have ended up? Just curious... :)
you can still see here 0:38 the carpet at the right side that was cut to place some cables
Original series = Buttons
Discovery (set 10 years before) = Sleek touch screens
TNG (100 years later) = Blinky lights and plexiglass
lol