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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Excelsior ergonomics & Big E bridge
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 22:59:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 22:59:11 1985
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> 
> I feel that it would be a loss to try to set any type of action in the 
> sterile bridge of the Excelsior.  I do hope that our on-trial crew members,
> should they get on-board a starship, would not be forced onto a bridge like
> the Excelsior's!
> 

You mean, "a bridge like that of the series."  Think about it.  A stark
set, lotsa open space, matte graphics, brightly lit.  Closer in concept to
the bridge as shown in the series.

Starting with ST-TMP, the bridge set is a large step downhill,
*operationally*.  It's too dark... the series had established the existance
of computer displays readable under bright lighting conditions.  Since they
wanted to use actual displays in the movies, they had to make the bridge
dark.  It stinks.  In the subsequent movies, the set got a little lighter,
but the point still stands.  Sulu is taking naps, and nobody can see him.

At the risk (hope?) of starting a new line of discussion, I'll push out
what some  may consider a blasphemous statement:

THE ENTERPRISE REDESIGN STANK!

I am referring, mostly, to the interior, however, the addition of all those
silly little docking ports (have them inside the shuttle bay, and leave the
doors open, for gosh sakes), the kluge of the torpedo tube tack-ons, and
the warp pods swiped from a Klingon D-7.  All right, all right, I did like
the flat pods.

But the interior was from the dark ages of '50s SF.  Remember the interior
of the corridors in the series?  Wide, brightly lit, with graphics masking
structural members.  Now take the redesign... stainless steel, with braces
every couple feet.  Not to mention, DARK.  Again!

Add that to my earlier comments about the bridge.  The outside looked neat,
but the interior "orally applied vacuum."


                                         Ron Wanttaja
					 (ssc-vax!wanttaja)

"Up that rigging, you monkeys, aloft!  There's no chains to hold you now!"