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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
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Subject: Re: Excelsior ergonomics & Big E bridge
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 20:35:40 EDT
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> 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!
> 
> 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!
> 
>                                          Ron Wanttaja

I didn't mind the interiors.  They made more sense to me.  As Gerrold said,
the interior was pretty big.  And all the power necessary to maintain that
space.  But in every other episode, Scotty was losing power.  Well, hell,
cut down those corridors a bit.  That might help.

In theory, the reason for the bright airy sets and wide corridors and such
was because they wanted to try to fit in camera dollies and the like.
--
"Space, our corridors..."           Peter Merchant